Page 67 - The Track Of The Jew Through The Ages - Alfred Rosenberg

Alfred Rosenberg

As we see, the desire to trace the responsibility for the
establishment of the ghettos to malevolent priests is a very one-
sided undertaking though, understandably, one especially favoured
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by the Jews.
The nationalities developing at that time demanded for their
consolidation a life that was little disturbed by foreigners. The ghetto
and various limitations of property and immigration laws were at
that time a necessity, and they especially become that also in all
periods when the national consciousness is not a very marked one
and where Jews live in large numbers.
We must take care not to look back with a superior smile on
the maligned Middle Ages and pride ourselves that we have finally
come so far. The men of those times dealt on the basis of bitter
experience and did not allow themselves to be led by obviously
stupid slogans and effusive lack of criticism as our present-day
"civilised" public in Europe allows itself to be without resistance.
Only immigration laws can save us too from the present-day Jewish
rule or we must decide to become more efficient and unscrupulous
than the Jew. (The National Socialist state has, of course, for the
first time done that).
After the emancipation of the Jews, it was understandable
that one part moved into the Christian quarter through opposition
but nevertheless the Jewish streets were still maintained as in ancient
times. Then it must not be forgotten that metropolises are a creation
of a recent age, when it was not possible for the Jews even with the
best efforts to live together and that, further, their influx was a rather
gradual one.
But, in spite of everything, the tendency to live together is
still there. One sees, for example, the relations in the "freest country
in the world". In the United States there live over three million Jews.
Of these more than two million live in New York alone and form in

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Basnage says: "It is the typical characteristic of the Jews to be separated from
other peoples", Histoire des Juifs, Vol.VI, Chs.3, 1 4. [Jacques Basnage (1 653- 1 723)
was a French Protestant theologian and historian who emigrated to the Netherlands
in 1685. His Histoire des Juifs depuis Jesus-Christ jusqu'a present was first
published from 1706 to 1711 and a second enlarged edition of it appeared from
171 6 to 1726.]

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