Hitler blamed the ills of Germany, indeed the world, not only on Marxists, Socialists, Jews, democracies, and parliaments but on a current favorite whipping boy of nearly all American radio talk show hosts, i.e., liberalism.  Because liberalism, as opposed to Marxism, has a far larger following on the American political scene it receives far more attacks, assaults, and denunciations from American Rightists.  What is worthy of note is that current denunciations of liberalism on the American landscape sometimes mirror attacks leveled decades earlier by Hitler himself.  The liberalism of the Nazi era was seen as the enemy by Hitlerites, even though some of the criticisms are of a different nature than those spewed out today.
         The tone begins to materialize when Hitler utters comments such as:
         What you preach is liberalism, nothing but liberalism.
         HITLER AND I by Otto Strasser, 1940, page 107

         Hitler attributes multiple ills to liberalism such as:
         It imprisons the mind.  As yet, almost everyone is imprisoned in the liberalistic attitude.
         HITLER--MEMOIRS OF A CONFIDANT, by Otto Wegener, 1985, page 56

         It is corruption destroying the state:
         In the liberalistic state, this may be a matter for each individual to resolve alone.  That is what they call human rights, free control of one's own person, democratic liberty!  In reality, it is slovenliness, decadence, a tendency to snobbish gangsterism and nihilism, which cannot help but eventually lead to the decline of Volk and state.
         HITLER--MEMOIRS OF A CONFIDANT, by Otto Wegener, 1985, page 282

         It destroys relations between nations.
        The preface to the Italian edition of Mein Kampf states:
         ...the "immortal ideas" of liberalism which confuse and destroy the relations between nations.
         HITLER, SPEECHES AND PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 446

         Hitler claimed liberalism had failed to save Germany just as American talk show hosts claim it has failed to save the United States.  At the Tempelhof Airport on 28 September 1937 he stated:
         In our country, the ideals of Liberalism and Democracy have not rescued the German nation from the worst violations conceivable in history.  Therefore, National Socialism has had to establish a new and more effective ideal in order to restore to our Volk those basic human rights which had been denied it for one-and-a-half decades.
         HITLER, [Speeches and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 948

         It fosters unfettered science:
         The idea of free and unfettered science, unfettered by hypotheses, could only occur in the age of Liberalism.  It is absurd.
         THE VOICE OF DESTRUCTION, by Hermann Rauschnigg, 1940, page 223

         Very much in line with crypto-fascist radio talk show attacks on liberalism, Hitler alleged liberals are cowards who foment degeneracy:
         Again and again [during WWI] I was surprised at the courage of simple men, how they performed heroic acts as a matter of course.  Only liberals remain cowards, even in battle.
         Their world ends with their skin.  Therefore they are afraid of losing their skins.  They cannot conceive of anything greater and more significant than their skin.  They do not believe in sacrifice.  Patriotism is a superstition to them.  So they tremble for their dear little selves.  They are the dead end of each culture, the drones of civilization.  The sooner they are eliminated, the healthier for a nation.
         I AM ADOLPH HITLER, by Adolph Hitler, Ed. by Werner/Lotte Pelz, 1971, Page 89

         He depicted them as gutless panty-waists afraid of war:
         War is the father of all things.  War makes everything new.  I who had always loathed the idea of joining a group went mad with joy when I received the communications stating that my application had been accepted.  I was a member of the German Wehrmacht.
         I can already hear the surviving liberal... --and they will survive, they will survive.-- I can hear them moan and wring their hands: "War is cruel.  War is dirty.  Men get hurt, oh my, oh my!  Men get killed, you know, one shoots, ouch, ouch.  Family life is broken up.  Economic life is ruined.  Culture suffers."
 Let me tell you this, meine Herrn Liberalen [my gentlemen liberals]: War gives rise to love and friendship, more than to hatred.  It intensifies life.  Makes it significant.  Its cruelty is incidental.  Life is cruel.  Death is cruel.
         I AM ADOLPH HITLER, by Adolph Hitler, Ed. by Werner/Lotte Pelz, 1971, Page 85

