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sures his readers. The World War found him “overwhelmed with stormy enthusiasm. I sank to my knees and thanked heaven out of the fullness of my heart that it had granted me the good fortune to live at this time …”
Naturally Hitler does not admit that Germany was beaten fairly. “ … the Jewish financial press and the Jewish Marxist press systematically fomented hatred against Germany until one state after another abandoned its neutrality, betraying the real interests of its people, and entered the World War coalition.” The world knows that it was the accumulation of economic, political and military rivalries and the violation of Belgian neutrality that drove England into the war. It knows also that it was America’s entry into the war, and not the influence of world Jewry that turned the tables on the Germans in 1919. But to Hitler history is a poor thing if it cannot be twisted to suit his purposes.
To justify his Anschluss claims, for instance, Hitler accuses the House of Hapsburg of fostering Czechian influences in the Dual Monarchy at the expense of the German population and calls Francis Ferdinand a patron of the Austrian Slavs. The enthusiasm with which the Hungarians, the Czechs and the Slavs proclaimed their independence from Austria might be cited as proof against him, if proof were needed. He insists that “France is the permanent and inexorable enemy of the German nation; that the key to her foreign policy will always be her desire to possess the Rhine frontier and to secure that river for herself by keeping Germany broken and in ruins.” “It is only in France that there is intimate agreement between the intentions of the stock exchange as represented by the Jews and the desires of the nation’s statesmen who are chauvinistic by nature. This identity constitutes an immense danger for Germany and it is the reason why France is by far the most terrible enemy of Germany …”
“That Power,” Hitler concludes his attack on France, “is our natural ally which with us resents as intolerable the domination of the French on the continent. No effort to unite with such a power should be too great, no sacrifice too heavy, if it will help
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