Besides his undeniable adherence to capitalism,
undoubtedly the biggest factor contributing to bourgeois support of Hitler
was that he linked the promotion of capitalism with the destruction of
Marxism. Hitler, like so many capitalists in Germany at that time
viewed these efforts as Siamese twins. In the Germany of the 1920’s
and 30’s not thousands but millions of workers were voting for socialists
and communists resulting in both groups winning major electoral victories
and assuming positions of real potency in the government in general and
parliament in particular. They represented a very powerful force
on the national scene and in the eyes of the Right in general and Hitler
specifically a very serious threat to the nation. For that reason
Nazi propagandists spared no effort to promulgate the failings of Marxism
and what they felt it represented.
In speech after speech
as well as his writings Hitler denounced, decried, derogated, and downgraded
Marxists and Marxism in tones echoing those now coming from Bushites fulminating
against terrorists and al Qaeda, all of which only enhanced his persona
in the eyes of the wealthy, the influential, and the propertied.
His words fell on their ears likes notes from a symphony. No crimes
too heinous, no deceptions too extreme, were attributed to the Marxists,
especially those leading the Soviet Union. Evidence for this campaign
can be found in such comments as:
But
now for the first time I also turned my attention to the attempts at mastering
this world plague [Marxism].
MEIN KAMPF, Adolph
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 202
In his closing speech
at the Nuremberg Parteitag of 1937:
The
same foe which first called us into life and in the course of the struggle
reinforced us time after time--it still threatens us today. Any lie
and any violence are good enough if they help it to gain its end.
This is no longer a fight for paltry dynastic interests, a fight to round
off the frontiers of States, a struggle for small economic gains: no!
this is a battle against a veritable world sickness which threatens to
infect the peoples, a plague which devastates whole peoples, whose special
characteristic is that it is an international pestilence.... Neither Russians
nor Germans, neither Hungarians nor Spaniards were or are the source of
this malady, the source is to be found in that international parasite upon
the life of peoples that has spread itself over the world for centuries
in order in our day to attain once more to the full effectiveness of its
destructive existence.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 691
His closing speech
at the Parteitag in Nuremberg in September 1936 was primarily devoted to
an explanation of the hostility of the Third Reich toward Bolshevism.
He stated:
Sooner
or later there must be a clear and final decision, for 'Bolshevism has
attacked the foundations of our whole human order, alike in State and society,
the foundations of our conception of civilization, of our faith and of
our morals: all alike are at stake. If this bolshevism would be content
to promote this doctrine in a single land, then other countries might remain
unconcerned, but its supreme principle is its internationalism and that
means the confession of faith that these views must be carried to triumph
throughout the whole world, i.e., that the world as we know it must be
turned upside down.
MY NEW ORDER by Hitler,
Edited by Raoul de Roussy de Sales, 1941, Page 403
In Hitler’s most infamous
work:
Till then I had known the Social Democratic Party only from a spectator's
point of view, on the occasion of various mass demonstrations, without
having the slightest insight into the mentality of its followers or the
meaning of its doctrine; but now I suddenly came into contact with the
products of its education and view of life; I now achieved in a few months
what otherwise might have taken decades: the realization that it was a
pestilential whore covered with the mask of social virtue and brotherly
love, and that mankind must rid the world of her as soon as possible, or
otherwise the world might easily be rid of mankind.
MEIN KAMPF, Adolph
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 51
Also in Mein Kampf
is:
This
is the true inner nucleus of the Marxist "view of life," as far as one
may call this monstrous product of a criminal mind a "view of life."
MEIN KAMPF, Adolph
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 441
And in a speech to
the Reichstag on 21 May 1935:
Bolshevism
destroys not only private property but also private initiative and zest
for personal responsibility. In this way it has failed to save millions
of men from starvation in Russia, the greatest agrarian State in the world.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 670
From the Nazi perspective
Marxism was not only a politico-economic danger to Germany but a cultural
imperilment of civilization itself. In the proclamation of the Government
to the German People of 1 February 1933 Hitler unleashed a scathing attack
by saying:
Communism
with its method of madness is making a powerful and insidious attack upon
our discouraged and shattered nation. It seeks to poison and disrupt
in order to hurl us into an epoch of chaos.... This negative, destroying
spirit has spared nothing of all that is highest and most valuable.
Beginning with the family, it has undermined the very foundations of morality
and faith and scoffs at culture and business, nation and Fatherland, justice
and honor. Fourteen years of Marxism have ruined Germany; one year
of Bolshevism would destroy her. The richest and fairest territories
of the world would be turned into a smoking heap of ruins. Even the
sufferings of the last decade and a half could not be compared to the misery
of a Europe in the heart of which the red flag of destruction had been
hoisted. The thousands of wounded, the hundreds of dead which this
inner strife has already cost Germany should be a warning of the storm
which would come.
MY NEW ORDER by Hitler,
Edited by Raoul de Roussy de Sales, 1941, Page 144
In his speech at the
Sportpalast in Berlin, on 10 February 1933:
Marxism
means the tearing in pieces of the nation, and thus the weakening of the
whole people. Marxism means the reduction to misery of this people
and is thus treachery to the very class which it regards as its support
and to which it promises a better future. And just as the treachery
to the working classes is the result of Bolshevism, similarly Marxism means
treachery to the German peasants and to the masses in their millions of
the equally poverty-stricken members of the bourgeoisie and the craftsman.
Marxism is a fight against culture and the idea of freedom, a war against
tradition and honor. It is an attack upon all the foundations of
our community-life and thus an attack upon the bases of our life as a whole.
