CODE OF HONOUR
At Combat 18, one thing we suffer no lack of is media coverage. Read any newspaper article on the issue of race or any report of a so-called "racist attack" and it is certain that our name will crop up sooner rather than later.
From the newspaper coverage we receive, it is clear that journalists all share the same limited vocabulary. For every mention of Combat 18, there is always a corresponding appearance of the same key words and phrases - "violent", "neo-Nazi", "terror", "skinhead", "hooliganism".
Those of you who have made it to this page are, of course, unlikely to believe everything you read in the newspapers. You will however never have seen, in any newspaper, any explanation of our motivation. You will never have seen any answer to the simple question "Why?"
Why is it that we are so committed to our cause? Why is it that we are so convinced of the righteousness of our cause and beliefs that we are prepared to go to jail for them and, if necessary, die for them.
We have posted our Code of Honour on this website to answer these questions.
Our Code of Honour
The concept of honour is central to National Socialism and all National Socialists are obliged by their honour to act in certain ways: with nobility of character. Furthermore, to live by honour means that one is prepared to die rather than be dishonoured.
As National Socialists we have duties and obligations. We have a duty to fight for our race and for the cause of National Socialism itself. We have an obligation to strive to make the ideal of honour real in our own lives; to make that ideal live within us. In this way National Socialists embody all that is best in our race and in the civilizations that our race has created over millennia.
It is no coincidence that the motto of the SS was "Meine Ehre heisst Treue", "My honour means I am loyal." For the warriors of the SS, their honour meant that they were and would be loyal to Adolf Hitler unto death. The oath that each member of the SS swore meant something deeply personal and significant to every person who took that oath: they meant it and were prepared to live their lives in accordance with that oath and, if necessary or if it was required of them, to die because of it. To do anything else was dishonourable and ignoble - a sign of weakness - and totally unbecoming of a National Socialist, never mind a member of the SS.
Many who call or have called themselves National Socialists since the immolation of Adolf Hitler have either not understood the concept of honour or ignored it. It needs to be stated and repeated as often as possible that unless a person is prepared to strive to be honourable - and to take a real oath on their honour to the Cause and the Leader - then they have no right at all to call or describe themselves as National Socialists. An oath on honour means what it says - to break that oath is dishonourable, a cowardly act, and as such deserves death or everlasting ignominy.
Of course, mere supporters of our Cause are not expected to live and die by this hard code of honour, but we activists are, we who aspire to represent National Socialism and all that it stands for. And if some so-called present-day "National Socialists" do not like, or disagree with this, then they simply do not understand National Socialism and had better leave, for the Cause is better off without them. At this critical time in the history of our race and civilization, only the best will do. We National Socialists are, or should strive to be, an example for others to follow: an example of the nobility, idealism, heroism and self-sacrifice of our race.
Accordingly, National Socialists will strive to be honourable and act honourably in all that they do. Of course, this is an ideal and would be difficult to achieve even in better social conditions than exist in the decadent societies of the System today. What is important above all though is that this ideal exists and is aspired to: only in this way can the excellence of the National Socialist spirit be forged.
What this means on a practical level is that each National Socialist will set themself standards - of behaviour, dress, conduct and so on - and then strive to attain and maintain those standards.This means that each National Socialist will also not compromise on those standards: we will not accomodate ourselves to the many and varied forms of decadence and degeneracy that exist today. Most importantly, our honour means that we will not undertake - to further the cause or otherwise - any acts or actions which are dishonourable.
True National Socialists will already possess an instinctive sense of honour and will instinctively know what is right, even if they cannot express it in words. In the same way, someone who does not already possess this instinct for what is honourable and noble cannot be or hope to become a National Socialist.
There can be no excuses for breaking our code of honour, however dire the situation. The honourable person always acts honourably, whatever the circumstances. To do otherwise, is to betray one's self and to betray what one believes in and is prepared to die for. It is individuals of such noble character who have made our race and our civilization great and it is individuals of such character who form the essence of National Socialism.
It is to preserve and advance this ideal that we at Blood and Honour/ Combat 18 reject the approach of those organised Nationalist parties who operate an open membership policy in which the only thing that matters is the number of people joining up and paying over their annual subsription. By operating such a policy, these organisations willingly sacrifice all control over the quality of their membership and open the door to a membership comprised of people whose merit is completely untested and whose suitabilty is never questioned.
This is not, and never will be, our approach. If we allow into our ranks those of a dishonourable nature - for whatever reason, be it to gain more followers or income - then we destroy what we fundamentally believe in and are fighting for. This, like being honourable and doing one's duty to the race, is hard, but it is a fact of existence.
FIT FOR BATTLE OR FIT TO DROP ?
MASTER RACE OR DISGRACE ?
For a movement that shouts about the "Master-Race", war and all the rest of it, it's odd that most of the people involved couldn't run up a flight of stairs. It never ceases to amaze us when, at a Nationalist meeting or event, the talk is of White Pride or racial superiority, and yet the majority of people lapping up the speeches and eagerly reading the magazines promoting our superiority are chain-smoking, burger-munching, beer-guzzling monsters!
Joking aside, it's about time people involved in our struggle started to get themselves fit and in shape so they can live a long and healthy life, set a good example and keep themselves fit to fight.
Looking back to the good old days, the whole National Socialist movement was based on competition, physical fitness and prowess: survival of the fittest. To survive, the whole race should strive for full health and fitness so that it can carry on the fight in Nature's eternal struggle.
Get yourself in shape, Whiteman: it doesn't take much. As technology has supposedly advanced, we have become a race of slobs: driving and never walking, slobbing around on the settee. The most physical thing most of us do is press the buttons on the TV remote control.
It's time for everyone to get in shape - you never know what's around the corner.
For those who are going to read this article and start getting fit, you'll need to know what exercises to do, and how often to do them.
If you start hitting the weights alone, then all you'll do is put on muscle. It might make you look good but weights alone won't make you fit. To get fit you need to exercise your heart and lungs and this means cardiovascular exercise. Cardiovascular exercises are those which get the heart pumping and the lungs working, such as running, cycling etc.
The best form of exercise however is boxing and the training that boxing requires. Not only does boxing training offer good cardiovascular exercise when you do road-running, skipping or working out on the punchbag, it also teaches you how to fight and defend yourself. Incorporate this with a few light weight-training exercises and you won't go wrong. There will be boxing gyms near you which you can join or, if you don't want to join a public gym, get a decent punchbag and sling it up in a spare room or garage. Punchbags are cheap and, like coons, are easy to string up. Get yourself a couple of pairs of boxing gloves and have sparring sessions with a mate or couple of mates.
It doesn't cost anything either to jog a couple of miles a few times a week. If you've got somewhere to skip, then get yourself a decent leather skipping rope. Any boxer will tell you that this is one of the best forms of exercise you can get. ALL boxers do it.
If you have the opportunity then buy yourself a large army rucksack ( Bergen) and take a trip into the countryside.Start off easy at first with a ten kilometer ( klick) walk carrying a little weight.As you get fitter then you can jog for a klick and walk for a klick.When you can do this standing on your head start putting some real weight in your Bergen,like a few house bricks.
Set yourself a routine.Don't just choose nice days,get out there when the rain is falling and the wind is howling.By doing this you will learn to keep on going when your body just wants to give up.This is a very valuable fighting skill and the foundation of all military Special Forces training.
Try and do your weights sessions twice a week. This is good for building up your strength and keeping your muscles toned. All you need is a cheap weights bench - if you shop around you can pick new benches up for about o60 - and a set of weights. Weights can be bought cheaply and any old second-hand set will do. It doesn't matter what they look like. Between you and a mate it shouldn't break the bank.
Don't follow any advice from bodybuilding magazines,they exist solely to sell expensive 'supplements' that no-one needs,and the exercise routines in them are no good for non-steroid users.Just follow a nice simple routine of basic exercises that work a few body parts together,like squatting,bench pressing and press behind the neck.
