No wonder Germany was
more isolated on the world scene during the Nazi era than the United States
is today. What else could be expected.
Early-on Hitler acknowledged
Germany’s isolation by saying in a speech in Munich on 10 April 1923:
Even
today we are the least loved people on earth. A world of foes is
ranged against us.... The only possible conditions under which a
German State can develop at all must therefore be the unification of all
Germans in Europe,...
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 48
And what was Hitler’s
initial response to world-wide ridicule and rejection? Most assuredly
it was not one of accommodation and adaptation, as can be seen by his comment
in a Munich court on 27 March 1924:
Germany
occupies in Europe perhaps the most bitter situation of any people.
Militarily, politically, and geographically it is surrounded by none but
rivals: it can maintain itself only when it places a power-policy ruthlessly
in the foreground.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 82
Instead of projecting
a policy of apology and accommodation, he all but damned world opinion
by adopting a stance predating that of Bush who ignored anti invasion demonstrations
involving millions.
In Nuremberg on 14 September
1936 Hitler stated:
It
is a matter of complete indifference to us National Socialists whether
we are loved or hated by these democracies, whether they regard us as equals
or not.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 45
Hitler, like Bush ruling
America, was far more concerned with nations fearing and obeying, which
he euphemistically designates heeding and respecting, than loving and admiring
Germany.
As he admitted:
Abroad
we are not perhaps loved, but folk pay heed to us and respect us, and that
is the decisive point!
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 2, Page 1601
As long as people talk
about Germany, know it has returned to the world scene with a vengeance,
and concern themselves with it, who cares what they say:
In
those days I took the viewpoint: no matter whether they laugh or swear
at us, whether they present us as fools or as criminals; the main thing
is that they mention us, that they occupy themselves with us again and
again,...
MEIN KAMPF, Adolf
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 723
Another ideology high
on Hitler’s list of losers is internationalism, as opposed to the nationalism
which he propagated incessantly. Hitler totally rejected the idea
of nations sacrificing a degree of self-interest for the common good or
combining together for the common welfare and allowing their national policies
to be significantly influenced much less determined by international preferences
or improvements. For Hitler internationalism could only weaken a
nation; a nation must grow and expand by its own efforts and the fate of
others is their problem. It’s the every-man-for-himself philosophy
writ large and applied worldwide.
In Kulmbach on 5 February
1928 Hitler stated:
We
are the deadly enemies of internationalism because nature teaches us that
the purity of race and the authority of the leader alone are able to lead
a nation to victory.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 39
In Munich on 1 May
1923:
Internationalism
is weakness in the life of nations. What is there that is born of
internationalism? Nothing. The real values of human culture
were not born of internationalism, but they were created by the whole heritage
and tradition of the people. When peoples no longer possess creative
power they become international. Wherever there is weakness in regard
to spiritual matters in the life of nations, internationalism makes its
appearance. It is no coincidence that a people, namely, the Jews,
which does not have any real creative ability is the carrier of this internationalism.
It is the people with the least creative power and talent....
The Jew, as a race, has a remarkable instinct of self-preservation, but
as an individual he has no cultural abilities at all. He is the demon
of the disintegration of nations--the symbol of continual destruction of
peoples.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 38
In Munich on 25 January
1923:
We
see the destructive consequences of this [democracy] in both the political
as well as economic field. This madness manifests itself most faithfully,
however, in the nation's attitude toward the most vital questions of its
existence. The belief in the eternal right of one's own people, in
the national will, which is the only force capable of saving us, is shaken,
and this is replaced by the stupid hope in love and conciliation as possible
bases of a newly conceived world order of the future. Activated by
this madness, a people of 70,000,000 throws away its weapons and falls
for the line of a crafty American [Wilson]. Insofar as our present
fate is the outcome of faith in this doctrine, a faith which unwittingly
leads to disaster, it might be termed tragic. Since, however, the
leaders and organizers of that movement were not, like the mass of their
followers, acting unwittingly, but were consciously and purposely destroying
the people and the state, for the sake of the meanest party prejudices,
there can be no more talk of tragedy but only of a dastardly crime.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 219-221
Hitler, like Bushites
demeaning and minimizing the UN, contended internationalism has no future
and is on the way to oblivion.
