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>As to the “Jewish question,” Hitler, thought Kähler, had the insight to see that there was a “Jewish question.” How Hitler handled the Jewish question may have been wrong—and Kähler thought Kristallnacht was wrong—but this did not negate Hitler’s insight. Having said this, he immediately attempted to mitigate the wrong by commenting that much worse things were happening in Lebanon [in 1988]. Indeed, there were only two things that made Kähler doubt Hitler’s politics: his handling of the Jewish question, and his marching into Prague in March 1939 (because it meant he had lied when he said the Czech Sudetenland was all he wanted—Kähler acknowledged the Bible as a strong early influence in his life). However, he made the point, a familiar one from the German right, that none of the extermination camps was on German soil, but all were in the East, as if to argue that the German people would not have tolerated them. Furthermore, he pointed out that Auschwitz was liberated by Russians; news of Auschwitz came from Russians and was intended to defame the Germans. For Kähler, the destruction of the Jews (which he seemed to admit was wrong) is used internationally as a “wooden hammer” (Holzhammer) to end any serious analysis or discussion of the German question (this, of course, was said in 1988, prior to the reunification of Germany).

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