In a long speech before his puppet Reichstag, meeting in the Kroll Opera House in Berlin today, Adolf Hitler bitterly assailed the Jews, blaming them first for the outbreak of the war, then for Britain’s rejection of his “peace” proposals after the collapse of France, and finally, for trying to depict his new European order as a German hegemony.
Early in his speech, the Nazi leader went back to the period leading to the outbreak of the war and described his efforts to reach a pacific settlement with Poland. These efforts, he asserted, were thwarted by the British with their “Jewish and democratic conspirators.”
After France collapsed, he said, “I made my appeal for peace to England, but those who wanted war did not want peace. Those Jewish-democratic capitalists who had invested their capital in war production wanted to profiteer and get their interest and amortization.”
Repudiating “territorial or egoistic interest in the Balkans,” Hitler asserted that “every country is forming its economic policy in accordance with its own interests and not in accordance with the interests of international Jewish finance.”
Describing the new Nazi European system, Hitler declared: “Only the capitalistic brains of the Jewish democracies could see a German hegemony in our economic exchanges. There were no conquerors and conquered in those deals.”
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