Lenni Brenner Speaking On Links Between Zionists&Nazis

Presentation/Video/Discussion

The Links -The Nazis & the Zionists,
The History & The Ideology


Join historian & author Lenni Brenner as he outlines the historical record of collaboration by the Nazis and Zionists during the second world war. This collaboration went beyond getting Zionist Jews out of Europe but exposed a similar nationalist/racist ideology. His newly published book "51 Documents Zionist Collaboration With The Nazis" is a shocking yet factual record of the real role of Zionism during the 2nd world war. This follows up Brenner's critical work "Zionism In The Age Of Dictators" http://www.marxists.de/middleast/brenner/
The Nazi era is the most discussed period in history, yet most Jews and Americans are unaware of the interaction between Zionism and Hitler and Mussolini. The reason is simple: the Zionist record was dishonorable. This historic record of Zionism is critical in understanding the nature of Zionism today.
This book brings to light, through historic documents, the approaches that Zionists made to the Nazis before and during the Holocaust. Some were published in English decades ago and are unknown to the general public. Others are completely translated into English for the first time.
The documents include:
* A secret memorandum sent by the German Zionist Federation in 1933 to the Nazis reading: "(A)n answer to the Jewish question truly satisfying to the national state can be brought about only with the collaboration of the Jewish movement that aims at a social, cultural, and moral renewal of Jewry...."
* A "Stern Gang" memorandum telling the Nazis that "The establishment of the historical Jewish state on a national and totalitarian basis, and bound by a treaty with the German Reich, would be in the interest of a maintained and strengthened future German position of power in the Near East."
* A post-war interview in which Adolf Eichmann declares, "I often said to Jews with whom I had dealings that, had I been a Jew, I would have been a fanatical Zionist. I could not imagine being anything else. In fact, I would have been the most ardent Zionist imaginable."
The documents were selected so the true historic picture emerges. The evidence proves that Zionism betrayed the Jews in their hour of desperation. A video will also be shown about the Jim Allen play "Perdition" and the debate about the play and the effort to ban it by British Zionists.

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Edward Mortimer, 3Contradiction, collusion and controversy,2 The Times
(London), 2/11/84.

Zionism in the Age of the Dictators
by Lenni Brenner

Who told a Berlin audience in March 1912 that 3each country can absorb only a
limited number of Jews, if she doesn1t want disorders in her stomach.. Germany
already has too many Jews2?

No, not Adolf Hitler but Chaim Weizmann, later president of the World Zionist
Organization and later still the first president of the state of Israel.

And where might you find the following assertion, originally composed in 1917
but republished as late as 1936: 3The Jew is a caricature of a normal,
natural human being, both physically and spiritually. As an individual in
society he revolts and throws off the harness of social obligation, knows no
order nor discipline2?

Not in Der Stürmer but in the organ of the Zionist youth organization,
Hashomer Hatzair.

As the above quoted statement reveals, Zionism itself encouraged and
exploited self-hatred in the Diaspora. It started from the assumption that
anti-Semitism was inevitable and even in a sense justified so long as Jews
were outside the land of Israel.

It is true that only an extreme lunatic fringe of Zionism went so far as to
offer to join the war on Germany1s side in 1941, in the hope of establishing
3the historical Jewish state on a national and totalitarian basis, and bound
by a treaty with the German Reich.2 Unfortunately this was the group which
the present Prime Minister of Israel chose to join.

That fact gives an extra edge of topicality to what would in any case be a
highly controversial study of the Zionist record in the heyday of European
fascism by Lenni Brenner, an American Trotskyist writer who happens also to
be Jewish. It is short (250 pages), crisp and carefully documented. Mr.
Brenner is able to cite numerous cases where Zionists collaborated with
anti-Semitic regimes, including Hitler1s; he is careful also to put on record
the opposition to such policies within the Zionist movement.

In retrospect these activities have been defended as a distasteful but
necessary expedient to save Jewish lives. But Brenner shows that most of the
time this aim was secondary. The Zionist leaders wanted to help young,
skilled and able-bodied Jews to emigrate to Palestine. They were never in the
forefront of the struggle against fascism in Europe.

That in no way absolves the wartime Allies for their callous refusal to make
any serious effort to save European Jewry. As Brenner says, 3Britain must be
condemned for abandoning the Jews of Europe2; but, 3it is not for the
Zionists to do it.2

====END - London Times

Politica Internazionale, (Italy), Spring 1985

The Iron Wall, Zionist Revisionism from Jabotinsky to Shamir
Lenni Brenner

This book is a historical document of Zionist revisionism seen in the light
also of the personal vicissitudes of its inventor and major interpreter. The
author, a Jewish-American historian, does not conceal his dislike for
revisionism. Yet he tries to understand and explain its internal dynamics.
The result is, undoubtedly, satisfactory. The inclusion in the book, at the
side of Jabotinsky and Begin, of Shamir, whose historical role is decidedly
secondary is perplexing. Obviously the author felt the need to find a
representative and a leader for today's (and yesterday1s) revisionism.
Particularly interesting and penetrating appears the first part, that devoted
to Jabotinsky. The biographical data, apart from facilitating reading, are
warranted by the historic importance which is attributed to the character of
the personage. In this sense, the socio-cultural humus of his childhood is of
basic importance. But his personal vicissitudes, including his family
misfortunes, are also useful.

Revisionism ends up by being presented almost as an outcome of Jabotinsky1s
anti-communism. And it is precisely from his anti-communism that one has to
start to understand the contradictions of his practical action and of his
ideology. One thinks, for instance, of his open-mindedness in the choice of
alliances, which brought Herzl1s noted attitude to paroxysm. Jabotinsky
searched, in the early twenties, alliances with the white Ukrainians, led by
Slavinsky, namely the slaughterers of tens of thousands of Jews. As to the
ideology, it is remarked that revisionism did not presuppose the expulsion of
the Arabs. If anything, being deeply reactionary, he intended the relations
between Arabs and Jews to be according to the colonial scheme, with the
former, the natives, in the role of the colonized (more or less to be
civilized) and the latter in the role of civilizers.

The iron wall, which appears in the title, is, in fact, a metaphor to
indicate the need to use arms (a wall of bayonets) against the local populat
ion.

===END - Politica Internazionale

Nissim Rejwan, 3A Civil Religion,2 Jerusalem Post, 12/31/88

Jews in America Today
by Lenni Brenner

Lenni Brenner cannot be accused of mixing themes or mincing words. A
self-styled Trotskyist at odds with practically everything and everybody, his
style is as racy as it is pithy and iconoclastic. This makes Jews in America
Today great fun to read, although I fear very few readers of this paper can
be expected to agree with any part of his general thesis.

In writing on American Jewry today, Brenner takes up - and on! - a
considerable number of issues and persons that do not always seem germane to
his specific subject. A sampling of chapter headings: 3Six million Skeletons
in the Closet;2 3Blacks and Jews: Maids and Muggers, Landlords and Lawyers;2
3Hath Not a Jew Credit Cards? Ph.D? Uzi Machine Gun?,2 3The Intelligentsia,
Israel and the Jews.2

Brenner spares no one. On the attitude of American Zionists to Israeli
emigrants, he writes: 3The yordim trouble American Jews, particularly those
with Zionist sympathies... Israel is a settlers' laager and can survive only
if the wagons circle together to face the Indians... Many American Zionists
see the yordim as little more than traitors, but have ambiguous feelings
because they themselves have no intention of moving to Israel.2

Again, in speaking of the Eichmann trial, he has this to say about Hannah
Arendt and her sharply critical stance: 3Arendt was no lawyer; but a graduate
of Mittle Europa1s genius factories feels called upon to fault everything,
and she quibbled with the terminology of the indictment, the prosecutor1s
arguments, the court1s opinions and procedures, and those of the later
appellate court as well; but in the end her caveats and cavils amounted to
nothing and she ultimately upheld the court1s jurisdiction and, of course,
its verdict.2

Well, to paraphrase a famous American advertisement, You don1t have to agree
with Brenner to enjoy reading Jews in America Today!

===END- Rejwan - JP

American Library Association Booklist, 9/1/1988

Lenni Brenner, The Lesser Evil

Muckraking is alive, kicking, red-faced with indignation, and unputdownably
readable in this exposé of the Democratic Party. Brenner shows that despite
initially progressive leadership by Founding Fathers Jefferson, Madison and
Monroe, the aggregation1s base of support in the slave-holding South soon
dragged it into immoral reaction and corruption under Jackson, the patron
deity of the spoils system and, in his last years, a rabid advocate of slave
ry. And so it has been ever since, by Brenner1s accounting, and he
documents his case impressively. He reminds us that the Republicans began as
the progressive alternative party; that up until FDR, progressives came more
often from the GOP1s ranks, despite its own post-Reconstruction depravity;
that the programs that brought Roosevelt liberal support were balanced by his
virulent racism against Blacks, Jews, and Japanese-Americans; and that the
record of every major Democrat since reeks of legal and moral turpitude.
Brenner1s intent is to finally drive liberals from the party, to make them
see that supporting the Democrats any longer is futile and stupid. If enough
of them read him, he just might succeed. A brilliant polemic, and is it ever
sarcastic!

===END ALA Booklist