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Extreme Veteran Posts: 466   | Intermountain Jewish News 26th Day of Tishri, 5702 Friday, October 17, 1941 GERMANS WEARY OF ANTI-JEWISH PRESS CAMPAIGNS Change in Mood Is Seen as Jews Are Being Shown Sympathy In Reich On a German Frontier - While the Nazi press throughout the Reich is conducting violent anti-Jewish propaganda to back up Hitler’s manifesto to his army this week that “the Jews and only Jews” are to be blamed for the German soldiers killed on the Eastern front, the sentiment of the average man on the street in Germany is becoming more and more sympathetic towards the Jews, it was reported. The report states that many circles in Germany believe that return of goods stolen from the Jews in the Nazi-occupied countries is essential to a decent peace. The change of mood among the German people towards the Jews is reported to be the result of the introduction of the yellow Mogen David for the Jews in the Reich. This anti-Jewish measure has, according to the report, had an opposite effect than that desired. It has provoked sympathy for the Jews instead of hatred. Christian ministers in Germany are now saying publicly: “Who knows! We Christians might soon find ourselves wearing the cross where Jews now wear the yellow star.” Many churches have worshippers wearing the yellow mark. When Jews, wearing the yellow mark, enter a street car, not one or two people jump up to give them a seat, but three or four, the report states. Characteristic of the situation is the following joke which is now making the rounds in Berlin: A baby in his mother’s arms in a street car sees three Jews with the yellow star. “Look, mommy,” the baby shouts, “There are some more men with the Ritter Kreuz.” The Ritter Cross is one of Germany’s high decorations. The young Jews in Germany wear the yellow star with pride and self assurance, just as if it were really a high decoration, the report from Berlin concludes. | ||
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 466 | Intermountain Jewish News 3rd Day Of Cheshvan - Friday, October 24, 1941 BERLIN RENEWS EXPULSION OF JEWS TO POLAND Thousands of Old Men Sent To Work in Pinsk Swamps Home Raids Continue Stockholm. - Five thousand Jews, the majority of them between 50 and 80 years of age, have been expelled from Berlin to Nazi-held Poland since Friday in a renewed wave of mass-expulsion of Jews from the Reich, it is reported here by the Berlin correspondent of the Swedish newspaper Social Demokraten. The expulsion is being conducted under the supervision of the Palestine-born Gestapo leader, Eichmann, who supervised similar expulsions of Jews last year from Vienna and the Czech protectorate. The Berlin correspondent states that the aged Jews of Berlin were shipped in cattle trains to Lodz, Poland, from where they will be transported to Pinsk to work in the Pinsk swamps in the district of Rokitno. The correspondent also reports from Berlin that raids of Jewish homes have been conducted in the German capital during the last week with Jews being evicted from their houses with only several hours notice. They are not permitted to take with them any of their furniture or other belongings. According to the report similar raids are going on all over the country with a view toward expelling as many Jews as possible to the Pinsk swamps. At the same time it was disclosed that more than 6,000 Jews have been arrested in Berlin on the charge of allegedly violating the food regulations which deprive Jews of certain foodstuffs. The Voekischer Beobachter, personal organ of Hitler, trying to justify the introduction of the yellow Mogen David for Jews explains that this measure “will put an end to Jews obtaining such food articles as coffee, coa, and others.” The fact that the Voelkischer Beobachter has found it necessary to indulge in apologetic comment in connection with the yellow badge indicates that resentment against this measure is still felt by many Germans. The article also indicates that many German food stores went out of their way to sell forbidden food to Jews out of sympathy for the persecuted Jewish population, under the pretext that the owners of the stores did not know that their customers were Jews. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The Week in Review By Milton Brown It’s winter cold around Leningrad. Nazi troops encircling the city waiting to starve it into surrender are shivering. Waiting for the Russians to starve is a long business. The Nazis think perhaps they can expedite the collapse by getting the people of Leningrad fighting against the Jews. You know the old principle - divide and conquer, the favorite maxim of the Nazis. So during the past week the Nazi airplanes have been bombarding Leningrad with leaflets designed to incite progroms again the Jews. But the Russians, it appears, have been giving the cold shoulder to these appeals, and that doesn’t serve to make the Nazis any warmer, in freezing weather. While the Soviet masses have been treating these falling leaflets with utter contempt, the Soviet radio took notice of them and one of their broadcasts this week brought some very interesting information. The broadcast cited the names of many Russian Jews who are now rendering unusual service in the Russian defense. It pointed out that it was a Jew, Spitalny, who invented the automatic airplane cannon which the Soviets are now using against the Nazis. Another Jewish