Brings us to another very interesting point. When the Germans realized this. they naturally resented it. Up to that time. the Jews had never been better off in any country in the world than they had been in Germany. You had Mr. Rathenau there. who was maybe 100 times as important in industry and finance as is Bernard Baruch in this country. You had Mr. Balin.
Who owned the two big steamship lines
North German Lloyd’s and the Hamburg-American Lines. You had Mr. Bleichroder. who was the banker for the Hohenzollern family. You had the Warburgs in Hamburg. who were the big merchant bankers—the biggest in the world. The Jews were doing very well in Germany. No question about that. The Germans felt: “Well. that was quite a sellout.”
It was a sellout that might be compared job function email list to this hypothetical situation: Suppose the United States was at war with the Soviet Union.
Well. let’s quit. We offer you peace terms
Let’s forget the whole thing.” And all of a sudden Red China came into the war as an ally of the Soviet Union. And throwing them into the war brought about our defeat. A crushing defeat. with reparations the likes of which man’s imagination the direction of the link and its destination cannot encompass. Imagine. then. after that defeat. if we found out that it was the Chinese in this country. our Chinese citizens. who all the time we had thought were loyal citizens working with us. were selling us out to the Soviet Union and that it was through them that.
How the Germans felt
They’d been so nice to them: from 1905 on. when the first Communist revolution in Russia failed. and the Jews had to scramble out of Russia. they all went to Germany.
Now Nahum Sokolow. and all the great aero leads leaders and great names that you read about in connection with Zionism today. wrote in all their papers—and the press was filled with their statements—that the feeling against the Jews in Germany is due to the fact that they realized that this great defeat was brought about by Jewish intercession in bringing the United States into the war.
