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Excerpts: Hitler’s Notes translated by A. Pomerans Courtesy of AHRS
These pages have been scanned in from Werner Maser’s compilation entitled, Hitler’s Letters and Notes. Read and learn from Hitler’s own handwritten notes. These were mostly written from the early 1900s to about the late 1920s. Hitler wrote very little after that.
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This letter was written by Hitler, on 16 September 1919, for his “superior officer.” The officer had requested Hitler’s opinion as to the “Socialists’ attitude to Jewry” (p. 213). He would have been 29 or 30 years old at the time this letter was written.
Does this read like the letter from the hand of a madman and psychopath?
I would like you to pay particular attention to Hitler’s clear understanding that Jews were not to blamed for the collective behavior of their people unless there were facts to support such an accusation. So, Hitler goes into the facts. Now, you may not agree with the facts he presents, or, you may demand more evidence than he provides, but, to act as though he simply invented the way he felt towards Jews is folly. Clearly, anti-Jewish sentiment was rampant in Germany, nay, all throughout Europe and Russia, but, there were good reasons for this growing sentiment. Hitler gives us his take on the reasons for this sentiment. He appears to have applied reason and understanding to the issue, not emotion and unsubstantiated hatred. You read what he wrote and decide for yourself whether or not you think he was irrational or hateful. That is your choice to make.
There is one area in which Hitler reconsidered his ideas and that was in regards to Jewry as a “race.” Hitler supposedly told Martin Bormann, in his final testament, that “There is no such thing as the Jewish ‘race’.” Some historians believe that this document is forged, but this change of heart coincides with his later policies towards Jews and Mischlinge (half and quarter Jews). As time went on, Hitler placed the ideology and achievements of Jewish individuals over biological considerations. This essay and this essay go into detail as regards Hitler’s later racial views, especially as regards Jews. [Pass codes required to access Index 51, e-mail me]
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