Jews and German Soldiers: Dying for Hitler

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RECOLLECTED IN TRANQUILITY:: TOWARD THE FINAL SOLUTION
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The nature of Jews, according to Hitler, was their UNWILLINGNESS TO SACRIFICE FOR A COUNTRY, not only unwillingness to sacrifice for Germany, but for any country. This, Hitler believed, was the essence of what it meant to be a Jew: cowardice = unwillingness to sacrifice their lives for a nation. 

Hitler couldn’t bear the idea that Jews were exempt from the sacrificial imperative: the only people   unwilling to die for a country. Jews, Hitler insisted, would not be exempt. They too would be compelled to do what German soldiers were doing: dying for Hitler.
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The CSUN College of Social and Behavioral Sciences is pleased to present the Richard W. Smith Lecture in Culture Studies with special guest, Dr. Richard A. Koenigsberg. Psychologist, historian and leading authority on Hitler and Nazism