Returning to social
issues, another topic upon which the views of Hitler and the Bushites generally
coalesce is smoking and its associated evils.
Hitler said:
Today
I appreciate what Goethe meant when he said that there was no more repulsive
habit than smoking.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK, 1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens,
2000, page 680
I
experienced such poverty in Vienna. I spent long months without ever
having the smallest hot meal. I lived on milk and dry bread.
But I spent 30 kreuzers a day on my cigarettes. I smoked between
25 and 40 of them a day. Well, at that time a kreuzer meant more
to me than 10,000 marks do today. One day I reflected that with five
kreuzers I could buy some butter to put on my bread. I threw my cigarettes
into the Danube, and since that day I've never smoked again.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 361
If Bush smoked only
once in his life, which is highly doubtful, then he can claim the same
superior record of not smoking that Hitler can claim with respect to not
drinking.
A couple of close
acquaintances of Hitler said in this regard:
“So much of the decay
of our civilization had its origin in the abdomen--chronic constipation,
poisoning of the juices, and the results of drinking to access. He
[Hitler] did not touch meat or alcohol, or indulge in the dirty habit of
smoking;...”
THE VOICE OF DESTRUCTION,
by Hermann Rauschnigg, 1940, page 229
“Adolph's renunciations
are purely materialistic; he believes that meat is unhealthy, that smoking
is poisonous, and that drink lulls one's vigilance.”
HITLER AND I by Otto
Strasser, 1940, page 68
As far as Bush and
Hitler are concerned, homosexuality is utterly repugnant. Of that
there is no doubt. Being very religious both consider it to
be a violation of god’s laws:
We
must therefore take the view that any sexual involvement between persons
of the same sex is unnatural, it runs counter to the meaning of pairing
and of the divine command: Be fruitful and multiply. That is why
any such activity, no matter of what sort, is to be forbidden and punishable
as soon as a boy has reached puberty.
HITLER--MEMOIRS OF
A CONFIDANT, by Otto Wegener, 1985, page 104
...
in the Voelkischer Beobachter or on the occasion of a speech, you [Wegener]
will have to repeat more or less the same things you said to me about your
attitude toward this pathological or unnatural sexual orientation [homosexuality].
In this way, at least, one thing will be clear--the party's view on such
matters.
HITLER--MEMOIRS OF
A CONFIDANT, by Otto Wegener, 1985, page 106
Although Hitler supports
Bush’s opposition to abortion, he did so in a decidedly backhanded manner.
Instead of directly denouncing abortion, he adopted a tactic long utilized
by anti-abortionists of labeling as hypocrites those who support legalization
of abortion but denounce sterilization:
When
I think of all the means that have been invented and constantly used to
prevent conception or even to kill and abort the beginnings of life, it
seems to me the ultimate in hypocrisy and inner untruth if these same people--and
it is them, in the main--call the sterilization of those who are severely
handicapped physically and morally and of those who are genuinely criminal
a sin against God. I despise this sanctimoniousness in the world,
as I despise all those to carry it in their faces and on their lips.
HITLER--MEMOIRS OF
A CONFIDANT, by Otto Wegener, 1985, page 146
Another social topic
upon which the Bushites and Hitler are in general agreement is boxing.
Both admire its perceived toughening aspect and disagree with those progressives
and Leftists who view it as a blood sport leaving permanent injuries:
Here
especially one kind of sport must not be forgotten which in the eyes of
many "nationals" is considered as brutal and undignified: boxing.
It is incredible what erroneous opinions are current about this in the
circles of the "educated." That the young man learns to fence and
then goes about fighting duels is looked upon as natural and honorable,
but that he boxes is supposed to be brutal! Why? There is no
sport that, like this, promotes the spirit of aggression in the same measure,
demands determination quick as lightning, educates the body for steel-like
versatility.
MEIN KAMPF, Adolf
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 616
To
me boxing and jiujitsu have always appeared more important than some inferior,...
MEIN KAMPF, Adolf
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 801
Gambling is another
social issue upon which Hitler and most Bushites agree, because each views
it as: a revenue source for the government, a free act of adults, and a
dream mechanism for the poor, unhappy, or dissatisfied:
We
should bear in mind, in fact, that more than half of the profits of gambling--whether
lotteries or games of chance played in the casinos--goes into the coffers
of the State.
In addition to the material profit the State derives from them, I think
I can say that, from a purely philosophic point of view, lotteries have
their good side. Tangible realities are not enough to ensure men's
happiness. It's not a bad idea to keep alive in them the taste for
illusions, and most of them live on hopes which to a great extent cannot
become reality. It seems to me, therefore, that the best part of
a lottery is not the list immediately proclaiming the winners. On
the contrary, the results should be dragged out, for a year if possible--a
year in which the gambler has leisure to nourish his illusions and forge
his dreams of happiness. The Austrian State knew about this, and
used the system very intelligently. This explains why, even in the
most difficult times, there were always so many happy people in that country.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 364
The
less money a man has, the more common-sense he shows. The richest
people are the least reasonable, and some are so stupid that they become
misers! This tendency is generally corrected by the sons, who fling
the money away with both hands. For this reason we must see to it
that the gaming-tables are not done away with; casinos are marvelous institutions,
and we must say to everyone with too much money: Come on, you people, come
and gamble!
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 659
When
chance has given its verdict, and if the gambler is thereafter comparable
to a man who has made an unlucky bet, he still has a consolation, that
of having contributed to a good work.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 364
In so far as the family
is concerned, the views of Hitler and the Bushites are virtually identical,
and all Bushites would agree with HItler when he said in an election proclamation
on 31 July 1932:
The
family... is the smallest, but most valuable, unit in the erection of the
entire state structure.
ADOLPH HITLER QUOTATIONS,
by Karl Hammer,1990, Page 39
All Bushites would
agree with the statement by Hitler in his Proclamation to the German Nation
on 1 February 1933:
The
National Government...regards Christianity as the foundation of our national
morality, and the family as the basis of national life....
MY NEW ORDER by Hitler,
Edited by Raoul de Roussy de Sales, 1941, Page 144
And all would agree
when he said:
...we must start with the principle that every child and young person is
entitled to the education and training best suited to his abilities and
particular aptitudes.
But that is not to say that the state is supposed to take education and
the stimulation of growth out of the hands of parents and families.
Such a thing would be entirely wrong. If we believe at all in the
eternal value of man--and that belief is the strongest positive element
in all higher religions--then it can above all be only through preserving
the species and its development to a higher level, and for this, the family
is the basic unit.
HITLER--MEMOIRS OF
A CONFIDANT, by Otto Wegener, 1985, page 281
Another social theme
often honored more in the breach than the observance is the importance
of maintaining decency in the public arena. The Bushites, especially
certain religious factions thereof, conduct an interminable assault against
what they view as the steady deterioration in the moral fiber of the nation.
Hitler had virtually identical views of conditions in his era and proposed
nearly identical solutions.
In the Berlin Sportpalast
on 10 February 1933:
We
will combat the manifestations of our parliamentary and democratic system,
which leads us to our 12th item--restoring decency to our Volk. In
addition to decency in all areas of our life: decency in our administration,
decency in public life, and decency in our culture as well, we want to
restore German honor, to restore its due respect and the commitment to
it, and we want to engrave upon our hearts the commitment to freedom;...
HITLER, SPEECHES AND
PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 248
While speaking on the
radio on 14 October 1933:
This
Movement is committed to the task of restoring loyalty, faith, and decency
to their rightful position, without respect of person. For eight
months we have been waging a heroic battle against the Communist threat
to our Volk, and decomposition of our culture, the subversion of our art,
and the poisoning of our public morality.
HITLER, SPEECHES AND
PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 369
No,
he who wants to attack prostitution must primarily help to abolish the
mental presupposition for it. He has to clear away the filth of the
moral contamination of the "culture" of our big cities, and this ruthlessly
and without hesitating despite all clamor and lamentations which then,
of course, will be let loose. If we do not lift our youth out of
the morass of its present surroundings, it will be submerged in it.
He who does not want to see these things supports them and becomes thus
a fellow culprit in the slow prostitution of our future, for the latter
lies in the coming generation. This cleaning-up of our culture must
extend to nearly all domains. Theatre, art, literature, movies, the
press, billposters, and window displays must be cleaned of the symptoms
of a rotting world and put into the service of a moral idea of State and
culture. Public life has to be freed from the suffocating perfume
of our modern eroticism, exactly as also of all unmanly prudish insincerity.
In all these things the goal and the way have to be determined by the care
for the preservation of our people's health in body and soul. The
right of personal freedom steps back in the face of the duty of the preservation
of the race.
MEIN KAMPF, Adolf
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 347-348
Like the Bushites of
today, Hitler decried the moral relativism and sexual immorality that permeated
his society:
Modern
literature is degenerate, because it does not strengthen the will but dissipates
it. This may be right, that may be right. Nothing is right,
nothing is wrong. Illness is health. Strength is weakness.
Everything is small and stinks. Modern literature is democratic.
We are all alike. We all go to the toilet, spit, hiccough, smell
from the mouth and get sick when we have eaten too much. Modern writers
are occupied with sex. There we are most alike.
I AM ADOLPH HITLER,
by Adolph Hitler, Ed. by Werner/Lotte Pelz, 1971, Page 66
Like them, he also
denounced what he viewed as the corruption of modern art allegedly debasing
everything it touched and influenced. The recent controversy surrounding
censorship by religious fundamentalists of the Robert Mapplethorpe exhibit
in Cincinnati, Ohio comes readily to mind. No doubt many Bushites
observing the United States can identify with the following remarks by
Hitler regarding Germany of his era:
My
fight against degenerate art, degenerate literature, pornography, degenerate
music, is not narrow-mindedness. It is my attempt to teach my people
that they must feel responsible for what they see and hear. Everything
that penetrates a man against his will or without his notice and is not
ejected, is as dangerous as a knife or a bullet that penetrates his skin.
It injuries or kills.
Look at modern art! It is degenerate. It debases and defiles
everything. A man is a heap of cubes or of pyramids, or a collage
of blotches or a scribble of crazy lines.-- But is it not beautiful?
Is it not elegant? Is it not clever?, people say. I cannot
see it.
I AM ADOLPH HITLER,
by Adolph Hitler, Ed. by Werner/Lotte Pelz, 1971, Page 65
Modern
art is pernicious and democratic. Anybody and nobody looks like that
heap of cubes, like those splashed blotches. There is no distinction.
I AM ADOLPH HITLER,
by Adolph Hitler, Ed. by Werner/Lotte Pelz, 1971, Page 65
The
rot started with the Impressionists. The name already accuses them.
They let themselves be too much impressed by the outer world. They
stopped censuring their impressions. They stopped imposing their
will on their impressions. But without the will, the world dissolves
itself into moonshine. The cubists and boobists, surrealists and
be-realists, are irresponsible, democratic.
I AM ADOLPH HITLER,
by Adolph Hitler, Ed. by Werner/Lotte Pelz, 1971, Page 66
And, like the Bushites,
the Fuhrer blamed most of this corruption on the existence of too much
freedom and license.
