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Alfred Rosenberg

consciousness.
On the other hand, the Jew Dr. F. Theilhaber is perhaps
right when, at the end of a work, he expresses the opinion, in bold
print, that: "Even leaders and champions of the purely religious
understanding of Jewry feel instinctively that even the factors that
are indifferent to the religious side of Jewry and all the political,
economic and ethical interests of their environment are closely
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connected to the Jewish society through the physical factor".
And Dr. A. Briinn said at the meeting of the "Central
association of German citizens of Jewish faith", behind which the
Jews hid at every opportunity as a "religion", that the German Jews
cannot "have German national feeling" and further: "By Jewish
national consciousness I understand the living consciousness of a
common origin, the feeling of a belonging together of the Jews of
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all lands and the firm will to a common future".
It would take too long to illustrate all that in greater detail;
let a statement ofone ofthe most influential Zionists, Dr. Weizmann,
suffice: "The existence of the Jewish nation is a fact and not a
question to be argued about".
With this observation a complaint is by no means expressed,
as many people believe, but it is merely ascertained that the Jews
are to be deemed a nation, that they are firmly connected through
world associations ("Alliance Israelite", "Anglo-Jewish
Association", "Jewish Congregation Union", "Agudas Israel"),
consequently have common interests and, thanks to the immense
means standing at their disposal, are able to achieve these as well.
No even partially honest man can get round this fact any longer; but
from it it follows with inexorable consequence that the Jew cannot
be a state citizen, in any state. When the war broke out, the Zionists
too found themselves in two hostile camps. It may be that one part
of the German Jews at first saw the war as being conducted against
the anti-Jewish Russian government, that the Zionists really believed

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Der Zionismus, Berlin, 1913, p. 9.
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Der Untergang der deutschen Juden, Munich, 1911, p. 102. [Felix Theilhaber
(1884-1956) was a Jewish dermatologist and writer who fled in 1935 to the
Palestine.]
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Report of the Im deutschen Reich newspaper, July/August 1913.
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