"To commemorate the Baron's expedition, Goebbels had a medal struck :
on one side the swastika, on the other the Zionist star."
German humour is often underestimated.
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evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "Rowan Berkeley"
<rowan_berkeley@y...> wrote:
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> By 1934 the SS had become the most pro-Zionist element in the Nazi
Party. Other Nazis were even calling them
> 'soft' on the Jews. Baron von Mildenstein had returned from his six-
month visit to Palestine as an ardent
> Zionist sympathiser. Now as the head of the Jewish Department of
the SS's Security Service, he started studying
> Hebrew and collecting Hebrew records ; when his former companion
and guide, Kurt Tuchler, visited his office in
> 1934, he was greeted by the strains of familiar Jewish folk tunes.
[(16)] There were maps on the walls showing
> the rapidly increasing strength of Zionism inside Germany.[(17)]
Von Mildenstein was as good as his word : he
> not only wrote favourably about what he saw in the Zionist colonies
in Palestine ; he also persuaded Goebbels to
> run the report as a massive twelve-part series in his own Der
Angriff (The Assault), the leading Nazi propaganda
> organ (26 September to 9 October 1934). His stay among the Zionists
had shown the SS man "the way to curing a
> centuries-long wound on the body of the world : the Jewish
question". It was really amazing how some good Jewish
> boden under his feet could enliven the Jew : "The soil has reformed
him and his kind in a decade. This new Jew
> will be a new people."[(18)] To commemorate the Baron's expedition,
Goebbels had a medal struck : on one side
> the swastika, on the other the Zionist star.[(19)] In May 1935
Reinhardt Heydrich, who was then the chief of the
> SS Security Service, later the infamous 'Protector' of the Czech
lands incorporated into the Reich, wrote an
> article, 'The Visible Enemy', for Das Schwarze Korps, the official
organ of the SS. In it Heydrich assessed the
> various tendencies among the Jews, comparing the assimilationists
quite invidiously with the Zionists. His
> partiality towards Zionism could not have been expressed in more
unmistakable terms : "After the Nazi seizure of
> power our racial laws did in fact curtail considerably the
immediate influence of Jews. But... the question as
> the Jew sees it is still : 'How can we win back our old
position' ... We must separate Jewry into two
> categories... the Zionists and those who favor being assimilated.
The Zionists adhere to a strict racial
> position and by emigrating to Palestine they are helping to build
their own Jewish state." Heydrich wished them
> a fond farewell : "The time cannot be far distant when Palestine
will again be able to accept its sons who have
> been lost to it for over a thousand years. Our good wishes together
with our official good will go with
> them."[(20)]
>
> [(16)]. Jacob Boas, 'The Jews of Germany: Self-Perception in the
Nazi Era as Reflected in the German Jewish
> Press 1933-1938', PhD thesis, University of California, Riverside
(1977), p. 110.
>
> [(17)].Heinz Hohne, The Order of the Death's Head, p. 333.
>
> [(18)]. Leopold von Mildenstein (pseudonym von Lim), 'Ein Nazi
fahrt nach Palastina', Der Angriff (9 October
> 1934), p.4.
>
> [(19)]. Jacob Boas, 'A Nazi Travels to Palestine', History Today
(London, January 1980), p. 38.
>
> [(20)]. Hohne, Order of the Death's Head, p. 333; and Karl
Schleunes, The Twisted Road to Auschwitz, pp. 1934.
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