Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler, in the course of his speech threatening action in favor of the Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia, declared regarding the Jews: “If it is asked why National Socialism today fights the Jews so fanatically, one can only answer that a foreign race, which has nothing in common with us, cannot be called upon to take the lead.”
The accomplishment of German unity, Hitler told the thousands of Nazi Party leaders, “called for the banishing of a foreign element which could never be integrated with our people.”
The aim of the Jews and Marxists,” he said at a different point of his address, reviewing the Nazi Party’s history, “was to destroy the national community to deliver to the unscrupulous Jewish lawyers the masses of the German people.”
In attacking democratic nations, the Reichsfuehrer said: “Germany and Italy are reproached for the brutality with which they eliminate their Jewish elements…As soon as the expulsion of the Jews from these countries started, the democracies made a great outcry of protest, but they took care not to aid the Jews. It was declared there was no place for them. It was declared that the world democratic empires, which have a scant few men to the square kilometer could not support such a burden.”
At one point he referred to Palestine: “I want the oppression of the 3,500,000 Germans in Czechoslovakia to cease…I do not wish to see a second Palestine on the frontiers of the Reich. The poor Arabs are defenseless. The Germans in Czechoslovakia are neither without defense nor abandoned to themselves.”
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