I am firmly opposed to any attempt to export National Socialism. If other countries are determined to preserve their democratic systems and
By now the survival-of-the-fittest,
law-of-the-jungle mentality endemic to Nazism is undeniable and readily
apparent. Instead of debating the obvious, the following Hitlerian
bombs are submitted merely for confirmation and will only make the rubble
bounce. As far as Hitler was concerned, Darwin could not have been
more accurate and the most honest and candid of Bushites would heartily
and publicly concur.
In Munich on 15 March 1929:
If
men wish to live, then they are forced to kill others. The entire
struggle for survival is a conquest of the means of existence which in
turn results in the elimination of others from these same sources of subsistence.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 10
In Munich on 21 November
1927:
Thus,
the struggle for daily bread becomes in reality a struggle for the soil
which produces this daily bread; that is, for space itself. It is
an iron principle; the weak fall in order that the strong may live....
From all the innumerable creatures a complete species rises and becomes
the master of the rest. Such a one is man--the most brutal, the most
resolute creature on earth. He knows nothing but the extermination
of his enemies in the world....
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 6
In Kulmbach on 5 February
1928:
In this struggle, the stronger, the more able win, while the less able,
the weak lose. Struggle is the father of all things. Only through
struggle has man raised himself above the animal world. Even today
it is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve
himself above the world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.
As it is with the individual so it is in the destiny of nations.
Only by struggle are the strong able to raise themselves above the weak.
And every people that loses out in this eternally shifting struggle has,
according to the laws of nature, received its just desert. A Weltanschauung
[world philosophy] that denies the idea of struggle is contrary to nature
and will lead a people that is guided by it to destruction. The road
that must be traveled by a people which wishes to develop itself still
higher is not the road of comfort and ease, but the road of relentless
struggle. For if you do not fight for life, then life will never
be won.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 8
Natural
instincts bid all living beings not merely conquer their enemies, but also
destroy them.
THE VOICE OF DESTRUCTION,
by Hermann Rauschnigg, 1940, page 138
He who is strongest in courage and industry receives, as her favorite child,
the right to be the master of existence.
MEIN KAMPF, Adolf
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 174
Everything sucks its life out of lower forms of life. Finally the
strong feed on the weak, the stronger on the strong. For all strength
is conquest.
I AM ADOLPH HITLER,
by Adolph Hitler, Ed. by Werner/Lotte Pelz, 1971, Page 144
Strength rules and
that’s a law of nature:
The
earth continues to go round, whether it's the man who kills the tiger or
the tiger who eats the man. The stronger asserts his will, it's the
law of nature. The world doesn't change; its laws are eternal.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 38
Originally
war was nothing but a struggle for pasture-grounds. Today war is
nothing but a struggle for the riches of nature. By virtue of an
inherent law, these riches belong to him who conquers them.
The great migrations set out from the East. With us begins the ebb,
from West to East. That's in accordance with the laws of nature.
By means of the struggle, the elites are continually renewed.
The law of selection justifies this incessant struggle, by allowing the
survival of the fittest.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 51
In Munich on 29 November
1929:
Science must teach the individual the great primitive and fundamental laws,
the laws of life. If these laws are disregarded, there can be no
development.... These fundamental laws are from the very outset simple,
as the law, for example, that as long as the world has existed, weakness
has never been victorious but always strength, the molder of all life.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 11
Strength rules is not
only a law of nature but that’s how conditions should be:
One
couldn't imagine a better activity on nature's part than that which consists
in deciding the supremacy of one creature over another by means of a constant
struggle.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 396
Men
dispossess one another, and one perceives that, at the end of it all, it
is always the stronger who triumphs. Is that not the most reasonable
order of things?
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 39
All
that is very right and proper, for it is the struggle for existence that
produces the selection of the fittest.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 134
The only options are
victory and domination or defeat and servitude.
In Munich on 2 April
1927 Hitler stated:
There
is no Marxian reconciliation on this score; it is either you or I, life
or death, either extermination or servitude.
From [various] examples we arrive
at the fundamental conclusion that there is no humanitarianism but only
an eternal struggle, a struggle which is the prerequisite for the development
of all humanity.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 5
You are either the
hammer or the anvil.
