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Sunday, September 14, 2025

Edgar Feuchtwanger's mother (1932 chapter of "Hitler, my neighbor") Other Press, 2013

 Hitler's talking garbage.  He says the

Jews are all Communists, and then

the next minute he claims they run

the banks -- but most of the banks

in Germany are managed by Protestants!

He say the Jews don't want to share

anything, when the man who campaigned

most vigorously for spreading wealth

around was Karl Marx - a professed Jew.

As for Leon Trotsky, he was born into a

Jewish family.  Hitler criticizes them for

other things too, of course.  He claims

the Communist revolution is a Jewish

conspiracy!  Even though Stalin, the

leader of the USSR, isn't Jewish, any

more than other Communist leaders

around the world are. . . (Thalmann,Thorez)

. . .What about Albert Einstein, the greatest

scientist of all time and born in Germany,

should we hate him because his parents

grew up in the Jewish faith?  Freud, too,

perhaps?  You remember, I told you about

him, he's the man who heals people

with words; he's learning to understand

dreams, and he says we keep all our memories

inside us, even those we think we've forgotten.

Hitler wants to ban books by these great

men, to turn his back on their discoveries;

he's superstitious, illiterate and obsessed with

dark forces that don't exist.  He's like the

barbarians who thought there were ogres in 

the woods and who loved warfare and

sacking villages.  He's less sophisticated than

the Greeks three thousand years back.  You

just remember, my little BURSCHI, you must

never be ashamed of who you are!"

pages 66 - 67

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