[–] the_sovereign ago
From Mein Kampf:
"the nationalization of our masses will succeed only when, aside from all the positive struggle for the soul of our people, their international poisoners are exterminated", and he suggested that, "If at the beginning of the war and during the war twelve or fifteen thousand of these Hebrew corrupters of the nation had been subjected to poison gas, such as had to be endured in the field by hundreds of thousands of our very best German workers of all classes and professions, then the sacrifice of millions at the front would not have been in vain."
[–] MasivGam3 ago
False.
In the former case the German original says "ausgerottet", which means "got rid of" or, literally, "uprooted", when speaking about the political adversaries. He does not necessarily call for physical extermination, a murder, of anybody, far less for extermination of peoples. Poor English translation in combination with confirmation bias is playing tricks with you. Read any Communist document of the period, you will see exactly the same wording. It was the common way to speak in that much harsher environment of the time.
As of the latter, remember that we hear speaking a man who fought for his country in the trenches of the WWI, was subjected to poison gas, saw his comrades dying horrible death and went himself temporarily blind. While certain people profiteered from the same war. He is a bitter man in a different century. So he says what he thinks. He thinks that if a bunch of "pump and dump" fat cat war profiteers had died in the trenches instead of his starry eyed comrades the world would be a better place. Can't really blame him for this. As of him singling out Jewish profiteers in particular - I have always believed that his obsession with Jews was morbid and did him more harm than it helped him. Still, Antisemitism back then was as popular in the West as Political Correctness is now, so can't really blame him for that either. He didn't say anything millions of other Europeans weren't saying every day.
[–] the_sovereign ago
You know what. I would buy your argument if the Nazis didn't actually carry out the systematic extermination of all Jews. And the Communists killed just as many people too.