In his Munich speech on
17 April 1923 Hitler stated:
He who will not be a hammer must be an anvil.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 57
In Munich on 15 March
1929:
One
is either the hammer or the anvil. We confess that it is our purpose
to prepare the German people again for the role of the hammer.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 11
Simply put, Hitler’s
philosophy is the old adage of ‘Might makes Right’ in action.
In a Munich speech on 13
April 1923:
The
power which nations can bring to bear is the decisive factor. It
is evident that the stronger has the right before God and the world to
enforce his will. History shows that the right as such does not mean
a thing, unless it is backed up by great power. If one does not have
the power to enforce his right, that right alone will profit him absolutely
nothing. The stronger have always been victorious. The whole
of nature is a continuous struggle between strength and weakness, an eternal
victory of the strong over the weak. All nature would be full of
decay if it were otherwise. And the states which do not wish to recognize
this law will decay.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 3
In Munich on 22 September
1928:
Insofar
as we deliver the people from the atmosphere of pitiable belief in possibilities
which lie outside the bounds of one's own strength--such as the belief
in reconciliation, understanding, world peace, the League of Nations, and
international solidarity--we destroy these ideas. There is only one
right in this world and this right is one's own strength.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 39
And Hitler contended
that to fail to struggle is to perish:
No
one can gain without someone losing.--Evolution. The first law of
thermodynamics in biological terms. Devour or you will be devoured.
The squeamish who want to contract out of this struggle, thereby merely
move their species towards extinction.
I AM ADOLPH HITLER,
by Adolph Hitler, Ed. by Werner/Lotte Pelz, 1971, Page 144
As far as Hitler was
concerned, it all came down to the ultimate issue of power.
Power
is everything. Power is simply another word for everything.
A more dynamic word. You have power, you have everything. Without
power you have nothing. You are nothing. You exist by the grace
of other people. You have to build your castle in the air.
Spiritual masturbation. You are a pawn.
I AM ADOLPH HITLER,
by Adolph Hitler, Ed. by Werner/Lotte Pelz, 1971, Page 74
And for that reason
the Nazis feverishly sought power and openly admitted as much:
All
these democracies and abdicating classes want nothing better than to disburden
themselves of their tiresome responsibility, and to have the peace I guarantee
to them. These men are not of the sort that want power and enjoy
having it. All their talk is of duty and responsibility, and they
would be only too delighted to be able to tend their gardens in peace,
and go fishing when the time comes round, and, for the rest, to spend their
life in pious meditation....
But we, sir, are feverishly
in pursuit of power, and we are not a bit afraid to say so. We are
madly keen on it. We are fanatically pursuing it. For us the
pursuit of power is not an anemic theory: the will to power is for us literally
the whole meaning of this life. We are alive, alive! Let the
others sleep!
THE VOICE OF DESTRUCTION,
by Hermann Rauschnigg, 1940, page 279
There can be little
doubt that the tenets in the second paragraph are far closer to Bushite
beliefs than those expressed in the first.
The Fuhrer contended
one can pursue politics only by means of power.
In Munich on 4 May 1923:
And this must be solved in the sense that the German people again understands
that one can pursue politics only by means of power and again power.
As long as our people and our government do not understand that, any talk
about rebuilding Germany is nonsense....
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 57
Without power subservience
lies ahead.
In Munich on 22 September
1928:
Whoever
is unable to meet the power of his enemy with power of his own must sacrifice
any active espousal of his own interests; he will be forced from one dictate
to another instead of from one treaty to another.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 9
The Fuhrer relied heavily
upon the will or will-power and contended power came through exercise of
the will.
In a Munich speech on 12
April 1922:
We
recognized that freedom can eternally be only a consequence of power and
that the source of power is the will.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 24
But
among all the convictions that have impressed themselves upon me, none
has been confirmed so conclusively, from beginning to end, by all my experiences
in all my studies, as this: that life is will-to-power, that not to will
power is corruption and decay. The will-to-power consists in this,
that it will bend everything to its purpose and its pleasure....
It will prove itself harder than the hardest facts. Facts are obstacles
only to people with opinions. For the convinced they are stones,
stepping stones, rungs of a latter reaching to the sky. They are
also ammunition. The best example of the use of facts is still the
shell or the bomb. Even professors know that and throw their paper
ball opinions against each other's heads.
