Quotes about Jewish Question

Ayman Odeh

I can argue like a Marxist about whether there was a global Jewish nation 200 years ago or whether it was just a religion. But this really doesn't matter.

Theodor Herzl

The Jewish question exists wherever the Jews live, however small their number. Where it does not exist it is imported by Jew immigrants. We naturally go where we are not persecuted, and, still persecution is the result of our appearance...By persecution we cannot be exterminated...the strong Jews turn proudly to their race when persecution bursts out. Entire branches of Judaism may disappear, break away; the tree lives.

Alfred Rosenberg

Germany will regard the Jewish question as solved only after the very last Jew has left the greater German living space... Europe will have its Jewish question solved only after the very last Jew has left the continent.

Stanislas de Clermont-Tonnerre

The Jews must be refused everything as a separate nation, and be granted everything as individuals.... There cannot be a nation within a nation.

Before the French Revolution, Jews could freely practice their own religion in France but they could not hold citizenship, become professionals, or a host of other privileges of citizenship. Clermont-Tonnerre and other liberals argued that Jews should be given citizenship. The Jacobins--conservative Catholics close to the Papacy--opposed granting citizenship to Jews or Protestants. One argument that the Jacobins gave was that each of these sects would be separate nations within France and not necessarily have French national interest as a priority. Clermont-Tonnerre gave this response which has been the French philosophy about minority citizenship since then. Their thought was that anyone may become a French citizen as an individual but he or she should do so because he/she wants to accept French values and support the French nation. This view worked quite will over the years until the large immigration of Muslims starting in the 1960s where many new immigrants just wanted to live in France and earn a living there, but did not want to identify with French national aspirations or adopt French culture or values. America, had no such demands and those immigrants who tended to identify primarily with their country or culture of origin and not assimilate were allowed to do so, but the American way of life was so attractive that many immigrants did adopt it and even if they did not, their children almost inevitably did. That has not happened in France.

Peter Riegert

As a matter of fact, part of being Jewish is the whole question of what it is to be a Jew.

Henry Adams

The Jewish question is really the most serious of our problems.

Paul de Lagarde

The Jews are a grave misfortune to every European people. It follows for Germany that the Jews must either emigrate from Germany, or become Germans within it.

He was an intellectual precursor of the Nazi movement. He was also one of Hitler's favorite authors. See {77545}.

Bruno Bauer

The Jewish problem

According to Bauer and his anti-Semitic followers, the problem with the Jews was Judaism

Hermann Goering

I herewith commission you to carry out all preparations with regard to... a total solution of the Jewish question in those territories of Europe which are under German influence.

Martin Niemoller

I have never concealed the fact and said it before the court in 1938 that I came from an anti-Semitic past and tradition... I ask only that you look at my life historically and take it as history. I believe that from 1933 I truly represented the Lutheran-Christian outlook on the Jewish question - as I revealed before the court - but that I returned home after eight years' imprisonment as a completely different person.

Gestapo

The entire inner alienation from the ideas of National Socialism that characterized the men of the reactionary conspiratorial circle expresses itself above all on the Jewish Question …. They stubbornly take the liberal position of granting to the Jews in principle the same status as to every German..

This is a very enlightening quotation. It shows how far to the right the Nazi Germany had gone. Here, the true believers, describe the notion that Jewish German citizens who had the same status as other German citizens before the Nazis took over as a “liberal position” at a time and culture where “liberal” was a great term of derision as it would become amongst conservatives in America at the beginning of the late 20th century. But in Germany it had become “liberal” to object to a minority of citizens being murdered by the state.

Jewish Question Quotes