... big lies than little ones, Hitler wrote. In it the full fury of Hitler's anti-Jewish hatred was made clear: he explains that he is drawing upon his personal experiences as a young man in Vienna before the first world war.1 He had come to Vienna in February 1908, shortly before his 19th birthday, and had remained there until May 1913.2 Every page of Hitler's recollections contained references to the Jews of Vienna and their evil influence. "the part which the Jews played in the social phenomenon of prostitution," he wrote, "and more especially in the white slave traffic, could be studied here [in Vienna] better than in any other West European city". In Mein Kampf Hitler argued that there were two perils threatening "the existence of the German people", Marxism and Judaism.3 It was in Vienna, he wrote, that he had discovered the truth about the Jewish conspiracy to destroy the ...

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