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"And one other thing I wish to say on this day which perhaps is memorable
not only for us Germans: In my life I have often been a prophet, and most of
the time I have been laughed at. During the period of my struggle for power,
it was in the first instance the Jewish people that received with laughter my prophecies that some day I would take
over the leadership of the state and thereby of the whole people, and that I would among other things solve
also the Jewish problem. I believe that in the meantime that heinous laughter
of the Jews of Germany has been smothered in their throats. Today I want to
be a prophet once more: If international-finance Jewry inside and outside of Europe
should succeed once more in plunging nations into another world
war, the consequence will not be the Bolshevization of the earth and thereby
the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in
Europe."
Excerpt of a speech given by Adolph
Hitler at the beginning of the Holocaust.
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State of Michigan Curriculum Objective
for Middle School Social Studies
Strand I/Content Standard 4/Benchmark 3:
"Identify the responses of individuals to historic violations of human dignity involving discrimination, persecution and crimes against humanity."