At the annual Party Congress
on 11 September 1935:
Thus
we are not talking about a "threat to the freedom of art." Just as
a murderer is not granted the right to kill his fellow men in body simply
because this would mean interfering with his own freedom, a person similarly
cannot be granted the right to kill the soul of the Volk merely so as to
avoid placing any restrictions on his dirty fantasy and his total lack
of restraint.
HITLER, [Speeches
and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 695
He contended everyone
could be bought:
Even
the tramps and pimps and pansies had them [opinions]. Plenty of them.
You could get them wholesale for one Kreuzer. For two you could make
anyone change his opinions to suit you. As the judges, professors,
teachers, priests have done since I was able to pay them the extra Kreuzer.
I AM ADOLPH HITLER,
by Adolph Hitler, Ed. by Werner/Lotte Pelz, 1971, Page 67
And he condemned the
entire state of society for corrupting the youth:
Parallel with the training of the body, the fight against the poisoning
of the soul has to set in. Our entire public life today resembles
a hothouse of sexual conceptions and stimulants. One has only to
look at the menus of our movie houses, vaudevilles, and theaters; and one
can hardly deny that this is not the right kind of food, above all for
youth. In shop windows and on billboards one works with the basest
means in order to attract the attention of the masses. That this
is bound to lead to serious damage to youth is probably clear to everyone
who has not lost the ability to imagine himself in the place of a youth's
soul. This sensual, sultry atmosphere leads to ideas and stimulations
at a time when the boy ought not yet to have an understanding for such
things.
MEIN KAMPF, Adolf
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 346
An act involving youth
that he deplored with exceptional vigor was pederasty--sodomy between males,
especially as practiced by a man with a boy--and millions of people in
Germany and the United States have always been of the same opinion:
Besides,
pure pederasty seems to me entirely un-Germanic. I feel that it is
filth of the lowest order. Pederasts should be expelled from the
community of the Volk.
HITLER--MEMOIRS OF
A CONFIDANT, by Otto Wegener, 1985, page 104
In a speech to the
Reichstag on 30 January 1939 Hitler said:
The
National Socialist State is neither prudish nor mendacious. But there
are definite moral principles which must be maintained in the interest
of the biological health of the nation; violations of these principles
we will not permit. Pederasty or offenses against children will be
punished by the law and this State against whoever commits these crimes.
Five years ago when leaders of the National Socialist Party were guilty
of these crimes, they were shot.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 399
In light of all the
above, why are so many Americans unable to comprehend the motivation lying
behind millions of voters selecting Hitler, when millions of Americans
vote for Bushites manifesting the same sentiments. How can millions
of Americans condemn millions of Germans for voting irresponsibly when
the former are succumbing to the same beliefs and attitudes the latter
chose. The answer is relatively simple. They are unaware of
the replication and need to be awakened to that fact.
Being the religious
man that he was Hitler, like Bush, felt that by having the government intervene
to oversee and purify society’s morality God was being served and religion
was being advanced.
In a 23 March 1933 speech
in Berlin:
When
the government is determined to undertake the political and moral decontamination
of our public life, it creates and secures the prerequisites for a really
deep contemplation of religious life.
ADOLPH HITLER QUOTATIONS,
by Karl Hammer,1990, Page 58
Of course, this allegedly
prescient leader always neglected to ask the simple but obvious question:
who was going to purify the purifiers or make a determination as to who
was qualified to perform this most august assignment.
In a 24 October 1933
speech in Berlin Hitler bragged that the Nazis had purged a tremendous
amount of evil from society within months by stating:
No
less do we want to take up the struggle for a better morality. And
we haven't acted theoretically here, either. What we have cleaned
up these past months in Germany is unprecedented! And this cleansing
process continues to go on.
ADOLPH HITLER QUOTATIONS,
by Karl Hammer,1990, Page 41
Yet, specifics as to
the actual acts performed are noticeably absent as are any references to
the legality, justification, or rectitude of the measures applied.
And finally, in a
distinctly atypical comment in this regard, Hitler mentioned that if his
implacable enemies, the Marxists, had merely contented themselves with
cleansing society of its moral pollution, the Nazis would have let them
alone.
In a speech to the Party
Congress on 14 September 1936 he stated:
We
did not defend Germany against Bolshevism back then because we were intending
to do anything like conserve a bourgeois world or go so far as to freshen
it up. Had communism really intended nothing more than a certain
purification by eliminating isolated rotten elements from among the ranks
of our so-called "upper 10,000" or our equally worthless Philistines, one
could have sat back quietly and looked on for a while.
The aim of Bolshevism is not, however, to liberate peoples from what is
sick, but the opposite: to exterminate what is healthy, what is healthiest
of all, in fact, and to place in its stead the most degenerated of all....
HITLER, [Speeches
and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 839
Another major topic
upon which the views and philosophy of Bush and Hitler harmonize quite
often is education, although the former is more discrete about exposing
his real inclinations and very careful to tailor his presentation for an
American audience. The “No Child Left Behind” slogan of the Bushites
is in stark contrast to their elitist, subterranean sentiments and decidedly
at variance with actual performance. Hitler’s contention that superior
individuals make history and are the motive force of society is far more
representative of the Bushite philosophy and explains in large part its
preference for private, parochial, and charter schools, occupied nearly
always by the more affluent, over public education. A significant
number of Bushites sympathize with the following views of Hitler regarding
a general education:
In
any case, I don't believe there's any sense in teaching men anything, in
a general way, beyond what they need to know. One overloads them
without interesting either them or anybody else. It's better to awaken
men's instinct for beauty. That was what the Greeks considered the
essential thing. Today people persist in cramming children with a
host of unrelated ideas.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 355
Do
you see the necessity for teaching geometry, physics, and chemistry to
a young man who means to devote himself to music? Unless he has a
special gift for these branches of study, what will he have left over of
them later? I find it absolutely ridiculous, this mania for making
young people swallow so many fragmentary notions that they can't assimilate.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 355
Some
children have so much vitality that they can't sit still, and won't and
can't concentrate their attention. It seems to me useless to try
to force them. I understand, of course, that such an attitude annoys
the teachers. But is it just to deprive a child of the possibilities
that life offers him, simply because he's unruly?
I remember that on the average I spent a tenth of the time my comrades
spent in doing my prep. My selected branch was history. I felt
sorry for those of my comrades who never had a minute for play. Some
children begin their school careers as excellent book-learners. They
pass the barrage of examinations brilliantly. In their own eyes,
everything is at their feet. So what a surprise it is for them when
they see a comrade succeeding who is cleverer than they are, but whom they
used to regard as a dunce!
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 356
In line with his strong
desire to substitute nationalistic, even jingoistic, beliefs for those
which are more internationalistic in character, Hitler sees no reason for
students to learn foreign languages:
Moreover,
where's the sense in teaching a child in an elementary school a foreign
language in addition to German? Eighty percent of the children will
never go further. Of what use will the rudiments of a foreign language
be to them? Let's rather give them some general knowledge.
Thus, instead of teaching them French for four years, at the rate of three
hours a week, why not wait until the last year? And even during this
last year, let's give them only one hour's French a week. That's
quite enough to give a good start to those who intend to continue their
studies.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 355
Everybody,
for example, learns two or three foreign languages, which is a complete
waste of time. The little one learns is not of the slightest use
when one goes abroad. Everybody, I agree, should receive a basic
education. But the whole method of instruction in secondary and higher
schools is just so much nonsense. Instead of receiving a sound basic
education, the student finds his head crammed with a mass of useless learning,
and in the end is still ill-equipped to face life. Lucky are those
who have the happy knack of being able to forget most of what they have
been taught. Those who cannot forget are ripe to become professors--a
race apart. And that is not intended as a complement!
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 673
In fact, his aristocratic
mentality propelled him to advocate the abolishment of universal education
and blame liberalism for this allegedly “corroding and disintegrating poison”:
And
this brings me to the point we call education or upbringing. As surely
as everything we have discussed here today must be kept from burdening
the mind of the ordinary party member, equally surely must we put an end
to what is known as universal education. Universal education is the
most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented
for its own destruction.
THE VOICE OF DESTRUCTION,
by Hermann Rauschnigg, 1940, page 42
He even goes so far
as to condone, if not actually support, illiteracy, which takes the anti-intellectualism
of Nazism to a new low, a veritable quantum leap downward:
There
must be only one possible education for each class, for each subdivision
of a class. Complete freedom of choice in education is the privilege
of the elite and of those whom they have specially admitted. The
whole of science must be subject to continual control and selection.
Knowledge is an aid to life, not its central aim. We must therefore
be consistent, and allow the great mass of the lowest order the blessings
of illiteracy.
THE VOICE OF DESTRUCTION,
by Hermann Rauschnigg, 1940, page 42
Talk about a philosophy
deserving of destruction! Hitler not only openly admits preferring
an “elite” and bestowing upon them alone the privilege of “complete freedom
of choice in education” but exhibits near contempt for the “great mass”
who must be allowed the “blessings of illiteracy.” Illiteracy is
a “blessing”? Good grief! Is he sane? Was Hitler ever
cognizant of the appallingly nefarious impact illiteracy has had on the
overwhelming mass of mankind?
A primary motivation
behind Hitler’s tortured psychology was his conviction that superior students
are routinely neglected at the expense of the ignorant masses:
The
current organization of the school system is unsuited to that end.
In my view, it starts from a basically false premise. That is, it
tailors its demands and its design to the average--that is, to stupidity--instead
of addressing those who are above average--that is, pupils endowed with
greater ability.
... What I mean is: the curriculum of a class and a school is now determined
in such a way that the average pupil can master it. Those who are
below average lag behind and obstruct the teacher's efforts. Those
who are above average loaf and waste time. But it is precisely these
young people who matter!
HITLER--MEMOIRS OF
A CONFIDANT, by Otto Wegener, 1985, page 282
There
you go again, talking about the average! A top-notch education is
needed by only the cream of the crop!
HITLER--MEMOIRS OF
A CONFIDANT, by Otto Wegener, 1985, page 283
Could one be more elitist,
anti-egalitarian, anti-democratic in tone. Undoubtedly his most egregious
utterance above was “it is precisely these young people who matter.”
What could be more odious. No, it most definitely is not “precisely
these young people who matter.” All the young people matter,
not merely those he feels should be privileged. His only concern
is for what he labels “the cream of the crop.” Wouldn’t it be riveting,
as well as confirming, to hear Bushites express their real, as opposed
to their public, opinions of Hitler’s remarks.
And to supplement
his critique of the educational process Hitler denounces teacher training
by saying:
I
always get angry when I think of how in the teachers' training colleges
the future school-teachers are stuffed with an inchoate mass of material,
when all they will be called upon to do later is to teach the children
the rudiments of the three Rs. What special knowledge, for goodness'
sake, is required to teach six-year-old kiddies to say a, b, c correctly!
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 543
And like some disgruntled
schoolboy he undermines confidence in teachers in general by saying:
When I recall my masters at school, I realize that half of them were abnormal;
and the greater the distance from which I look back on them, the stronger
is my conviction that I am quite right.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 674
Look
at my school reports--I got bad marks in German! My disgusting teacher
had succeeded in giving me an intense dislike for my mother-tongue!
He asserted that I would never be capable of writing a decent letter!
If this blundering little twirp had given me a grade 5, I should have been
precluded from becoming a technician!
