tions, but these just prove the rule.”
In this economic battle he would be quite ruthless. A few
days after the November pogrom he referred to an earlier
conference, “at which we discussed this problem for the first
time and took the decision to Aryanize the German economy, to
throw the Jews out of our business life and into the debtors’
register.” The concept had been sound, he said, but he com-
plained that the execution had been only mediocre.
All that would change during . As chief of the Four-
Year Plan he gave warning in his Vienna speech of March
that Jewish businesses were to be compulsorily purchased and
sold off to non-Jews “systematically and carefully, legally but
inexorably.”
The remaining Jews in Austria fought back with all they
had. One teamed up with two streetwise English clergymen and
sold back-dated christening certificates to two thousand wealthy
Viennese Jews before the three were caught. Göring then issued
regulations making it impossible to camouflage Jewish-owned
businesses in this way. On June , issuing a circular on the “Ex-
clusion of Jews from the German Economy,” Martin Bormann
welcomed the new impetus that Göring was bringing to the
campaign, and called it “the beginning of a definitive solution.”
All over the world [said Göring addressing aircraft
manufacturers at Carinhall on July , ], the Jew is
agitating for war. And it’s clear why: Anti-Semitism is
turning up in every country today, a logical conse-
quence of the growing Jewish stranglehold on them.
The Jew sees only one salvation, namely if he can
set the whole world on fire. And mark my words
when I say the Jews are praying for war because it’s
the same Jews who control the bulk of the world’s
press and can exploit its psychological effects.