MARCH OF THE TITANS - A HISTORY OF THE WHITE RACE
Chapter Sixty Three
The Shadow of the Ghetto: The Saga of the European Jews
The Second World War was marked by the greatest anti-Jewish outburst in history: so much has been made of the persecution of the Jews under Adolf Hitler, that it has often assumed even greater emphasis than the actual war itself.
Anti-Semitism - or, more accurately, anti-Jewishness - was however, not an invention of Hitler nor of his National Socialist German Workers' Party (two sets of letters of the German translation of this party name, National Sozialist - were combined to make the word Nazi.) Anti-Jewish sentiment has always stalked the Jews, where-ever they went: it seems as if their very presence always elicited a negative and hostile response from virtually all the nations in which they settled.
While conventional histories all maintain that it was the rise of Christianity which started anti-Jewish feeling (the Jews are accused in the Christian bible of being responsible for Jesus Christ's death), this interpretation is factually incorrect. In reality, anti-Jewish sentiment existed long before Christianity, and the introduction of that religion and its distortions merely provided another means of expression for the latent anti-Jewish feeling which always followed the Jews like a shadow.
Origins of Anti-Jewish Sentiment
The origins of this original anti-Jewish feeling lie within the nature of Jewish society itself: exclusively ethno-centric with a binding religion and inward looking culture, the Jews always managed to maintain themselves as an isolated community in all of the nations in which they settled. This tradition has maintained itself to this day.
The nature of the Jewish God, as revealed in the Christian bible (the God is the same one as in the Jewish Talmud, making a mockery of Christian anti-Jewishness) as a God who has chosen a specific people to the exclusion of all others, has already been discussed in the chapter dealing with Christianity: suffice to say here that this cultural phenomena (aptly summed up by the well known rhyme "How odd of God to choose the Jews; It's not so odd, the Jews chose God") served to cement this isolationist feeling.
For this reason, Jews tended to live together in tightly knit communities in cities: these Jewish blocks came to be called ghettos, and it is important to realize that the first ghettos were entirely voluntary Jewish neighborhoods.
This was then reinforced by religious laws limiting membership of the Jewish community by race - only people born of Jewish women could be accepted as Jews. This is another practice which has survived to the present day - people of no direct Jewish ancestry can only become Jews with great difficulty, and even them a large section of the Jewish community, the orthodox Jews, will not recognize converts as true Jews.
Finally, the well known Jewish propensity for business and the ability to accumulate vast amounts of money - a phenomena well known to this day - was the source of much original anti-Jewish feeling.
Gentiles (or, "Goy" as the Jewish Talmud, or holy book, refers to non-Jews of all races, with the literal translation of cattle - which in itself is an important insight of how the writers of the Talmud viewed the outside world) often objected to these Jewish financial practices, accusing them of money lending with exorbitant interest rates (the crime of usury was specifically invented in Europe to control this practice) and other economic exploitation.
The true origins of anti-Jewish feeling therefore lies in a combination of three major factors:
Thus it was that the first anti-Jewish outbursts occurred long before the introduction of Christianity.
Christianity merely added to these emotions: as the wave of Christian fanaticism swept Europe, all sense of reason or rationality was lost, and, forgetting that Christianity itself had sprung from Judaism, the Christians gave vent to their long simmering dislike of the Jews by accusing them of being the killers of Christ to boot.
Egypt
The first documented anti-Jewish riots broke out in the Egyptian city of Alexandria in 38 AD, recurring again in 66 AD. In 115 - 117 AD, Jews once again came under attack in that city and their synagogue was burned to the ground. In 414 AD, Jews were formally expelled from that city.
Mesopotamia and Persia
In 40 AD, an anti-Jewish riot broke out in the city of Seleucia on the Tigris River, in which a number of Jews were killed. The book of Esther in the Christian Old Testament (and in the Jewish Talmud) deals exclusively with a Persian anti-Jewish movement.
Rome
It was in Imperial Rome that the very first Jewish community in Europe was formally established in 139 BC. It was not long before Roman opinion was aroused against them: they were the subject of frequent attacks in the Roman senate in speeches by amongst others the famous orator Cicero around the year 50 BC.
