A document that is understood as a statement written by Adolf Hitler about the systematic elimination of Jews from the community was first exhibited in public in Los Angeles.Four-page letter, typed on a faded brown paper and bearing Hitler's signature, previously shown a limited basis in public in New York. Some circles call this letter as a key artifact in the annals of the Holocaust. Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles center was chosen to be displaying the location of this letter.
Founder Simon Wiesenthal Center, Rabbi Marvin hier, said it was one of the most important documents of the period showing the development of Hitler's anti-Semitic thinking. "This is the most important item we have in our archive of over 50,000 objects," said hier, adding that it It will be used to educate future generations and to fight against Holocaust denial.
Some experts believe the authenticity of the documents. This letter is often called a 'letter Gemlich'. Copies are not signed in state archives in Munich.
Hitler wrote a letter in Munich on September 16, 1919. At the age of 30, he already began to show interest in politics. Shortly before writing the letter he attended a party meeting, which he later took over and changed to National Socialist German Workers Party.
At that time he was in a propaganda unit of German soldiers who tried to fight the Bolshevik influence among the soldiers returning from the Russian front at the end of the first world war. Commanding officer, Captain Karl Mayr, said Hitler to respond to questions from Adolf Gemlich, who wanted to know the position of the army in the attitude towards Jews.
In response, Hitler was spewing anti-Semitic diatribe, in which he said Jews were "purely materialistic in thought and aspirations" and that their effect is "spreading racial tubercolusis for the nation."
The letter was purchased Simon Wiesenthal Centre is worth 150 thousand dollars from a dealer in historical artifacts. The letter claimed previously owned by an American soldier acquired in 1945 of a Nazi archive near Nuremberg.
The Centre has the opportunity to buy in 1988 but hesitated about its origin, especially the fact that the letter was made with a typewriter - the object of rare and expensive in 1919. Hier said their doubts were assuaged when they realized that Hitler was working for the army and will have access to typewriters.
