YOUNG EVA BRENT WAS ONE OF THE FEW JEWISH REFUGEE’S ALLOWED TO MIGRATE TO NZ: Jewish people that was desperate to enter NZ  to escape Nazi persecution. In 1938 she was just a young women living in Berlin. Nazi mobs were setting alight Jewish Synagogues, looting Jewish owned stores. She and her mother wrote urgent letters to New Zealand’s embassy in London. Filling out complex application forms that the Embassy sent to them

1939 EVA BRENT’S MOTHER AND FATHER WERE NOT ACCEPTED IN NZ: Sadly she had to leave her Mother & Father behind. They were eventually murdered by the Nazi’s.  In 1988 Ann Beaglehole published an important book about the experiences of Eva Brent and other Jewish Refugees in NZ. In an appendix to her book she reproduced two form letters used by NZ Civil Servants.

THE FIRST LETTER: Was sent to Jewish and  Czech Europeans who had enquired about migrating to New Zealand.

THE SECOND LETTER: Was sent to other Europeans whom made the same inquiry

THE LETTER AIMED AT THE JEWISH PEOPLE: Used a much harsher language (text) Stating that Immigration Permits would be issued only in certain types of special cases. Without explaining what those special cases are. (entailed)..1,100 Jewish refugees were accepted but many,  many more were rejected ( I personally question:-Eem was this because of the trade deal that the NZ Labour led government had with Nazi Germany?. Was this about the conspiracy theories that were wildly spreading around the world about the Jews?  Was it that there were those that embraced Hitlers Regime. ?)

SOME COUNTRIES WERE MUCH MORE GENEROUS TO THE JEWS:  The Dominican Republic, which is less than a fifth of the size of New Zealand, accepted 30,000 Jewish refugees from Hitler. Switzerland, which is even smaller, also took 30,000. Fifty thousand Jews found refuge in the tiny international zone of the city of Shanghai.

YES  this EXISTED IN THE 1930’S IN NZ. THIS WAS SIGNIFICANTLY DUE TO THE RELUCTANCE TO ACCEPT JEWISH REFUGES” ANTISEMITISM As conspiracy theories were spread around the world. These had driven fears that the Jews would take over NZ’s Economic System. Conspiracy theories had already spread that the Jews caused the Great Depression and  was in control of the worlds banking system.

THESE CONSPIRACY THEORIES ORIGINATED FROM SEVERAL SOURCES that are largely related to the  The Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion, a fabricated document alleging a Jewish Plot for World Domination, which has been proven many times to be plagiarism based on forgery by ‘The Times News’ London in 1921. Reporting and investigations by the New York Herald proved these were fabrications-conspiracy theories

SPECIFIC NEWSPAPERS AND REPORTS :-

THE TIMES (LONDON) AUGUST 1921:. Correspondent for the Times Philip Graves published a series of articles (The Truth about The Protocols: A Literary Forgery) proving that the Protocols were largely plagiarized from Maurice Jolys 1864 French Political satire ‘ Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu’ The original work did not even mention the Jews at all but it was made to believe it was.

NEW YORK HERALD 1921: Reporter Herman Bernstein published a book titled “The History Of A Lie: The Protocols Of The Three Wise Men Of Zion”. Which exposed the document as a cruel and terrible lie for an American audience.

HENRY FORD’ THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT : The New York Times 1920-1921 wrote an article about Henry Fords owned newspaper ‘The Dearborn’ which was promoting the forgery.  Pointing out that the Dearborn articles were fraudulent by nature, including a full page spread on September 4^th 1921 titled “Proof That The Jewish Protocols Were Forged

FRANKFURTER ZEITUNG 1924: German newspaper exposed The Protocols as a forgery just before the Nazi Party began using them as propaganda

THE SOURCES OF PLAGIARISM: Investigations revealed the text was crafted by Russian Secret Police Agents by mixing parts of Maurice Joly’s  1864 Satire with chapters from Goetsch’s 1868 novel Biarritz  * Later in 1934-1935 a Swiss Court in Bern officially ruled that the Protocols are forgeries and Obscene Literature  *In 1999 a Russian Historian identified the specific Secret Police operative as being Matthieu Golovinski, he is believed to have created the text to demonize Jews and to manipulate Tsar Nicholas 11.

EXPOSURES OF THESE EARLY MAJOR NEWSPAPERS: The conspiracy theories- fake news continues . Despite these early and definitive exposures by major newspapers, the forgery continued to be circulated by anti-Semitic groups throughout the 20th century and into the present day. Spread worldwide and interpreted into at least 23 languages.  And still today these conspiracy theories, fabricated untruths are believed to be true.  Enriches the Propaganda Machine against the Jews.

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