In 1938 and before, that is to say eighty years ago, arose with a rare acuity, the extremely serious problem of the Jewish refugees who no longer knew which Saint to turn to, to find a little warmth, security and protection, outside the cursed country.
The reception was most often with closed arms.
The Catholic fold was hardly in favor of it.
The Wort für Wahrheit und Recht raises the “Emigrantenfrage” in its edition of 21.11.1938.
Let’s read and groan.
“The immigrant question has many countries, especially for the small Luxembourg, which has the greatest significance.
Of course we have to be human; but diesel humanity also demands that we first protect our citizens. The Institute for the Study of Jewish Question gives an overview of the European position under the heading ‘Whoa with the emigrants?’ foreign nations known for the question of readiness for Jews. The Evian Conference has just left behind a commission in London to entrust the further fate of the refugees. The Deputy Director of this Commission, Robert Pell, said he hopes to bring about 100,000 refugees annually. But it must have been pointed out that the negotiations with the governments in question have only been slow. The immigration always rests on growing resistance.
Is it possible, under these circumstances, to bring this big aid to Luxembourg?
We can only assume this position: If we were like, we were somehow. After all, protect the Luxembourg Tums! “
We are on the threshold of the Holocaust!
I took the trouble to go fishing and here are the rots I bring back from the standing waters of the Wort. The air buzzes with horseflies.
Let’s start in 1903. We are 37 years from the Holocaust. It was already then that the Schreihälse du Wort gave in the most disgusting anti-Semitism.
At the start of the 20th century, the Luxemburger Wort continued to donate in anti-Semitic propaganda on a daily basis. The 03.05.1903, it opens on the first page a heading entitled: “Sociale Streiflichter” and announces the color: “We consider that it is current to elucidate in a series of articles the intimate reports which exist, today today between international socialism, Freemasonry and Jewry, the power of money ”. The first bulletin tackles the “judokratische Genossenführer” to the “jüdische Kornhändler und Getreidespekulanten”. We denounce the customs policy which would be “volksverräterisch und nur im Interesse der zumeist jüdischen Getreidespekulanten…” and finally we stigmatize the “impertinenten Schwindel der jüdischen Obergenossen”.
In October 1903 appeared an article entitled Verjudung der gegenwärtigen Führerschaft des Sozialismus ”.
From time to time, we air the texts that feel withdrawn by anti-Jewish anecdotes as painful as stupid, such, for example, “ein wohlriechender Hebräer” (12.08.1903).
In July 1921, in a feature article entitled “Zur Judenfrage”, the bishopric newspaper presented its readers with sympathy and conviction the forgery which was then circulating in Europe under the title of “Protocols of Zion”. Thus the Catholic daily made itself the sneaky accomplice of one of the worst anti-Semitic machinations of the beginning of the XXth century.
« Since, on the other hand, the political, social and financial events of the past decade are in very clear agreement with the explanations and plans of this brochure, whereas, on the other hand, the entire content so rightly conforms to the spirit and acceptance of international Jewish marriage, Problems inclined to accept the authenticity of the work and to present it as a truthful, yes cynically open claim to modern Jewish endeavors …
What were we saying about this whole movement? In fact, we see, in the great lands, Jews in almost all spiritual occupations in leading positions. The large press, the literature, the theater stand many times under Jewish influence. In the Central Reich, in Germany, Czechoslovakia, in Austria, in Hungary, 40% are all independent trades of the money and credit trade and 75% of all Jews in commerce and industry are employed. The food and confectionery shops, the grain and leather trade stand under the prevailing Jewish leadership, etc, etc… You really do not need to close your eyes, be branded out of fur as a hat and a tramp; You have to guess that Judaism is the best way to conquer the world for its purposes. »
Because of this subtle nuance, the symptomatic of the perfection of the new denims of the sacrament of sacristy is: “… in all these groups, it is not about orthodox Jews but the degenerate Jews.”
Dance in Bulletin of March 31, 1926, “The Unlucky Jerusalem,” the word is more accurate in terms of its durability inqualifiable: “About Jerusalem and its land had the flight of the blood, which came over the Jews and their children, so who would have demanded it, if they so stupidly demanded the death of God. »
Dance to the articles of art in 1924, 1925 and 1926 is titled: “The Jewish Home State,” the Jewish Home State, “Disappointed Zionism”, etc …
Anti-Semitic propaganda worsens in the decisive years.
