Posted on 10/03/2002 7:19:17 AM PDT by Israel Insider
A ten-page National Geographic piece is filled with anti-Israel dogma - the magazine should have checked facts and upheld ethical standards of reporting.
Picture: "May Day masses jam the Berlin Lustgarten to hear Adolf Hitler speak... The Maypole, decorated with bunting and swastikas, represents a revival of an old folk custom formerly observed chiefly in the rural districts."
Picture: "To develop boys and girls in body and mind, and thus insure a sturdy race to defend Germany in the future, is a policy of the present government."
Picture: "Boy Scouts make a last march along Unter den Linden. As a substitute for Scout training, German youngsters now join in an institution known as the Hitler Youth organization. Its emblem is the swastika, and its wide activities and political training are enormously popular with all classes."
Text: "Across the bridge, returning from an outing, marches a group of small boys wearing the uniform of the Hitler Youth... They are singing in accurately pitched, youthul treble that moving modern national song, the 'Horst Wessel Lied.'"
Even without a compass, an astute observer in 1937 might have noticed an anti-Semitic tendency in Germany:
April 1933: Boycott of Jewish shops
April 1933: Decree forbidding non-Aryans to occupy public posts
Sep and Nov 1935 Laws excluding Jews from German citizenship
Right. It no longer has a place in this house.
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