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by presenting it sometimes as directed toward
"Judaism." But "Judaism" ordinarily means the spiritual and cultural entity of
the Jews. Such was not the sense of this word for Hitler. The series of his
declarations from 1939 to 1943 prove that by Judaism he meant the physical
reality of the Jewish population. This is brought out by his reference to the
first expression, that of 1939, where the Jews to be destroyed were designated
as "Jewish race." Hitler felt entity "Judaism" in such a profoundly biological
way that for him it was identified with the "Jewish race" or "Jewish person."
Hitler's terminology obviously was followed. The accepted meaning given in Nazi
circles to the word "Judentum" is clearly revealed by the manner in which Six,
chief of the cultural section of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, evoked in
April 1944 (PS-3319) before German diplomatic representatives abroad, the
extermination of the Jews of the East: (85)
"The veritable source of energy in Europe
and in America is the Judaism of the East... The physical suppression of
Judaism of the East withdraws from Judaism its biological reserves."
3. The Announcements of the "Final Solution" by Hitler before
his Dining Companions in the Führer's Headquarters
Since
January 1942, Hitler affirmed in his speeches that the "final solution," such
as it was then being applied under Himmler, constituted a cardinal point of the
war of the Third Reich. He gave no further details. He left public opinion free
to not take literally the meaning of his sinister declarations and to interpret
them metaphorically as an expression of the violent oratory which relieved his
hatred and were only intended to intimidate the adversary.
In the
lengthy remarks that Hitler was used to making after meals to his dining
companions (a small group of about twenty people attached to the Headquarters
of the Führer, plus a few guests invited to military conferences), one
sees how he presented the "final solution" to those who, while belonging to his
entourage, did not in the majority belong to the circle of personalities
initiated into the secrets of Himmler's activities. Let us recall that these
comments were gathered in part by H. Picker, the jurist attached by the
Ministry of the Interior to the Headquarters of e Fuhrer from March 21 to July
29, 1942. He noted Hitler's remarks for M. Bormann, chief of the Chancellery of
the Party and Hitler's secretary. The notes taken previously by Mr. Picker's
predecessor, for the period of July 21, 1941 to March 29, 1942, were put at
Picker's disposition. After the war he published the collection of notes. H.
Picker characterized Hitler's comments in the following manner:
(86)
"Following a dispatch or no matter what
remark pronounced during the meal or else because of the interest that he
attached to a problem, Hitler began to expose his conceptions in order to fix
his ideas for himself or to speak to his guests or to influence them in a
determined way."
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