One of the most intriguing
comparisons between the Hitlerites and the Bushites is the extent to which
their views and opinions of France either coincide or are remarkably similar,
even thought they are decades apart. France was, and is, definitely
a thorn in the thigh of both and no doubt the Nazis instituted retaliations
analogous to American Freedom Fries.
Hitler said:
Because
we must at last become entirely clear about this: the German people's irreconcilable
mortal enemy is and remains France.
MEIN KAMPF, Adolf
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 902
In his closing speech
at his trial after the attempted Putsch of 1923:
England
is not on principle an enemy of Germany, it is the Power which seeks to
gain first place in Europe. The declared enemy of Germany is France.
Just as England needs the balkanization of Europe, so France needs the
balkanization of Germany in order to gain hegemony in Europe.
MY NEW ORDER by Hitler,
Edited by Raoul de Roussy de Sales, 1941, Page 82
The relationship between
Germany and France then, and America and France now, is reflected in Hitler’s
assertion in Munich on 21 February 1929:
In
the future, history will also measure the destiny of nations on the battlefield.
What France hates, I love; what France loves, I hate....
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 64
According to some words
of Hitler spoken in Munich on 13 April 1923, these national differences
can’t be resolved:
It
is impossible to bridge the differences [between Germany and France] in
this case. Only one thing is sure: If Germany is strong, she will
be free; if she is weak, she will be oppressed.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 56
And peace should not
be made with France:
There
is today no valid reason for making peace with the French. We should
never succeed in keeping their army down to a strength from which, within
three years, they would not be in a position to smash the Italians; for
that matter the Paris police are capable of that, by themselves!
And so we must always be on hand to help the Italians.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 660
According to views
expressed by Hitler in Munich on 23 May 1928, allying with Satan was preferable
to allying with France:
I was an opponent
of France my entire life because I see in France the deadly enemy of my
people.... If today Satan would come along and offer to be my ally
against France, I would give him my hand, and I would march with him.
For I know one thing: As long as France is not displaced from her position
of hegemony in Europe, Germany will never acquire that which is necessary
for her existence.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 61
During his trial in
Munich on 26 February 1924, Hitler said Germany adopting Bolshevism would
be preferable to France dominating Europe:
My
attitude is this: I would rather Germany go Bolshevist and I be hanged
than that she should be destroyed by the French rule of the sword.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 74
As far as Hitler was
concerned France simply could not be allowed to dominate Europe:
Neither western nor eastern orientation should be the future goal of our
foreign policy, but an eastern policy signifying the acquisition of the
necessary soil for our German people. Since we need strength for
this, but the mortal enemy of our nation, France, relentlessly throttles
us and robs our strength, we must undertake every sacrifice which may help
bring about a nullification of the French drive for European hegemony.
Every power which, like us, finds intolerable France's aspiration to dominion
over the continent, is today our natural ally. No path to such a
power must seem too difficult to us and no renunciation must seem unspeakable
if the end result only offers the possibility of subduing our most enraged
enemies.
MEIN KAMPF, Adolf
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 965
The degree to which
Hitler’s views of France then resemble those of Bush now is uncanny given
the time differential.
A major component in Hitler’s attitude toward France, which has
not surfaced in the Bush litany of concerns, is that France was supposedly
negrofying Europe and polluting the white race by importing Africans from
her colonies:
And
even France must be counted among these states. Not only because
the colored human stock of its enormous empire supplements its army to
an ever greater extent, she is racially making such progress in negrofying
herself that one can really speak of the establishment of an African State
on European soil.... Let the development of France continue three
centuries more in the present manner, and the last remnants of Frankish
blood will have succumbed in the developing European-African mulatto State.
A mighty self-contained area of settlement from the Rhine to the Congo
filled with an inferior race developing out of continual hybridization.
MEIN KAMPF, Adolf
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 937
Exactly
for this reason France is, and remains by far, the most terrible enemy.
This people, which is constantly becoming more negrofied constitutes, by
its tie with the aims of Jewish world domination, a grim danger for the
existence of the European white race.
MEIN KAMPF, Adolf
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 907
What
France, spurred by its own vengefulness, methodically led by the Jew, is
doing in Europe today, is a sin against the existence of white humanity,
and some day will inspire against that nation all the avenging spirits
of a knowledge which will have recognized race pollution as the original
sin against mankind.
MEIN KAMPF, Adolf
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 908
We will not allow ourselves to be turned into niggers as the French tried
to do after 1918.
SECRET CONVERSATIONS
WITH HITLER, Edited by Edouard Calic, 1971. Page 81
The truly hyperbolic
aspect comes into the equation, however, when Hitler expresses views which
Bush is not yet ready to endorse, namely, France must be eliminated.
In Munich on 16 May 1927:
There
is only one possibility for Germany to escape her encirclement, and that
is to destroy the state which by the very nature of things will always
be our deadly enemy. And that is France.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 58
In Munich on 22 September
1928:
There can be only one pole-star for German foreign policy: How can we again
acquire power? For this purpose France has to be completely eliminated.
France is not only the enemy of a German Government, she is not only the
enemy of the form of the German State or of a certain mentality, the French
people are the hereditary enemy of the German people.... Thus the motto
for every possible German foreign policy is: Always against France.
Never will a German government succeed in coming to an understanding with
France....
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 62
Juding by the love
feast currently existing between the governments of France and Germany,
that final comment proves Hitler’s prophetic talents are about as reliable
as his political wisdom.
