Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Hitler Speech 30.1.42

German propaganda truly did claim that the allies were embarked on the physical extermination of the German people. Hitler's speech repeated that claim, and thus did use "ausrottung" in the sense of physical extermination. I discussed the sources that fed this propaganda here, and Hitler's subsequent use of the theme can be seen here.

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