THE JEWS WHO GOT AWAY
Mayer, Milton
The Jews Who Got Away By MILTON MAYER THE Nazis have expropriated, enslaved, tortured, and massacred one or two million Jews in central iiiirope. We do not. and may never, know the exact number of...
...Calling them all murderers, and killing them in mass, will be a bloody business when the earth is already saturated with blood, and I am afraid that the act, taken in the name of vengeance, will have no lasting effect except to keep the wheel of vengeance turning...
...Only those millions who do not own are lost...
...These particular Jews, according to the News, were saved by transferring their assets, which constitute 80 per cent of all Hungary's heavy industry, to the Hermann Goering Works...
...Plato says, for instance, that "every city is in fact two cities—the city of the rich and the city of the poor...
...The Catholic archbishop of Paris wears the Star of David...
...It's just that some of my best friends are Jews, and so I know all about them...
...We will not open our doors...
...The Chicago Daily News reports from Madrid that two Nazi planes have carried a party of 30 rich Jewish Hungarian industrialists and their families to safety...
...It appears, however, that there is an easier way to be saved...
...and may never, know the exact number of innocents so hideously tormented...
...some hopelessly, some curably...
...But the living, the half-dead, still pound, with failing fists, upon them...
...Still, the massacre of the Jews, compared with which the pogroms of the Dark Ages were sporadic brawls, is the second worst thing that has happened to humanity in our time...
...And let me add that among the non-leading Jews, there was only a little more enthusiasm, and a lot less influence, than there was among the leaders...
...The News adds that these particular Jews, saved by the Nazis and now safe in Portugal, intend to go back to Hungary after the war, when it's safe, and reclaim their property...
...friends, I have long harbored the suspicion that people who want to be saved have got to save themselves...
...The doors of the lands of liberty, so-called, are closed to the victims of tyranny...
...Christians, who dare to walk in Christ's way of love, are killed with the Jews...
...I," said the stranger, "am one of the rich...
...A few years later these leaders were making Bundles for Britain like mad...
...We—the rest of humanity, the monopolists of the love of liberty—do not hear...
...many Jews, and as many Gentiles, were with me...
...Would you believe me if I said that even we Jews in America do not care...
...Hindus and Moslems are massacred, a little more delicately, in India...
...By hiring every Jewish scholar in central Europe," said the president...
...That's pretty cheap," said the Jewish trustee, "but how will you do it...
...I'm sorry I can't help you," said the Jewish trustee, "but there are too many Jews on the faculty now...
...An Easier Way How are the Jews—or the Hindus, or the Catholics— going to be saved, since we, the monopolists of the love of liberty, are unwilling to lift a finger to save them...
...We do not care...
...Don't think for a minute that the Gentiles are any better than the Jews...
...Well, my...
...I even announced, before Isaiah stole my stuff, that standing straight up and fighting on every front for human justice would save them, though they might, in the course of the scuffle, lose their lives...
...They have been closed since the tyranny began...
...But among the "leading" Jews we found no enthusiasm...
...But I still turn, occasionally, to Plato and Aristotle, who said things, probably because they had no statistics, so very simply...
...They remain closed...
...Neither can we any longer i doubt the use of techniques like | mass starvation and the gas ; chamber in fascism's futile effort ; to persuade itself that the devil is I somebody else...
...Thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, of Nazis are in one way or another mixed up in these horrors...
...It is too late to open them to the dead, though it wouldn't have been 10 years ago or five...
...The worst is the rest of humanity's indifference to the massacre...
...Ten years ago some of us tried to get Jews to fight for unrestricted immigration—not just to Palestine, or Guatemala, or Madagascar, but to America...
...We do not care, we monopolists of the.love of liberty...
...They should be treated accordingly...
...And so it appears that it is not righteousness, but the ownership of 80 per cent of Hungary's heavy industry, that will save the Jews...
...Negroes are tortured in Mississippi—and in Philadelphia...
...Only A Symbol The Jews are, of course, only the symbol...
...Ten years ago, in March of 1933, to be exact, the president of a great university, with which I am not connected, said to a Jewish trustee, "Give me $250,000 and I will make this university the greatest in history...
...I was not, of course, alone...
...Poles—-the "inferior Slavs"—are burned in their cities...
...They are, as a matter of fact, worse, since they run-the country...
...But there is no doubt possible of the immense-ness and bestiality of the Nazis' pogrom, which began, officially, with Goebbels' boycott of Jewish merchants in April, 1933...
...No trials, no pun-i ishments, no indemnities will ever expiate the crime...
...They should be assumed to be, in greater or less degree, crazy...
...Democrats, liberals, socialists, communists—dissenters in any fashion from the rule of the tooth and claw—:have disappeared in as large numbers, though not so notoriously, as the Jews...
...And Aristotle tells of the stranger in Athens who was asked what country he belonged to...
...I know that the modern sociologists and psychologists have said everything that can be said about human life, complete with statistics...
Vol. 8 • August 1944 • No. 33
