JEWS CALLED EMIGRATION 'EXTERMINATION'

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JEWS CALLED EMIGRATION 'EXTERMINATION'       It is very significant, however, that certain Jews were quick to interpret these policies of  internal discrimination as equivalent to extermination itself. A 1936 anti-German propaganda  book by Leon Feuchtwanger and others entitled Der Gelbe Fleck: Die Austrotung von 500,000  deutschen Juden (The Yellow Spot: The Extermination of 500,000 German Jews, Paris, 1936),  presents a typical example. Despite its baselessness in fact, the annihilation ofthe Jews is  discussed from the first pages - straightforward emigration being regarded as the physical  "extermination" of German Jewry. The Nazi concentration camps for political prisoners are also  seen as potential instruments of genocide, and special reference is made to the 100 Jews still  detained in Dachau in 1936, of whom 60 had been there since 1933. A further example was the  sensational book by the German-Jewish Communist, Hans Beimler, called Four Weeks in the  Hands of Hitler's Hell-Hounds: The Nazi Murder Camp of Dachau, which was published in  New York as early as 1933. Detained for his Marxist affiliations, he claimed that Dachau was a  death camp, though by his own admission he was released after only a month there. The present  regime in East Germany now issues a Hans Beimler Award for services to Communism.  The fact  that anti-Nazi genocide propaganda was being disseminated at this impossibly early date,  therefore, by people biased on racial or political grounds, should suggest extreme caution to the  independent-minded observer when approaching similar stories of the war period.   The  encouragement of Jewish emigration should not be confused with the purpose of concentration  camps in pre-war Germany. These were used for the detention of political opponents and  subversives - principally liberals, Social Democrats and Communists of all kinds, of whom a  proportion were Jews such as Hans Beimler. Unlike the millions enslaved in the Soviet Union,  the German concentration camp population was always small; Reitinger admits that between  1934 and 1938 it seldom exceeded 20,000 throughout the whole of Germany, and the number of  Jews was never more than 3,000. (The S.S.: Alibi of a Nation, London, 1956, p. 253).  

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