Extract from a speech to the Reichstag, stating that a new world war would result in "the obliteration of the Jewish race in Europe"

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Adolf Hitler (Fuehrer, Reich Chancellor, Supeme Commander of Wehrmacht)

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Adolf Hitler

Austrian nationalized German politician, leader of the National Socialist party and dictator of Germany (1889-1945)

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  • Born: 1889-01-01 1889-04-20 (Braunau am Inn) (country: Austria-Hungary; located in the administrative territorial entity: Archduchy of Austria above the Enns; statement is subject of: Adolf-Hitler-Geburtshaus)
  • Died: 1945-04-30 (Berlin Führerbunker) (country: Nazi Germany; located in the administrative territorial entity: Berlin; statement is subject of: death of Adolf Hitler)
  • Country of citizenship: Cisleithania (period: 1889-04-20 through 1918-11-11); First Republic of Austria (period: 1919-01-01 through 1925-04-30); Nazi Germany (end cause: death of Adolf Hitler; period: 1933-01-30 through 1945-04-30); Republic of German-Austria (period: 1918-01-01 through 1919-01-01)
  • Occupation: painter (statement is subject of: paintings by Adolf Hitler); political writer; politician (reason for preferred rank: generally used form); soldier
  • Member of political party: German Workers' Party (period: 1919-09-12 through 1921-07-11); Nazi Party (series ordinal: 556)
  • Member of: Nazi Party
  • Participant in: Aktion T4; Beer Hall Putsch; The Holocaust; ethnic cleansing
  • Significant person: Albert Speer; Benito Mussolini; Eva Braun; Joseph Stalin

Voelkischer Beobachter

Date: 30 January 1939

Literal Title: Voelkischer Beobachter of 1 February 1939[.] Excerpt from Hitler speech to Reichstag of 30 January 1939.

Total Pages: 1

Language of Text: English

Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)

Evidence Code: PS-2663

Citation: IMT (page 1445)

HLSL Item No.: 451081

Notes:For a variant wording, see document PS 2664 (which was not entered as evidence).

Trial Issue

Extermination of the Jews (IMT, NMT 4, 9)

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PS-2663: From Hitler’s Reichstag speech, 30 January 1939: a new world war would mean the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe

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PS-2663: Hitler's speech of 30 January 1739 prophesying the "annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe as a result of the war.

VOELKISCHER BEOBACHTER, Munich Edition,
1 February 1939
Hitler speech to Reichstag of 30 January 1939 Once more I will assume the part of a prophet:
If the international Jewish financiers within and without Europe, succeeded in plunging the nations once more into a world war, then the result will be not the Bolshevisation of the world and thereby the victory of Jewry—but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe. * * *