So, it is abundantly
clear that Hitler was a firm believer in religion and capitalism and considered
the eradication of Marxism and all political movements working in conjunction
with this hated ideology to be his primary goal in life. Naturally
anyone operating in this frame of mind is going to consider any country
propounding Marxism to be his main enemy and since the Soviet Union was
the only nation fulfilling that role at the time the conclusion is obvious.
Hitler branded the Soviet Union the central source for world revolution
in much the same manner Bush labeled Iraq and Afghanistan proponents of
al Qaeda and world terrorism.
On 7 March 1936 Hitler stated:
Soviet
Russia, in contrast, is the exponent of a revolutionary Weltanschauung
organized as a state. Its concept of the state is the creed of world
revolution. It is not possible to rule out that tomorrow or the day
after, this Weltanschauung will have conquered France is well. However,
should this be the case--and as a German statesman I must be prepared--
then it is a certainty that this new Bolshevist state would become a section
in the Bolshevist international, which means that the decision as to aggression
or non-aggression will not be made by two separate states according to
their own objective judgment, but instead by directives issuing from a
single source. And in the event of such a development, the source
would no longer be Paris, but Moscow.
HITLER, [Speeches
and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 771
In Berlin on 21 May
1935:
The
Communist uprisings and revolts in Germany could never have taken place
without moral and material preparations of world Bolshevism. The
most prominent leaders of this movement were not only trained and financed
in Russia for their revolutionary activities in Germany, but they received
public honors and decorations and were even appointed as commanders of
Russian troops. These are facts.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolph Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 257
Given the degree of
hatred Hitler had toward Marxism in general and the Soviet Union in particular,
understanding his rejection of all associations with same presents
no difficulty. The Fuhrer repeatedly rejected any agreements with his avowed
enemies in a manner resembling the Bushites refusal to come to agreements
with the Iraqi government, preferring instead to constantly raise the bar
and push the envelope.
In his speech at the the
Reichstag on 20 February 1938 Hitler said:
There
is only one State with which we have not sought to establish relations,
nor do we wish to enter into closer relations with it: Soviet Russia.
More than ever do we see in Bolshevism the incarnation of the human destructive
instinct.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 2, Page 1395
How
do we reveal bolshevism to the individual German worker as an accursed
crime against humanity if we ally ourselves with the organizations of this
spawn of hell, and thereby recognize it as a whole? With what right
shall we then condemn members of the broad masses for their sympathy for
a view of life if the very leaders of the State choose the representatives
of this view of life as allies?
MEIN KAMPF, Adolph
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 961
In a speech to the
Reichstag on 30 January 1937:
Thus
I would like once more to formally state the following: Bolshevism is a
doctrine of world revolution, i.e. of world destruction. To adopt
this doctrine, to accord it equal rights as a factor in European life,
is tantamount to placing Europe at its mercy. If other peoples choose
to expose themselves to contact with this menace, Germany has nothing to
say on the matter. However, as far as Germany itself is concerned,
I would like to leave no doubt that we
1. perceive in Bolshevism an intolerable world menace; and
2. that we are using every means at our disposal to keep this menace
away from our Volk;
3. that we are thus endeavoring to make the German Volk as immune
to this infection as possible.
This also entails that we avoid
any close contact with the carriers of these poisonous germs and that we
are specifically not prepared to dull the German Volk's sense of perception
for this menace by ourselves establishing connections more extensive than
the requisite diplomatic or economic relations.
I hold the Bolshevist doctrine to be the worst poison which can be administered
to a people. I therefore do not want my own people to come into contact
with this doctrine in any way. And as a citizen of this Volk myself,
I will not do anything I would be forced to condemn in my fellow citizens.
I demand from every German worker that he refrain from having any relations
or dealings with these international pests, and for his part he will never
see me quaffing or carousing with them. In other respects, every
additional German contractual tie with the present Bolshevist Russia would
be completely useless to us. It would be equally inconceivable for
National Socialist German soldiers to ever need fulfill a helpmate function
in protecting Bolshevism; nor would we on our side accept any aid from
a Bolshevist state. For I fear that every Volk which reaches out
for such aid will find it to be its own demise.
