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or for diverting public attention in turn as occasion requires.
Doubtlessly prompted by actual political conditions Jews and Bolshevism
were at the very outset selected for this role and have proven
increasing- ly useful to the Nazis, thus justifying their choice.*
 
 
A master stroke of Nazi tactics was the identification of one with the
other.**   While these tactics may be viewed as first-rate demagoguery,
the fact must be admitted that Communism was at least a potential
danger in Germany and that the Jews had achieved a position of
preeminence ill suited to Nazi mentality.  In international relations,
opposition to Bolshevism has specifically devoloped into hostility to
the Soviets whereby Nazi ideology and the identification of Communism
with Jewry is proving increasingly useful, particularly as a means of
propaganda appealing to the instinctive, wide-spread fear of Bolshevism
and thus finding fertile soil in at least parts of the populatton of
practically every European country today.  
 
 
Active opposition to "Jewish Bolshevism" in the field of foreign
politics really dates from the inception of the Franco-Soviet Pact.
From Hitler down
 
 
 
*MEIN KAMPF: page 351 et seq.
 
** "    "  : pages 750, 751 and 752.