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"Regarding the Jewish Question, the Führer is determined to clear the table. He warned the Jews that if they were to cause
another world war, it would lead to their own destruction. Those were not empty words. Now the world war has come. The
destruction of the Jews must be its necessary consequence. We cannot be sentimental about it. It is not for us to feel
sympathy for the Jews. We should have sympathy rather with our own German people. If the German people have to sacrifice
160,000 victims in yet another campaign in the east, then those responsible for this bloody conflict will have to pay for it with
their lives."
--Joseph Goebbels, 1941
In this diary entry from 1941, Joseph Goebbels expresses his belief that one of the motivating factors behind the Holocaust was
that
European Jews were responsible for causing the Second World War
B)
the Jews controlled the political and economic structure of Europe.
the Jews were regarded as an inferior race and were 'polluting Germany,
the Jews were responsible for the economic depression that plagued
Germany throughout the 1950s