They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45

by Milton Sanford Mayer

Two days ago the German Councilor of Embassy in Paris, vom Rath, was shot by a Polish Jew. Immediately an intense campaign against the Jews began on the German National Radio. Are Germans to be sitting ducks all over the world for Jew murderers? Are the German people to stand helpless while the Führer’s representatives are shot down by the Jew swine? Are the Schweinehunde to get oft scot free? Is the wrath of the German People against the Israelite scum to be restrained any longer? “If vom Rath dies, the Jews of Germany will answer to the German People, not tomorrow, but today. The German People have suffered long enough from the parasite assassins.”