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 676
A
bright youngster of 13 or 14 can always get the better of a teacher dulled
by the grind of years of teaching.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 698
If readers were to
take him seriously, they would conclude teachers are little more than dolts.
Oddly enough, however,
Hitler does make a rather progressive comment calculated to expand the
visions of people in this vast universe and awaken them to their miniscule
role:
For
this reason I have directed that every town of any importance shall have
an observatory, for astronomy has been shown by experience to be one of
the best means at man's disposal for increasing his knowledge of the universe,
and thus saving him from any tendency towards mental aberration.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 514
Moreover, always being
careful to stay within the reach of mass thinking, Hitler, like Bush, also
made some comments about the family and education that no doubt struck
a concordant note with many German parents:
But
current living conditions, which have become wholly unnatural and absurd--thanks
to the misery of the last 20 years, but most particularly because of the
ever accelerating erosive motion of the machinery of a liberal-capitalist
economy--in many cases prevent both mother and father from looking after
their children's education and upbringing in the way they should and as
they themselves might wish. In the cities and most especially in
the allegedly great ones, the pursuit of pleasure, show, vanity, purely
materialistic thinking geared exclusively to the present, and a completely
stupid and decadent arrogance frequently make such a strong claim on time
and money and every form of energy altogether, that there is nothing left
over for the children's education.
HITLER--MEMOIRS OF
A CONFIDANT, by Otto Wegener, 1985, page 281
And lastly, Hitler
was also not above providing advice and warnings to parents and those associated
with them:
And
the second point is that someone who is expected to do original, creative
work must have been raised in an atmosphere of harmony. Where young
children are compelled to watch as their parents constantly bicker, insult
each other, and even cheat on each other, there even a young person cannot
grow up with the inner harmony required to bring about the balance of the
evil and good urges that lie dormant in every human being. He, too,
is handicapped. He, too, will be a cripple all his life. He,
too, is easily prone to becoming a scoundrel.
Do not, therefore, give a responsible position to anyone of whom it is
known that his parents are not living in a happy union, let alone that
they are divorced.
HITLER--MEMOIRS OF
A CONFIDANT, by Otto Wegener, 1985, page 143
The anti-intellectual
component of Hitlerian thought is by no means confined to formal education.
It permeated, indeed, infected virtually every aspect of German society.
Intellectuals were viewed by the Nazis in general and Hitler in particular
as weak and enervators of others. They were judged to be corrosive
agents fostering filth and sickness:
Even
reporters, lecturers, politicians and all that vermin, exert their will-to-power.
While they are alive. That is why they should be dead.
Theirs is the will to weakness, to make weak. They want to make you
sick. They write books to make you vomit. They paint pictures
to turn your stomach. They are happy in their filth, so they try
to drag everything into the filth. What is a hero? they ask.
I am not a hero. Therefore no one is a hero. What is health?
I am not healthy. Therefore no one is healthy. Sickness and
weakness and filth is the human condition. What is race, they ask.
What is racial purity .? I am a mongrel. Therefore all men
are mongrels.
I AM ADOLPH HITLER,
by Adolph Hitler, Ed. by Werner/Lotte Pelz, 1971, Page 145
Societies built on
intellect and reason are weak according to the Fuhrer.
In a 10 May 1933 speech
in Berlin:
I
know this common people and would like to always tell our intellectuals
just one thing: each empire built only on the classes of intellectual reason
is built weak!
ADOLPH HITLER QUOTATIONS,
by Karl Hammer,1990, Page 30
Intellect does not
equal intelligence or knowledge:
Intellect! What is it, anyway! If you take a close look, it
is the atrophy of natural instinct.
Intellect has nothing whatever
to do with human intelligence and knowledge, much less with ability.
Most people confuse them.
HITLER--MEMOIRS OF
A CONFIDANT, by Otto Wegener, 1985, page 142
And libraries should
be destroyed:
If
our dear liberals would know what danger lurks in a library, once a man
gets in there, they themselves would have burned all the books.
I AM ADOLPH HITLER,
by Adolph Hitler, Ed. by Werner/Lotte Pelz, 1971, Page 168
The degree to which
these views mirror those of Bushites is greater than is readily apparent
but will only emerge when national conditions are propitious.
The Jews, as is to
be expected from the teachings of Hitler, are supposedly the primary cultivator
and propagator of intellectualism.
In fact, the Nazis often
referred to what they labeled Jewish Intellectualism:
I frequently hear, for example, that people are indignant when we mock
intellectuals. In this we see precisely: they have so little intellect
that they never even notice that it is nothing more than mockery.
For those who generally call themselves "intellectuals" are seldom more
than a bunch of diseased brains who toss scraps of disconnected and purely
synthetically amassed knowledge in dialectically exaggerated and overly
subtle formulations back and forth to each other. Jewry is especially
strongly represented in this activity. It has a unique capacity for
it and at the same time the boldness to serve up such undigested mishmash
to other people under the pretext of the most profound wisdom.
Pick up any book. After two or three pages you'll be able to say
without any doubt whatever whether it is written by an intellectual Jew
or by a writer who is to be taken seriously. The Jew cannot refrain
from showing off his supposed intellect. Sometimes what he says sounds
quite brilliant, sometimes it even is brilliant. But it is never
creative, always destructive. To be brilliant at the expense of others,
that is the infinitely beloved game of the intellectuals. They cannot
do otherwise than to try to blacken what is shiny and to pull the lofty
into the dust.
No! Knowledge and ability require other bases than this pseudo- brilliant
intellect. First of all, they require a healthy body! It is
the precondition within which a healthy mind can develop. Greek culture,
Greek philosophy would be unthinkable if special care of the body and even
of its symmetry and beauty had not been at the heart of it. Degenerates
have no high culture, they are not creatively elevated in their thoughts
and in their actions.
HITLER--MEMOIRS OF
A CONFIDANT, by Otto Wegener, 1985, page 142
Hitler would have mankind
believe that inspirations, feelings, idealism, instincts, sentiments, and
emotions are superior to intelligence, logic, knowledge, and reason:
I am even convinced that the secret of the greatest successes in history
was that they were based, not on human logic, but on inspirations of the
moment.
HITLER--MEMOIRS OF
A CONFIDANT, by Otto Wegener, 1985, page 152
In political matters feeling often decides more accurately than reason.
MEIN KAMPF, Adolf
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 224
In Cologne on 30 March
1938:
Reason
can never replace idealism nor can it ever stand in opposition to idealism.
HITLER, [Speeches
and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 1078
Trust
your instincts, your feelings, or whatever you like to call them.
Never trust your knowledge. Let me tell you one thing: the experts
never have the true instinct.
THE VOICE OF DESTRUCTION,
by Hermann Rauschnigg, 1940, page 184
The
people, in an overwhelming majority, are so feminine in their nature and
attitude that their activities and thoughts are motivated less by sober
consideration than by feeling and sentiment.
MEIN KAMPF, Adolf
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 237
I
shall go my way with the precision of a sleepwalker.
HITLER AND I by Otto
Strasser, 1940, page 64
Most assuredly he is
going as a sleepwalker but certainly not with or toward precision.
Yet, despite all his
anti-intellectual rhetoric, Hitler had to bow to reality by admitting that
intellectuals were necessary. Otherwise, there would have been no
Wernher von Braun, no V-1, no V-2, no U-boats, and no jet aircraft.
One can ingest, believe, and spout just so much of this Philistine nonsense
before reality and destruction take over.
In a secret speech
on 10 November 1938:
I should perhaps add that there is yet one concern that continues to haunt
me. It is the following: when I take a look at the intellectual classes
we have--unfortunately, I suppose, they are necessary; the wise one could
one day, I don't know, exterminate them or something--but unfortunately
they are necessary. So when I take a look at these intellectual classes
and imagine their behavior and take a closer look, in comparison to myself,
and to our work, then I almost get scared. For since I have been
politically active and particularly since I began to lead this Reich, I
have experienced only successes. And all the same, this mass is floating
around, often in such a positively repulsive, nauseating way. What
would happen if we ever suffered a defeat? It is a possibility, gentlemen
. Can you imagine how this race of chickens would act then, given
the chance? They are not reliable, even now that we are scoring success
upon success unrivaled in the history of mankind. Can you imagine
how they would react if we truly suffered defeat?
HITLER, [Speeches
and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 1251
Because a concession
to actuality had to be made in a matter of this importance, Hitler effected
another one of his inconsistencies by contending non-Aryans could be used
in some positions as long as no mongrels were utilized. Any person
of any race was potentially eligible as long as he or she was not of mixed
race and that even included Jews:
The
third point is that a person must be racially flawless. Let him be
Germanic, or Roman, or Chinese, or a Jew, or an Indian, or a Negro, and
so on. I respect all equally. We can work with and count on
all of them. Each has his established traits. Depending on
what one is looking for, this one or that one is to be preferred for the
job in question. It is no different with people than with horses
or dogs. Once one has established the proper race for a particular
task, one can rest assured that the task will be resolved.
But if one takes racial mixtures, no matter of what kind, one can never
know what racial traits will predominate at times when it counts, and especially
when decisions have to be made. The work of a mongrel will always
give evidence of both the races whose blood he bears. If you confer
a responsible and prominent position on him, you will find that the unconscious
struggle his discordant blood wages within him will be expressed in all
his endeavors, in his judgments, and in his decisions. Lenin furnishes
the best example of this. His father was a Slavic high school principal
with a Western European education. His mother was a Tartar with an
Asiatic cast of mind. The whole Bolshevik revolution seems like the
struggle in Lenin's blood: the struggle between the Asiatic will to destruction
and the European will to culture.
So do not confer important tasks
upon any racial half-breed, not even one who has a mixture of East and
West.
HITLER--MEMOIRS OF
A CONFIDANT, by Otto Wegener, 1985, page 143
One of the most prominent
themes permeating Nazi propaganda, despite all attempts to mask it under
a plethora of grandiloquent verbiage and bewitching rhetoric, is male chauvinism
or male supremacy. No matter how packaged, Hitler’s message is one
of male domination and female subservience. Hitler firmly believed
that God and nature had assigned men and women very different roles and
judging by the literature of many Bushites and their supporters these views
reflect their attitudes as well.
In Nuremberg on 8 September
1934 Hitler addressed the Hitler Youth:
What a man gives in heroic courage on the battlefield, woman gives in eternally
patient devotion, in internally patient suffering and endurance....
And hence both must mutually value and respect each other by recognizing
that each part is accomplishing the task assigned to it by Nature and Providence.
HITLER, SPEECHES AND
PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 533
In that same speech:
That,
of course, is the miraculous thing about Nature and Providence: no conflict
is possible in the relations between the two sexes as long as each fulfills
the task assigned to it by Nature.
HITLER, SPEECHES AND
PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 532
And also in that same
speech:
We
do not feel that it is right when a woman forces her way into a man's world,
in territory belonging to him; instead, we feel it is natural when both
of these worlds remain divorced from one another. One of the worlds
is home to the power of feelings, the power of the soul! The other
is home to the power of recognition, the power of toughness, of resolution,
and of fighting morale!
HITLER, SPEECHES AND
PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 533
One of the reasons
given by Hitler for separating the roles he envisioned is that women are
more stable than men, although no evidence was submitted to substantiate
this contention. Apparently humanity is just supposed to take his
word for it.
