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TIL of the Association of German National Jews - a pro-Hitler Jewish organisation. Founded in 1921 as an anti-communist body it wholeheartedly supported Hitler arguing his anti-Semitic stance was only rhetoric. It was banned in 1935 and it's founder taken by the Gestapo.

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