Jews, German

Jews were not mentioned as victims in the inscription on the memorial erected in 1974. Modified in 1991, the inscription now also commemorates the Jews (German edition). Why did the first inscription withhold the information that there were Jews among the victims ... 

Haber was born in the city of Breslau, Silesia, then part of Germany, on December 9, 1868. As the gateway to German culture for many Eastern European Jews, Breslau bred many a superpatriot, Haber included. Fritz s mother died within days of his birth. His father, a civic leader and successful trader of dyes and chemicals, rejected the child and left his upbringing to various relatives. As a young man, Fritz wanted to become a chemist, but his father insisted that he join the family business. Only after Haber achieved worldwide fame did the two reconcile. 

Haber was slow to grasp the implications of the Nazis rise to power. As Germans boycotted Jewish businesses and Hitler s brownshirts removed Jewish students from university libraries and laboratories, the Nazis passed a law on April 7, 1933, to cleanse the civil service and universities of Jews. By this time, Haber s Kaiser Wilhelm Institute was financed by the government and its employees were treated as civil functionaries subject to the new law. Haber himself was exempt because of war work and seniority. Eager for a chemical warfare center, Nazi authorities singled out Haber s institute and ordered him to fire its Jews. At the same time, the Kaiser Wilhelm Society told Haber to somehow keep his important senior scientists. He had until May 2 to act. 

German newspapers announced that Haber had resigned for health reasons, but he quickly distributed copies of his letter to counteract the lie. Within two years, one in five German university scientists lost their jobs, 80 percent of them were Jews. Warned that he was destroying German science, the Fuhrer fell into rages. 

David Nachmansohn. German-Jewish Pioneers in Science 1900-1933 Highlights in Atomic Physics, Chemistry, and Biochemistry. New York Springer-Verlag, 1979. Source for percentage of Jews in universities and importance of baptism. 

In accordance with the German "laws" then in existence, the "trustees" were permitted to allot 500 Zloty per month to the Jews who had been robbed of their property, and for each family. But Schwab allotted only 500 Zloty for all three families, that is, for myself and my wife whose aged mother was still with her for my married daughter and her husband, and for my sick son who was in a sanitarium. Then I had to pay 150 Zloty to I.G. for so-called rent even one family could not live on the lowest standard on only 350 Zloty a month. 

The Germans then undertook the collection of Jews intended for extermination by having single houses, blocks of houses, or whple rows emptied, ordering everyone to concentrate on the street which was surrounded by soldiers. Anyone who went back into the house was immediately shot. Those who had been collected in the street were taken to the collecting point loaded on trucks, and taken to meet... 

Ambros was very exact. A few weeks later, he reported twice to a group of buna colleagues at Ludwigshafen that plans were being made to build a second concentration camp at Auschwitz "The inhabitants of the town of Auschwitz itself are 2000 Germans, 4000 Jews, 7000 Poles. The availability of inmates of the camp would be advantageous."... 

Q. At any time when you were in Italy, did you read or hear about the position taken by the Vatican newspapers with respect to the German program in Poland for the treatment of the Jews ... 

The report had demanded of all Farben personnel that they support file Party and "German ideals." The Jews were denounced. Though not a Party member himself, Ilgner levied contributions for the Party on employees who hadn t seen the light. In fact, the report boasted, he and the top Farben organization had contributed 20,000,000 Reichsmarks to Nazi-sympathetic South American firms from 1933 to 1937. 

Issaq H, ed. A Century of Separation Science. New York Marcel Dekker, Inc. 2002. Stoltzenburg D. Fritz Haber Chemist, Nobel Laureate, German, Jew. Philadelphia Chemical Heritage Foundation 2005. 

Herman Francis Mark was born in Vienna on May 3, 1895. The oldest of three children and son of a family physician, he was raised in that city s Fourth District, then a semi-commercial area inhabited by lower middle class families. Mark s father was a German Jew who embraced Lutheranism on marriage. 

Such politically driven revisions of the race concept became more urgent still as the fully horrific details of the fascist programs in Europe became known. In response to German and Italian state policies, for instance, a handbook for secondary school teachers (1939) pointed out that Mussolini s effort to drive the Jews out of Italy is impossible, because not even the foremost anthropologist could tell exactly whose ancestry is free of Jewish blood. 27 Likewise, Benedict s popular pamphlet The Races of Mankind (1943) insisted, Aryans, Jews, Italians are not races. 28... 

Does it really matter how many Jews lost their lives in the German sphere of influence during the Second World War Is it so important, after so many years, to attempt painstakingly to investigate just how they died After all, it is surely morally correct that even one victim is one too many and nobody seriously denies that many Jews died. 

I had a chance to do this in the spring of 1989, when one of my friends, who had left the liberal FDP shortly before to join the Repub-likaner, addressed the Holocaust issue in one of our discussions. He recommended that I read the book Was ist Wahrheit, (What is Truth) by the socialist Frenchman, Professor Paul Rassinier.30 This may be regarded as the first fully revisionist book ever published. It deals with the supposed extermination of the Jews from the point of view of a former member of the French Resistance who had been incarcerated by the Germans in several concentration camps during WWII. 

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