When you insult and vilify your critics, you are merely showing that you don't have anything meaningful to say on the matter. I will stick to the facts, and as it turns out, history isn't black and white, there are lots of grays.Quote from littlfish:
Blaming the Jews for the Holocaust is typical of 2 types of people:
1.Nazi sympathizers or
2.Germans who are experiencing collective responsibility and guilt for the crimes of their ancestors against mankind.
They try to reason that it was the Jews' own fault that they were murdered by the Nazis. The Nazis were only giving them what they deserved.
Code7, which one are you?
The UK Daily Express was one example. There are many other references for the Jewish boycott of Germany. Here's an excerpt of an article from the The Barnes Review, Jan./Feb. 2001, pp. 41-45.
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On March 12, 1933 the American Jewish Congress announced a massive protest at Madison Square Gardens for March 27. At that time the commander in chief of the Jewish War Veterans called for an American boycott of German goods. In the meantime, on March 23, 20,000 Jews protested at New York's City Hall as rallies were staged outside the North German Lloyd and Hamburg-American shipping lines and boycotts were mounted against German goods throughout shops and businesses in New York City. (...)
However, note well that the Zionist Association of Germany put out a telegram on the 26th of March rejecting many of the allegations made against the National Socialists as "propaganda," "mendacious" and "sensational."
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Full article at http://www.wintersonnenwende.com/scriptorium/english/archives/articles/jdecwar.html
As for the Untermyer speech, you somehow missed the parts with the "holy war" and "sacred war", he did say that. What I posted was rather a summary than a quote but nonetheless a fair representation of what Untermyer said in his whole speech.
The excerpt from sweetliberty.org was actually a speech by Benjamin Freedman at the Willard Hotel in 1961. So, what does it matter if a transcript of Freedman's speech is hosted at that site? It's hosted at other sites as well, does this change anything?
Some background info on Freedman, from the introductory note of the 1961 speech:
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Mr. Freedman, born in 1890, was a successful Jewish businessman of New York City who was at one time the principal owner of the Woodbury Soap Company. He broke with organized Jewry after the Judeo-Communist victory of 1945, and spent the remainder of his life and the great preponderance of his considerable fortune, at least 2.5 million dollars, exposing the Jewish tyranny which has enveloped the United States.
Mr. Freedman knew what he was talking about because he had been an insider at the highest levels of Jewish organizations and Jewish machinations to gain power over our nation. Mr. Freedman was personally acquainted with Bernard Baruch, Samuel Untermyer, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Kennedy, and John F. Kennedy, and many more movers and shakers of our times.
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What's more, Freedman attended the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. He was there and has first hand knowledge of what really happened. This brings us to another reason of why Jews were eventually hated in Germany, the Balfour Declaration. For more info, see this post and the one below:
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=2935284#post2935284
