In one of my most popular previous ZGrams, I talked about the German "Trümmerfrauen" - the post-war German women who would crawl out of the ruins of their cities with dented buckets in their hands and silently start cleaning up - a bucket at a time! - to the jeers and abuse of the so-called "liberators".
In a way, that is where we are now. There are taunts and insults all around us. We are silently cleaning up the destruction - only this time we are digging out from under - SPIRITUALLY.
We have been decimated horribly. Most of us don't even know how much has been destroyed. Even though I still have memories of what the struggle really meant, I must say I barely have a grasp of how much has been blown to smithereens of my own people's spiritual treasures. Most all of it has been wiped out. It's rubble blocking our path and dust in our eyes. And now we must rebuild.
Those who are in our camp all share one common feature - we share an understanding that we have been deceived in the most vicious, cruel way about most anything pertaining to that war. About the Holocaust. About the German leader, Adolf Hitler. About the German soldier who threw himself against Bolshevism - a creed he called the Antichrist - about his powerfully compelling reasons why he felt there was no choice but to fight back, and hard.
We have been lied to and lied to and lied to - and that includes what National Socialism was really all about.
It was NOT about a witch hunt to kill every Jew in sight. Believe me it was not.
Somebody who sends me repeated posts sent me this little summary below which I would call a mere small glimpse of what it really was that so inspired an entire generation during the Hitler years:
". . . The National Socialist body of belief is founded on three principles:
- NATURAL ORDER. We believe that the universe is governed by natural laws. In order for Man to be happy and successful, he must first learn what these laws are and then follow them.
We believe that Man is a part of the natural world and that he is in no way separate from or distinct from it. Because of this, we believe that society should be structured in accordance with the laws of Nature, and not in opposition to them as is the case today.
- RACIAL IDEALISM. Racial idealism is based on the love of one's own people. It means placing the interests and the welfare of the racial community to which you belong ahead of your own personal interests and desires.
As racial idealists we have no wish to harm, exploit, or persecute any other racial groups, despite a persistent media propaganda campaign of abuse and deliberate falsification to the contrary. We are only interested in protecting our own people against extinction - a fate all too likely if nothing is done about present conditions in America.
We believe that all men are NOT created equal. Just as every individual has his own strengths and weaknesses, so each race has certain qualities which make it different from other races.
We believe that the White (or Aryan) race has the right to maintain its own biological, cultural, and political independence and integrity, and that we have the right to control our own destiny. We also believe that the White race has the right to defend itself against all physical, economic, and spiritual assaults, no matter where they come from.
- THE UPWARD DEVELOPMENT OF THE WHITE RACE. We want to do more than just defend our race; we want to see it improve. This can be done by encouraging a high birth rate among those sections of the White population which are the healthiest, strongest, and most intelligent. At the same time, our science should work to eliminate hereditary weaknesses and defects among our people. Our goal is that each new generation of White children will be better than the one before it.
I want you to look at these principles and think of the Olympic athletes. Are all created equal? Of course not. Does it cause anybody mental anguish that not all are of the same mold? Of course not. Does it diminish an Olympic contestant as he is struggling for the top but someone else is "better"? Of course not. Would the Olympic games even exist to show the world just what it means to be a champion striving for the highest honor if there were no standards of strength, beauty, self-discipline, pride in one's country and one's gifts - and if there were no competition and no genuine sportsmanship permitting all to go for the Gold but reserving that high honor strictly for the strongest? Of course not.
Would we be better off if there were no Olympics?
It never ceases to amaze me how we buy into shibboleths about "equality, fraternity and liberty" that serve the enemy and carry our own destruction. We do for our dogs and horses what we won't do for our children - act on the knowledge that it is better to be healthy, beautiful and strong than to be spindly, soft and sick.
Ingrid Thought for the Day:
Thought for the Day:
"The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract."
(Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.)