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The origin and development of Hitler's anti-Semitism remains a matter of debate. [42] His friend August Kubizek claimed that Hitler was a "confirmed anti-Semite" before he left Linz. [43] However, historian Brigitte Hamann described Kubizek's claim as "problematical". [44]
In the 20th century, antisemitism and Social Darwinism culminated in a systematic campaign of genocide, called the Holocaust, in which some six million Jews were exterminated in German-occupied Europe between 1941 and 1945 under the National Socialist regime of Adolf Hitler.
In the letter, Hitler argues that antisemitism should be based on facts, Jews were a race and not a religious group, and that the aim for the government "must be the total removal of all Jews from our midst". Hitler also called for a "rational antisemitism" which would not resort to pogroms or senseless violence. He instead called for action to ...
Afterwards, Hitler publicly muted his antisemitism; speeches would contain references to Jews, but ceased to be purely antisemitic fulminations, unless such language would appeal to the audience. [7] Some speeches contained no references to Jews at all, leading many to believe that his antisemitism had been an earlier stage.
Adolf Hitler [a] (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, [c] becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934.
Initially sales of Hitler's anti-Semitic diatribe didn't capture Germany's attention. "They sold, so-so," Dr. Pascal Trees, a research associate at the Institute for Contemporary History, ...
Hitler thought that anti-Semitism based on religious, rather than racial grounds, was a mistake: "The anti-Semitism of the Christian-Socialists was based on religious instead of racial principles." Instead, Hitler argued that Jews should be deplored on the basis of their "race". [128]
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accused the antisemitism watchdog group of "defending a Heil Hitler salute" before arguing that the ADL "works for" Trump and his allies.