I have very often in my lifetime been a prophet and have been mostly derided. Hitler claimed that the Jews were trying to incite "millions among the masses of people into a conflict that is utterly senseless for them and serves only Jewish interests". He asserted there had to be an end to the misconception that "the good Lord had meant the Jewish nation to live off the body and productive work of other nations", or else the Jews would "succumb to a crisis of unimaginable severity". Hitler accused Jews of having "nothing of their own, except for political and sanitary diseases" and being parasites on the German nation, turning Germans into "beggars in their own country". He said that it was time to "wrestle the Jewish world enemy to the ground", and that the German government was completely determined "to get rid of these people". In a long rant against Jews, Hitler first mocked them, remarking at "how the whole democratic world oozing with sympathy for the poor tormented Jewish People remains hard-hearted when it comes to helping these supposedly most valuable members of the human race". He complained that there was "enough space for settlement" in the world for German Jews to go, and contended that Europe could "not become pacified before the Jewish question has been settled". Hitler ridiculed "German businessmen devoid of any conscience" who felt sympathy for Jews. Discussions continued between Göring and George Rublee, director of the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees. Jews Īlthough the Évian Conference in July 1938 had failed to open other countries to Jewish emigrants, the Nazis still attempted to hasten the emigration of Jews from Germany. German history professor Longerich wrote that demanding "living space, while simultaneously stressing Germany’s commitment to peace, soon became part of the standard repertoire of German propaganda".
He complained that Germany was prevented from expanding by "the continuing blindness of the former victor powers". For the first time since Munich, Hitler hinted at further expansion, stating "how important the expansion of our people’s living space ( Lebensraum) was in order permanently to secure their food supplies", as Germany currently had "to export in order to buy food". Referencing "a serious blow to the prestige of the Reich" and an "intolerable provocation", Hitler claimed that the Sudetenland had been secured by German determination and willingness to resort to war, rather than by diplomacy. Hitler discussed the Munich crisis and admitted that he had planned a military invasion after the May Crisis in the event that Czechoslovakia did not capitulate to his demand to surrender the Sudetenland by 2 October 1938.
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