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JEW I S H WEST ERN; B U LLE TIN:
: Passover Issue,- Friday, April 20, 1951
GERMAN IMMimnON TERMED WA VEST THREAT TO AUSTRALIAN JEWRY'
BYBEN GREEIN^^ ^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ <^ Presfdent of the Executive Co uncil of Australian.Jewry
MELBOURNE — During the last few weeks there have been developments on German migration which confront Australian Jewry with a more serious crisis than we have ever been confronted with in our history. The Announcement that the Government proposes to bring German migrants into Aus-traha j(the numbers to be in the vicinity of 25,000 a year, and possibly over a period increasing) presents a tremendous challenge to us.
In view of the fact that there is a reservoir of some SVa million of Volksdeutsche, we may well anticipate that if the initial migration scheme is put into force, the ten, twenty or thirty thousand will swell to greater numbers in years to come. But let us, for the time being, examine the position for the immediate future.
I have reasoB to believe that the first Germans to he hrought here •with the object of placing them in domestic service in Australian households, would be some 10,000 ' German women of the ages of presumably twenty to thirty. 10,000 German women who have been bi"0ught up imder Hitler, indoctrinated and educated—in spite of themselves, we cannot blame them -"for it—in all the viciousnesS of Nazism, taught from' their early ; childhood that all the evils of the world are caused by Jews. 10,000 of these women to go into 10,000 Aust alian hogaes—and in contact with probably 40,000 young Aus-tralian children, inculcating into them that Jew-liatred a^d vicious bigotry -that they learned so-well. Are we so blind to think such a - happening cannot affect us as ; ' JeV^isti commiinity? 10,000 German women in one year—to marry : yoimg Austi'alians who are no bet ter nor worse than any of us, who really seldom think of Jews, 10^000 Jew-haters to te&ch those young Australians the bitter, scientific Anti-^Semitism of Nazism. Are we to anticipate that if within twelve months -we get 25,00ft ivazis vrithin Australia (and I say advisedly that they must be 25,000 Nazis), if within a year or two there will be four trained Jew-haters for every adult , Jew in Australia,-we can go on in our orderly Jewish life? As the years go by, they will in turn infect our neighbors. Are we so blind to think this will not affect us? : EFFECT ON DEMOCpACY
It may be an exaggeration to say-that the German migration will destroy Australian democracy. It may be that Australian democracy in the year to come will iabsorb these dangerous* elements, but with severe digestive troubles. I know that tlve British people have digested more indigestible elements than these Nazis. However, it is our responsibility to look not to the distant future, but to the period which will immediately concern us, and our children.
The Government and many of those who do not oppose Germain migration, place their faith in screening—in fhe efficiency of the Australian security service to eliminate Nazis from a.mongst those who enter Australia. The Government may deceive itself in this matter. I say that the Jewish community dare not deceive itself, I do not propose to suggest that the community can be physically destroyed, but it can be destroyed in another way. It c&n be destroyed , spiritually and i normally and in 8 elf-respect.
A few weeks ago, we received In Australia the first consignment of Germans. I refer to the Templars. The Templars could be thought ot as Volksdeutsche inasmuch as, for many years, they were settled in Palestine, where tfiey built v up
a large and flourishing community. They were successful in inducing the Commonwealth Government Ho accept them, to take out all. their assets from Palestine, and come to build a new life as true Australian democrats in Australia, ^hese nien have been vetted inside out and upside down. Being a controversial .element, the Australian security people have been'more strict with them than they would be with the vast masses of those who would be Coming in the future.
When these fine, democratic Germans arrived in Australia, the leader was asked "How is it, if you Templars were as anti-Nazi as you say, how is it that in 1939 the majority of you hurriedly left Pal-iestine and Joined the Nazi army?" The leader of the Germans entering Australia said: "We left Palestine to espape Jewish persecution.^' >rhese people left P'alestine in 1939; just prior to the outbreak of the
war when the Jews of Palestine had no- say In the -Government, when the country was tinder the British flag and control; "and guarded by British troops, when the Jews were a small, minority in the population, to escape "Jewish persecution"". , ^
Have we ever; heard this expression in Australia before? Have we hear4 of Jews as persecutors? No, it^took a German J:o plant this thought in the minds of the AuSr tralian people: that the .Jews, who. have suffered, been gassed and murdered, are ' pefsecutors.
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