engineer, Saltzman, is responsible for the mass production of a new type of Russian tank. The Soviet broadcaster went on to say many other very flattering things about the Jews. At last, it would seem the Jews are getting other bodies beside our own anti-Defamation League and similar organizations to speak up for us. From many other parts of Europe came similar reports. From Holland came a report of a secret collection of funds by non-Jews to aid Jews rendered destitute by the anti-Jewish measures, and Dutch papers have been critical of a number of the Aryanization measures. “The necessary Aryanizaion of the Gebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam has produced pretty bad results,” said one leading Amsterdam paper this week. From Czecho-Slovakia, likewise, came a report of public demonstrations to express sympathy for the Jews. And from Poland this week came another report of a Nazi paper condemning the Poles for their seeming friendly attitude to the Jews. In Italy, there has been on overt evidence of any similar definitely pro-Jewish attitude, but perhaps something of this may be legitimately read into the new business which has risen in Italy - that of selling “Aryan” certificates. Something like the old “diploma selling” business of yesteryear has arisen In Italy. You remember the old racket. You didn’t have to go to college. Just send $100 to the International Educational Institute and by return mail, you’d be a doctor. Well, now, it appears something like this has happened in Italy. You don’t have to worry about your ancestors. Just go down and see any of a half dozen prominent Fascist leaders in Rome, Milan - pay the necessary fee - and you will get a certificate showing that you belong to the master race. It’s surprising what modern Nazi science can do these days - even changing races by use of a little money. Well, with little spaghetti, with no olive oil, and little to eat generally, being an Aryan in Italy isn’t worth so much these days. If we were an Aryan there, we might sell out too- even for a half mess of pottage. And speaking about things to eat the Nazi radio this week apologized for the complete disappearance of white bread, said that white bread was a “Jewish invention, promoted by Jews for speculative reasons and for the purpose of undermining the health of the German people.” But what about the disappearance of black bread from most parts of Europe too? From Palestine came colorful news this week. War recruiting is proceeding on a wholesale scale and as customary at such times, British soldier, Jewish, and Australians, stationed in Palestine have been doing much marching thru Jerusalem, Haifa and other Palestine cities. They march and sing - British and Hebrew airs. Imagine the big husky Anzacs marching singing Hatikvah! Palestine saw this during the week. Yes, it’s a strange world. If anyone would have predicted it five years ago, who could have believed it? Yet those of us whose memories go back to the first World War, remember that the commanding general of the Anzacs - as the Australians and New Zealand troops are called - was a Jew, Sir John Monash . Lloyd George thought him the greatest strategist the Allies produced and believed if he had been a military man by profession, he would have become the leader of all the Allied army, but having risen from the ranks, the professional soldiers were envious of him and did little to advance him. | ||
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 466 | I am going to interrupt my reporting from the Intermountain Jewish News to bring you this brief, but very historic report. Without going into a lot of detail please allow me to give a brief background on the newspaper report below. In the Fall of 1862, as the Civil War waged, General Grant issued General Orders No. 11 This order expelled all Jewish people from the territory of Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi. There was widespread protest to this exile from Jewish organizations and newspapers throughout the country. In 1868 General Grant was elected President and transcended his heretofore anti-Semitic reputation. He carried the Jewish vote in the election and named several Jews to high office. But General Order No. 11 remains a blight on the military career of the general of whom it can be said saved the Union. New York Daily Tribune January 5, 1863 GEN. GRANT’S ORDER AGAINST JEWS REVOKED Deputations of Jews began arriving here yesterday to solicit the President to countermand or modify the order of Gen Grant excluding Israelites from his lines. The operation of it upon families and merchants long established in regular business proved exceedingly oppressive and produced great excitement in every city in the West. On the application last night of Mr. Kaskel, one of the expelled Jewish citizens of Paducah, sustained by Representative Gurley of Ohio, the President instructed Gen. Halleck to countermand the order imperatively. Such countermand was sent West this morning by telegraph. | ||
