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30 January 1939 Reichstag speech

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and then, among other things, also bring the Jewish problem to its solution. I believe that this hollow laughter of Jewry in Germany has already stuck in its throat. I want today to be a prophet again: if international finance Jewry inside and outside Europe should succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world war, the result will be not the Bolshevization of the earth and thereby the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe.
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I have very often in my lifetime been a prophet and have been mostly derided. At the time of my struggle for power it was in the first instance the Jewish people who only greeted with laughter my prophecies that I would someday take over the leadership of the state and of the entire people of Germany
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has been settled". In a long rant against Jews, Hitler first mocked them, remarking at "how the whole democratic world oozing with sympathy for the poor tormented Jewish People remains hard-hearted when it comes to helping these supposedly most valuable members of the human race". He said that it
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on the German nation, turning Germans into "beggars in their own country". He asserted there had to be an end to the misconception that "the good Lord had meant the Jewish nation to live off the body and productive work of other nations", or else the Jews would "succumb to a crisis of unimaginable
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by 2 October 1938. Referencing "a serious blow to the prestige of the Reich" and an "intolerable provocation", Hitler claimed that the Sudetenland had been secured by German determination and willingness to resort to war, rather than by diplomacy. For the first time since Munich, Hitler hinted at
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Outside of Germany, coverage of the speech focused on the geopolitical implications, while the threat to Jews went unremarked. Some foreign commentators interpreted the speech as expressing a desire for peace if legitimate German demands were satisfied. The New York Yiddish newspaper
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discussed the speech in several issues beginning on 31 January, but did not emphasize the prophecy. On 31 January, it printed the main points of the speech without mentioning the prophecy; in an analysis of the speech published the next day, Moshe Yustman discussed
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severity". Hitler claimed that the Jews were trying to incite "millions among the masses of people into a conflict that is utterly senseless for them and serves only Jewish interests". Hitler then arrived at his main point:
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in July 1938 had failed to open other countries to Jewish emigrants, the Nazis still attempted to hasten the emigration of Jews from Germany. Discussions continued between
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wrote that demanding "living space, while simultaneously stressing Germany’s commitment to peace, soon became part of the standard repertoire of German propaganda".
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and the possibility of war. In the following days, the speech attracted significant commentary in Germany. The German-Jewish diarists Luise Solmitz and
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printed a headline referencing Hitler's threat against the Jews, but the article below it only discussed the threat of war and Hitler's alliances with
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was time to "wrestle the Jewish world enemy to the ground", and that the German government was completely determined "to get rid of these people".
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At the time of the speech, Jews and non-Jews inside and outside of Germany were paying close attention to Hitler's statements because of
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After speaking about the Jews, Hitler discussed the situation of the churches in Nazi Germany, threatening to effect a complete
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and in a dedicated pamphlet. The speech was broadcast live on radio. According to Goebbels' explicit instructions to
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newsreel after Hitler personally approved it. Newsreels typically played down the exclusionary aspect of the
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Hitler accused Jews of having "nothing of their own, except for political and sanitary diseases" and
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further expansion, stating "how important the expansion of our people’s living space (
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mentioned the speech in their diaries but paid little attention to Hitler's threat.
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in 1933. The speech lasted two or two-and-a-half hours. It dealt with both the
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helped write the speech, which was delivered on the sixth anniversary of
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Hitler's prediction about the Jews was reprinted in the party newspaper
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and admitted that he had planned a military invasion after the
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writes that the threat "could not have been more public".
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churches. He said that clergymen who abused children or
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Index

Hitler addressing the Reichstag
Nazi German
Adolf Hitler
Kroll Opera House
Reichstag
prediction
Jewish race
Europe
world war
Nazi propaganda
Joseph Goebbels
Hitler's seizure of power
foreign
Munich crisis
May Crisis
Czechoslovakia
Sudetenland
Lebensraum
former victor powers
Longerich
Hitler's prophecy
Évian Conference
Hermann Göring
George Rublee
Jewish question
being parasites
separation of church and state
Protestant
Catholic
criticized the government

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