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to the Social Democrats who carried out the November 1918 revolution, for their victory ordained the salvation of Germany's Jews."

The two men controlling the wartime economy were said to be Jews and friends of the emperor: Walter Rathenau and Albert Ballin. Jews also occupied most major and minor economic positions throughout the different states, including men who had recently migrated from the east. All this renewed the movement to combat the Jews in Germany.

After the 1918 revolution, the text says, a flood of German, Polish, Galician, Czech and Russian Jews overwhelmed and occupied Germany's senior posts. Among those listed were Hirsch, prime minister of Prussia; Gradnauer, prime minister of Saxony; Eisner, prime minister of Bavaria; Haas, interior minister of Baden; Freund, a Prussian undersecretary; Herzfeld in the Prussian Interior Ministry; Bernstein at the state treasury; Schiffer, undersecretary of the treasury; Simon, Prussian finance minister; Busch, undersecretary in the Prussian Finance Ministry; Kautsky, a director in the Foreign Ministry; Cohen, a senior judicial official; Rosenfeld, Prussian justice minister; Preuss, an undersecretary in the Prussian Interior Ministry; Fulda, interior minister of Hesse; Votera, a ministerial director in the Prussian Education Ministry; Mrs. Hirschfeld, a member of the Supreme Council of the Labor Ministry; Haase in the Foreign Ministry; and Konigsberger,