Many other prominent and famous Romans, such as Senecca, Juneval and Tacitus all went on record as complaining about the activities of Jews within the Roman Empire. Anti Jewish literature was widespread and one work by the Greek, Apion, was so well known that the Romanized Jewish historian Josephus (who wrote an excellent account of the Jewish uprising of A.D 70 called The Jewish Wars) wrote a whole book trying to refute Apion's arguments.
The Roman emperor, Tiberius, formally expelled the Jews from Rome in 19 AD but they soon returned, only to be expelled once again in 49 AD.
In 116 AD, the emperor Trajan, ordered all Jews in Mesopotamia to be killed, saying that the Jews were the cause of continual uprisings in that region.
The Great Revolt
After the Romans had been invited to annex Palestine by Jewish leaders in an attempt to quell internal political dissension, Jewish nationalists then launched a long running war against the Roman rulers of Palestine. In 66 AD, a violent insurrection, led by the Zealots, a fanatic Jewish sect, was launched against Roman authority. Emperor Nero sent the Roman general Vespian, to put an end to the conflict. By 70 AD, the revolt was crushed and Jerusalem was razed.
The Roman emperor Hadrian ordered Jerusalem rebuilt as a pagan city, to be called Aelia Capitolina, in honor of Jupiter and himself (Publius Aelius Hadrianus); at the same time he issued an edict banning circumcision, a rabbinical law used to identify true Jews.
Jewish agitation against Roman rule continued: under the leader Simon Bar Kokhba, Jewish nationalists fought a doomed battle with the legions of Rome from 132 to 135 AD. As punishment, the victorious Romans then attempted to obliterate all Jewish presence in the province: the name of the land was changed to Syria Palaestina. Jerusalem was made a pagan city, and the death penalty was decreed for any Jew who entered its gates.
Justinian
One of the most famous emperors of the Eastern Roman Empire, Justinian, (527-565 AD) adopted a comprehensive anti-Jewish policy, barring Jews from the civil service, military posts and any other positions of influence in his government.
Christianity
The coming of Christianity was a double edged sword for the Jews: on the one hand it elevated them into a special place as the "Chosen People" or the "People of the Book" but on the other hand they were made directly responsible for the death of Christ, the crucifixion of God himself.
This Christ killing blame was seized upon by anti-Jewish Christians who tried to reconcile the obviously Jewish origins of their religion with their beliefs: in this way, in what are obvious Christian "additions" to the biblical texts, the Jews are made out to be blamed for Christ's death.
In Matthew 27:24-25, the Roman governor of Palestine, Pontius Pilate, when refusing to have anything to do with the crucifixion of Christ, allegedly says that he is innocent of the "blood of this just person" and the Jews respond to him that "his blood be on us, and our children." The Catholic Church only formally repudiated the charge that all Jews are responsible for the death of Christ and at the Second Vatican Council held from 1962-1965, although how they reconciled this with the relevant Biblical passage was never explained.
Insertions
As there is no direct evidence to show that Jesus actually existed in the form portrayed in the bible, it became easy for Christian anti-Jewish activists to create ever more outrageous anti-Jewish insertions into the bible: Jesus allegedly says of the Jews that 'You are of your father the devil, the master of lies"; in John 1:47 Jesus allegedly says of a Jew, Nathaneal "behold an Israelite in indeed in whom there is no guile"; and in the book of Revelations, reference is made to the Jewish religion as the "synagogue of Satan".
Needless to say, the Christian churches of today cringe when these blatant anti-Jewish outbursts are pointed out to them.
The hostility was however, reciprocated: the Talmud, which is a collection of rabbinical writings added to the Old Testament, contains many violently anti-Gentile remarks, comparing Non Jews to cattle (the origin of the word "Goy" for gentile); comparing non Jewish women to whores and providing specific instruction on how it is permissible for Jews to cheat non-Jews in business.
Both Christians and Jews then, altered their religious teachings in attempts to whip up hostility to each other in a bizarre semi-religious and semi-racial clash.
