Reply #25: Nothing new under the sun. From "A History of the Jews"

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O.K., before somebody informed me here that Paul JOHNSON is a wingnut, I had not heard of him. I picked his book out of about 3 just from the introductions and the blurbs on the covers. I know now (not from this book) that his history of the U.S. is wingnut revisionism of FDR. But THIS book is for my general knowledge and in the vast sweep of thousands of years of history, and his wingnuttiness doesn't get in the way up to now.

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p. 467: ...a conscious effort to stop thinking oneself Jewish. Even Brandeis, as late as 1910, attacked 'habits of living or of thought which tend to keep alive differences of origin' asndesirable and 'inconsisten with the American ideal of brotherhood'. To stress Jewishness was 'disloyal'.

p. 476: But there was a popular belief, shared and propagated by Hitler and the Nazis with relentless persistence, that Jews had evaded service and, indeed, stabbed the army in the back.

p. 477: Some Jews tried hard to counter the unpatriotic, Bolshevist image thrust upon them. ....The insuperable difficulty any patriotic German Jew had to contend with was the Weimar Republic itself. It was born of defeat, indisolubly linked with defeat, and, in the minds of most Germans associated with Jews... .... ...Jews were instrumental in creating the German Communist Party. .... Enemies of the Jews accused them of kidnapping German culture, of transforming it into a new, alien thing...

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