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Alfred Rosenberg

Philipp Lehmann (not to mention Loeb, Schiff, Kahn, etc.); the big
industrialists A. Lewisohn, D. Guggenheim; the rabbis Wise, Lyons,
Philipson; the professors R. Gottheil, Hollander, Wiener; the
journalists Franklin, Stransky, Beer, Frankfurter, etc. Strauss says
at the end of his letter (to the French ambassador): that he is
"enthusiastic" for the Entente and says that the mood of the Jews
for the Alliance (Entente) can be described as almost unanimous. If
the Jews were at first not yet fully united, the fraternisation
nevertheless became a complete one when the "German" Jews of
America joined the Entente.
In early 1918 then came the news, accompanied by
triumphing English and French press voices, that all the Germans
of America had placed themselves on the side of the Entente in
order to fight for humanity against Prussian militarism. One could
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not believe it until one saw the signatures on the resolution: Schiff,
Kohn, Kahn. 292
The "enthusiasm" of which Oscar Strauss spoke can be
understood doubly well when one imagines the speech of the
American Jew Isaac Markussohn that he gave as an answer to an
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address by Lord Northcliffe. The honorable Isaac said verbatim:
"War is a gigantic business enterprise in which the most beautiful
thing is not the heroism ofthe soldiers but the business organisation,
and America is proud of the favorable business situation that it
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enjoys". With this "enthusiasm" did America enter the war for
the ideal of humanity, covered by a cloak of lies ofvain demagogues.
Then other states followed America's enthusiasm. I do not have the
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[Jakob Schiff (1847-1920) was a German Jewish banker who emigrated to the
United States in 1 865. He joined Abraham Kuhn's company, Kuhn, Loeb and Co.,
in 1875.
292 1 could not ascertain if it was the same F. Kohn who publicly declared on 19
February, 1 9 1 8, in New York that "al 1 Germans" wish for the victory ofthe Entente.
[Otto Kahn (1867-1934) was a German Jewish investment banker who moved
from German}' first to England and then to the United States, where he joined the
firm Kuhn, Loeb and Co. in New York.]
293
[Alfred Harmsworth, Viscount Northcliffe (1 865-1922) was a British newspaper
and publishing magnate who conducted a shrill propaganda campaign against the
Germans during the first World War.]
294 Information Bureau, Rotterdam, 13 March, 1917. Heise, op.cit., p. 162.

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