Nazi maltreatment of Jews and Hitler’s official anti-Semitic policy were deplored as “detestable” by the Rev. Ewart E. Turner, pastor of the American church in Berlin, Germany, in an address here at the First Methodist church.
Rev. Turner admitted Jews had been killed in racial persecutions, but said physical violence has given way to mental mistreatment of the German Jews.
However, despite his criticism of anti-Semitism, the Berlin clergyman declared that “Germany needs Christian brotherliness more than anything else in its present crisis” and contended that “Christ must supplant the boycott in the dealings of other nations with Germany.”
Germany is turning toward militarism, he said, because “it waited long years for other nations to disarm, but saw only greater and greater armaments among its neighbors.”
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