Toward the world without, pacifist, in the domestic sphere, terrorist--such
is the world-outlook of the destructive Marxist doctrine.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 666
In that classic speech
delivered to the Industry Club in Dusseldorf on 27 January 1932:
... A Weltanschauung [Marxism] has won over to itself a State, and starting
from this State it will gradually shatter the whole world and bring it
down in ruins. Bolshevism, if its advance is not interrupted, will
transform the world as completely as in times past did Christianity.
In 300 years people will no longer say that it is a question of a new idea
in production. In 300 years perhaps people will already realize that
it is a question almost of a new religion, though its basis is not that
of Christianity. In 300 years, if this movement develops further,
people will see in Lenin not merely a revolutionary of the year 1917 but
the founder of a new world-doctrine, honored perhaps as is Buddha.
It is not as if this gigantic phenomenon could simply be thought away from
the modern world. It is a reality and must of necessity destroy and
overthrow one of the conditions for our continued existence as a white
race. We see the stages of this process: first the lowering of the
level of civilization and thereby the capacity to welcome civilizing influences;
lowering of the whole level of human society and therewith the sundering
of all relations towards other nations;...
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 798
For
the second time in my life I dug into this doctrine of destruction [Marxism]...
MEIN KAMPF, Adolph
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 202
Hitler contended in
Mein Kampf that Marxists intended to destroy all non-Jewish states:
Marxism,
the ultimate aim of which was and will always be the destruction of all
non-Jewish national States,...
MEIN KAMPF, Adolph
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 219
And he portrayed Marxism
as a throwback to humanity’s primitive state.
In his closing speech at
the Parteitag in Nuremberg on 3 September 1933 he said:
For Communism is not a higher
stage of development: rather it is the most primitive form of life--the
starting point.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 467
HITLER, SPEECHES AND
PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 357
In Berlin on 20 September
1933:
It is most necessary to combat the ideology of modesty of needs, the systematic
reduction of demand, i.e. the cult of primitivism stemming from Communism.
This Bolshevist ideal of the gradual regression of civilization's claims
must inevitably result in the destruction of economy and of life as a whole.
It is an ideology founded in a fear of one's neighbor, in a dread of somehow
standing out, and is based upon a spiteful, envious cast of mind.
This code of regression to the primitive state leads to cowardly, anxious
acquiescence and thus presents a tremendous threat to mankind.
The decisive thing is not that all limit themselves, but rather that all
endeavor to make progress and improve their lot.
HITLER, SPEECHES AND
PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 359
Along with signifying
a return to primitivism Hitler denounced what he felt was the destruction
of the individual and a melding of all by Marxism.
During his trial in Munich
on 26 February 1924 he stated:
By
Marxism I understand a doctrine which in principle rejects the idea of
the worth of personality, which replaces individual energy by the masses
and thereby works the destruction of our whole cultural life. This
movement has utilized monstrously effective methods and exercised tremendous
influence on the masses, which in the course of three or four decades could
have no other result than that the individual has become his own brother's
foe, while at the same time calling a Frenchman, an Englishman, or a Zulu
his brother.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolph Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 72
In the Sportpalast
in Berlin on 2 March 1933:
There
followed a criticism of the aims and methods of Marxism: these were so
utterly false alike in conception and execution that when once Marxism
is applied in practice success is impossible. (1) Marxism must of
necessity lead to a weakening of the general body of the people because
it builds upon a splitting up of the body politic. (2) The equality
of man was long ago scientifically disapproved. It is not present
in the world of fact and the doctrine leads perforce to a devaluation of
men of high capacity, to a lowering of the values of life....
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 255
Hitler repeatedly uttered
a particular denunciation of Marxism that has been the clarion call of
many for decades--it promises heaven but delivers hell.
In a speech to the Reichstag
on 13 July 1934 he stated:
And
over against this positive world of the German spirit, the incorporation
of the true values of our people, there stands also, it is true, a small
negative world. They take no part in their hearts in the work of
German recovery and restoration. First there is the small body of
those international disintegrators of a people who as apostles of the Weltanschauung
[world view] of Communism alike in the political and economic sphere systematically
incite the peoples, break up established order, and endeavor to produce
chaos. We see evidence for the activity of these international conspirators
all about us. Up and down the countries the flames of revolt run
over the peoples. Street riots, fights at the barricades, mass terrorism,
and the individualistic propaganda of disintegration disturb today nearly
all the countries of the world. Even in Germany some single fools
and criminals of this type still again and again seek to exercise their
destructive activity. Since the destruction of the Communist party
we experience one attempt after another, though growing ever weaker as
time passes, to found and to sustain the work of Communistic organizations
of a more or less anarchistic character. Their method is always the
same. While they paint men's present lot as intolerable they praise
the Communistic paradise of the future, and thus practically wage a war
in Hell's behalf. The consequences of their victory in a country
such as Germany could be nothing but completely destructive. The
proof of their capacity and the effect of their supremacy has by concrete
examples already become so clear to the German people that the overwhelming
majority even of the German working classes has recognized the true character
of these Jewish-international benefactors of mankind and is no longer seduced
by them. The National Socialist State in its domestic life will exterminate
and annihilate even those last remnants of this poisoning and stultification
of the people, if necessary at the cost of another Hundred Years War.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 298
HITLER, SPEECHES AND
PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 486
In the Sportpalast
in Berlin on 2 March 1933:
And
the idea of Pacifism, a Marxist idea which has moved the world, how has
this stood the test in actual experience? The Red Army is the symbol
of this Marxist-pacifist world idea. My fellow-countrymen, when Marxism
is supreme in practice it refutes itself in every sphere. There is
no happiness, no prosperity, no social advance, but only the same gray
misery, the same great distress.
