Discussion on Jewish Immigration and Germany

Für richtig hältst, ob du glaubst, dass ich fleißig gewesen bin.

In connection with the Jewish question, I have this to say.

It is a shameful spectacle to see how the whole

democratic world is oozing sympathy for the poor

tormented Jewish people, but remains hard-hearted and

obdurate when it comes to helping them, which is surely, in

view of its attitude, an obvious duty.

The arguments that are brought up as an excuse for not

helping them

actually speak for us Germans and Italians, for this is what they

say. One, we, that is the democracies, are not in a

position to take in the Jews. Yet in these empires there are not

ten people to the square kilometer, while Germany, with her

135 inhabitants to the square kilometer, is supposed to have room for

them.

Two, they assure us we cannot take them unless

Germany is prepared to allow them a certain amount of capital to bring with

them as immigrants. For hundreds of years, Germany was good

enough to receive these elements, although they possessed nothing except

infectious political and physical diseases.

What they possess today, they have by a very large extent

gained at the cost of the less astute German nation by the most reprehensible

manipulations. Today, we are merely paying this people what it

deserves. When the German nation was, thanks to the

inflation instigated and carried through by Jews,

deprived of the

entire savings which it had accumulated in years of honest work,

when the rest of the world took away the German nation's foreign investments, when

we were divested of the whole of our colonial possessions, these

philanthropic considerations evidently carried little noticeable weight with

democratic statesmen. Today I can only assure these gentlemen

that thanks

to the brutal education with which the democracies favored us for 15

years, we are completely hardened to all attacks

of sentiment.

After more than 800,000 children of the nation had died of hunger and

undernourishment at the close of the war, we witnessed almost 1 million

head of milking cows being driven away from us in accordance with the cruel

paragraphs of a dictate which the humane democratic apostles of

the world

forced upon us as a peace treaty. We witnessed over 1

million German prisoners of war being retained in confinement for no reason at

all for a whole year after the war was ended.

We've witnessed over 1.5 million Germans being torn away from

all that they possessed in the territories lying on our frontiers and being whipped

out with practically only what they wore on their backs.

We had to endure having millions of our fellow countrymen torn

from us without their consent and without their being afforded the

slightest possibility of existence.

I could supplement these examples with dozens of the most

cruel kind. For this reason, we ask to be spared

all sentimental talk. The German nation does not wish its

interests

to be determined and controlled by any foreign nation, France to the French,

England to the English, America to the Americans,

and Germany to the

Germans. We are resolved to prevent the settlement

in our country of a

strange people which was capable of snatching for itself all

the leading

positions in the land and to oust it, for it is our

will to educate our own nation for these leading positions.

We have hundreds of thousands of very intelligent children of peasants

and of the working classes.