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…Should not the outside world be most grateful to us for setting free<br />

these glorious bearers <strong>of</strong> culture and placing them at its disposal? In<br />

accordance with its own statements, how is the outside world to justify<br />

its refusal to grant refuge in its various countries to these most valuable<br />

members <strong>of</strong> the human race?<br />

For how will it rationalize imposing the members <strong>of</strong> this race on the<br />

Germans <strong>of</strong> all people? How will the states so infatuated with these<br />

“splendid people” explain why they are suddenly taking refuge in all<br />

sorts <strong>of</strong> pretenses just in order to deny asylum to these people?<br />

I believe the earlier this problem is resolved, the better. For Europe<br />

cannot find peace before it has dealt properly with the <strong>Jewish</strong> question.<br />

It is possible that the necessity <strong>of</strong> resolving this problem sooner or later<br />

should bring about agreement in Europe…<strong>The</strong>re is more than enough<br />

room for settlement on this earth….<br />

I have a prophet very <strong>of</strong>ten in my lifetime, and this earned me mostly<br />

ridicule. In the time <strong>of</strong> my struggle for power, it was primarily the<br />

<strong>Jewish</strong> people who mocked by prophecy that one day I would assume<br />

leadership <strong>of</strong> this Germany, <strong>of</strong> this state, and <strong>of</strong> the entire Volk, and<br />

that I would press for a resolution <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Jewish</strong> question. <strong>The</strong><br />

resounding laughter <strong>of</strong> the Jews in Germany then may well stick in<br />

their throats today, I suspect.<br />

Once again I will be a prophet: should the international Jewry <strong>of</strong><br />

finance succeed, both within and beyond Europe, in plunging mankind<br />

into yet another world war, then the result will not be a Bolshevization<br />

<strong>of</strong> the earth and the victory <strong>of</strong> Jewry, but the annihilation (Vernichtung)<br />

<strong>of</strong> the <strong>Jewish</strong> race in Europe. 161<br />

Following confirmation <strong>of</strong> the reports <strong>of</strong> mass murder <strong>com</strong>ing out <strong>of</strong> occupied<br />

Europe Freda Kirchey, editor and publisher <strong>of</strong> <strong>The</strong> Nation, criticized the inaction <strong>of</strong> the<br />

democracies that had led to such destruction. “If we had behaved like humane and<br />

generous people instead <strong>of</strong> <strong>com</strong>placent, cowardly ones,” she claimed, “the two million<br />

Jews living today in the earth <strong>of</strong> Poland and Hitler’s other crowded graveyards would be<br />

alive and safe…We had it in our power to rescue this doomed people and we did not lift a<br />

hand to do it—or perhaps would be fairer to say that we lifted just one cautious hand,<br />

161 Max Domarus, Patrick Romane, ed., <strong>The</strong> Essential Hitler Speeches and Commentary (Wauconda, IL:<br />

Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc., 2007), 398-399.<br />

299

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