And now Marxism desires to become more radical: it wishes to destroy everything.
When everything has been reduced to misery, when everything is destroyed,
then man will find himself in a Kingdom of Heaven. If a feeble bourgeoisie
capitulated before this madness, we accept the challenge, we fight against
this madness. We accept the challenge because we wish to spare our
people this fearful disillusionment....
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 258
Hitler even went so
far as to allege Marxism was a drive for self-destruction, although the
reasoning giving rise to this conclusion is yet to be revealed.
On 20 February 1938 he stated:
We perceive Bolshevism, even more than in the past, as the incarnation
of the human drive for destruction.
HITLER, [Speeches
and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 1028
In Munich on 29 November
1929:
Marxism
has a Weltanschauung which leads rapidly to destruction.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolph Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 12
In reality, the primary
destruction completed by Marxism during Hitler’s lifetime was his own and
that of his movement.
While in Munich on
25 January 1923 shortly after WWI and early in his career, Hitler
briefly summarized what he deemed the main failings of Marxism:
Why did Germany collapse in 1918? Was it because of the superior
strength of her enemies as such? Was it because of their superior
leadership as well as Germany's own inferior leadership? Was it because
of Germany's lack of strength, or something on that order? No, and
thrice no!...
No, that which paralyzed the
German people and later gnawed it to its very marrow was the poison of
a doctrine which had been active 40 years previously, and which was recognized
by only a few for what it actually represented. It was a doctrine
which in the first rush of enthusiasm in 1914 had been considered by the
superficial observer as overcome, but it only continued to gnaw far more
effectively than ever before. The doctrine was Marxism, the doctrine
which denies the value of the great leader, and proposes class warfare.
This doctrine presents three preposterous theories.
First: Negation of the value of the great leader. The eternally creative
force of individuality is to be replaced by the infertility of a numerical
majority; the cultural significance of the nation by the unimaginative
impotence of fictitious internationalism. The negation of the great
leader as the most vivid expression of the character of a people necessarily
leads to the negation of that people itself and results in the negation
of the significance of the race itself....
Second: Denial of private property as such. While the negation of
the value of the great leader destroys the foundation of culture, the demand
for the elimination of private property means the doing away with the foundations
of human economy. With clever dexterity, this doctrine knows how
to obliterate the differences between the concepts of state property and
personal property. It counts on the generally very inadequate understanding
of economies on the part of the broad masses, and makes use of the economic
abuses of certain classes of society.
Third, in setting up two basic theses, the enactment of which on the one
hand means the destruction of all human culture... and on the other hand
the collapse of any higher form of economy...this doctrine alienates all
intelligentsia in the political as well as the economic field. The
greater the idealism of a political thinker or economic theoretician, the
more he is obliged by love of truth and idealism to leave a movement that
defies truth.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolph Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 219-221
As far as Hitler was
concerned Marxism had no future.
In Salzburg on 6 April 1938
he stated:
In
a few years, thoughts of Social Democracy and Communism will have faded
like the memory of an evil spirit from a distant past, and these ideas
will be laughed at.
HITLER, [Speeches
and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 1085
The degree to which all of the above not only duplicates the convictions of the Bushites but mirrors the latter’s current description of al Qaeda and world “terrorists” is prodigious.
Hitler’s strong allegiance to religion and capitalism accounts for his extreme disdain for that which capitalists despise as well. One of the greatest misconceptions of the modern era is that world Jewry was at the apex of the Nazi ‘hit list’ when, in truth, that was never the case. Never at any time did exterminating the world’s Jews have top priority in the Nazi pantheon of crimes and atrocities, although millions have been led to believe otherwise The supremacy of Jews on the annihilation list has been an erroneous theme dominating nearly all anti-Nazi teachings, while reality is decidedly at variance with this common misconception. Unquestionably the pinnacle was occupied throughout the entire Nazi era, and even before, not by the Jews but by the Marxists, the communists, and Hitler made this abundantly clear in statement after statement. Hitler had a veritable obsession with communism and that is why its eradication was his primary concern and retained top priority at all times. Some of his most prominent statements to that effect are as follows and indulgence is requested since the list is rather lengthy.
At the Congress of
the German Work Front in Berlin on 10 May 1933:
I regard it as my task before posterity to destroy Marxism, and that is
no empty phrase but a solemn oath which I shall perform as long as I live....
This is for us no fight which can be finished by a compromise. We
see in Marxism the enemy of our people which we shall root out and destroy
without mercy.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 667
Norman Baynes considered
this comment of such import that he repeated it later in the same Volume
by re-translating it as:
When
14 or 15 years ago and over and over again since then I declared before
the German nation that I saw my task before the bar of German history to
lie in the destruction of Marxism, that was for me no empty phrase, that
was a sacred oath which I will keep so long as I draw breath....
This battle is for us no struggle that can be ended by any cowardly composition:
we see before us in Marxism the enemy of our people and we will annihilate
him, we will extirpate him down to the last root, without exception and
without mercy!
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 856
Could it be any clearer
when Hitler says:
The
only danger confronting us is that of communism since it is the only one
of our opponents to possess an ideology. It is also the only one
which can face us with a mass fighting organization. Communism is
the Enemy Number One of our organization and of the bourgeoisie.
SECRET CONVERSATIONS
WITH HITLER, Edited by Edouard Calic, 1971. Page 52
Not only are Jews not
even mentioned but Hitler specifically states that communism is the ‘only’
danger, the ‘only’ one possessing an organization to confront Nazism, and
therefore ENEMY NUMBER ONE. The Bushites currently portray al Qaeda
and its allies in the same manner and for similar reasons.