I AM ADOLPH HITLER,
by Adolph Hitler, Ed. by Werner/Lotte Pelz, 1971, Page 144
What Hitler said in
regard to power is nearly always applicable to what he said in regard to
force. He repeatedly contended only force rules:
You're
wrong, sir, quite wrong! One thing is and remains eternally the same:
force. Empires are made by the sword, by superior force--not by alliances!
THE VOICE OF DESTRUCTION,
by Hermann Rauschnigg, 1940, page 123
In Essen on 22 November
1926:
The
fundamental motif through all the centuries has been the principle that
force and power are the determining factors. All development is struggle.
Only force rules. Force is the first law. A struggle has already
taken place between original man and his primeval world. Only through
struggle have states and the world become great. If one should ask
whether the struggle is gruesome, then the only answer could be: For the
weak, yes, for humanity as a whole, no.
World history proves that in the struggle between nations, that race has
always won out whose drive for self-preservation was the more pronounced,
the stronger.... Unfortunately, the contemporary world stresses internationalism
instead of the innate values of race, democracy and the majority instead
of the worth of the great leader. Instead of everlasting struggle
the world preaches cowardly pacifism, and everlasting peace. These
three things, considered in the light of their ultimate consequences, are
the causes of the downfall of all humanity. The practical result
of conciliation among nations is the renunciation of the people's own strength
and their voluntary enslavement.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 4
In Chemnitz on 2 April
1928:
The
first fundamental of any rational Weltanschauung is the fact that on earth
and in the universe force alone is decisive. Whatever goal man has
reached is due to his originality plus his brutality. Whatever man
possesses today in the field of culture is the culture of the Aryan race.
The Aryan has stamped his character on the whole world. The basis
for all development is the creative urge of the individual, not the vote
of majorities. The genius of the individual is decisive, not the
spirit of the masses. All life is bound up in three theses: Struggle
is the father of all things, virtue lies in blood, leadership is primary
and decisive.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 8
Man
is congenitally evil. He can only be controlled by force.
HITLER AND I by Otto
Strasser, 1940, page 75
But, then, in one of
those inconsistencies with which the writings of Hitler are plagued he
says:
The
world can only be ruled by fear.
THE VOICE OF DESTRUCTION,
by Hermann Rauschnigg, 1940, page 81
So which is it?
Is man ruled only by force or by fear? They are not identical.
Hitler views force
as a positive, constructive element. The new Europe will be built
by force.
On 26 February 1945 he exclaimed:
The
new Europe will not be built by parliamentary elections, discussions, and
resolutions, but only by force.
HITLER'S LETTERS AND
NOTES, by Werner Maser, (1973), page 369
Force will regain lost
regions for Germany.
One
must be quite clear about the fact that the regaining of the lost regions
will not come about through solemn appeals to the dear Lord or through
pious hopes in a League of Nations, but only by force of arms.
MEIN KAMPF, Adolf
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 912
Today
I am guided by the sober knowledge that one does not regain lost territories
by means of the glibness of tongue of sharp parliamentarian gabblers, but
that one must regain them by means of a sharp sword, that is, through a
bloody struggle.
MEIN KAMPF, Adolf
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 916
Force alone will gain
new regions:
...
but only the might of a triumphant sword will in the future assign us territory,
and with it life for our nation.
MEIN KAMPF, Adolf
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 949
In Nuremberg on 8 September
1934:
We
know that there is no philanthropy in international affairs. Everything
must be fought for and conquered.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 124
We
must remember the example set by the knights of the Germanic Orders, who
were by no means kid-gloved. They held the Bible in one hand and
their sword in the other. In the same way our soldiers in the East
must be animated by the National Socialist faith and must not hesitate
to use force to gain their ends, if need be.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 471
Force determines national
destinies:
National
destinies are not altered with kid gloves.
MEIN KAMPF, Adolf
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 985
And England is an excellent
example of a nation that advanced through force:
...
no nation has more carefully prepared its economic conquest with the sword
with greater brutality and defended it later on more ruthlessly than the
British.