After about three months of exercising you should begin to feel the benefits. At the same time, try to improve your diet,eat white lean meats like chicken,turkey and fish.Vitamin C from tablets or fruit will strengthen your immune system and help you to function when the weaklings in society are suffering colds and flu and every passing virus.
If you follow this advice you will soon enjoy exercise,your body will change for the better and you will become leaner,prouder,more determined and a dangerous opponent for ZOG and their minions.
So get off your race and get fit!
National Socialist Racial Thought
By Dr. Walter Gross
Most open to misinterpretation are National Socialist views on the relations between the various races of the world. It has been questioned whether the fundamental racial principles of the new world theory must not breed condescension, even contempt of people of different race. Quite the contrary; these very principles offer the very best guarantee for mutual tolerance and for the peaceful co-operation of all.
We appreciate the fact that those of another race are different from us. This scientific truth is the basis, the justification and, at the same time, the obligation of every racial policy without which a restoration of Europe in our day is no longer practicable. Whether that other race is "better" or "worse" is not possible for us to judge. For this would demand that we transcend our own racial limitations for the duration of the verdict and take on a superhuman, even divine, attitude from which alone an "impersonal" verdict could be formed on the value or lack of such of the many living forms of inexhaustible Nature. But we of all people are too conscious of the inseparable ties of the blood and our own race to attempt to aspire to such an ultra-racial standpoint, even in the abstract.
History, science and life itself tell us in a thousand ways that the human beings inhabiting the earth are anything but alike; that, moreover, the greater races are not only physically but especially spiritually and intellectually different from each other. Yesterday one passed this fact by, and in attempting to unify political, economic, cultural and religious standards for all nations of the earth, one was sinning against Nature, violating the natural attributes of various racial and national groups for the sake of a false principle. Today we bow to the racial differences existing in the world. We want every type of being to find that form of self-expression most fitted to its own particular requirements.
The racial principles of National Socialism are, therefore, the surest guarantee for respecting the integrity of other nations. It is incompatible with our ideas to think of incorporating other nationalities in a Germany built up as a result of conquests, as they would always remain, because of their alien blood and spirit, a foreign body within the German State. Such foolhardy thoughts may be indulged in by a world which has as its goal economic power or purely territorial expansion of its frontiers, but never by a statesman thinking along organic, racial lines whose main care is the preservation of the greatness and along with it the essential unity of his people held together by the ties of blood relationship.
For this reason, we have nothing in common with chauvinism and imperialism because we would extend to other races peopling the earth the same privileges we claim for ourselves: the right to fashion our lives and our own particular world according to therequirements of our own nature.
And if National Socialism would wish to see the unrestricted mixing of blood avoided for the individual, there is nothing in this to suggest contempt. After all, we Germans ourselves, viewed ethnologically, are a mixture. The National Socialist demand is only that the claims of the blood and the laws of biology should be more closely observed in future.
Here again our standpoint is not so very far removed from that of other people with a sound mental outlook. The American Immigration Laws, for instance, are based on definite racial discrimination. The Europeans and the inhabitants of India, the Pacific Islands, and so on, have instinctively held aloof from a mingling of the blood, and both sides genuinely regard any transgression as very bad form. Nevertheless, this natural attitude in no way detracts from the possibility of close co-operation and friendly interaction. And, speaking on behalf of the new Germany, let me once more emphasize:
We do not wish our people to intermarry with those of alien race since through such mingling of the blood the best and characteristic qualities of both races are lost. But we will always have a ready welcome for any guests who wish to visit us whether of kindred or foreign civilization, and our racial views only lead us to a fuller appreciation of their essential peculiarities in the same way as we would want our own peculiarities respected.
National Socialist Racial Policy:
A Speech to German Women
by Dr. Walter Gross
My Dear German Women and Girls!
When Germans come together today to discuss the things that concern us both as individuals and as a nation, it is a solemn occasion, whether we wish it to be or not. During the political struggles of the past, we could speak of party programs or of civilization without any involvement of our soul.
Now we have forgotten how to approach an issue merely with our understanding, merely with our mouth, merely with our heart. We have become whole people once again. When we speak with others, we do so with our full being.
That is what made the movement strong, and great, and powerful from its first days. It is also that which the enemy on this side of the border and the other cannot understand, and which it hates with deadly strength. As this great and beautiful people's movement began, so too began a hard and bitter struggle between enemy and German forces, between an old world that is really long dead and buried, and the new world that is struggling to reach the light through us. This struggle has been going on in people's hearts and souls for years, and is nowhere near its end. The world finds it difficult to understand that which is at the center of our endeavors:
the value of blood and race.
Our enemies first laughed in pity, then in hatred as we spoke of it.
Let us speak of what we National Socialists mean by that so that it will become clear why the German woman may be even more concerned about these matters than the man, his state, and his fighting organization can be.
There was a time in the past when we were untrue, untrue in the deepest sense. We were untrue not to other people, or parties, or states, or kings, but untrue to something far greater, untrue to the laws of life. As long as the world exists, as long as life grows, flourishes and perishes, so long will this life have the urge to live on into the future and win new territory. Whether plant or animal or man—as we, or I, or you:
wherever there is life, it has the longing to bring forth new life.
It should be unnecessary to speak of such things. We speak of them only because for a few decades a crazy era ignored, blasphemed and mocked these greatest, most beautiful and purest dreams of life. This was an age that made the idol of money supreme and said: "The world should be governed not be what serves life, rather by what some fool of an accountant decides is best." We know the results. The great laws of life were evaluated according to money sacks and checkbooks. When we think back on our parents, grandparents and great grandparents, there were many children in the house. It may have been crowded and hard financially, but we were happy, perhaps because there were so many of us in so large a family. But the time came when people said: "As man or woman, as parents or teachers of leaders, you have the duty to show the people the way to a better future." That better future, people thought, could only be a richer future, a future in which the individual had more money. And when they were asked where this money would come from, a false teaching arose in the last century: "The fewer people there are, the more an individual child can inherit from his parents." He who loves his children and wishes a prosperous future for his nation should therefore see to it that Germany's population is small, and that only a few children continue the family after he is gone. That was the terrible teaching of birth control, which Marxism preached and the bourgeois followed. No one dared stand against it. That was the doctrine that made us what we are today:
a dying people,
in which fewer children are born each year, in which today more people die each year than are born. This all was supposed to lead to a happy future. It understood happiness only in terms of possessions. It was therefore inherently false. But even in its own terms it was false, for it forgot something:
When a people begins to die, when a people no longer obeys the laws of life, when a people values money more than its existence and posterity, this people is on the path to disaster, both historically and politically. Within a few decades it will be dead, oppressed by other peoples who are stronger, closer to life, and who follow life's laws better than we.
If present trends continue, by the end of the century Germany will be a nation with only 40-50 million inhabitants,
and we know that on our borders other peoples are growing quickly and strongly. Sooner or later, these other peoples will come in conflict with a shrinking and dying German people, and the result of the supposed doctrine of happiness will be a hard and bitter
national death for our children.
Those who believed that they can give their children a happy and peaceful future by reducing the number of children err deeply. They give the children only the promise of a hard and bitter struggle for Germany's existence as a state and as an idea.
