Brenner: Hear interview with Zionist collaborator with Hitler on internet
From: BrennerL21@aol.com
Date: December 21, 2006 6:07:13 AM EST
To: BrennerL21@aol.com
Subject: Hear interview with Zionist collaborator with Hitler on
internet
12 18 06 Sisters and brothers,
On Feb. 8, 1981, I interviewed Joachim Prinz, in 1933 an enthusiastic
German
Zionist collaborator with Hitler’s new regime. The audio tape can now
be heard
via the internet:
www.corkpsc.org/db.php?cid=512
It is on standard MP3 files which can be played in any MP3-compatible
software application, including Quicktime, iTunes, Winamp, etc. –
most people’s
browsers are automatically configured to choose an appropriate
application from
the user’s machine.
Prinz (1902-1988) definitely thought that Zionism could come to an accommodation with Nazism.
“Well, we thought, in our discussions with intellectuals in the SS
movement,
that the time would come when they would say, ‘Yes, you live in
Germany, you
are Jewish people, you are different from us, but we will not kill
you, we will
permit you to live your own cultural life, and develop your own national
capacities and dreams.’ We thought, at the beginning of the Hitler
regime that
such a very frank discussion was possible. We found among the SS
intellectuals,
some people were ready for such a talk. But of course such a talk
never took
place because the radical element in the Nazi movement won out.”
But he dramatically evolved in the 44 years since he was expelled from
Germany. He told me, off tape, that he soon realized that nothing he
said there made
sense in the US. He became an American liberal. Eventually, as head
of the
American Jewish Congress, he was asked to march with Martin Luther
King and he
did so.
I decided that, beyond using the interview in my book, Zionism in the
Age of
the Dictators, I wouldn’t do anything with it that would embarrass
him in his
old age. I did the right thing. The wannabe collaborator was very
different
from the gentleman who invited me into his home and honestly answered
what he
knew would be probing questions. But if he changed, Zionism didn’t.
Now it is
obligatory for me to bring the interview to the world’s attention for
the
indisputable confirmation it provides re Zionist fantasies about a
deal with Hitler.
Lenni Brenner is the author of Zionism in the Age of the Dictators
(Croom
Helm, 1983) and The Iron Wall: Zionist Revisionism from Jabotinsky to
Shamir (Zed
Books, 1984), and the editor of 51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration
with the
Nazis (Barricade Books, 2002). He blogs at
www.smithbowen.net/linfame/brenner
and can be reached at BrennerL21@aol.com.