The War Illustrated, Volume 1, No. 4, Page 120, October 7, 1939.

One of the most illuminating sidelights on Nazi Germany’s readiness or otherwise for the waging of a long war was the appeal to the banished Jews to come back and work for the country which, under Hitler’s leadership, cast them out with every kind of ignominy.

From his early days in Vienna of pre-War days Hitler has hated the Jew with an intense, all consuming hatred. His movement has been built up very largely on anti-Semitism. Since he has come to power in Germany he has done his best to eradicate entirely the Jewish element from German life.

Jewish professors, bankers and industrialists, Jewish journalists, artists and musicians, Jews of insignificant place and name and Jews whom the world at large has delighted to honour-such Jews as Einstein, Ehrlich, Bruno Walter, Freud, and Thomas Mann-all have been driven into exile or subjected to the most intense and bitter humiliations.

The Nazi press has descended to the gutter in search for its terms of abuse of the Jew. Jews have been forced to march along the street carrying offensive placards; they have been assaulted in their houses; their shops have been picketed by Nazis. One of the first things the Nazi conquerors did in Vienna was to compel members of the Jewish intelligentsia to go down on their knees and scrub the streets.

No task has been too degrading for the Nazi taskmasters to set the Jews of Germany, no abuse has been too foul, no accusation too revolting. Julius Streicher’s "Der Sturmer" built up a weekly circulation of 500,000 on pornography and blackmail of the Jewish people.

Yet only a few days after war broke out in 1939, posters were displayed in the German consulate in Antwerp urging all doctors, engineers and other technical experts of German nationality, no matter what their race, to return home and work for Germany again. The posters went on to promise that the fortunes which had been confiscated from such refugees would be restored if only they returned now in the hour of Germany’s need.

But the Jews have long memories, and in that vast, world-wide front which has been built up against Hitlerism those Jews who were once a mainstay of German prosperity are finding their place. "We are anxious to put all our skill and knowledge at the service of those who are fighting the Nazis" said one Jewish spokesman.

"Who is the enemy of the German race? Who sapped the strength of the German people in the War and ensured their collapse at the end of it? Who as capitalist exploits the worker? Who as Communist inflames and then betrays him? Who corrupts and corrodes the nations with his vile and vulgar pseudo-culture? Who is the enemy of the entire human society?" These are some of the questions posed in Hitler’s "Mein Kampf." He gives the answer, and in every case it is the same-the Jew!