Chancellor Adolf Hitler today congratulated Italy on its adoption of an anti-Semitic program. His declaration, not mentioning Italy by name, was read to the nazi Party Congress by Adolf Wagner, Bavarian Nazi leader.
“The Reich has made friends with some great and strong world powers,” the Reichs-fuehrer said. “The Bolshevik danger and thence the destruction of peoples threatens this world more than ever. In thousands of cases we see the effects of the Jewish microbe, that world pestilence.
“I think I can proclaim in my name, and in the name of all of us, how profoundly happy we are to see that another great world power in Europe, by its own decision, following its own experiences and by its own means, has come to share our conception (of this problem) and to draw from it vast conclusions with a remarkable spirit of decision.
“Whatever may be the evolution of the Fascist and National Socialist revolutions, we are all happy, in all great and vital questions of this epoch, to find this common intellectual point of view and this common attitude which brings us always closer to the human point of view in the midst of this world of unreason and destruction.”
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