When Bertrand de Jouvenel
suggested in a 21 February 1936 interview that Hitler rewrite his attacks
on France found in Mein Kampf Hitler replied:
I
wrote that book when I was in prison. It was at the time when French
troops occupied the Ruhr. It was at the height of tension between
our two countries.... Yes, we were enemies; and I stood up for my
country against your country, as is right and proper, just as I stood up
for my country against yours when I was in the trenches for 4 1/2 years!
I would despise myself had I not first and foremost been a German in the
hour of conflict! You want me to correct my book like an author who
publishes a revised edition of his works.
I am not an author. I
am a politician. I make my corrections in my foreign policy, which
is geared to reaching an understanding with France! If I succeed
in bringing about the rapprochement of Germany and France, that will constitute
a correction of true value. I enter my corrections in the great book
of history!
HITLER, [Speeches
and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 758
In other words, he declined. The answer was no. What would Bush’s reply be if he were asked to alter his views of France? Absent a significant alteration of present Franco-American relations, the answer should be obvious.
Hitler not only expressed
views of France but provided a few noteworthy evaluations of some other
countries as well. He saw the United States as a divided nation and,
unfortunately, his comments have a ring of truth in so far as current conditions
are concerned due in large part to the Bushite philosophy:
The
USA has become a state as a result of liberalist ideas and various other
factors, through financial monopolies too. But they will never be
a nation; they will always be the scene of internal disturbances, ideological,
religious, ethnic, and racial rivalries.
SECRET CONVERSATIONS
WITH HITLER, Edited by Edouard Calic, 1971. Page 79
Hitler goes so far
as to attribute the post-Civil War rise of corruption, decay, and legal
venality to the demise of slavery and the growth of liberty and equality:
This
is the last disgusting death-rattle of a corrupt and outworn system [the
government of the United States] which is a blot on the history of this
people. Since the Civil War, in which the Southern States were conquered,
against all historical logic and sound sense, the Americans have been in
a condition of political and popular decay. In that war, it was not
the Southern States, but the American people themselves who were conquered.
In the spurious blossoming of economic progress and power politics, America
has ever since been thrown deeper into the mire of progressive self-destruction.
A moneyed clique, which presumes to be good society and to represent the
old families, rules the country under the fiction of a democracy which
has never before been so nakedly exposed as a mass of corruption and legal
venality. The beginnings of a great new social order based on the
principle of slavery and inequality were destroyed by that war, and with
them also the embryo of a future truly great America that would not have
been ruled by a corrupt caste of tradesmen, but by a real Herren-class
that would have swept away all the falsities of liberty and equality.
THE VOICE OF DESTRUCTION,
by Hermann Rauschnigg, 1940, page 68
Recent remarks lamenting
the demise of racism and alleged societal purity made by rightist Trent
Lott at Strom Thurmond’s birthday party come readily to mind.
Hitler contended American
soldiers proved America was corrupt and its people inferior:
The
American is no soldier. The inferiority and decadence of this allegedly
new world is evident in its military inefficiency.
THE VOICE OF DESTRUCTION,
by Hermann Rauschnigg, 1940, page 71
And Americans have
the intelligence of a chicken according to Adolph:
According
to the Americans themselves, America has the finest, biggest, and most
efficient of everything in the wide world; and when one then reads a book
like this about them, one sees that they have the brains of a hen!
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 605
For once an issue arises
upon which Bush and Hitler would definitely disagree, although millions
would no doubt contend the inaccuracy of Hitler’s assessment can not be
attributable to any comments made, or wisdom displayed, by Bush.
Hitler’s insulting
evaluation of Americans was only compounded by his comparison of them with
the British:
The
Americans are a completely unpredictable crowd. In a tight corner
the British are infinitely more courageous than they are--there's no comparison!
How they have the nerve to cast aspersions on the British passes my comprehension.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 666
I
don't see much future for the Americans. In my view, it's a decayed
country. And they have their racial problem, and the problem of social
inequalities.... That's why, in spite of everything, I like an Englishman
1000 times better than an American.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 188
Hitler even goes so
far as allege the only decent people found in America are German immigrants:
Our
country today is over-populated, and the numbers emigrating to America
are incredible. How I wish we had the German-Americans with us still!
Insofar as there are any decent people in America, they are all of German
origin.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 618
But with all its alleged
deficiencies and failings Hitler still felt America was closer to Nazi
Germany than the Soviet Union, and in so far as the philosophy vented by
the Bushites, Reaganites and McCarthyites is concerned, that is unquestionably
accurate.
In Berlin on 11 December
1941 Hitler stated:
The
differences between capitalist America and Bolshevik Russia must be essentially
greater, that is, if these two concepts have any truth in them, than between
America led by a President and Germany led by a Fuehrer.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 367
Hitler was also critical
of Britain. In Berlin on 30 January 1941 he accused the Brits of
initiating concentration camp:
Concentration
camps were not invented in Germany. They are British inventions.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 313
And although he may
be able to accuse Britain of initiating concentration camps, neither he
nor Bush can deny using them.
In a statement seemingly
nullifying his prior praise of British fighting tenacity, he quotes Goering
as having said:
“...should it ever
come to this, one or two of our bomber squadrons over London would be enough
to cause the British to hoist the white flag on the Houses of Parliament....
Never shall a British soldier set foot on German soil.”
SECRET CONVERSATIONS
WITH HITLER, Edited by Edouard Calic, 1971. Page 76