Hitler opened a key
Electoral Campaign in the Sportpalast in Berlin on 24 October 1933 by saying:
Our
first aim is the fight against Marxism, the fight against Communism--a
fight fought not for 100,000 members of the bourgeoisie--their ruin did
not cause us concern--but for the whole German people, for its productive
members and for the workmen first of all.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 2, Page 1116
From a Proclamation
by the Government in Berlin to the German Nation on 1 February 1933:
If,
however, Germany is to experience a political and economic revival and
conscientiously fulfill her duties toward the other nations one decisive
step is absolutely necessary first: the overcoming of the destroying menace
of Communism in Germany....
May God Almighty give our work His blessing, strengthen our purpose and
endow us with wisdom and the trust of our people, for we are fighting not
for ourselves, but for Germany!
MY NEW ORDER by Hitler,
Edited by Raoul de Roussy de Sales, 1941, Pages 146-47
In a letter to von
Reichenau on 4 December 1932:
Therefore,
in contrast to our statesmen today, I perceive the German tasks of the
future as the following:
1. Overcoming Marxism and its consequences to the point of total
extinction. Establishment of a new unity of spirit and will in the
Volk.
HITLER, SPEECHES AND
PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 195
In a speech to the
Reichstag on 17 May 1933 Hitler formulated the three aims of the National
Socialist Revolution and Number 1 was:
1.
To prevent the threatened Communist revolution, to build up a national
State which shall unite the interests of the different classes and castes,
and to maintain the idea of property as the basis of our culture.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 117
In Berlin on 10 March
1933:
And
one more thing: never let yourselves be distracted for one second from
our watchword, which is the destruction of Marxism.
HITLER, SPEECHES AND
PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 264
The Watchword was the
destruction of Marxism, not Judaism.
In a speech to the
Reichstag on 13 July 1934:
The
National Socialist State will wage a Hundred Years' War, if necessary,
to stamp out and destroy every last trace within its boundaries of this
phenomenon which poisons and makes dupes of the Volk.
HITLER, SPEECHES AND
PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 486
In his closing statement
at his 1924 trial:
What
I had in mind from the very beginning was much more than becoming a [governmental]
minister. I wanted to crush Marxism. I will accomplish this
mission, and when I do I shall scoff at the title of a minister.
THE HITLER TRIAL IN
MUNICH, Volume 3, 1976, page 361
In an 18 October 1933
interview with Ward Price of the Daily Mail:
We
are devoted to our Volk with a fanatic love, just as every decent Englishman
is also devoted to his people. We are educating German youth to combat
internal vices and primarily to fight the Communist threat, the extent
of which had not, and probably still has not, been grasped in England.
HITLER, SPEECHES AND
PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 380
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 2, Page 1105
In the years 1913 and 1914, in various circles, some of which today stand
faithfully by the movement, I expressed for the first time the conviction
that the question of the future of the German nation is the question of
the destruction of Marxism.
In the fatal German policy of alliances I saw only one of the after-effects
that were caused by the destructive working of this doctrine; for the terrible
thing was just the fact that this poison almost invisibly destroyed all
the foundations of a sound conception of State and economics,...
MEIN KAMPF, Adolph
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 203
With
myself and in the small circles of my acquaintances, I was wrathful at
German foreign politics, and also at what seemed to me an unbelievably
frivolous manner with which one faced the most important problem that confronted
Germany in those days: Marxism. I really could not understand how
one was able to stagger blindly towards a danger the ultimate effects of
which, corresponding to its own intentions, were one day bound to be monstrous.
MEIN KAMPF, Adolph
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 202
While speaking on the
radio on 14 October 1933:
The
French Premier asks why German youth are marching and falling into line;
the answer is, not in order to demonstrate against France, but in order
to show and document that very political formation of will which was necessary
to overcome Communism and will be necessary to keep Communism at bay.
In Germany there is only one bearer of arms, and that is the Army.
And conversely, there is only one enemy for the National Socialist Organization,
and that is Communism.
HITLER, SPEECHES AND
PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 372
MY NEW ORDER by Hitler,
Edited by Raoul de Roussy de Sales, 1941, Page 216
The
basic principles of our foreign policy are clear and they should cause
no fear to anyone. In the first place we want to bar the road to
the communists so that the tragic events of 1918 cannot be repeated.
SECRET CONVERSATIONS
WITH HITLER, Edited by Edouard Calic, 1971. Page 59
In Berlin on 13 September
1933:
For
many years we have fought at home against the idea of international Marxist
solidarity. We perceived in this supposed international solidarity
only the enemy of a truly national attitude, a phantom which drew men away
from the only reasonable solidarity there can be: from the solidarity eternally
rooted in the blood.
HITLER, SPEECHES AND
PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 357
We
must tailor our tactics to this objective. We must systematically
prepare our campaign for the next election, in order to take voters away
from the other parties. Until now, we've avoided doing that.
We directed our attacks only against Communism and Marxism, as well as
against the Weimar system and whatever government was in power. Now
we must attack the parties, and we must do so on the principle of least
resistance. Our first attack must be directed at the weakest of them.
HITLER--MEMOIRS OF
A CONFIDANT, by Otto Wegener, 1985, page 219
After his interview
with Hitler the newspaper owner Breiting said:
“His [Hitler's] anti-communism
is merely the common denominator to which he wishes to bring the other
parties, the churches, the Reichswehr and the bourgeoisie. Undoubtedly
he will have a showdown with communism.... The first thing he wants
to do is grind down the communists.... His words show that he finds
a profitable and receptive audience among officers and industrialists.”
