![]() ![]() But if I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I regret that I appear to have no ancestors of that gifted people. I am not of Aryan extraction: that is Indo-Iranian as far as I am aware none of my ancestors spoke Hindustani, Persian, Gypsy, or any related dialects. I regret that I am not clear as to what you intend by arisch. But the book was first published in German in 1957 as Kleiner Hobbit und der große Zauberer, translated by Walter Scherf with illustrations by Horus Engels. Which version the Germans received is unknown. The other was more forceful, and appears hereunder. One acknowledged receipt of the publisher’s letter but ignored the request. Tolkien did pen two replies to Rütten & Loening. So I submit two drafts of possible answers. You are primarily concerned, and I cannot jeopardize the chance of a German publication without your approval. I do not regard the (probable) absence of all Jewish blood as necessarily honourable and I have many Jewish friends, and should regret giving any colour to the notion that I subscribed to the wholly pernicious and unscientific race-doctrine. In any case I should object strongly to any such declaration appearing in print. Personally I should be inclined to refuse to give any Bestätigung (although it happens that I can), and let a German translation go hang. ![]() ![]() Do I suffer this impertinence because of the possession of a German name, or do their lunatic laws require a certificate of ‘arisch’ origin from all persons of all countries? I must say the enclosed letter from Rütten and Loening is a bit stiff. And in the summer of 1938, a year after The Hobbit’s publishing debut and five months before Nazi leaders unleashed a series of pogroms that came to be known as Kristallnacht (The Night of Broken Glass), Tolkien wrote to Unwin: From 1941 to 1945, the Gestapo used the cellar of the Grossmarkthalle as a gathering place for the deportation of Jews from the city to the death camps. “I don’t know what’s in front of me, maybe that’s a good thing.” That line features at the memorial at Frankfurt’s Grossmarkthalle, which commemorates the deportation of the city’s Jews. In June 1942 one of Oswalt’s sons was arrested for allegedly not wearing the discriminatory “Judenstern” properly on his clothing. His possessions, including a wonderful library, were seized and sold to the lowest Aryan bidder. Neumann managed to escape via Norway to Sweden, where he died in 1950. Oswalt and Neumann were forced to sell Rütten & Loening to Albert Hachfeld in Potsdam on the instructions of the Reichsschrifttumskammer. Īt their 1935 rally in Nuremberg, the Nazis proclaimed new laws which excluded German Jews from Reich citizenship, prohibited them from marrying or having sexual relations with persons of “German or related blood”, and deprived them of most political rights. The chart has columns explaining the “Deutschbluetiger”, “Mischling 2. Chart with the title: “Die Nurnberger Gesetze.”. ![]()
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