Hitler accompanied his military confrontation with the Western powers with an escalation of his anti-Semitic rhetoric, framing the war as a contest between the satiated and the deprived nations. He asserted that the aim of the “Jewish-capitalist world enemy” was to “destroy Germany” and “the German people.” This was because the Third Reich represented a youthful, dynamic, and popular challenge to the international ruling elite, which he understood in national and generational rather than in class terms.