In his address to women
at the Nuremberg Parteitag on 8 September 1934:
We
would protect ourselves against a corrupted intellectualism which would
put asunder that which God hath joined. Woman because she springs
from that root which is the prime cause of life is also the most stable
element in the maintenance of a people. She it is who in the last
resort has the infallible sense for all that is necessary if a race is
not to perish, for it will be her children who will be the first victims
of that disaster. Man is often far too mentally unstable to find
his way immediately to these fundamental truths. But in good time
and with good education man will know just as clearly what his task is.
MY NEW ORDER by Hitler,
Edited by Raoul de Roussy de Sales, 1941, Pages 286-287
And respect supposedly
comes from maintaining separate, not overlapping, roles.
In that same speech:
What
the Jewish intellect maintains is not true--that respect is determined
by the overlapping of the spheres of activity of the two sexes--but rather
this respect requires that neither of the sexes endeavors to do what belongs
to the other. This respect ultimately lies in the knowledge of each
half in the other is doing everything necessary to maintain the whole!
HITLER, SPEECHES AND
PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 533
On 23 January 1936
in an interview with Madame Titayna Hitler was asked about the role of
women and if he honestly believed they are only there to bear the children
of men.
He laughed and stated:
Who
told you that? The press?
I accord women the same right as men, but I do not believe they are alike.
Woman is man's life companion. She should not be burdened with work
for which men are made. I am not envisioning women's battalions;
I believe they are better fit for work in the social sector. But
in any event, a woman who does not marry --and we have many in Germany
because we do not have enough men--has the right to earn her living just
as a man does....
HITLER, [Speeches
and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 743
Yet, no matter how
much he may dodge the original question by shifting to the tangential issues
of women’s battalions and women’s employment, his actual conception of
a woman’s role is clearly reflected in that time-honored cliché
that a woman’s place is in the home cooking food while barefoot and pregnant.
In his address 2 years earlier
to the women at the Nuremberg Parteitag on 8 September 1934 Hitler had
already exposed his actual idea of the woman’s function:
Whereas in the past, the liberal and intellectualistic women's movements
included many, many items in their programs which originated in a so-called
intellect, the program of our National Socialist Women's Movement actually
contains only a single item, and this item is: the child, this tiny creature
who must come into being and flourish, who constitutes the sole purpose
of the entire struggle for existence.
HITLER, SPEECHES AND
PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 534
Man supposedly has
the larger role and woman the smaller.
In his address to women
at the Nuremberg Parteitag on 8 September 1934:
If one says that man's world is the State, his struggle, his readiness
to devote his powers to the service of the community, one might be tempted
to say that the world of woman is a smaller world. For her world
is her husband, her family, her children, and her house. But where
would the greater world be if there were no one to care for the small world?
How could the greater world survive if there were none to make the cares
of the smaller world the content of their lives? Providence has entrusted
to woman the cares of that world which is peculiarly her own, and only
on the basis of this smaller world can the man's world be formed and built
up. These two worlds are never in conflict. They are complementary
to each other, they belong together as man and woman belong together....
Man and woman must therefore mutually value and respect each other when
they see that each performs the task which Nature and Providence have ordained.
And from this separation of the functions of each there will necessarily
result this mutual respect.... Woman is an egoist in the maintenance
of her small world so that man may be free to defend the larger world:
man is an egoist in maintaining this greater world, for it is indissolubly
bound up with the other, smaller world.
MY NEW ORDER by Hitler,
Edited by Raoul de Roussy de Sales, 1941, Pages 286-287
HITLER, SPEECHES AND
PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 532
Women are to be considered
as mere supplements to men which is certainly no resounding endorsement
for sexual equality or women’s liberation.
In that speech to the Youth
in Nuremberg on 8 September 1934 Hitler stated:
The
feeling and, above all, the nature of woman has always acted throughout
the ages as a supplement to the intellect of man.
HITLER, SPEECHES AND
PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 532
If equality of the
sexes is myth, then denial of equal access to positions is to be expected.
Hitler submitted an example of the guidelines being followed in Nazi Germany
while discussing the idea of women entering the military.
In a speech delivered at
the Parteitag in Nuremberg 13 September 1935:
. . . There will never be in National Socialist Germany Women's battalions
as there have been in Marxist countries.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 531
In that same speech:
Today
women's battalions are being formed in Marxist countries, and to that one
could only reply, "That will never happen here! There are things
a man does, and he alone is responsible for them. I would be ashamed
to be a German man if ever, in the event of war, but a single woman were
made to go to the front." The woman had her own battlefield.
With every child to which she gave birth for the nation, she was waging
her battle for the nation. The man stands up for the Volk just as
woman stands up for the family. A woman's equal rights lie in the
fact that she is treated with the high regard she deserves in those areas
of life assigned to her by nature.
HITLER, [Speeches
and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 698
And in an interview
with Anne McCormick reported in The New York Times for 10 July 1933:
Only
military service, service on the bench and certain political posts are
closed to women.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 528
By being unalterably
opposed to the participation of women in politics, Hitler unveiled an unmistakably
sexist attitude. The Bushites are fully aware of the fact that for
them to express similar views would be political suicide, even though they
may reflect underlying preferences:
I
detest women who dabble in politics. And if their dabbling extends
to military matters, it becomes utterly unendurable. In no local
section of the Party has a woman ever had the right to hold even the smallest
post. It has therefore often been said that we were a party of misogynists,
who regarded a woman only as a machine for making children, or else as
a plaything. That's far from being the case. I attached a lot
of importance to women in the field of the training of youth, and that
of good works.... In short, gallantry forbids one to give women an
opportunity of putting themselves in situations that do not suit them.
Everything that entails combat is exclusively men's business. There
are so many other fields in which one must rely upon women. Organizing
a house, for example. Few men have Frau Troost's talent in matters
concerning interior decoration.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 251
In Nuremberg on 8 September
1934 Hitler addressed the Hitler Youth:
We
National Socialists have therefore protested for many years against deploying
women in political life, for in our view this would be unworthy.
A woman once said to me: you must see to it that women join parliament,
for woman alone is capable of ennobling it. I do not believe, I replied
to her, that human beings were meant to ennoble what is bad by its very
nature, and a woman who became caught in the gears of this parliamentary
system would not ennoble parliament; rather this system would dishonor
such a woman. I do not want to leave something to women which I intend
to take away from men. Our opponents claimed that we would then never
gain women for the Movement. But we have gained more than all the
other parties put together, and I know that we would have won over every
last German woman had she been given but one opportunity to study parliament
and the degrading role women play there.
HITLER, SPEECHES AND
PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 533
MY NEW ORDER by Hitler,
Edited by Raoul de Roussy de Sales, 1941, Pages 288
Numerous
examples taken from history prove that woman--however intelligent she may
be--is not capable of disassociating reason from feeling, in matters of
a political nature.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 372
The Fuhrer not only
opposed women politicizing but even rejected the idea of women voting,
just as it was opposed by Bushites decades ago. Were Hitler on the
American political scene, he would seek to return the United States almost
to the 1800’s in this matter, and that is fully understandable in light
of the fact that he also regretted the demise of American slavery:
I
am also no friend of female suffrage. I am opposed to universal,
equal and secret voting rights. If, however, we must continue with
this tomfoolery, then we should draw what advantage we can from democracy.
Women will always vote for law and order and a uniform, you can be sure
of that. What nonsense--equal voting rights for the professor and
the dairy maid!
SECRET CONVERSATIONS
WITH HITLER, Edited by Edouard Calic, 1971. Page 40
And finally, as is
to be expected, Hitler attributed all propagation of women’s liberation
to conniving Jews and their insidious intellectualism, as if they were
governing the minds of all non-Jews holding corresponding views.
In Nuremberg on 8 September
1934 he addressed the Hitler Youth:
The
catchword "Women's Liberation" is merely a phrase invented by the Jewish
intellect, and its contents are marked by the same spirit.
HITLER, SPEECHES AND
PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 532
Although not particularly
related to the Hitler-Bush comparison, unlike nearly everything discussed
previously, Hitler made some rather interesting personal comments with
respect to marriage and why he was never married.
He never married primarily because the cause came first and marriage
would detract from same:
At
this period I knew a lot of women. Several of them became attached
to me. Why, then, didn't I marry? To leave a wife behind me?
At the slightest imprudence, I ran the risk of going back to prison for
six years. So there could be no question of marriage for me.
I therefore had to renounce certain opportunities that offered themselves.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 218
It's
lucky I'm not married. For me, marriage would have been a disaster.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 245
Having a mistress like
Eva Braun was much better:
The
bad side of marriage is that it creates rights. In that case, it's
far better to have a mistress. The burden is lightened, and everything
is placed on the level of a gift.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 246
And he felt a definite
negative--female corpulence--arose after marriage, an assessment with which
many husbands will no doubt concur, although males are by no means exempted
from this weakness. Hitler probably failed to note the latter fact
because of his sexist orientation:
Other
women are extremely careful of their appearance, but not beyond the moment
when they've found a husband. They're obsessed by their outlines,
they weigh themselves on exact scales--the least gramme counts! Then
you marry them, and they put on wait by the kilo!
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 352
He feels couples should
not stay together merely for the sake of the kids:
These
Schools of the Reich are also an ideal refuge for the children of marriages
which have gone wrong; it is far better that they should be removed from
the atmosphere of a disrupted home, which leaves its mark on a man for
the rest of his life. I grant you, it is a most laudable thing that
parents who no longer love each other try to maintain the semblance of
a happy marriage for the sake of their children; but it is an effort that
very seldom succeeds.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 441
And he blames industrialism
for the demise of marriage and the family:
But
when I examine the marriages I see around me and hear about, I find most
of them far removed from what they should be in meaning and content.
Here, too, I blame the misery of the time, the totally wrong direction
the world has taken because of its increasingly materialistic attitude.
It seems to me that the scientific and technical inventions of the last
few centuries have given particular impetus to these developments.
Industrialization, the chase after profit, the call for increased production,
the absurd battles over exports and competition--in short, everything that
can be expressed by the word "industrialism"--in the last analysis have
also destroyed marriage, robbed it of its meaning and content, and debased
the paired living of people to the exclusive satisfaction of physical needs
in the widest sense--and possibly to vanity. Just to think of the
10-or 12-hour workday that sends the man home in the evening dirty, tired,
and bad-tempered, where his wife is anxiously waiting for him because his
wages were not sufficient to provide a proper supper--or when I imagine
the working wife, herself with an 8- or 10-hour workday, from which she
returns home to unmade beds, no fire in the stove, the dishes from the
previous evening still sitting around, carrying the bread and bologna meant
for that evening's meal sloppily wrapped in newspaper--and when I think
of children taken to the day-care centers every morning, no different from
geese driven out of the village and cattle to the meadow, to return in
the evening honking and lowing to fill their accustomed stables--then I
really feel the pernicious consequences of this industrialized economy.
HITLER--MEMOIRS OF
A CONFIDANT, by Otto Wegener, 1985, page 224
Having covered social issues in which the position of Hitler is either superior to, or more progressive than, most Bushites, as well as those societal issues in which the beliefs of Hitler and most Bushites are either similar or identical, a final comparison should now be made with respect to some issues in which Bushites have a position superior to Hitler’s or have effectively disguised their actual feelings and attitudes so as to give that impression.
