The review is by one James Gerard, a New York lawyer and judge, who had been an Ambassador to Germany under President Wilson. A few striking excerpts:
Now what manner of man, as disclosed by his book, is this Hitler, who has forced such a unification of Germany as Bismarck never dreamed of and who has arrayed a whole people from children to elders in a military formation which can only mean a war of revenge and who has revived the persecutions of the Middle Ages against an intellectual and harmless race? In the first place, do not think of this man Hitler as without brains and do not listen to the gossip which proclaims him morally unsound....
Hitler is doing much for Germany, his unification of the Germans, his destruction of communism, his training of the young, his creation of a Spartan State animated by patriotism, his curbing of parliamentary government, so unsuited to the German character; his protection of the right of private property are all good; and, after all, what the Germans do in their own territory is their own business, except for one thing -- the persecution and practical expulsion of the Jews.
These Jews have been German citizens for centuries. They fought for their country. No charge of spying, of treason, of cowardice in war has been brought against them. The civilized world took a strong stand against the Turks because of their massacres of the Bulgarians at one time, and of the Armenians at another, against the atrocities of the Belgian Congo, against the cruelties in the rubber forests of the Amazon. Now that the world is bound in smaller compass by radio, airplane, express steamers, by constant congresses of religions and commerce, we have all of us a right to criticize, to boycott a nation which reverts to the horrible persecutions of the Dark Ages.
It is with sadness, tinged with fear for the world's future, that we read Hitler's hymn of hate against that race which has added so many names to the roll of the great in science, in medicine, in surgery, in music and the arts, in literature and all uplifting human endeavor.
So Hitler wouldn't have been so bad, except for that anti-semitism thing!
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