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The Association of German National Jews (''Verband nationaldeutscher Juden'') was a German Jewish organisation during the Weimar Republic and the early years of Nazi Germany that eventually came out in support of Hitler. ==History, goals, outcome== It was founded in 1921 by Max Naumann who was chairman until 1926 and again from 1933 to 1935 when the association was dissolved.〔Sarah Ann Gordon, ''Hitler, Germans, and the "Jewish question"'', p.47〕 Politically, the association was close to the national conservative and monarchist German National People's Party which, however, refused affiliation with the association.〔 M. Hambrock, ''Die Etablierung der Aussenseiter. Der Verband nationaldeutscher Juden 1921-1935'', p. 367〕 The goal of the Association was the total assimilation of Jews into the German Volksgemeinschaft, self eradication of Jewish identity, and the expulsion from Germany of the Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe.〔Robert S. Wistrich, ''Who's who in Nazi Germany'' (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1982), p.177. ISBN 0-297-78109-X〕 Naumann was especially opposed to Zionists and Eastern European Jews, the former he considered a threat to Jewish integration and to be carriers of a "racist" ideology serving British imperial purposes, while he saw the latter as racially and spiritually inferior.〔 The association's official organ was the monthly ''Der nationaldeutsche Jude'' edited by Max Neumann. The magazine had a circulation of 6000 in 1927.〔 M. Zimmermann, ''Geschichte des deutschen Judentums 1914 - 1945'', p. 32〕 Among the activities of this group was the fight against the Jewish boycott of German goods.〔 M. Hambrock, ''Die Etablierung der Aussenseiter. Der Verband nationaldeutscher Juden 1921-1935'', p. 590ff.〕 They also issued a manifesto that stated that the Jews were being fairly treated. In 1934 the group made the following statement: "We have always held the well-being of the German people and the fatherland, to which we feel inextricably linked, above our own well-being. Thus we greeted the results of January, 1933, even though it has brought hardship for us personally." A possible reason why some German Jews supported Hitler may have been that they thought that his antisemitism only was for the purpose of "stirring up the masses".〔 The seemingly ironic fact that a Jewish association advocated loyalty to the Nazi programme gave rise to a contemporary joke about Naumann and his followers ending their meeting by giving the Nazi salute and shouting "Down With Us!".〔Robert Gessner, ''Some of my best friends are Jews'' (New York, 1936), p. 81; Matthias Hambrock, ''Die Etablierung der Aussenseiter: der Verband nationaldeutscher Juden 1921-1935'' (Cologne, 2003), p. 578.〕 Despite their extreme patriotism, the German government did not accept their goal of assimilation, the ''Association of German National Jews'' was declared illegal and dissolved on 18 November 1935. Its chairman Max Naumann was arrested by the Gestapo the same day and imprisoned at Columbia concentration camp. He was released after a few weeks, and died of cancer in May 1939.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Association of German National Jews」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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