Today when we work to show people that the ideas of yesterday are false, that the state and nation cannot do without the family, that the family cannot exist without children, and when we not only provide economic support to make it easier to begin families and have children, but also tell people again and again of the sanctity of life and the necessity of continuing our people into the future, our enemies on both sides of the border suddenly have insults and hateful things to say about us. They wish to disturb our work. Suddenly there are voices saying: "National Socialism's doctrines are inhumane and barbaric. National Socialism's views on children turn people into breeding animals. When it says
that it is the duty of men and women to continue the eternal chain of life, a chain that begins in the distant past and continues into the future, a chain of which we are only a link leading into the distant future,
our enemies on both sides of the border claim: "You reject the dignity and value of humanity. National Socialism holds that men and women have no value other than that of breeding cattle." It is a shame that we have to respond to such words, but it is necessary because our enemies have always tried to persuade women to oppose us, even though what we say is rooted in the souls of the men and women we speak to. This is our response: "You are mistaken in accusing us of thinking that the only purpose of humanity is to continue the species by passing on our blood to future generations. We know the other values. We support them and find wherever we can those values that the individual shows in his work and selfless service. We know well enough that
each person lives a double life. The first is the one he lives between birth and death. We are to do as much as we can to make this life rich, to accomplish that which is good and beautiful, to use our strengths and gifts for others. That is the duty of the individual. But as a person you are something more:
You are a member of the chain of life, a drop in the great bloodstream of your people.
There too you have duties and obligations before the eternity of the nation. You have the duty to pass on what you received from your parents and ancestors. I do not believe that such behavior, which obeys both the laws of reason and of life, is barbaric, hateful or inhumane. I believe instead that the barbarism is to be found in the years we have left behind us, when any dirty lout could besmirch the most valuable, holy life of a man or women in their families, or drag children through the filth, without anyone defending their culture against such an attack.
I believe that when we tell people once more of the great value of blood, and remind them that they have duties not only for the 60-year span in which they work and serve, but also to the millennia of the past from which we come and to the millennia of the future to which we are heading, then we are giving them higher values than those of yesterday. Let me say also, however, that it is wrong if someone thinks that only those who found families and bear children are valuable to our state. We know that is not so. We know there are reasons why some people leave their people's flow of blood. We know that some are denied what the nation places great value on. We do not ignore them or think ourselves their betters. We only say this: "My friend, you and I must do our duty to our people, and when we cannot fulfill it in one way, then we must do what we can with even greater energy and devotion.
When you do your duty, you are one of us,
we extend our hand to you, we honor your humanity and your service for Germany. Let us work together so that in the future, as many people as possible will be able to serve the nation in both ways.
That is a piece of the thinking of blood and race that National Socialism has taught us. And there is another aspect. When we see people today, we can recognize that we are not all alike. There are differences in value;
each person does not have the same value as everyone else.
In the past, people believed that these differences were superficial, the result of the environment in which one grew up. People believed that what became of a person depended primarily on the house he grew up in or in his social environment, or the class he came from. They believed that a person born in a slum, surrounded by shadows, troubles and poverty, a child lacking in love and affection, could only become a second-class human being, a physically and psychologically ill member of the society, someone failed by the society and the state. One thought that a child growing up in such slum inevitably became sick, or even criminal. It was because he grew up in such a poor environment. The Marxists claimed that if every child in Germany grew up in an environment that gave him all he needed, he would inevitably become a useful, decent, upright, proud and honest adult. After a few years or decades, the entire German people would consist of such decent and useful people. In the past people believed the environment was responsible even when a person failed miserably.
We recall the days of delirium, when millions of unemployed had been thrown on the street by a sick political and economic system, made superfluous. A single person pried the tracks apart and derailed a train in the middle of the night. Within a minute he murdered 30 innocent people who had never done anything to him, and stole their money. And what did the world of yesterday say? "He can't help himself. He is a victim of circumstances. He has Beethoven's hands and an artistic temperament. We need not put him on the gallows or in prison to protect us and our children. No, this poor Schlesinger is only sick because of his environment. Put him in a modern sanitarium, give him what he needs: radio, a library, a smoking salon, a language teacher, a pastor, a newspaper room, give him everything he needs to put him in touch with better things. In a few years, this mass murderer of 30 people will leave as an ideal human being, so pure and innocent that one can put him in charge of a kindergarten." That's what people thought in the past.
Today that seems a bad joke to us, a crazy fantasy, but a few years ago it was government policy in Germany. Those who did well under such policies and have joined to fight us think that they can accuse our doctrines of blood and race as barbaric.
Why do we see things differently? Because we have learned something:
In the end, you are not as important and significant as you thought yesterday;
your strength and abilities are not as great as you believed during the liberal era. Oh yes, it was a lovely dream to say: "I will do with my life what I want, and if I happen to be a teacher, I will teach what I want, and do what I enjoy, and what I think right." Well, that was your idea of the environment.
We are a bit more modest, a bit more humble before the laws of fate.
We have learned that what I can do for myself or what you can do for yourself, or what we can all do to each other, is not as important, or as deep, as that which a greater power has already done to us. It is that power that even before our birth gave us a part of our nature, and laid out our path for us in the world. Here are joined two things: the knowledge of modern science and the sensitivity and understanding of a humble person. Suddenly we see that:
What you are, what I am and what I can be in my life is in part predetermined by that which I have inherited.
If my inheritance is good and strong, and if I am true to it and develop what is within me, my life will be successful, and perhaps of benefit and joy to others. If such an inheritance is denied me, or if for some inexplicable reason fate has given me other, perhaps weak, perhaps even bad traits, I can struggle against them for my entire life, and will still not be able to rid myself of that which slumbers in me because of the actions of a higher power.
We see then that a good part of a people's history is determined by what it has inherited. If we ask what sorts of physical or intellectual traits these may be, or what groups there are, we will see that each people has three groups. The first is a large group of people with average gifts, the most of us who are able to deal with the normal problems life presents us with. Next there is a very small group. This group has received a better inheritance than most of us, not because of any particular virtue on its part, but simply because of fate. The leaders of humanity, those who build states, lead people, or touch the soul, come from this group. And there is a third small group with particular traits, also not their fault: those who are sick or genetically defective. They are not up to the challenges of life, and need outside help to survive.
As humanity of a nation go through the centuries, the decisive fact is which of these three groups is the strongest. One might say: "That is not a question at all. The strongest will win, the group from which the leaders come. This superior group has to be the strongest in the end, it must gradually have its way." Well, that is how things would be without people, if people with their little brains did not believe that they could change the laws of life given to the world by heaven.
Man has interfered in these matters. He has tried to change the laws of struggle and existence and selection. Those were ancient laws of life, to which men too were subject:
That which cannot meet the challenges dies.
That is hard, perhaps, but it is also the way that nature makes life stronger and better. Man has tried more and more to abolish these laws. He has kept life going by using artificial means in cases where, left to itself, it would have ended. He used all his understanding, love and sympathy to keep a person alive, even when it is no joy, but only a burden and misery. We now keep thousands, even tens of thousands of unhappy creatures alive through artificial means, those to whom life itself has denied the right to life. But keeping them alive was not itself the problem. What is worse is that they were given the opportunity to pass on their unfortunate physical and mental characteristics. That was the worst that happened: we took the physically weak, the mentally ill, the genetically defective criminals and not only kept them alive and cared for them—that is our duty as human beings, which we certainly do not want to ignore in the future either—and gave them the ability to have children with the same deficiencies, thus doubling or multiplying their misery. The German people do not know the extent of this misery, it does not know the depressing spirit of the homes where thousands of cripples live their lives only by being fed and cared for, poor creatures who are worse than any animal. The animal at least is as it should be. These poor creatures are distortions of life, no joy either to themselves or others. They are a burden throughout their miserable existences, but thanks to the selfless care and devotion of those who care for them may live 60, 70 or 80 years. The German people do not realize the enormous sums that have been spent for decades, money that is taken from those who are healthy, who could do something useful, but cannot because the money is lacking.
There was a winter in which children in Bavaria did not even have wooden shoes to wear as they walked through the snow on their way to school. They had to walk for hours bare-footed. At the same time, the government made sure that those unfortunate souls in a large institution had fresh bananas twice a week so that they got the necessary vitamins. But these vitamins could not give them joy or strength or health. But they were thus denied to those somewhere in the Bavarian forest, or in the Ruhr, or in a poor fishing village on the Frisian coast, where they could have reduced the poverty and need in some worker's house. At the same time there was a case where
a single mentally ill Negro of English citizenship lived for 16 years in an institution in Berlin, costing 26,000 Marks.