In Kassel on 11 February
1933:
The
age of international solidarity is over. The national solidarity
of the German Volk will take its place!
HITLER, SPEECHES AND
PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 252
Another concept lying
near the apex of Hitler’s despised beliefs is pacifism which Webster defines
as opposition to the use of force under any circumstances or refusal for
reasons of conscience to participate in war or any military action.
Hitler’s contempt for the pacifists of his era is comparable to that felt
by Bush toward the pacifists of today. Hitler had several objections
to pacifism one of which was that pacifists lack character.
In a 27 April 1923 speech
in Munich he stated:
It's
a lack of conviction and of character to be a pacifist: For he certainly
makes use of the help of others, but doesn't want to practice self-assertion.
It's the same with a folk. A folk which isn't ready to defend itself
lacks character.
ADOLPH HITLER QUOTATIONS,
by Karl Hammer,1990, Page 35
Pacifism supposedly
destroys the competitive instinct and the ambition to achieve.
In that speech to the Industry
Club in Dusseldorf on 27 January 1932:
So
in the same way the education to pacifism must of necessity have its effect
right through life until it reaches the humblest individual lives.
The conception of pacifism is logical if I once admit a general equality
amongst peoples and human beings. For in that case what sense is
there in conflict? The conception of pacifism translated into practice
and applied to all spheres must gradually lead to the destruction of the
competitive instinct, to the destruction of the ambition for outstanding
achievement.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, page 789
Pacifism supposedly
destroys a nation’s rights.
On 23 January 1936 in an
interview with French correspondent Madame Titayna, Hitler stated:
We
cannot accept a pacifism that means forfeiting one's vital rights.
For us, pacifism can only become a reality if it is built on the basic
human premise that each and every people has a right to live. I said
"to live," and not "to vegetate." Whoever truly wants peace must
first acknowledge this right of the nations. In other words there
is not a single German who wants war. The last one cost us two million
dead and 7 1/2 million wounded. Even if we had been victorious, no
victory would have been worth paying that price.
HITLER, [Speeches
and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 741
Above all, pacifism
allegedly destroys nations from within.
In a speech in Munich on
12 September 1923:
Pacifism
as the idea of the State, international law instead of power--all means
are good enough to unman the people. They hold India up to us as
a model and what is called "passive resistance." True, they want
to make an India of Germany, a folk of dreams which turns away its face
from realities, in order that they can oppress it for all eternity, that
they may span it body and soul to the yoke of slavery....
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 69
Hitler viewed Nazism,
on the other hand, as a philosophy of fighting and struggle just as the
Bushites view “neo-conservatism” as an ideology of fighting and struggle.
In Kulmbach on 5 February
1928:
We
are enemies of cowardly pacifism because we recognize that according to
the laws of nature struggle is the father of all things.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 39
In Berlin on 30 January
1936:
National
Socialism is not a doctrine of lethargy, but a doctrine of fighting.
Not a doctrine of good fortune, of coincidence, but a doctrine of work,
a doctrine of struggle, and thus also a doctrine of sacrifices. That
is how we did things before the fight, and in these past three years this
has not changed, and it will remain so in the future!
HITLER, [Speeches
and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 747
And in Berlin on 17
November 1928:
The
poison of pacifism is again scattered about. The world forgets that
struggle is the father of all things.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 40
In light of these pronouncements
it comes as no surprise that Hitler advocated the physical annihilation
of pacifists and pacifist teachings. Because pacifism is not a significant
force on the American political scene due conditions different from those
of Germany in the 1930’s, the Bushites have no reason to crush pacifist
organizations. Fortunately the Bushites are not in a position where
they can advocate, or have sufficient motivation to advocate, such ruthless,
even vicious, measures as the following. Hopefully they never will
be in such a situation or have sufficient incentive.
In Munich on 27 April 1923:
An individual who says, I refuse to defend my life, has forfeited the right
to his existence. To be a pacifist implies a lack of conviction and
a lack of character. For, though the pacifist relies on the help
of others, he refuses to defend himself on his own behalf.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 37
We
were obliged to shoot a few hundred conscientious objectors, but, after
that example, we had no more.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 663
The
only type of treason which one might possibly regard as springing from
certain moral inhibitions is a refusal to join the armed forces on grounds
of religious conviction. But we should not fail to point out to these
elements which refuse to fight on religious grounds that they obviously
still want to eat the things others are fighting to get for them, that
this was quite contrary to the spirit of a higher justice, and that we
must therefore leave them to starve.