HITLER, [Speeches
and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 869
In the same speech
we find:
It is in accordance with this attitude of ours that we should avoid close
contact with the carriers of these poisonous bacilli. And that is
also the reason why we do not want to have any closer relations with them
beyond the necessary political and commercial relations; for if we went
beyond these we might thereby run the risk of closing the eyes of our people
to the danger itself.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 2, Page 1339
In his speech in the
Reichstag on 7 March 1936:
I
find that Europe is divided into two groups, the first group consists of
autonomous and independent national states.... The second group is
ruled by that intolerant Bolshevik doctrine which aims at international
domination and which preaches the annihilation of what are to us the most
eternal and most sacred ideals relating to this world and the next.
In place of all this Bolshevism would install a world which is abhorrent
to us in its culture and its outlook and its teaching. With this
Bolshevik section of Europe we desire no closer contract than the ordinary
political and economic relations.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 2, Page 1283
In the same speech:
When
today my international opponents confront me with the fact that I refuse
to practice this cooperation with Russia, I must counter this assertion
with the following: I rejected and continue to reject this cooperation
not with Russia, but with the Bolshevism which lays claim to world rulership....
I cannot prevent other states from taking the paths they believe they must
or at least believe they can take, but I shall prevent Germany from taking
this road to ruin. And I believe that this ruin would come at that
point at which the leadership of the state decides to stoop to become an
ally at the service of such a destructive doctrine.
I would see no possibility of conveying in clear terms to the German worker
the threatening misfortune of Bolshevist chaos which so deeply troubles
me were I myself, as Fuhrer of the nation, to enter into close dealings
with this very menace. As a statesman and the Fuehrer of the Volk,
I wish to also do myself all those things I expect and demand from each
of my Volksgenossen.
HITLER, [Speeches
and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 767
In his speech at the
the Reichstag on 20 February 1938:
But
we do not make the Russian people as such responsible for this ghastly
ideology of annihilation. We know perfectly well that a small, upper
class of Jewish intellectuals plunged a great nation into a state bordering
on insanity. This would not concern us so much after all, had this
doctrine remained within the frontiers of Russia herself, since Germany
has no intention of foisting our conceptions of life on the Russian nation.
Unfortunately, however, the Bolshevism of international Jewry attempts
from its central point in Soviet Russia to rot away the very core of the
nations of the world, to overthrow the existing social order, and to substitute
chaos for civilization.
We certainly do not seek for contact with Bolshevism. On the contrary,
it makes persistent efforts to corrupt the rest of mankind with its thoughts
and ideas, and by so doing to plunge the world into a disaster of unprecedented
magnitude. And here we are ruthless foes. We overcame the Communist
machinations of Moscow in our own land, and we have not the least intention
of allowing Germany to be annihilated from without by the material forces
of Bolshevism!
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 2, Page 1396
Thus
the fact of the conclusion of a treaty with Russia embodies the declaration
of the next war. Its outcome would be the end of Germany.
In addition, there is the following:
1. The present rulers of Russia do not at all think of entering an
alliance sincerely or of keeping one.
We must never forget that the
regents of present-day Russia are common bloodstained criminals; that here
is the scum of humanity, which, favored by conditions in a tragic hour,
overran a great State, butchered and rooted out millions of its leading
intellects with savage bloodthirstiness, and for nearly 10 years has exercised
the most frightful regime of tyranny of all time. Nor must we forget
that these rulers belong to a nation which combines a rare mixture of bestial
horror with an inconceivable gift of lying, and today more than ever before
believes itself called upon to impose its bloody oppression on the whole
world. We must not forget that the international Jew, who today rules
Russia absolutely, sees in Germany, not an ally, but a State marked for
the same destiny. But one does not conclude a treaty with someone
whose sole interest is the destruction of his partner. Above all,
one does not make them with parties to whom no treaty would be sacred,
since they inhabit this world, not as the advocates of honor and truthfulness,
but as the advocates of lying, deceit, theft, rapine, and plundering.
