Skulle Adolf Hitler vara politiskt korrekt om han levat idag?

Once, as I was strolling through the Inner City, I suddenly encountered an apparition in a black caftan and black hair locks. Is this a Jew? was my first thought. For, to be sure, they had not looked like that in Linz. I observed the man furtively and cautiously, but the longer I stared at this foreign face, scrutinizing feature for feature, the more my first question assumed a new form: Is this a German?

As always in such cases, I now began to try to relieve my doubts by books. For a few hellers I bought the first antisemitic pamphlets of my life. Unfortunately, they all proceeded from the supposition that in principle the reader knew or even understood the Jewish question to a certain degree. Besides, the tone for the most part was such that doubts again arose in me, due in part to the dull and amazingly unscientific arguments favoring the thesis.

I relapsed for weeks at a time, once even for months. The whole thing seemed to me so monstrous, the accusations so boundless, that, tormented by the fear of doing injustice, I again became anxious and uncertain.

Yet I could no longer very well doubt that the objects of my study were not Germans of a special religion, but a people in themselves; for since I had begun to concern myself with this question and to take cognizance of the Jews, Vienna appeared to me in a different light than before. Wherever I went, I began to see Jews, and the more I saw, the more sharply they became distinguished in my eyes from the rest of humanity. Particularly the Inner City and the districts north of the Danube Canal swarmed with a people which even outwardly had lost all resemblance to Germans.

A precondition for even the willingness of the Nazi regime to devote money and resources to seeking allies among Arabs and Muslims was an interpretation and clarification of its own ideology in ways that legitimated political appeals to people who were not German, part of Christian Europe (the Turks) or part of Europe at all–Arabs, Persians and Indians or even part of Western civilization. In its propaganda in Europe, the Nazi regime claimed it was defending Western civilization against the Jews, Bolsheviks and the plutocrats. It’s propaganda to the Middle East displayed another ubiquitous feature of Nazi ideology during World War II and the Holocaust, namely its ability to combine fanatical devotion to a core belief–hatred of the Jews–with great flexibility in speaking to different audiences. The arabic language broadcasts of radio of the racial state, presumably the bastian of provincial, racist particularism, presented Nazi Germany instead as a friend of the Arabs and of Islam united by shared values and shared hatred of the Bolshevik, the British, the Americans and above all the Jews.

In its propaganda in Europe, the Nazi regime claimed it was defending Western civilization against the Jews, Bolsheviks and the plutocrats.

presented Nazi Germany instead as a friend of the Arabs and of Islam united by shared values and shared hatred of the Bolshevik, the British, the Americans and above all the Jews.