THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: A letter by Adolf Hitler believed to contain his first written comments calling Jews a threat has been bought by a Jewish human rights organisation.
Rabbi Marvin Hier of the Simon Wiesenthal Center said the centre paid $150,000 (£91,000) to a private dealer last month to obtain the 1919 writing, known as the Gemlich letter.
Rabbi Hier said the letter was typed by Hitler on a German army typewriter and that it "set the gold standard about for man's inhumanity to man."
At the time it was written, Hitler was serving in the Army, and had taken to riling up the troops with his anti-Semitic rants.
A superior officer urged Hitler to put his ideas on paper.
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