26,000 Marks were thrown away on a life that had no meaning. 26,000 Marks that could have been used to prepare a dozen strong, healthy and gifted children for life and a job.
But I am not speaking of this as a kind of theft. Money is not an end in itself. Rather, we have here committed a theft of spirit and soul, because we tried to persuade the nation and humanity that our own greatness could come from sacrificing for the worst and most helpless. In the end, we went so far as
to put the sick and the dying before the young, strong, healthy and promising.
That is against nature and life. A nation going this way is heading for the abyss. We went so far as to preach year after year to healthy families that they should have no children, or at most one, else they sinned against the nation and the spirit of this enlightened age. But if some imbecile of a whore and a genetically ill criminal had children, they were not only a financial burden for their entire lives, but also took the labor of people who our society gave nothing better to do than to change these poor creatures three times a day and feed them. That is a perversion of everything great and healthy, and is a sin against life and the spirit of creation.
With full knowledge of our duties as human beings and the requirements of pity, we made the decision not to allow such miserable creatures to pass on their misery to the next generation, multiplied perhaps two or three or more times. That is a major accomplishment, for which our children and their children will one day thank us.
I know that there are those who will say: "You are meddling in matters that are not your concern. You are interfering in an area outside human control. Life and death are not in the hands of man, but in those of a higher power. If God wants sick and genetically ill people to be born, you may not interfere through laws, operations, or any other measures with God's will. And if you do so—and you have with your Law to Prevent Inherited Illness—then you are acting against the will of God, and you are heretics."
This is our answer: "My friend, you are wrong. It is true that we are subject to a higher power. We humans may never interfere with the great laws of the Creator. But you are wrong. See the laws the Creator has established for his world and your life. The great law is that life must be able to preserve itself, and that if it cannot, it will collapse. It is the hard, brutal law of the struggle for existence and of selection and extinction. It was the law we saw day by day, hour by hour, under all the clouds of heaven and all the stars of the sky, in which life seemed to find a senseless death, whether plant or animal or person, whether in distant Africa or near us.
That which cannot meet the challenges of life dies, no matter how much pain it causes,
and even if your small understanding or mind cannot comprehend it, these are the great laws of life and the world that God himself gave us. These are the laws, my German friend, that in our crazy fantasies we broke in the past."
With overweening human pride and false pity, we broke the great law and kept those alive who under the laws of God would long since have perished.
Today we are once more following these old laws, using humane methods, for they follow a more hard and brutal course in nature according to God's will. We are doing nothing more than reestablishing the laws of creation, and bowing to the heavenly order. We are thus showing piety and true humility—you are the heretics.
This applies as well to the third and last principle of our racial thinking. This third and last principle is that the people on this world, in America, Africa or China, are different both in body and soul. They are not equal, as yesterday's lie had it.
People are different.
They not only speak different languages and look different: no, they are different in the depths of their hearts and natures, and in their abilities for good and evil. In the past people believed that these differences were accidental, the result of climate or civilization, and that one could overcome these differences and create a unified man in a unified state in which all would be equally happy. We have learned that such ideas are false. We have learned that the differences between the major blood groups of the world, between the major races, are not the result of human action, but of the laws of Creation. We have learned that the lines between blood and blood, race and race, are also the lines between soul and soul and spirit and spirit. We have learned that the opposite of the old phrase "What God has brought together, let no man put asunder" is also true. We have learned:
What God has separated, man should not bring together.
Heaven thought it good not to have only one type of people on the earth, but different kinds, various racially-bound peoples. That is a part of Creation. We bow before this truth and respect the borders. That means that the foundation of our separation of the races is not a matter of politics or economics, rather it rests on a higher level, to which we in the end are responsible.
In our Reich, we are separating that which belongs to us, because it is blood of our blood, from that which does not belong to us, because it is foreign. We are doing that which is right not only for the moment, but for eternity.
Believe me, my dear German fellow citizens, it is not true, as some say, that this doctrine is a sign of arrogance or superiority or boasting. We do not think ourselves better than the other races on the earth. No, we do not think ourselves better, nor do we believe that others are worse than we are. We insist only on one thing—a law established by the Creator himself:
Man differs from man and race from race in this world.
The others may not be better or worse, but they are different than we are, and because they are different than we are, there is a kind of wall between us that is part of the laws of life. That is the core of National Socialism's racial thinking. Our goal is not to insult others, to say: "What a great guy I am!" Rather, we hold to the humble recognition that each healthy piece of life has its corner of the world, and its special tasks. This is just as true of humans as it is of plants and animals in all their multiplicity. We know that one type is no more valuable than another. But we also know that each variety of life has a right to existence only as long as it keeps itself pure and strong. Only when a tree bears the proper fruit does it have a right to live. Otherwise it will be cut down and destroyed. We do not know why things are the way they are, and it would be foolish to ask the reason. That is how things are. Our task is to humbly accept the laws that govern our human existence, and to accept the fact that we are born Germans in Germany, not as Chinese or Eskimos. That is not because of our virtues, nor it is our fault, nor was it our will. It was fate that came from above. We have no choice but to accept this fate and to develop the abilities that fate has given us according to necessity and law.
Others may develop in their own way, in their own land. We must listen to the depths of our own people, to draw from blood and inheritance the strength we need to build our homeland. A higher power will take care of the life beyond.
I believe, my dear German fellow citizens, that everyone who is of our spirit will grant the correctness of our thinking about blood and race, and will say: "I see now that you are not only on the right path, but are honest and in the deepest sense true to demands that are greater than the laws of man."
Let us then together follow the path to a new worldview. Let us go the path of blood and race, which does not ignore faith and knowledge and a sense of higher powers. Let us go this path, not a path of matter, superstition and heresy, rather a path of deep humility and piety before the laws of God. Let us go along this path together and listen to the deepest depths where blood and soul rule. Let us draw from there the strength to build the state, and even more important the Reich. It will be a Reich not only of politics, a Reich of organization, or the economy, but a Reich of people. Germany today has the fortune to find a new way, led by a great Führer. German women today have the good fortune to see a strong and loyal woman at their head. Let us together go forward, hand in hand, as befits comrades building the future, and let us join the strength of men and women, rooted deep in their blood, to build what the world has never before seen:
The holy Reich of the German soul.
Heil!
This is a piece out of the book written by Dr. E. H. Schulz and Dr. R. Frercks called "Why the Aryan Law?" (Warum Arierpargraph?)
The National Socialist Racial Standpoint
In discussing the Jewish Question, even today one encounters resistance and misunderstandings, especially in intellectual circles. This can only be explained by the intellectual education of the political past. This is especially evident when one discusses the fundamental issues.
Whenever a new thought arises in the world and calls people to practical action, the old world resists because it feels its foundations threatened. Its old standpoint has ruled for decades, and it looks uncomprehendingly at a new idea that does not fit into the accustomed patterns of thinking. That is natural. When the new idea and worldview are truly revolutionary, they are on a different level of human thought and feeling, and there can be no compromise. Its realization depends on people who support it, and who are ready to fight to transform the life of the individual and of the nation in every way.
For a long time, people at home and abroad claimed that National Socialism meant war at any price. Only gradually is it becoming clear that a stable Germany, one that needs peace for decades to build itself up economically and agriculturally, is a surer guarantee of peace than a nation torn apart by party conflicts, which is a constant source of political unrest. The new Germany's racial thinking is the hardest element for many to understand, encountering rejection and misunderstanding. Some of it is the result of the honest misunderstanding of the old liberal outlook, but some of it is also the result of a conscious attempt to encircle Germany. Before the war the danger was seen as the "militaristic Empire." Today, the racial outlook is seen as a threat to all human culture and civilization, making necessary a unified front of all those nations whose dignity is threatened by German barbarism. That is the approach today of those foreign circles interested in isolating Germany.
