Hitler’s biggest mistakes were his campaign against the Jews and his policy of imperialism, Dr. Paul Schwidt, head of press relations in the German Foreign Office, said yesterday in an interview with a correspondent of the New York Herald-Tribune. Sehmidt, who was captured at Salzburg, asserted that there was little anti-Semitism in Germany until Hitler imported it from Austria.
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