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Hitler’s Table Talk, 1941-1944, by Norman Cameron (Translator), R.H. Stevens (Translator), Hugh Trevor-Roper (Introduction). 2000

Holocaust Exceptionalism Upended. Hitler Never Envisioned the Global Extermination of All Jews, Not Even in the Distant Future

This book is revealing in a number of ways. I discuss some of these.

HOLOCAUST EXCEPTIONAL—FALSE. NO NAZI PLANS FOR THE EXTERMINATION OF JEWS BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES OF THE THIRD REICH

Holocaust-uniqueness advocates have insisted that the Nazis intended to exterminate ALL Jews, first in Europe and then in the rest of the world. This is supposed to justify the preeminence of the Jews’ Holocaust over all other genocides.

Hitler’s comments don’t support their contentions. Just two weeks before the Wannsee Conference, the Fuhrer said that the English must “settle that between themselves”, adding that: “It’s not our mission to settle the Jewish question in other people’s countries!” (p. 185).

For further evidence against Nazi geopolitical ambitions encompassing the whole world, see HITLER”S EMPIRE, by Mark Mazower. Read my review:

HOLOCAUST EXCEPTIONAL—FALSE. WHEREAS ALL JEWS HAD TO BE GONE FROM EUROPE, NOT ALL EUROPEAN JEWS NECESSARILY HAD TO BE DEAD

Originally, the Final Solution had called for the expulsion of Europe’s Jews. Then Nazism underwent cumulative radicalization, and Jews were subject to genocide. However, even then, the option for mass expulsion remained viable. Within days of Wannsee, Hitler spoke of Jews either leaving Europe or being exterminated (p. 235), or perhaps moving to Russia. (p. 260). Evidently, Hitler was still open to a Final Solution that would include the mass emigration of Europe’s remaining Jews. [Later, this became manifest in, for example, the proposed Jews for Trucks deal.]

HOLOCAUST EXCEPTIONAL—FALSE. NO NAZI VISION OF THE EVENTUAL EXTINCTION OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE

Hitler did NOT envision a JUDENREIN (Jewish-free) world, not even in the distant future. Four days after Wannsee, he wrote: “A good three hundred or four hundred years will go by before the Jews set foot again in Europe. They’ll return first of all as commercial travelers…” (p. 236).

Obviously, a successful Final Solution meant the elimination of Jews from Europe, not the extermination of all Jews on Planet Earth. Moreover, whatever the apocalyptic Nazi view of Jews and the desirability of their disappearance, even Hitler recognized the fact that Jews would still be around at least 300 to 400 years from now.

DO NOT BLAME CHRISTIANITY FOR THE HOLOCAUST

Much current thinking has attempted to blame Christianity for the Holocaust. Never mind the fact that Nazism had been a secularist ideology that had relied on secular arguments for the malevolence of the Jew.

Hitler’s endorsement of the Passion Play has been misrepresented as a blame-Jews-for-Crucifixion ploy. In actuality, Hitler’s motives had clearly been racist in nature: “There one sees in Pontius Pilate a Roman racially and intellectually so superior, that he stands out like a firm, clean rock in the middle of the whole muck and mire of Jewry. The preservation of our racial purity can be assured…not only against Jewish, but also against any and every racial infection.” (p. 563).

In other words, the Fuhrer was concerned with racial purity, and was not concerned with traditional Christian teachings about Jews and Deicide. This fact is also corroborated by Hitler’s pronouncement on Jesus Christ in his MEIN KAMPF as well as the mention of Jesus Christ in Julius Streicher’s DER GIFTPILZ. In both cases, Jesus Christ had been crucified by the Jews not because they had rejected Him as their Messiah, Savior, and God, but because He had exposed the Jews for their greed and love of money when He had cleansed the temple.

NOT ONLY JEWS WERE GERMANY’S RACIAL ENEMIES. POLES WERE TOO

Hitler opined that all successful Poles are of German descent (p. 405), yet excessively-broad attempts to re-Germanize such Poles ran the risk of contaminating German blood with Slavic blood (p. 473). This, too, is corroborated in MEIN KAMPF.

PRELUDE TO GENOCIDE: POLES AND OTHER SLAVS (AND NOT ONLY JEWS) WERE DELEGITIMIZED EVEN IN A BIOLOGICAL SENSE.