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 466 | Intermountain Jewish News 17th Day of Cheshvan Friday, Nov. 7, 1941 100,000 JEWS IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA TO BE DEPORTED Order Permits Only Fourteen Pounds of Luggage for Exile to Poland London - Czechoslovak government circles here this week received information that 100,000 Jews in the Czech Protectorate have received orders to be ready for deportation to Nazi-held Poland. The order provides that the deportees should prepare 14 pounds of luggage and leave the rest of their belongings behind. Their dwellings must be left in complete order, the order says. More than 10,000 Jews have already been deported from Prague and other cities during the last fortnight, the report discloses. They were sent to the huge Jewish ghetto which the Nazis have established in Bialystock, Poland, and to the Pinsk swamps on the former Polish-Russian frontier which has now become Nazi-occupied territory. Many children have been separated from their parents and wives from their husbands as a result of the merciless deportation. Meanwhile the mass-deportation of Jews from Prague and other cities is reported to be provoking considerable anxiety among the Czech non-Jewish population who fear they too will soon be deported by the Nazis to occupied Poland. The report is substantiated by an article in the pro-Nazi newspaper “Posledni List,” reaching here this week from Prague. The article states that the non-Jewish population in the Protectorate considers the deportation of the Jews as only the forerunner for a wholesale ousting of Czechs, especially since the Nazi press has recently warned non-Jews that they too will be deported should they fall under suspicion of sympathizing with Jews. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Political Department We take the liberty of supplementing President Roosevelt’s recent joke that Hitler is trying to find out from the Jews in Germany how Moses managed to make the waters of the Red Sea stand aside so that the children of Israel could cross. The report which reached us says that Hitler, standing on the French side of the English Channel got the idea that if he could only secure the cane with which Moses had parted the waters of the Red Sea, he could then easily invade England by parting the waters of the channel. Losing no time, he immediately sent for a Rabbi. “Do you believe in the Bible?” he asked the aged Jew. “Certainly,” was the rabbi’s reply. “Then you also believe that Moses led the Jews through the Red Sea?” “I do,” the rabbi confirmed. “Then you, as a rabbi, must tell me where I can get a hold of his cane,” Hitler shouted. As the rabbi hesitated, Hitler became wilder. “I see,” he yelled, “that you seem to know where the cane is hidden. You will be tortured to death if you don’t reveal to me the place where it is kept.” Calmly the rabbi replied, “Yes, I do know where Moses’ cane can be found. The place is only three hours from where we stand.” “Now you are talking,” Hitler beamed. “Exactly where is this place?” “The British Museum in London,” came the rabbi’s reply. | ||
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 466 | Intermountain Jewish News 17th Day of Cheshvan Friday, November 7, 1941 The Week in Review By Milton Brown If our own gangsters, thugs and burglars were to hold open auction of all their stolen property in one of our cities, we can well imagine the sensation. But, Nazi Crime Inc. does that very thing and so accustomed has the world become to Nazi barbarity, that it scarcely causes a ripple. In Berlin this week, the people were flocking to auctions. Thousands of Jews had been deported to the Pinsk swamps and the Nazi government was trying to realize on the furniture and other property taken from the Jews. The words - “how much am I bid?” and the sound of the hammer “Sold for such and such” were being widely heard in Berlin. Fro months and years now, the Germans have been forced to buy everything with ration cards, but here for the first time was a sale in which they did not have to consult their ration cards. They could buy unlimited - whatever there was. What mattered it to them, if it was stolen property they were buying. Have not the Nazis already proved to them that the commandment “Thou shalt not steal” was part of a Jewish conspiracy. Shakespeare coined the phrase “supper of horrors.” The phrase is very apt for the news of the week for there is a full seven curse supper of horrors with entrée main dishes, side courses and dessert. The auctions of the Jewish goods in Berlin were but the entrees. For the main dishes and side course of horrors, there is much from which to pick. Here is a dispatch telling how 6,000 Jews were machine-gunned to death by Gestapo units in Poland. The wholesale massacre, it is reported, took place soon after the Nazi authorities in Warsaw announced the establishment of new labor camps for Jews in the region of Lomzha. Upon the arrival of the first contingent of Jews at these camps, six thousand Jews were ordered to descend into the trenches occupied by the Russian troops in the early stages of the war. Once in the trenches, the Jews were ordered to kneel Then from all sides a fierce blast of machine gun fire was poured on them. Reports reaching Lisbon this week state that almost one third of the entire Jewish population of the province of Bessarabia was exterminated in the course of the fierce Romanian-Soviet fighting and in the progroms which followed the Romanian conquest of the province. Immediately upon the capture of a town, the procedure was to segregate the Jews. In one town 20,000 Jews were concentrated in approximately 300 houses and denied permission to leave or to forage for food. Even some of the Romanian sentries it was reported, were revolted at the spectacle. To top it all, the Nazi dominated Romanian government has put a deadline