Hitler promised state statue

8th July 2011

The Nazi leader was offered a statue if he helped Poland solve the 'Jewish question'

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Poland’s pre-war ambassador to Berlin promised Hitler a “beautiful statue in Warsaw”, if he helped solve the country’s “Jewish question”, a German historian has alleged.

In his new book “The Enemy in the East” Rolf-Dieter Mueller also says Germany sought a military alliance with Poland against the Soviet Union, hoping to capitalise on Polish mistrust of the communist state and growing anti-Semitism within Poland.

Mr Mueller writes there was “from today’s perspective a gruesome willingness on both sides to co-operate” when it came to dealing with the Jews, but stresses at the time plans amounted only to emigration.

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