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The New Germany

and Jewry

The Government of the new Germany have found them- of the German Reich, represent, except for minor details, the
selves compelled to adopt certain legal measures, with
state of affairs in the whole of Germany. For without this
the help of which a certain limitation is to be imposed
practical orientation it is not possible to gain any just appre-
upon the position of authority exercised by Jews ciation of the measures adopted in Germany. In this con-
in all spheres of public life. But this reduction by no
nexion we are unusually lucky in that we are able to base our-
means corresponds to the natural relation of the two sections
remarks to a large extent on the statistical inquiries made
of the population; indeed, the standard that will be reached
by a Jew (Dr. Heinrich Silbergleit: Die Bevolkerungs- und
thereby is still many times above that to which the Jews
Berufsverhaltnisse der Juden im Deutschen Reiche, I. Frei-
would be really entitled on the basis of their numerical rela-
staat PreuBen, Berlin 1930, Akademieverlag), and are thus
tion to the entire population. Even then, the Jews in Germany
secured from the start against the suspicion of writing a ten-
will still be a privileged minority in the national state.
dencious report.
it is a general rule of all laws of historical development
This fact alone is evidence that in Germany quite extra-
ordinary and absolutely unhealthy conditions existed in the that nothing can come of nothing. All expressions and explo-
distribution of preponderance between the German people sions of the will of a people have their causes. And thus the
and the Jews. They alone provide the key to the comprehen-
legislative policy of the new government which arises from
sion of Germany's Jewish policy. The German Government the profound indignation and resentment of the German
had to adopt the steps indicated if they did not wish to watch people against a presumptuous foreign rule is also the pro-
inactively how the room to live and the possibilities of duct of facts that lie in the nature of Jewry itself.
existence of the original population of German blood were
restricted until the material existence of countless thousands The Development of the Legal Position of
was constantly more endangered by a minority who by no
the Jews in Prussia
means had the same claim to the wealth of the soil of Ger-
On the same scale as that on which the ideas of the French
many and the products of German work as those whose
Revolution of 1789 won the day in Europe, and thus caused
ancestors were intimately connected with the soil and who
the breakdown of the last barriers of a feudal caste system,
had cultivated it for centuries until it attained its present
the principle of freedom and equality in the eyes of the law
productivity. This process began slowly and imperceptibly
was also applied to the Jews in Prussia. The edict of the
at the beginning of the 19th century, but it was not until the
11* March, 1812 granted full rights of citizenship to the
20th century and especially since 1914 that
it acquired the
Jews in the Prussia of the day. It is true that they were sub-
absolutely alarming speed that made intervention necessary.
sequently deprived of certain rights, such as the holding oi
It is the process of the steady and constantly increasing
academical teaching and scholastic posts and also offices in
excessive introduction of foreigners, into the life of the Ger-
the communes. But these reservations were also withdrawn
man people in politics, science and culture by a racially later and, by the Order in Council of the King of Prussia
foreign minority who push aside the original inhabitants of
dated 3rd July 1869, they were expressly granted, with the
the country; a process which assumed particularly menacing
removal of all restrictions, the legal rights "enabling them to
forms because this constantly spreading minority infected
be members of the communal and state representative bodies
the healthy and untainted mass of the people with the spirit
and to exercise public office."This expression of the royal
of disintegration and bolshevism.
will represented the complete emancipation of the Jews.
The object of the present brochure to describe
is this
From that day on, the Jew in Prussia was a citizen with the
development and the situation it created practically and ob-
same full rights as any other German citizen. All professions,
jectively, without taking sides, in doing which we shall confine
all trades, and all public offices were open to him. He was
ourselves, in order to. simplify the general picture presented,
placed in a position of absolute parity and granted absolute
to the territory of Prussia. This procedure has the further
tolerance.
advantage that conditions in Prussia, the largest of the Ger-
We shall see how Jewry repaid the German people for
man staates which alone includes, three-fifths of the territory
this most considerate treatment.
Originally published in 1933 by -
The General League of Anti-Communist Associations
Copyright by Eckart-Verlag, Berlin