on all Jewish economic enterprise. After Dec. 21, no Jew may be employed in any Romanian enterprise. The order means that the Jewish population has nothing go look forward to but slow death. The Nazi propaganda against Jews in Berlin continues. One wonders why with the Jews reduced to impotent a status, the Nazis find it necessary to do so. During the past week, a pamphlet was distributed in Berlin, the cover in black, red, and yellow colors. “When you see a yellow star worn by the Jews, then think of the following crimes committed by them” and then it goes on to list the alleged crimes. Does the appearance of this pamphlet mean that some Germans are asking question about the Nazi barbarities or does it mean that the Nazi s are merely at their old game of keeping the people thinking about the Jews, so they won’t think too much about other things? We may finish off this “meal of horrors” with the report of an incident that took place in Poland this week. Three Jews were led about town with sandwich boards suspended from their shoulders. The sandwich boards announced that the wearers of these signs would be hanged the next day. They would be hanged for having bought white bread! Jews are not allowed to buy white bread. Last week from another Nazi dominated country the radio blasted that white bread was an invention of Jewish speculators, conspiring to undermine the health of the people- and now they are to be hanged for eating the bread which the Nazis say is not fit to be eaten. | ||
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 466 | This is the last post from this series of newspapers. The following reports were published on December 5, 1941. Two days before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, three days before the U.S. declared war on Japan and six days before the U.S. declared war on Germany and Italy. This particular paper on this date, has, surprisingly, scant news on what was to be, within the week, World War 11. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Intermountain Jewish News 15th Day of Kislev, 5702 Friday, December 5, 1941 Refugees in Shanghai Seeking Emigration Shanghai - The eyes of thousands of Jewish refugees marooned here are now directed towards Washington where the result of Japanese-American negotiations may indirectly decide their fate. The fear that further international complications may lead to serious consequence for the 20,000 refugees herded in Shanghai is developing among the Polish and German Jews here since it is believed that Japan may take full control of Shanghai and treat the refugees as undesirable elements. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The Military Front While the British government refuses the establishment of a Jewish army, it is worthwhile to note that the idea of the formation of Jewish military units to liberate Palestine goes as far back as the 12th century. In the 10th century David Reubeni offered Emperor Charles V a military alliance of Oriental Jews to fight the Turks….in the first half of the 17th century attempts were made by Jews to enlist the cooperation of England in the liberation of Palestine…in 1799, while standing at the gates of Jerusalem, Napoleon himself issued an appeal to the Jews of Asia and Africa to join his army and march under his banner in order to secure possession of their ancestral soil…A similar proposal was advanced in Czarist Russia in 1826...In 1867 Louis Napoleon formed two Jewish battalions in the Netherlands…Not to speak of the “Jewish Legions” which fought with the British on the eastern front during the first World War…All these and other interesting facts concerning the history of Jewish military units have just been made public by the Institute of Jewish Affairs in a special study of the problem of a Jewish army. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ When the news first came through that those 95 refugees from Naziland had been refused permission to land in Argentina, and faced the fate of being returned to concentration camps, Selwyn James, a scrappy Britisher, on PM, boldly called Sir Gerald Campbell, chief of the British Press Service. He urged him to have the refugees admitted to British Trinidad. It would be excellent publicity for the British, James said, aside from being a decent and not too unlikely act of humanity. He got a polite brush-off. The gloomy ship started for Europe, and Rep. Sol Bloom rushed in protest to the British Embassy. He was turned down too…When that happened, cocky newspaperman James got Campbell on the phone again, and ranted and roared for half an hour…It must have been top-hole as far as accent and persuasion go…Because, finally, Campbell promised to have another go at the Embassy…Result: The refugee ship has changed course again, and British Trinidad will be at least a temporary haven for those ninety-five pushed around outcasts. