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The Track of the Jew through the Ages

provocation, and they therefore had been able to act on the basis of
a feeling ofrevenge as, in the time ofthe Jewish persecutions, Duarte
de Paz, famous for his tricks, did, who was the Portuguese envoy in
Rome and in this capacity set all levers in motion with the Pope
against the King of Portugal with an express licensing and generous
support of his fellow tribesmen in Lisbon.
Thus did the Jewish activity operate in the countries of the
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world from olden times until the Congress of Vienna, at which
already the Rothschilds carried out their policies that were disastrous
for Germany, and until the Treaty of 1 87 197 and, more than ever, in
our present time. On that the following observation.

The Jew and the German

It is good to differentiate, in the case of the cold intellect of
the Jewish personality, between two factors: between rational
motivations and those of a more sentimental nature. To the former
belong the clear pursuit of personal as well as national interests and
the evaluation of these in the entry into the politics of states; to the
latter the passion of hatred against other nations that often burns
through these calculations.
Not always was the Jew, as soon as he acquired influence,
the cool businessman and politician; often some insatiability thrust
him into immoderation and had for himself the most bitter
consequences. Less eagerly conducted exploitation and usury, a less
emphasised religious and national arrogance would have fully spared
him many sorrows; but the Jewish principle of the exploitation of
all peoples, as Dostoyevsky, Fichte, Goethe and other greats
recognised it, born of the deep aversion to everything non-Jewish,
finally made of the apparently cold Jew a passionate hater. This
hatred is as old as Judaism itself, and is manifested everywhere
according to the direction that is open to it. The present age is now
an arena of hardly controlled Jewish passions that have combined
with a goal-oriented world-politics led by immensely rich men; and
in the main this Jewish hatred is directed against two peoples: against
the Russian and the German. These facts that have always been

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