We are all used to historians changing the past. They could do it because they only create it! Through interpreting the 'records', they create 'evidence', From the 'evidence' thus created, they create the 'past'! No Gospel, no theologian, to my knowledge, has claimed that God could or would change what has already happened! But historians can! That is not a big deal, though. But, this is a more serious matter. They have brought to light a new record! Questions about interpretation, evidence and true past can wait. Is this record genuine?
According to a news report [http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/176781], Shimon Rahamim, an 'elderly Israeli', discovered an article in a Hebrew-language newspaper, Doar Hayom, dated August 8, 1924.
In the course of discussing Hitler's role as leader of the “nationalist Germans,” that article states that in an interview with a German publication, he had expressed “his warm feelings for the Jewish people.” It further says that Hitler had told the interviewer that all nations that had fallen in the past had suffered that fate because of their negative treatment of Jews. “He recommended that the entire world take stock” of their relations with the Jews, and adjust their behavior accordingly.
The given history of the context is that Hitler was in prison at the time, having been arrested the year before for attempting to start a rebellion in Munich, known as the “Beer Hall Putsch,”. He was sentenced to five years, but was released after only nine months, in December 1924.
Is this article authentic? Rahamim says yes, that it is indeed possible that Hitler did make those statements, "perhaps in order to impress upon the authorities that he had reformed." Hitler was writing his anti-Semitic manifesto, Mein Kampf, precisely at that time! Mein Kampf was published in 1925.
Rahamim has also this advice: "The Jews need to be very wary of those who claim to 'love' them.... If they could say this about Hitler, how much more careful must we be'!
Let the 'sacred' facts of history take care of themselves. What matters is the perception. Does this news bite wring familiar to those Indians who are holding their ears close to the not so distant 'past'?
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