As precedent and justification for Germany’s official acts against Jews, Adolf Hitler, in an address today, quoted America’s exclusion and discriminatory statutes against peoples of the yellow race. He spoke to this effect during a visit to the executive board of the German Medical Federation.
He said in part: “The American people were the first to draw the practical political consequences from the inequality in the difference of races. Through immigration laws it barred undesirables from other races. Nor is America ready now to open its doors to Jews (fleeing) from Germany. By purging cultural and intellectual life from a preponderance of Jewish intellectuals, we do justice to Germany’s natural right to its own spiritual leadership,” the Chancellor said. “The greatest achievements of intellectual life never have been made by members of other races, but by Ayran, German spiritual forces.”
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