- Headline
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Hitler Blames Jews For Collapse Of Germany At Close Of World War
- Sub-Headline
- Says Wilson Was Great American and Apostle of National Morality, but His 14 Points Contributed to Collapse
- Publication Date
- Wednesday, November 9, 1938
- Historical Event
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Anti-Jewish Riots Convulse German Reich (Kristallnacht)
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- Page Section and Number
- 1
- Author/Byline
- AP
- Article Text
- Munich, Nov. 8.—(AP)—Chancellor Adolf Hitler, in a seventy-flve-minute speech on the fifteenth anniversary of his bloodily repulsed Munich beer cellar putsch, tonight bitterly blamed Jews for Germany's collapse at the end of the war.
The chancellor's words coincided with a sharp German press attack and scattered nazi reprisals against Jews because of the shooting yesterday of the German legation secretary in Paris by a young Polish Jew. Hitler himself did not mention the incident.
The Fuehrer blamed the Jews for German post-war inflation, which he called "one of the greatest of Jewish swindles."
Hitler described President Woodrow Wilson as "a great American and apostle of national morality," whose fourteen points, which while not carried out, contributed to the German collapse.
Hitler said the German collapse would have been averted "if destiny had put me in the place which I am holding now."
"There would have been only one collapse," in that event, he added, "that of wicked and destructive political parties." - History Unfolded Contributor
- Jennifer G.
- Location of Research
- Staunton Public Library
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Bibliography
Gilbert, Martin. Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction. New York: HarperCollins, 2006.
Pehle, Walter H., ed. November 1938: From "Reichskristallnacht" to Genocide. New York: Berg, 1991.
Read, Anthony. Kristallnacht: The Nazi Night of Terror. New York: Times Books, 1989.
Schwab, Gerald. The Day the Holocaust Began: The Odyssey of Herschel Grynszpan. New York: Praeger, 1990.
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