If anybody thinks of going into treaty ties with parasites, this resembles
a tree's efforts to conclude to its own advantage and agreement with a
mistletoe.
MEIN KAMPF, Adolph
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 959
Just as the Bushites
denounced nations providing moral or material support to Iraq, Hitler decried
the prior Weimar government for the support and assistance it rendered
the Soviet Union:
For
us the great question mark is simply: bolshevism or fascism? These
are the two great new concepts, the great ideologies, on which the future
must decide. To me the greatest disgrace of all is the fact that
Germans could bring themselves to support bolshevism with their money and
their intelligence. We are doing all in our power to assist the Russian
Five Year Plan, regardless of the fact that when, through our help, that
Plan begins to work, we shall face Russian dumping on an unparalleled scale.
It is infamous and disgraceful that Germany should assist bolshevism, should
support an ideology which is the bitterest foe of a "folkish" Germany.
We can only fight bolshevism if we confront it with a stern ideology founded
on the best forces of German nationhood, the best forces of Christianity,
the German mode of life, and the German code of ethics or morals or whatever
you like to call it.
SECRET CONVERSATIONS
WITH HITLER, Edited by Edouard Calic, 1971. Page 38
Not long after the
Nazis assumed control their efforts moved from eliminating Marxism in Germany
to eliminating it throughout any area they could reach and the Soviet Union
was understandably their prime target. Hitler stated:
What
matters is that Bolshevism must be exterminated. In case of necessity,
we shall renew our advance wherever a new center of resistance is formed.
Moscow, as the center of the doctrine, must disappear from the earth's
surface, as soon as its riches have been brought to shelter.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 5
Hitler, like Bush recently
referring to Iraq, repeatedly portrayed his expansionist policy as the
bearer of liberation and civilization rather than humiliation, subjugation,
and even exploitation.
He stated:
If
the English were to be driven out of India, India would perish. Our
role in Russia will be analogous to that of England in India.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 33
Yet
we've made those inclement regions habitable. In the same way, we'll
transform the spaces of the East into a country in which human beings will
be able to live. We must not forget that over there are found iron,
coal, grain, and timber. We'll build there welcoming farms, handsome
roads. And those of our people who thrust as far as that will end
by loving their country and loving its landscapes--as the Germans on the
Volga used to do.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 290
In his address to the
Labor Front at the Nuremberg Parteitag on 12 September 1936:
If we had at our disposal the incalculable wealth and stores of raw materials
of the Ural Mountains and the unending fertile plains of the Ukraine to
be exploited under National Socialist leadership, then we would produce
and our German people swim in plenty.... In Russia the population
of these wide areas was starving because a Jewish-Bolshevist leadership
was incapable of organizing production and thus incapable of giving practical
help to the worker.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 928
But
if we talk about new soil and territory in Europe today, we can think primarily
only of Russia and its vassal border states.
MEIN KAMPF, Adolph
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 949
Hitler, unlike Bush,
was far more candid as to his motives and the following comments prove
as much:
We
must colonize the East ruthlessly.... our trading capacity will change
once we rule the eastern area.
SECRET CONVERSATIONS
WITH HITLER, Edited by Edouard Calic, 1971. Page 80
Our
guiding principle must be that these people have but one justification
for existence--to be of use to us economically. We must concentrate
on extracting from these territories everything that it is possible to
extract.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 424
Not
long ago, at a time when there were still a few acres of land to be shared
out in the Far East, everybody went rushing there. Nowadays, we have
the Russian spaces. They're less attractive and rougher, but they're
worth more to us. We'll get our hands on the finest land, and we'll
guarantee for ourselves the control of the vital points. We'll know
how to keep the population in order. There won't be any question
of our arriving there with kid gloves and dancing-masters.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 327
The military forces
of George W. Bush did not arrive in Iraq with kid gloves and dancing-masters
either, and no doubt many Iraqis feel Bush’s motivation is well expressed
in Hitler’s comment that “these people have but one justification for existence--to
be of use to us economically.”
