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minister of war in Bavaria. Also listed were Lipke, chief of police in Essen; Steiner, chief of police in Munich; Hermann, president of the Supreme Court in Prussia; Arndt, press supervisor in the Education Ministry; and others. These, the author says, were only a small number given as examples.

A warning voice arose from within their own circle, published by the Munich newspaper The Jewish Voice in November 1918: "Public opinion repeatedly says that Jews have occupied many offices in the state. If public opinion combats those who did not attain their positions through a general election but were brought into them by the November revolution, it is neither prudent nor wise for them to cling to those positions. Nothing awaits their ability to perform what is assigned to them except the reward of Sinimmar."

The Jewish Dr. Hugo Preuss had a major role in the Weimar Constitution. Jews on the commission of inquiry that questioned the state's leaders included Strheim, Gothein, Bernhard and Oskar Cohn. The fate of the German war debts was in the hands of the Czech Jew Eduard Bernstein, who sold German secrets to foreign newspapers although publishing them was not in Germany's interest.

The Jewish star continued to rise, inflicting damage and grave misfortunes upon Germany. Government men in Munich, identified as Jews,