1635-7 Anti-Semitism •
THE FOREIGN SERVICE
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IJ° • UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
AMERICAN EMBASSY
Berlin, December 19, 1938
My dear Carl:
It was good of you to write. Knowing from
the press at home what has been going on here I
feel that you can in a measure understand my feel-
ings,based not alone upon the persecution and hound-
ing of people who are considered "non-Aryans" and
not Germans (although many can trace their German
ancestry as far back as four generations) but be-
cause of the inhumanity of it all- the un-Christian
spirit underlying brutality such as the world 3Sas
never known; the terror throughout the land- thous-
ands and thousands of innocent men taken from their
homes at all hours of the night- and not all Jews -
and dragged to concentration camps- packed together
like sardines- no cots- straw, a bit of it, nn stone
floors where three men have to lie on a small cotton
may blanket and, as condemned prisoners who have com-
mitted some horrible crime (and their only crime is
that they were born Jews) must get up at four or five
in the morning and carry heavy sacks of sand and huge
stone blocks to be used in the constructive program
of their persecutor- Mr.Hitler. It is now 12 degrees
below zero- How many of these poor people will ever
come back alive? "Peace on earth good will to men" -
what a travesty in all this misery.
Forgive me- but we who are in the know are
very unhappy although we have full protection here
from our Government- the misery weighs upon every
person who has a heart. This last pogrom, fully
organized throughout Germany- is a blot upon civil-
ization and out-bolshevists bolshevism! What I
saw during that time- rode through Berlin and watched
magnificent places of worship burning- not one is left-
Nothing in the press throughout the world has exaggera-
ted a single word- although Mr.Goebbels stated that the
1 world seemed unduly aroused because here and there a
temple had been set on fire and a few windows smashed
"by an indignant people maddened at the murder of a
German Secretary by a Jew in Paris." The masses them-
selves feel tkmmxBimas that they have been insulted
for they never dreamed about this and many of them
never even knew what it was all about. It rias all
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pplanned in Munich months ago and then this murder-
so opportune- fell into their hands.
This is to go in the pouch which is closing.
Accept all good wishes for a year of plenty.
Yours
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March 15, 1959.
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Miss Enna Uesaing,
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C/o American abassy,
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Dear Aima s—
I have been waiting for a chance to write yon, where I could •
really tell you something, sant so far nothing particular has turned up.
I read daily of what is supposed to go on, but the newspaper
accounts in this country are so garbled and there in so m+.zch propaganda
that it is difficult to get the truths. •
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• At least I am glad to hear that you are well and continue to
be able to hold a very responsible position.
The better class :emus in this country seem to be starting on
various programs of assistance but I never hear of then actually being
finished. I hear of their-pronotion and then everything sees to stop.
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Do you expect to come back to this country some time this cos— •
ing gunner? Drop me a line when you get a chance.
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Yours,
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C WaAVK CARL O. TI9H R. •
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