ABSTRACT

This chapter focuses on Hitler's letter to a Herr Gemlich, who had sought his views on the Jewish Question. It talks about Hitler's views on Anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism as a political movement may not and cannot be defined by emotional impulses, but by recognition of the facts. Jewry is absolutely a race and not a religious association and even the Jews never designate themselves as Jewish Germans, Jewish Poles, or Jewish Americans but always as German, Polish, or American Jews. Jews have never yet adopted much more than the language of the foreign nations among whom they live. If the ethos of the Jews is revealed in the purely material realm, it is even clearer in their thinking and striving. Finally, Hitler concludes an anti-Semitism based on reason, however, must lead to systematic legal combating and elimination of the privileges of the Jews that which distinguishes the Jews from the other aliens who live among them.