I composed this ZGram a few days back from a place other than my own computer; therefore I do not have reference to a little e-mail that Elena Haskins of www.wakeupordie.com sent me in reference to a line President Putin of Russia used in a recent speech to the Duma.
I wish I had that reference, but I remember the content and context. Putin spoke of Russian men of honor once more taking over the natural role of protecting and honoring women, to which Elena wrote to me, and here I quote from memory:
"I have no idea whether or not he meant it, but what a lovely thought!"
Things like that find a resonance in Aryan women, because the natural division of labor between the sexes, many women feel or, in the younger generation, vaguely sense, has been lost by giving women pants and men the kitchen broom. I know that I think of that lost world with a deep and permanent ache because for us women it meant psychological and physical safety, dignity, and freedom from assault. I know exactly what Elena meant.
The reference from which I quoted in this series, "The Speeches of Adolf Hitler", 1969 Howard Fertig edition, has this sentence in its notes in the chapter titled "Woman":
"(On) all the activities of women under the Third Reich Hitler, in his speeches, is curiously silent."
In this volume there are only three abbreviated speeches, from which I take these excerpts:
* In April 1932 a delegation of National Women's Organizations had an interview with Hitler "with a view to being assured that the future State did not intend to abrogate the legal equality under which the Constitution of 1918 had been granted to them." Hitlers replie was a brusque:
"What has the Revolution of 1918 actually done for women? All it has done is to turn 50,000 of them into blue stockings and party officials. Under the Third Reich they might as well whistle for such things."
* In an interview with Anne O'Hare McCormick, reported in the New York Times for 10 July 1933, Hitler said:
"Women always have been among my staunchest supporters. They feel that my victory is their victory. They know I serve their cause in working to redeem German Youth, to create a social order, to restore hope and health.
"The surplus of women is happily diminishing, and while our aims encourage women to marry and stay home, unmarried women are in free competition with men. Only military service, service to the bench and certain political posts are closed to women."
* In his address to women at the Nuremberg Parteitag on 8 September 1934 Hitler said:
"If one says that man's world is the State, his struggle, his readiness to devote his powers to the service of the community, one might be tempted to say that the world of women is a smaller world. For her world is her husband, her family, her children, and her house.
"But where would the greater world be if there were no one to care for the small world? How could the greater world survive if there were no one to care for the small world? How could the greater world survive if there were none to make the cares of the smaller world the content of their lives? (...)
"Providence has entrusted to women the cares of that world which is peculiarly her own, and only on the basis of this smaller world can the man's world be formed and built up. These two worlds are never in conflict. They are complementary to each other, they belong together as man and woman belong together. (...)
"Every child that a woman brings into the world is a battle, a battle waged for the existence of her people. Man and woman must therefore mutually value and respect each other when they see that each performs the task which nature and providence have ordained. And from this separation of the functions of each there will necessarily result this mutual respect.
"It is not true, as Jewish intellectuals assert, that respect depends upon the overlapping of the spheres of activity of the sexes: this respect demands that neither sex should try to do that which belongs to the other's sphere. Respect lies in the last resort in this: that each knows that the other is doing everything which is necessary to maintain the whole community. (...)
"We would protect ourselves against a corrupted intellectualism which will put asunder that which God hath joined. Woman, because she springs from that root which is the prime cause of life, is also the most stable element in the maintenance of a people. She it is who in the last resort has the infallible sense for all that is necessary if a race is not to perish, for it will be her children who will be the first victims of that disaster. Man is often far too mentally unstable to find his way immediately to these fundamental truths. (...)
"We National Socialists have for many years protested against bringing women into political life; that life is in our eyes unworthy of her. (...)
"(T)he woman who enters into this business of Parliament will not raise it; it will dishonour her. . . My opponents thought that in that case we would never gain women for our Movement; but in fact we gained more women than all the other parties together, and I know we should have won over the last German woman if she had only had the opportunity to study Parliament and the dishonouring role which women have played there...
"(T)he new National Socialist community of the people was set on a firm basis precisely because we gained in millions of women our truest, or fanatical fellow combatants, women who fought for the common life in the service of the common task of maintaining life, who in that combat did not set their gaze on rights which a Jewish intellectualism mirrored before their eyes, but rather on duties which nature imposes on all of us in common. (...)
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Thought for the Day:
"It can be expected that progress in psychology will give governments more control over personal emotions than they now have. Education should strive to destroy free will, so that when students have left school, they will for the rest of their lives be unable to think or act in a manner different from what their teachers would have wished. . . Even if all feel miserable, they will be lieve that they are happy because the government will tell them that they are."
(Bertrand Russell in "Impact of Science on Society, 1952)