I regard it as an act of exceptional
clemency that I did not, in fact, carry out this threat, but contented
myself with shooting 130 of these self-styled Bible Students. Incidentally,
the execution of these 130 cleared the air, just like a thunderstorm does.
When the news of the shootings was made public, many thousands of similarly
minded people who proposed to avoid military service on the score of some
religious scruple or other lost their courage and changed their minds.
If you wish to wage war successfully or to lead a people successfully through
a difficult period of its history, you must have no doubts whatever on
one point--namely, any individual who in such times tries, either actively
or passively, to exclude himself from the activities of the community,
must be destroyed.
Anyone who for false reasons of mercy deviates from this clear principle
is aiding, willingly or unwillingly, the dissolution of the State.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK, 1941-1944,
Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 519
The Fuhrer was quick
to allege that when the Nazis attained ascendancy pacifism would disappear
as if by magic. In truth, it would not disappear as if willingly
departing; it would be eliminated from the social milieu by hostile external
forces. Hitler had a propensity to employ terms calculated to project
an image of voluntary, self-induced departures or disappearances as opposed
to suppressions and crimes.
In Munich on 18 July 1930:
If this Movement should achieve victory, internationalism, democracy, and
pacifism will vanish in Germany and then the German people will rise up.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 42
And when that supposedly
voluntary departure occurs the enemies of pacifism will have prevailed
and saved themselves.
In Berlin on 17 November
1928:
That
state will be victorious which does not fall prey to the vice of cowardice
and pacifism. The people who oppose pacifism with the idea of struggle
will with mathematical certainty become the master of its fate.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 40
A concept near and
dear to Hitler’s psyche and logically flowing from nearly every belief
discussed so far is nationalism. Hitler was a vehement nationalist
with jingoistic proclivities completely opposed to internationalism.
The Bushites definitely give the impression of being in sympathy with this
mentality.
In the Reichstag on 21 May
1935 Hitler said:
The
ideas by which we are governed are diametrically opposed to those of Soviet
Russia. National Socialism is a doctrine which applies exclusively
to the German people. Bolshevism lays emphasis on its international
mission.
We National Socialists believe
that in the long run man can be happy only in his own nation. We
live in the belief that the happiness and the achievements of Europe are
indissolubly connected with the existence of a system of free, independent
national States. Bolshevism preaches the constitution of a world
empire and only recognizes sections of a central International....
Both we National Socialists and the Bolshevists are convinced that there
is a gulf between us which can never be bridged.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 2, Page 1234
In a speech in Weimar
on Nov. 6, 1938:
In
the place of all those international factors--Democracy, the Conscience
of Peoples, the Conscience of the World, the League of Nations, and the
like--we have set a single factor--our own people....
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 546
For Hitler, as with
Bush, his nation possessed divine qualities.
In Munich on 22 September
1928:
We
recognize only two Gods: A god in Heaven and a God on earth and that is
our Fatherland.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 39
I
intend to set up a thousand-year Reich and anyone who supports me in this
battle [for the nation] is a fellow-fighter for a unique spiritual--I would
almost say divine --creation.
SECRET CONVERSATIONS
WITH HITLER, Edited by Edouard Calic, 1971. Page 68
As a consequence of
all his nationalistic fervor and rhetoric Hitler was fiercely opposed to
any and all ideologies he deemed anti-nationalistic and none occupied this
status more prominently than Marxism. Just as Bush considers al Qaeda
and other “terrorists” to be the primary source of world evil Hitler viewed
Marxism as the fountain of all ills and the primary destroyer of national
pride:
The
nation has been split by the advent of Marx. On the right is the
nationally-minded bourgeoisie whose thinking on social matters, however,
is totally inadequate; on the left is the working-class with its justified
social demands but which, unfortunately, has become completely divorced
from any thought of the nation through the influence of Marx.
SECRET CONVERSATIONS
WITH HITLER, Edited by Edouard Calic, 1971. Page 21
Hitler deplored any
conversations or rhetoric containing anti-nationalistic tones and Marxists
were judged to be the main purveyors of same.