Islamic Tolerance
The rise of Islam in the Middle East and its later violent spread along North Africa, Spain and south eastern Europe provided a major respite for the Jews, who entered into an informal partnership with the various Islamic powers.
This time in Jewish history is formally known as the period of Islamic tolerance. While initially beneficial for the Jews, it dramatically increased their unpopularity in Europe, where Jews and Muslims were soon regarded to be one and the same: hence the violent outbursts against Jews which accompanied the Crusades.
In 1215, the Fourth Lateran Council of the Roman Catholic church, called by Pope Innocent III, proclaimed an official policy of restrictions and ordered all Jews to wear distinctive badges.
The Muslim conquest of Spain brought peace to the Spanish Jews, who came to occupy prominent positions as statesmen, physicians, financiers, and scholars. The peaceful Spanish era ended in the middle of the 13th century, when the Muslims were driven out of Spain.
Spain and Portugal
After the decline of the Roman Empire, Jews started settling in larger numbers in Western Europe, with many Sephardic Jews crossing over from Africa into Spain. Hot on their heels came the Muslim Moors, who gave the Jews favored status in Moorish occupied Spain: Jews came to fill the highest position in the Moorish republic of Granada in Spain and owned one-third of all the real estate in Barcelona.
When the Moorish occupation of Spain was finally ended, the Christian victors did not take kindly to what they correctly saw as Jewish collaboration with the Moors. This led to the Spanish version of the inquisition, which was primarily aimed at Jews who had falsely converted to Christianity in an attempt to escape the revenge attacks on Jews carried out by the victorious Christian armies.
Finally, the Jews were formally expelled from Spain in 1492, the same year that Christopher Columbus set foot in the Americas.
Taking its lead from Spain, Portugal expelled its Jews in 1497. Thousands of Spanish Jews migrated to south eastern Europe, which had by then been seized by the Muslims in the form of the Ottoman Turks: there once again they benefited from the Islamic policy of toleration of Jews.
The Turkish occupied city of Constantinople became the site of the largest Jewish community in Europe during the 16th century.
Bankers
In most European countries, Jews carried on their traditional stereotype activities: in England, Aaron of Lincoln, a Jewish banker, amassed enough money through his business dealings to finance the building of nine monasteries and the Abbey in Lincolnshire, an exceedingly philanthropic gesture towards his Christian neighbors.
The emergence of international Jewish banking houses such as the Frankfurt Jewish House of Rothschilds, became a feature of European economic life, and in a parody of the Spanish Conversos, many Rothschilds converted to Christianity, partly as an attempt to avoid the anti-Jewish charges leveled against them.
Many leading Jews adopted this tactic of converting to Christianity: the British Jew Benjamin Disraeli became British prime minister as a Christian in 1868; while Karl Marx, author of the Communist Manifesto, was the son of a German Jewish rabbi who had converted to Christianity to be able to practice law in Germany at a time when only Christians could take oath before a court.
Austria and Italy
In 1420, all Jews in Austria were compelled by law to convert to Christianity: those who did not became the subject of a pogrom which saw still practicing Jews either killed or driven out of that country.
In 1670, all Jews who had settled in Austria since 1420 were formally expelled once again; in 1498 the Jews were expelled from the city of Salzburg, while in 1475 the Jews in Trent, Rinn and Lienz had been the subject of popular riots.
In 1520, the Jews were expelled from the Tyrol region in the southern Alps.
Vienna's most famous mayor, Karl Lueger (1844 - 1910) dismissed Jews from the city's public service and segregated Jews from the public schools.
In Italy, Jews were expelled from Florence in 1495; from Naples in 1541 and Milan in 1597; and from Hungary in 1367.
England
Jews first entered England in large numbers with the Norman conquest of 1066.
Here the traditional "Blood libel" charge was made against the Jews (a bizarre and patently false allegation which held that Jews drained the blood of young Gentiles for satanic purposes).
As ridiculous as it was, the Blood Libel was however very common: the famous English writer Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400) wrote about the occurrence of Jewish ritual murder in his works, making specific mention of one famous case, that of a young Christian boy, Hugh of Lincoln, whose body had allegedly been found mutilated in a way indicative of some type of sacrifice in 1255.