SECRET CONVERSATIONS
WITH HITLER, Edited by Edouard Calic, 1971. Pages 91-92
Which
is the more dangerous enemy--I mean, the one that threatens us most immediately?
Without a doubt it is Bolshevism--we can safely call it Jewish Bolshevism.
...we will never be able to come to terms with Jewish Bolshevism without
signing our own death warrant.
HITLER--MEMOIRS OF
A CONFIDANT, by Otto Wegener, 1985, page 71
In his speech to the
Reichstag on 23 March 1933:
[Footnote]: The
political victory can only follow if the fight is concentrated against
the fewest possible number of enemies--for the time being, the Marxists
and the Jews.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 370
Hitler not only considered Marxism his prime enemy and well ahead of its rivals for that dubious distinction but viewed the battle with its adherents as the greatest struggle for societal control since ancient times. In the panorama of contests throughout world history it undoubtedly has no superiors and the following comments express these sentiments vividly.
On 9 September 1936
Hitler stated:
...All
around us we see the signs of growing evil. We preached for years
about the greatest world menace of this second millennium of our Christian
history now coming to an end, and now it is becoming a horrible reality.
Everywhere the burrowing work
of the Bolshevist wire-pullers is beginning to take effect. In an
age where bourgeois statesmen talk of non-intervention, an international
Jewish center of revolution in Moscow is undertaking to revolutionize this
continent via wireless stations and thousands of channels of money and
agitation. One thing we do not want to be told is that we are developing
an anxiety psychosis by repeatedly drawing attention to these facts and
these dangers in Germany.
Even today we have no fear of a Bolshevist invasion of Germany--not because
we do not believe in such a thing, but because we are determined to make
the nation so strong that, just as National Socialism was able to deal
with this worldwide incitement within, it will ward off every attack from
without with the most brutal determination.
... The Muscovite Communist rabble-rousers Neumann, Bela Kun and cohorts,
who are today devastating Spain on behalf of the Comintern Movement, will
play no role in Germany, and the agitation of the Muscovite radio station
calling for support to reduce unhappy Spain to rubble, will not be repeated
in Germany.
HITLER, [Speeches
and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 830
In a proclamation at
a party convention on 9 September 1936:
We
see around us signs of evil times to come. What we preached for years
about the greatest world danger of the end of this second thousand years
of our Christian era has become a terrible reality.
Everywhere the undermining work
of bolshevist agents has begun. In the period while bourgeois statesmen
are discussing non-intervention, the Jewish revolutionary headquarters
in Moscow is using the radio and every available financial and other agent
to accomplish revolution on this continent.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolph Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 396
In his closing speech
delivered at the Nuremberg Parteitag of 1937:
Bolshevism
[Soviet Marxism] as the most consistent exponent of Marxism has itself
proclaimed its international character. It is only willful blindness
which refuses to see that all these Bolshevist revolutions march under
the same banner, the same star: that the center of them all is Moscow.
But it cannot be denied that the Dimitrov who helps to direct the Third
International in Moscow is identical with the Dimitrov who sought to raise
a Bolshevist revolution in Berlin, who plotted Bolshevist assassinations
in Sofia.
Comrades, as National Socialists we have no doubt what are the causes of
the battle which today is driving the whole world into unrest, we know
the conditions under which it is fought. But above all we recognize
the extent, the range of this struggle. It is a gigantic event, it
is a chapter of world-history--it is the greatest danger for the culture
and civilization of humanity with which humanity has ever been threatened
since the collapse of the States of the ancient world. This crisis
cannot be compared with any of the usual wars or with any of the revolutions
which happened with such frequency. No! we have to deal with
an all-embracing general assault against the present order of society,
against our world of spiritual and cultural values. This attack is
leveled against the very substance of peoples as peoples, against their
internal organization: it is leveled, too, against the leaders of these
peoples, against those who represent each people's own race, against their
intellectual life, against their traditions, against their economic life,
in a word against all those other institutions which determine the picture
of the individuality, the character, and the life of these peoples and
States. This attack is so embracing that it draws into the field
of its action almost all the functions of life, while no one can tell how
long this fight may last.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 692
At the the Reichstag
on 20 February 1938:
...so
do we not doubt for a moment that a victory gained by Bolshevism would
signify the end of the present thousand-year-old civilization of the white
races!
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 2, Page 1398
In a speech to Italian
Youth Leaders on 16 June 1937:
Above
all, together we are guided in this age by the same defense against one
of the greatest perils to the world there is: against Bolshevism.
HITLER, [Speeches
and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 904
And in his Proclamation
read at the Nuremberg Parteitag of 11 September 1935:
Since
the Bolshevist Jew in Moscow in a new declaration of war against the world
preaches destruction, we National Socialists wish to grasp yet more firmly
our glorious banner and bear it before us with the holy resolve to fight
against the ancient foe, caring nothing for our life, in order that Germany
may preserve her honor and freedom and thereby the foundations of her life
in the future.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 2, Page 1252
Because Hitler and
his allies viewed Marxists and not Jews as the overwhelming threat by which
all others paled in comparison, they decided to create the Nazi Party in
the early 1920’s as a counterweight. Hitler later outlined this goal
quite clearly in a letter to State Secretary Meissner on 21 November 1932:
I have regarded myself not as a "party leader," but simply as a German,
and it was with the sole aim of delivering Germany from the pressure of
Marxism that I founded and organized a Movement which is alive and effective
far beyond the borders of the German Reich. The fact that we entered
the parliaments is due only to the Constitution, which forced us to tread
the path of legality. I myself have consciously kept my distance
from any type of parliamentary activity.