In the long run, no idea is better suited to guarantee peace between nations than National Socialist racial thinking, which calls for the furtherance and maintenance of one's own race and one's own people, and supports similar efforts on the part of other nations. Such mutual respect which requires respect both for one's own nation and that of others rejects the forcible conquest of other nations, and history shows that it is useless as well. Imperialist strivings are rejected from the start, since they would mean an overlapping of one's own activities with those of others.
There can be no doubt that, as in so many other areas, human generations develop in unified ways. But humanity finds its deepest meaning when the outward elements are determined by the character and spiritual characteristics that find their visible expression in race and nationality. No thought or feeling, if it is genuine and deep, can escape its racial boundaries.
One of the fundamental principles of the National Socialist worldview is that there are not universal human principles, such as the Pan-European idea in politics or the idea of a human soup in racial terms. Judgments are only possible from life, which is racially determined. Being interested in and caring for one's kind is not to disparage foreign peoples and races. The Jews are responsible for charges that Germany puts all other peoples and races on earth on a lower level. Just as one cannot say that one animal or plant is better than another, one cannot make an objective value judgment between Europeans and Mongols. Their thinking and feeling about essential matters are different, which means they will have different cultures. We have our values, other peoples have theirs. Every variety of custom and culture is colored by the race or group from which produces it, as are judgments of such matters.
Lasting peace is possible based on the consciousness of the ethnic or racial distinctiveness of each nation, and a recognition of their mutual right to existence rather than on the maintenance of some sort of power position. The new Germany that views its own race and ethnicity positively must therefore distinguish within its territory between one race and another, between one people and another. Mixing of blood harms both sides. Race is an issue for every people if they are to live according to their nature. The German people is not so arrogant as to believe that is is the chosen people. The familiar quotation from Geibel, "The world should enjoy German ways," should be understood in the context of the dreams of world betterment of those past days.
The National Socialist racial viewpoint has clear consequences for the relationship between Germans and Jews. People have often said that National Socialism's approach to the racial question is purely negative and destructive, and that its essential characteristic is radical anti-Semitism. One must grant that we made the Jewish question clearer than anyone else, and taught an entire generation that had been taught to see all people the same to recognize the importance of the Jewish question not only for our people, but for the entire world. Our treatment of the Jewish problem in the years before we took power must be seen as the political education of the German people, which had lost its racial instincts to a dangerous degree.
The question took on its own nature in Germany, Many citizens had their eyes opened, and the simultaneous appeal to all the heroic and manly virtues of the German man resulted in a racial selection of political fighters who today stand at the head of the new state. Formerly, the Jewish question, as seen by the state, was a matter of complete equality and the unhindered immigration of Jews from the East. This is the best proof of how racial feeling and consciousness had been lost. Our tone was not purely negative or the simple rejection of others, rather the emphasis was on the positive values of our own people. This does require noting that Jewry through its Marxist class struggle leadership role and its international financial measures aimed at Germany supported every kind of anti-national action in the cultural and political fields. Jewry should not complain if its anti-German activities, which have no counterpart in any other country, call forth from the people the defensive reaction of anti-Semitism.
Preface to Second Edition:
This work, along with several other NS works I have written, has been slightly amended to reflect only the essence of National-Socialism. Thus, all polemical and political remarks - incompatible with Esoteric Hitlerism - have been removed. I have briefly outlined the basis of Esoteric Hitlerism in my essay Esoteric Hitlerism: Idealism, The Third Reich and the Essence of National-Socialism.
Introduction
The present work explains the religious nature of National-Socialism, for National-Socialism is fundamentally a spiritual Weltanschauung or 'philosophy of living' rather than a political belief or a political set of principles(1).
By definition (according to the Oxford English Dictionary) religion is "Belief in or sensing of some superhuman powers or powers... ; a system defining a code of living." National-Socialism defines a practical code of living based on the noble ideals of honour, loyalty and duty; and a National-Socialist is someone who accepts the mission and revelation of Adolf Hitler because they believe or know that he was an instrument of Fate, of Providence(2).
To comprehend National-Socialism fully, and to understand its unique historical significance and its unique revelation, an individual has to understand that Adolf Hitler was a means whereby the cosmos could restore the balance which was necessary for our species to continue to evolve(3) and thus develope into higher beings. To be a National-Socialist means believing or knowing that the spiritual salvation and physical survival of the human species in general depends on them accepting the spiritual wisdom which Adolf Hitler has bequeathed to us. This spiritual wisdom is a practical way of living - an acceptance of the importance of race, individual character (or personality) and noble idealism.
Furthermore, National-Socialism is natural, pantheistic and pagan religion which expresses fundamental spiritual truths in a beautiful, profound and unaffected way. In contrast to the majority of other major religions which exist today, and which are all of Occidental or Eastern origin, the religion of National-Socialism is not a religion of priests, ritual, and obedience to the words of some revealed book, as it does not have, nor need, Churches and Temples. Neither does National-Socialism teach the renunciation of the physical world. Instead, National-Socialism seeks to change the physical world and make it a more spiritual, a more noble, place, believing as it does that this is the better way to develope better individuals. Thus National-Socialism is a positive, life-enhancing religion which expresses the conscious understanding, or wisdom, that we as a species have achieved through thousands of years of civilization. It makes us aware of what is numinous, or sacred, in a practical way consistent with our capacity to think - to behave and live in a civilized, higher, way.
The purpose of National-Socialism is to free us - to reveal to us our unique evolutionary Destiny, as human beings. Other religions also tend to separate Nature from the spiritual, and deny the spiritual importance, and the numinosity, of natural creations such as race. They thus are anti-evolutionary and deny the essence of our humanity because they do not recognize that all of Nature, and all that Nature has laboured to evolve, is sacred. Only National-Socialism, for instance, recognizes the spiritual importance of race, and how race expresses our identity(4). Only National-Socialism enables us to evolve further, to continue the work of Nature, because only National-Socialism expresses, and respects, in a complete and practical way, the sacredness of Nature evident in race, culture and individual personality.
National-Socialism is not primarily an Aryan religion - concerned just with the welfare and destiny of the Aryan peoples of this world. Rather, its fundamental principles and ideals of racial separation, racial evolution, and its religious wisdom, are applicable to all races. That is, while National-Socialism can aid the Aryan to evolve toward the divine, the revelations which Adolf Hitler has given to us also possesses the potential to lead other races toward their own, unique, destinies, enabling those races to live in a noble way and so evolve of themselves. It is important to understand that the religion of National-Socialism is ultimately important for all the races of our human species and that Aryans have a duty to make the revelation of the importance of race known to other races.(5)
What must be stressed is that the religion of National-Socialism does not preach or teach any form of racial hatred or racial intolerance. Instead, it encourages us to: (1) be proud of our own race, our racial culture and racial heritage, and (2) be tolerant and honourable and so accept that other races have natural right to live in freedom and be proud of their own race, racial culture and racial heritage. One of the primary practical aims of this new religion is to encourage the creation of separate, free ethnic homelands with these different homelands cooperating together for their mutual benefit.
Essentially, the religion of National-Socialism seeks to change both individuals, and the world itself, by seeking to encourage individuals to understand the divine, uphold the noble ideals of National-Socialism, and dedicate themselves to striving to implement those ideals in a practical way.
I: National-Socialist Cosmology
Basically, 'cosmology' - when applied to religion (rather than to astronomy) - means a particular explanation of the "whole scheme of things": with who we, as individuals are; with what our life means; how we came to be who we are, and how the cosmos itself came to be what it is. In the simple sense, a religious cosmology is a particular explanation of our place, as individuals, 'in the scheme of things'; with what is sacred, and what is profane.
According to National-Socialism, we as individuals are part of Nature, and Nature herself is understood as being an expression of the evolution of the cosmos as this evolution occurs on this particular planet of ours. The cosmos is beyond and above us - we are created by the cosmos, born because of the cosmos, just as when we die we return to the cosmos. National-Socialism understands the cosmos, and thus Nature, to be a type of Being - something alive which has existence, which changes, and which causes or brings about changes in those other types of being which are part of the cosmos and thus part of Nature.
