January 30,
1999
Dear Members
of the Board:
I request
that the book "Hitler's Willing Executioners" by Daniel
Jonah
Goldhagen be eliminated from the Senior High
School
Library. The theme of the book is spelled out on the dust
jacket:
"They (the Germans) acted as they did because of a
widespread,
profound, unquestioned, and virulent antisemitism
that led
them to regard the Jews as a demonic enemy whose
extermination was not only necessary but
also just."
Before I
take issue with that theme some background information.
January 6,
1997 I sent you my challenge of the book "Smoke and
Ashes" by
Barbara Rogasky. March 10, 1997 I sent you my
challenge of
the book "Never to Forget" by Milton Meltzer. Both
authors
claim that the lines: "When Jewish blood spurts from the
knife, Then
everything will be fine" are in the Horst Wessel
song, the
Nazi anthem. When I confronted Ms. Rogasky with a copy
of the Horst
Wessel song (these lines are not there) I was told
these lines
are in "Das Kampflied des SA." Since I wanted to
know the
name of the author, the publishing house and the title of
the song
book in which the song containing these lines was
published I
was directed by Mr. M. to contact the Holocaust
Museum in
Washington. This I did.
A Mr. J.L.
answered (April 29, 1997) and he included
in his
letter the pertinent pages from the German journal "Die
Musik"
(September 1938) .I quote: "Ein beliebtes Lied bei der
SA. war das
Kampflied 'War einst ein junger
Sturmsoldat...'Die
vierte
Strophe lautet wie folgt:
Wir sind vom Gausturm
Gross-Berlin
Und haben frohen
Mut.
Wenn das Judenblut vom Messer
spritzt,
Dann geht's noch mal
sogut.
Um auf
diesen Vers in meinen Liederbuechern der SA. nicht
verzichten
zu muessen, habe ich in der vorletzten Zeile folgende
Abwandlung
vorgenommen: 'Wenn das Hackenkreuz voranmarschiert
..." Das
Liederbuch entging zwar dadurch dem Zugriff der Polizei,
aber von der
SA. wurde das Lied trotz aller Gefahr zum Entsetzen
der
Strassenpassanten immer kraeftig in der 'Orginalfassung'
gesungen.”
This is what
Mr. L.’s letter says: "This change;
Baier
writes,
allowed the songbook to avoid confiscation by the police,
however, the
original text to the song was still sung at rallies
and
meetings. "
How dare Mr.
L. falsify? Does he not realize that there are
people who
know German? Here is what Bajer really says: "A
favorite
song with the SA was the fighting song: “Once there was a
young storm
soldier” .The fourth verse went like this:
We are from the Gausturm {section)
Gross-Berlin
And are of good
courage
When Jewish blood spurts from the
knife,
Then things will be twice as
good.
In order
that I did not have to leave out this verse in my
songbooks of
the SA I changed the next to last line into: “when
the swastika
marches ahead...” On account of this change the
songbook
avoided the confiscation by the police, but the song was
nevertheless
sung by the SA in the “original version” in spite of
all the
danger and to the horror of the pedestrians.
I want to
make four points.
1. The lines
"when Jewish blood spurts from the knife.. ." were
never
printed in a Nazi song book.
2. Where did
L. get the idea that these lines were sung at
rallies and
meetings? That is NOT what Bajer
wrote .
3. Anybody
knowing the political circumstances in Berlin at this
time will
realize that these lines were not directed against the
Jewish
butchers, bakersand candlestick makers, in short the
Jewish
neighbors these SA men might have had, but to goad their
Jewish
political opponents especially the
Berlin deputy police
chief,
Dr.Weiss, who was a Jew.
4. Point
number 4 brings me back to Goldhagen’s book where on page
500 appear
the lines:
When Jewish blood spurts from the
knife
All is fine and
dandy
Blood must flow thick as
hail
Goldhagen
uses these lines to buttress his theme of a murderous
German
antisemitism.
But Bajer
wrote that these lines were sung to the horror of the
pedestrians.
Where may I ask you was the murderous antisemitism of
these German
pedestrians?
Since
Goldhagen is so willing to smear the German people as a
whole I hope
someone will write a book with the title "Stalin's
Willing
Executioners” meaning the Jews. The main ideologue of
Communism
was Karl Marx, a Jew. Without the Jews, Communism
with
its
murderous atheism, with its promotion
of free love,
necessitating abortion on demand, with
its collectivization of
Russian
farms could not have been imposed on a conservative,
deeply
religious Russian people with a love for their land. The
leaders of
the Checklist death squad who murdered the czar, his
wife,
children, and faithful retainers were the Jews Yakov
M.
Yurovsky,
and Sverdlov. The main enforcer of that alien ideology
was the Jew,
Beria. The forced collectivization of the Russian
agriculture
was in Jewish hands. The majority of the members of
the varied
Communist committees were Jews. And look at Russia
now. It is
plundered by the Jews.
A look to
Germany. April 13, 1919, three Jews, Eugen Levine,
Ernst Toller
and Max Levien overthrew the Bavarian government
and declared
Bavaria to be a Soviet Republic. This Republic was
quickly
overthrown, but the blood letting in the streets of
Munich and
Augsburg was horrendous. The street battles in other
German
cities, foremost Berlin, between the Jewish led Communists
and loyal
government troops were equally bloody.
It was only the
victory of
the National Socialists January 30, 1933 which
finally
exorcised the threat of a Communistic Germany. If
Germany had
fallen to International Communism I doubt if the rest
of Europe
could have been held.
For every
reaction there first has to be an action. Let the Jewish
collective
look to their actions before they smear every reaction
as
antisemitic.