HITLER, SPEECHES AND
PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 185
HITLER'S LETTERS AND
NOTES, by Werner Maser, (1973), page 179
Other statements comparable
import are:
I came in contact with the National Socialist Workers' Party....
I converted to this movement in the conviction that the other parties had
abandoned their responsibility to deal with the root of the German problem.
In my opinion, the Marxist question is the basic problem of the German
nation. Insofar as it places the many before the individual, mass
before energy, the Marxist movement undermines the very foundations of
civilization. Wherever this movement succeeds, it spells the ruin
of man's culture.
THE HITLER TRIAL IN
MUNICH, Volume 1, 1976, page 49-50
In his Proclamation
to the Nuremberg Parteitag of 1933:
But
so soon as Marxism hurled amongst the masses its watchword, "If thou wilt
not my brother be, then I will smash thy skull for thee," a right of the
fist was declared which the spirit must either attack with the same weapons
or lose its influence and become historically of no moment.
The conflict with Marxism therefore from the beginning demanded the creation
of an organization which was, in its whole character, trained precisely
for this battle and was therefore adapted to it. And that took time.
In National Socialism such an organization was created and "the essential
precondition for every later real success was the fanatical faith in the
victory of the Movement.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 197
...
many recognized in the National Socialist movement that institution which
in all probability would someday be called upon to make an end with Marxist
lunacy.
MEIN KAMPF, Adolph
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 809
By
this, however, the fight against the State of today was taken out of the
atmosphere of small actions of revenge and plotting and was lifted up to
the greatness of a war of destruction conceived by a view of life [Nazism]
against Marxism and its creatures.
MEIN KAMPF, Adolph
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 803
Just
as in the year 1918 bloody vengeance was taken for the fact that in 1914
and 1915 we did not proceed to crush the head of the Marxist serpent underfoot,
so, too, the most tragic vengeance would be taken if in the spring of 1923
the opportunity was not seized to forbid the exercise of their craft to
the Marxist traitors and national murderers.
MEIN KAMPF, Adolph
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 983
And in a conversation
with Hans Johst on 27 January 1934 Hitler stated:
The
fact that all of Germany is enlightened as to Bolshevist imperialism, that
not a single German can say, "I knew nothing of it," but can resort only
to the lame excuse, "I didn't believe it"--that is and always has been
my commitment and the basic principle of all my loyal followers.
HITLER, SPEECHES AND
PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 416
Hitler’s view of Marxism
duplicates Bush’s view of al Qaeda in that both see the conflict in which
they are involved as an either/or, black vs. white encounter with no shades
of gray and no neutrals. While speaking on television Bush stunned
scores of world leaders by saying that any nation not for us will be considered
against us, very much in the same tradition that Hitler years earlier pronounced
all those not opposed to Marxism to be communist agents, dupes or actual
enemies. The Fuhrer’s either/or, black or white mentality was clearly
evident in many of his pronouncements.
He said in a speech
to the Reichstag on 30 January 1934:
Since
1930 it can only be a question of either--or. Either the victory
fell to Communism as a logical result of the previous developments--and
this would have been disastrous not only to Germany but to the whole world--or
National Socialism would succeed at the eleventh hour in overcoming its
international enemy.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 2, Page 1155
The closing speech delivered
by Hitler at the Parteitag in Nuremberg in September 1936 was devoted primarily
to an explanation of the hostility of the Third Reich to Bolshevism.
Hitler stressed the either/or aspect by saying:
...these
are only some of the grounds for the antagonisms with separate us from
Communism. I confess: these antagonisms cannot be bridged.
Here are really two worlds which do but grow farther apart from each other
and can never unite.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 674
In Munich on 23 May
1926:
We
are convinced that a final showdown will come in this fight against Marxism.
We are convinced that it must come, for two Weltanschauungen are fighting
each other and there can be only one outcome! One will be destroyed
and the other will win,...
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolph Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 252
At his trial in 1924:
Either
Marxism will poison the people, or this poison will be bled off.
Then Germany can recover, but not before. As far as we are concerned,
Germany will be rescued when the last Marxist has been converted or annihilated.
Germany has embraced the Marxist movement but the bourgeoisie has not.
THE HITLER TRIAL IN
MUNICH, Volume 1, 1976, page 50
We
have reached the turning point [1931] when the bourgeoisie must decide
whether it will choose bolshevist chaos in Germany and therefore in Europe
or a National Socialist Germany and a new order on our continent.
SECRET CONVERSATIONS
WITH HITLER, Edited by Edouard Calic, 1971. Page 21
In a meeting on 3 February
1933 with some correspondents from England and America:
I hope that the world is aware of what is happening in Germany. There
can be no compromise here. Either the red flag of Bolshevism will
be planted before long, or Germany will find its way back to its own.
I appeal to the world press not to pass premature judgment on the events
happening now.
HITLER, SPEECHES AND
PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 241
In a speech in Munich
on 1 August 1923:
A Bolshevist North Germany and a Nationalist Bavaria cannot exist side-by-side,...
HITLER'S SPEECHES,
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 78
At a National Socialist
district rally in Frankfurt on 4 October 1930:
The
two alternatives were now liberty and honor or Bolshevism.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 2, Page 997
In the Berlin Sportpalast
on 10 February 1933:
The
parties which support this class division can, however, be certain that
as long as the Almighty keeps me alive, my resolve and my will to destroy
them [the Marxists] will know no bounds. Never, never will I stray
from the task of stamping out Marxism and its side effects in Germany,
and never will I be willing to make any compromise on this point.
