The Führer once again expressed his determination to clean up the Jews in Europe pitilessly. There must be no squeamish sentimentalism about it. The Jews have deserved the catastrophe that has now overtaken them. Their destruction will go hand in hand with the destruction of our enemies. We must hasten this process with cold ruthlessness. Joseph Goebbels, February 1942
A judgment is being visited upon the Jews that, while barbaric, is fully deserved by them. The prophecy which the Führer made about them for having brought on a new world war is beginning to come true in a most terrible manner. One must not be sentimental in these matters. If we did not fight the Jews, they would destroy us. It’s a life-and-death struggle between the Aryan race and the Jewish bacillus. Joseph Goebbels, March 1942
Wer Judenwohnungen ohne meine Genehmi-gung vermierer, macht sich strafbar. [It is a punishable offence to let a Jew’s flat without my permission.] Albert Speer, letter to landlords
The tough decision had to be made to exterminate these people from the face of the Earth. Heinrich Himmler
We won’t waste much time on the Jews. It’s great to get to grips with the Jewish race at last. The more that die the better; hitting them represents a victory for our Reich. The Jews should feel that we’ve arrived. We want to put half to three-quarters of all Jews east of the Vistula. We will crush these Jews wherever we can. Everything is at stake. Get the Jews out of the Reich, Vienna, everywhere. We have no use for Jews in the Reich. Probably the line of the Vistula, behind this line no more. We are the most important people here. Heinrich Himmler, 1939, cited Merchant & Rubenstein & Roth
I have decided to find a really clear solution here too. I didn’t find that I was entitled to exterminate men ... and allow avengers in the form of children ... to grow into adults. Heinrich Himmler, 1943
I also want to refer here very frankly to a very difficult matter. We can now very openly talk about this among ourselves, and yet we will never discuss this publicly. Just as we did not hesitate on 30 June 1934, to perform our duty as ordered and put comrades who had failed up against the wall and execute them, we also never spoke about it, nor will we ever speak about it. Let us thank God that we had within us enough self-evident fortitude never to discuss it among us, and we never talked about it. Every one of us was horrified, and yet every one clearly understood that we would do it next time, when the order is given and when it becomes necessary.
I am now referring to the evacuation of the Jews, to the extermination of the Jewish People. This is something that is easily said: ‘The Jewish People will be exterminated’, says every party member, ‘this is very obvious, it is in our program – elimination of the Jews, extermination, a small matter.’ And then they turn up, the upstanding 80 million Germans, and each one has his decent Jew. They say the others are all swines, but this particular one is a splendid Jew. But none has observed it, endured it. Most of you here know what it means when 100 corpses lie next to each other, when there are 500 or when there are 1,000. To have endured this and at the same time to have remained a decent person – with exceptions due to human weaknesses – has made us tough, and is a glorious chapter that has not and will not be spoken of. Because we know how difficult it would be for us if we still had Jews as secret saboteurs, agitators and rabble-rousers in every city, what with the bombings, with the burden and with the hardships of the war. If the Jews were still part of the German nation, we would most likely arrive now at the state we were at in 1916 and ’17. Heinrich Himmler, speech October 1943
An estimated six million Jews were the victims of a racist mania orchestrated and implemented by Heinrich Himmler. Nazi Secrets: Himmler’s SS Cult
He was an arch-Nazi with one difference: the Nazis used to say that the Jews were degenerate and physically inferior and so on, whereas Mengele thought there were two gifted peoples in the world – the Germans and the Jews – and one of these peoples had to rule the world. Dr Ella Lingens, Auschwitz prisoner
The English ruthlessly used and then abused the Jews. In 1290 they expelled them altogether. Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch, How God Made the English II: A Tolerant People? BBC 2012
Early in his reign Edward, perhaps acting from religious conviction, outlawed money-lending, and so put most of England’s Jews out of business. He then forced them to wear yellow felt badges of identification ... A year after his invasion Edward arrested all the heads of the Jewish households, and hanged nearly three hundred in the Tower. Simon Schama, A History of Britain: Nations, BBC 2000
In 1492 all Jews were expelled from Christian Spain. Simon Schama, The Story of the Jews II: Among Believers
The Jews in Medina … turned publicly and bitterly critical and were accused of treason. Two Jewish tribes were exiled from Medina, and hundreds of Jewish men massacred, their women and children enslaved. ibid.
