Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-28
Persecution
Of Minorities
Is CowardIy
KuN KIuxism Confesses
'Aryan' Weakness
Tuesday, April 2s, 1s42 Z
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER

CPEAKING from the experi-
~ ence OF one who has been
a blue-eyed, fair-haired Aryan
for almost 48 years. 1 would say
that the one member of our
breed or physical type of whom
the decent members have cause
to be most ashamed is the one
who has set himself up as the
defender Of our whole kind.
This was very presumptuous
of him because we are by no
means all of us Germans and
are scattered widely over the
world and nobody but himself
ever nominated Adolf Hitler to
protect us from the peoples
whom he. personally, happened
not to like.
1t was presumptuous because
he undertook to speak and act as
the authorized representative OF
the entire lot Of us.
This essay of mine is not pre-
sumptuous because / speak only
for myself, as a member of the
lodge, but not for the lodge it.
self.
MOT even the utterances and
~ actions OF Hitler. Goering.
the incredibly brutal Himmler
and satanic Josef Goebbels. who
has dark eyes and hair and SAL
low skin. can condemn us in the
world as race, if that Is what
we are.
They have presumed 10 COM
NIT the most savage cruelties In
our name and have deliberately
contrived the ghastliest war in
all history, but attention Is
called to the fact that more Of
us are arrayed against them
than for them.
Only a few renegade Dutch
and Scandinavians have taken
service with Hitler
A S A breed, if / may assume,
"A for the purpose of discus
sion that we are a breed. we are
neither as evil as Hitler's career
would suggest nor anywhere
near as Godlike as he has repre-
Sented us TO be.
We are somewhere in between
and rather more good than bad
and / would emphasize the fact
10 our credit that most OF us
loathe Hitler and all Hitlerism
and have repudiated him. and
the Aryans. as he has called us,
will earn a full share of the
credit for his final obliteration.
IL any people of one COM.
plexion or another could be held
morally responsible for the mis-
conduct of any individual or
small group of the same type,
then our kind should be con-
demned for ages yet TO come.
for il would be true 10 say that
we had deliberately set out TO
destroy all civilization down to
date.
But we do not apply any
such responsibility 10 other
groups for the conduct of indi-
viduals and i submit that we
should be spared blame for
Hitlerism except as, individually.
we have endorsed this awful
thing.
LIE DOES, however. put us
H on the defensive in a way.
for we cannot deny a sense Of
shame that this was done In
our name, though without our
authority, or that the civilization
+ 10 which We contributed so
much was suddenly. but we
hope. only momentarily, set at
naught BY Hitler.
But we admit. too. that they
!. were Aryans, almost 10 a nah
and woman, who fell on the
brave but helpless southern
states of our country after '65
and. in a ruthless and pitiless
quest for money. robbed and
prosecuted a fallen enemy In a
way that Germany was honor
ably spared after 1918.
The chivalrous kindness which
was shown. defeated but un-
repentent Germany after the
first World War was dictated in
part by Aryans at the peace
table who remembered what had
been done to the South and
wanted no repetition OF that.
IT is exasperating that we so
Il often in the last 20 years
have been set apart from the
rest OF the human family for
purposes which would degrade
us If we actually were a
separate group and always by
such evil. self-appointed repre-
sentatives.
The Ku Klux Khan called us
Nordics and represented us as
an efficient cowardly lot who.
despite numerical superiority
and greater wealth and better
opportunities. must resort 10 the
lash, the tar-pot, silent perse-
cution and mass attacks by
night on helpless individuals 10
hold our own in the world.
Miserable frauds wanting
money. luxury and power would
have the world believe that for
all our boast of superiority we
still could not compete with a
smaller element of our interiors
on fair, honest terms.
Then Hitler made the humili-