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Review of the Week By Milton Brown The news of transcending interest this week in the Jewish world was undoubtedly the convening of the Inter-American Jewish Congress at Baltimore. The convention was not only interest in itself as a phenomenon of a new emerging unity and solidarity among the Jews of the Americas, but perhaps equally for the fact that for the first time it projects the Jews of the American republics, outside of the United States, into the orbit of world influence. The South American Jewries in the past have done their bit, but little has been heard of them in the councils where world Jewish interests are debated. The attitude towards them might very well have been expressed in the homely phrases: “little children are to be seen, not heard.” Yet the fact is that South American Jewry is not a child. It is much older than North American Jewry. South America is perhaps the one continent of the world outside of Asia, where Jews may say they were there with the first tread of the white man. The first Jews came with Columbus, and the matter did not stop there, for large number of Marrano Jews were the first settlers. The pioneers of a new country as Theodore Herzl once said, are always desperate men. Well, Jews were a very desperate lot in those days of 1492. They were in disguise as Marranos. That shows how desperate they were. Unfortunately for Jewish history, disguises are often very successful, so that much of the story of early Jewish settlements of South America has been lost to us. There was one South American republic unrepresented at the Congress - Brazil, which refused to permit any of its Jewish citizens, for some unexplained reason, to attend as delegates. However, the Brazilian Consul surprised the congress by coming and offering his greeting. In vaudeville, today, we hear much of double talk. Well, there seems to be something like “double action” as well - judging by the case of Brazil. Sumner Welles, under secretary of state addressed the congress and his speech would make one to believe that at least the state department looks to South Americas a prospective reservoir for the reception of great numbers of refugees. Mr. Welles praised the Dominican Republic for its generosity in permitting the Jewish settlement and said this settlement “conclusively demonstrated that European refugees can be resettled in sub-tropical climate and can prosper and thrive.” He reassured the delegates that the United States government “will participate in every practicable way, contributing with other governments towards successful realization of that great human enterprise of making it possible for the refugees to find a safe haven.” He added that President Roosevelt had urged the Inter-governmental Refugee Committee to undertake “a serious and expanding effort to survey in detailed fashion the geographical and economic problem of resettling several million people in new areas of the earth’s surface after the war ends.” ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ An ad in this newspaper reads as follows: “V for VICTORY!” And GOODSTEINS’S FOR GOOD FOODS Especially our Corned Beef, Home Made Pickled Herring, Salami, Pastromi and Kosher Jello. 3929 E. 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Extreme Veteran Posts: 466 | In 1938 Jerry Siegel, and artist, Joe Shuster conceived and published their first comic of the Mensch of Steel. Superman ushered in the Golden Age of comic books. There is much speculation that these two Jewish creators imbued Superman with certain Jewish traits and roots. Such as like baby Moses traveling the Nile in a basket, Superman, born Kal-El, Hebrew for “Voice of G-d,” was saved from annihilation by his parents. He arrived on earth in a tiny space capsule, to escape the holocaust on Krypton. His values were to heal the world, fighting for good against evil. (Aish) Much like the closeted Jews of the time, Superman, in the role of his alter ego, maintained an unassuming persona, while, with a quick change of clothes, he fought a never ending battle with villains of the day. Among those villains was the evil Nazis. It has been said that Joseph Goebbels denounced the Man of Steel as a Jew. I grew up with Superman as my hero. As a collector of historic newspapers it has always been my wish to actually find a newspaper containing a Superman comic strip. Any such comic strip would have been treasured. Although I have numerous newspapers from the late 30’s and 40’s, I had never found one with a Superman comic strip. Most recently I was able to acquire a newspaper from 1943 containing, not just a Superman comic strip, but one in which the Man of Steel does battle with Nazidom. Below, find a link to this strip appearing on my newspaper website. If the above has failed to convey my excitement and joy in owning this newspaper be assured I am bubbling with delight. Yes, yes, I know it all sounds so frivolous, but each man has his own treasures and gems. This is one of mine. Additionally, find links to other newspapers on my web site from which I have posted reports to Extra Extra. It gives me great pleasure to be able to share these Judaic news events with all of you. You have expressed your appreciation to me and the writers of these reports, with the interest you have shown in the history of our people. The person who created my newspaper website and maintains it lives in Nova Scotia, Canada. It is her creative abilities, encouragement, and support that has resulted in one of the finest newspaper web sites on the internet. I thank you and her deeply. http://www.newspapercollections.com/supermanfights.htm http://www.newspapercollections.com/russiansberlin.htm (highly sensitive pictures) http://www.newspapercollections.com/himmlercaught.htm http://www.newspapercollections.com/israelarmistice.htm http://www.newspapercollections.com/israelwinsseat.htm http://www.newspapercollections.com/warmiddleeast.htm | ||
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