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Expedition: Historia – Avsnitt 3: Adolf Hitler i svenska tidningar Expedition: Historia
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Hade Adolf Hitler hela tiden siktet inställt på att förinta Europas judar?
Eller var beslutet om Förintelsen under andra världskriget något som gradvis växte fram och att naziströrelsen radikaliserades efter 1941 års invasion av Sovjetunion?
Och hur skildrades egentligen Nazirörelsens judehat första gången Adolf Hitler nämndes i svenska tidningar, år 1922 och 1923?
English summary:
Expedition history episode 3 - Adolf Hitler in Swedish newspapers
Did Adolf Hitler have his sights set on exterminating Europe's Jews all along? Or was the decision about the Holocaust during World War II something that gradually grew and that the Nazi movement was radicalized after the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union?
And how was the Nazi movement's Jew-hatred actually portrayed the first time Adolf Hitler was mentioned in Swedish newspapers?
This is Expedition History, Episode 3.
This episode is about Adolf Hitler's early period as leader of the National Socialist Party. And I want to warn already now that there are descriptions of terrible events and abhorrent statements in this episode that I personally strongly distance myself from, but which in a historical context are important to highlight because this movement marked the history of the 20th century like no other.
Ever since the end of World War II, there has been a debate among historians as to whether the Holocaust of six million Jews was the result of a grand plan, or whether it was a gradual process in which the Nazi movement radicalized after 1941 into what is now known as the Holocaust.
The fact that there is no written order with Adolf Hitler's name on it stating that he orders the extermination of Europe's Jews has led to speculation about Hitler's role and how planned the Holocaust really was.
In this program we will take a look at the early reporting that took place around the Nazi movement and Adolf Hitler as a person, based on articles and interviews in Swedish newspapers in the early 1920s
Very recently the Royal Library made available all papers from 1923 and early 1924. Then it is interesting to read how the newspapers wrote about Adolf Hitler before the journalists of the time knew anything about the Second World War, the Holocaust and all the blood, all the death and all the destruction that would follow in this man's footsteps.
So how much did Adolf Hitler really reveal in 1923 about what he wanted to accomplish?
Adolf Hitler himself is mentioned for the first time in a Swedish newspaper at the end of 1922.
* The newspaper Sydsvenska dagbladet exclaims that "Bayern has got its Mussolini", and compares Italian fascism with the new National Socialist movement. The newspaper states that the National Socialists are strongly anti-Semitic and that they believe that no national goal can be won unless the Jews are put out of the game.
* In February 1923, Aftonbladet portrays the National Socialist movement. The headline reads "anti-Semitism as a counter-movement" - that Nazism was anti-Semitic is therefore clear from the very beginning. This is what it says in Aftonbladet: "From today's storehouse of contentious issues, I want to bring out one that, for the time being, lies far away from the people of northern Europe. But for the people of Central Europe, the Jewish question is extremely relevant".
* After this article comes several others during 1923 where Swedish journalists managed to get an interview with the famous leader Adolf Hitler. One who makes an attempt to get an interview with Hitler is Sydsvenska Dagbladet's correspondent who simply knocks on the door of Völkishcer beobachter, the Nazi newspaper whose newsroom Hitler used to hang out at. Hitler believes that Germany's state of emergency was created by European Jews with the intention of pushing the Jewish Marxist revolution further. The only alternative is - according to Hitler - a "dictatorship of the will" and precisely in Berlin the German revolution of 1918 will see its end, and we do not in
Hade Adolf Hitler hela tiden siktet inställt på att förinta Europas judar?
Eller var beslutet om Förintelsen under andra världskriget något som gradvis växte fram och att naziströrelsen radikaliserades efter 1941 års invasion av Sovjetunion?
Och hur skildrades egentligen Nazirörelsens judehat första gången Adolf Hitler nämndes i svenska tidningar, år 1922 och 1923?
English summary:
Expedition history episode 3 - Adolf Hitler in Swedish newspapers
Did Adolf Hitler have his sights set on exterminating Europe's Jews all along? Or was the decision about the Holocaust during World War II something that gradually grew and that the Nazi movement was radicalized after the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union?
And how was the Nazi movement's Jew-hatred actually portrayed the first time Adolf Hitler was mentioned in Swedish newspapers?
This is Expedition History, Episode 3.
This episode is about Adolf Hitler's early period as leader of the National Socialist Party. And I want to warn already now that there are descriptions of terrible events and abhorrent statements in this episode that I personally strongly distance myself from, but which in a historical context are important to highlight because this movement marked the history of the 20th century like no other.
Ever since the end of World War II, there has been a debate among historians as to whether the Holocaust of six million Jews was the result of a grand plan, or whether it was a gradual process in which the Nazi movement radicalized after 1941 into what is now known as the Holocaust.
The fact that there is no written order with Adolf Hitler's name on it stating that he orders the extermination of Europe's Jews has led to speculation about Hitler's role and how planned the Holocaust really was.
In this program we will take a look at the early reporting that took place around the Nazi movement and Adolf Hitler as a person, based on articles and interviews in Swedish newspapers in the early 1920s
Very recently the Royal Library made available all papers from 1923 and early 1924. Then it is interesting to read how the newspapers wrote about Adolf Hitler before the journalists of the time knew anything about the Second World War, the Holocaust and all the blood, all the death and all the destruction that would follow in this man's footsteps.
So how much did Adolf Hitler really reveal in 1923 about what he wanted to accomplish?
Adolf Hitler himself is mentioned for the first time in a Swedish newspaper at the end of 1922.
* The newspaper Sydsvenska dagbladet exclaims that "Bayern has got its Mussolini", and compares Italian fascism with the new National Socialist movement. The newspaper states that the National Socialists are strongly anti-Semitic and that they believe that no national goal can be won unless the Jews are put out of the game.
* In February 1923, Aftonbladet portrays the National Socialist movement. The headline reads "anti-Semitism as a counter-movement" - that Nazism was anti-Semitic is therefore clear from the very beginning. This is what it says in Aftonbladet: "From today's storehouse of contentious issues, I want to bring out one that, for the time being, lies far away from the people of northern Europe. But for the people of Central Europe, the Jewish question is extremely relevant".
* After this article comes several others during 1923 where Swedish journalists managed to get an interview with the famous leader Adolf Hitler. One who makes an attempt to get an interview with Hitler is Sydsvenska Dagbladet's correspondent who simply knocks on the door of Völkishcer beobachter, the Nazi newspaper whose newsroom Hitler used to hang out at. Hitler believes that Germany's state of emergency was created by European Jews with the intention of pushing the Jewish Marxist revolution further. The only alternative is - according to Hitler - a "dictatorship of the will" and precisely in Berlin the German revolution of 1918 will see its end, and we do not in
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