30 January 1939 Reichstag speech

Hitler addressing the Reichstag
Hitler at the podium

On 30 January 1939, Nazi German dictator Adolf Hitler gave a speech in the Kroll Opera House to the Reichstag delegates, which is best known for the prediction he made that "the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe" would ensue if another world war were to occur.[1]

Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels helped write the speech,[2] which was delivered on the sixth anniversary of Hitler's seizure of power in 1933.[3] The speech lasted two[4] or two-and-a-half hours. It dealt with both the foreign and domestic policies of the Nazi government.[5]

  1. ^ Wodak & Richardson 2013, p. 56.
  2. ^ Thacker 2010, p. 205.
  3. ^ Musolff 2013, p. 56.
  4. ^ Somerville 2012, p. 131.
  5. ^ Bauer 1994, p. 35.

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