Today Germany is ours, and tomorrow the whole world!"
Adolf Hitler
"Mein Kampf"
Hitler announces to the German people are they are now in a state of war with Poland. The
speech is delivered from the Kroll Opera House at 10 AM Friday, September 1, 1939, before
an extra-ordinary session of the Reichstag. Translated into English by a Foreign Ministry
announcer & interrupted by announcements of emergency meetings of the British and
French cabinets.
Adolf Hitler:
master-orator, psychopath, political genius,
prototypical dictator, mass murderer
"Either the world will be ruled according to the ideas of our
modern democracy, or the world will be dominated according to
the natural law of force; in the latter case the people of brute
force will be victorious."
Adolf Hitler
"Mein Kampf"
...luckily it didn't turn out to be the "latter case!"
"The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy]
can permit no compromises. It's either Us or Them!"
Benito Mussolini
Address, from Palazzo Venezia balcony
October 27, 1930
"It would be an age of cruel wars in which new Caesars would
rise and an élite of steely men, who did not look for personal
gain and happiness but for the execution of duties towards the
community, would replace democrats and humanitarians."
Oswald Spengler, presaging the rise of totalitarian dictators
in the 1920s in his book "The Decline of the West"
from Hajo Hosborn "A History of Modern Germany (18401945)"
"Totalitarianism of the Left bred totalitarianism of the Right;
Communism and fascism were the hammer and the anvil on
which liberalism was broken to pieces. The emergence of Stalin's
autocracy changed the dynamic of corruption not in kind but in
degree. For Stalin "was but old Lenin writ large." The change is
degree nonetheless was important because of its sheer scale. The
arrests, the prisons, the camps, the scope, the brutality and
violence of the social engineering - nothing like it had ever been
seen or even imagined before. So the counter-model became
more monstrously ambitious; and the fear which energized its
construction more intense. If Leninism begot the fascism of
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Mussolini, it was Stalinism which made possible the Nazi
Leviathan."
"Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer!"
(One people, one empire, one leader!)
"Hitler's artistic approach was absolutely central to his success.
Lenin's religious-type fanaticism would never have worked in
Germany. The Germans were the best-educated nation in the
world. To conquer their minds was very difficult. Their hearts,
their sensibilities, were easier targets. Hitler's strength was that
he shared with so many other Germans the devotion to national
images new and old: misty forests breeding blond giants; smiling
peasant villages under the shadow of ancestral castles; garden
cities emerging from ghetto-like slums; riding Valkyries, burning
Valhallas, new births and dawns in which shining, millennian
structures would rise from the ashes of the past and stand for
centuries. Hitler had in common with average German taste
precisely those revered images which nearly a century of
nationalist propaganda had implanted...
"In a rare moment of frankness, Lenin once said that only a
country like Russia could have captured so easily a country as
he took it. Germany was a different proposition. It could not be
raped. It had to be seduced."
Paul Johnson
More Hitler quotes... "The German people have no idea of the
extent to which they have to be gulled in order to be led
"All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual
level, that even the most stupid of those towards whom it is
directed will understand it. Therefore, the intellectual level of the
propaganda must be lower the larger the number of people who
are to be influenced by it."
"The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be
believed, for the vast masses of the nation are in the depths of
their hearts more easily deceived than they are consciously and
intentionally bad. The primitive simplicity of their minds renders
them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one, for they
themselves often tell little lies but would be ashamed to tell a big
one."
"Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people
can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way
around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise."
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"A violently active, intrepid, brutal youth - that is what I am
after... I will have no intellectual training. Knowledge is ruin for
my young men."
"Democracy, the deceitful theory that the Jew would insinuate namely, that theory that all men are created equal."
Adolf Hitler
"Mein Kampf"
"If I can send the flower of the German nation into the hell of
war without the smallest pity for the spilling of precious German
blood, then surely I have the right to remove millions of an
inferior race that breeds like vermin."
Adolf Hitler
quoted in Hermann Rauschning's
"The Voice of Destruction: Hitler Speaks"
from Paul Johnson's "The History of the Jews":
"The sexual-medical aspect of Hitler's anti-Semitism was
probably the most important, especially among his own
followers. It turned the merely prejudiced into fanatics, capable
of any course of action, however irrational and cruel. Rather as
the medieval anti-Semite saw the Jew as non-human, a devil or a
sort or animal (hence the Judensau), the Nazi extremist absorbed
Hitler's sub-scientific phraseologyand came to regard Jews as
bacilli or a particularly dangerous kind of vermin. Apart from
anything else, this approach enabled all Jews to be lumped
together, irrespective of their circumstances or views. A Jew who
held a professional chair, who wrote impeccable German, who
had served throughout the war and won the Iron Cross, was just
as dangerous a racial polluter as a Jewish-Bolshevik commissar.
An assimilated Jew carried the bacillus just as certainly as an
old rabbi in kafran and was more of a threat, since he was more
likely to infect, or "desecrate" as Hitler put it, an Aryan woman.
"There had long been a pornographic side to anti-Semitism,
especially in Germany and Austria; the Judensau theme itself
was often a symptom of it. But Hitler's stress on the sexual, racedefilement issue combined with Weimar permissiveness to
produce a peculiaryvicious form of anti-Semitic propaganda
epitomized by the weekly Der Stürmer, run by the Nazi boss...
Julius Streicher. It helped to spread and intensify one of the
chief, perrenial sources of anti-Semitic violence: the notion that
Jews are not part of humanity and therefore not entitled to the
protection we instinctively accord a human being."
from "Modern Times" also by Paul Johnson:
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"Once Lenin had abolished the idea of personal guilt, and had
started to 'exterminate' (a word he frequently employed) whole
classes, merely on account of occupation or parentage, there
was no limit to which this deadly princple might be carried.
Might not entire categories of people be classified as 'enemies'
and condemned to imprisonment or slaughter merely on account
of the colour of their skin, or their racial origins or, indeed, their
nationality? There is no essential moral difference between
class-warfare and race-warfare, between destroying a class and
destroying a race. Thus the modern practise of genocide was
born."
Sir Isaiah Berlin also put it poignantly:
"The divisions of mankind into two groups - men proper, and
some other, lower, order of beings, inferior races, inferior
cultures, subhuman creatures, nations or classes condemned by
history - is something new in human history. It is a denial of
common humanity - a premise upon which all previous
humanism, religious and secular, had stood. This new attitude
permits men to look on many millions of their fellow men as not
quite human, to slaughter them without a qualm of conscience,
without the need to try to save them or warn them. Such conduct
is usually ascribed to barbarians or savages - men in a prerational frame of mind, characteristic of peoples in the infancy
of civilisation. This explanation will no longer do. It is evidently
possible to attain to a high degree of scientific knowledge and
skill, and indeed, of general culture, and yet destroy others
without pity, in the name of a nation, a class, or history itself. If
this is childhood, it is the dotage of a second childhood in its
most repulsive form. How have men reached such a pass?"
ADOLF HITLER AND ALBRECH DÜRER'S
NIGHT, DEATH, AND the DEVIL
"All the disciples of Nietzsche agreed a Führer would be
necessary and would emerge, like a Messiah. He was envisaged
as the Knight from Dürer's famous print Night, Death and the
Devil. Wilhelm Stapel in The Christian Statesman presented him
as ruler, warrior and priest in one, endowed with charismatic
qualities. The reality was rather different. Hitler was totally
irreligious and had no interest in honour or ethics. He believed in
biological determinism, just as Lenin believed in historical
determinism. He thought race, not class, was the true
revolutionary principle of the twentieth century, just as
nationalism had been in the nineteenth."
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