By Steven
Jonas
"Jews for Hitler?
You must be kidding." That's a
question that I have come across on a number of occasions as I have studied the
history of Nazi Germany over a period of many years. And yes, indeed, there were Jews for
Hitler. There were not too many of them. And certainly many Jews who were living in
Germany when Hitler was appointed as Chancellor by President Paul von
Hindenburg on Jan. 30, 1933 and then was given dictatorial
powers via the "Enabling Act" by the German Reichstag on March 23, 1933 were
from those moments on afraid for their employment, their property, and civil
rights they may have had under the predecessor Weimar Republic and eventually
their lives. But "Jews for Hitler" there
were, and organized too, primarily in an organization called "The Association
of German National Jews."
As described by the relevant
entry in Wikipedia:
"The Association
of German National Jews (German: Verband nationaldeutscher Juden) was a German Jewish organization during
the Weimar Republic and the early years of Nazi Germany that eventually came out in
support of Hitler.
"It
was founded in 1921 by Max Naumann who
was chairman until 1926 and again from
1933 to 1935 when the association was dissolved. Politically, the
association was close to the national conservative and monarchist German
National People's Party which, however, refused affiliation
with the association.
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Source: OpEdNews
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