perhaps, gives the key for solving the whole riddle. The Jew’s object was to incite the “National” elements in Germany against each other—to set Conservative Bavaria against Conservative Prussia. And he was successful.
In the winter of 1918 Anti-semitism began to take root throughout Germany. The Jew returned to his old methods. With amazing promptitude he hurled the brand of contention into the popular Movement and started a fresh rift. In casting up the Ultramontane question and in the contentions arising out of it lay, as things then were, the sole possibility of occupying popular attention with other problems, so as to stem the attack concentrated on Jewry. The men who infected our nation with this question can never repair the evil they committed against it. The Jew has cer¬ tainly succeeded in his aim ; he is delighted at seeing Catholics and Protestants fighting together ; the enemy of Aryan humanity and of all Christendom laughs in his sleeve.
The two Christian Churches are looking on this pollution and destruction of a noble and unique exist¬ ence, granted by God’s grace to this earth, with indif¬ ferent eyes. For the world’s future, however, the importance of it all is not whether the Protestants, but rather whether the Aryan man, holds his own or dies out. And yet to-day the two confessions are fighting, not against the destroyer of the Aryan, but they are trying to annihilate each other.
In Germany it is not permissible to promote a struggle against Ultramontanism or Clericalism, as it might be in purely Catholic countries, for the Pro¬ testants would certainly take a hand in it. The defence which Catholics in other countries would put up against attacks, political in character, on their religious leaders would, in Germany, at once assume the form of an attack by Protestantism against Catholicism.
For the rest the facts speak for themselves. The men who in 1924 suddenly discovered that the main mission of the Nationalist movement