Hitler got power because Germans were poor and looking for an out and for someone to blame their loss in WW1 on.
Yes, and more persuasive portions of his speech, above, spoke of one million German children starving to death just as 100,000 milk cows were herded to the victors of WWI.
I’m not sure of his numbers, but Germany went through very difficult times, post WWI.
His pointed reference to the Democracies’ collective failure to help the Jews was in reference to tough immigration policies in the Democracies, including the dark refusal of the US, and others to give safe haven to a large shipload of Jewish migrants, 1/3rd of whom were subsequently killed in the Holocaust, after their forced return to European countries that subsequently fell to Germany.
In the 90’s, an American-Jewish author wrote an incredible book, Hitler’s Willing Executioners, that chronicled the near universal hatred of Jews by Germans at large, citing thousands of “eliminationist”books, magazine articles, and pamphlets between 1860 and 1930.
Hitler and his Nazi’s politicked among 17 political parties until his taking over near total power in 1934. Of those 17 political parties, only one did not issue an “eliminationist” plank to solve “the Jewish Problem,” the Communist Party. Even the Socialist and Christian-based political parties openly said there was a “Jewish Problem,” and suggested they be forced to leave Germany (or be otherwise eliminated.).
Jews comprised only about 2% of the population of Germany, proper, in the 1930’s. The vast majority of the Jewish victims of the Holocaust were Poles, Russians, and other nationalities that were possessed by Germany through conquest. And hundreds of thousands of these Jews were killed by civil policemen pulled from Germany . . . men in their 40’s and 50’s who had never belonged to the Nazi Party. Of thousands of German civilian cops formed into these “Eisengruppen,” only one voice of protest was found, post-war. A cop from Hamburg wrote a letter to Himler complaining of killing innocent women and children in the East. Himler’s deeply apologetic letter is fully reproduced, apologizing for offending the cop, and sending him back to Hamburg, with full pay and retirement benefits.
