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Through stereotypical Nazi caricatures, primitive nursery rhymes and colorful illustrations, children—and adults—are told what a Jew supposedly is and looks like according to the Nazi Party; the Jews are represented as "children of the devil," evil creatures who cannot be trusted, and a contrast to idealized "Aryans."
[57] [b] [c] In a letter dated 5 October 1941, police lieutenant and Holocaust perpetrator Walter Mattner wrote to his wife justifying the murder of Jewish children and referencing Hitler's prophecy. [ 59 ] [ 60 ] Jews were also aware of the prophecy; [ 57 ] Warsaw Ghetto diarist Chaim Kaplan wrote on 1 September 1939 that, since war would ...
Nazi agents who were Jewish include Stella Goldschlag, Ans van Dijk and Betje Wery. During the Hotel Polski affair, Jewish agents working for the Gestapo-operated Żagiew agent provocateur network helped to spread rumors that Jews could buy foreign passports and other documents, and then as foreign citizens, leave territories occupied by Nazi ...
A reason why some German Jews supported Hitler was that they thought that his anti-Semitism was only for "stirring up the masses". [1] Also, they adhered to a kind of respectability politics that led many non-Jews in the German Reich to congratulate the VnJ with the phrase, "If only all Jews were like you." [2]
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Part of a series on The Holocaust Jews on selection ramp at Auschwitz, May 1944 Responsibility Nazi Germany People Major perpetrators Adolf Hitler Heinrich Himmler Joseph Goebbels Heinrich Müller Reinhard Heydrich Adolf Eichmann Odilo Globocnik Theodor Eicke Richard Glücks Ernst Kaltenbrunner ...
The notion that Hitler had Jewish roots has persisted for decades despite having been dispelled by top German historians. Hitler’s background is in a rural region of northwestern Austria called ...
The diarists Luise Solmitz, whose husband was Jewish, and Victor Klemperer, who was himself Jewish, mentioned the speech in their diaries but paid little attention to Hitler's threat. [22] Outside of Germany, coverage of the speech focused on the geopolitical implications, [23] [24] while the threat to Jews went unremarked. [23]
In 1933, Hitler's speeches spoke of serving Germany and defending it from its foes: hostile countries, Communism, liberals, and culture decay, but not Jews. [13] Seizure of power after the Reichstag fire inaugurated April 1 as the day for a boycott of Jewish stores and Hitler, on the radio and in newspapers, fervently called for it. [14]