While recounting eating
lunch with some fellow workers on a job site in his younger years, he stated:
I drink my bottle of milk and ate my piece of bread somewhere on the side,...
what I heard served to annoy me extremely. Everything was rejected:
the nation as an invention of the "capitalistic" classes--how often was
I to hear just this word!--; the country as the instrument of the bourgeoisie
for the exploitation of the workers; the authority of the law as a means
of suppressing the proletariat; the school as an institution for bringing
up slaves as well as slave drivers; religion as a means for doping the
people destined for exploitation; morality as a sign of sheepish patience,
and so forth. Nothing remained that was not dragged down into the
dirt and the filth of the lowest depths.
MEIN KAMPF, Adolf
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 53
In that infamous but
revealing Industry Club speech in Dusseldorf on 27 January 1932:
The
Government talks of "Thought for the Fatherland" but what does "Thought
for the Fatherland”--patriotic thought--mean? Ask the German nation.
One section professes its patriotism, the other says: Fatherland is a stupid
bourgeois tradition, and nothing more. The Government says: The State
must be saved: 50 percent see in the State a necessity, but another 50
percent wish only to smash the State in pieces: they feel themselves to
be the vanguard not only of an alien attitude towards the State and of
an alien conception of the State, but also the vanguard of a will which
is hostile to the State. I cannot say that this is theory only.
It is no question of theory when only 50 percent at most of a people are
ready, when necessary, to fight for the symbolic colors, while 50 percent
have hoisted another flag which stands for a State which is to be found
not in their nation, not in their State but only outside the bounds of
their own State....
The Government will endeavor to improve the morals of the German people.
But on what moral code, gentlemen? Morals, too, must have a root.
What to you appears to be moral appears to others immoral, and what to
you seems immoral is for others a new morality. The State, for instance,
says: The thief must be punished. But many citizens of the nation
reply: The property owner must be punished, for the ownership of property
is in itself theft. The thief is glorified, not condemned.
One-half of the nation says: The traitor must be punished: the other half
considers treason to be a duty. One-half says: The nation must be
defended with courage: the other half regards courage as idiotic.
One-half says: The basis of our morality is the religious life and the
other half answers with scorn: The conception of a God has no basis in
reality. Religions are but opium for the people.
Gentleman, these conflicts strike at the power and strength of the nation
as a whole. How is a people still to count for anything abroad when
in the last resort 50 percent are inclined to Bolshevism and 50 percent
are Nationalists or Anti-Bolshevists. It is quite conceivable to
turn Germany into a Bolshevist State--it would be a catastrophe, but it
is conceivable. It is also conceivable to build up Germany as a national
state. But it is inconceivable that one should create a strong and
sound Germany if 50 percent of its citizens are Bolshevist and 50 percent
nationally minded. From the solution of this problem we cannot escape!
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 808-09
Hitler contended that
because of these teachings and in order to preserve nationalism Marxism
has to be destroyed.
In a speech in Nuremberg
on 1 September 1933:
Nationalism,
on the other hand, was ready from the very first to undertake the long
and painful task of building up anew the structure which would later destroy
Marxism.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 192
In his appeal on the
inauguration of the Winter-Help Fund on 13 September 1933:
...within
Germany the National Socialists had for many years opposed the Marxist
conception of international solidarity: in it they had seen only the enemy
of any national outlook, a phantom which did but draw men away from the
only possible reasonable solidarity--the solidarity which is eternally
based on community of blood.... We have broken the international
Marxist solidarity within our people in order to give to the millions of
our German working-men another and a better solidarity: it is the solidarity
of our own people--a unity which none can sever, not merely in good fortune
but in bad days too....
The international solidarity of the proletariat we have broken: in its
place we wish to build up the living national solidarity of the German
people.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 869
However, Hitler was
somewhat more accepting with respect to bolshevism confined to the Soviet
Union alone than Bush is in regard to the acceptance of al Qaeda and “terrorist”
training camps in other nations.
In
the Reichstag on 21 May 1935:
Insofar as Bolshevism can be
considered a purely Russian affair we have no interest in it whatever.