This type of Being which the cosmos is, is thus super-human, as it controls, or directs, or causes, the changes which we as individuals undergo or are subject to. However, according to National-Socialism, this type of Being which is the cosmos is not 'anthropomorphic' - that is, it is not viewed, understood or believed to be, 'of human form' - as conventional 'gods' or deities are anthropomorphic. Rather, it is a unique, suprahuman type of Being, which we as individuals can only know and understand by direct experience of it - it is beyond our power to describe or depict. At best, we can sense this Being; we can experience it; we can be aware of its numinosity, as sometimes we can feel it is actually 'present' or exists in certain physical things - particularly in aspects of Nature. For us, as human beings, this cosmic Being is most manifest in Nature. Thus National-Socialists hold Nature, and her creations, in respect. National-Socialists are thus pagans who revere Nature, as they accept that this Being which is the cosmos exists in us all, as individuals, because we are born from the cosmos and because we belong to the cosmos. It is the cosmos, and those aspects of the cosmos of which we are aware - such as Nature - which is divine. Essentially, for National-Socialism, divinity is the cosmos and the aspects of the cosmos.
The cosmos exists, as a unique type of Being, and this Being is made manifest in the creations of this Being. These creations are what results from change, or evolution. Thus in a fundamental sense, evolution (or change) and what results from it is how this Being exists and lives. The evolutionary creations of which we are aware (such as Nature) and of which we ourselves are a part, are thus, in a descriptive and simplistic sense, 'the body of the cosmic Being' - part of the very life of this Being. In a way, we human beings are the very essence of this suprapersonal Being because we are unique, on this planet, in possessing the faculty of 'Thought' - that is, we are, or can be, the consciousness of the cosmos itself.
It is the cosmos which controls our lives, because we are subject to the 'laws' or processes of the cosmos. It is the cosmos which gives us our Destiny, our Fate, as it is the cosmos which provides us with good fortune or with misfortune. We are who we are because of this Being, and the purpose of our lives is to discover who we are, act on the understanding this discovery brings, and live in such a way that we can appropriate more and more of the divine - that is, act in such a way that we enhance the life of this cosmic Being. Acting in a profane way means acting in a way detrimental or harmful to the life of this cosmic Being.
Thus we as individuals can harm or aid this Being. If we harm this Being, we are in effect only harming ourselves, and we will assuredly suffer because of it. There is no abstract 'morality' here - just a simple wisdom. If we aid this Being, we ourselves can evolve into higher beings, and thus fulfil the purpose of our individual existence. In respect of harming this Being, a simple analogy would be an individual who deliberately did things harmful to their own welfare and well-being - by doing such things, they are making themselves unhealthy. Instead of increasing their vitality and evolving further, they are at best merely existing, in a dumb animal sort of way, and at worst destroying their own lives. Thus do they harm themselves and the cosmic Being of which they are a part. They - or their descendants - will assuredly suffer the consequences of such unhealthy and harmful acts, just as a woman who smokes cigarettes while pregnant can harm her child.
Furthermore, if we live in the correct way, and so evolve, in consciousness and health, we can transcend beyond what we are, in this physical world, and actually become a part of this suprapersonal Being. Thus will we live on, in another kind of time and space, after our own physical death, achieving Immortality. However, if we live in a harmful way - in a way which contradicts the basic processes or 'laws' of Nature - we cannot evolve, and thus lose the one chance we have of achieving this Immortality, this 'becoming one' with the Being of the cosmos.
National-Socialism makes us aware of what is necessary for us to live our lives in a way which enhances this cosmic Being. National-Socialism provides us with the conscious understanding and awareness we need to live our lives in a positive way, beneficial to Nature and thus to the cosmos. National-Socialism is thus a revelation of the divine Being itself; a means whereby we can fulfil the unique purpose of our individual existence here on this planet; a means whereby we as individuals can evolve, and a means where we can achieve that Immortality which it is possible for us to achieve.
II: The Spiritual Importance of Race
According to National-Socialism, an individual is part of their folk - a part of the race to which they belong and which they represent. An individual is thus of Nature, and thus a part of the process of evolution which makes Nature what it is. Furthermore, an individual is thus 'the cosmos in evolution' - the Being of the cosmos made manifest in that individual.
To evolve, and thus aid the Being of the cosmos, we must respect what is of this Being. For our own species this means, at the present time - since we exist on this planet - respecting Nature, since Nature is how this Being is made manifest to us; Nature is how this Being 'works', or exists, here on this planet which we call 'Earth'. We can only evolve if we live in such a way that our lives enhance Nature - that is, if we continue with what Nature has produced.
Our uniqueness and thus our humanity is what makes us, as a species, different from other species - and we are different because we are 'thinking-beings'; because we possess consciousness: a knowledge of ourselves, as individuals, and a knowledge of our surroundings. We have become 'thinking-beings' - we have become human - because of evolution. That is, we have evolved into our present, human, species. This evolution has occurred over vast, æonic, spans of time - hundreds of thousands of years, and in an important way, this evolution expresses the life of the cosmic Being itself, a means whereby it has grown, changed and acquired a consciousness.
This evolution, here on this planet, which has made us human has been toward diversity and difference. That is, Nature has evolved distinct races and it is these different races which express our nature as humans, and thus our humanity.
Being human means being part of the species that has evolved into 'human beings', and this evolution has resulted in many diverse and different races, each of which express evolution in action.
Further evolution means a continuation of what Nature has produced - it means nurturing what Nature has produced so that there is more, and higher, development. This higher, or evolutionary, development by definition must be toward more diversity and difference, and thus towards more humanity.
Miscegenation, or 'race-mixing', means the destruction of the diversity and difference which Nature has produced. It is thus anti-evolutionary and therefore inhuman because it will destroy what Nature has taken hundreds of thousands of years to evolve - our unique human species, and the different races within it.
To continue to evolve - to continue to express our humanity - what Nature has produced must be nurtured and used as the foundation to create more evolution. This means preserving the unique races of our species, and developing those races in an evolutionary or eugenic way. This development will result in more difference and diversity, in more highly evolved races, and thus will continue those things which make us unique and human.
Anything other than this is anti-evolutionary, inhuman, and against Nature, and will assuredly undermine and then destroy our very humanity.
To be human means to be aware of this diversity and difference, and to act humanely means to preserve and extend further this diversity and difference. Regardless of what the various propagandists for profane egalitarian causes may say or write, those who seek to preserve and extend our unique human races are acting humanely and because they deserve to respect what is sacred. Only by preserving and then building upon the foundation which are these unique races can we, as a species, evolve further and thus maintain our humanity.
Anything which undermines or destroys these races is inhuman and anti-evolutionary. Whatever the social importance or otherwise of these racial differences and our racial diversity, the fact is that this racial difference and diversity is our unique heritage, as human beings: they have made us what we are, and they express who we are. We should celebrate this difference and diversity, and not seek to destroy it. By celebrating, upholding and extending, this racial difference and diversity, we are celebrating, upholding and aiding the cosmic Being itself - we are respecting and revering what is sacred, and acting in accord with the divine will of the cosmos.
Today, on this planet, the rich diversity and difference of our own species is under threat as more and more individuals show a disrespect of what is sacred and divine. These individuals ignore or do not understand how the cosmos has, through the processes of Nature which are evolution, brought about this glorious diversity and difference. Our own unique races, brought about by the cosmos - and the unique cultures these races have evolved - are being destroyed by the destructive, profane, policies of a dogmatic race-mixing ideology, and by the destructive power of a profane consumer-globalism. These races of ours need saving and preserving just as much as the diversity and difference of Nature's other creations, be such creations animal species, plant species, trees or whatever. Our first priority should be to save our own unique races from extinction and destruction.