At the time of time Third Crusade (1189-1190) there were serious anti-Jewish riots all over England, centered on, but not limited to, London. Jews in London were put on trial for Ritual Murder accusations in 1238, 1244 and 1276.
In 1290, England formally expelled every last one its Jews from its borders; most crossing the channel to settle in the Netherlands, Spain or France.
Jews were only allowed back into England in 1655 by Oliver Cromwell, who issued a special dispensation granting them permission to settle.
France
Major anti-Jewish riots broke out across France in 1096 at the time of the First Crusade, as they did across Europe; in the town of Blois, Jews were charged with Ritual Murder and in 1171, and some 31 of their number were burned at the stake after having been found guilty of that crime.
The Fourth Crusade (1235 -1236) saw a particularly violent massacre of a large number of Jews in the province of Brittany; in the city of Carcassone, Jews were expelled in 1253, in 1306 and 1394 - each time managing to come back.
Following an accusation of a ritual murder in the province of Dauphine, Jews were expelled from that region in 1253, returning in 1289. After 1305, a number of orders expelling Jews from the province of Gascony were made; and all Jews were formally expelled from Brittany in 1391. All Jews were formally expelled from Gascony again in 1394.
As avid supporters of the French Revolution, Jews were rewarded when the National Assembly enfranchised Jews in 1791, simultaneously stripping all restrictions which had been placed on them.
Napoleon Bonaparte was given much support by Europe's Jews in his campaigns across Europe, for where ever he went he lifted whatever restrictions there had been upon the Jews. Once again, this was only good for Jews over the short term. The downside came when Napoleon was finally beaten: Jews were associated with the destruction that his military adventures had wrought; virtually all of the reforms he had instituted were reversed as a result.
However, by the 1860s, most of the Jewish communities in Western Europe had more or less been de-ghettoized, and Napoleon's reforms had for the greatest part been re-instituted.
Germany
The first major outbreak of anti-Jewish feeling in Germany occurred when Jews were expelled from the city of Mainz in 1012; by 1096, Jews had re-established themselves that city, only to be the subject of a massacre and riot in that year at the time of the First Crusade.
During the Black Death bubonic plague outbreak, Jews were blamed for the epidemic by crazed Christian communities: anti-Jewish riots broke out throughout the states of Germany, with a total of 350 different attacks being recorded.
The Frankfurt Jewish ghetto is attacked in 1614.
The creation of the unified German Empire in 1871, saw an end to the organized pogroms which had marked the various individual German states. By this stage however, the heavy Jewish involvement in Communism and international socialism - as personified by the German Jew, Karl Marx, became the focus for anti-Jewish sentiment.
Poland
In 1399, anti-Jewish riots rocked the city of Posen; in 1407, anti-Jewish riots took place the city of Cracow; and in 1483, Jews were expelled from the city of Warsaw.
In 1491, Jews were expelled from the city of Cracow; a series of anti-Jewish riots took place in the town of Kalisch which lasted in sporadic outbursts for virtually the entire 14th century. In 1656, the entire Jewish community in Kalisch was destroyed by a Polish army under the leadership of one Czarniecki; the riots became known by that name.
The city of Posen was rocked by further anti-Jewish riots in 1648, 1577 and 1687. Nonetheless, Poland became home to a large number of Jews, many of whom bore the brunt of the Nazi occupation of Poland during the Second World War.
Russia
In 1803, the Russian Archduke Yaroslav the Wise conquered the Khazar people, who had not only converted to Judaism but had absorbed large numbers of Jews who had fled north after the Roman-Jewish war of 70 AD. In 1563, anti-Jewish riots resulted in dozens of deaths at Polotosk and Vitelisk; In 1648, Bogdan Chmielnicki headed a rebellion of Cossack and Ukrainian masses against Jews and Polish landowners. Jewish estimates are that at least 744 Jewish communities were destroyed, and the attacks have come to be known as the Chmielnicki massacres.
In 1667, Jews were expelled from the Ukraine; Jews were expelled from Russia three times, in 1727, 1738 and 1742.
