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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 - April 30, 1945) Nazi leader, dictator
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- My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God’s truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison. To-day, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow my self to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice… And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows . For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people.
- Speech in Munich (April 12, 1922)
- Then will come a National Socialist State tribunal; then will November, 1918, be expiated; then the heads will roll.
- Testimony at a trial of German officers, Leipzig, in 1930.
- Let us pray in this hour that nothing can divide us, and that God will help us against the Devil! Almighty Lord, bless our fight!
- Adolph Hitler to the SA in 1930
- The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and cooperation. It will preserve and defend those basic principles on which our nation has been built. It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of national life.
- Adolph Hitler, Proclamation to the German nation at Berlin, February 1, 1933
- In the same way, the Government of the Reich, which regards Christianity as the unshakable foundation of the morals and moral code of the nation...
- Adolph Hitler, Speech at the Reichstag, March 23, 1933
- I believe today that I am acting in the sense of the Almighty Creator. By warding off the Jews I am fighting for the Lord's work.
- Speech at the Reichstag, Berlin, in 1936.
- The judgment whether a people is virtuous or not virtuous can hardly be passed by a human being. That should be left to God.
- Speech delivered at Wilhelmshaven (April 1, 1939)
- For over five years this man has been chasing around Europe like a madman in search of something he could set on fire. Unfortunately he again and again finds hirelings who open the gates of their country to this international incendiary.
- I don't see much future for the Americans... It's a decayed country. And they have their racial problem, and the problem of social inequalities... My feelings against Americanism are feelings of hatred and deep repugnance... Everything about the behavior of American society reveals that it's half Judaized, and the other half negrified. How can one expect a State like that to hold together?
- Statement in conversation (January 7, 1942) as quoted in Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer p. 895, from transcripts published as Hitler's Secret Conversation's, 1941 -1944 (1953). These should not be confused with later publications such as "Hitler's Secret Book" (1961) from transcripts of 1928, nor the widely known hoax of "The Hitler Diaries".
- We have to put a stop to the idea that it is a part of everybody's civil rights to say whatever he pleases.
- From a conversation of February 22, 1942
- I want war. To me all means will be right. My motto is not 'Don't, whatever you do, annoy the enemy.' My motto is 'Destroy him by all and any means'. I am the one who will wage the war!"
- As quoted in Hitler and Nazism, Loius L. Snyder, Franklin Watts, Inc., NY, 1961. pg 66.
- I have not come into this world to make men better, but to make use of their weaknesses.
- As quoted in the essay The Mind of Hitler by H.R. Trevor-Roper
- "When the music's over, turn out the lights." Hitler's last statment before his suicide in 1945.
- "Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?" Hitler referring to the Armenian Genocide
- As referenced by Kevork Bardakjian in Hitler and the Armenian Genocide Cambridge, MA, 1985, page 6.
Your Mother (May 1923?)
The earliest mention of this poem thus far seems to be one that was posted May 10th, 1998 at the notoriously pro-Nazi, holocaust denying website, Zundelsite.org, run by Ernst Zündel and his wife Ingrid Rimland. (see the Talk page for further info.)
- When your mother has grown older,
- When her dear, faithful eyes
- No longer see life as they once did,
- When her feet, grown tired,
- No longer want to carry her as she walks,
- Then lend her your arm in support, escort her with happy pleasure—
- the hour will come when, weeping, you must accompany her on her final walk.
- And if she asks you something, then give her an answer.
- And if she asks again, then speak!
- And if she asks yet again, respond to her, not impatiently, but with gentle calm.
- And if she cannot understand you properly, explain all to her happily.
- The hour will come, the bitter hour, when her mouth asks for nothing more.
From Mein Kampf (1925)
- The application of force alone, without moral support based on a spiritual concept, can never bring about the destruction of an idea or arrest the propagation of it, unless one is ready and able ruthlessly to exterminate the last upholders of that idea even to a man, and also wipe out any tradition which it may tend to leave behind.
- Any violence which does not spring from a spiritual base, will be wavering and uncertain. It lacks the stability which can only rest in a fanatical outlook.
- Christianity could not content itself with building up its own altar; it was absolutely forced to undertake the destruction of the heathen altars. Only from this fanatical intolerance could its apodictic faith take form; this intolerance is, in fact, its absolute presupposition.
- The more inferior new revolutionary movements are, the more will they try to denigrate the old forms.
- The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.
- Ralph Manheim translation published by Houghton-Mifflin (1943), Page 403
- But it remained for the Jews, with their unqualified capacity for falsehood, and their fighting comrades, the Marxists ... By placing responsibility for the loss of the world war on the shoulders of Ludendorff they took away the weapon of moral right from the only adversary dangerous enough to be likely to succeed in bringing the betrayers of the Fatherland to Justice. All this was inspired by the principle— which is quite true in itself — that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.
