German Guilt Diffusion Fails MEIN KAMPF Hitler

Mein Kampf: My Struggle – The Official 1939 English Edition (Third Reich from Original Sources), by Adolf Hitler, Ralph Manheim (Translator), English Translation (Translator). 1922

German Guilt Diffusion Fails: Hitler Speaks (1923), and the German People Know That He Plans to Start a New World War. Polokaust in Outline. Jedwabne and PROTOCOLS: Jews Today Copy Hitler’s Argument, and Use It Against Poles!

My review is based on the 1939 English-language edition of MEIN KAMPF, published by Reynal & Hitchcock, New York.

Perusal of this unfortunate classic allows one to clear up many misconceptions about Nazism. For instance, we sometimes hear the exculpatory notion that the German people came to support Hitler without really understanding his positions. MEIN KAMPF lays this myth soundly to rest!

YES, VIRGINIA. NATIONAL SOCIALISM WAS A FORM OF SOCIALISM

Some commentators doubt if National Socialism had actually been a form of socialism. It is therefore instructive that Hitler supported trade unions (pp. 874-876), and that the annotators of MEIN KAMPF recognized the fact that the Nazi economy had been a PLANSWIRTSCHAFT (planned economy; p. 880).

DO NOT BLAME CHRISTIANITY FOR THE EVENTUAL GERMAN-MADE HOLOCAUST

Traditional Christian theology, about Jews and deicide, is often blamed for the Holocaust. We learn instead that Hitler’s pathological hatred of Jews had NOTHING to do with Christian theology. In fact, the only time that Hitler even touched on this issue was when he asserted that Jews crucified Christ for having opposed their commercialization of the Temple (p. 423).

HITLER’S HATRED FOR THE JEWS HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE NEGATIVE ASPECTS OF CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY ON JEWS

The eventual Fuhrer saw Jews as a parasitic element that takes the hard-earned wealth of others. They did this through such things as becoming intermediaries in trade, and through usury (pp. 419-on). When the masses rebel against this exploitation (as through pogroms), the Jews ingratiate themselves to the rulers for protection. No matter how many times they are persecuted, Jews will always return to their ingrained exploitative ways (p. 427). Furthermore, Jews will, according to Hitler, resort to all forms of mendacity and slander in order to protect their privileged, exploitative positions. Such things as Jewish assimilation, philanthropy, and conversions to Christianity are nothing but disguises to further Jewish ends.

Hitler also inveighed against what he considered the harmful effects of the Jews on German culture. For example:

“Was there any form of filth or profligacy, above all in cultural life, in which at least one Jew did not participate?” (p. 75).

“The fact was not to be denied that ninety percent of all literary and artistic rubbish and of the theatrical humbug was due to a race which hardly amounted to one-hundredth of all inhabitants of the country. Yet it was so.” (p. 77).

With reference to Jews in prostitution, Hitler said, “An icy shudder ran down my spine when seeing for the first time the Jew as a cool, shameless, and calculating manager of this shocking vice, the outcome of the scum of the big city.” (p. 78).

“Religion is ridiculed, customs and morality are presented as outlived, until the last supports of a nationality in the fight for human existence in this world have fallen.” (p. 450). (Clearly, Hitler was not defending religion per se: He was defending morality and religion insofar as they were essential elements of German culture.)

WHEN JEWS TODAY SAY THAT POLISH ANGER ABOUT JEDWABNE IS A TACIT ADMISSION OF POLISH GUILT, THEY ARE COPYING HITLER’S LINE OF ARGUMENTATION!

Hitler was unfazed by the fact that the PROTOCOLS OF THE ELDERS OF ZION were inauthentic. To him, the Jewish reaction against this publication was itself proof of its authenticity. (pp. 423-424). Finally, whether themselves authentic or not, the PROTOCOLS were supposed to constitute a valid appraisal of Jewish attitudes and goals.

Nowadays, many Jews say that the angry Polish reaction to the Jedwabne “revelation” only proves that Poles are guilty. In doing so, they are only copying the same Nazi argument, wherein Jewish anger over the PROTOCOLS only proves that the PROTOCOLS are genuine, or at least are valid indictments of Jewish conduct.

GERMANOCENTRIC SUPREMACISM: SLAVS AS WELL AS JEWS THE OBJECTS OF UNMITIGATED GERMAN CONTEMPT

Although Hitler was an Austrian, he was a thoroughgoing Germanocentric chauvinist. Hitler unambiguously believed that only Germanic peoples invent things (pp. 397-398). The creativity of a society is directly proportional to the Germanic content of its stock and inversely proportional to the degree of “bastardization” with inferior races. The Fuhrer made countless racist statements against Slavs. Hitler repeatedly lamented the fact that the admixture of Jews and Slavs had polluted the Germanic element of his native Austria (e. g., pp. 138-140). The Fuhrer also contended that Slavs have no capability of self-government–their rulers must all be of Germanic origin (p. 951). Hitler was no white supremacist; he was a German supremacist par excellence!

THE EMBRYONIC POLOKAUST: SLAVS, JUST AS JEWS, ARE INNATELY IRREDEEMABLE IN GERMAN EYES

Proponents of Holocaust uniqueness sometimes claim that, whereas there was nothing that Jews could do to change their standing in the eyes of the Nazis, Poles could redeem themselves by undergoing Germanization. This is fallacious. Hitler said, “Here too one believed that one could bring about a Germanization of the Polish element by a purely linguistic integration into the German nationality. Here too the result would have been an unfortunate one: people of an alien race, expressing its alien thoughts in the German language, compromising the height and the dignity of our own nationality by its own inferiority.” (p. 590). (During the later German occupation of Poland, the “Germanization” of selected Poles was actually a very limited re-Germanization of ethnic Germans that had previously become Polonized.)

NO VALID GERMAN EXCUSE FOR SUPPORTING HITLER: HITLER UNAMBIGUOUSLY ADVERTISED HIS WARLIKE AND GENOCIDAL AMBITIONS

We commonly hear the canned exculpatory memes, such as the one about the German being hopping mad about hyperinflation [never mind that other nations, such as Poland, had also suffered through hyperinflation]. We are also led to imagine that the German people voted for Hitler, in free elections, without realizing the fact that he would start a major war. Perhaps, some say, Hitler would be, at most, content with a little war to rectify the “injustices” of Versailles. In actuality, there is much more to MEIN KAMPF than the customary German self-pity regarding WWI and Versailles.

Clear proof that the Fuhrer had long planned a war of massive conquest and extermination, against the Slavic peoples, is provided by his following “blood and soil” statements regarding LEBENSRAUM: “Neither eastern nor western orientation should be the future goal of our foreign policy, but an eastern policy signifying the acquisition of the necessary soil for our German people.” (pp. 965-966). (Later, the Nazis spoke of “resettlement” of Jews and Slavs. The latter was exemplified in GENERALPLAN OST. In time, “resettlement” evolved into a euphemism for extermination.)