In 1762, Catherine the Great of Russia forbade Jews from living in Russia: still unable to get rid of them, she then in 1791, limited Jews to living in a an area of land to the west of the country known as the Pale of Settlement; up against the Polish border: this was to give rise to the large Polish Jewish population in later years.
Tsar Alexander I expelled 20,000 Jews from the province of Vitebsk and Mohilev in 1824; starting in 1881, a series of anti-Jewish riots spread across Russia and all of Eastern Europe, becoming known as the pogroms.
In 1891, popular anti-Jewish riots took place in Moscow which led to the expulsion of Jews from that city in that year; and in the aftermath of the unsuccessful 1905 revolution in Russia; which had seen heavy Jewish involvement, some 600 villages and cities in that country attacked their Jewish inhabitants: hundreds of thousands fled, either to Western Europe or to the United States of America.
In Russia around 1905, the first issue of a document called the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion first appeared, which was subsequently reproduced world wide. This document purports to be the minutes of meeting of Jewish elders planning the conquest of the world through the use of war, money and control of the media.
Despite the Protocols being a very obvious Orthodox Russian Christian fabrication, this document has continued to circulate, achieving huge sales in Japan in the 1980s.
The long standing and deep rooted anti-Jewish feeling amongst Russians, and the Russian ruling class in particular, was one of the major reasons for the heavy Jewish involvement in the Communist Revolution of 1917.
United States of America
In the United States, the first sign of any anti-Jewish feeling came with some off the cuff remarks by one of the founders of that country, Thomas Jefferson, who railed against allowing Jews into America during an early session of the Constitutional Congress. The exact details of what he said were not recorded.
At the time of the American Revolution, about 1780, the Jewish population of the colonies numbered an estimated 2000. By 1880, this had risen to an estimated 250,000. A few Jews became prominent at the time of the American Civil War: on the Confederate side the Secretary of State was Judah Benjamin, who fled to England after the fall of the South. The Rothschild banking house, present in both the North and South through subsidiaries, committed itself to neither, doing business with both sides as pressures of the time dictated.
America had however relatively few Jews until the end of the 19th century: then, large numbers of Jews from Eastern Europe started flooding into that country, fleeing persecution in their home countries.
This cartoon, which appeared in the prestigious American magazine Life of 5 October 1911, reflected a popular concern at the large numbers of Jewish emigrants from Europe into the United States. The "child", America, is being fed Jewish pills by Mother Europe, and complains that the "more I take, the worse I feel". That such a cartoon appeared in a well known mainstream American magazine indicated the level of the public debate on the issue of Jewish immigration into America.
Henry Ford
By the 1920s, the identification of Jews with Communism had been made in the United States. The founder of the Ford car company, Henry Ford, became the leading publisher of anti-Jewish material in the United States, issuing free copies of the Protocols of Zion and a copy of his own newspaper, the Dearborn Independent, to all buyers of his cars.
Ford was a Christian anti-Semite, and possibly the realization of the inherent contradiction this entailed, led him to order the retraction of all his former publications and that an apology be issued towards the Jews in his name in 1940.
Immigration laws
By 1920, some 2.5 million Jews from Eastern Europe had emigrated to America: this flood played no small role in the formulation of the 1921 and 1924 Immigration Acts, which effectively shut off most immigration from those countries with large Jewish populations. Jews then started settling in large numbers in other regions: Canada, South America (notably in Argentina), the Union of South Africa, and Palestine. The American policy of barring Jewish immigration was reversed after the Second World War and millions of European Jews then entered that country, leaving Europe for good.
Jews and Communism
The role of Jews in the Russian Communist revolutions has been discussed in an earlier chapter: the large Jewish involvement in that revolution, combined with the Jewishness of Karl Marx, made easy and believable anti-Jewish propaganda for the Nazis, even when mixed with the crude Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion.
Directly after the First World War, there were another three specifically Jewish Communist revolutions in Europe itself:
• the German Jew, Kurt Eisner, led a short lived communist revolution in Munich, Bavaria from November 1918 to February 1919 (at the same time that Adolf Hitler was an unknown soldier in that city - the effect of being a first hand witness to a Jewish led Communist led revolution helped to cement Hitter's anti-Communist and anti-Jewish feelings);
• the short lived Sparticus uprising in Berlin (September 1918 to January 1919) led by the German Jews, Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg; and
• the short lived Communist tyranny in Hungary led by the Jew, Bela Kun (Cohen), from March to August 1919.
