JWST 240 Chapter Notes - Chapter reading: Beer Hall Putsch, Mein Kampf, Mongrel
Document Summary
The mass murder of the jews was the consummation of. Not until hitler"s accession to power in germany and his domination over europe had the abstract idea of the final solution became concrete and a visible reality. Nor had anti-semitism had ever before been so obviously a product of a system of beliefs. Hitler"s ideas about the jews were the starting place for the elaboration of a monstrous racial ideology that would justify mass murder. Only hitler"s followers took his ideas about jews serious, his opponents through his ideas were too preposterous for serious consideration, and too irrational and lunatic to merit analysis and rebuttal. Today, looking at hitler"s photographs it seems easy to understand how he could have been underestimated. Hitler"s ideas about the jews were are the center of his mental world, they shaped his world view and his political ambitions, forming his ideology for the core of the national socialist doctrine.
