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In the dark months after the defeat at Stalingrad in 1943, Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Party’s strident, virulently anti-Semitic propaganda minister, wrote in his diary that he had “devoted exhaustive study to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” despite the fact that some argued that “they were not suited to present-day propaganda.” After rereading them, he concluded that “we can use them very well,” since The Protocols were “as modern today as they were when published for the first time.” The same day, May 13, 1943, he met with Hitler, who told his propaganda minister that he thought they were “absolutely genuine.” He added that regardless of a Jew’s circumstances, whether it be in a ghetto or Wall Street, “they will always pursue the same aims and . . . use the same methods.” Why, he went on, were “there any Jews in the world order?”
ISBN
9781350185456
Publication Date
3-10-2022
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
City
London
Disciplines
European History | Holocaust and Genocide Studies | Jewish Studies | Military History | Other German Language and Literature | Other History | Political History | Public History | Social History | United States History
Recommended Citation
Crowe, David M. “Pathway to the Shoah: The Protocols, 'Jewish Bolshevism', Rosenberg, Goebbels, Ford, and Hitler.” In Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ and the Holocaust: A Prelude to Genocide, edited by Joanne John J. Michalczyk, Michael S. Bryant, and Susan A. Michalczyk . London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
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Bloomsbury Publishing
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European History Commons, Holocaust and Genocide Studies Commons, Jewish Studies Commons, Military History Commons, Other German Language and Literature Commons, Other History Commons, Political History Commons, Public History Commons, Social History Commons, United States History Commons
Comments
In John J. Michalczyk, Michael S. Bryant, and Susan A. Michalczyk (Eds.), Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ and the Holocaust: A Prelude to Genocide.