Adolf Hitler’s Descriptions of Jews in His Own Words
The following are direct quotations from Adolf Hitler describing Jews, drawn from his letters, writings, speeches, and conversations. Each quote is presented in Hitler’s own words:
**“In an autocratically governed state he whines for the favor of the ‘Majesty’ of the prince and abuses it to batten on his subjects like a leech. In a democracy he courts the favor of the masses, crawls before the ‘majesty of the people’ and yet knows only the majesty of money.”**
**“Everything which makes men strive for higher things, whether religion, socialism or democracy, is for him only a means to an end, to the satisfaction of a lust for money and domination. His activities produce a racial tuberculosis among nations.”**
**“Its final aim, however, must be the uncompromising removal of the Jews altogether.”**
**“Here he stops at nothing, and in his vileness he becomes so gigantic that no one need be surprised if among our people the personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew.”**
**“[The Jew] is and remains the eternal parasite, a parasite that spreads more and more like a harmful bacillus… The effect of its existence, however, is similar to that of parasites: where it occurs, the host people die after a shorter or longer time.”**
**“The end is not only the end of the freedom of the peoples oppressed by the Jew, but also the end of this parasite upon the nations. After the death of his victim, the vampire sooner or later dies too.”**
**“Existence impels the Jew to lies and to lie perpetually, just as it compels the inhabitants of the northern countries to wear warm clothing.”**
**“When necessary he even took to the whip to drive from the temple of the Lord this adversary of all humanity, who then as always saw in religion nothing but an instrument for his business existence.”**
**“Hence the result of Jewish domination is always the ruin of all culture and finally the madness of the Jew himself. For he is a parasite of nations and his victory signifies his own end as much as the death of his victim.”**
**“Today I will once more be a prophet. If the international Jewish financiers in and outside Europe should succeed in plunging nations once more into a world war, then the result will not be the bolshevization of the earth and thus the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe!”**
**“[I said that] if world Jewry launches another war in order to destroy the Aryan nations of Europe, it will not be the Aryan nations that will be destroyed, but the Jews… Once the German Jews laughed at my prophecy… I can simply repeat — they will stop laughing altogether, and I will fulfill my prophecy in this field too.”**
**“This criminal race has the two million dead of the (First) World War on their conscience, and now hundreds of thousands. Let no one say to me: we cannot send them into the mire. Who concerns themselves about our men? It is good if preceding us is the terror that we are exterminating the Jews. The attempt to found a Jewish state will fail.”**
**“...The sole German objective in the region will be to liquidate all Jews who live in Arab countries under the patronage of Great Britain.”**
**“So there is nothing left to the modern peoples but to exterminate the Jews.”**
**“Above all, I oblige the national leadership and its followers to observe the racial laws scrupulously and subject the poisoner of all nations — international Jewry — to merciless resistance.”**
Summary
Across these statements, Adolf Hitler consistently portrays Jews as an alien “race” that he deems parasitic, evil, and destructive. In his view, Jews are “leeches” and “parasites” who thrive by sucking the lifeblood of host nations and cultures. He characterizes them as greedy manipulators driven solely by lust for money and domination, devoid of higher ideals. Hitler describes Jews as master deceivers, calling them the “great masters in lying” (quoting Schopenhauer) and claiming their very existence compels them to **“lie perpetually”**. They are depicted as a malignant force responsible for corrupting society, undermining nations, and even inciting world wars. Hitler goes so far as to cast the Jew as the literal incarnation of evil, “the personification of the devil” among mankind, and an **“adversary of all humanity”**. Blaming the Jews for Germany’s woes and global catastrophes, Hitler repeatedly insists that the only “final aim” or “final solution” is the complete removal or annihilation of the Jews. In sum, through his own words Hitler paints a virulently anti-Semitic picture of Jews as a poisonous, sub-human enemy of Germany and the world, to be mercilessly opposed and ultimately exterminated.
The following are direct quotations from Adolf Hitler describing Jews, drawn from his letters, writings, speeches, and conversations. Each quote is presented in Hitler’s own words:
**“In an autocratically governed state he whines for the favor of the ‘Majesty’ of the prince and abuses it to batten on his subjects like a leech. In a democracy he courts the favor of the masses, crawls before the ‘majesty of the people’ and yet knows only the majesty of money.”**
**“Everything which makes men strive for higher things, whether religion, socialism or democracy, is for him only a means to an end, to the satisfaction of a lust for money and domination. His activities produce a racial tuberculosis among nations.”**
**“Its final aim, however, must be the uncompromising removal of the Jews altogether.”**
**“Here he stops at nothing, and in his vileness he becomes so gigantic that no one need be surprised if among our people the personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew.”**
**“[The Jew] is and remains the eternal parasite, a parasite that spreads more and more like a harmful bacillus… The effect of its existence, however, is similar to that of parasites: where it occurs, the host people die after a shorter or longer time.”**
**“The end is not only the end of the freedom of the peoples oppressed by the Jew, but also the end of this parasite upon the nations. After the death of his victim, the vampire sooner or later dies too.”**
**“Existence impels the Jew to lies and to lie perpetually, just as it compels the inhabitants of the northern countries to wear warm clothing.”**
**“When necessary he even took to the whip to drive from the temple of the Lord this adversary of all humanity, who then as always saw in religion nothing but an instrument for his business existence.”**
**“Hence the result of Jewish domination is always the ruin of all culture and finally the madness of the Jew himself. For he is a parasite of nations and his victory signifies his own end as much as the death of his victim.”**
**“Today I will once more be a prophet. If the international Jewish financiers in and outside Europe should succeed in plunging nations once more into a world war, then the result will not be the bolshevization of the earth and thus the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe!”**
**“[I said that] if world Jewry launches another war in order to destroy the Aryan nations of Europe, it will not be the Aryan nations that will be destroyed, but the Jews… Once the German Jews laughed at my prophecy… I can simply repeat — they will stop laughing altogether, and I will fulfill my prophecy in this field too.”**
**“This criminal race has the two million dead of the (First) World War on their conscience, and now hundreds of thousands. Let no one say to me: we cannot send them into the mire. Who concerns themselves about our men? It is good if preceding us is the terror that we are exterminating the Jews. The attempt to found a Jewish state will fail.”**
**“...The sole German objective in the region will be to liquidate all Jews who live in Arab countries under the patronage of Great Britain.”**
**“So there is nothing left to the modern peoples but to exterminate the Jews.”**
**“Above all, I oblige the national leadership and its followers to observe the racial laws scrupulously and subject the poisoner of all nations — international Jewry — to merciless resistance.”**
Summary
Across these statements, Adolf Hitler consistently portrays Jews as an alien “race” that he deems parasitic, evil, and destructive. In his view, Jews are “leeches” and “parasites” who thrive by sucking the lifeblood of host nations and cultures. He characterizes them as greedy manipulators driven solely by lust for money and domination, devoid of higher ideals. Hitler describes Jews as master deceivers, calling them the “great masters in lying” (quoting Schopenhauer) and claiming their very existence compels them to **“lie perpetually”**. They are depicted as a malignant force responsible for corrupting society, undermining nations, and even inciting world wars. Hitler goes so far as to cast the Jew as the literal incarnation of evil, “the personification of the devil” among mankind, and an **“adversary of all humanity”**. Blaming the Jews for Germany’s woes and global catastrophes, Hitler repeatedly insists that the only “final aim” or “final solution” is the complete removal or annihilation of the Jews. In sum, through his own words Hitler paints a virulently anti-Semitic picture of Jews as a poisonous, sub-human enemy of Germany and the world, to be mercilessly opposed and ultimately exterminated.
