Moffintosh on Nostr: Thus at the tirne of the Hitler takeover the Zionists were a fundarnentally small and ...

Thus at the tirne of the Hitler takeover the Zionists were a fundarnentally small and insignificant minority with little influence and it was the non-Zionist organizations that played the dominant role amongst the Jews. At their head was the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbiirger judischen Glaubens (CV, or Central Union of Gerrnan Citizens of the Jewish Faith), founded in 1893, which, as its narne implies, considered Gerrnan Jews as Gerrnans and regarded its chief duty as being to cornbat anti-Sernitism.
Corresponding to this fundarnental position, the CV also declared its sharp rejection of Zionisrn. Thus a resolution passed by the main council of the CV on April 10, 1921, concluded with the words: "If the work for settlernent in Palestine were nothing rnore than a task of aid and assistance, then from the point of view of the Centralverein nothing would be said against tlhe prornotion of this work. However, the settlement in Palestine is in the first place an object of national Jewish policy and hence its prornotion and support should be rejected."

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