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The origin and development of Hitler's anti-Semitism remains a matter of debate. [42] His friend August Kubizek claimed that Hitler was a "confirmed anti-Semite" before he left Linz. [43] However, historian Brigitte Hamann described Kubizek's claim as "problematical". [44]
In the 20th century, antisemitism and Social Darwinism culminated in a systematic campaign of genocide, called the Holocaust, in which some six million Jews were exterminated in German-occupied Europe between 1941 and 1945 under the National Socialist regime of Adolf Hitler.
In the letter, Hitler argues that antisemitism should be based on facts, Jews were a race and not a religious group, and that the aim for the government "must be the total removal of all Jews from our midst". Hitler also called for a "rational antisemitism" which would not resort to pogroms or senseless violence. He instead called for action to ...
Afterwards, Hitler publicly muted his antisemitism; speeches would contain references to Jews, but ceased to be purely antisemitic fulminations, unless such language would appeal to the audience. [7] Some speeches contained no references to Jews at all, leading many to believe that his antisemitism had been an earlier stage.
Hitler thought that anti-Semitism based on religious, rather than racial grounds, was a mistake: "The anti-Semitism of the Christian-Socialists was based on religious instead of racial principles." Instead, Hitler argued that Jews should be deplored on the basis of their "race". [128]
Hitler looked to the genocide of Armenians by nationalist Turks as a model for his campaign against European Jews. “Wise Jewish people say that the most ardent antisemites are usually Jews ...
The article cited Goebbels' repetition of Hitler's prophecy, adding that antisemitism was rising throughout the world because people had begun to understand that "all the suffering, privations, and deprivation of this war are exclusively due to the Jews, that the war itself is the work of Juda."
While Hitler and the Nazis are best known for popularizing hatred of the Jews, the recent expansion of antisemitism traces its roots to “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.”