MEIN KAMPF, Adolf
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 189
In a Munich speech
on 10 April 1923:
No
economic policy is possible without a sword, no industrialization without
power.... England has fully recognized this primary maxim in the
healthy life of States; for centuries England has acted on the principal
of converting economic strength into political power, while conversely
political power in its turn must protect economic life.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 48
But in another one
of those seeming inconsistencies Hitler said in a speech to the Reichstag
on 30 January 1934:
... I nonetheless believe that I must say one thing: no regime can prevail
for any length of time with force alone.
HITLER, SPEECHES AND
PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 427
It would appear that force is not the be-all and end-all after all.
With all of his reliance
upon force, strength, power, and might no wonder Hitler welcomed war and
felt it possessed many positive attributes such as the following:
War is good for the
economy and builds morale:
A
man will never love his wife better than on the night before he goes to
the front, on the morning when he says goodbye; as during the days he is
on leave between one offensive and the next. Never again will a man
think of his home as so beautiful and cozy, as when he remembers it in
the trenches. I am not cynical, gentlemen. I am realistic.
But this you will never understand, however long I talk to you. As
for the economy, war restores it. Only a long peace ruins the economy.
War and victory, that is what the masses need to be turned into a purposeful
instrument in the hands of a great man.
I AM ADOLPH HITLER,
by Adolph Hitler, Ed. by Werner/Lotte Pelz, 1971, Page 85
War clarifies and simplifies:
It is the incomparable
appeal of war that it concentrates everything on one thing: victory.
War clarifies and simplifies. Black, white; enemy, friend; victory
which is everything, defeat which is much worse than death. No longer
confusion and bewilderment. No longer conflicting desires and ideas.
All creative energies become canalized and unleashed.
I AM ADOLPH HITLER,
by Adolph Hitler, Ed. by Werner/Lotte Pelz, 1971, Page 85
War is needed because
unending peace causes degeneration to emerge and radiate:
As
a general principle, I think that a peace which lasts for more than 25
years is harmful to a nation. Peoples, like individuals, sometimes
need regenerating by a little bloodletting. Our ancestors fought
duels.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 661
Try
to turn men into sheep, you will drive them into boredom and madness.
They will turn to sex and perversion, to drink and to drugs. They
will want to see and smell blood on every newspaper page, in every cinema.
In the end they will run amuck, as they begin to realize they are only
smelling printer's ink and celluloid.
I AM ADOLPH HITLER,
by Adolph Hitler, Ed. by Werner/Lotte Pelz, 1971, Page 87
Mankind
has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal
peace.
MEIN KAMPF, Adolf
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 175
How Hitler intended
to reconcile these utterances with his prior repeated commitments to peace
can only be a matter of conjecture, since the contradiction is manifest.
Judging by the willingness,
indeed, eagerness of some Bushites to attack Iraq and Afghanistan and augment
military intervention into other nations, the degree to which they are
sympathetic to Hitlerian military doctrine becomes a key consideration.
Hitler’s only serious
objection to military action appears to arise from his conclusion that
the best of the best are killed, maimed, and wounded:
Every war gives rise to a species of selectivity in reverse; the finest
and fittest perish by the thousand. Even among the brave the choice
of arm of the services constitutes a sort of super-selective process, the
bravest of the brave going for Air Force and the submarine service.
And then, in all branches of the service the call is continual: "Who volunteers
for...?" And always gallant men come forward--and die. In time,
then, there remains only the rascal living in peace and security....
... If the good are decimated while the evil are preserved, then it is
quite possible, as happened in Germany in 1918, for a handful of a few
hundred evil vagabonds to do violence to a whole nation.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 639
For Hitler the entire
realm of politics is nothing more than an interaction of struggle, war,
and power.
In Vilsbiburg on 6 March
1927:
What
is politics? One of the great man of our nation once said: politics
is struggle. And Clemenceau, one of our most bitter enemies, said:
Politics is war. Both men are right.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 4
In Munich on 21 November
1927:
Politics
is nothing else than the struggle of the people for its existence in this
world; it is the eternal battle of the people, for better or for worse,
for its existence on this planet. How does this struggle take place?
