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March 20, 2007

"The Jew Frankfurter"

I
spent a day or so of my week in Germany looking through the Saale-Zeitung, the newspaper of the town of Bad Kissingen, for the years 1935 through 1942. I was looking for news articles about the town's policies toward its Jewish residents. While browsing, I came across this little news item that I found, well, amusing, sort of.

"The Jew Frankfurter Becomes Top USA Judge"

"As if to accentuate his Jewish politics, President of the United States Roosevelt has named his closest adviser, the Jewish judge Felix Frankfurter, to the Supreme Court."

Posted by Eric at March 20, 2007 1:59 PM

Comments

Charming.

Posted by: Kristjan Wager at March 22, 2007 9:31 AM

Actually there is something, if not charming, then at least impressively positive from a U.S. historical perspective in seeing such ugly German press. One of FDR's reasons for nominating FF to the Supreme Court when he did (Jan. 1939) was its visibility as a statement against anti-Semitism -- FDR knew this would be, for example, the German government/press reaction and he welcomed it.

Posted by: John Q. Barrett at March 26, 2007 7:00 PM