German Supremacism Long Before Hitler Vansittart

Black Record: Germans Past and Present, by Robert Gilbert Vansittart. 1941

Prominent WWII British Author With an Excellent Understanding of the Oft-Repeated German Rapacity Against Poland, and the Anti-Christian Character of Nazism

This small book packs a punch, and discusses many unpleasant truths about Germany. Agree with Vansittart or not, but do not dismiss him, as he was no lightweight. He held many high-level offices, including that of Chief Diplomatic Advisor to the British Government.

But why remind ourselves of the long history of German villainy? In this day and age of postmodernism and moral relativism, and of German guilt diffusion, especially in relation to the German-made Holocaust and the forgetting of the German-made Polokaust, it is once again relevant and necessary.

The following [except the titles IN CAPS] are direct quotes from Lord Vansittart:

NOT ALL GERMANS WERE BAD. BUT THERE WERE MORE THAN ENOUGH TO CAUSE DISASTROUS SUFFERING TO OTHERS. AND THAT’S WHAT COUNTS

“I have observed that some critics of them have suggested that I have lumped all Germans together as bad. I have said explicitly the opposite. I have said that the good exist, but that they have hitherto not been numerous enough to turn the scale. That, one would have thought, was obvious.” (p. viii).

“Of course, there have been potential reformers in Germany, but they have always been a weak minority, and have never been able to impede the iniquitous habits and courses of the majority.” (p. 15).

GERMAN CRUELTIES AND THE PARTITIONS OF POLAND

“And Frederick was the precursor of Hitler in partitioning poor Poland with the help of another Prussian, a ruthless and promiscuous woman known to history as Catherine the Great of Russia. Be careful, by the way, how far you swallow these historical labels of ‘the Great’. Frederick ‘the Great’ was a Prussian pervert with a bent for killing and dominating people. And Catherine ‘the Great’, the Prussian with the morals of a street-walker, also had a bent for killing and dominating people. That is not greatness.” (p. 23).

GERMAN BARBARISM AND PERFIDY, THEN AND NOW. HITLER PROMISED HE WOULD NEVER HARM AUSTRIA, THEN WOULD NEVER HARM CZECHOSLOVAKIA, THEN WOULD NEVER HARM POLAND

“You will remember Bismarck’s saying that all problems must be solved ‘blood and iron’. That has been the German view throughout the ages; and that they mean German iron and other people’s blood. And a further observation of Tacitus on their habit of murdering their slaves would be endorsed by the poor Czechs and Poles of our day. Within a short while from the time of Tacitus two further facts about the Germans became notorious and have never varied since. The first was that they were out for ever more and more living space-the unlimited LEBENSRAUM that they claim today. For example, seventeen hundred years ago they were busy occupying Rumania [ROMAN EMPIRE?]. The second fact early and universally recognized was that Germans were not only very dirty fighters but they never kept a pledge or treaty. Gibbon has commented on this characteristic.” (p. 20).

FIRST THE HERRERO, AND NOW THE POLES AND JEWS

“I am not, however, going to harrow you here with the detailed catalogue of horrors, under which many prisoners, Jews, Czechs, Poles, and Germans too, have slowly expired. We are fighting to defend the world from suffering them in its own riven flesh. But it must be realized that in Poland, for example, the Brazen Horde is carrying out a policy of racial extermination as systematically as Imperial Germany exterminated the Herreros, and the Poles have been, and are being, deliberately caused to die the thousands of exposure. The Brazen Horde and its apologists will deny this; but it is true. And it is true because the Brazen Horde has not changed down the ages. The torturers and assassins and exterminators of the Gestapo are the lineal descendants of that imperial butcher-bird, General von Trotha, who, in the Kaiser’s hey-day, deliberately wiped out whole tribes in Africa: wiped them out, women and children, in every circumstance of horror and calculated brutality, score upon score of thousands of them-just what his people are doing in Europe today.” (p. 47).

[For a recent study on the pre-Nazi German-made genocide of the peoples of southwest Africa, see (and read my review) of THE KAISER’S HOLOCAUST, by Olosuga.]

QUIT BLAMING CHRISTIANITY FOR THE HOLOCAUST: NAZISM WAS FUNDAMENTALLY ANTI-CHRISTIAN

“Listen to the Proclamation of the German Faith Movement : ‘The Cross must fall to make Germany live. . . . The Christian religion must be destroyed …. Jesus is the enemy of all Germany.’ Or to Hitler himself, speaking to Mussolini: ‘Christianity is the Bolshevism of Antiquity.’ What a precious pair of scholars! Or to Herr Kerr, the Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs: ‘The Fuehrer is the carrier of a new Revelation. . . . Adolf Hitler is the true Holy Ghost.’ I need not multiply these blasphemies. There are millions of them. They admit of no doubt or argument as to the anti-Christian nature of the Nazi regime.” (p. 10).

“Today the official ‘League of German Maidens’ is singing: ‘We’ve given up the Christian line, For Christ was just a Jewish swine. As for his Mother–what a shame–Cohn was the lady’s real name.’” (p. 17).