Adolf Hitler did not see the Slavs themselves as having any more inherent right to live than the Jews: “Jodl is quite right when he says that notices in the Ukrainian language `Beware of the Trains’ are superfluous; what on earth does it matter if one or two more locals get run over by the trains?” (p. 589).

TO THE LEFTISTS: DO NOT ENLIST HITLER AS AN OPPONENT OF WOMEN’S ADVANCEMENT

Some modern feminists have used Hitler’s presumed views on women as a shaming weapon against those who disagree with the radical feminist agenda. Interestingly, although Hitler did oppose women in the rough-and-tumble worlds of combat and politics, he actually went far beyond KUCHEN KINDER KIRCHE: “It has therefore often been said that we are a party of misogynists, who regarded a women only as a machine for making children, or else as a plaything. That’s far from being the case.” (p. 252).

Hitler praised creative women in non-traditional roles, notably interior-decorator Frau Troost and film-maker Leni Riefenstahl. Otherwise, the Fuhrer commented: “Of primary importance were the measures we took to ensure a living wage for working women…By insisting that they receive a regular wage in accordance with their qualifications–instead of the sort of pocket-money they formerly received–we have delivered them from the doleful necessity of being dependent on an AMI for their existence.” (pp. 494-495).

HITLER’S CLOSET—AND NOT PUBLIC–ANTI-CHRISTIANITY

Perhaps surprisingly, Hitler’s diatribes against Christianity are more common in this volume than those against Jews. In fact, his scurrilous attacks are reminiscent of those of prominent infidels such as Voltaire and Paine. “What is this God who takes pleasure only in seeing men grovel before Him?” (p. 143). “While we’re on this subject, let’s add that, even amongst those who claim to be good Catholics, very few really believe in this humbug. Only old women, who have given up everything because life has already withdrawn from them, go regularly to church.” (p. 342). “The catastrophe, for us, is that of being tied to a religion that rebels against all the joys of the senses.” (p. 142). “A negro baby who has the misfortune to die before a missionary gets his clutches on him, goes to Hell!” (p. 69). “And what nonsense it is to aspire to a Heaven to which, according to the Church’s own teaching, only those have entry who have made a complete failure of life on earth!” (p. 419). “What hasn’t the Church discovered as a source of revenue, in the course of these fifteen hundred years?” (p. 90). “One cannot succeed in conceiving how much cruelty, ignominy and falsehood the intrusion of Christianity has spelt for this world of ours.” (p. 288). “Christianity is the worst of the regressions that mankind can every have undergone…” (p. 322). “Pure Christianity–the Christianity of the catacombs–is concerned with translating the Christian doctrine into facts. It leads quite simply to the annihilation of mankind. It is merely wholehearted Bolshevism, under a tinsel of metaphysics.” (p. 146). “Our epoch will certainly see the end of the disease of Christianity.” (p. 343).

Hitler even said: “Here Christianity sets the example. What could be more fanatical, more exclusive and more intolerant than this religion which bases everything on the love of the one and only God whom it reveals?” (p. 397).

WAITING FOR THE APPROPRIATE TIME TO DESTROY CHRISTIANITY

Timing was everything. For now, Hitler had to pretend to be friendly towards Christianity. Open opposition to Christianity would have to await the end of the war. (e. g., p. 411, 555).

HITLER THE SECULARIST, NOT HITLER THE NEO-PAGAN

The Fuhrer opposed the revival of Wotan (Odin, Woden) worship. (p. 61). It is easy to see that Hitler was a consummate rationalist: “Religion is in perpetual conflict with the spirit of free research…” (p. 83). “But there will never be any possibility of National Socialism’s setting out to ape religion by establishing a form of worship. Its one ambition must be scientifically to construct a doctrine that is nothing more than a homage to reason.” (p. 39).

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A POTENTIAL CAUTION ABOUT THIS BOOK

There are accusations of this book having mistranslations. Until we see a detailed, alternative translation that systematically shows which sentences of this present version are substantively (as opposed to trivially) incorrect, it behooves the reader to treat such claims with a grain of salt. In addition, everything that Hitler says in this work can be verified from other sources, a few of which I have already cited.