- No matter what an amount of talent employed in the organization of propaganda, it will have no result if due account is not taken of these fundamental principles. Propaganda must be limited to a few simple themes and these must be represented again and again. Here, as in innumerable other cases, perseverance is the first and most important condition of success.
- From an English translation of Mein Kampf by James Murphy, February, 1939
- Variant: No amount of genius spent on the creation of propaganda will lead to success if a fundamental principle is not forever kept in mind. Propaganda must confine itself to very few points, and repeat them endlessly. Here, as with so many things in this world, persistence is the first and foremost condition of success.
- While the Goddess of suffering took me in her arms often threatening to crush me... my will to resistance grew and in the end that will was victorious.
- The gigantic North American State, with the enormous resources of its virgin soil, is much more invulnerable than the encircled German Reich. Should a day come when the die which will finally decide the destinies of the nations will have to be cast in that country, England would be doomed if she stood alone.
- We were convinced that the people needs and requires this faith. We have therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and that not merely with a few theoretical declarations: we have stamped it out.
- Was there any excrement, any shamelessness in any form, above all in cultural life, in which at least one Jew would not have been involved? As soon as one even carefully cut into such an abscess, one found, like maggots in a decaying body, often blinded by the sudden light, a kike.
- Ralph Manheim translation (1943)
- It may be that today gold has become the exclusive ruler of life, but the time will come when man will again bow down before a higher god.
- Anyone who dares to lay hands on the highest image of the Lord commits sacrilege against the benevolent creator of this miracle and contributes to the expulsion from paradise.
- This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief.
- I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know.
Die Bormann Vermerke (1941 - 1944)
Transcripts of Hitler's conversations (5 July 1941 - 30 November 1944), made under the supervision of Martin Boorman, published in England in 1953 as Hitler's Table Talks.
- Stalin is one of the most extraordinary figures in world history. He began as a small clerk, and he has never stopped being a clerk. Stalin owes nothing to rhetoric. He governs from his office, thanks to a bureaucracy that obeys his every nod and gesture. It's striking that Russian propaganda, in the criticisms it makes of us, always holds itself within certain limits. Stalin, that cunning Caucasian, is apparently quite ready to abandon European Russia, if he thinks that a failure to solve her problems would cause him to lose everything. Let nobody think Stalin might reconquer Europe from the Urals! It is as if I were installed in Slovakia, and could set out from there to reconquer the Reich. This is the catastrophe that will cause the loss of the Soviet Empire.
Some statements on religion
Many of the conversational statements [1] that are made in this section (from July 1941 to June 1942), seem to belie the public stance that Hitler often took, especially early in his career, of being a defender of many religious, and particularly Christian values. Some have sought to mitigate the value of these remarks, but with a man as deceitful as Hitler is known to have been, private remarks seem a much better indication of his true opinions on some matters than his public speeches.
- The heaviest blow that ever struck humanity was the coming of Christianity. Bolshevism is Christianity's illegitimate child. Both are inventions of the Jew. The deliberate lie in the matter of religion was introduced into the world by Christianity. Bolshevism practices a lie of the same nature, when it claims to bring liberty to men, whereas in reality it seeks only to enslave them. In the ancient world, the relations between men and gods were founded on an instinctive respect.
- Christianity was the first creed in the world to exterminate its adversaries in the name of love.
- Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of human failure.
- I've thus prevented my Catholic and Protestant supporters from forming groups against one another, and inadvertently knocking each other out with the bible. So we never became involved with these churches' forms of worship.
- It's not opportune to hurl ourselves now into a struggle with the churches. The best thing is to let Christianity die a natural death. A slow death has something comforting about it. The dogma of Christianity gets worn away before the advances of science. Religion will have to make more and more concessions. Gradually the myths crumble. All that's left is to prove that in nature there is no frontier between the organic and the inorganic. When understanding of the universe has become widespread, when the majority of men know that the stars are not sources of light but worlds, perhaps inhabited worlds like ours, then the Christian doctrine will be convicted of absurdity.
- It seems to me that nothing would be more foolish than to reestablish the worship of Wotan. Our old mythology had ceased to be viable when Christianity implanted itself. Nothing dies unless it is moribund. At that period the ancient world was divided between the systems of philosophy and the worship of idols. It's not desirable that the whole of humanity should be stultified— and the only way of getting rid of Christianity is to allow it to die little by little.
- It's Christianity that's the liar. It's in perpetual conflict with itself.
- The man who lives in communion with nature necessarily finds himself in opposition to the Churches. And that's why they're heading for ruin - for science is bound to win.
