How were Jews persecuted?

Although Goering's anti-Semitism is not as extreme as Josef Goebbels's, there is still deep-rooted hatred for Jews behind the surface of tolerance. This hatred attracted people's attention in the mental sanatorium in Sweden as early as 1925, and made it the driving force for the Third Reich to persecute Jews.

Goering made no secret of this hatred even in front of his old friends. At first, he was very friendly when a Jewish jeweler, who used to be a fighter pilot under his command, anxiously reported to him a threatening letter that hated Jews. "Don't worry, I'll take care of it." But when the supplicant later said that he wanted to be German, Goering angrily rebuked him and said, "I have done everything for a former comrade-in-arms, but I want to deprive you of the right to be German. You'll never be German. You are Jewish. "

According to Goering, Jews must be removed from the economy by "all means". Although he criticized the collective persecution of Jews in the "Crystal Night of the Empire" planned by Joseph and Goebbels on1938165438+10.9, it was not out of sympathy for Jewish residents, but purely out of economic considerations. "I'd rather you killed 200 Jews than destroy these valuable things."

Just two days after the synagogue was burned down, Goering invited all the departments involved in the operation to attend a "decisive" meeting in the Imperial Aviation Department as an end to the malicious riots.

At the meeting, he went straight to the point according to Hitler's wishes: now we must sum up the "Jewish problem" and solve it "in one way or another" "The Fuehrer telephoned me yesterday to instruct me about the steps of centralization and unification that are decisive at present". So Goering served as the highest coordinator of "solving the Jewish problem". According to him, the Jewish problem is a "wide-ranging economic problem", and he wants to solve this problem "one by one" through economic "Aryan".

Under Goering's auspices, Congress decided to establish "Jewish settlements" and let German Jews bear the obligation of 654.38 billion marks as "compensation" for the losses caused by the stormtroopers and the SS. Goering clearly told the participants with great satisfaction: "Besides, I will emphasize again that I don't want a Jew in Germany."

Goering didn't just deal with the "Jewish problem" during this period. Just after "merging" Austria, he aimed at another diplomatic goal of Hitler: the Sudetenland issue. He learned how Britain and France were afraid of war from the looted archives of Austrian embassies in Berlin, Prague, Paris and London and the eavesdropping records made by his "research bureau". These circumstances strengthened his determination to solve the problems in the Sudetenland by coercive measures similar to those used against Austria in March 1933.