Hitler frankly admitted
he intended to divide the people’s of the Soviet Union when he said:
In
short, our policy in the wide Russian spaces should be to encourage any
and every form of dissension and schism.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 424
Time will tell if the
Bushites follow a similar path in Iraq with respect to the Kurds, Sunnis,
and Shiites or adopt another ploy of Hitler who stated:
...
all the villagers require is music, music and plenty of it. Cheerful
music is a great incentive to hard work; give them plenty of opportunities
to dance, and the villagers will be grateful to us.
HITLER'S TABLE TALK,
1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 425
Bush was strongly criticized
by Muslims and non-Muslims alike for referring to the assault upon Iraq,
al Qaeda, and what he labels world terrorism as a “Crusade” because so
many muslims were implicated and the Middle Ages in the Middle East came
readily to mind. Possibly he did not realize that his terminology
followed in the footsteps of Hitler because that appellation was employed
decades earlier to characterize the Nazi assault upon Marxism:
The
most dangerous force in the world is Russian imperialism, Slav imperialism
in combination with the dictatorship of the proletariat. If that
symbiosis should come to pass.... Think of the reservoir of manpower
and raw material resources at Stalin's disposal!
Our publicity men should already be thumping the drum today. The
menace to western civilization was never so great. Even before we
assume power we must make clear to the British, French, and Americans and
the Vatican too that sooner or later we shall be forced to conduct a crusade
against bolshevism. England and France should be grateful to us for
having recognized the danger in time.
SECRET CONVERSATIONS
WITH HITLER, Edited by Edouard Calic, 1971. Page 80
The Anti-Comintern
Pact of 1936 was the physical manifestation of the ideological bonding
of Germany, Italy, and Japan in a crusade to eradicate Marxism as
soon as possible. The pact formulated between England, Australia,
and the US prior to the Iraqi invasion to eliminate terrorism and Baathism
was of similar import.
In a speech delivered at
Regensburg before the Bavarian SA on 16 June 1937 Hitler made no secret
of its intent:
Italy
and Germany were united in the same defense against one of the greatest
possible world-dangers, Bolshevism.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 2, Page 1352
In his Reichstag speech
on 20 February 1938:
The
connection of both states [Germany and Italy] with Japan presents the most
powerful of all obstructions to the further advance of the menacing power
of Russian Bolshevism.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 2, Page 1400
On 20 February 1938
Hitler:
The
main emphasis lies on our co-operation with the two major powers which,
like Germany, have recognized Bolshevism to be a world menace and are thus
resolved to counter the Comintern movement with a united defense.
It is my utmost desire that this cooperation with Italy and Japan may grow
ever more intense.
HITLER, [Speeches
and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 1033
In his Reichstag speech
on 20 February 1938:
But
above all stands our co-operation with those two great powers [Japan and
Italy] who have recognized a world danger in Bolshevism, just as Germany
has, and are determined to unite their strength in common defense against
the Comintern movement.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 2, Page 1408
At Obersalzberg on
21 November 1938:
A
further proof of this kindred spirit [between Germany and Japan] is the
fact that both our peoples have correctly identified the extent of the
danger posed by the corrosive agitation of international communism and
have allied themselves, together with the Italian people, to ward off this
dangerous influence in the agreement against the Communist International.
