The study of the German history and society had revealed a fact that the people of non-Germanic origins were largely responsible for the downfall of the Saxon race. Prominent enemy appeared to be the Jews. They were money grabbing greedy traders whose sole aim of life was amassing wealth by whatever means. Over a long period Jews had systematically milked the Germans and impoverished them. Now they controlled the business. With their money they educated their children and cornered all the profitable professions at the cost of the Germans.
The Jew teachers and professors ran down Germans and taught history in a twisted way which showed Germans in a poor way. Now they lived in elegant houses as the rich while the Germans worked for them like slaves. The Jews never cared for the country, society or the interests of the poor. Only thing they did was create more poor by exploitation.
Adolf Hitler began to hate Jews intensely. The scenes he encountered in real life confirmed his theory about Jews, as the meanest of the human race as symbolised by the Shylock character of the play of Shakespear. He began to believe that the elimination of Jews was the key to the redemption of Germans, the inheritors of the pure Aryan blood.
In his writings Adolf Hitler recounts—‘‘Once I was passing by a elegant mansion when I saw a woman mercilessly beating a child, a boy. The boy was in tatters and had no shoes or slippers. The kid reminded me of my darling sister Paula who I loved so much. I felt angry.
I ran to the woman and asked her to leave the kid alone. The woman looked haughtily at me and stopped beating the kid. Then she contemptuously marched into her house shutting the gate on our faces.
I embraced the poor kid and tried to comfort him. I asked, ‘What is your name and why was that woman beating you?’
The kid sobbed and cried, ‘I don’t know my name. They just call me German scum. I have no parents. I had come to ask that rich woman for some work. She took me for a thief and started thrashing me and would not listen to my pleadings. Then you came and saved me. I thank you. She would have killed me. I think you are an outsider…not a citizen of Vienna’.
‘How do you know I am an outsider,’ I asked.
‘No one here cares about such incidents. No one had come to my rescue. They just turn their faces away and walk on.’ The kid began to cry.
‘Don’t cry, kid. Now no one will beat you,’ I assured him and gave him a hug for comfort. I asked the kid who that cruel woman was and whose house it was.
The kid told me that the house belonged to a rich Jew who was a goldsmith and had a large jewellery shop in the up market.
That was when I practically saw how the Jews were amassing wealth greedily and living in luxury while impoverished Germans were forced to walk the streets begging for jobs. And all that a Jew would give him was insults and a beating. My hatred for Jews intensified.’
The poor German kid kept looking at me hopefully. He was hungry and needed a shelter. I took the child to the relative I was staying with. The sight of that child sent my relative and his family in fury. They rebuked me, ‘Why have you brought this orphan German here? Get rid of him! Remember, it is Vienna. Thieves and orphans are kept at arm’s length here’.
I kept quite and listened to their reprimand. I had no answer or explanation. I felt humiliated and utterly helpless. The orphan German walked off in tears. I collapsed on the bed face down and wept bitterly. How low we Germans had fallen! All because of the greeding and plundering Jews who had taken away everything from us, business, the government, industry, offices and jobs. Everything was in their clutches.
The Germans had lost their pride and self-belief. I decided to leave that place at once.’
This episode is supposed to have happened when Adolf was in Vienna on his first visit.
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