An implied threat of reprisals against the Jews of Europe if the United States enters the war was made by Fuehrer Adolf Hitler in his broadcast speech from Berlin today marking the eighth anniversary of the founding of the Third Reich.
Hitler said: “…I also want to point out something which I mentioned in my speech in September, 1939, in the German Reichatag, namely that if the other world should really be dragged into a general war by Jewry, Jewry in Europe will be through.
“The coming years will show that here, too, I prophesied correctly. But even today we can see how our racial ideology is taken over by nation after nation, and I hope that the nations which today are still inimical to us will recognize one day their greater internal enemy and that then they will at last join a common front with us: the front of an Aryan human mankind against international Jewish exploitation and deprivation of the people…”
The speech contained the usual anti-Semitic phrases. He blamed “a certain Jewish international capitalistic clique” for the failure of disarmament efforts and referred to “the coalition of capitalistic interests, Jewish hate instincts and revenge ideas of certain emigrants.”
“If the war goes on,” he said, “it will be a great tragedy for England, because the British will take over our program. It is this social-minded Germany which is hated most by the clique of Jews and their financiers over there.”
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