Hitler's Reichstag Speech

Date: January 30, 1939 • Location: Berlin, Germany

In a speech to the Reichstag, Adolf Hitler threatened the "annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe".

On 30 January 1939, Adolf Hitler, dictator of Nazi Germany, gave a speech in the Kroll Opera House to the Reichstag delegates, which is best known for the prediction he made that "the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe" would ensue if another world war were to occur.