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question was being resolved by emigration. During the
war, the solution by emigration became practically impossible. One was reduced
to contenting oneself with vague projects (a Jewish reserve in Madagascar), But
in the second half of 1941 the extermination of Jews in the occupied regions of
the Soviet Union was begun. This method soon began to be applied to the Jews of
the Reich deported to the East and to the Jews of the Polish territories. This
"final solution" was not openly admitted. Hitler considered it necessary even
so to publicly resume the use of the word "Vernichtung" in this new situation
where it was no longer question [sic] neither of emigration nor of a Jewish
reserve. He announced in his speech of January 30, 1942,
(81) that
"the war can end in but two ways, either by
the extermination (ausgerottet) of the Aryan peoples, or by the disappearance
of Judaism from Europe." Recalling his "prophecy" of 1939, he
specified that it would not be a question of the extermination of the
European-Aryan peoples, but that the result of this war would be "the
destruction (Vernichtung) of Judaism." He added:
"The time will come when the most harmful
universal enemy will have finished its role for a least a millenium. [sic]"
Hitler thus afforded himself the satisfaction of proclaiming "the
final solution" to the world, but by using terms sufficiently confused that it
be perceived in the mysterious obscurity of an oracle.
The proclamation
that he sent on February 24, 1942, from his headquarters to celebrate the
foundation of the Party announced that
"the war will not exterminate Aryan
humanity but the Jew." (82)
He recalled on September 30, 1942, in a major speech at the Sports
Palace in Berlin that
"not Aryan humanity will be exterminated
(ausgerottet) but Judaism." (83)
On February 24, 1943, Hitler repeated in his proclamation similar
to that of a year before that the war would result in
"the extermination (Ausrottung) not of
Aryan humanity, but of Judaism in Europe" (84) and added that the German people, having
become aware of the role of the Jews,
"has struggled with success against the
Jewish domestic enemy and is now about to definitely finish it off."
It is perhaps useful to point out a particularity of terminology
in, these oracles of Hitler. On January 30, 1939, he foretold the extermination
of the "Jewish race." After, he referred to this "prophecy," but
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