Quotation from Emil Ludwig “Hitler will be forgotten in a few years, he will have a beautiful monument in Palestine” — Apr. 1936

Biographer of Jewish origin, known in the 1920s, now a Zionist, interviewed in the USA by a Zionist friend.

Author : Thematics :
" Hitler will be forgotten in a few years, but he will have a beautiful monument in Palestine. You know”, and here the biographer-historian seemed to assume the role of a patriarchal Jew – “the coming of the Nazis was rather a welcome thing. So many of our German Jews were hovering between two coasts; so many of them were riding the treacherous current between the Scylla of assimilation and the Charybdis of a nodding acquaintance with Jewish things. Thousands who seemed to be completely lost to Judaism were brought back to the fold by Hitler, and for that I am personally very grateful to him. "

Meyer Steinglass, Emil Ludwig before the judge, American Jewish Times (april 1936), p. 35. Quoted by Lenni Brenner, Zionism in the Age of the Dictators , Croom Helm, 1983.

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