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Alfred Rosenberg

silence or manoeuvring did not suffice, the German Zionists were
blamed for pursuing "German patriotic interests", for allowing
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"traitorous Jewish assimilation" to be granted in Germany, etc.,
and one of the many German Jews, the already cited Pinkus, who
did not feel comfortable in his German skin, rose to the proclamation:
"We Zionists cannot be frightened by the fact that the German-
Turkish offensive may be able to drive the English army once again
from the mountains of Judaea. May be! A single cry of indignation
will then go through the millions of the Jewish people and not stop
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before the borders of the Central Powers and Turkey".
Indeed the man had to know! Another "German" state
citizen, the prophet of the "future", Isidor Witkowsky, 312 seconded
eagerly: "For millions of poor, for hundred thousand Jews advanced
in property rights, Balfour's Declaration had the bright tones of a
long-awaited messianic message: the day that heard Great Britain's
decision to deploy the entire imperial power for the Jewish cause
remains one that cannot be erased from world-history".
Now in many states pogroms had begun and so the Zionist
Congress in London decided to make all the states in which these
took place legally responsible for all the injuries and to have aid
money paid to the surviving victims of these persecutions. The
"German" imperial government which, in preparation for the Peace
Congress, concerned itself particularly with the Jewish question,
had naturally decided to renounce its own standpoint and accepted
fully the statutes of the London Jewish Congress. How else could
one have acted since the leading men, Landsberg and Preuss, were
themselves of the tribe of Judah!
But the best thing in the German tragicomedy was that,
among the delegation that was supposed to represent German
interests in Versailles, there was a leader of Jewry, Mr. Melchior.
Were the Germans aware of what that meant? Truly the letter of
homage of the Russian Jews was relatively harmless compared to
this fact.

-""Leaflet of Theodor Herzl Association, Zurich.
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Pinkus, op.cit., p. 56.
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[See above p. 96.]
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