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Robert's avatar

Today, in the United States, there is a similar phenomenon taking place, under the cover of the benevolent sounding DEI movement: De-Jewification.

This is a concerned effort from the left to cut Jews out of society, starting with higher education. Take a look at Harvard, for example. Once 25% Jewish. Now? 2%. Take a look at medical, dental, business, and law schools across the nation. The story is the same. Even Hollywood is being de-jewified, both behind and in front of the screen.

Gone is the world of merit, replaced with diversity for the sake of diversity.

Soon fewer Jews will have leadership roles in the government and business. As their power fades, they will be increasingly easier to target and pushed further down the ranks of society.

This is how it happened in Nazi Germany. What is happening now is exactly the same, only more slowly, so the frogs don't catch on that they are being boiled (again).

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John's avatar

They got the idea from Arabs. Ever heard of "Arabic Numerals"? That's probably the most known example. Arabs had nothing to do with them, beyond conquering Assyria.

Kasey Kasem, of America's Top Forty had an entire site devoted to alleged Arabic accomplishments.

He also claimed that Kahil Gibran was an Arab Muslim. Actually he was an Assyrian Catholic.

Not that Assyrians or Catholics are any better, they just illustrate the concept of appropriating that which does not belong to the conquerer.

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Noah Otte's avatar

👏👏👏 Bravo, Andrea Bauer for this invaluable article! I remember reading this when it first came out in the Guerre and Shalom publication. This is a hidden piece of history that needs to be MUCH more widely known! The Nazis through Aryanization stole the ownership of successful businesses and the credit for iconic products and companies from Jews. The names Adolf Rosenberger, Josef Ganz and Arthur Eichengrun need to be much more widely known! These men were innovators who changed the world forever but all that was taken from them by the Nazis. Adolf Rosenberger funded Porsche’s early projects, risked his life by testing their racing cars and co-founded the company.

Josef Ganz invented the “people’s car” better known as the Volkswagen. He both designed the prototypes and test ran models. Arthur Eichengrun invented a medicine everyone knows and has used at some point, Aspirin. These gentlemen were just a FEW examples of many. Hundreds of thousands of Jewish businessmen, scientists and engineers were robbed of the credit for things they created and lost ownership of the businesses they’d worked they’re whole lives to build all across Europe wherever the Nazis ruled or occupied or whenever their allies held power. Not to mention the millions of dollars and mountains of jewelry, art, furniture, homes, rugs, tapestries, and other fine and valuable things they stole from Jewish families. The leaders of the Third Reich either kept these items for themselves or used them to help fund the Nazi many welfare programs. Not to mention all they stole from those who were murdered, worked to death, starved, tortured, or killed through neglect and the horrific conditions in the concentration camps. After the War the Allies didn’t go always go far enough in justice for and righting Nazi wrongs. They should’ve restored the rightful credit for their remarkable achievements to these three geniuses. Thanks to historians, scholars and researchers now they have been! We must never forget the great evil of Aryanization and remember and celebrate the lives of these men. I call on the German government to declare these three men national heroes, award them posthumously the highest civilian honors Germany can bestow and build statues of them in the capital of Berlin with their living family members present!

Here are some titles I’d recommend to everyone to learn more about the horrific atrocities and staggering amount of theft the Nazis committed during the Second World War:

• Chasing Gold: The Incredible Story of How the Nazi’s Stole Europe’s Bullion by George M. Taber

• Stolen Words: The Nazi Plunder of Jewish Books by Rabbi Mark Glickman

• Georing’s Man in Paris: The Story of a Nazi Art Plunderer and His World by Jonathan Petropoulos

• Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure by Menachem Kaiser

• Hitler’s Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State by Gotz Aly

• In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures behind the Holocaust by Bullets by Father Patrick Desbois

• The Origins of the Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution by Henry Friedlander

• Fatal Crossroads: The Untold Story of the Malmedy Massacre at the Battle of the Bulge by Danny S. Parker

• Prelude to the Final Solution: The Nazi Program for Deporting Ethnic Poles, 1939-1941 by Phillip T. Rutherford

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Miriamnae's avatar

Thank you for the reading list!

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Here in the UK there has been a plot, after and since 1945, and recently uncovered, to do exactly the same to Jews here, using Nazi sympathisers and Antisemitic Elements in MI5 and MI6. This was then to hand Britain and The English-speaking commercial world to re-emerging post-war Nazi Germany. They failed. The reports detailing all of this are with the Police and the Authorities here in London, and in the States. We won. These Nazis have been beaten. The Nazis have once again been defeated. The price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance, once again. For all of us.

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John Galt III's avatar

Now, that was a great article.

You think you know a lot and then you learn a lot more.

Thank You!!

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Iuval Clejan's avatar

You forgot Fritz Haber

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John's avatar

I bet there are more than he listed or you listed. The article has to end somewhere.

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Will Howard's avatar

At least the Haber-Bosch process still bears his name. And they can't (?) take his Nobel Prize away.

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Nancy F's avatar

Reading Kaplans Between Dignity and Despair. The stories fit right in. The erasure of the Jews from Germany leaves a hole in my heart

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Susan Sullivan's avatar

An absolutely correct correction! This terrible wickedness was a stain on humanity!

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Richard Baker's avatar

It is said that blood is thicker than water but regarding these men money is thicker than blood. I understand the history behind this article but in a world where Jews are still seen as suspect my guess is that those who should heed these revelations will ignore or scatalogically condemn them.

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Liat Kirby's avatar

Such an important article, chillingly informative yet written in such a way as to provide the necessary distance to be able to absorb both emotionally and intellectually. Thank you, Andrea Bauer.

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Martin Sinkoff's avatar

So very interesting. I worked as student for the Wertheimer family in Berlin. So the history is very real to me. Thank you.

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Debra Silver's avatar

Thank you for enlightening us...

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