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| confiscated. Under the provisions for
confiscation under the 11th amendment to the German Citizenship Law,
supra, the decision as to confiscation of the property of living Jews
was left to the chief of the Security Police and the SD. The law against Poles
and Jews cited supra (4 December 1941) was rigorously enforced. Poles and Jews
convicted of specific crimes were subjected to different types of punishment
from that imposed upon Germans who had committed the same crimes. Their rights
as defendants in court were severely circumscribed. Courts were empowered to
impose death sentences on Poles and Jews even where such punishment was not
prescribed by law, if the evidence showed "particularly objectionable motives".
And, finally, the police were given carte blanche to punish all
"criminal" acts committed by Jews without any employment of the judicial
process. From the great mass of evidence we can only cite a few illustrations
of the character and operation of the program. On 30 January 1939 in an address before the Reichstag, Hitler, who was at that very time perfecting his plot for aggressive war, said: |
"If the international Jewish financiers within and without Europe succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world war, then the result will not be the Bolshevization of the world and thereby the victory of Jewry, but the obliteration of the Jewish race in Europe." |
| We quote from the writings of Alfred Rosenberg (since hanged), "High Priest of the Nazi Racial Theory and Herald of the Master Race:" |
"A new faith is arising today — the myth of the blood, the faith to defend with the blood the divine essence of man. The faith, embodied in clearest knowledge, that the Nordic blood represents that mysterium which has replaced and overcome the old sacraments."* |
| The Rosenberg philosophy strongly supported the program of the Nazi Party, which reads as follows: |
"None but members of the nation (Volk) may be citizens of the State. None but those of German blood, whatever their creed, may be members of the nation. No Jew, therefore, may be a member of the nation." |
| It was to implement this program that the discriminatory laws against Poles and Jews were enacted as hereinabove set forth. |
* Rosenberg, Der Mythus des 20. Jahrhunderts, (Munich 1935), page 114 (1st Ed., 1930), cited in National Socialism, Department of State Publication 1864 (U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington 1943), page 31.