Life on this planet is special because of its abundant diversity and difference. We must seek to nurture this diversity and difference, and not destroy it. If these profane dogmatic race-mixing policies finally triumph and if consumer-globalism continues to spread, a bland uniformity will be created, what is special about us will be destroyed forever. These profane policies are harmful to the cosmos, and therefore they are bad. As such, they have to be fervently opposed by those who are aware of and who wish to preserve, what is sacred. The final triumph of such destructive, profane policies will mean the destruction of the cosmic Being itself: the triumph of darkness over light. This cannot be allowed to happen. Those who oppose such profane policies must realize that they are fighting a holy war for what is sacred; they are fighting to preserve our very humanity.
Those whose actions and beliefs are destroying our unique species through policies such as race-mixing, arrogantly believe that a mere idea, a mere dogma, a mere belief is more powerful than Nature. These people believe in their profane, foolish and immature arrogance that we, as a species, are somehow 'above Nature' and not subject to those forces and processes which all other living organisms are subject to. Furthermore, these profane people are trampling upon and destroying everything that is sacred, everything that is beautiful, and everything that is divine.
Adolf Hitler was a means whereby the cosmic Being made us aware of what is necessary to preserve and extend what is sacred and divine. He was a gift to us, from the cosmos, and his teachings and his life were a means to reveal to us, and future generations, how we should live and act so that we could transform ourselves into higher beings, achieve Immortality and so continue the work of Nature and the cosmos. Adolf Hitler has revealed to us the spiritual importance of race, and of individual character - how important they are for our future evolution as a species; how they express our very humanity and how they express what is divine.
Adolf Hitler has left us a unique and divine legacy. He has, by his life and achievements, shown us what is possible. He has revealed to us that life does have a higher, noble and glorious purpose. He has given us a practical means whereby we can change ourselves into higher, more noble beings, as he has shown us how we can through our own efforts, our own Triumph of the Will, build a better, more divine, world for ourselves and our descendants.
According to the National-Socialism of Adolf Hitler, we can transform ourselves into higher, more noble beings, by pursuing idealistic goals - by striving for excellence. To do this, we need to create and pursue what is numinous and archetypal: what represents the best individual.
Such striving, such a 'struggle' toward what is archetypal, actually enhances our lives - producing vitality. It is also necessary, for without it, there is no forward movement; no evolution. Indeed, such a striving for excellence - the pursuit of numinous archetypal ideals - is human evolution in action; a means whereby we as individuals can creatively participate in a positive way in evolution.
According to the National-Socialism of Adolf Hitler, we can aid the divine by upholding the noble individual values of honour, loyalty, duty. These values are a means to enhance our own lives, and if we live according to them, and struggle to implement them in the world, we can create a new and higher type of society which by its very existence will aid and strengthen what is sacred and divine.
III: Becoming a National-Socialist -
The Nine Fundamental Principles of National-Socialism
The following nine principles express the practical essence of National-Socialism. They are meant to be a guide to individual National-Socialist living: a means whereby individuals can enhance their own lives and live in a National-Socialist way.
By living in this way, an individual is upholding and expressing what is sacred and divine. They are living and acting as human beings - in accordance with the will of the cosmos. Any other way of living is fundamentally sub-human and profane: an insult to what makes us human, and a destruction of the very essence of our humanity.
There is nothing complicated about an individual becoming a National-Socialist. All they need to do is accept the fundamental tenets of the National-Socialist religion as outlined in Chapters I, II, IV and V of this present work, and strive to uphold, in their everyday life, the Nine Fundamental Principles of the National-Socialist religion as given here. They must also make a solemn affirmation of their National-Socialist faith by performing the simple 'Ceremony for the Dedication of the NS Honour Knife' as given in Chapter VI (for an explanation of this knife, see below).
1) In everything that you do or undertake, strive for excellence.
2) Do your duty by placing the welfare and well-being of your race and culture before your own self-interest, and seek to preserve and extend your race by marrying among your own kind, and by producing/nurturing healthy children.
3) Uphold the noble ideal of honour in your own personal life, and strive to live, and die, in an honourable way.
4) Strive to uphold the noble, human, ideals of fairness and courtesy by being fair and courteous toward others, regardless of their race and culture, and strive to treat animals in a humane way.
5) Be loyal to those you have sworn loyalty to, if necessary unto death. Your word, once given, should not be broken since to break your word is a dishonourable act.
6) Be intolerant of what is harmful and unhealthy to, and what endangers, your race, and what is detrimental to the other creations of the divine.
7) Reverence Nature and be respectful toward what reveals or expresses the divine.
8) Always be ready, willing and physically fit enough to defend yourself and your family - and thus your own personal honour - and always carry a defensive weapon to enable your honour to be saved.
9) Seek always to make the world a better, a more noble, place by striving to make others aware of the noble ideals of honour, loyalty and duty.
The National-Socialist Honour Knife:
The principles of personal honour, loyalty and duty to one's folk or race, are fundamental to National-Socialism, and without these principles, an individual lives a profane life. The life of an individual only has meaning and significance if they uphold these principles, for they enshrine the true nature of the cosmic Being. Every National-Socialist must remind themselves of these principles every day of their life, for without these principles they are fundamentally nothing. National-Socialism represents these three principles in a practical way by a knife which all National-Socialists are expected to carry at all times. This knife, in a simple ceremony(6), is dedicated by the National-Socialist to the cosmic Being, and as such enshrines and symbolizes the personal honour, loyalty and duty of the individual. In a very important sense, this knife then is, or re-presents, these principles for that individual and accordingly that individual must not lose this knife, be without it, or have it taken from them. To give it up or surrender it willingly is to become dishonoured. To carry or wear this knife symbolizes their National-Socialist faith - their commitment to the three principles and their obligation to live in accord with the divine will. To not carry or wear this knife, once a person has sworn an oath to the Cause of National-Socialism, is a dishonourable act.
Accordingly, this knife serves a religious purpose, and a National-Socialist carrying such a knife is carrying it for a religious reason.
IV: Immortality and the Quest for Excellence
The primary aim of the religion of National-Socialism is to create a new type of individual, and new races of higher beings, here on this planet, for this continues the work of evolution and thus is an increase of what is divine. This new creation which National-Socialism desires to achieve means certain things have to be done.
First, it is necessary for individuals to change themselves - to begin a process of inner transformation in accordance with the divine wisdom which National-Socialism reveals. Second, it is necessary for those who accept this wisdom to strive to create a new way of living; that is, an entirely new type of society so that others of their kind can also change themselves and thus have the opportunity to evolve. This type of society is one which captures and expresses this divine wisdom in a practical way. To create this society, there has to be a striving, a struggle, a holy war, against those things and those people who consciously or otherwise are opposed in whatever way to the divine wisdom which Adolf Hitler has revealed to us.
Such a striving, and such a holy war, are necessary because National-Socialists have a divine duty to work for the salvation of others of their race, and of humanity in general, where 'salvation', for National-Socialists, means having or gaining the freedom to achieve the further evolution which is necessary. Only by such conversions, such a striving to free others, and by implementing the divine in a practical way, can evolution continue and thus the divine Being of the cosmos be given more life, for this increase of life benefits or will benefit all life, all creation.
To both change themselves, and change this world, it is necessary for individuals to strive for excellence - to pursue idealistic and numinous goals, and to strive to champion those noble, idealistic, values which make us human and which alone raise us up out of the profane decadence of selfish materialism and sub-human living. Sub-human living is basically what results when individuals ignore their noble duty, and pursue lives of selfish indulgence. National-Socialism affirms that this noble striving for excellence - this striving to access more and more of the divine in a practical life-enhancing way - is the fundamental meaning of individual life. By this noble striving, individuals evolve toward the divine; they are changed in a profound way, creating as they do for themselves by this very striving the possibility of an entirely new, an entirely more advanced, type of existence in another time and space when their life on this planet ends or is ended.
