Final Solution and the German Foreign Office: A Study of Referat D III of Abteilung Deutschland 1940-1943

German Jewish policy was not the result of a conspiratorial plot hatched in Hitler's mind following Germany's defeat in WWI and then carried out with single-minded purpose and patient cunning through the instrumentation of a monolithic dictatorship. It evolved from a conjuncture of several factors of which Hitler's Anti-semitism was only one. The Jew as universal scapegoat provided consistency in Hitlers Weltanschauung by forming the connecting link between all he opposed and attacked.