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February 29 - February 29, 2020
“Never in history has such ruination—physical and moral—been associated with the name of one man.”
“By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.”
stated unequivocally that there was no equality of races,
Furthermore, he outlined his belief that Jewish people had conducted an international conspiracy to control world finances and the press, to promote prostitution, and to invent both liberal democracy and Marxism. He, therefore, concluded that the Jewish people were preventing the Aryan nation from taking its rightful place as rulers of the world and that the struggle for world domination was between Aryans and Jews.
“I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature.”
Hitler immediately began systematic ethnic cleansing of the Polish population, in some cases eliminating entire Polish communities in order to establish racial purity. It was only the beginning of a brutal genocidal campaign that Hitler and his emissaries would wage over the next six years.
when asked what should be done with the Jews of Russia, Hitler responded, “exterminate them as partisans.”
On December 7, 1941, Japanese forces attacked the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. On December 8, 1941, in a speech in which he described the Japanese attack as “a day which will live in infamy,” American President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared war on the Empire of Japan. Hitler declared war on the United States on December 11, 1941, and hours after doing so, the United States declared war on Germany.
In addition to exterminating the Jews, the Nazis instituted a plan to reduce the population of their conquered territories by 30 million people.
over 60 million people, or 3% of the world’s population, died during World War II.
Hitler proved that monsters do exist, but sadly, they aren’t as obvious as how they are depicted in horror movies.