On this day in 1941, Joseph
Goebbels publishes in the German magazine Das Reich that "The Jews
wanted the war, and now they have it"—referring to the Nazi propaganda
scheme to shift the blame for the world war onto European Jewry, thereby giving
the Nazis a rationalisation for the so-called Final Solution.
Just two days earlier, British
Prime Minister Winston
Churchill, having read more than a dozen decoded messages from
German police which betrayed the atrocities to which European Jews were being
subjected, had written in a letter to the Jewish Chronicle that
"The Jew bore the brunt of the Nazis' first onslaught upon the citadels of
freedom and human dignity... He has not allowed it to break his spirit: he has
never lost the will to resist." And active Jewish resistance was
increasing, especially in the USSR, where Jews were joining partisans in
fighting the German incursions into Russian territory.
But it was proving too little
too late, as Goebbels, Himmler, and the rest of Hitler's henchmen carried out
with fanatical glee the "elimination of the Jews," using propaganda
and anti-Bolshevik rhetoric to infuse SS soldiers with enthusiasm for their
work. As Goebbels wrote in Das Reich: "[T]he prophecy which the
Fuhrer made... that should international finance Jewry succeed in plunging the
nations into a world war once again, the result would not be the Bolshevization
of the world...but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe. We are in the
midst of that process... Compassion or regret are entirely out of place
here."
Taken from: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/goebbels-publishes-his-screed-of-hate [16.11.2014]
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