These incidents all helped to identify Jews with Communism in the public mind: in this light it becomes perfectly explicable why the Nazi Party was able to win support on an anti-Communist and open anti-Jewish platform.
The Nazi Policy of Anti-Jewishness
Conventional history books will always tell their readers that Hitler and the Nazi Party were anti-Jewish: but never try to explain the reason for this sentiment.
Nazi anti-Jewishness was based on three pillars:
• first, Jews were identified with political subversion and Communism in particular. As outlined earlier, this was by no means a Nazi invention, and had been written about in public by Winston Churchill and a host of others including Henry Ford in America;
• secondly the Nazis associated Jews with super capitalism and economic exploitation. This descended directly from the traditional and pre-Christian objections to Jews. Hitlerian anti-Jewishness also accentuated the links between Jewish super capitalists and Communism, personified by the financing of the 1917 Russian Revolution by the American Jewish banker Jacob Schiff; and
• thirdly, the Nazis associated Christianity with Jews, arguing that this religion was the product of Middle Eastern thought and not native Europe. The Nazis did not however dare to attack Christianity openly, rather leaving it alone to wither by itself, something that has to a large degree started to become reality by the end of the 20th century. Nonetheless, if the private comments of Hitler himself on Christianity are read (Hitler's Table Talk, notes by Martin Bormann, Introduction by Hugh Trevor Roper, Oxford University Press, 1960) it can be seen that Hitler clearly identified Christianity with Jews.
Only in this light can an understanding of the motivating factors behind the state that Hitler created be gained: a tradition of anti-Jewishness going back centuries; modern political thought associating Jews with Communism and subversion; the degradation of Germany under the Treaty of Versailles; economic collapse; and the outstanding oratorical ability of Hitler himself; all combined to propel the Nazi Party to power in 1933.
Anti-Zionism and Anti-Jewishness
Zionism - or a movement amongst Jews to create a homeland for Jews based on racial and ethnic grounds in Palestine, had been started in 1897 by Theodor Herschl in Switzerland. By 1948, the Zionists had succeeded in creating the state of Israel in the Middle East: but this caused a new wave of problems all by itself.
The end of the Second World War did not see an end to anti-Jewish agitation: in the Soviet Union, which had ironically been created by a clique of Communist Jews, anti-Jewish feeling rose with the creation of the state of Israel. Many Soviet Communists saw the existence of the state of Israel and Jewish loyalty towards it as a potential fifth column within the Soviet state.
This was so because in terms of a law in Israel called the Law of Return, all Jews qualified for citizenship of Israel as long as they could prove a direct biological - in other words racial - link to Judaism. This law is still in force to the present day.
This created a whole set of inhabitants of every country who automatically had split loyalty: combined with the Communist ideology's rejection of racial nationalism (a principle upon which Israel was and is still based) saw the Soviet Union ally itself to the anti-Zionist movement in the Arab world, which objected fiercely to the expulsion of millions of Arab Palestinians from Palestine to make way for the state of Israel.
It is a question of propaganda if anti-Zionism is the same as anti-Jewishness: pro-Zionist Jews always dismiss anti-Zionists as being anti-Jewish. This is however another factual inaccuracy: some of the biggest anti-Zionists are religious Jews who object to the state of Israel on the grounds that it contravenes Talmudic instructions to wait for the Jewish messiah before a state can be established.
It is also semantic tomfoolery to call Arabs "anti-Semitic" - they and the Jews all speak Semitic languages and this epithet serves no use whatsoever.
Finally, many Communist Jews were in the forefront of anti-Zionist activism: these Jews held prominent positions in Soviet society until the fall of Communism itself. The anti-Jewish persecutions in the Soviet Union were in fact anti-Zionist actions: only a small number of genuine anti-Jewish activities took place, and none were ever officially sanctioned by the Soviet state.
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