Observers today expressed surprise over the fact that Chancellor Adolf Hitler made no mention of the Jews in his address in the Berlin Sportspalast on Tuesday on the occasion of the seventh anniversary of the Nazi regime’s accession to power.
It was pointed out that in virtually every major speech in recent years the German Fuehrer had made some reference to the Jewish question. Before the Soviet- German pact he often denounced “Judaeo-Communism” as responsible for the world’s ills, and after the pact he condemned the Jews as responsible for Britain’s declaration of war on Germany and shifted his attack to “Judaeo-Democracy.”
While expressing interest in the conspicuous absence of any allusion to the Jews in Hitler’s latest speech, observers offered no theory to account for this.
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