Every nation must seek its salvation in its own way. So far as Bolshevism
draws Germany within its range, however, we are its deadliest and most
fanatical enemies.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 2, Page 1235
Closely allied to nationalism,
of course, is patriotism and there was certainly no dearth of same in Nazi
Germany. Allegiance was sworn to god and country and woe be to he
who thought otherwise.
In the Proclamation by the
Government to the German Nation on 1 February 1933 can be found:
We
are determined, as leaders of the nation, to fulfil as a national Government
the task which has been allotted to us, swearing fidelity only to God,
our conscience, and the nation.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 112
In order to sell patriotism
the Nazis relied heavily on emblems and symbols. They were very visually
oriented as are the Bushites today who not only agreed to land their president
on an aircraft carrier after having dressed him in a flight suit bedecked
with instruments he probably knew little about, but had him speak in front
of a propaganda banner:
In hundreds of thousands of cases, an effective emblem can give the first
impetus for the interest in a movement.
MEIN KAMPF, Adolf
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 734
The flag, of course,
is far and away the most effective and emotional symbol.
In a speech to the SA and
SS on 12 September 1937:
In his life on this earth, man needs external, visible symbols which can
be carried before him and which he strives to imitate. For the German,
the most sacred symbol has always been the flag; it is not a piece of cloth,
but a conviction and a pledge and hence an obligation.
HITLER, [Speeches
and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 935
Extreme emphasis on
following the flag is the message of both Hitler and Bush.
In Berlin on 1 May 1939
the former said:
We
had to fight for this flag in hard and bitter struggle. It has been
given to you, and you grew up under it. Already in your youth you
wear it on your sleeve. Follow your flag; I rely on you.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 133
In a radio speech to
the Wehrmacht on 7 April 1937:
The
swastika you find on your banners is the symbol of this great inner process
of recuperation, the symbol of the rebirth and hence the resurrection of
our Volk. And it is also the symbol under which the new German Wehrmacht
has come to be. It is the national symbol of the National Socialist
German Reich, and you are its soldiers!
HITLER, [Speeches
and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 888
The flag provides spirit
and hope according to Hitler and the Bushites.
In a speech to the SA and
SS on 12 September 1937 Hitler stated:
In
the long yearn of our struggle for the German being against its adversaries,
the flag was carried at your fore, the one which is today the flag of the
German Reich. These standards of our struggle at that time were inconspicuous
and faded, wholly unprepossessing; yet how we loved our flag regardless,
a flag that had nothing to do with the disintegration of the nation but
to us seemed to be the sunshine of a new and better German future!
How the tens of thousands and later hundreds of thousands of our party
comrades clung to this flag, and how they rallied around this flag!
HITLER, [Speeches
and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 935
As with the American
flag, parts of the Swastika symbolize different concepts:
As
National Socialists we see our program in our flag. In the red we
see the social idea of the movement, in the white the national idea, in
the swastika the mission of the fight for the victory of Aryan man, and
at the same time also the victory of the idea of creative work which in
itself is and will always be anti-Semitic.
MEIN KAMPF, Adolf
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 737
As far as Hitler was
concerned, harming the flag merited punishment and most Bushites fully
agree. Indeed, the latter have worked relentlessly to have laws passed
banning flag burning and prescribing penalties for doing so. Point
134a in the 20 December 1932 Decree of the National President for Preserving
Domestic Peace states:
Whoever
publicly insults the Reich or one of the states, its constitution, its
colors or flags or the German defensive forces, or maliciously and purposely
makes them appear despicable, is punishable with imprisonment.
THE HITLER DECREES,
by James Pollock and Harlow Heneman, 1934, Page 7
As with everything
else, for Hitler it was a simple case of whether the Swastika or the Hammer
and Sickle would prevail.
In a 21 August 1923 speech:
Today
the last decisive struggle rests between the Swastika and the Star of the
Soviet....
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 74
On 1 May 1923:
That
is the mission of our Movement: Swastika or Soviet star: the despotism
of the International or the Holy Empire of German Nationality.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 74
On the same date:
We
have both the hope and the faith that the day will come on which Germany
shall stretch from Konigsberg to Strassburg, and from Hamburg to Vienna.
