Intermittently, we get served up the charge that just as soon as we are done with finishing the Holocaust, we are going to heave Adolf Hitler back on the pedestal for people to admire. Well, yes and no. "Yes" in the sense that Adolf Hitler was a lionhearted leader in his vision whose impact matches none in our century, and it behooves us to acknowledge that aspect. The awesome vision and persuasive power of this German Fuehrer can easily be measured by the fact that 12 short years - six of which spent in all-out combat against some 51 countries, most of which, for their part, had declared war on Germany - still dictate and control political reality today. Take any Swastika and watch how polititians freak! "No" in the sense that, fifty years and three generations later, a new and sparkling future will be forged that will combine the best of then and now. It will not be the German Thirties and its logo. I have heard Ernst say more than once that each generation and each era must forge its own and can't just simply borrow it and imitate it foolishly. It isn't theirs to do so. They haven't paid for it. Toward that thought, I'd like to proffer you the following that was a post at one of the discussion groups:
"I have always felt that most people are overly fixated on the anti-Semitic aspects of Nazis ideology, and rather ignorant of other social and economic programs that explained its success during the early years. Nazism, as any other movement of social transformation, was a multi-faceted phenomenon and not simply a seizure of _irrationality_ that collectively gripped the German people. Also, some aspects of Nazi ideology (particularly its racism) appear bizarre to us today, but these beliefs were not so deviant when placed within the cultural context of the times. The following quote is taken from an essay by S.L. Mayer, entitled "The Greater Reich: An American's View," which appeared in _Hitler_, edited by Herbert Walther (Bison books, 1978): "Though most Britons, like most Americans, considered the Nazi regime to be somewhat distasteful and sordid, particularly in the context of its blatant racism and anti-Semitism, they did not think about it much. Those who did . . . to a greater or lesser degree admired Hitler's swift and remarkable achievements in the German economic sphere, and there were even those who argued that Britain and America ought to emulate Hitler's deeds. After all, Hitler claimed to be a socialist, albeit of a certain type which rejected international socialism in favor of national socialism in one country. Therefore, Left Wing socialists and Communists disagreed violently with Hitler's ideological stance, but could not have found too much wrong in what he did specifically on the economic front, since they were proposing similar measures. And of course, there were Right Wing imitators of Hitler's style both in Britain and America who found little or nothing wrong in whatever Hitler was doing . . . Most of the northwest Europeans, Americans, Canadians, Australians and South Africans shared his racial prejudices. Hitler, Goebbels and the rest bellowed the principles of racial hatred and anti-Semitism that were merely whispered and joked about in country clubs, college fraternities and fashionable soirees in the Anglo-American world. It was therefore not what Hitler said but the way he said it (regarding) anti-Semitism, which lay at the heart of Hitler's philosophy, . . . it was as American as apple pie and as British as steak and kidney pudding." (p241)
What does that mean? Quite simply this: that the Gordian Knot could be hewed through by social engineering that has as its goal to eradicate, once and for all, those alien ideas that are so disastrously harming the hive. Just one stark example, which I am citing here out of "The Racial Elements of European History" by Hans F. K. Günther:
"Here we give an American example, which has its parallels in Europe: From one lazy vagabond named Juke, born in rural New York in 1720, whose two sons married five degenerate sisters, six generations numbering 1200 persons of every grade of idleness, viciousness, lewdness, pauperism, disease, idiocy, insanity and criminality were traced. Of the total seven generations, 300 died in infancy; 310 were professional paupers, kept in almshouses a total of 2300 years; 440 physically wrecked by their own 'diseased wickedness', more than half the women fell into prostitution; 130 were convicted criminals, 60 were thieves, 7 were murderers; only 20 learned a trade, ten of these in state prisons, and all at a state cost of over $1.250,000. This was after an investigation of the Jukes in 1877. By 1915 the Jukes had reached the ninth generation, had spread far over other districts, and were now 2820 all told, of whom the half were living. . . By now, the cost to the state had risen to $2,500,000. . . all this evil might have been averted by preventing the reproduction of the first Juke."
Is it acceptable to say in 1996 that some of Adolf Hitler's notions of cleaning up the sewers of our wasted century might well have been the better way to go? Ingrid
Thought for the Day: "A psychiatric 'cure' is no more possible than making strawberries grow on lettuce by increasing the fertilizer." (From New Science of Man, p. 67)