The first known document in which Adolf Hitler wrote about the 'irrevocable removal' of Jews has been bought by a Holocaust museum in Los Angeles. The 1919 diatribe charts his plans for their extermination a full 21 years before the massacres began in Russia and in death camps in occupied Poland.
The paper, known as the 'Gemlich Letter' (complete letter at link) were sent to Adolf Gemlich who was in charge of the post-World War One German army.
Dear Herr Gemlich,
The danger posed by Jewry for our people today finds expression in the undeniable aversion of wide sections of our people. The cause of this aversion is not to be found in a clear recognition of the consciously or unconsciously systematic and pernicious effect of the Jews as a totality upon our nation. Rather, it arises mostly from personal contact and from the personal impression, which the individual Jew leaves – almost always an unfavourable one. For this reason, anti-Semitism is too easily characterised as a mere emotional phenomenon. And yet this is incorrect. Anti-Semitism as a political movement may not and cannot be defined by emotional impulses, but by recognition of the facts. The facts are these: First, Jewry is absolutely a race and not a religious association. Even the Jews never designate themselves as Jewish Germans, Jewish Poles or Jewish Americans but always as German, Poles or American Jews. Jews have never yet adopted much more than the language of the foreign nations among whom they live. A German who is forced to make use of the French language in France, Italian in Italy, Chinese in China does not thereby become a Frenchman, Italian or Chinaman. It’s the same with the Jew who lives among us and is forced to make use of the German language. He does not thereby become a German. Neither does the Mosaic faith, so important for the survival of this race, settle the question of whether someone is a Jew or non-Jew. There is scarcely a race whose members belong exclusively to just one definite religion.
The value of the individual is no longer decided by his character or by the significance of his achievements for the totality but exclusively by the size of his fortune, by his money. The loftiness of a nation is no longer to be measured by the sum of its moral and spiritual powers, but rather by the wealth of its material possessions. (truthfully by all rights, what is said here is basically what has become of the world today, wouldn't you say?)
Writing about the 'Jewish Question' he describes Jews as being 'like a racial tuberculosis' and that there needs to be an 'elimination of the privileges of the Jews' and calls for an 'Aliens Law'.
The most chilling line, however, is a line in which he makes no apology and does not try to cover up his intentions when he writes: 'The ultimate objective of such legislation must, however, be the irrevocable removal of the Jews in general.' The letter has been bought by the Holocaust remembrance organisation for £100,000 and will go on display at the Museum of Tolerance . . . .(see complete story from Mail Online)
The Republic in Germany owes its birth not to the uniform national will of our people but the sly exploitation of a series of circumstances which found general expression in a deep, universal dissatisfaction. These circumstances however were independent of the form of the state and are still operative today. Indeed, more so now than before. Thus, a great portion of our people recognises that a changed state-form cannot in itself change our situation. For that it will take a rebirth of the moral and spiritual powers of the nation.
And this rebirth cannot be initiated by a state leadership of irresponsible majorities, influenced by certain party dogmas, an irresponsible press, or international phrases and slogans. It requires instead the ruthless installation of nationally minded leadership personalities with an inner sense of responsibility.
But these facts deny to the Republic the essential inner support of the nation’s spiritual forces. And thus today’s state leaders are compelled to seek support among those who draw the exclusive benefits of the new formation of German conditions, and who for this reason were the driving force behind the revolution – the Jews. Even though, as various statements of the leading personalities reveal, today’s leaders fully realised the dangers of Jewry, they (seeking their own advantage) accepted the readily proffered support of the Jews, and also returned the favour. And this pay-off consisted not only in every possible favouring of Jewry, but above all in the hindrance of the struggle of the betrayed people against its defrauders, that is in the repression of the anti-Semitic movement.
Respectfully
Adolf Hitler
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