“Hitler didn't want to exterminate the Jews at the time. He wanted to expel the Jews.”

— Benjamín Netanyahu

Netanyahu tells World Zionist Congress 2015 that Hitler only wanted to expel the Jews, but Jerusalem's Grand Mufti convinced him to exterminate them, a claim that was rejected by most accepted Holocaust scholars. http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.681525.
2010s, 2015

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