As far as can be discerned
with available information, the Bushites are yet to advocate or implement
a program of sterilization. Indeed, their opposition to this procedure
has been rather clear but how their position will evolve is yet to be determined.
In any event, until time reveals evidence to the contrary, the Bushites
can not justifiably be accused of condoning what Hitler advocates in this
regard and for that reason their position would be considered by most observers
as more progressive and humanitarian. Hitler’s stance, on the other
hand, is unmistakable:
It is a half measure to allow incurably ill people the permanent possibility
of contaminating the other healthy ones. But this corresponds entirely
to a humaneness which, in order not to hurt one individual, lets hundreds
of others perish. The demand that for defective people the propagation
of an equally defective offspring be made impossible is a demand of clearest
reason and in its planful execution it means the most humane act of mankind.
It will spare undeserved suffering to millions of unfortunates, but in
the future it will lead to an increasing improvement of health on the whole.
The determination to proceed in this direction will also put up a dam against
the further spreading of venereal diseases. For here, if necessary,
one will have to proceed to the pitiless isolation of incurably diseased
people; a barbaric measure for one who was unfortunate enough to be stricken
with it, but a blessing for the contemporaries and for posterity.
The temporary pain of a century may and will redeem millenniums from suffering.
MEIN KAMPF, Adolf
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 348-49
Oddly enough, in one
instance Hitler himself appeared to condemn the method by which the qualifications
for sterilization were determined:
I
was shown a questionnaire drawn up by the Ministry of the Interior, which
it was proposed to put to people whom it was deemed desirable to sterilize.
At least three-quarters of the questions asked would have defeated my own
good mother. One I recall was: "Why does a ship made of steel float
in the water?" If this system had been introduced before my birth,
I am pretty sure I should never have been born at all!
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 675
In so far as Bush having
a position superior to that of Hitler is concerned, a second and far more
controversial topic for tens of millions is racism which has been used
to divide mankind for centuries. In light of the fact that two blacks
are in the Bush cabinet and blacks occupy other positions within the Bush
regime, the overt racism of Hitler can not be justifiably applied to the
Bushites. With their opposition to Affirmative Action and selective
nomination of those few blacks of a decidedly rightist mentality for purposes
of maintaining an anti-racist facade, however, the verdict is in.
Be that as it may and no matter what their sentiments, the Bushites
could never openly maintain the following Hitlerite views and remain a
viable force in American society. But that certainly does not preclude
vast numbers of Bushites from holding racist views which they keep to themselves,
Trent Lott being an exception. Should the Constitution be subverted,
however, as some claim has already occurred through passage of the Patriot
Act, events might very well take a different course in which the covert
just below the surface becomes the overt just above the surface.
Unlike many concealed racist Bushites, Hitler never made any attempt to
hide his racist philosophy. In fact, he openly proclaimed his racist
views to all who would listen.
For Hitler, race was the
key question:
The race question not only furnishes the key to world history, but also
to human culture as a whole.
MEIN KAMPF, Adolf
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 470
All
that is not race in this world is trash.
MEIN KAMPF, Adolf
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 406
Race
and nation are the only two realities.... Every race wants to become
one nation. Every nation wants to be supreme. This, too, is
the law of life--and conscientious objectors are perfectly free to shoot
themselves.
I AM ADOLPH HITLER,
by Adolph Hitler, Ed. by Werner/Lotte Pelz, 1971, Page 88
And in a Nuremberg
speech on 6 September 1938:
National
Socialism is not a cult-movement--a movement for worship; it is exclusively
a 'volkic' political doctrine based upon racial principles. In its
purpose there is no mystic cult, only the care and leadership of a people
defined by a common blood-relationship.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 395
Race is not only the
key question for Hitler but Aryans are the superior race:
And
had I not all through my career insisted on the unquestioned superiority
of the German race?
I AM ADOLPH HITLER,
by Adolph Hitler, Ed. by Werner/Lotte Pelz, 1971, Page 148
In Hitler's secret
speech of 10 November 1938:
I am convinced that, particularly today, our Volk represents the pinnacle
reached by an evolution toward gradual, racial improvement, unequaled on
this planet at present.
HITLER, [Speeches
and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 1254
In Hamburg in March
1928:
And
we can proudly say that our German people, from the standpoint of race
and blood, can be considered as among the best of its kind in existence.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 27
By what rationale Hitler
could proclaim a “German race” is anyone’s guess, since Germans are a nationality
and not a race.
In Munich on
21 November 1927 the Fuhrer contended that all of mankind’s progress is
attributable to Aryans:
Certain
species stand out, and at the top of the list is the Aryan. The Aryan
has forged the weapons with which mankind has made itself master of the
animal world. There is scarcely anything in existence which when
traced back to its origin cannot claim an Aryan as its creator....
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 6
In Munich on 2 April
1927:
... We see before us the Aryan race which is manifestly the bearer of all
culture, the true representative of all humanity. All inventions
in the field of transportation must be credited to the members of a particular
race. Our entire industrial science is without exception the work
of the Nordics. All great composers from Beethoven to Richard Wagner
are Aryans, even though they were born in Italy or France. Do not
say that art is international. The tango, the shimmy, and the jazzband
are international but they are not art. Man owes everything that
is of any importance to the principle of struggle and to one race which
has carried itself forward successfully. Take away the Nordic Germans
and nothing remains but the dance of apes....
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 5
In Munich on 29 November
1929:
The
domination of the white race is not the result of mutual understanding
among nations. The white race has risen slowly out of bloody struggle
and has given the world that which we designate as culture. Every
achievement on earth has originated in struggle.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 12
And because of these
determinations, Hitler felt Nordics had the right to rule the world:
The
Nordic race has the right to dominate the world, and that right will be
the guiding principle of our foreign policy.
HITLER AND I by Otto
Strasser, 1940, page 108
In a conversation with
Otto Strasser on 21 May 1930:
The
Nordic race has a right to rule the world and we must take this racial
right as the guiding star of our foreign policy.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 2, Page 989
And in a Munich speech
to more than 6000 students on 26 January 1936:
The
white race is destined to rule.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 2, Page 1258
Hitler believed the
value of men was determined through race and struggle.
In Munich on 21 November
1927:
Hence
the following principles result: The value of man is determined in the
first place by his inner racial virtues; second, by the ability of the
race to bring forth men who in turn become leaders in the struggle for
advancement; third, this entire process takes place in the form of eternal
struggle. As a consequence struggle is the father of all things in
this world.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 7
And for that reason
the grandest and most sacred task of man was to maintain his race.
In a Berlin speech on 30
January 1937:
Of
all the tasks with which we are confronted, it is the grandest and most
sacred task of man to preserve his race....
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 408
And in Munich on 29
November 1929:
This
heritage of blood is our basic value, our specific weight which we, as
human beings, possess once and for all.... The preservation of this
heritage is the first and essential factor. Whenever a nation loses
its racial heritage, it perishes.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 12
According to a comment
made in a Berlin speech on 30 January 1937 the penal code should be used
to maintain racial purity:
In a new penal code, justice will be put for all time into the service
of maintaining the German race.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 409
Judging by a comment
made in Berlin on 30 January 1937, firmly religious Adolph had no doubt
God made the races separate and fully intended for them to stay that way:
There
is one error which cannot be remedied once men have made it, namely, the
failure to recognize the importance of conserving the blood and the race
free from intermixture and thereby the racial aspect and character which
are God's gift and God's handiwork. It is not for men to discuss
the question of why Providence created different races, but rather to recognize
the fact that it punishes those who disregard its work of creation.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 80
Religious faith also
led the Fuhrer to the conclusion that bastardization should be opposed,
one of several beliefs exposing his perception that religion fostered racism.
In Berlin on 17 November
1928:
Out of our strong faith will come the strength to help ourselves against
this bastardization.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 41
Hitler castigated the
major religious bodies for failing to oppose the mixing of races or what
he called mongrelization:
Both,
yes, both Christian denominations [Catholicism and Protestantism] regard
with indifference this desecration and annihilation of a noble and unique
race to whom the earth was given by the grace of God.
MEIN KAMPF, Adolf
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 827
As far as the Fuhrer
was concerned the lowest man was closer to the apes than to the highest
man.
In a speech in Nuremberg
on 3 September 1933:
The
gulf between the lowest creature which can still be styled man and our
highest races is greater than that between the lowest type of man and the
highest ape.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 198
Blacks were almost
as odious to Hitler as Jews and were branded by him as subhuman inferiors
well below superior Germans.
In Berlin on 17 November
1928:
A
people who opposes the bastardization of its spirit and its blood can be
saved. The German people has its specific value and cannot be placed
on the same level as 70 million negroes.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 40
And in any competition
between whites and blacks the former would always be victorious according
to comments made by Hitler in Berlin on 17 November 1928:
When
the bastard, however, stands against the thoroughbred, and the negro stands
against the white man, the one who from the racial standpoint is the strongest,
will be victorious.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 40
In replying to those
who responded to racist comments by naming blacks who had become successes
in their own right Hitler quickly dismissed the examples submitted as:
exceptions to the rule, inaccurate representations of “negroes” as a whole,
squanderings of time and money on the incompetent, and denials of education
to those truly deserving:
A
further example may show how boundlessly today's mankind sins in this direction.
From time to time it is demonstrated to the German petty bourgeois in illustrated
periodicals that for the first time here or there a negro has become a
lawyer, teacher, even clergyman, or even a leading opera tenor or something
of that kind. While the stupid bourgeoisie, marveling, takes cognizance
of this miraculous training, filled with respect for this fabulous result
of our present educative skill, the Jew knows very slyly how to construe
from this a new proof of the correctness of his theory of the equality
of men which he means to instill into the nations. It does not dawn
upon this depraved bourgeois world that here one has actually to do with
a sin against all reason; that it is a criminal absurdity to train a born
half-ape until one believes a lawyer has been made of him, while millions
of members of the highest culture race have to remain in entirely unworthy
positions; that it is a sin against the will of the eternal Creator to
let hundreds and hundreds of thousands of His most talented beings degenerate
in the proletarian swamp of today, while Hottentots and Zulu Kafirs are
trained for intellectual vocations. For it is training, exactly as
that of the poodle, and not a scientific "education." The same trouble
and care, applied to intelligent races, would fit each individual a thousand
times better for the same achievements.
MEIN KAMPF, Adolf
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 639
Right
away these ridiculous popinjays start to laugh, pointing out to me that
the physically deformed and even weaklings and sick people have at times
been great thinkers. Of course, that does happen.... The fact
that even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day is not to say
that stopped clocks are always more reliable time pieces than ones in good
running order.
So be sure to include only healthy men on your staff....
HITLER--MEMOIRS OF
A CONFIDANT, by Otto Wegener, 1985, page 143
In light of the fact
that he has no qualms about labeling them half-apes, is it any wonder Hitler
repeatedly referred to blacks as niggers:
He
[Prince Arenberg] was once sentenced to 12 years' penal servitude--and
served six of them--for having killed a nigger who had attacked him!
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 613
If a nigger delights in wearing a pair of cuffs and nothing else, why should
we interfere with him?
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 656
Hitler vigorously supported
any and all laws forestalling race mixing as can be seen from what he said
in Munich on 29 November 1929:
In
our state only a German can be a citizen, and only the citizen can hold
public office. You say to us that we have no means of enforcing this.
