On 30 January 1939, Adolf Hitler, addressing the German Reichstag on the sixth anniversary of his rise to power, issued one of his most infamous and menacing declarations against the Jewish people.
With a tone of calculated vitriol, he proclaimed that if "international finance Jewry" were to plunge the world into another war, the result would not be the victory of Judaism but its "annihilation" in Europe.
This chilling statement foreshadowed the horrors of the Holocaust, as Hitler escalated his rhetoric from persecution to outright genocide, setting the stage for the systematic extermination of millions under the guise of war and ideological purification.