And although his experiences in Vienna might have deepened this feeling, they certainly did not give birth to it.”57 “Then,” says Hitler, “I came to Vienna.” Preoccupied by the abundance of my impressions… oppressed by the hardship of my own lot, I gained at first no insight into the inner stratification of the people in this gigantic city. Notwithstanding that Vienna in those days counted nearly two hundred thousand Jews among its two million inhabitants, I did not see them… The Jew was still characterized for me by nothing but his religion, and therefore on grounds of human tolerance I
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