Hitler threatens the Jews again

30th January 1942: Now it has become a promise "the result of this war will be the destruction of Jewry"

A portrait of Adolf Hitler taken in 1942.

Whilst Churchill found himself accountable to the House of Commons for the progress of the war, Hitler was accountable to no-one but himself. Each January he made a speech at the Berlin Sports Arena to a huge audience of Nazi Party members¹. He was no less popular with the party faithful on this occasion, even if…