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monopoly, exploitation and the rule of gold. Although we acknowledge that the Nazis support hatred of and struggle against the Jews - "antisemitism" - their hostility toward them may be regarded as of the ordinary kind, since they never ceased dealing with them commercially even in the most trivial things, such as spools, handkerchiefs and the like. The Nazis were not raised to hate the Jews; rather, the Jews were the ones who compelled them to it.

Adolf Hitler and the Jews

Hitler occupied himself with the Jewish question for a long time while he was in Vienna. He read all the publications of the advocates of combating the Jews in Eastern Europe and personally watched and examined their circumstances. At first he did not believe the extravagant accusations directed at the Jews. He did not believe or imagine that the Jew, who wanted to consider himself part of the people among whom he lived, was in reality a frightening danger. Hitler continued his observations and came to believe what he had not believed and to see what he had not imagined. He felt that the Jewish movement in Vienna was overwhelming the national spirit. This Jewish movement was in fact stronger there than in Berlin and Munich: he saw whole districts bearing a purely Jewish stamp and filled with eastern Jews wearing caftans. It was at this time that