Los Angeles, CA – Adolf Hitler’s anti-Semitic 1919 Gemlich letter, described as the most significant document ever acquired by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, is now on display at the Los Angeles center’s Museum of Tolerance.
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Hitler’s letter was typewritten decades before the Holocaust when he was a German soldier. It is believed to be Hitler’s first written comments calling for the annihilation of Jews.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center bought the letter for $150,000 from Profiles in History, a dealer in Calabasas.
Wiesenthal Center Rabbi Marvin Heir unveiled the letter in New York in June, saying it “set the gold standard about man’s inhumanity to man.”
In one section, Hitler writes that Jews should be denied rights, with a final aim being the “uncompromising removal of the Jews altogether.”
Too bad no one knocked off hitler in 1919.
too bad they paid too much for this piece of junk. They could have found a better way to spend this money
At first I thought, “Ew, gross…. who would want to own that?!” but then when I read the article & saw it was for a Jewish museum, I understood perfectly why the letter was so important to be purchased & put on display. As the Rabbi said, it serves as the standard for “man’s inhumanity to man” – a terrifying standard, and one I pray no one will ever again have the ability to live up to!
I was only 20 when I visited Washington DC – that was before the Holocaust Museum was built. Now I hope to go back as an adult & take my own family one day. Humanity should never forget what happened to G-d’s precious nation.
To #3 and #4 , since Wiesenthal Center is asking public like me to donate,
which I did in the past, then why I can not tell them how to spend or not to spend
their money?
Hitler is an Amalek and all his trace, “works” and belongings must be erased and destroyed.
And for sure not to be purchased and displayed. W.C. had missed a point!