Reference no: EM13751975

A. Circle the number of the statements (some are paraphrased) that could not have been said by Hitler. Do this before coming to take the Final. Bring this sheet with you.

1. Whoever opens a new firm will be freed from taxes because when business goes well, the money flows back into the state's coffers!

2. A project for the production of synthetic petrol was submitted to me, but it was impossible to get the project accepted by the minister for economics.

3. The young will no longer be taught anything but the truth.

4. To each man his own private creed. Superstition shall not lose its rights.

5. I don't dream of imposing my philosophy on a village girl.

6. I don't want to force National Socialism on anybody.

7. We don't want to educate anyone in atheism.

8. Nothing is lovelier than horticulture.

9. All that is best in the people should be allowed ceaselessly to develop.

10. The Wehrmacht gives its highest distinction to the man who, acting against orders, saves a situation by his discernment and decisiveness.

11. We'll see to it that the natives live better than they've lived hitherto

12. A war-leader is what I am against my own will.

13. The law of life is: "God helps him who helps himself!"

14. What is in opposition to the laws of nature cannot come from God.

15. I'm convinced that there are Jews in Germany who've behaved correctly in the sense that they have invariably refrained from doing injury to the German idea.

16. I don't interfere in matters of belief.

17. The soul and the mind migrate, just as the body returns to nature.

18. I may be mistaken, but I act in good faith.

19. I have a bad conscience when I get the feeling that I've not been quite fair to somebody.

20. It's not our mission to settle the Jewish question in other people's countries!

21. When I think about it, I realize that I'm extraordinarily humane.

22. Judaism has made the fixing of prices depend on the laws of supply and demand -factors, that is to say, which have nothing to do with the intrinsic value of an article.

23. It is infinitely better to have this people of heroes [the Finns] as allies than to incorporate it in the Germanic Reich

24. Truth is never evil.

25. A regulation removes the opportunity to take the initiative. There are cases in which faithfulness to the letter of a regulation is a sort of sabotage.

26. In the economic field we can learn much from the United States.

27. There are plenty of Jews with blue eyes and blond hair.

B. Picking no more than 3 of the above statements circled by you, explain why Hitler could not have said them.

C. Pick 3 of the above statements that you feel are definitely characteristic for Hitler. Explain.