Facists reward the Zionists

The fascists rewarded the Zionists for their “restraint” and allowed the ZVFD to go on with its work unhindered. (This was at a time when all democratic and anti-fascist parties and organizations in Germany were subject to the most rigorous persecution, with their officials and members behind bars in prisons and concentration camps). At the same time, the fascists placed all kinds of obstacles in the path of the non-Zionist organizations. These hindrances struck at the CV above all, for prior to 1933, the fascists had already seen the CV as “their chief Jewish opponents,” is indicated by numerous examples from the Nazi press.24 The CV had always charged the Zionists with showing little interest in the “struggle [against  fascism] … and that [Zionism] followed policy of indifference [in the face of the encroaching  fascist  danger] because it did not feel itself involved.”25

On March 1, 1933 the SA fascist terror troops occupied the central office of the CV and closed it. On March 5, 1933, the CV in Thuringia was banned because of “high treasonous intrigue”. At the same time, 61 the  Nazi state turned against other non-Zionist Jewish organizations, which, like the “Reich League of Jewish Veterans,” for instance, represented a Jewish German  nationalist  position.  Also banned was the “Union of National German Jews.”