New York Protests 1933

New York Protests ‘When Hitler came to power in January 1933 he made and open promise to create a Master Race, dominate Europe, and decimate European Jews. Numberless racial laws- local and national appeared throughout the country. Jews could no longer advertise in the phone book rent stalls in markets. Thousands were terminated en mass from their employment. Even Jewish owned companies were forced to fire their Jewish employees…. On March 20 1933 a concentration camp for political enemies was established in a small pastoral town of Dechau ten kilometers north of Munich. Many soon followed (The actually extermination camps of the Holocaust were all found in Poland and so were uncovered by the advancing Russian/Soviet forces and for a while Russia said nothing about them. Thus when Americans liberated camps with Jews in them that occurred in the Western parts of Germany- smaller camps which did not have as their aim the speedy and efficient extermination of Jews-Ed) Scores of Jewish merchants in Essen and Muenster were delivered wholesale to the infamous camps. In Frankfurt thousands of frenzied Strom Troopers paraded through the streets chanting ‘Kill the Jews’… By April some 60,000 Jews were imprisoned and 10,000 more had fled the country… Newspapers and radio broadcasts throughout the western countries declared Hitler a menace to world peace and indeed world civilization. The world reacted with boycott and protest movement springing up everywhere. Led by Jews in New York and London and supported by men and women of conscience from all faiths and all nations… On March 27 some 20,000 protestors gathered at Madison Square Garden in New York and that was broadcast around the world…. Nor was energetic support for the whole idea of anti-German boycott the province of mere agitators. A Depression wracked world was eager to replace the Third Reich’s economic niche. Commercial interests and labor unions everywhere saw the anti Nazi movement as one they could join for both moral and business reasons. On May 10th 1933 more than 100,000 marchers and businessmen and unionists alike, Jews and Christians jammed midtown Manhattan… p57-59 IBM and the Holocaust –Edwin Black Time Warner 2002.