While the German Government has somewhat halfheartedly 
put it about that the sation against the Jews,
'the burning of the synagogues, the smashing of shops and
private residences, the assaults and looting were the work
of the populace, incensed by the death of Herr veto Rath, 
it will be difficult to disclaim responsibility for the 
systematic treatment on a large scale by S.S. and regular
police of the persons arrested. But some of the following
facts, though unpleasant reading, should be kmown in order
to throw more light on this aspect of the question.  Those
who have been released from the camps have been threatened
with dire consequences if they divulge what happened there. 
These facts, however, have been related by a great number
of people independently of each other, and they could not
all invent the same lies, at the same time, about the same events.
 
 
       Those foreigners who have known the German people for
 many years, and who believed that they understood the German 
character, have been made to realise the existence of a
facet of the Germam character which they had previously not
suspected.  Germans seem to have no cruelty in their make-up.
They are habitually kind to animals, to children, to the
aged and infirm.  The explanation of this outbreak of
sadistic cruelty may be that sexual perversion, and in
particular homo-sexuality, are very prevalent in Germany.
It seems quite possible that mass sexual prsesity may 
offer an explanation for this otherwise inexplcable outbreak:
 
 
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