THE SPRINGFIELD UNION, Mass., January 31, 1939

• Hitler calls for Jewish extermination

The top of the front page has a four column headline: "HITLER PLEDGES GERMANY WILL SUPPORT ITALY IN ANY WAR;  WARNS U.S. TO STOP MEDDLING" with subheads and photo. (see images) Text of Hitler's speech is on page 8. This is considered one of the more blatant statements by Hitler calling for the extermination of the Jews and was a catalyst for the Holocaust.
Complete with 16 pages, light toning and some wear at the margins, generally good.

Background: Delivered to the Reichstag on January 30, 1939—the sixth anniversary of his ascension to power and just seven months before the invasion of Poland—Adolf Hitler’s two-hour address stands as a chilling ideological watershed, most historically significant for containing his explicit "prophecy" declaring that a new world war would result not in a Jewish victory, but in the total Vernichtung ("annihilation") of the Jewish race in Europe. Positioned near the conclusion of a speech otherwise focused on demanding colonial territory, decrying foreign criticism, and outlining Germany's desperate economic mandate to "export or die," this passage marked a stark transition in Nazi strategy from forced emigration and domestic persecution toward explicit, state-sanctioned genocide. By framing the Jewish population as collective conspirators driving global conflict, Hitler established a pre-emptive rhetorical justification for physical extermination—a statement he and propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels repeatedly invoked throughout 1941 to 1943 as both signal and validation while the "Final Solution" was actively systematically executed across occupied Europe.