The War Against the Jews (der jüdische Krieg)
The Nazis really no-kidding actually believed that the Jews ran the world and wanted to destroy Germany. They believed that Jews controlled not only the Bolsheviks to the east but the capitalists to the west. The treatment of the Jews within Germany was as much a part of the Nazi plan for aggressive war as was the building of armaments and the conscription of manpower.
Understanding the strategic framing of World War II from the German perspective of Hitler and Goebbels is crucial to realizing the war was not about land, but rather about racial ideology - a “Jewish War” (der jüdische Krieg). Had the Jews not been part of the equation, Hitler argued, the World Wars wouldn’t have taken place. Hence the need to exterminate the Jews from all of continental Europe. The War against the Jews constituted the backbone of Hitler's domestic and foreign policies.
Once in power, the Nazis pursued their two primary goals — German expansion to the East and the physical destruction of the Jews — with coherent intensity. During the war, many were aware that something horrible was happening to the Jews of Europe, though it was not until after the war that the public finally became aware of the full extent of the Holocaust.
The anti-Bolshevik motif was central to the Nazi Weltanschauung ('world view'). The movement created an environment in which Communists, together with Jews, formed the main target of Nazi propaganda and violence. Russia figured not only as the centre of world Communism, but also as the repository of international Jewry.
During World War II, Nazi propagandists purposefully linked the Jews with Germany’s military foes. They created a myth of evil, string-pulling Jews manipulating the leaders of the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union. Nazi propaganda aimed to unmask foreign Jewish conspirators who were operating behind the scenes. The Jews were depicted as the dark force behind the enemy powers of Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union.
Demonizing the enemy is an effective technique for wartime propaganda. Hitler recognized this technique during World War I. Although most wartime propaganda demonized the political and military leaders of enemy countries, the Nazis went further. They considered all Jews — men, women, and even children — to be a deadly threat to the German people.
In November 1937 'The Eternal Jew' exhibition opened in Munich, and ran until 31 January 1938, claiming to show the 'typical outward features' of Jews and to demonstrate their allegedly Middle Eastern and Asiatic characteristics. The exhibition also attempted to 'expose' a world-wide 'Jewish-Bolshevik' conspiracy. The Secret Police reports claimed that it helped to promote a sharp rise in anti-Semitic feelings, and in some cases violence against the Jewish community.
On posters and in speeches, newsreels, and radio programs, Nazis demonized and dehumanized European Jews. They depicted European Jews as carriers of deadly diseases such as typhus to justify segregating them in ghettos. They identified European Jews as a violent threat, calling them bandits and terrorists. Nazi propaganda held the Jews responsible for causing World War II, for which they would have to pay. All Jews, Hitler’s propagandists proclaimed, were accomplices in an international plot to enslave the non-Jewish world. Using such false claims, Nazi propaganda presented its war against Jews as a struggle between good and evil.
Aryanism was birthed by a Frenchman, Arthur de Gobineau (1816-1882), the father of racial pessimism and supremacy theories. To Gobineau and his allies, race was what class struggle was to Karl Marx: The key to unlocking all mysteries of society and history. Jeffrey Herf wrote: "The Jews are guilty of everything. This sentence sums up the paranoid fantasy that was the source of the Holocaust and the Second World War. For the Nazi leadership and many millions of its followers, there were not two distinct events, World War II on the one hand and the Final Solution on the other. Rather, the war against the Jews was in their minds synonymous with World War II - that is, the war against the leading powers of the anti-Hitler coalition, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States. These were accomplices and puppets of the Jewish wire pullers operating behind the scenes, according to the Nazis. In private conversations and in speeches broadcast to millions, they asserted that Jewry was the driving force of World War II. They attributed seemingly unlimited autonomy, subjectivity, and power to the Jews, while denying these attributes to the political leaders of the most powerful nations in the world at that time, notably Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin."