No limitations of not analysis during the period from March 1933 to November 1938. But the aboard some dates particulars of significance:
March 1933: the Nazis open the first concentration camp in Dachau
30.03.1933: the Wort talks about the auf dem Heuberg concentration camp near Stuttgart.
31.03.1933: he talks about it in very complimentary terms
04/02/1933: Jews excluded from public careers
04.25.1933: law against congestion of German schools and universities by Jews.
10.05.1933: book fire in Berlin.
9/15/1935: the anti-racism laws of Nuremberg known as laws for the protection of German blood and honor.
from 09-10.11.1938: the Kristallnacht.
On 02.03.1933 he lets appear an advertisement where we read in bold type
« Hitler’s Reason World Interesting! »
On 25.03.1933 he wrote on the first page:
« It is believed that the struggle against Bolshevism is in all forms of unconditional necessity. This is Germany’s best dam against the Russian attacks, and even if one is offered, this abhorrence battle is not purely spiritual to lead, but also with sharp measures, if it is not useful.In principle, therefore, national socialism was right… Man became Hitler and his movement of heart ERFLOG against Bolshevism … »
In a paper entitled “Große Buchstaben – Dicke Lügen”, and published on 04.04.1933, the Wort can hardly hide its anti-Semitism:
« Of course, the ‘Escher Tageblatt’ with the embodiments of the ‘Luxemb.Wort’ is concerned. not understand the events in Germany and the Jewish Greens in the world. We rain until there is nothing to do. Even if we do not understand, any party that allegedly wants to fight capitalism, the world capital, which is in large hands in Jewish hands, does already owe it. Certainly out of interest! Even if we find out the inner contradiction that exists, about the unemployment of complaining in one’s own country, and because of the violent impending immigration no stopping areas! » – Here is dropped the word that made a fortune and that will shake the masses, the « Transmission ».
This article continues on par with phrases that are relevant to the professes of the Juifs in many respects: “But it is established that the Jewish element plays a leading role in socialism and communism. And then yes, ‘Escher Tageblatt’ can not be taken into account, as this element of power in international socialism, if it also contradicts the ‘German delights’. »
Le 10.04.1933, the word inquire of the avenue of the Allemagne, about the devenir bolchévique to the devenir fascist: «Who now lies these things in Germany, the great remembrance is a recent decision to fight on welfare or decline . Like the German people, when this experiment is mixed. Then the classless state of dressing German folk will not be able to return to a land of humility and the Dulder, but to the Bolshevik strolling fields. By inviting the German bishops to forget the Catholic people’s embarrassment and disappointment and to fight unreservedly on the national front.
We think this was meant for everyone in Western Europe to be communist Germany. »
Le 22.04.1933, as the premier camps of the concentration on eternal and Allemagne, the premieres of the graves on the prices of Juifs, the Luxemburger Wort, published in the article titled “He clerical fascism, he democratic socialism”:
« Why have weeks of this anxiety before fascism? And why these prophetic warnings? That in the great world-view that development somehow relates to fascism and socialism, he says. The peoples are finally responding with violence to a disease that is liberalism and socialism once and for all. And then there is no harm whatsoever.
We are even stoked that we would rather live under a decent fascist regime than under a socialist and communist life. In Italy, it is readily available, even with low political ambitions, even preferable. Aber in Russia? Und in Mexico? And everywhere else were the socialists Mr and Meister and are they still there?
And by the way, unfortunately, many people say, where is it even when the idea of a fascist danger? A bit of fascism – well-understood – would be absolutely unbelievable, but the Luxemburger so secretly owes little to the dictator, he had to say – the Socialist. »
On 28.04.1933, the Luxemburger Wort puts all its hopes in Nazism: « Methodically and thankfully, there is no better means of combat against socialism than national socialism. »
13.05.1933, the Luxemburger Wort explicitly states”Our point of view”, as well as the fascism of fascism prefers to the other systems: “It does not prevent anyone, in one… more truth than in others. And we emphasize again, that in many respects fascism and national socialism are as sympathetic as liberalism and socialism, because they are certain natural rights less so than they are.
