Hitler's demands that all Jews who entered Germany after 1914 be expelled from the country. Only a government of national vitality is capable of doing both, and never a government of national impotence.'ĭuring a speech delivered in Munich, Hitler - already leader of Germany's Nazi Party - tells his thoughts on the power Jewish bankers have and how Jewish influence is adversely affecting German nationalism. Its final objective must unswervingly be the removal of the Jews altogether. Rational anti-semitism, however, must lead to a systematic legal opposition and elimination of the special privileges which Jews hold, in contrast to the other aliens living among us. Hence it follows: Anti-Semitism on purely emotional grounds will find its ultimate expression in the form of pogroms. Its influence will bring about the racial tuberculosis of the people. 'Jewry is unqualifiedly a racial association and not a religious association. The letter, Hitler's first explicitly political and anti-Semitic writing, may thus be seen as the launching of his political career. Some historians have interpreted the letter's call for the 'irrevocable removal ' of the Jews from German life as a prefiguring of the Holocaust.

Compared to the inflammatory massmeeting oratory that was soon to be his specialty, Hitler's rhetoric here is actually quite tame. In a letter to Herr Adolf Gemlich, Hitler appears anxious to establish his credentials as a knowledgeable and sober anti-Semite. Hitler was the Head of State, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces and guiding spirit, or Fuhrer, of Germany's Third Reich from 1933 to 1945.Ĭlick on a Year to Jump Each Year List Major Events and Quotes from Hitler: 1919 | 1922 | 1923 | 1925 | 1933 | 1934 | 1935 | 1938 | 1939 | 1941 | 1942 | 1943 | 1944 | 1945 1919

Adolf Hitler: Table of Contents| Biography| Was Hitler Jewish?Īdolf Hitler (1889-1945) was the founder and leader of the Nazi Party and the most influential voice in the implementation and execution of the Holocaust - the systematic extermination and ethnic cleansing of six million European Jews and millions of others.

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