The Nazi leadership translated radical antisemitism into a narrative of an innocent, besieged Germany striking back at an "international Jewry" it accused of starting and prolonging World War II forms the subject of this study. In the Nazis' paranoid conspiracy theory "Jewry" comprised powers behind the scenes in London, Moscow, and Washington. In response to the "war of extermination" that Jewry had supposedly launched against Germany, the Nazi leadership publicly threatened to "exterminate" and "annihilate" the Jews as an act of justified retaliation. In their minds and in their policy, the ideological connection between the "Final Solution" and the Second World War was inherent, rather than contingent. A centuries-old hatred led to mass murder between 1941 and 1945.
Robert Ley, head of the German Labor Front, was the nominal author of the ghost-written 1942 pamphlet "Roosevelt Betrays America!". "We National Socialists know that every action is in some way racially determined. There is no doubt that on the one side of this struggle stand absolutely unified peoples and nations, while on the other side there are various nationalities led by the Jews, the prototype of racial decay..... They sought the war, they provoked and maneuvered to get it. They pressed the young peoples of Germany, Italy, and Japan wherever they could. They wanted war, a real world war — and now they have it. Not only two worlds of ideas are at war here, but the whole world. This war reaches every corner of the world. The plutocrats are on the line; they have to defend themselves. The Jews and their hired lackeys, Churchill and Roosevelt, must themselves step into action. The field is cleared, and now we face our real enemy, the men behind the scenes who over the decades plunged the world into disorder, war, and revolution, but whose own valuable capitalist lives were naturally too valuable to sacrifice in war....
"One can even say that the Jew rules more fully, ruthlessly, and completely in New York than in London.... since the Jews in the USA control all elements of public opinion such as the press, publishing, radio, parties, clubs and so on, one can affirm that the Jews control public opinion in North America. The Jews control: 98% of the financial markets 99% of the banking industry 69% of the food industry 100% of the theater and movie industry 99% of the press 82% of the radio, telephone, and telegraph industries 75% of the transportation industries 85% of real estate....
"Roosevelt, a plutocratic son, is a confidante of American Jews and Freemasons. The catastrophic economic situation in 1932-1933 offered the Jews the opportunity to take over both the industrialists and the workers. Roosevelt was put to work with his plan of salvation. Labor and management became involuntary captives of the “New Deal,” and helped bring about its failure. Foreign policy was the only way out. The Jews were out for revenge against Greater Germany. Once again, hate propaganda, war hysteria, and armaments.... "The Detroit Jewish Chronicle, a Jewish newspaper, reported in 1935 that Roosevelt was descended from the Spanish Jew Rossocampo. In 1939 Adolf Schmalix concluded in his “Are the Roosevelts Jewish?” that Roosevelt is the descendant of a Dutch family whose earliest member is the farmer Claes Martensen, who was named after his farm, called “Het Roosevelt.” On the other hand, it is clear that the Roosevelts took on Jewish blood through marriage once in the United States. Schmalix proves that as early as the second generation on American soil (from the 17th to the 18th Century), a Jewess Sarah Salomons joined the Roosevelt family. The mother of President Roosevelt was Sarah Delano, who Schmalix maintains was a descendant of the Italian or Spanish Jewish family Delano (Dillan, Delan, or Dillano)....
"Jewry has had two centers in recent decades: New York and Moscow, London, Paris, Prague, Warsaw, Geneva, and other Jewish centers were of secondary importance. In Moscow the Jew ruled with GPU methods: murder and the most blatant exploitation. In New York, he used his financial strength. To win over America for the Jewish war against Germany, Jewry infiltrated plutocratic circles. They believed that they had finished off Europe for good through the Treaty of Versailles, since they had defeated Germany, the heart and soul of the continent, once and for all."
On 18 February 1943 Joseph Goebbels delivered a long speech to a large, but carefully selected audience in Berlin. The battle of Stalingrad had ended, and the true seriousness of the war was evident to all. "The goal of Bolshevism is Jewish world revolution. They want to bring chaos to the Reich and Europe, using the resulting hopelessness and desperation to establish their international, Bolshevist-concealed capitalist tyranny.... A Bolshevization of the Reich would mean the liquidation of our entire intelligentsia and leadership, and the descent of our workers into Bolshevist-Jewish slavery.... Behind the oncoming Soviet divisions we see the Jewish liquidation commandos, and behind them terror, the specter of mass starvation and complete anarchy.
