Dateline, January 31, 1933. I quote entirely from this news
story, “Hitler Sworn in As German Chancellor; Names Nazi Aides to Two Key
Cabinet Positions,” published in the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency.
January 31, 1933 (Berlin (Jan. 30))
Defying all forecasts that the strength of the Nationalist
Socialist Party was on the wane, would not attain executive power, following
its loss of 35 seats in the last November’s election, Adolph Hitler today
realized a boast of three years and became Chancellor of Germany.
The appointment of Adolph Hitler today following a conference
with President Paul von Hindenburg, was as unexpected as the sudden fall of
General Kurt von Schleicher after less than two months in office.
With the appointment of Hitler the Jewish population of
Germany are faced with their worst fears that now the Nazis will put into
effect the threats they have been levelling ever since their Parliamentary
victory in 1930 made them a leading party in the German republic.
These fears are further strengthened by the appointment to
Hitler’s cabinet of Nazi leaders notorious for the violence of their
anti-Semitic stand. To the key position of Minister of Interior, Hitler has
named his friend and ally, Dr. Wilhelm Frick, former Minister of Interior of
Thuringia, who in the latter office gave practical effect to his anti-Semitism.
Herman Goering, Speaker of the Reichstag has been appointed
Minister without Portfolio and Reich’s Commissioner of Interior for Prussia.
Thus the entire internal policy of Germany is to be
controlled by Nazis who are firm believers in violence against the Jews.
The police force and the whole machinery of government will
now be at the disposal of the Nazis as well and instead of protecting the
Jewish population, they may soon become a menace as the instrument of Jewish
oppression, it is feared.
Adolph Hitler is scheduled to hold his first cabinet meeting
this afternoon, the results of which are awaited with apprehension by Jewish
leaders.
The one ray of hope for the Jews is the fact that in order to
achieve a workable Parliamentary majority, the Nazis must have the support of
the Center Party. In return for this support, the Center Party may receive
partial control of internal policy. Failing a Nazi-Center coalition, the
dissolution of Parliament and a new election appear to be inevitable.
Jewish leaders are determined, not withstanding the
developments, to continue their fight for their rights.
It is recalled in this connection that President von
Hindenburg has on several occasions recently promised that no infringement of
the rights of the Jews would be permitted.
The Center Party likewise, during last summer’s negotiations
for a coalition with the Nazis, assured the Jews that a condition of the
coalition would be that the rights of the Jews were to be guaranteed.
Notwithstanding these assurances, the feeling is prevalent in
Jewish circles that even if the withdrawal of the rights of Jews should not
receive legal sanction, Adolph Hitler, once in office, can achieve the same end
through administrative measures.
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GOERING WOULD SUFFER JEWS TO REMAIN AS ALIENS ONLY
Captain Goering set forth his views regarding the attitude of
the Nazis toward the Jews in an interview given to a representative of the
"Gazetta del Popolo" of Turin, last May.
At that time he made it clear that the Nazis would tolerate
no equality rights for the Jews whom he charged with being a "disruptive
and poisonous element which has brought harm to the German people."
Although he denied that the Nazis plan to murder the Jews,
when they come into power, he emphasized that the Jews would be suffered to
remain in the country as aliens only.
"The Jewish question is not fundamentally for us a
theoretical question," he stated at the time. "Nazism defends itself
against the Jews. It does not persecute them. We defend ourselves against
Jewry, not against the Jewish religion. In the Third Regime, religious liberty
will be complete for all confessions which do not conflict with the customs and
moral feelings of the Germanic race.
"It would be ridiculous to allege that we seek to
persecute the Mosaic religion, which leaves us quite indifferent," he
asserted. "We are defending ourselves against an element that is alien to
our race, against a disruptive and poisonous element which has brought harm to
the German people."
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