JerzyJerzy W.W. BorejszaBorejsza AA ridiculousridiculous hundredhundred millionmillion SlavsSlavs Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History Polish Academy of Scienceswww.rcin.org.pl A RIDICULOUS HUNDRED MILLION SLAVS Concerning Adolf Hitler’s world-view www.rcin.org.pl www.rcin.org.pl TADEUSZ MANTEUFFEL INSTITUTE OF HISTORY POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES JERZY W. BOREJSZA A RIDICULOUS HUNDRED MILLION SLAVS Concerning Adolf Hitler’s world-view Translated from the Polish by David French WA RSAW 2017 www.rcin.org.pl Originally published in Polish as: “Śmieszne sto milionów Słowian…” Wokół światopoglądu Adolfa Hitlera Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Neriton and Instytut Historii Polskiej Akademii Nauk, 2006 Translation based on the second edition: Gdańsk: Muzeum II Wojny Światowej, 2016 Scientific consultation Jürgen Hensel Copy-editing Grażyna Waluga Layout and cover Dariusz Górski © Copyright by Jerzy W. Borejsza © Copyright by Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk ISBN 978–83–63352–88–2 Publication founded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Poland, in 2014–2017, as a part of the National Program for the Development of the Humanities, no. 0133/NPRH3/H31/82/2014 Instytut Historii PAN Rynek Starego Miasta 29/31 00–272 Warszawa +48 22 831 02 61–62 ext. 44 www.ihpan.edu.pl http://ksiegarnia-ihpan.edu.pl/
[email protected] www.rcin.org.pl CONTENTS Preface to the New Edition. 7 Foreword. 11 1. Introductory remarks. 17 2. Vienna and Munich: schools of hatred . 26 The Czechs and the “Slavic Reich”. 33 Some of Hitler’s stereotypes about Slavs. 43 Hitler’s teachers in Munich .