Algernon D. Black, Ethical Issues in the News: The Nazi Surrender. Radio announcement and delivery by Black, “Leader of the Society for Ethical Culture”, May 3rd, 1945, station WQXR. 11”x 8.5”, 5 lvs., about 2000 words. Offset printed from typed originals. Stapled, front page detached. Scarce document. $150
Black (1900-1993) was a long-time leader of the Ethical Society ("Faith without God") who for decades delivered radio addresses, including this one on station WQXR. The present address discuses the final weeks of the war, and the important steps that need to be taken post-war to understand who the Nazis were and how they manufactured and managed the war.
- “...even the surrender by Nazi generals and suicides by Nazi leaders is no guarantee of a surrender of Nazi will and the defeat of Nazi ideology. In he moment of defeat, the Nazis have done things to assure the rebirth of the Nazi movement. They have hidden some of their Gestapo, SS and some o their Nazi leaders in the army and among civilians in as a complete disguise as possible.” Distractions fighting the “world's greatest enemy”, the Bolsheviks...they would like us to believe that the mass murders in prisons and concentration camps do not matter because their victims were Jews...”
- “When we have accepted the Nazi surrender, our real difficulties will begin.”
Black goes on to speak about the need to separate out the Nazis from the Nazi supporters and then the anti-Nazis in order to reintroduce Germany "into civilized society". Part of that process is to understand the propaganda and lies that were propagated to facilitate the war, and to know who and what Hitler was.
- “Let nothing divert us from dealing...with the task of seeing to it that Nazism is really ended in this world.”
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