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Show Germany's Amazing-Behavior Amazing-Behavior The entire civilized world was a-mazed a-mazed and astonished when the Hitler Government permitted and the Nazi Party leaders instigated the recent brutal treatment of Jews in Germany. That the campaign was unjustified and unduly severe is undoubted in other countries where abundant sympathy is expressed ex-pressed and felt for the Jewish sufferers. One is at a loss to understand the growth and development of the bitter feeling which expresses itself it-self in the ruination of thousands of excellent German citizens. While greatly deploring the persecution of the Jews and without being able to point to a single circumstance circum-stance to justify the Nazi extremes we nevertheless wonder how a people peo-ple of the reputed intelligence of the German's can allow, much less enthusiastically endorse, such harsh unfair and inhuman treatment. Nothing is to be gained by venting vent-ing one's feelings through a barrage bar-rage of denunciations or by the hurling of epithets against the Germans. Nevertheless, one is, moved to speculate upon the conditions con-ditions which fostered the recent outburst. Can it be that the new German generation, begotten and born in the days of despair following follow-ing the war and reared in the midst of widespread starvation, increasing in-creasing child mortality, revolution, disillusionment and despair at the crushing burden of reparations, wholesale pauperization of the middle class through inflation, a-long a-long with the creeping civil war and a double share in the worlds postwar depression and unemployment, unemploy-ment, is- unable, for the time being, be-ing, to face and settle domestic and external problem with their traditional sobriety and sense ' of order? The above question is " stated largely in' the words of Fritz Kreis- . icr, wona iamous violinist, who believes be-lieves that the passions now sway-. sway-. ing Germany "represent a violent ecoil from the lethargy and dumb despair that gripped the German masses for some years" and that their dynamic manifestations were as "unavoidable and fateful as a telluric or cosmic upheaval' |