And we answer: All measures which are necessary for the preservation of
a people in its substance are justified.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 80
And that most assuredly
included stringent measures prohibiting interracial marriage:
I
do not think, therefore, that we should sanction, except in isolated cases,
marriage between our soldiers and foreign women. The request may
often be based on sound reasons, but all the same it should be refused.
Most of these cases, obviously, result from a sexual experience which the
applicant desires to continue--and the number of requests submitted to
me is enormous. It suffices, however, to glance at the photographs
of most of the candidates to realize that in the majority of cases the
union is not desirable. Most of the women concerned are either malformed
or ugly, and from the racial point of view the results could not be satisfactory.
I am sure, too, that such marriages would not stand the test of time.
A really happy marriage can only be attained by people deeply attracted
to each other. All in all, then, I think it is far better that we
should turn a blind eye to certain little irregularities rather than give
permission for a legal union which will certainly come to grief in the
future.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 440
Our
duty is methodically to pursue a racial policy. We're compelled to
do so, if only to combat the degeneration which is beginning to threaten
us by reason of unions that in a way are consanguineous.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 25
In outlining his opposition
to race mixing he said:
The result of any crossing [of races], in brief, is always the following:
(a) Lowering of the standard of the higher race,
(b) Physical and mental regression, and, with it, the beginning of a slowly
but steadily progressive lingering illness.
To bring about such a development
means nothing less than sinning against the will of the Eternal Creator.
MEIN KAMPF, Adolf
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 392
And to aid the advancement
of mankind he proposed the breeding of people:
In the folkish State the folkish view of life has finally to succeed in
bringing about that nobler era when men see their care no longer in the
better breeding of dogs, horses, and cats, but rather in the uplifting
of mankind itself, an era in which the one knowingly and silently renounces,
and the other gladly gives and sacrifices.
MEIN KAMPF, Adolf
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 610
According to the Fuhrer,
the only state that will become master of the world is one maintaining
its best racial elements:
A
State which, in the epoch of race poisoning, dedicates itself to the cherishing
of its best racial elements, must some day be master of the world.
MEIN KAMPF, Adolf
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 994
And as far as Hitler
was concerned, judging by a speech he gave in Nuremberg on 7 September
1937, the best innovation Germany ever adopted was its firm policy of racial
segregation:
However,
the greatest revolution Germany has undergone was that of the purification
of the Volk and thus of the races which was launched systematically in
this country for the first time ever.
...For what is the sense of all our work and all our efforts if they do
not serve the purpose of preserving the German being? And what good
is any effort on behalf of this being if we omit the most important thing
[which is] to preserve it pure and unadulterated in its blood?
...Whether our work in this area of purifying our race and thus our Volk
has been fruitful is something you can best judge for yourselves here during
these few days.
...Where are there better men to be found today than those who can be seen
here? It is truly the rebirth of a nation, brought about by the deliberate
breeding of a new being.
HITLER, [Speeches
and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 925
Who does he blame for
race mixing? Why the Jews, of course. Who else:
It was and is the Jews who bring the negro to the Rhine, always with the
same concealed thought and the clear goal of destroying, by the bastardization
which would necessarily set in, the white race which they hate, to throw
it down from its cultural and political height and in turn to rise personally
to the position of master.
MEIN KAMPF, Adolf
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 448
The Jews were opposed
by Hitler not only because they are supposedly race-mixing Marxist agents
but because they are an inferior race in and of themselves who have no
place among Aryans and will never become absorbed into any of those nations
in which they reside.
In a letter to Staff-Captain
Karl Meyer on 16 September 1919:
To
begin with, the Jews are unquestionably a race, not a religious community.
And a Jew himself never describes himself as a Jewish German, a Jewish
Pole, or a Jewish American, but always as a German, Polish or American
Jew. Never has the Jew adsorbed more from the alien people in whose
midst he lives than their language. And no more than a German who
is forced to use the French language in France, the Italian language in
Italy, and the Chinese language in China, thereby becomes a Frenchman,
an Italian, let alone a Chinaman, no more can we call a Jew who happens
to live amongst us and who is therefore forced to use the German language,
a German....
Through inbreeding for thousands of years, often in very small circles,
the Jew has been able to preserve his race and his racial characteristics
much more successfully than most of the numerous people among whom he lives.
As a result we have living in our midst a non-German, alien race, unwilling
and indeed unable to shed its racial characteristics, its particular feelings,
thoughts, and ambitions and nevertheless enjoying the same political rights
as we ourselves do.
HITLER'S LETTERS AND
NOTES, by Werner Maser, (1973), page 214
Because they are deemed
to be totally alien to the society in which they circulate, Jews simply
cannot be allowed leadership positions therein.
In Berlin on 30 January
1937:
We
refused to accord to the members of a foreign race any prominent position
in our national economic system.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 81
In Munich on 29 November
1929:
Because
I believe in the idea of race I fight in all matters pertaining to public
life against the Judaization of our people, against the poisoning of our
people with foreign blood. A National Socialist will never tolerate
that a foreigner--and that means the Jew--should have a position in public
life. He will never tolerate that a foreigner hold a government position.
A National Socialist will not even ask, Is he capable? No, my Weltanschauung
tells me that I must keep our national organism free from foreign blood.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 79
And in his closing
speech to the Nuremberg Congress on 12 September 1938:
If the question is still asked today why National Socialism combats the
Jewish element in Germany so fanatically, and has pressed and still presses
so urgently for its removal, the answer can only be, because National Socialism
wishes to establish a real community of the people. It is because
this community possesses a moral justification for its existence only when
the necessary work of construction both amongst the leaders and their followers
is conducted on lines which can be challenged neither on national nor material
grounds. Since we are National Socialists, we cannot permit an alien
race, which has no connection with us, to impose itself upon our working
people as their leaders.
Therefore the strongest evidence
for the truly Socialist character of the National Socialist Movement is
its struggle against an alien leadership which has not sprung from its
own people....
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes,1942, VOLUME 1, Page 622-623
Hitler hated Marxists
even more than Jews and at his 1924 trial in Munich claimed the former
could not be Germans any more than Jews could:
It was necessary to start a new struggle and to incite against the Marxist
despoilers of the people who did not even belong to the German race--which
is where the Marxist problem is linked with the race problem, forming one
of the most difficult and profound questions of our time....
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 73
Yet, in one of his
numerous inconsistencies, he inadvertently complimented the Marxists and
nullified his oft touted assertion that they spread immorality by saying:
That
the Bolsheviks admit the legality of a woman's having children by different
men is due, I think, to their desire to bring about a fusion of their various
races. It is curious, but it is none the less a fact, that our medical
examinations show that 80 to 90 percent of their unmarried girls up to
the age of 25 are virgins and have a clean bill of health.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 677
This incongruity is
by no means surprising, however, since Hitler’s speeches and writings are
peppered with contradictions and inconsistencies of the most egregious
kind, especially with respect to the Jews, who will be discussed next.
Addressing this very
issue of contradictory statements as related to Hitler’s comments on Jews
in particular Gordon Prange cogently stated:
“With typical disregard
for consistency, Hitler has made the Jews responsible for practically everything
he has chosen to attack. The Jew is a Communist--and also a capitalist.
On the one hand, he is the scheming wheedler of the proletariat--and on
the other, he is an overstuffed plutocrat. The Jew is a cowardly
pacifist--and also a vicious warmonger.”
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 68
Besides racism and
sterilization, there is one other topic upon which the Bushites “appear”
to have a more accommodating stance than the Hitlerites and that is Judaism
or the Jews. Hitler was openly and avowedly anti-Semitic and made
no secret of his determination to remain that way. Many Bushites
have similar sentiments but would not be so bold at this time as to express
their feelings openly, especially when wealthy Jews are very influential
in American society and contribute heavily to political campaigns.
Hitler, however, operated under no such constraints and made his attitude
abundantly clear from the outset through vicious and vituperative rhetoric
exceeded only by that leveled against the Marxists. Jews are dangerous
according to the Fuhrer’s “reasoning.”
In a speech in Munich on
12 April 1922:
And
finally we were also the first to point the people on any large-scale to
a danger which insinuated itself into our midst--a danger which millions
failed to realize and which will nonetheless lead us all to ruin--the Jewish
danger.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 25
And in a Munich speech
on July 28, 1922:
For Socialism [Hitler’s version of same] in itself is anything but an international
creation. As a noble conception it has indeed grown up exclusively
in Aryan hearts: it owes its intellectual glories only to Aryan brains.
It is entirely alien to the Jew.... Voltaire, as well as Rousseau,
together with our German Fichte and many another--they are all without
exception united in their recognition that the Jew is not only a foreign
element differing in his essential character, which is utterly harmful
to the nature of the Aryan, but that the Jewish people in itself stands
against us as our deadly foe and so will stand against us always and for
all time.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 31
Hitler would also have
humanity believe Jews are rotten, although evidence to that effect is noticeably
absent from his pontifications:
I
made the most absorbing researches into corruption. And right enough,
whenever one lanced an abscess, or wiped away some putrid excrescence,
strained away sewage, there would come to light a little Jew, blinking
in the light, wriggling like a maggot when you open the plum.
I AM ADOLPH HITLER,
by Adolph Hitler, Ed. by Werner/Lotte Pelz, 1971, Page 42
Only
the Jew is evil.--Evil.--He invented the devil. To distract our attention.--Yet
the devil is simply the Jew.--I mean in the abstract--I mean--the Jew's
will to power.
I AM ADOLPH HITLER,
by Adolph Hitler, Ed. by Werner/Lotte Pelz, 1971, Page 43
The Jews attack the body as well as the spirit of society as a whole.
They act upon society as syphilis acts upon the individual.
I AM ADOLPH HITLER,
by Adolph Hitler, Ed. by Werner/Lotte Pelz, 1971, Page 128
Only
the Jew can praise an institution that is as dirty and false as he is himself.
MEIN KAMPF, Adolf
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 116
Had Hitler not clearly
applied these remarks to the Jews, one could easily have assumed he was
creating a self-portraiture:
What
I am talking about is reality, and reality is Jewry. Look at the
Communist Jew who was Marx and the capitalist Jew who is Rathenau.
All evil comes from the Jews, who pollute the world. Ever since I
have got to know them, ever since I have come to understand them, I have
been unable to meet a man in the street without wondering whether he was
a Jew or not. Jews control the Social-Democratic Press. They
conceal their fiendish devices behind a mask of reformist ideals.
Their aim is the destruction of the nation and the obliteration of the
differences between races. Jews lead the workers and talk of improving
their lot; in reality they aim at enslaving them, and killing their patriotism
and their honor in order to establish the international dictatorship of
Jewry. What they cannot achieve by persuasion they will try to achieve
by force. Their organization is flawless, they have their fingers
in every pie. They have their agents in all the Ministries, and they
even pull strings in the highest places in the land; and they have the
support of their coreligionists all over the world; they are an ulcer leading
to the downfall of nations and individuals.
