Sheep magazine archive 1: issues 3-9

REVIEW
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THE
CATTLE
TRUCK
by George Semprun
Book reviewed
by Lee Humber
in Socialist Review
October 1993
Reprinted from
Manifesto, October 1995
On 9 November 1938, 30,000 German Jews
were rounded up by the Nazis and sent to
concentration camps. One thousand were
murdered in this operation. Synagogues, home
and businesses were destroyed. It was the start
of the Nazis ‘Final Solution’ which was to see
six million Jewish people murdered by Hitler’s
thugs in the course of the Second World War.
With the racism of anti-semitism at the core of
their ideology the Nazis scapegoated Jews for
all society’s ills. They made them the target for
the anger and despair of millions who had lost
their jobs and their homes in the great slump
of the 1930’s, much as today’s Nazis across
Europe attempt to build political influence in
the recession racked 1990’s.
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OCTOBER 2015