We have faith that one day Heaven will bring the Germans back into a Reich
over which there shall be no Soviet star, no Jewish star of David, but
above that Reich there shall be the symbol of German labor--the Swastika.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 69
In Nuremberg on 12
September 1936:
Then
let our old enemy try to attack us and to rise up again. Let him
carry his Soviet symbol before him--we will conquer again in the sign of
the Swastika.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 129
The
movement that fights against Marxism in this sense has today consequently
to carry incorporated in its flag the symbol of the new State.
MEIN KAMPF, Adolf
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 734
And speaking in Berlin
on 6 October 1936 at the opening of the Winter Help Appeal:
On
one side were clarity, faith, heroism, and the devotion of a united people;
on the other the unreason, unbelief, mendacity, cowardice, and egoism of
a parasitic clique, who ruled as despots over the masses which were torn
by class hatred.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 681
Beyond doubt one of
the most ominous and revealing propaganda terms implemented by the Bushites
was the name given to a new federal department following 9/11--the Department
of Homeland Security. If that does not conjure up images of the fascist
era of the 1920’s and 30’s nothing will. The very word “Homeland”
reeks with nationalism, exclusivity, priority, even superiority.
It has always been a favorite word of fascists and Hitler was no exception.
In Vienna on 9 April 1938:
I
wish to thank Him who permitted me to return to my homeland [Austria] so
that I could now lead it back into my German Reich!
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 94
In Berlin on 11 December
1941:
...it
will never break the ring of steel that, forged by the homeland and maintained
through the heroism of our front, protects the German Reich.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 385
In Berlin on 11 December
1941:
...may remember the homeland, which today has also become a fighting front,...
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 385
In Salzburg on 6 April
1938:
If fate led a young man forth out of his homeland and brought him to the
position in which I find myself today, then it is self-evident that this
man would think of his homeland more and more.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 93
And in Berlin on 11
December 1941:
Only
from the air is he [the enemy] able to terrorize the German homeland,...
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 385
Considering the means
employed for destruction on 9/11 that last comment radiates a haunting,
eerie ring.
In an anemic defense
of the song Deutschland Uber Alles and the unmistakable aura of preference
and superiority the title projects, Hitler sought to confine the context
within Germany or to Germans alone by saying in Nuremberg on 31 July 1937:
A
second factor is the German Lied [Deutschland Uber Alles], sung not only
within the boundaries of the Reich but sounding beyond them, everywhere
Germans live throughout the world. This song [Deutschland Uber Alles]
accompanies us all the way from the cradle to the grave. It lives
in us and with us and, no matter where we are, it conjures up in our mind's
eye the image of our ancient homeland, namely of Germany and the German
Reich. A bird that has lost its sight tends to sing and express its
sorrow and its feelings even more fervently in its song....
Thus it follows that the song which we Germans perceive as most sacred
is a great song about this yearning. There are many, in other countries,
who do not understand this: in this song above all they choose to see something
as imperialistic which is as far removed from their idea of imperialism
as can be. What hymn for a Volk can be more splendid than that which
constitutes a vow to seek one's fortune and well-being within one's Volk
and to place one's Volk above everything else on earth?
HITLER, [Speeches
and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 917
While extolling his
commitment to patriotic zeal, Hitler disclosed some rather interesting
if not amusing tidbits of anguish that Bush has been fortunately spared
through no effort of his own:
The
raised arm of the German salute, that has quite a different style!
I made it the salute of the Party long after the Duce had adopted it.
I'd read the description of the sitting of the Diet of Worms, in the course
of which Luther was greeted with the German salute. It was to show
him that he was not being confronted with arms, but with peaceful intentions.
...It must be regarded as a survival of an ancient custom, which originally
signified: "See, I have no weapon in my hand!"
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 172
I no longer have the strength to speak as long as I used to. So I'll
withdraw when I realize I'm no longer capable of giving these festivities
this style that suits them. The most difficult effort comes at the
march-past, when one has to remain motionless for hours. On several
occasions it has happened to me to be seized by dizziness. Can anyone
imagine what a torture it is to remain so long standing up, motionless,
with the knees pressed together? And, on top of that, to salute with
outstretched arm? Last time, I was compelled to cheat a little.
I also have to make the effort of looking each man in the eyes, for the
men marching past are all trying to catch my glance.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 242