The future for the Jews of Europe now lay under the shadow of the Cross. ibid.
On 18th July 1290 King Edward I expelled the Jews from England. ibid.
Spain: the torture and burning of thousands did nothing to ease the paranoia. ibid.
From 1516 Venice’s Jews were forced to live in a small district ... The gates were locked at night, and a new word was born: ghetto. ibid.
Today to be an anti-Zionist is construed as being anti-Semitic. The Zionist Story, 2009
Philip Schofield lays into Corbyn for Labour’s anti-Semitism scandal and forces him to apologise live on This Morning. The Sun online article 3 December 2019
The accusation of anti-Semitism has been Israel’s most effective strategy in silencing dissent. Robert Jensen
It’s not simply an Israeli-Zionist assault. It’s an American assault. The two have to be brought together – that’s very important. We can’t simply say it’s all Israel because without the United States, and to some degree Britain and the European countries complicit, but really without the United States, Israel would be forced to be a normal country. John Pilger, interview Adam Hart
There is a actually difference between Judaism and Zionism. Zionism’s great success has been to conflate the two. So if you criticise Israel, by definition you’re anti-Semitic. Now in fact when you know the difference that they are total opposites you understand why it’s perfectly possible to be passionately anti-Zionist without being anti-Semitic. That’s the key, is it not? ibid.
Christianity’s greatest ever lie – that the Jews were responsible for the death of Jesus on the Cross. This simple untruth laid the foundations for centuries of brutal and bloody anti-Semitism, ending with the Nazi-led holocaust of the Second World War. Dr Robert Beckford, The Hidden Story of Jesus, Channel 4 2007
The Anti-Semite doesn’t know me, but he hates me. Actually, he hated me even before I was born. Help us fight it. Help us disarm it. For hatred is dangerous. Hatred is contagious. He or she who hates Jews, hates all minorities. All those who are different. He or she who hates Jews will end up hating everybody. And then himself. Elie Wiesel, United Nations Anti-Semitism conference
The way charges of Anti-Semitism are being in Britain to undermine the Corbyn-led Labour Party is not only a disgrace, but also, to put it simply, an insult to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust. Noam Chomsky
Anti-Semitism was preached as an official doctrine of the church until 1964. Do you think that might have something to do with public opinion in Austria and Bavaria and Poland and Lithuania – that the Jewish people were accused collectively of deicide? Christopher Hitchens, with Stephen Fry v the Catholic Church, debate 2009
The Orthodox Jews are not blameless here. By claiming to be ‘chosen’ in a special exclusive covenant with the Almighty, they invited hatred and suspicion and evinced their own form of racism. Christopher Hitchens, God is Not Great p250
Jews were treated with growing intolerance. Dr Robert Bartlett, Inside the Medieval Mind III: Belief, BBC 2008
Hostility towards Jews was fuelled by an increasingly intolerant Church and State. ibid.
The Jews became the chief source of credit for the King and his Barons ... Edward decided to expel the entire Jewish population from his realm – some two to three thousand Jews. Professor Robert Bartlett, The Plantagenets II
Intolerance of the Jews was a fact of 16th Century life even in Venice, the most powerful and liberal city state of Europe. By law the Jews were forced to live in the old walled foundry or ‘Ghetto’ area of the city. After sundown the gate was locked and guarded by Christians. In the daytime any man leaving the ghetto had to wear a red hat to mark him as a Jew. The Merchant of Venice 2004 starring Al Pacino & Jeremy Irons & Joseph Fiennes & Lynn Collins & Zuleikha Robinson & Kris Marshall & Charlie Cox & Heather Goldenhersh & Mackenzie Crook & Jonh Sessions & Gregor Fisher & Ron Cook et al, director Michael Radford, opening caption
Sufferance is the badge of all my tribe. ibid. Shylock to Lorenzo
A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die! Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint