REICH’S JEWS UNITE TO DEAL WITH NAZIS

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REICH’S JEWS UNITE TO DEAL WITH NAZIS

Form National Organization in Effort to Ease Plight and Train Would-Be Emigrants

AUSTRIAN JEWS BARRED

Appeal for Aid Abroad Issued – Complaints Are Made on Onerous Passport Rules

Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES. BERLIN, July 28.-The establishment of a new “National Organization of Jews of Germany” for a united front in dealings with the government was announced here today by German Jewry’s official organ, The Centralverein Zeitung.

It was learned from an authoritative Jewish spokesman that Austria’s Jewish organizations had been forbidden to participate in the discussions resulting in the formation of this organization and were not allowed to become affiliated with it.

The organization plans to coordinate the activities of all Jewish groups in the old Germany in so far as contacts with the government are concerned and to further the reorientation of those Jews – a preponderant majority - who have been deprived of means of livelihood in fields in which they have been trained. The aim of this reorientation is to prepare them to find employment in those lands to which they might emigrate.

The message to the Jewish community from the organization’s president, Dr. Leo Baeck, Chief Rabbi of Berlin, takes on added interest because of the fact that in modern Germany expressions of Jewish opinion are few and because the Jewish community has been able to see no easing of its plight in such recent attempts at alleviation as the Evian conference on refugees.

Effort to Avert “Chaos”

“The most earnest tasks lie before us,” Dr. Baeck writes. “In a situation that has scarcely been equaled in the oft severe history of our people we have endeavored not without success to banish the spector of chaos. All that has befallen us we have met with trust in God and reliance in our self-respect.

“The continuing of our existence has been accomplished by reorientation work through schools, in preparation for immigration. We have readjusted ourselves inwardly and have created new forms of spiritual and material help. The national organization will do everything to further this course and to find new possibilities of help.

“But there can be no doubt that this continual and extraordinary strain on all our energies has its limit. The domain of our existence becomes daily narrower. Elimination from the professions and business makes the greatest part of the Jewish community unemployed. Our strength threatens to give out.

“We may therefore call for help. We never forget for a moment that a world in fear of its freedom and security cannot devote its entire and uninterrupted attention to us. We do not forget, either, that our brothers in other lands know their sorrows and distresses.

“In us lies a yearning for unhindered life in the free air of the world. In us is a determination to bind our existence with the erection of such a free structure.

“May these words be heard in future hours.”

300,000 Jews Still in Germany BERLIN, July 28 (AP).-In connection with the establishment of the new federation of German Jews it was pointed out here today that there were still 300,000 Jews in Germany, including those in annexed Austria.

George Brandt, official United States refugee observer, is here surveying possibilities for transplanting some of them to other countries.

Jewish quarters frequently have complained that difficulties were put in the way of emigration by passport offices. In this connection, Austrian Jewish sources have declared that 2,980 Austrian Jews have emigrated with the aid of other Jews since the March 13 annexation of Austria. They added that emigration would be faster if conditions for leaving Germany were simpler.

The Jew in Germany is down – stripped of whatever political power, social prestige or cultural influence he might have enjoyed in pre-Hitler days – but he is not out of the German scene. Those that have left Germany still total fewer than 150,000, Jews estimate.

In business the Jew is being eliminated more gradually than in other fields. One by one the big Jewish-owned department stores are passing into “Aryan” hands. But many Jews are in business, especially in the smaller establishments, while in the medical and dental professions many Jews still are making a living.

This does not mean that the Jew has a chance to be happy in Germany. If no deliberate attempt is made to prevent him from earning at least a bare existence, a very deliberate and sustained effort is made to make him feel out of place and unwelcome in Germany.

STUDENT CONGRESS OPENS

International Service Begins a Week’s Session at Montreux

Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES. MONTREUX, Switzerland, July 28.-The International Student Service opened its week of annual conference here tonight with 185 student delegates from twenty-one countries. Professor Clyde Eagleton of New York University is the session’s vice president.

American students are represented by eleven young men and women from widely scattered universities, headed by William G. Fletcher, who will address the conference on “The Student and Social Problems.” The Americans pan to invite the conference to meet next year at Cornell University.

The delegations include groups from Germany, Italy, most European countries and China, but not Russia and Japan. Among the main problems for discussion are aid for refugees and Chinese students and academic freedom.

Germans Cannot Marry Till Army Term Is Served

Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES. BERLIN, July 28.-Except in special cases, men in Germany will not be allowed to marry until they have completed their labor and army service. No exceptions will be allowed when the woman is older than the man.

Meanwhile the army issued a decree today that a large number of officers, including all those on the general staff, and also important workers connected with the army must have in their dwellings direct telephone connection with the local army headquarters.

This central switchboard will handle private as well as official calls, and the army will pay installation charges. Private calls, both local and distant will be borne by the individual.

The reason advanced for this new regulation is the necessity of headquarters to be able to communicate quickly and directly with its officers should the necessity arise.

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[2banana]

Unless “banding together” means arming yourself, it does not mean much...

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[mak5]

In Warsaw, it did mean arming themselves, and they held off their ultimate destruction far longer and imposed greater casualties on the Nazis than anyone expected.

[SJackson]

Unless “banding together” means arming yourself, it does not mean much...

When you're 1% of the population, arming yourself is a necessity, not to "band together", but to make possible the escape of yourself and your family.

[dfwgator]

When you're 1% of the population, arming yourself is a necessity, not to "band together", but to make possible the escape of yourself and your family.

Or at least for one of them to have put a bullet in the brain of that 'Paper Hanging SOB.'

[M. Espinola]

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[BroJoeK]

German Jewish refugees

"In January 1933 there were some 523,000 Jews in Germany, representing less than 1 percent of the country's total population. The Jewish population was predominantly urban and approximately one-third of German Jews lived in Berlin....

"By September 1939, approximately 282,000 Jews had left Germany and 117,000 from annexed Austria.

"Of these, some 95,000 emigrated to the United States, 60,000 to Palestine, 40,000 to Great Britain, and about 75,000 to Central and South America, with the largest numbers entering Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Bolivia. More than 18,000 Jews from the German Reich were also able to find refuge in Shanghai, in Japanese-occupied China.

"At the end of 1939, about 202,000 Jews remained in Germany and 57,000 in annexed Austria, many of them elderly.

"By October 1941, when Jewish emigration was officially forbidden, the number of Jews in Germany had declined to 163,000.

"The vast majority of those Jews still in Germany were murdered in Nazi camps and ghettos during the Holocaust."

Europe's 1939 Jewish population: