Language:
German
Year of publication:
2004
Titel der Quelle:
Leipziger Beiträge zur jüdischen Geschichte und Kultur
Angaben zur Quelle:
2 (2004) 259-282
Keywords:
Jews History 1800-2000
;
Jews History 1800-2000
Abstract:
The Congress, an organization representing national minorities in all the European countries, was established in 1925 in Geneva. Its main office was in Vienna; the general-secretary was the founder of the organization, Ewald Ammende. From the outset, ethnic Germans and Jews played a dominant role and worked closely with one another. In 1933, some of the leading ethnic Germans tried to intervene against German antisemitic policies, including in meetings with Goebbels and Hitler; their arguments were based not only on principle but also on the danger to German minorities in other countries if a minority was persecuted in Germany. Most of the ethnic German delegates to the Congress, however, adapted to the new Nazi policy and prevented the inclusion of a resolution against it in the agenda of the annual meeting held in Vienna in fall 1933. The Jews thereupon boycotted the Congress.
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