Great men of history have described it. Frederick the Great said
that politics is the art of serving one's people with all the means at
one's disposal; according to Bismarck, politics is the art of the possible....
Clemenceau declared that the politics of peace was nothing else than the
continuation of war with other means. Clausewitz asserted that war
was nothing else than the continuation of politics with other weapons.
In reality, then, politics is the struggle of a people with all weapons
to the limit of its power for its existence on this earth.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 6
Unfortunately the Bushites are not only committed to these principles as well but apply them to their domestic opponents, most of whom are not even cognizant of the challenge they confront.
In light of all the
foregoing, the following self-serving pronouncements rejecting any preference
for aggression ring hollow to the informed mind. Hitler repeatedly
and explicitly denied any aggressive intent toward other nations.
In his Reichstag speech
on 30 January 1939:
...
all the assertions as to our intended attacks on other nations are lies--lies
born of morbid hysteria, or of a mania for self-preservation on the part
of certain politicians; but that in certain States these lies are being
used by unscrupulous profiteers to salvage their own finances.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 737
In the same speech:
The assertion that national socialism in Germany will soon attack North
or South America, Australia, China, are even The Netherlands, because different
systems of government are in control in these places, is on the same plane
as the statement that we intend to follow it up with an immediate occupation
of the full moon....
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 570
In Nuremberg on 16
September 1935:
National
Socialism does not harbor the slightest aggressive intent toward any European
nation.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 181
In Berlin on 1 April
1939:
Germany
has no intention of attacking other peoples.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 182
During his closing
speech at the Parteitag in Nuremberg in September 1936, which was devoted
primarily to an explanation of the hostility of the Third Reich to Bolshevism:
...
But we National Socialists do not wish that our military resources should
be employed to impose by force on other peoples what those peoples themselves
do not want. Our army does not swear an oath that it will with bloodshed
extend the National Socialist idea over other peoples, but that it will
with its own blood defend the National Socialist idea and thereby the German
Reich, its security and freedom from the aggression of other peoples....
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 674
And to the Reichstag
on 30 January 1937:
In
addition, Germany has suffered so greatly from the Bolshevist plight that
it will not exploit this plight and rob another unhappy people in its hour
of need or extract from it some future gain by force.
HITLER, [Speeches
and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 871
When Hitler alleged
Germany did not occupy other countries because hatred would be created
and no love would be generated, he was inadvertently offering advice that
Bush would certainly have been wise to heed. Someone should have
sent Bush copies of the following conclusions prior to his Iraq invasion.
While speaking on the radio
on 14 October 1933:
As
a national Socialist, I, and with me, all my followers, refuse on the basis
of our national principles to conquer the people of a foreign nation--who
would not love us in any case--at the price of the blood and lives of those
who are dear and precious to us.
HITLER, SPEECHES AND
PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 372
It
is not possible to combine democracy and enemy occupation in one country.
Enemy occupation provokes resistance, hatred, rebellion, and, as I said,
the yearning for a strong personality that will send the enemy occupiers
packing! But no democracy! Democracy under enemy occupation
can arouse only those creatures who are prepared to become roundworms crawling
around the enemy's anus, spying out a chance to slip inside....
HITLER--MEMOIRS OF
A CONFIDANT, by Otto Wegener, 1985, page 137
It's
not possible to retain by democratic methods what one has conquered by
force. In that respect, I share the point of view of the English
Tories. To subjugate an independent country, with the idea of later
giving it get back its freedom, that's not logical. The blood that
has been shed confers a right of ownership.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 35
And in a speech in
Nuremberg on 1 September 1933:
Power
and the brutal application of power can accomplish much. But in the
long run no state of affairs is secure unless it is firmly rooted in logic.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 197
Judging by that last comment, if Hitler were to assess the current state of affairs in Iraq he would likely conclude logic had not prevailed.
When reproached for
having invaded Austria and the Sudetenland, Hitler quickly dismissed the
“invasion” characterization by alleging his forces had been met with love
stronger than any previously encountered.
In Konigsberg on 25 March
1938:
When
certain foreign newspapers are now writing that we launched a cruel invasion,
I can only say that they cannot stop lying, even on their deathbeds.
