Malcolm X on Jews

From The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Edited by Alex Haley, New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1965

He had made greater contributions to Germany than Germans themselves had. Jews had won over half of Germany's Nobel Prizes. Every culture in Germany was led by the Jew; he published the greatest poets, composers, stage directors. But those Jews made a fatal mistake -- assimilating.

From World War I to Hitler's rise, the Jews in Germany had been increasingly intermarrying. Many changed their names and many took other religions. Their own Jewish religion, their own rich Jewish ethnic and cultural roots, they anesthetized, and cut off...until they began thinking of themselves as "Germans."

And the next thing they knew, there was Hitler, rising to power from the beer halls -- with his emotional "Aryan master race" theory. And right at hand for a scapegoat was the self-weakened, self-deluded "German" Jew. Most mysterious is how did these Jews -- with all of their brilliant minds, with all of their power in every aspect of Germany's affairs -- how did those Jews stand almost as if mesmerized, watching something which did not spring upon them overnight, but which was gradually developed -- a monstrous plan for their own murder. Their self-brainwashing had been so complete that not long after, in the gas chambers, a lot of them were still gasping, "It can't be true!"

If Hitler had conquered the world, as he meant to -- that is a shuddery thought for every Jew alive today. The Jew never will forget that lesson...

...and then the Jews set up Israel, their own country -- the one thing that every race of man in the world respects, and understands.