Editing Holocaust denial (section)

====Hitler in 1922====
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In 1922, Hitler told a journalist that: 

{{cquote|Once I really am in power, my first and foremost task will be the annihilation of the Jews. As soon as I have the power to do so, I will have gallows built in rows &mdash; at the Marienplatz in Munich, for example &mdash; as many as traffic allows.

Then the Jews will be hanged indiscriminately, and they will remain hanging until they stink; they will hang there as long as the principles of hygiene permit. As soon as they have been untied, the next batch will be strung up, and so on down the line, until the last Jew in Munich has been exterminated. Other cities will follow suit, precisely in this fashion, until all Germany has been completely cleansed of Jews.}}

::&mdash; Adolf Hitler, 1922. (Josef Hell, "Aufzeichnung," 1922, ZS 640, p. 5, Institut fuer Zeitgeschichte.<ref>[http://www.ifz-muenchen.de/archiv/zs/zs-0640.pdf Josef Hell, "Aufzeichnung," 1922, ZS 640, p. 5, Institute fuer Zeitgeschichte]. English ranslation at [http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/h/hitler-adolf/hitler-1922.html The Nizkor Project: My first and foremost task…]</ref>)

(Caveat #2: While some serious historians see this as evidence that Hitler had planned the Holocaust long before coming to power, other serious historians don't believe that any plan for the Holocaust existed so early, and see Hitler's words as simply an expression of his virulent anti-Semitism rather than a sign that he had any concrete plans at that date.)

In a speech to the Reichstag on 30 January 1939, he made his intentions clear with this quote, which was even used in the 1940 Nazi propaganda film "''Der ewige Jude''" ''(The Eternal Jew)'':

{{cquote|…if the international Jewish financiers in and outside Europe should succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world war, then the result will not be the Bolshevizing of the earth, and thus the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe!<ref>[http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/holoprelude/jewishquestion.html Hitler Speaks to the Reichstag on the Jewish Question: Selected Extracts from Adolf Hitler's ''The Jewish Question'' speech, delivered before the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany - January 30, 1939] Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team</ref><ref>[http://youtu.be/yNk_osZWScw Ending of the film ''The Eternal Jew''], including Hitler's ''The Jewish Question'' speech</ref>}}

Note that this is one of the best examples of how whacked-out Hitler had become, as he was conflating international [[capitalism]] and [[Soviet]] [[Bolshevism]] as ''the exact same thing''. 

Hitler also gave {{wpl|The Obersalzberg Speech|'''The Obersalzberg Speech'''}} in August 1939, a week before the invasion of Poland, and expressed intentions of mass murdering the Polish population.

On 18 December 1941, Himmler asked Hitler, "What to do with the Jews of Russia?", to which Hitler replied, "''als Partisanen auszurotten''" ("exterminate them as partisans"). This remark is probably as close as historians will ever get to a definitive order from Hitler for the Holocaust.<ref>''Rethinking the Holocaust'' by Yehuda Bauer (2000). Yale University Press. ISBN 0300082568.</ref><ref>[http://www.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi/people/i/ftp.cgi?people/i/irving.david/libel.suit/judgment-06.03 Shofar FTP Archive File]</ref><ref>[http://dictionary.reverso.net/german-english/als als] &mdash; [http://dictionary.reverso.net/german-english/ausrotten ausrotten]</ref>