Stalin Like Hitler Strasser

Hitler And I, by Otto Strasser.

Nazi Otto Strasser Disagrees With Hitler, and Breaks With the NSDAP (Nazi Party). Includes Different Views on Jews

Before discussing the causes of the breach between Strasser and the eventual Fuhrer, I focus on the Jews.

ALLEGED JEWISH PROFITEERING FROM GERMAN HYPERINFLATION

Strasser wrote, “Jewish profiteers then made their appearance, intensifying the anti-Semitism always latent in the German people. Traders, profiting from the famine and the progressive devaluation of the mark, bought goods abroad and sold them in Germany at exorbitant prices. They exploited the Reichsbank, skillfully insinuated themselves into the Government machine, established invaluable contacts with high officials, and even pulled strings in Ministers’ private offices, thus compromising those who should have represented authority and defended the poor against their exploiters.” (p. 20).

THE IMPACT OF JEWISH FINANCIAL SCANDALS IN WEIMAR GERMANY

Otto Strasser continues, “The scandals that surrounded the names of Galician Jews such as Kutisker, Barmatt, and Sklareck [Sklarek] caused the precarious edifice of German finances to totter and roused a wave of indignation. The exploits of the Barmatt brothers, who were expelled from Germany, were continued in shameless fashion in Holland, where another scandal broke out a year ago as a result of their criminal operations. The three Sklareck brothers continued their unsavory activities in Czechoslovakia.” (pp. 20-21).

A DEBATE: HITLER (JEWS AS CONSPIRATORS) AND STRASSER (JEWS AS OPPORTUNISTS)

Hitler spoke first, “‘Look at the Communist Jew who was Marx and the capitalist Jew who is Rathenau. All evil comes from the Jews…They conceal their fiendish devices behind a mask of reformist ideals. Their aim is the destruction of the nation and the obliteration of the differences between the races. Jews lead the workers and talk of improving their lot; in reality they are enslaving them, and killing their patriotism and their honor in order to establish the international dictatorship of Jewry.’” (p. 10).

Otto Strasser had a more sanguine view of Jews, as he thus expressed his disagreement with the eventual Fuhrer. Strasser commented, “‘You do not know the Jews, Herr Hitler, and permit me to tell you that you overestimate them,’ I replied. ‘The Jew, you see, is above all adaptable. He exploits existing possibilities, but creates nothing. He makes use of socialism, he utilizes capitalism, he would even exploit National-Socialism if you have gave him the change. He adapts himself to circumstances with a suppleness of which, apart from him, only the Chinese is capable.’” (p. 11).

HITLER AN ATHEIST, AND OTHER REASONS FOR STRASSER’S BREAK WITH THE NSDAP

Otto Strasser’s vision of the Third Reich had been, “…federal, Christian, and European.” (p. 27).
It became increasingly obvious that Hitler had a very different vision. Strasser thus remarked to his brother Gregor, “I reminded him of Hitler’s successive acts of treachery. ‘We no longer talk the same language,’ I said. ‘We are socialists, and Hitler has already come to terms with the capitalists. We are republicans, and Hitler allies himself with the Wittelsbachs and even with the Hohenzollerns. We are European and liberal; we demand our liberty, but we also respect the liberty of others, while Hitler talks to his confidants about the domination of Europe. We are Christians; without Christianity Europe is lost. Hitler is an atheist.’” (p. 93).

The final straw was when Goebbels expelled some Party members, prompting Strasser to turn in his resignation from the Nazi Party on July 4, 1930. (p. 116). Later, Strasser repeated his distaste for Hitler’s increasingly-belligerent Pan-Germanism. (p. 207).

ANTICIPATING TODAY’S CULTURAL MARXISM AND GLOBALISM? A SOBER WARNING

Strasser concludes, “Hitler the racialist and Stalin the Marxist have never felt or understood the moral law of such a revival. Strong in their mad materialism, they believe men’s souls are dead, that millions are ready to accept slavery so long as their bodies are nourished.” (pp. 219-220).
What Otto Strasser said turns out to be prophetic. It is very true of the goals of the European Union, and the globalists, today.