HITLER, [Speeches
and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 1256
In Berlin on 30 January
1939:
Our
relationship with Japan is conditioned by the recognition and the determination
that we must with supreme resolution put a stop to the threatened Bolshevization
of a world gone mad. The Anti-Comintern Pact will perhaps one day
become the crystallization point of a group of powers whose ultimate aim
is none other than to eliminate the menace to the peace and culture of
the world instigated by such a satanic phenomenon. The Japanese people,
which in the last two years has set us so many examples of glorious heroism,
is without doubt fighting in the service of civilization at the other end
of the world. Her collapse would not benefit the civilized nations
of Europe or of other parts of the world, but would only lead to the certain
triumph of Bolshevism in the Far East.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolph Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 289
In his Reichstag speech
on 20 February 1938:
I
am afraid the defeat of Japan in Eastern Asia would never benefit Europe
or America but only Bolshevist Soviet Russia. I do not consider China
strong enough, either spiritually or materially, to withstand with her
own resources any attack by Bolshevism. I believe, however, that
even the greatest victory gained by Japan would be infinitely less dangerous
for civilization and world peace than any success achieved by Bolshevism.
Germany has concluded a pact with Japan to counteract Comintern aims.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 2, Page 1397
And in his Reichstag
speech on 30 January 1939:
The
addition of Hungary and Manchukuo to the Anti-Comintern Pact is a welcome
symptom of the consolidation of world-wide resistance to the Jewish-international-Bolshevist
threat to the people of the world.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 742
Feeling that he is
on a crusade to liberate the world, it’s easy to realize why Hitler viewed
Germans as the Chosen people and said as much:
Just
as the Jews became the all-embracing world power they are today only in
their dispersal, so shall we today, as the true chosen people of God, become
in our dispersal the omnipresent power, the masters of the earth.
THE VOICE OF DESTRUCTION,
by Hermann Rauschnigg, 1940, page 147
Some followers of Bush labor under the same delusion with respect to Americans.
Hitler took his megalomania
to new heights by contending Nazi aggrandizement and his mission in particular
possessed divine sanction. Statements to this effect are not difficult
to unearth. In Munich on 8 November 1939 he stated:
We
are fully conscious that Providence was on our side. It was Providence
that permitted us to frame our plans correctly and that so evidently blessed
their accomplishment. Without Providence our tasks could not have
been completed in so short a time. Thus we may believe that it was
the decree of Providence that everything should happen as it did.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolph Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 95
In Munich on 24 February
1940:
Just
a few months ago I again personally felt in the deepest sense the hand
of Providence which guides man and assigns his tasks to him. We serve
those tasks....
Up until now Providence blessed this struggle, blessed it a thousand times.
Could it have done that, would it have done that, if it had been the intention
of Providence suddenly now to let this fight go against us? I believe
in this respect in a higher and eternal justice. It is bestowed on
him who proves himself worthy of it. That was my belief with which
I came onto the scene here for the first time 20 years ago.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolph Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 95
In Berlin on 12 December
1941:
A
historical revision on a unique scale has been imposed on us by the Creator....
The Lord of the Universe has treated us so well in the past years that
we bow in gratitude to a Providence which has allowed us to be members
of such a great nation. We thank Him that we also can be entered
with honor into the everlasting book of German history!
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolph Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 97
In Berlin on 28 April
1939:
I can give expression to my deepest feeling only in the form of humble
thanks to Providence, who called upon me and vouchsafed to me, once an
unknown soldier of the Great War, to rise to be the Leader of my people
so dear to me. Providence showed me the way to free our people from
its deepest misery without bloodshed and to lead it upward once again.
Providence has granted that I might fulfill the one and only task of my
life: To raise my German people out of the depths of defeat and to liberate
it from the bonds of the most infamous dictate of all times. This
alone has been the aim of my actions.... I should have sinned against
the mission which Providence designed for me had I failed in my endeavor
to lead my native country and my people out of the Ostmark [Austria] back
to the Reich and thus to the community of the German people.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolph Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 94
And in Linz on 12 March
1938:
If Providence once called me from out of this city [Vienna] to the leadership
of the Reich, then Providence must thereby have given me a mission and
it could only have been the mission of giving my dear homeland [Austria]
back to the German Reich.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolph Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 92