Poland Mistreats Minorities Old Propaganda Reused By Hitler

The Speeches Of Adolf Hitler, April 1922 August 1939: An English Translation Of Representative Passages, by Adolf Hitler. 1942

Hitler Blackened Poland Over “Horrible Treatment of Minorities” Just Like Cultural Marxists, and Certain Jews, Do Today. Nazism Was Leftist, Not Rightist. German LEBENSRAUM Ambitions, and Not “Polish Intransigence”, Caused WWII

This outstanding resource for scholars consists of two volumes with a common pagination, making it 1,980 pages long. Each speech of Hitler is profusely cross-referenced in an extensive index, so that the researcher can find what Hitler said about just about every imaginable topic. There are also scholarly articles and books for further study. Because they, and the book itself, predate WWII, they are not colored by it. Owing to the breadth of this work, I only touch on a few issues raised by Hitler. [Of course, analyzing Hitler in no way implies agreement with him or admiration for him, and my four-star rating is for the historical value.]

“POLAND IS JUST TERRIBLE TO MINORITIES” BELATEDLY INVOKED BY HITLER

The phony indignation over Poland’s treatment of her minorities has, for over a century, been a staple of Polonophobes (most recently Jewish Polonophobes and their LEWAK and cultural Marxist allies). Hitler also played this anti-Polish game: He accused Poland of mistreating her German minority. However, that was an about-face. A year and a half before starting WWII, Hitler had reckoned the German minority in Poland as really no different from the Polish minority in Germany! (p. 1425)

OTHER GERMAN PRETEXTS FOR ATTACKING POLAND WERE ALSO SELF-REFUTING

The refusal of Poland to return the “rightfully German” Polish Corridor was the official German justification for attacking Poland in 1939. Earlier, however, Hitler had said that the Corridor was no reason for Poland and Germany to go to war (p. 1107), and, moreover, that it was a matter of little importance that would be forgotten within 50 years. (p. 1249).

Finally, the Fuhrer had repeatedly said (pp. 1424-1425, 1565), most recently six months before attacking Poland (p. 1587), that Poland was too great a nation to be denied access to the sea. [Of course, had the Corridor been the real issue, as opposed to a smokescreen, Germany could’ve seized the Corridor and left the rest of Poland alone.]

THE REAL REASON FOR WWII: GERMANY’S ONGOING HANKERING AFTER POLISH AND RUSSIAN TERRITORIES

No sooner had the guns of WWI fallen silent than Germany again advertised her warlike and expansionist ambitions. Consider lebensraum. Continuing this theme mentioned in MEIN KAMPF and HITLER’S SECOND BOOK, the Fuhrer repeatedly returned to this subject, as on October 1935 (p. 913-on), March 1936 (p. 1274-on), and March 1939 (p. 1586). He also reiterated the desirability of conquering Russia for lebensraum purposes (September 1936)(p. 929).

THE HOLOCAUST: PLENTY OF BLAME TO GO AROUND. TO THE WEST: GET OFF POLAND’S CASE

A common theme of Hitler’s diatribes against Jews was the hypocrisy of western nations. They extolled Jewish virtues and expressed concern about the treatment of Jews in Germany, but generally refused to accept German Jews as immigrants. (e. g., p. 729, 740). In his infamous February 1, 1939 speech, Hitler promised the destruction of Europe’s Jews in the event that the “international Jewish financiers” precipitated another world war. (p. 741). (However, Hitler may not have meant physical extermination at the time.)

DO NOT BLAME THE CHURCH FOR “NOT DOING MORE” TO AMELIORATE THE HOLOCAUST

Recurrent Jewish (and KATOLEWICA) complaints about the Church not speaking out more against Nazi crimes are out of touch with reality. In fact, Hitler had threatened the Catholic Church with dire consequences for its enmity towards National Socialism—moreover long before WWII and the Holocaust. (August 1935)(pp. 388-389).

When the Catholic Church came out with the encyclical MIT BRENNENDER SORGE in March 1937, which condemned the racism in Nazi ideology as immoral, Hitler told the Church to stop trying to impose its concepts of morality on others, and basically to avoid overstepping the boundaries of church and state. (pp. 389-390). [Very familiar leftspeak.]

NAZISM WAS GERMANOCENTRIC RACIALISM, NOT NATIONALISM

Hitler scorned “bourgeosie nationalism” (pp. 93-94)–the very same phrase used by the Communists! Nazism was primarily a racialist ideology, as embodied by Hitler’s phrase, “Blood and Soil.” (p. 992).

NAZISM WAS LEFT-WING, NOT RIGHT-WING

Nazism has commonly, and deliberately been mischaracterized as extreme conservatism. In actually, the Fuhrer attacked the German Right for such things as its blindness to Jewish rule in democracy and capitalism. (pp. 13-14, 26-27).

There is no doubt that National Socialism (NSDAP) had actually been a form of socialism. According to Hitler, the German people had to choose between physical survival and the kind of economic liberty found in western democracies. (p. 927-on). Hitler wanted a dictatorship of the German people, not the class-based rule of the bourgeoisie under capitalism or the dictatorship of the proletariat under Communism. (p. 855). He promoted the planned economy. (pp. 910-911, 914). Unlike Marxian socialism, Hitler allowed for personal property, albeit in consonance with the needs of the community. (p. 93). Hitler believed that it was nonsensical to nationalize productive industries such as the Krupp Steelworks, but he reserved the right to nationalize industries deemed inconsistent with the needs of the nation. (pp. 111-112). Hitler and his National Socialist movement consistently observed May Day. (p. 67, 739, 891).

In common with all socialists, Adolf Hitler regarded common financial profit as more important than individual financial profit and, true to socialist ideation, considered individual financial profit to be egoistic. (p. 896). [Nowadays, in the USA, we hear, from leftists, that successful people got that way because “they were greedy” and because “they were privileged” and because they had “won life’s lottery”.]