         Man is born to battle.  Especially the masses.  For battle and for sacrifice.  The old, virile religions were right here.  Particularly the Incas and Aztecs with their human sacrifices.  Nothing a man desires more than to pour out his blood that something greater and stronger than he may become still stronger: the tribe, his fatherland, his God.
         Liberals do not understand this.  They come from comfortable homes with soft music and armchairs.  They have money and education.  They never had to fight.  Not even for their money or their education!  They have always been protected.  Hot-house products.  Their desires are weakened.  Even their desire to give.  They think they can satisfy that desire to give by giving money, alms, by giving people work, by giving them education--which means, gentlemen, by permitting them to empty their chamber pots and by pouring something very similar to their contents into people's heads!  Liberals give by giving good advice and encouraging others to become like themselves.
         The simple man has nothing to give.  But his ambition to give is much more passionate.  He wants to give himself.  The liberal thinks of giving as giving something to those below him.  The simple man longs to give everything to something above himself.  In battle he has the chance to give himself.  And he has the chance to survive his sacrifice, to grow greater with his country and his God; to become the God who receives the sacrifice as well as the victim who is offered.  That moment is called victory.  Nothing that follows after it can equal it.
         I AM ADOLPH HITLER, by Adolph Hitler, Ed. by Werner/Lotte Pelz, 1971, Page 86

         Adolph even went so far as to claim Nazis, not liberals, were the real champions of women’s rights:
        There was a time when liberalism was fighting for "equal rights" for women, but the faces of German women and German girls were devoid of hope, bleak and sad.  And today?  Today we see countless beaming, laughing faces.  And here again it is woman's instinct which tells her for good reason: we can laugh once again, for the future of the Volk is guaranteed.
         HITLER, [Speeches and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 699

         And he branded economic liberalism as anti-Christ:
         For almost 2000 years the Gospel of Christ has been preached, for 2000 years the sense of community has been taught: love one another, care for one another, respect and help one another!  But today, at the end of these 2000 years, economic liberalism flourishes as never before.
         HITLER--MEMOIRS OF A CONFIDANT, by Otto Wegener, 1985, page 56

         But in Hitler’s view the most egregious crime of liberalism was its inadvertent, if not surreptitious, assistance to Marxism, a view cryptically shared by virtually all American radio talk show hosts today.  In his speech delivered at the First Congress of German Workers on 10 May 1933 Hitler said:
         Bismarck once declared that Liberalism was the pace-maker for Social Democracy.  And I do not need in this place to say that social democracy is the pace-maker for communism.  But communism is the pace-maker for death--the death of a people--downfall.  We have begun the fight against communism and we shall wage it to the end.
         MY NEW ORDER by Hitler, Edited by Raoul de Roussy de Sales, 1941, Page 169
         ADOLPH HITLER QUOTATIONS, by Karl Hammer,1990, Page 36
         THE HITLER DECREES, by James Pollock and Harlow Heneman, 1934, Page 75

         In the New Year's Proclamation for 1 January 1932:
         Just as a figure like Bismarck once rightfully described liberalism as the pacesetter of Social Democracy, Democracy and the Center [Catholic Center Party] are today the pacesetters of Bolshevism and thus the parties who are mainly to blame for our misfortune.
         HITLER, SPEECHES AND PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 79

         In a 5 September 1934 speech at Nuremberg:
         The world idea of the liberal era invites the international idea of Marxist socialism as its successor, and this leads to anarchical chaos or communist dictatorship.
         ADOLPH HITLER QUOTATIONS, by Karl Hammer,1990, Page 30

         In his speech in the Reichstag on 23 March 1933:
         The splitting up of the nation into groups with irreconcilable views, systematically brought about by the false doctrines of Marxism, means the destruction of the basis of a possible communal life.  The disintegration attacks all the foundations of social order.  The completely irreconcilable views of different individuals with regard to the terms State, society, religion, morals, family, and economy give rise to differences that lead to internecine war.  Starting from the liberalism of the last century, this development is bound by natural laws to end in communistic chaos.
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 264
         THE HITLER DECREES, by James Pollock and Harlow Heneman, 1934, Page 63

         Liberalism is lumped together with hated democracy and Marxism:
         My policy only seems dangerous; it is not really so.  Success will be mine because I have fathomed the weaknesses, including Marxism, of all the spurious great men of democracy and liberalism.
         THE VOICE OF DESTRUCTION, by Hermann Rauschnigg, 1940, page 107

         In Berlin on 30 January 1937:
         The main plank in the National Socialist program is to abolish the liberalistic concept of the individual and the Marxist concept of humanity and to substitute therefor the folk community, rooted in the soil and bound together by the bond of its common blood....
         HITLER'S WORDS, by Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 80

