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Read the quotation by Joseph Goebbels. With respect to the Jewish Question, the Führer has decided to make a clean sweep. He prophesied to the Jews that if they again brought about a world war, they would live to see their annihilation in it. That wasn’t just a catch-word. The world war is here, and the annihilation of the Jews must be a necessary consequence. According to Goebbels, Hitler promised the Jews that they would be eliminated if they

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There was a prediction by Hitler that the Jews would be wiped out if they started a world war once more. This was a meaningful statement. There is a world war now.

• Between the schools of the functionalism and intentionalism, scholars debate the historical significance of the prophecy.
• Intentionalists see it as evidence of Hitler's previously conceived master plan to murder all of the Jews in Europe, while functionalists contend that, at least initially, the word "annihilation" did not mean mass murder.
• Historians use the prophecy as an illustration of how the Nazis believed that the world's Jews were involved in a plot to ignite the war.
• The prophecy is also claimed as proof that Germans were aware that Jews were being killed, despite its ambiguity—not describing how the holocaust would occur.

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