"International Jewry is the devilish ferment of decomposition that finds cynical satisfaction in plunging the world into the deepest chaos and destroying ancient cultures that it played no role in building. We also know our historic responsibility. Two thousand years of Western civilization are in danger.... Only the German Reich and its allies are in the position to resist this danger. The European nations, including England, believe that they are strong enough to resist effectively the Bolshevization of Europe, should it come to that. This belief is childish and not even worth refuting. If the strongest military force in the world is not able to break the threat of Bolshevism, who else could do it?...
"Jewry has so deeply infected the Anglo-Saxon states both spiritually and politically that they are no longer have the ability to see the danger. It conceals itself as Bolshevism in the Soviet Union, and plutocratic-capitalism in the Anglo-Saxon states. The Jewish race is an expert at mimicry.... Our insight into the matter led us to the early realization that cooperation between international plutocracy and international Bolshevism was not a contradiction, but rather a sign of deep commonalities.... Jewry once again reveals itself as the incarnation of evil, as the plastic demon of decay and the bearer of an international culture-destroying chaos. This explains, by the way, our consistent Jewish policies. We see Jewry as a direct threat to every nation....
"Total war is the demand of the hour.... Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even imagine today?"
On May 5, 1943, the party's Reich Propaganda Directory sent a directive, “The Jewish Question as a Domestic and Foreign Policy Weapon” : “For this war is a war of Jews against Germany and its allies. Just as the domestic struggle ended with the anti-Semitic revolution in Germany so this war must end with an anti-Semitic world revolution.... In Germany, we made the whole nation anti-Semitic. We did so by repeatedly pointing our finger at the Jews, even as they tried to camouflage themselves. Again and again, we tore the masks from their faces. Every German must know that everything he or she must endure - the discomforts, restrictions, extra hours at work, bloody terror toward women and children, and the bloody losses on the field of battle - is to be tracked back to the Jews. In every meeting, the following points must be treated: That the international Jew wanted this war, occupies the most important economic positions among the all the enemy peoples and countries, and ruthlessly uses his power to drive the peoples in to war....
"the Jews unleashed this war as a final attempt to assert their power in the world and to strike down those who had recognized them and their attentions; that this war will end with anti-Semitic world revolution and with the extermination of Jewry throughout the world, both of which are the precondition for an enduring peace. The core sentence is this statement: The Jews are guilty of everything!"
In the final hours of his life, the Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler hastily dictated a Political Testament that he left for the German people. The document was little different from many speeches and articles he had written before. After causing the destruction of huge areas of Europe, demanding the sacrifice of millions of lives in pursuit of his political ambitions, and ordering the murder of millions of others, Hitler showed no remorse. Instead, he blamed the Jews for the war he himself had started.
"It is untrue that I or anyone else in Germany wanted the war in 1939. It was desired and instigated exclusively by those international statesmen who were either of Jewish descent or worked for Jewish interests. I have made too many offers for the control and limitation of armaments, which posterity will not for all time be able to disregard for the responsibility for the outbreak of this war to be laid on me. I have further never wished that after the first fatal world war a second against England, or even against America, should break out. ... the leading circles in English politics wanted the war, partly on account of the business hoped for and partly under influence of propaganda organized by international Jewry. if the nations of Europe are again to be regarded as mere shares to be bought and sold by these international conspirators in money and finance, then that race, Jewry, which is the real criminal of this murderous struggle, will be saddled with the responsibility. I further left no one in doubt that this time not only would millions of children of Europe's Aryan peoples die of hunger, not only would millions of grown men suffer death, and not only hundreds of thousands of women and children be burnt and bombed to death in the towns, without the real criminal having to atone for this guilt, even if by more humane means." [Political testament' of Adolf Hitler (headed `Mein politisches Testament', 10pp ts), dated 29th April 1945 at Berlin, bearing the signatures of Hitler]
In Hitler’s "Birthday Greeting To The President”, 31 January 1942, Hitler asserted that the “grand colonial power” of Germany received unwarranted attacks in the Great War, blaming Roosevelt specifically for every grievance to affect German citizens since 1918. “We shall see who wins this war,” Hitler said last night. “Those who have nothing to lose and everything to gain, or those who have everything to lose and nothing to gain.”
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