There can be only one victor: either Marxism or the German Volk!
And Germany will triumph!
In bringing about this reconciliation
of the classes, directly and indirectly, we want to proceed in leading
this united German Volk back to the eternal source of its strength; we
want, by means of an education starting in the cradle, to implant in young
minds a belief in a God and the belief in our Volk.
HITLER, SPEECHES AND
PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 247
In his speech to the
Reichstag on 21 May 1935:
Germany
today is a National Socialist State. The ideas by which we are governed
are diametrically opposed to those of Soviet Russia. National Socialism
is a doctrine which applies exclusively to the German people. Bolshevism
lays emphasis on its international mission.
We National Socialists believe that in the long run man can be happy only
in his own nation. We live in the belief that the happiness and the
achievements of Europe are indissolubly connected with the existence of
a system of free, independent national States. Bolshevism preaches
the constitution of a world empire and only recognizes sections of a central
International.
... National Socialism strives to solve social problems, together with
questions and conflicts in its own nation, by methods which are compatible
with our general human, spiritual, cultural, and economic ideas, traditions,
and circumstances.
Bolshevism preaches an international class conflict and the carrying out
of a world revolution by means of terror and force.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 669
In the New Year's Proclamation
for 1 January 1932:
He
who is not attacked by the Marxist falsifiers and the Centrist liars and
their press is useless to Germany and worth nothing to our Volk!
HITLER, SPEECHES AND
PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 81
As with Bush, there
is no place for neutrality or shades of gray in Hitler’s thought processes.
Being possessed by a for-me-or-against-me mentality, the Nazis
had no hesitation about moving to the next phase of eliminating their political
opponents and special units, the SA and SS, were created to accomplish
precisely that assignment. The extra-legal gang known as the Plumbers
during the Nixon administration and responsible for the Watergate break-in
was a nascent recapitulation of Hitler’s units. Their task was to
neutralize the opposition and legality or constitutionality was of no significance.
The SS and SA went well beyond that which was executed by the Plumbers,
but who knows what would have occurred had the latter proceeded unhindered.
Hitler’s speeches and writings left no doubt as to the purpose for which
the SA and SS were created. They were created to crush the Left,
not the Jews.
During his 1924 trial Hitler
stated:
We
have a propaganda machine and storm troopers. We saw that it is necessary
to strike down with the sword anyone who would prevent the propagation
of German ideals with the sword. The Storm Troopers had no military
function; they had nothing to do with military affairs. Their task
was to smash Leftist terror with greater terror tactics. That was
their sole objective.
THE HITLER TRIAL IN
MUNICH, Volume 1, 1976, page 51
In a speech to the
Reichstag on 17 May 1933:
In
reality, the SA and the SS of the National Socialist Party have evolved
totally without aid, totally without financial support from the State,
the Reich, or even less the Reichswehr; without any sort of military training
and without any sort of military equipment, out of pure party political
needs and in accordance with party political considerations. Their
purpose was and is exclusively confined to the elimination of the Communist
threat, and their training, which bears no connection to the Army, was
designed solely for the purposes of propaganda and enlightenment, mass
psychological effect, and the crushing of Communist terror. They
are institutions for instilling a true community spirit, overcoming former
class differences, and alleviating economic want.
HITLER, SPEECHES AND
PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 329
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 2, Page 1050
During his trial in
Munich on 26 February 1924:
The
fight was against Marxism. To solve this problem, not administrators
were needed but firebrands who would be in a position to inflame the national
spirit to the extreme.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolph Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 75
In a letter to Roehm
on 31 December 1933:
The
fight of the National Socialist Movement and the National Socialist Revolution
was made possible only by the consistent suppression of the Marxist terror
by the SA... It is primarily thanks to you that, in the space of
only a few years, this political instrument [SA] was able to develop the
force which made it possible for me to finally win the struggle for power
by overcoming the Marxist opponent.
HITLER, SPEECHES AND
PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 401
On 17 May 1933 in the
Reichstag:
The Stahlhelm [military union of war veterans] arose out of memories of
the great period of common experiences at the front, in order to keep alive
the old traditions and the spirit of true comradeship and, lastly, to protect
the German people against the danger of a Communist revolution which had
been threatening since November 1918; this is a danger which cannot be
estimated by countries which have not, like us, millions of organized Communists,
and have not, like Germany, suffered from their terrorism. The real
object of these national organizations is best characterized by the actual
nature of their struggle and by their sacrifices. As a result of
Communist murderous assaults and acts of terrorism, the storm sections
[SA] and stormed troops [SS] of the National Socialist Party have lost
more than 350 killed and about 40,000 wounded within a few years.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 2, Page 1051
In a 2 February 1933
proclamation:
Party
Comrades! Men of the SA and SS! Thirteen years long you have
followed me with a discipline seldom witnessed. The Communist murder
organization has been agitating against the national uprising for days.
Keep calm! Preserve order and discipline! Do not allow yourselves
to be confused into ignoring my order by spies and provocateurs!
The hour for crushing this terror will come.
HITLER, SPEECHES AND
PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 236
Not to be outdone the
Fuhrer’s right hand man, Goering, also declared war on the Left by saying,
“And you, Communists,
in order that you may draw no false conclusions, know that I with my Brownshirts
am carrying on a fight to the death and in this fight I will put my fist
in your necks.”
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 222
Of the Marxists Goering
also said:
“I will stick my fist
into the necks of these creatures until they are done for.”
