“I pointed out that the war had created entirely new conditions under which the Jewish question had now to be considered.” He told Schiff and the other AJC members that “in Germany there is the firm intention since the beginning of the war to solve a large number of historic social wrongs,” and he said the German government now gave “highest priority” to Jewish equality, both within its borders and in Russian-held territory to the east, in what is present-day Poland, which Germany hoped to conquer. The essence of his message: supporting Germany was supporting the cause of Jewish human rights.