HITLER AND I by Otto
Strasser, 1940, page 10
Mankind is supposed
to believe that Jews are not only corrupt but spread corruption to others:
All
the other lower races are harmless. Until they are brought to ferment
by this germ {Jews}. How infinitely docile the Russians were, until
they became Marxists.--Jews in modern dress.--As they obeyed the Czar,
so would they have obeyed us. They still would.--As they obey Stalin.--The
Poles have been made rotten by the high percentage of Jews in their midst.
I AM ADOLPH HITLER,
by Adolph Hitler, Ed. by Werner/Lotte Pelz, 1971, Page 43
And they allegedly
produce corrupt art and culture:
The
fact was not to be denied that 90 percent of all literary and artistic
rubbish and of theatrical humbug was due to a race which hardly amounted
to 1/100th of all inhabitants of the country. Yet it was so.
MEIN KAMPF, Adolf
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 77
Certainly
I began to examine the names of those who created these unclean products
of artistic life. The result had a devastating influence on my previous
attitude towards the Jews. No matter how much my feeling resisted,
Reason had to draw its own conclusions.
MEIN KAMPF, Adolf
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 75
Was
there any form of filth or profligacy, above all in cultural life, in which
at least one Jew did not participate? When carefully cutting open
such a growth, one could find a little Jew, blinded by the sudden light,
like a maggot in a rotting corpse.
The Jews' activity in the press, in art, literature, and the theater, as
I learned to know it, did not add to their credit in my eyes. All
unctuous assertions were of little or no avail. It was sufficient
to look at the billboards, to read the names of those who produced these
awful works for theaters and movies if one wanted to become hardened for
a long time. This was pestilence, spiritual pestilence with which
the people were infected, worse than the Black Death of former times!
And in what quantities this poison was produced and distributed!
Of course, the lower the spiritual and the moral standard of such an art
manufacturer, the greater his fertility, till such a fellow, like a centrifugal
machine, splashes his dirt into the faces of others.
MEIN KAMPF, Adolf
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 75
Not only does Hitler
revel in grandiose, unsubstantiated slanders lacking a shred of documented
proof, but he totally ignores the tremendous contributions of Jews to the
Arts and Humanities, especially in the United States.
In Nuremberg on 6 September
1938 he went even further by asserting the Jews have produced no culture:
The
Jews as a race are culturally absolutely unproductive; therefore it is
understandable that they feel more attracted to the modes of expression
of primitive Negro tribes than to great cultural works and achievements
of truly creative races.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 155
I've
always said, the Jews are the most diabolic creatures in existence, and
at the same time the stupidest. They can't produce a musician, or
a thinker. No art, nothing, less than nothing. They're liars,
forgers, crooks. They owe their success only to the stupidity of
their victims.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 118
And in Nuremberg on
11 September 1935:
The contrary was the case with Judaism. Infected by the spirit of
capitalism through and through, and directing their actions accordingly,
the Jews never produced an art that was characteristically their own, and
will never create such a thing. Although this people for long periods
in its history has had immense individual fortunes at its disposal, it
never created an architectural style of its own, nor have the Jews been
able to produce a music that reflects their racial characteristics.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 146
If there is anyone
who should not be attributing the success of others to “the stupidity of
victims” and alleging Jews are the stupidest of creatures, it is someone
so ignorant as to say the Jews have never produced a musician or a thinker.
From Spinoza and Marx to Einstein and Disraeli the list proceeds unabated.
Imagine Hitler referring to others as liars and having the temerity to
denounce the Jews for not having produced an architectural style or art
of their own, when that charge could be leveled at the Germans themselves.
Styles are rarely confined within national borders or nationalities.
The Jews allegedly
destroy national cultures but, again, no evidence is forthcoming.
The mere proclamation of such will have to be sufficient.
In a 1 May 1933 speech in
Munich:
Jewry:
It is a people of the least possible creative ability.... The Jew...is
the demon of folk decay, the symbol of the ongoing destruction of peoples.
ADOLPH HITLER QUOTATIONS,
by Karl Hammer,1990, Page 38
The same criticism
can be directed toward Hitler’s contention that Jews destroy, steal, exploit,
and fail to create. Hitler operated on the premise that because he
had unrestricted access to the media and opposition voices were verboten,
he could hurl outlandish assertions and slanders with reckless abandon
while fearing no corrections or reprisals. How else can one account
for the nonsense found in comments such as:
The
role of Jewry is hard to realize because the Jewish folk is the parasitic
race among the human races. Jewry always marches with those who live
as parasites--that is, who are intent on having others work for them, so
that they can lead a carefree existence.
HITLER--MEMOIRS OF
A CONFIDANT, by Otto Wegener, 1985, page 317
In a Munich speech
on April 12, 1922:
The
Aryan regards work as the foundation for the maintenance of the community
of the people amongst its members. The Jew regards work as the means
to the exploitation of other peoples. The Jew never works as a productive
creator without the great aim of becoming the master. He works unproductively,
using and enjoying other people's work. And thus we understand the
iron sentence which Mommsen once uttered: "The Jew is the ferment of decomposition
in peoples," that means that the Jew destroys and must destroy because
he completely lacks the conception of an activity which builds up the life
of the community.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 23
In a Munich speech
on July 28, 1922:
That
process today in Russia is practically complete. The whole of present-day
Russia has nothing to show beyond a ruined civilization, a colony ripe
for development through alien capital, and even this capital in order to
supply resources in labor for its practical work must introduce Aryan intellects,
since for this again the Jew is useless. Here, too, he is all rapacity,
never satisfied. He knows no ordered economy, he knows no ordered
body of administrators. Over there in Russia he is laying his hands
on everything. They take the noble's diamonds to help "the People."
The diamonds then stray into foreign societies and are no more seen.
He seizes to himself the treasures of the churches, but not to feed the
people: oh no! Everything wanders away and leaves not a trace behind.
In his greed he has become quite senseless: he can keep hold of nothing:
he has only within him the instinct for destruction, and so he himself
collapses with the treasure that he has destroyed.
MY NEW ORDER by Adolf Hitler, Edited
by de Sales, 1941, page 36
And in that same speech:
That
is the lurking danger, and the Jew can meet it in one-way only--by destroying
the hostile national intelligentsia. That is the inevitable ultimate
goal of the Jew in his revolution. And this aim he must pursue; he
knows well enough his economics brings no blessing: his is no master people:
he is an exploiter: the Jews are a people of robbers. He has never
founded any civilization, though he has destroyed civilizations by the
hundred. He possesses nothing of his own creation to which he can
point. Everything that he has is stolen. Foreign peoples, foreign
workmen build him his temples, it is foreigners who create and work for
him: it is foreigners who shed their blood for him. He knows no "people's
army": he has only hired mercenaries who are ready to go to death on his
behalf. He has no art of his own: bit by bit he has stolen it all
from the other peoples or has watched them at work and then made his copy.
He does not even know how merely to preserve the precious things which
others have created: as he turns the treasures over in his hand they are
transformed into dirt and dung. He knows that he cannot maintain
any State for long. That is one of the differences between him and
the Aryan. True, the Aryan also has dominated other peoples.
But how? He entered on the land, he cleared the forests; out of wildernesses
he has created civilizations, and he has not used the others for his own
interests, he has, so far as their capacities permitted, incorporated them
into his State and through him art and science were brought to flower.
In the last resort it was the Aryan and the Aryan alone who could form
States and could set them on their path to future greatness.
All that the Jew cannot do. And because he cannot do it, therefore
all his revolutions must be "international." They must spread as
a pestilence spreads. He can build no State and say "See here!
Here stands the State, a model for all. Now copy us!" He must
take care that the plague does not die, that it is not limited to one place,
or else in a short time this plague-hearth would burn itself out.
So he is forced to bring every mortal thing to an international expansion.
For how long? Until the whole world sinks in ruins and brings him
down with it in the midst of the ruins.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 35
Hitler claims Jews
work unproductively, using and enjoying other people's work while ignoring
the obvious fact that many successful businesses were created by Jews working
long hours under laborious conditions: he accused the Jews of destroying
the hostile national intelligentsia but fails to name one person adversely
affected; he claims the economics of the Jews brings no blessing despite
the fact that Jews have employed millions and paid out billions of dollars;
he accuses the Jews of being a people of robbers but provides no examples
of what they have stolen; he asserts the Jews have destroyed civilizations
by the hundred but fails to name one; he asserts that when a Jew allegedly
turns the treasures over in his hand they are transformed into dirt and
dung but again fails to provide specifics; he says it is True, that
the Aryan also has dominated other peoples. But how? He entered
on the land, he cleared the forests; out of wildernesses he has created
civilizations, and he has not used the others for his own interests which
is patently false since Germany itself engaged in exploitive colonialism
and imperialism; he claims Aryans cleared the forests out of wildernesses
and created civilizations while conveniently ignoring the fact that the
accomplishments of the Babylonian, Egyptian, Indian and Chinese civilizations
preceded those of the Nordics by centuries and were created by non-Aryans;
he claims art and science were brought to flower through the Aryan when
these had come to fruition in non-Aryan civilizations centuries earlier,
and he claims that In the last resort it was the Aryan and the Aryan alone
who could form States and could set them on their path to future greatness
when the previously mentioned civilizations formed states long before Aryan
nations materialized and they realized their greatness prior to the Aryans.
Not only is Hitler’s
conception of history replete with fallacies but his prophetic talents
are badly deficient as well. He claims the Jew can build no State
and say "See here! Here stands the State" when Israel is a living
refutation of that allegation. And he asserts Jews cannot maintain
any State for long when Israel has existed for more than half a century.
The litany of Hitler’s unverified slanders and vilifications
of the Jews is not only lengthy, inaccurate, and nauseating but based on
that emotionalism to which he is so firmly and admittedly attached.
According to a fallacious
speech in Nuremberg on 13 September 1937 the Jews add nothing to the economy
or the culture:
In
this community of the civilized European nations, international Jewish
Bolshevism is a totally alien element which has not the slightest contribution
to make to our economy or to our culture, but instead wreaks only havoc;
which has not a single positive accomplishment to show for itself in an
international perspective on European and world life, but merely propagandistic
tables of forged figures and rabble-rousing posters.
HITLER, [Speeches
and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 941
They are allegedly
parasitic:
.
. . he [a Jew] is an individualist, an economic liberalist, an egotist--yes,
he is a parasitic creature.
HITLER--MEMOIRS OF
A CONFIDANT, by Otto Wegener, 1985, page 167
It does not occur to any of those who howl when we transport a few Jews
to the East that the Jew is a parasite and as such is the only human being
capable of adapting himself to any climate and of earning a living just
as well in Lapland as in the tropics.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 485
And according to Hitler
they are supposedly “laying low” in many countries until the opportunity
to take-over manifests itself:
As
long as the Jew has not become the master of the other peoples, he must,
whether he likes it or not, speak their languages, and only if they would
be his slaves then they might all speak a universal language (Esperanto!)
so that their domination will be made easier.
MEIN KAMPF, Adolf
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 423
But
this tops everything: all--and I mean all--social injustices of any significance
in the world today can be traced back to the subterranean influence of
the Jews.
BOLSHEVISM FROM MOSES
TO LENIN, by Dietrich Eckhart, 1999, page 71
One hardly knows where to begin refuting Hitler’s multitudinous, erroneous slanders. Accusing Jews of being the source of ALL injustices is too absurd to merit rational discussion. How many Jews control Asian countries like India or African countries like Nigeria both of which reek with injustices and contain few Jews.