We therefore welcome and embrace the community and authority ideas of Fascism and National Socialism. We are absolutely trying to educate our people’s community and to neutralize all socially dangerous classes and party tensions. Only we learn its form and by all means its method. »
07/14/1933, the Luxemburger Wort as well as fascism and Nazism without the doctrine of infinitude plus profane and humane about socialism.
The cynicism of Wort presents an aspect of hiding, as it is written on 09.09.1935 in an article titled “The New Reich Flag”:
« Of the three laws that decided on the German Reichstag on Sunday evening in Nuremberg, the Reichsflaggengesetz is the one to testify. The Reichstag, which serves as the mere attachment of the Reichsparteitages, confirmed the triumph of the Hakenkreuzflagge, which is also expressed in both other laws, the Reichsburgergesetz and the Law for the Protection of German Blutes and German Honor.
Because of the racial question of the anti-Semitic anti-Semitism of Adolf Hitler and Julius Streichers, the victory was disproportionate, which, despite all the efforts of Schachte, which was free in the economic sphere, damaged a certain degree of success, since long ago no longer doubted.
So a surprise did not break the longest announced Jewish law. Politically more important is the fact that the National Socialist Party decided in that moment to finally defeat the old black-and-white red Reichslag, which had claimed evenly alongside the Hakenkreuz flag. »
Note the subtle phrase “Von den Gesetzen… ist das Reichsflaggengesetz das bezeichnende”. However, you should know that on 15.09.1935 the Nazis had passed the law to protect German blood and honor – a scoundrel law, the product of a totally fallen humanity. Well, the Wort attributes to the law relating to the adoption of a new national flag political importance that is far more consistent than to the anti-racist law which, however, inaugurates an era of barbarism of anti-racist magnitude never known in Europe.
On 05.10.1938, the Luxemburger Wort recognized Hitler as an apostle of peace, “so wird die Geschichte auch Adolf Hitler Gerechtigkeit widerfahren lassen in seinen Beiträgen zum Frieden. “
On 09.11.1938, the Nazis organized a general pogrom throughout the Reich; six hundred synagogues were burned and demolished, thousands of shops and Jewish homes were systematically looted. Many Jews were beaten and sent to concentration camps. Emigration became the only possibility to survive. Three hundred thousand Jews will leave Germany. The Wort does not devote a single protest bulletin to the Kristallnacht.
Thus on 10.11.1938, the Wort criticized the USSR. 11.11. he is interested in the issue of the Czech and Hungarian borders. 12 and 13.11. he praises Catholic action and so on. Three weeks after the horrors of 9.11.1938, at a time when the first Jews, survivors of Crystal Night, knocked on the door of the Grand Duchy to find a new homeland, the daily newspaper of the bishopric who had not reserved a word of criticism for the events which had just taken place, addressed to the emigrants a warning which ended with a slogan which spoke of comment: “Doch bei Allemand: Schutz des Luxemburgertums. Elegant way to teach a disinherited and desperate that he will be received with closed arms. Fifty years later, a Le Pen made similar speeches. These people are incorrigible! Admittedly, the Wort expresses general disgust and contempt – but this is information from news agencies reporting the events. There is a worrying silence in the bulletins section, that is to say feature articles. This is called duplicity. Duplicity adds to falsity; it is an odious falsehood, by which a man knowingly puts himself in opposition to himself, with what he says or does, with what he does or experiences.
In his speech at the Edinburgh Festival in 2001 G. Steiner, one of the greatest intellectuals of the moment, underlined that the history and the deep identities of Europe are totally interwoven with those of Western Christianity, whether Catholic or reform. If underground, continuities lead murderous pogroms from medieval Europe or Lincoln to the Holocaust. It was continuities of doctrine and anathema, notably Pauline, that were taken up until the obscene by Luther. It is clear that European civilization will not regain its truth or its natural vitality until we have faced the causal implications of Christianity, its founding doctrines and its institutions in the catastrophes of the twentieth century (the Herne p.124).
Thus public opinion was systematically prepared against the reception of Jewish refugees, shortly before the catastrophe took shape.
I know many don’t want to know and many don’t dare say it.
Well I did it for them.
Now was the time to remember.
Gaston VOGEL
