For readers interested in the Third Reich, the Holocaust, Nazism, and genocides. Taken from Hitler: Speeches and Proclamations, 1932 1945, a four-volume set, this 880 page abridgement is arranged by topic: I. Editor s preface; II. Domarus preface and introduction; III. history of Hitler s government; IV. Hitler s belief s; Hitler s methods of government; V. Hitler s party; VI. German economy under Hitler; VII. Hitler and the Holocaust; VIII. Hitler and the churches; IX. How Hitler became army supreme comander; X. life in Hitler s Germany; XI. Hitler and the Press; XII. expanding the Reich; XIII. The United States and Hitler; XIV. Hitler and the war; XV. the end of the War; XVI. epilogue. A topical index is included.
At the core of Hitler's beliefs was the " Jewish question," code words for Hitler's conviction that there existed an extraordinary organization of Jewish people that was very pervasive and intent on world domination and whose victory would mark the end of human survival. March 26, 1933 The boycott of Jewish businesses in 1933 was an effort to influence the Western European and American press, which Hitler believed was Jewish controlled. Abroad, the consequences of the new Enabling Act had been perceived more clearly than in the ranks of the non- National Socialist parties in Germany. The commentaries of the foreign press were less than friendly and aroused Hitler's anger. According to his preconception, so-called world Jewry (Weltjudentum) was to blame. As is generally known, Hitler believed in the existence of a secret Jewish world government that influenced all of the governments around the globe to act in its interests; above all, this entity was determined not to allow the German Volk to come to the fore. On the other hand, he believed the solidarity of Jewry throughout the world was so strong that it would be willing to make concessions in order to alleviate any hardships the Jews in Germany might be made to bear. Therefore Hitler was convinced that he need only harass and threaten the German Jews, and foreign governments would be persuaded to yield in their attitude towards Germany and Hitler: world Jewry would instruct these governments to act accordingly. Without delay he went to work on setting a warning example. As Reich chancellor, he had until now been extremely reserved on this point, rarely exhibiting his anti-Semitic attitude. Since January 30, even the party and the National Socialist press had, on Hitler's orders, refrained from treating the Jewish problem in their customary fashion. This policy was to undergo a radical change. From March 26 to March 28, Hitler conferred with his Unterführers in Berchtesgaden and Munich in order to outline an operation against German Jews to commence on April 1, with the expressly announced aim of thus putting pressure on world Jewry and foreign governments. On March 28, Hitler issued the following appeal to all party organizations of the Nazi Party to boycott the Jews:
National Socialists! Party Comrades!
After fourteen years of inner conflict, the German Volk--politically
overcoming its ranks, classes, professions, and religious
divisions--has effected an uprising ( Erhebung) that put
a lightning end to the Marxist- Jewish nightmare. In the weeks
following January 30, a unique national revolution took place
in Germany. In spite of long years of exceedingly severe suppression
and persecution, the masses of millions who support
the government of the national revolution have, in a very calm
and disciplined matter, given the new Reich leadership legal
sanction for the implementation of its reform of the German
nation from top to bottom. On March 5 the overwhelming
majority of Germans eligible to vote declared its confidence
in the new regime.
The completion of the national revolution has thus become
the demand of the Volk. The Jewish- Marxist bosses (Bonzen)
deserted their position of power with deplorable cowardice.
Despite all the fuss, not a single one dared to raise any serious
resistance. For the most part, they have left the masses they
had seduced in the lurch and fled abroad, taking with them
their stuffed strongboxes. The authors and beneficiaries of our
misfortune owe the fact that they were spared--almost without
exception--solely to the incomparable discipline and order
with which this act of overthrow was conducted. Hardly
a hair of their heads was harmed.
Compare this act of self-discipline on the part of the national
uprising in Germany with, for instance, the Bolshevist
revolution in Russia, which claimed the lives of over three
million people, and you will begin to appreciate what a debt of gratitude the criminals guilty of the disintegration in Germany
would owe the powers of the national uprising. Compare
the terrible battles and destruction of the revolution
of these very November-Men themselves: their shooting of
hostages in the years 1918-19; the slaughtering of defenseless
opponents--and you will once again perceive how enormous
the difference is between them and the national uprising.
The men presently in power solemnly proclaimed to the
world that they wanted to live in international peace. In this,
the German Volk constitutes a loyal following (Gefolgschaft ).
Germany wants neither worldwide confusion nor international
intrigues. National revolutionary Germany is firmly
resolved to put an end to internal mismanagement! Now that
the domestic enemies of the nation have been eliminated by
the Volk itself, what we have long been waiting for will now
come to pass. The Communist and Marxist criminals and
their Jewish-intellectual instigators, who, having made off
with their capital stocks across the border in the nick of time,
are now unfolding an unscrupulous, treasonous campaign of
agitation against the German Volk as a whole from there. Because
it became impossible for them to continue lying in Germany,
they have begun, in the capitals of our former enemies,
to continue the same agitation against the young national
uprising that they had already pursued at the outbreak of the
war against the Germany in 1914.
Lies and slander of positively hair-raising perversity are
being launched about Germany. Horror stories of dismembered
Jewish corpses, gouged-out eyes, and hacked-off hands
are circulated for the purpose of defaming the German Volk
in the world for a second time, just as they had succeeded in
doing once before in 1914. The animosity of millions of innocent
human beings, peoples with whom the German Volk
wishes only to live in peace, is being stirred up by these unscrupulous
criminals. They want German goods and German
labor to fall victim to the international boycott. It seems they
think the misery in Germany is not bad enough as it is; they
have to make it worse!