In Munich on 20 April
1923:
The
Jew is a past master at lying, for his existence as such in the organism
of other peoples is only possible because of falsehood. This already
was the opinion of the great Arthur Schopenhauer. ‘The Jew lies to
the other peoples when he pretends to be German, French, or the like.’
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 78
For Hitler to accuse others of being “a past master at lying” borders on the bizarre and is certainly liable to spawn humor.
The
Jew is the mixer up of everything. The confuser of all issues.
The busy inventor of misleading ideologies.
I AM ADOLPH HITLER,
by Adolph Hitler, Ed. by Werner/Lotte Pelz, 1971, Page 149
“The busy inventor of misleading ideologies”? The degree to which Hitler projected onto others that which he displayed in such abundance is nothing short of astounding.
The
Jew is the anti-man, the creature of another God. He must have come
from another root of the human race. I set the Aryan and Jew over
against each other; and if I call one of them a human being I must call
the other something else. The two are as widely separated as man
and beast. Not that I would call the Jew a beast. He is much
further from the beasts than we Aryans. He is a creature outside
nature and alien to nature.
THE VOICE OF DESTRUCTION,
by Hermann Rauschnigg, 1940, page 241
Could a more fitting
epitaph have been written for Hitler himself, for if he was not a beast,
the anti-man, the creature of another God and alien to nature, what human
being ever was.
And finally, Hitler
erroneously declares:
Jesus
was most certainly not a Jew. The Jews would never have handed one
of their own people to the Roman courts; they would have condemned Him
themselves.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 721
Jesus most certainly
was a Jew, as were Peter and Paul, and for Hitler to allege otherwise simply
because he can’t tolerate the idea of his beloved savior being a Jew is
patently erroneous and undeniably tendentious.
Because Hitler was
solidly addicted to his anti-Semitic ideology, he sought to rewrite history
and eradicate the Jews from any area under his control. From his
perspective the Jews had been allowed too much maneuverability in Europe
and that accounted for the prevailing ills.
While denouncing the freedom
accorded to Jews decades earlier, he said in a Munich speech on 28 July
1922:
It
is a battle which began nearly 120 years ago, at the moment when the Jew
was granted citizen rights in the European States. The political
emancipation of the Jews was the beginning of an attack of delirium.
For thereby there were given full citizen rights and equality to a people
which was much more clearly and definitely a race apart from all others,
that has always formed and will form a State within the State.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 28
And he regretted the
fact that a small battery of subversive Jews had not died in WWI so there
would have been no “Jewish problem”:
If, at the beginning of the War [World War I] and during the War, 12 or
15,000 of these Hebraic corrupters of the nation had been subjected to
poison gas such as had to be endured in the field by hundreds of thousands
of our very best German workers of all classes and professions, then the
sacrifice of millions at the front would not had been in vain. On
the contrary: 12,000 scoundrels opportunely eliminated and perhaps a million
orderly, worth-while Germans would have been saved for the future.
MEIN KAMPF, Adolf
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 984
In any event, Hitler
felt there was no choice but to permanently settle the “Jewish problem,”
an issue which apparently no group except the Nazis viewed as a “problem.”
In Berlin on 30 January 1939 Hitler stated:
I
think that the sooner this problem is solved the better, for Europe cannot
settle down until the Jewish question is cleared up.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 82
Hitler sought to frighten
people into support for his demented cause by concocting the preposterous
allegation that his followers were only defending themselves against Jews
intent on slitting throats.
In a speech on 28 July 1922
in Munich:
On one point there should be no doubt: we will not let the Jews slit our
gullets and not defend ourselves.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 42
And, therefore, the
Jews must be rendered harmless according to a Munich speech on 18 September
1922:
No
salvation is possible until the bearer of disunion, the Jew, has been rendered
powerless to harm.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 45
In a vain effort to
project a more humanitarian image abroad, Hitler tried to portray anti-Semitic
laws as pro-German rather than anti-Jewish.
In an interview with Anne
McCormick in July 1933 he said:
It
is true we have made discriminatory laws, but they are directed not so
much against Jews as for the German people, to get economic opportunity
to the majority.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 729
And in a 28 November
1935 interview granted to United Press correspondent, Baillie, Hitler stated:
The
necessity for combating Bolshevism is one of the main reasons for Jewish
legislation in Germany. This legislation is not anti-Jewish, but
rather pro-German. It is designed to protect the rights of Germans
against destructive Jewish influences.
Baillie later wrote
in his column:
“Hitler then pointed
out that nearly all the Bolshevist agitators in Germany had been Jews and
further that Germany was separated from Soviet Russia by only a few miles,
which meant that effective defense measures were called for at all times
to protect Germany from the machinations of the mostly Jewish agents of
Bolshevism.... Turning to the question of Bolshevism, he declared that
Germany was the bulwark which protected the West from Bolshevist expansion
spreading from Soviet Russia.”
HITLER, [Speeches
and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 731
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 732
Yet, in that earlier
McCormick interview Hitler exposed another one of his numerous inconsistencies
by also saying:
The
anti-Jewish laws were passed at a special session of the Reichstag held
in Nuremberg on 15 September 1935.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 731
If the laws were not
anti-Jewish but merely pro-German, then why did he call them “anti-Jewish
laws”? The hypocrisy of Hitler knew no bounds.
In one of his more
magnanimous, kiss-of-death moments Hitler actually expressed a view favorable
to some Jews by saying:
Not
all Jews are equally rotten. I am the last man to say they are.
There are decent Jews.-- Neumann was one of them. But they are all
carriers of the infection. It may not be their fault,...
I AM ADOLPH HITLER,
by Adolph Hitler, Ed. by Werner/Lotte Pelz, 1971, Page 71
But
that is more in the nature of a death kiss since he demanded that all Jews
be expelled from Germany and Europe: For the internal enemy there
is only the savage alternative--either-or. The Jew will have no choice
but to get out of Germany and Europe in good time. Even the Arabs
do not want the Jews. Why should we tolerate them here? They
will be expelled, not by me but by the German people.... I have already
told you that I do not intend to massacre the Jews. Perhaps, however,
they should be thinking of emigration even now.
SECRET CONVERSATIONS
WITH HITLER, Edited by Edouard Calic, 1971. Page 89
The
Jews must pack up, disappear from Europe. Let them go to Russia.
Where the Jews are concerned, I'm devoid of all sense of pity. They'll
always be the ferment that moves peoples one against the other. They
sow discord everywhere, as much between individuals as between peoples.
They'll also have to clear out of Switzerland and Sweden. It's where
they're to be found in small numbers that they're most dangerous.
Put 5000 Jews in Sweden--soon they'll be holding all the posts there.
Obviously, that makes them all the easier to spot.
It's entirely natural that we should concern ourselves with the question
on the European level. It's clearly not enough to expel them from
Germany. We cannot allow them to retain bases of withdrawal at our
doors. We want to be out of danger of all kinds of infiltration.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 260
Both
in the economic and social fields there will be great hardships.
We do not intend to nail every rich Jew to the telegraph poles on the Munich-Berlin
Road. That is nonsense. But in our "folkish" state, which will
be based on the best "folkish" forces, the Jewish-Marxist spirit has no
further place.
SECRET CONVERSATIONS
WITH HITLER, Edited by Edouard Calic, 1971. Page 35
If that attitude is
not anti-Jewish but merely pro-German, one can only shudder at what he
would consider truly anti-Jewish legislation. Unfortunately that
realization came later. The later appears to have arrived with comments
like:
One
must act radically. When one pulls out a tooth, one does it with
a single tug, and the pain quickly goes away. The Jew must clear
out of Europe. Otherwise no understanding will be possible between
Europeans. It's the Jew who prevents everything.... For my
part, I restrict myself to telling them they must go away. If they
break their pipes on the journey, I can't do anything about it. But
if they refuse to go voluntarily, I see no other solution but extermination.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 235
And ‘later’ is especially
prominent in exceptionally vicious and virulent comments such as:
The
discovery of the Jewish virus is one of the greatest revolutions that have
taken place in the world. The battle in which we are engaged today
is of the same sort as the battle waged, during the last century, by Pasteur
and Koch. How many diseases have their origin in the Jewish virus!
Japan would have been contaminated, too, if it had stayed open to the Jews.
We shall regain our health only by eliminating the Jew.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 332
So
I realized that the Jew was not just the by-product or the symptom of the
decaying process, not just one of many causes. He was the agent.
THE cause. The only cause. He was the decay itself. He
was the sickness unto death.
I saw and I understood so clearly
that even one minute after the revelation I could no longer comprehend
why I had not seen it before. It struck me that the Jew is sickness,
that there is no health in him. Funny it had struck that old Jew
Paul in the same way. Only being a Jew himself, he drew a different
conclusion. He rushed off to cover up his knowledge by making everybody
sick.
From that moment I was determined to fight that sickness, until I had eradicated
it from the globe like the bubonic plague.
I AM ADOLPH HITLER,
by Adolph Hitler, Ed. by Werner/Lotte Pelz, 1971, Page 42
I
have been accused and I shall be accused by those liberal wetcloths who
have never thought one serious thought in their lives, because school and
university have taught them to avoid such thoughts like the plague --I
shall be accused by them of having been cruel and brutal to the Jews.
This, gentlemen, I can say with utter sincerity, has not been my intention.
One is not cruel towards vermin or bacteria.
I AM ADOLPH HITLER,
by Adolph Hitler, Ed. by Werner/Lotte Pelz, 1971, Page 32
If
I could have sent to every Jew in the world a pill that would have expedited
him towards a better world by way of the most ecstatic dreams, I should
have been delighted to do that. Naturally vermin does not recognize
its own nature as vermin.
I AM ADOLPH HITLER,
by Adolph Hitler, Ed. by Werner/Lotte Pelz, 1971, Page 33
Is it any wonder that 6,000,000 Jews were killed when Hitler went so far as to refer to them in terminology normally reserved for Marxists that resulted in 22,000,000 deaths in the Soviet Union.
In Berlin on 30 January
1942:
I do not even want to speak of the Jews. They are simply our old
enemies, their plans have suffered shipwreck through us, and they rightly
hate us, just as we hate them.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 83
Hitler says he hates
Jews but the hatred of the latter toward him never attained the vituperative
level of his hatred toward them because they were not afflicted with a
serious mental illness.
Hitler was certainly
not furtive in one respect because he openly admits having drawn material
and ideas from the infamously, anti-semitic Protocols of Zion:
I
have read "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion"--it simply appalled me.
This stealthiness of the enemy, and his ubiquity! I saw at once that
we must copy it--in our own way, of course.
THE VOICE OF DESTRUCTION,
by Hermann Rauschnigg, 1940, page 238
So you derived inspiration
for your struggle from the Protocols? Rauschnigg asked:
Yes, certainly, down to the veriest detail. I found these Protocols
enormously instructive.
THE VOICE OF DESTRUCTION,
by Hermann Rauschnigg, 1940, page 238
The applicability of all the above to Bushism lies in the fact that Americans need to be fully apprised of those views, sentiments, beliefs, and arguments that are harbingers of racism and anti-semitism and realize their source, should they continue to expand in America, will unquestionably be Bushism and other ideologies closely aligned to Hitlerian thought.