Thomas Mann, the self-exiled German author, declares in an article on “Culture Against Barbarism” in the Contemporary Jewish Record that hatred against Jews “is aimed against Europe and all that is higher in Germanism itself,” but predicts that the Jews will survive and “play an important part in the upbuilding of the new humanity struggling slowly out of its crises.”
“These people look into our world with the dark intelligent eyes of former ages and with the knwledge which is theirs by their suffering, their spirituality and reason,” Mann asserts. “They form a secretly corrective element against our passions…the Jews have to suffer. But they will suffer and survive.”
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