         Expounding a theme near and dear to the hearts of American Rightists, Hitler constantly accused the press of being liberal and undermining the nation:
         The activity of the so-called liberal press was the work of gravediggers for the German people and the German Reich.  One can pass by in silence the Marxist papers of lies; to them lying is as necessary to their life as catching mice is to the cat; but its [the liberal press] task is only to break the people's folkish and national spine in order to make it ripe for the yoke of slavery....
         MEIN KAMPF, Adolf Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 331

         It light of the above, it comes as no surprise that Hitler, like nearly all current American talk show hosts, felt liberalism should be relegated to the trash heap:
         We must strike off the egg-shell of liberalism, which unconsciously we still carry on our backs.  This is difficult for many of us.  We have gathered ideas from every branch and twig by the wayside of life, and no longer know their origin.
         THE VOICE OF DESTRUCTION, by Hermann Rauschnigg, 1940, page 37

         And other nations must be assisted in acting similarly:
         If ever there is a place where democracy is senseless and suicidal, it is in South America.  We must strengthen these people's clear conscience, so that they may be enabled to throw both their liberalism and their democracy overboard.
 THE VOICE OF DESTRUCTION, by Hermann Rauschnigg, 1940, page 62

         In fact, to go even further, unlike American Rightist talk show hosts who are yet to be so candid, Hitler opening admits he would like to physically eliminate liberals:
         To pour doubts into an ordinary man's mind has a similar effect to pouring arsenic into the coffee of a liberal.  Only while the one effect is highly desirable, the other one is not.
         I AM ADOLPH HITLER, by Adolph Hitler, Ed. by Werner/Lotte Pelz, 1971, Page 90

         All of this Hitlerite propaganda was quoted not in order to provide a forum for a mental illness but to expose the degree to which so much of what the Fuhrer proclaimed sounds superficially plausible and could very well be adopted in the minds of many Americans given the right, or perhaps one should say the wrong, conditions.  Americans need to be fully apprised of what Hitler represented and even more aware of the fact that the ideology represented by Nazism certainly did not die in 1945.  The Hitlerite mentality is just below the surface in the minds of far too many Americans and could very well surface given deleterious conditions and Rightist media control.  Understanding why Nazism appealed to millions and the beliefs contained therein is very important since many people have a conception of Nazism that is decidedly at variance with reality.  Simply stated, the Nazi ideology is by no means as unusual or out of the American mainstream as many have been led to believe and there are powerful forces on the American political scene who are nascent mouthpieces for that which might very well emerge.  To enunciate a maxim as potent as any in physics, vigilance on the part of the American people, especially in light of the current domination by those labeled the neo-conservatives, is of first magnitude in importance.

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         A song sung by Hitler throughout his entire career, one very much in line with his anti-class, anti-Marxist ideology and Rightist credentials, is that individuals rather than classes or groups make history.  This theme, with which the Bushites would thoroughly agree, permeates nearly all of his rhetoric and is repeated ad nauseum.
        In a speech in Essen on 23 November 1926 he stated:
         World history, like all events of historical significance, is the result of the activity of single individuals--is not the fruit of majority decisions....
         MY NEW ORDER  by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 87

         In Munich on 29 November 1929:
         The second factor is that of leadership.  We say that among nations it is not the majorities that are decisive but the evaluation attached to the leader.  It is not the sum total but genius itself.  There is nothing of lasting importance in the world which does not owe its origin to the creative ability of the individual.
         HITLER'S WORDS, by Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 12

         In the Berlin Sportpalast on 10 February 1933:
         Thus we want to break with all the manifestations of a rotten democracy and place in its stead the everlasting realization that everything which is great can originate only in the power of the individual and that everything which is to be preserved must be entrusted once more to the ability of the individual.
         HITLER, SPEECHES AND PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 248

         The first step which visibly distinguished man from the animal was that towards invention.
         MEIN KAMPF, Adolf Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 662

         And this belief understandably led him to the conclusion that individualism is superior to democracy.
        In Munich on 21 November 1927 he stated:
         Never have votes and majorities added one iota to the culture of mankind.  Every accomplishment is solely the result of the work and energy of great men, and as such, a flaming protest against the inertia of the masses.
         HITLER'S WORDS, by Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 6

