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The strange case of Max Eichholtz and the SS man

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Unless you're a deranged libtard (but I repeat  myself) you despair at today's Western legal systems criminalising what once would have been regarded as merely rude or insulting. The younger among us must wonder what things were like in the old days (prior to the 1960s) or, Heaven forfend, in Nazi Germany.  Well children prepare to be gobsmacked because what follows in an extract from The Jews and Germans of Hamburg: The Destruction of a Civilization 1790-1945 by (((JAS Grenville))). Grenville was born Hans Guhrauer and fled Germany in 1939.

"Max Eichholtz took pride in being a Jew.  A lawyer by profession, a brilliant speaker and a prominent politician of the Weimar era representing the German Democratic Party in Hamburg's Parliament, he was a thorn in the side of the Nazis. He was also a decorated veteran and possessed courage. Not many would have dared take an SS man to court in November 1934 for calling them 'a dirty Jew'. He reminded the judge that, as a lawyer, he was part of the administration of justice and so could call on the special protection of the public prosecutor's office which 'made no distinction between Aryan and non-Aryan'. It tells us something about the ambiguities of Nazi control in the mid-1930s that he won his case. The SS man was required to pay a fine or serve a token two days in prison."(pp 110-111).

Yes, you read that right. In Hitler's Germany a Jew successfully prosecuted an SS man for calling him a filthy Jew.  In conclusion note that as this incident was playing out a major campaign was underway in the West to rescue "Germany's six million Jews" (ten times the actual number) who were apparently at risk of immediate annihilation.

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