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The Advent of Hiter

  • The call to Hitler on January 30, 1933 to become the head of government was followed by the take-over of all positions of authority by the National Socialist Party, which  meant that sworn anti-Semites were now in power. The German Jews contemplated these happenings with deep misgivings, for the programme of the Nazi  party included the demand to strip the Jews of citizenship and the removal of all Jews from public offices as well as the expulsion all the Jews who had emigrated to Germany after August 2, 1914.
  • Only the Zionists saw some benefit in this turn of events. The first public expression of this came from the Berlin Rabbi, Dr. Joachim Prinz, who was a committed Zionist and who directly after January 30, 1933, described the Hitler takeover as the “beginning of the Jew’s return to his Judaism.” In reference to the mounting Fascist terror against the German Jews, Prinz wrote; “No hiding place hides us any longer. Instead of assimilation, we wish for the recognition of the Jewish nation and the Jewish race.” This was definitely not the view of an isolated individual...