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2. Public Announcements of the "Final Solution" by
the Führer and Chancellor of the Reich
January 30, 1939 was
the last anniversary in peace-time of Hitler's rise to power. In his speech
before the Reichstag on domestic and foreign policy, Hitler pronounced his
famous "prophecy": (78)
"Today I want to be a prophet once again:
if financial international Judaism in Europe and beyond Europe were to succeed
once again in pushing the peoples into a world war, then the result of it would
not be the Bolshevization of the earth, thus the victory of Judaism, but the
destruction (Vernichtung) of the Jewish race in Europe." What was
the meaning of this shattering declaration? As of the end of 1938, the Jewish
population of the Reich had been driven to the alternative of misery or
emigration, but there had been no question at all of extermination.
The
term "Vernichtung" (annihilation, destruction) marked the absolutely negative
will concerning the Jewish presence in the Reich. Since it was absolute, this
will announced itself as ready if necessary for all extremities. The term in
question did not mean that the stage of extermination had already been reached,
nor even the deliberate intention to do so.
A few days before the
speech quoted, Hitler received the Minister of Foreign Affairs of
Czechoslovakia. He reproached his guest with the lack of energy of the
government of Prague in its efforts at entente with the Reich and recommended,
in particular, an energetic action against the Jews. He declared, to show an
example: "In our country, we destroy them (bei uns werden sie vernichtet)." One
might conclude that Hitler in the course of a diplomatic conversation recorded
in the archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
(79) confided the fact of a massacre in
the Third Reich, which, in addition, was not true at the time.
Two
years later, January 30, 1941, Hitler recalled his "prophecy" of 1939. But this
time he specified its meaning as follows: (80)
"and I do not want to forget the
indication that I have already given once before the Reichstag, that is that if
the rest of the world (andere Welt) is cast into a war, Judaism will completely
end its role in Europe..." In his conversation with the
Czechoslovak minister, Hitler evoked England and the United States as being
able, according to him, to offer regions for the installation of Jews. In
January 1941, he indicated that the role of the Jews in Europe was to be
completely ended; and he added that this prospect would be realized, for the
other peoples would understand the necessity of it in their own countries. At
that time, there was a belief in the creation of a Jewish reserve. But for
Hitler it was admissible only outside of Europe.
We have just pointed
out that on January 30, 1941, Hitler simply announced the termination of the
role of the Jews in Europe. Two years earlier, the word "Vernichtung" had been
pronounced. At that time, the Nazi authorities proclaimed that the problem of
the Jewish
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