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January 30, 1939


Hitler's Reichstag Speech

Nazi German leader Adolf Hitler gave his annual speech in front of the German Reichstag (parliament). Towards the end of his lengthy speech, Hitler addresses the “Jewish Question.” He states, 

“Today I will once more be a prophet: If the international Jewish financiers in and outside Europe should succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world war, then the result will not be the Bolshevization of the earth, and thus the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe!”

This short quotation references multiple antisemitic conspiracy theories, falsely blaming Jews for both war and Communism

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