- We'll see to it that the churches cannot spread abroad teachings in conflict with the interests of the State. We shall continue to preach the doctrine of National Socialism, and the young will no longer be taught anything but the truth.
- The Christian religion tries to get out of it by explaining that one must attach a symbolic value to the images of Holy Writ. Any man who made the same claim four hundred years ago would have ended his career at the stake, with an accompaniment of Hosiannas. By joining in the game of tolerance, religion has won back ground by comparison with bygone centuries.
- What is this God who takes pleasure only in seeing men grovel before him? Try to picture to yourselves the meaning of the following, quite simple story: God creates the conditions for sin. Later on he succeeds, with the help of the Devil, in causing man to sin. Then he employs a virgin to bring into the world a son who, by his death, will redeem humanity!
- Christianity is an invention of sick brains: one could imagine nothing more senseless— A negro with his taboos is crushingly superior to the human being who seriously believes in transubstantiation.
- When all is said, we have no reason to wish that the Italians and Spaniards should free themselves from the drug of Christianity. Let's be the only Folk who are immunized against the disease.
- Pure Christianity— the Christianity of the catacombs— is concerned with translating the Christian doctrine into facts. It leads quite simply to the annihilation of mankind. It is merely whole hearted Bolshevism, under a tinsel of metaphysics.
- Christianity is the worst of the regressions that mankind can ever have undergone, and it's the Jew who, thanks to this diabolic invention, has thrown him back 15 centuries. The only thing that would be still worse would be victory for the Jew through Bolshevism. If Bolshevism triumphed, mankind would lose the gift of laughter and joy. It would become merely a shapeless mass, doomed to grayness and despair.
- The priests of antiquity were closer to nature, and they sought modestly for the meaning of things. Instead of that, Christianity promulgates its inconsistent dogmas and imposes them by force.
- It is a great pity that this tendency towards religious thought can find no better outlet than the Jewish pettifoggery of the Old Testament, for a religious Folk who, in the solitude of winter, continually seek ultimate light on their religious problems with the assistance of the Bible, must eventually become spiritually deformed. The wretched Folk strive to extract truths from these Jewish chicaneries, where in fact no truths exist. As a result they become embedded in some rut of thought and, unless they possess an exceptionally commonsense mind, degenerate into religious maniacs.
- It is deplorable that the Bible should have been translated into German, and that the whole of the German Folk should have thus become exposed to the whole of this Jewish mumbo jumbo. So long as the wisdom, particularly of the Old Testament, remained exclusively in the Latin of the Church, there was little danger that sensible people would become the victims of illusions as the result of studying the Bible. But since the Bible became common property, a whole heap of people have found opened to them lines of religious thought which— particularly in conjunction with the German characteristic of persistent and somewhat melancholy meditation— as often as not turned them into religious maniacs. When one recollects further that the Catholic Church has elevated to the status of Saints a whole number of madmen, one realizes why movements such as that of the Flagellants came inevitably into existence in the Middle Ages in Germany.
From the "The Political Testament of Adolf Hitler" (1945)
Note: The authenticity of Hitler's political testament is uncertain.
- I have never regarded the Chinese or the Japanese as being inferior to ourselves. They belong to ancient civilizations, and I admit freely that their past history is superior to our own. They have the right to be proud of their past, just as we have the right to be proud of the civilization to which we belong. Indeed, I believe the more steadfast the Chinese and the Japanese remain in their pride of race, the easier I shall find it to get on with them.
- ...you can rely on the Jews: as long as they survive, anti-semitism will never fade.
Attributed
- "Brennt Paris? (Is Paris burning?)"
- Asking Dietrich von Choltitz in August 1944, who was in command of Paris until its recapture, if he set the City on fire, an order the general refused.
- "Mr. Chamberlain likes to take weekends in the country; I shall take countries in the weekend!"
- Spoken of Neville Chamberlain, Churchill's dovish predecessor as British Prime Minister.
- All you have to do is kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will crumble to the ground.
- Statement in planning the invasion of the Soviet Union.
- “The great masses of people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. Especially if it is repeated over and over.”
- I shall give a propagandist reason for starting the war, no matter whether it is plausible or not. The victor will not be asked afterwards, whether he told the truth or not. When starting and waging war it is not right that matters but victory. Close your hearts to pity. Act brutally, eighty million people must obtain what is their right. Their existence must be made secure. The strongest man is right.
- Secular schools can never be tolerated because such schools have no religious instruction, and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith.
- The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one.
- The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.
- Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.
- What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
- "One cannot rule by force alone...it is equally important to have this psychological something...They must be convinced that we are the victors."
- on the occupation of eastern Europe
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