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Authors: Jacques Chessex
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workers, male and female. Sinister-looking characters are seen roaming the roads and streets, wearing copper earrings and black kerchiefs knotted around scrawny necks. Beggars ring on doorbells. The cafés are filled with malcontents.
Dissatisfaction, poverty, rape, drunkenness and endless accusations are rife.
Who is to blame? The filthy rich. The well-to-do. The Jews and freemasons. They know how to line their pockets, especially the Jews, when factories are closing. Just look how prosperous they are, those Jews, with their cars, their furs and businesses with tentacles reaching everywhere, while we Swiss are dying of hunger. And to cap it all, this is our country. The Jews and the freemasons. Leeches, sucking our true blood.
There are several Jewish families in Payerne. One of them, the Bladts, originally from Alsace, owns the Galeries Vaudoises, a forerunner of the Monoprix department stores: goods from Paris, household articles, toys, good clothes and work clothes, on Main Street, in the centre of town, the only shop anywhere around that sells a range of merchandise. Several floors, twenty-odd employees. The Galeries’ success and the business savvy of Jean Bladt, their owner and manager, spark the envy and then the ire of the town’s small shopkeepers. Another Jew getting under our skin. Look what they’ve done in other places.
Other places. Other places means Germany; the persecution of the Jews there gives ideas to the big fat pork-eaters and Protestants - though no one will admit it, for here you live in the implicit, the sneer, the insinuation. Jewish vermin. Cockroach Jews. Scheming Jews, a finger in every pie all over our economy, weaselling their way into politics, even into the law, the army. Just look at the cavalry, where Jews do so well.
Avenches, ten miles away in the direction of Berne, got a synagogue in the previous century. The community there is more active and more established than in Payerne. A stud farm and horse dealership. But the synagogue is to be closed, and nasty rumours are spreading through the ancient Roman countryside (the town was once a capital for Emperor Marcus Aurelius). La Nation, the organ of the Vaudois League, denounces the Jews of Avenches and Donatyre, a nearby village in which the presence of a Jewish family irks the editors of the extreme right-wing newspaper. Who should be entitled to breed and sell horses when our army needs them so badly in this time of war? Who should be profiting from it, instead of the Jewish scum sucking our local blood and marrow?
There is not much risk in pointing at the Jewish vampire. In Lausanne, as early as 1932, a group of lawyers, egged on by Marcel Regamey’s Vaudois League, tried to have Jews excluded from the bar. Their demand was broadened to include all the liberal professions and the upper ranks of the army. Another schemer and agitator for the past several years has been Pastor Philippe Lugrin, until recently the incumbent of the parish of Combremont, a raving anti-Semite and member of the Vaudois League, then of the Front, and then of the National Union (which has chosen the district of La Broye to infiltrate the unemployed, the impoverished small farmers and workers in fear of losing their jobs). In the back rooms of cafés in Payerne and the surrounding countryside, this individual holds meetings violently inflamed by hatred of the Jew and the “Jewish International”.
The Reverend Lugrin was recently relieved of his pastoral duties, less because of his ideas, which do not appear to bother the Church at all, than because he divorced the daughter of a powerful figure in Lausanne. However, the German Legation is looking on, and secretly puts him on its payroll. For Philippe Lugrin is able, ferociously
cold-blooded and highly organized. Listing Vaudois and Swiss Jews, cataloguing their businesses and activities, enumerating their accomplices and backers, recording their addresses, phone numbers and car number plates, Lugrin
Dissatisfaction, poverty, rape, drunkenness and endless accusations are rife.
Who is to blame? The filthy rich. The well-to-do. The Jews and freemasons. They know how to line their pockets, especially the Jews, when factories are closing. Just look how prosperous they are, those Jews, with their cars, their furs and businesses with tentacles reaching everywhere, while we Swiss are dying of hunger. And to cap it all, this is our country. The Jews and the freemasons. Leeches, sucking our true blood.
There are several Jewish families in Payerne. One of them, the Bladts, originally from Alsace, owns the Galeries Vaudoises, a forerunner of the Monoprix department stores: goods from Paris, household articles, toys, good clothes and work clothes, on Main Street, in the centre of town, the only shop anywhere around that sells a range of merchandise. Several floors, twenty-odd employees. The Galeries’ success and the business savvy of Jean Bladt, their owner and manager, spark the envy and then the ire of the town’s small shopkeepers. Another Jew getting under our skin. Look what they’ve done in other places.
Other places. Other places means Germany; the persecution of the Jews there gives ideas to the big fat pork-eaters and Protestants - though no one will admit it, for here you live in the implicit, the sneer, the insinuation. Jewish vermin. Cockroach Jews. Scheming Jews, a finger in every pie all over our economy, weaselling their way into politics, even into the law, the army. Just look at the cavalry, where Jews do so well.
Avenches, ten miles away in the direction of Berne, got a synagogue in the previous century. The community there is more active and more established than in Payerne. A stud farm and horse dealership. But the synagogue is to be closed, and nasty rumours are spreading through the ancient Roman countryside (the town was once a capital for Emperor Marcus Aurelius). La Nation, the organ of the Vaudois League, denounces the Jews of Avenches and Donatyre, a nearby village in which the presence of a Jewish family irks the editors of the extreme right-wing newspaper. Who should be entitled to breed and sell horses when our army needs them so badly in this time of war? Who should be profiting from it, instead of the Jewish scum sucking our local blood and marrow?
There is not much risk in pointing at the Jewish vampire. In Lausanne, as early as 1932, a group of lawyers, egged on by Marcel Regamey’s Vaudois League, tried to have Jews excluded from the bar. Their demand was broadened to include all the liberal professions and the upper ranks of the army. Another schemer and agitator for the past several years has been Pastor Philippe Lugrin, until recently the incumbent of the parish of Combremont, a raving anti-Semite and member of the Vaudois League, then of the Front, and then of the National Union (which has chosen the district of La Broye to infiltrate the unemployed, the impoverished small farmers and workers in fear of losing their jobs). In the back rooms of cafés in Payerne and the surrounding countryside, this individual holds meetings violently inflamed by hatred of the Jew and the “Jewish International”.
The Reverend Lugrin was recently relieved of his pastoral duties, less because of his ideas, which do not appear to bother the Church at all, than because he divorced the daughter of a powerful figure in Lausanne. However, the German Legation is looking on, and secretly puts him on its payroll. For Philippe Lugrin is able, ferociously
cold-blooded and highly organized. Listing Vaudois and Swiss Jews, cataloguing their businesses and activities, enumerating their accomplices and backers, recording their addresses, phone numbers and car number plates, Lugrin
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