In the course of my political struggle, I have been given a great deal
of love from my Volk. Yet when I recently crossed the former border
of the Reich, I met with a wave of love stronger than I had ever before
experienced.
HITLER, [Speeches
and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 1072
Hitler possessed a
distinct advantage over Bush in that the latter will have to invoke some
contortionistic reasoning of the most egregious kind to justify the Iraq
invasion in a manner of sufficient strength and rationale as that available
to Hitler with respect to Austria and the Sudetenland whose Germans had
been stripped from Germany after WWI.
Interestingly enough,
by renouncing all aggressive intentions Hitler exposed his hypocritical
nature and prominent proclivity for inconsistencies, because years earlier
he had affirmed its necessity:
The
highest task of organization, therefore, is to see to it that no kind of
internal disagreements among the members of the movement lead to a cleavage
and with it to a weakening of the work in the movement; further, that the
spirit of determined aggression does not die out, but that it continuously
renews and fortifies itself.
MEIN KAMPF, Adolf
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 852
And he later made the
following judgment with respect to a country over which he had no conceivably
valid supervision:
A
State like Switzerland, which is nothing but a pimple on the face of Europe,
cannot be allowed to continue.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 660
The Fuhrer not only
renounced any aggressive intent on the part of Germany but expressly rejected
any expansionist ambitions in Europe. Can Bush make an equivalent
commitment regarding the world at large.
On 7 March 1936 Hitler stated:
We
have no territorial claims to make in Europe.
HITLER, [Speeches
and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 778
In Konigsberg on 18
March 1936:
Germany
has no desire for conquests in Europe. Germany does not have the
intention of harming anyone in Europe.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 182
In Breslau on 22 March
1936:
Germany
makes no demands and presents no claims against other nations.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 182
Yet, in another one
of his many flip-flops Hitler said:
It is hoped that one day we shall achieve complete hegemony in Europe.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 661
Are those the words
of an individual harboring no territorial ambitions or objectives?
Hardly!
And what reason does
Hitler cite for his expansionist policy? None other than overpopulation.
Because the German people have a propensity to multiply, other societies
and nations must pay the price:
According
to the laws of nature, the soil belongs to him who conquers it. The
fact of having children who want to live, the fact that our people is bursting
out of its cramped frontiers--these justify all our claims to the Eastern
spaces.
The overflow of our birth rate will give us our chance. Overpopulation
compels a people to look out for itself.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 261
Working on that premise,
China and India could make claims of the most incredible variety.
What is quite interesting
in this regard is that Hitler was far more interested in gaining lands
and people contiguous to Germany than lost colonies in far away regions.
Gaining or regaining colonies on other continents were of little concern
to him compared to that which lay nearby. Despite denials of territorial
ambitions, he sought chunks of Europe, instead, and exposed as much in
some of his more candid comments:
...
the strength of our nation is founded, not on colonies, but on the European
territory of the homeland.
MEIN KAMPF, Adolf
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 964
For
we will find this question's [expansion] solution not in colonial acquisitions,
but exclusively in the winning of land for settlement which increases the
area of the motherland itself, and thereby not only keeps the new settlers
in the most intimate community with the land of origin, but insures to
the total area those advantages deriving from its united magnitude.
MEIN KAMPF, Adolf
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 949
In fact, he sought
to make the Baltic Sea a German lake just as Mussolini intended to turn
the Mediterranean Sea into an Italian lake:
In
my opinion, we should make a German Mediterranean of the Baltic Sea.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 629
And how did he plan
to pay for all these expansionist programs? Very simple. He
would extract the needed resources from the natural wealth and hide of
the conquered peoples:
I
have already said that the payment of the debts contracted during the war
presents no problem. In the first place, the territories which we
have conquered by force of arms represent an increase in national wealth
which far exceeds the cost of the war; in the second place, the integration
of 20 million foreign workers at cheaper rates into the German industrial
system represents a saving which, again, is greatly in excess of the debts
contracted by the state.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 459
That Hitler fully intended
to practice ruthless barbarity toward conquered peoples is undeniable in
light of his own comments and admissions. People of other countries
were to be considered subjects for exploitation and certainly not to be
the recipients of German assistance or medical aid:
... Russian and Ukrainian towns are not in any circumstances to be improved
or made more habitable. It is not our mission to lead the local inhabitants
to a higher standard of life; and our ultimate object must be to build
towns and villages exclusively for Germans and absolutely separate from
Russian or Ukrainian towns.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 589
As
for the ridiculous hundred million Slavs, we will mould the best of them
to the shape that suits us, and we will isolate the rest of them in their
own pig-styes; anyone who talks about cherishing the local inhabitant and
civilizing him, goes straight off into a concentration camp!
