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Readers divided on handling of Nazi demonstration
The presence of the American Nazi
party is in itself a prod to the complacency of all men of good will. To be
permitted the right to parade anywhere in the United States is at best a
right bestowed without consideration of
past experiences and present convictions.
To permit this parade to take place
in Skokie confronts the Jewish community with the alternatives of open
retaliation or quiet humiliation. Neither is acceptable.
As feeling, loving Christians, we
pray for you in this moment of conflict
and stand with you to repudiate the
American Nazi party and all the
hatred for which it stands.
Wesley E. Diemer, Jr.
Wilmington, Del.
Smash Nazis
The following is in answer to the letter written by Lisa Woll and to all others opposing the Jewish Defense
league and other people who want to
meet the planned Nazi march with
force.
According to them, the JDL is foolish for their threats of violence. Everyone should just ignore the Nazis, stay
in their nice little protected houses, or
go to a flower-throwing counter-rally
on the other side of town. Just let them
march through the streets exhibiting
symbols and expounding ideas which
were the basis for slaughtering millions of people, including six million
Jews.
Yes, these people are the spiritual
children of the Nazis of the Holocaust,
the children who hold the same principles as the Nazis who murdered millions, murdered the kinfolk of some of
us. Can we sit and allow them to
march these same principles through
our streets? Let them, after they
slaughtered people with an evil knife,
bring it to Skokie and slap it against
our cheeks? Obviously not. This must
not be allowed. Hopefully, someone can
fathom that this is what the JDL plans
to accomplish.
All kinds of people from everywhere
should show up to oppose the Nazis
with strength. The JDL, Negro organizations (because the Nazis would like
to do the same thing to blacks), Jews
from Skokie, Gentiles from Skokie,
Jews and Gentiles from around the
whole country, and anyone with a moral bone in his body, should come and
help smash the Nazis.
The Nazis were a group of ignorant,
cruel beings during World War II also.
Should we not have “stooped to their
level of violence” then either?
Stephen Glickman
Skokie
Ghost town
My opinion on how best to deal with
those Nazi idiots is to ignore them
completely.
Make Skokie a ghost town on the
day and at the time scheduled for their
march. Have the residents along the
parade route pull down their shades
and close draperies. Perhaps that will
convey to them how unimportant
Americans consider them.
I feel very strongly about this because two of my granddaughters came
home from school last week with swastikas drawn on their notebooks. That illustrates how the publicity about the
Nazis has made an impression on
11-year-olds.
So that they would know what the
Nazi emblem stands for, both of my
sons permitted each daughter to watch
“Holocaust.”
Mrs. G. Carlson
Des Plaines
Money not wasted
It has been said that our village
leaders have wasted money in various
courtrooms defending obviously unconstitutional positions to prevent a Nazi
march. It has been reported constantly
that the case of Skokie versus the Nazis has no precedent. Corp. Counsel
Harvey Schwartz had no idea what the
outcome or even the possible outcome
of his court actions would be. It was
only when his legal challenges went
through the justice system of this country that the final outcome was clear.
No, I do not see any waste of taxpayers’ money. It might have been
wasteful if there were cases that were
the same and brought before our
courts and the judges always ruled
that ordinances were unconstitutional.
The day of the march will show
whether the village government was
right in pursuing their strategy. If
there is violence in Skokie, then this
surely will vindicate them.
Lawrence I. Cotariu
Skokie
Peaceable assembly?
There has been much discussion
about the rights of American Nazis to
march through Skokie by those who
contend that the First Amendment to
the U.S. Constitution allows them to do
so.
But the question arises whether the
American Nazi party, embracing Hitler’s doctrine of hatred for Jews and
his documented plans to exterminate
them, can peaceably assemble, as stated in the First Amendment.
Tortured arguments comparing the
Nazis to civil rights groups that assembled in spite of violent opposition, ignore the intent of the civil rights
groups - which was to assemble
peaceably for the cause of their people’s constitutional rights.
The American Nazi party’s intent is
to throw fear into the hearts of some of
the Jewish survivors of the Nazi Holocaust. They want to take advantage of
the democracy that values the First
Amendment.
No party which has a philosophy of
destruction of any segment of the
American people in the violent sense of
mass killing should have legality. Hitler’s rule enabled him to destroy not
only six million Jews, but caused the
death of millions of his own people, and
scores of millions of other Europeans.
American Nazis who openly commit
themselves to belief in Hitler and Nazism express a threat to exterminate
Jews and others. Such threats are punishable by our laws.
Abram Eisenman
Savannah, Ga.
Silent streets
Please hear my plea, good people of
Skokie:
On the day that the Nazis march
through Skokie, let there be not a man,
woman, or child on the streets of the
parade route or anywhere near it.
Close your shops and draw your
drapes.
Let them march through silent
streets. Let your silence silence them.
Let them give a parade to which no
one comes.
They feed on violence. Don’t satisfy
them.
Sondra Richter
Walnut Creek. Cal.
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Attempted Nazi March in Skokie, 1977 and 1978, Digital Collection
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
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Skokie History
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Skokie Public Library
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Editor's Mail : Readers divided on handling of Nazi demonstration
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Diemer, Jr., Wesley E.
Glickman, Stephen
Carlson, G. (Mrs.)
Cotariu, Lawrence I.
Eisenman, Abram
Richter, Sondra
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People from all over the U.S. have written to show their support for Skokie residents who oppose the proposed National Socialist Party of America (Nazi) march.
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5/4/1978
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
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Skokie Life, Thursday, May 4, 1978, Lerner Community Newspapers, Lincolnwood, IL
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isl780504a.pdf
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eng
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1970s (1970-1979)
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Skokie Public Library, Reference Department
editorials and opinions
newspaper clippings