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 221
Not only did Hitler
and his allies create units specifically charged with destruction of the
Left but they declared in no uncertain terms that anyone allying themselves
with the Left would be treated harshly. In a speech at Munich delivered
on 24 February 1933 Hitler said:
I
have taken up the fight against Marxism. Should anyone think it necessary
to ally himself with Marxism let him be convinced of this: he will not
save Marxism, he will but share the ruin to which Marxism is doomed.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 254
In Stuttgart on 15
February 1933:
I repeat that our fight against Marxism will be relentless, and that every
movement which allies itself to Marxism will come to grief with it.
We do not want an internal war between brothers, and we regard as our allies
all those wishing to join in our work of reconstruction . But let
there be no doubt of one thing: The time of international Marxist-pacifist
infiltration and destruction of our Vaterland is over.
HITLER, SPEECHES AND
PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 254
In a proclamation to
the party from Berlin on 22 February 1933:
The
enemy who must be felled on March 5 is Marxism! It is against Marxism
that we must concentrate our entire propaganda and thus the entire election
campaign.
If, in the course of this campaign, the Center [Catholic Political Party]
chooses to support Marxism by attacking our Movement, then I will attend
to the Center in any given case and parry these attacks and settle the
matter.
HITLER, SPEECHES AND
PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 256
Having said that, Hitler
did, however, hold out an olive branch to all those willing to align themselves
with Nazism, including Marxists and former Marxists.
On 6 November 1933 while
speaking in Kiel he said:
I
can give my hand to a Communist at the moment when I see that he recognizes
the madness of his former ideology.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 2, Page 1136
And in his speech
in the Kroll Opera House in Berlin at the opening of the Winter-Help Campaign
of 1935:
We
are fighting the Communist in our midst and, if necessary, we strike him
to the ground. But if he says I am hungry-- Good! He must have
something to eat. We do not fight him in order to kill him, but to
protect our people from a mad theory.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 920
And he was not adverse
to supporting a governmental coalition to oppose Marxism:
On
the other hand we are prepared to support a transitional government against
the communist menace.
SECRET CONVERSATIONS
WITH HITLER, Edited by Edouard Calic, 1971. Page 24
As a consequence of
all his efforts spanning nearly 2 decades, Hitler attained the goal of
which he was most proud. The Left was successfully and ruthlessly
eradicated with no concern for legality or constitutionality. Any
means necessary were deemed fully justified. As a result of Nazi
ascendancy, a black night of death rolled over Germany resembling the fog
that spread over the pharaoh’s feet in the well known movie The Ten
Commandments. Hitler repeatedly lauded the efforts of his followers
and/or proclaimed his victory.
In his speech at the
Nuremberg Parteitag of September 1937 he said:
You
all know the struggle which lasted for 15 years: during those years gradually
with our National Socialist fists we broke down the opposition of our foes:
we captured place after place, destroyed the Red Terror,...
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 186
On 9 September 1936:
And
the National Socialist Movement struggled for 15 years and demanded from
its followers the greatest sacrifices to rescue Germany from the inner
Bolshevist foe and adversary.
HITLER, [Speeches
and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 830
In his proclamation
issued on New Year's Day 1934:
The
great life-task which I had set before myself was completed in barely six
months! Marxism was destroyed and Communism laid in the dust.
Fourteen years long have I preached the necessity of conquering this doctrine
of madness and of destroying the organizations infected by it as the condition
for the restoration of Germany. Marxism in Germany exists no longer....
National Socialism has remained the conqueror and it will never allow its
foes to raise themselves again. For, my comrades, we have not forbidden
to Marxism its organizations: we have taken from it the people. The
army of the millions of German working men who had fallen victims to this
madness has been led back into the community of the German people.
The German working man is no longer an alien body in the German State:
he is the force which sustains the German nation.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 639
In his speech on the
Stahlhelm Day of 23 September 1933:
That
we have smashed in pieces the Marxist organization, that we have hunted
down their leaders, that we have barricaded their houses....
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 556
In a speech to the
Reichstag on 13 July 1934:
The
spirit of insubordination and of internal revolt [Marxism] within a few
months we exterminated and destroyed.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 294
In Nuremberg on 7 September
1937:
The authority which in any case saved the German nation from collapse in
the 20th century and which snatched it back from the chaos of Bolshevism
is, however, not the authority of an economic association, but that of
the National Socialist Party and consequently of the National Socialist
State!
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolph Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 153
In that infamous speech
to the Industry Club in Dusseldorf on 27 January 1932:
And
when people cast in our teeth our intolerance, we proudly acknowledge it--yes,
we have formed the inexorable decision to destroy Marxism in Germany down
to its very last root. And this decision we formed not from any love
of brawling:...
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 823
In his speech to the
Reichstag on 30 January 1934:
I must correct this opinion by stating here that Communistic tendencies
or even propaganda would be no more tolerated in Germany than German National
Socialist tendencies would be tolerated in Russia.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 2, Page 1161
And in his speech in
the Kroll Opera House in Berlin at the opening of the Winter-Help Campaign
of 1935:
Outside
our borders and about us worked the ferments of disintegration, their only
aim is to be able one day to introduce afresh into our bodies the poison
that we have expelled. Bolshevism is a timeless phenomenon, it is
the name only which from time to time changes through the millennia.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 918
Were George Bush to achieve comparable suppression of al Qaeda, no doubt he, too, would employ similar braggadocio. The “Mission Accomplished” banner behind Bush on the aircraft carrier was very much in the Hitlerian tradition and equally pre-mature.