The idea derived from the fact — not a secret — that his father, Alois Hitler, was illegitimate. According to testimony given by Hans Frank at the Nuremberg Trials, in , he had heard from Hitler himself in about this Jewish ancestry. Nevertheless, no evidence has ever been found to support this claim, nor is there any proof that Leopold Frankenberger even existed.
The medication caused her excruciating pain, but did not extend her life. After her death, he actually wrote to Dr. Bloch thanking him for his devoted care. Three decades later, in post-Anschluss Austria in , when Bloch wrote to the chancellor asking for help, Hitler arranged for him to be spared the harsh measures being taken against Jews until he could make arrangements to emigrate to the United States, where he died in Could they understand cause-and-effect and cost-and-benefit?
So clearly he was politically rational, or he was means-ends rational. Whether he could see the world in an entirely rational way—there I would say no.
You can create this fictional world in which you live, and which guides you and which allows you to move forward. In fact, it can even be a source of your success. They were mainly thinking about the future revolution, which would be possible once the war got started. The huge Wehrmacht [German army] makes sense as an instrument to destroy other armies.
The SS makes sense as an instrument to destroy other states. He built up this new capacity to impose a racial worldview on other countries. I mean, what happened to German Jews was dreadful, but German Jews were not actually killed in significant numbers in prewar Germany.
The total is a couple hundred. Jews could only really be killed once Hitler got himself out of the box of Germany and used this German racial power that he created over the six years to wipe out other states. Sure, there was lots of anti-Semitism in, for example, Vienna, but the Jews of Vienna were murdered in Belarus. Why is that? To carry out mass killing, it had to first create this zone of anarchy out in the east and then physically take the Jews and send them out there.
Delman: You mention that Nazi Germany was not the only anti-Semitic regime in power at the time—Poland, Hungary, and Romania were all governed by anti-Semitic regimes. Snyder: So in the Nazi case, you have a leader who is much more radical than his population, right? In Poland, you have something like the opposite situation. So everyone was stuck where they were. The Poles are thinking in terms of states. The Nazis had this ecological vision, this anarchic vision, which the Polish just did not have, and it was not very widespread in the Polish population either.
And you can see this precisely on the question of Israel, because the Nazis are against Israel on the grounds that it will become some kind of center of Jewish world power, whereas the Poles are enthusiastically in favor of Israel because they think that building states is a perfectly normal thing to do. Has the world really moved that far from believing that Jews, or Jewish entities, control the world? And what I worry about is that we are to some extent repeating this.
He developed his political ideas in Vienna, a city with a large Jewish community, where he lived from to In those days, Vienna had a mayor who was very anti-Jewish, and hatred of Jews was very common in the city.
At the end of the war he, and many other German soldiers like him, could not get over the defeat of the German Empire. The German army command spread the myth that the army had not lost the war on the battlefield, but because they had been betrayed. Dina Kraft Feb. Get email notification for articles from Dina Kraft Follow.
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