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 617
In the field of public health there is no need whatsoever to extend to
the subject races the benefits of our own knowledge. This would result
only in an enormous increase in local populations, and I absolutely forbid
the organization of any sort of hygiene or cleanliness crusades in these
territories. Compulsory vaccination will be confined to Germans alone,
and the doctors in the German colonies will be there solely for the purpose
of looking after the German colonists. It is stupid to thrust happiness
upon people against their wishes. Dentistry, too, should remain a
closed book to them;...
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 425
In
all seriousness, however, there is a very real danger that these local
inhabitants will increase too rapidly under our care and domination.
Their conditions of life will inevitably improve under our jurisdiction,
and we must take all the measures necessary to ensure that the non-German
population does not increase at an excessive rate. In these circumstances,
it would be sheer folly to place at their disposal a health service such
as we know it in Germany; and so--no inoculations and other preventative
measures for the natives! We must even try to stifle any desire for
such things, by persuading them that vaccination and the like are really
most dangerous!
For these reasons, the local population must be given no facilities for
higher education.... there is no need to teach them much more than, say,
the meaning of the various road-signs. Instruction in geography can
be restricted to one single sentence: The Capital of the Reich is Berlin,
a city which everyone should try to visit once in his lifetime.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 588
And to think these
words were uttered “In all seriousness.” No wonder German occupation
was so despised. Naturally, by ruling in such a severe manner the
German oppressors could not possibly allow subject peoples to obtain weapons
and so decreed.
Hitler stated in this regard:
The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject
races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have
allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall
by doing so. Indeed I would go so far as to say that the supply of
arms to underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty.
So let's not have any native militia or native police. German troops
alone will bear the sole responsibility for the maintenance of law and
order throughout the occupied Russian territories, and a system of military
strong-points must be evolved to cover the entire occupied country.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 425
If
ever we allowed a country conquered by us to have its own Army, that would
be the end of our rights over that country--for autonomy is the way to
independence.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 35
If we wish to preserve the military power of the German people, we must
be careful not to give arms to the peoples of the countries we have conquered
or occupied. One of the secrets of the might of ancient Rome was
that throughout the Empire only Roman citizens were entitled to carry arms.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 435
By ignoring Hitler’s
advice and allowing some Iraqis to arm, the Bushites now find themselves
trapped in a quandary. Who in Iraq, if anyone, is sufficiently trustworthy
to be armed and with what should they be armed is a dilemma facing Bushites
every day.
Hitler readily concedes
that risks and opposition to his policies are to be expected.
At a conference in the Reich
Chancellery in Berlin on 5 November 1937:
The
history of all ages-- the Roman Empire and the British empire--had proved
that expansion could only be carried out by breaking down resistance and
taking risks; setbacks were inevitable. There had never in former
times been spaces without a master, and there were none today; the attacker
always comes up against the possessor.
HITLER, [Speeches
and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 966
But the response to
opposition should be threats and retaliation as was practiced in Czechoslovakia:
I
told Hacha and the members of the Czech government accompanying him that
we would tolerate no further grave acts in the Protectorate prejudicial
to the interests of the Reich, and that if any occurred, we should have
to consider deporting the whole Czech population.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 557
One of the more realistic
facets of Hitler’s aggressive/expansionist program, a policy the Bushites
employ as well, was a hands-off approach with respect to local beliefs
and customs:
If
we wish to avoid antagonising the local population we must restrict our
interference with their local habits and customs to the minimum compatible
with our interests.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 590
Even more revealing
was Hitler’s directive to the effect that Nazi ideology was not to be exported,
proving his intent was to exploit and not convert:
I
am firmly opposed to any attempt to export National Socialism. If
other countries are determined to preserve their democratic systems and