         In a speech to the Industry Club in Dusseldorf on 27 January 1932:
         To sum up the argument: I see two diametrically opposed principles: the principle of democracy which, wherever it is allowed practical effect, is the principle of destruction: and the principle of the authority of personality which I would call the principle of achievement, because whatever man in the past has achieved--all human civilizations--is conceivable only if the supremacy of this principle is admitted.
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 790

         In a speech in Munich on 12 April 1922:
         And then sixthly we grasped the fact that power in the last resort is possible only where there is strength, and that strength lies not in the dead weight of numbers but solely in energy.  Even the smallest minority can achieve a mighty result if it is inspired by the most fiery, the most passionate will to act.  World history has always been made by minorities.
         MY NEW ORDER  by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 24

         In a speech in Nuremberg September 10, 1934 Hitler stated:
         Peoples have never yet been successfully led by a majority but always only by a minority.
         MY NEW ORDER  by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 293

         The destiny of a nation is decided by superior individual leaders according to the Fuhrer.  In Weimar on 12 April 1931:
         The national treasure of a people is its great men.  The people with the most geniuses will be the most highly endowed.  The people with the most celebrated poets, musicians, and architects will be the richest in the field of art.  The people with the greatest number of famous statesmen and generals will not only achieve the most fame but also the greatest good which will be won through the power of these great men.  The greatest national treasure of the people lies in the purity of its blood and in the worth of its important men.  It is, therefore, logical that the destiny of the nation should be determined by its great men.
         HITLER'S WORDS, by Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 13

         In that Berlin speech before workers in the Rheinmetall-Borsig Works on 10 December 1940:
         On the other hand, we National Socialists equally oppose the theory that all men are equals.  Today, when a man of genius make some astounding invention and enormously benefits his country by his brains, we pay him his due, for he has really accomplished something and been of use to his country.  However, we hope to make it impossible for idle drones to inhabit this country.
         MY NEW ORDER  by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 881

         And it was his contention, in line with that of all Rightists such as the Bushites, that Marxism destroys individualism, although today the Bushites are declaring that it is al Qaeda and the world’s terrorists who are playing the destructive role.
         In a 26 February 1924 speech in Munich Hitler stated:
         I understand Marxism to be a teaching which in principle denies the value of personality and puts mass in place of energy.
         ADOLPH HITLER QUOTATIONS, by Karl Hammer,1990, Page 34

         But what we want is precisely to keep this destructive Bolshevism, which annihilates culture and economy, from taking further root, so that it destroys our life as well!
         Communism results in a welfare state where the standards are averaged downward.  We want a state that allows for free development of the personality,...
         HITLER--MEMOIRS OF A CONFIDANT, by Otto Wegener, 1985, page 115

         In his speech at the Second Workers' Congress of the Labor Front on 16 May 1934:
         One cannot secure the highest achievements in economic production while one is putting into practice a principle which from the outset deals a mortal blow at all personal initiative.
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 898

         And in Munich on 25 January 1923:
         Marxism necessarily must become a movement of people who, engaged in nothing but physical labor, do not have the ability to think clearly or as a result of their work have become hostile to mental labor.  It is a gigantic organization of working animals without spiritual leadership.  Marxism, therefore, must become class warfare, and thereby it becomes what its founders wanted it to be: An instrument which deprives things of their spirit, an instrument in the service of a race striving for world domination and deadly opposed to true socialism [Hitler’s version of socialism].  It is the weapon needed by the Jew of the international stock exchange in order to conquer this world.  Deep are the impressions which this doctrine has made on our people.  The idea of authority has been overthrown; freedom of action and the creative opportunities of the individual are restricted; the genius of leadership is shackled, which paralyzes any free development.  In place of all this there is the democratic principle of decision by the majority, which always signifies the victory of the meaner, the more inferior, the weaker, and above all of the cowardly and irresponsible.  The individual is smothered by the masses.
         HITLER'S WORDS, by Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 219-221

         The evidence suggests that many Bushites would agree with this anti-democratic, anti-Marxist assessment far more than they would ever care to admit publicly.  But, then, one of the redeeming features of Adolf was that by being an open and unapologetic dictator he was far freer to express his beliefs without fear of exposure and consequences than the Bushites of today.
         The 2000 Presidential election in which the pronounced winner received approximately one half million votes less than the declared loser comes readily to mind as an example of democracy subverted.  If the American people are not sufficiently alert and demanding, this may very well become a harbinger of that which is to come.  The United States is no more immune to stolen elections and coup d’ etats than any other nation.

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