Hitler in Mein Kampf downplayed the plight of the German speakers in South Tyrol (Italy) where they were being Italianized and blamed the Jews for "stirring up" the issue while allegedly ignoring the violence against Hitler's comrades in Germany. So the Jews were preaching sympathy for diaspora Germans in South Tyrol while Hitler thought it was a distraction? Make that make sense.
In that second pic Hitler specifically sides with Italy in the matter:
"in puffing up the South Tyrol question to an importance that will become fatal to the German people. Without considering whose cause they were serving, many so-called national men and parties and associations have joined, purely out of cowardice, the public opinion, stirred up by the Jews, and helped stupidly in supporting the fight against a system [Italian fascism] that we Germans... should consider the sole bright ray in this decaying world."When Hitler came to power, he mostly dismissed the plight of the South Tyrolean Germans and
cut a deal with Mussolini to bring them back to Germany, a deal he did not offer to the Poles because he wanted to invade them.
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