Thus, National-Socialism affirms that it is possible for individuals to live-on, in another way, in another existence, after their mortal death. But for this immortality to be achieved, the individual must live and act in a certain way - they must achieve for themselves this new type of existence. For this supra-mortal existence is not given; it is not acquired by an 'act or acts of faith'. It requires action; it requires a striving by the individual to access and make real what is divine, what is necessary for further, higher, evolution. Thus to acquire this new type of existence there has to be a commitment by the individual not only to those noble values (such as honour, loyalty and duty) which express, here on this planet, what is divine, but there also has to be a commitment to implement these in a practical way for the benefit of others. It is thus noble, National-Socialist deeds which matter, not individual faith or individual fidelity in isolation.
Hence it is that this existence is most easily achieved by those who actively strive to do heroic, noble National-Socialist deeds - who place the interest of their race before themselves or even before their own salvation.
Such individuals transcend to become the cosmos itself; they become the awareness, or the consciousness, of the cosmos, of all creation. The individuality which they possessed in their mortal existence expands so that they become a part of the suprahuman Being which is the cosmos. Thus do they expand this Being, and make further evolution possible. Thus do they because of their life and their death, make further positive change, further creation, possible.
But this immortality which they achieve does not mean that they, as the individuals they were in their human life, live on in some kind of 'heaven', or in some kind of 'Valhalla'. Rather, it means that they have moved-on to the next stage of development and so become an entirely different kind of being. They exist as this new type of being 'beyond the physical world', and beyond the individuality which they were. However, this does not mean that they become a 'heavenly' type of being living a tedious and boring and 'morally pure' disembodied existence. It means they have become, in a profound way it is difficult to conceptualize, the cosmos itself and the creations of the cosmos, such as Nature. These individuals become our present and our future - they become the substance which makes further evolution possible. In the simple sense, they become embodied in their race, in the soil and those aspects of Nature which allows this living racial being composed of individuals to survive and flourish. They thus exist in and become the living spirit or psyche of their race.
Thus, when mortals of a particular race who are living revere Nature; when they revere the soil, the homeland where they dwell; when they revere and honour what is best, excellent, beautiful and profound in specific individuals of their race; when they revere and respect and honour what is divine, then these living members of that race are revering, honouring and respecting those, such as their own ancestors, who because of their deeds, have 'passed-on' to become embodied in all these things. It is the spirit of these ancestors, of these other once mortal members of our folk, who we can often sense in such things as these - and it is their spirit which is urging us, beyond words, to take care of, to nurture, and to further evolve such things as these.
To become and be an Immortal means to become and be a part of the numinous creations of the cosmos; it means a moving-on to become the cause, the genesis, of future evolution, future accessing of the divine. We have but one chance given to us by the cosmos to achieve this immortality, and it is up to us whether we use this chance wisely.
V: The Joy of National-Socialism
National-Socialism is a life-enhancing religion because it accepts and affirms that all natural creations express and contain what is divine. It further accepts and affirms that we, as humans, are the most evolved, the higher, species on this planet and that accordingly we can use the other creations we exist with for our own benefit, and evolution, provided always that we act in a wise way in the knowledge that these other creations also express, in their own way, what is divine. That is, we must be aware of our duty to these other creations, strive for a healthy and natural balance, and not abuse the trust we have been given by the cosmos. In a profound way, we are the guardians of these other creations, and if we use them to aid our development, then we must 'husband' them, or take care of them, in a noble way.
In respect of individuals, National-Socialism accepts and affirms that the divine exists, without division, in both body and spirit. That is, that both bodily and spiritual health are necessary for an individual to be fully healthy and fully partake of the divine. We honour the divine when we respect and enjoy and develope both what is physical, and what is spiritual. For National-Socialism, what is important is a strong, vigourous body combined with a strong, vigorous character. By developing, in individuals, both a strong, healthy, character and a strong, healthy, body, a stronger, more spiritual individual is produced. Such individuals by their very existence honour and express the divine - they are the cosmos made manifest. Thus it is that National-Socialism honours and reveres, and holds up as an ideal, the best, the most excellent, individuals - for such individuals enshrine the cosmic Being itself. In an important sense, it is such individuals as these who are the National-Socialist 'temples' inwhere the divinity dwells.
National-Socialism provides practical guidelines which enable such healthy individuals to be produced, as it provides practical guidelines to enable the creation of a healthy, joyful, society capable of producing such individuals. By so producing such individuals of character - that is, producing healthy individuals dedicated to the noble ideals of National-Socialism - the divine itself is honoured and made manifest here on this planet.
National-Socialism is joyful and harmonious, and thus a religion of well-being and balance, because it seeks to create a society, or a way of living, where the two things necessary for both health and advancement exist together, without conflict. Indeed, National-Socialism is so special, and so important for us, because it alone expresses how this can be done. To be fully healthy, as individuals, we need a harmonious, beautiful, environment, a sense of belonging and a sense of purpose. These things mean Blood and Soil - an awareness of our heritage, our place 'in the scheme of things'; an awareness of our duties and responsibilities toward our folk-community and our race. They mean a reverence for the divine expressed by Nature and our race, and a joyous acceptance and celebration of our physical individuality. Blood and Soil also mean a sense of belonging: a homeland; somewhere special for us, where we belong.
But to advance, to evolve, we need change, challenges, a spirit of adventure. Otherwise there is stagnation and decay. Change means growth, and a certain amount of technology. A society is organic and healthy if it preserves what is best, and yet allows for growth, change and expansion. That is, there is a controlled balance maintained between Blood and Soil and Conquest and Exploration. What maintains this balance is a conscious awareness - an understanding that both are necessary and vital for a society, and the individuals within it, to function properly, live joyfully, and evolve naturally, in accordance with Nature.
National-Socialism accepts that individuals should fulfil the role which is suited to their character, talents and abilities, and it aims to create the type of society where individuals can make the best use of their talents and abilities. That is, National-Socialism values personal character, as it accepts that some people are suited to say, farming and husbandry, while others are more suited to scientific work, or being a warrior. What matters is that the work an individual does is respected; that all types of work are seen as dignified, as expressing the divine, and necessary for the good of the whole society.
National-Socialism aims to harness and control growth and technology for the good of the folk, as it aims to preserve what is essential for individual health, what is essential for producing healthy children: Blood and Soil. By creating a healthy environment - and thus healthy children - by controlling and harnessing growth and technology, and by using these to pursue an idealistic noble goal such as the creation of a Galactic Empire, a real, conscious, balance can be created, for the first time in our conscious evolution. Further, because National-Socialism is a conscious expression of the wisdom of thousands of years of civilization, its organizations and structures aim to produce individuals of noble character, who can accept responsibility, who have judgement, who are reverential toward the divine, and who are instinctively wise. It is these individuals who can ensure such a balance is created and maintained.
VI: National-Socialist Celebrations and Ceremonies
Celebrations:
National-Socialist celebrations fall into two categories: (1) celebrations concerned with honouring the cosmos in one or more of its many manifestations; (2) celebrations concerned with honouring individuals, past and present, who have excelled as National-Socialists.
To the former belong celebrations of Nature - honouring, respecting and enjoying aspects of Nature such as feasting at the times of Solstice and Equinox; gathering in numinous places suffused with the quiet and beauty of Nature to pay our silent, reverent, respects.
To the latter belong the National-Socialist fests held on honoured days during the year. For instance, the celebration of Adolf Hitler's birth on April 20th; Triumph of the Will Day on January 30th; Rudolf Hess Remembrance Day on May 10th; and so on. Some of these fests involve the giving and receiving of presents.
What all these celebrations have in common is a specific National-Socialist attitude of pagan spontaneity. This means either: (i) a natural, silent, reverence where few if any words and no complicated ceremonies or rituals are required or necessary; or (ii) joyous festivals - times for feasting, for celebrating, where people gather to feast, celebrate and remember. These festivals usually involve toasting with wine or ale, or something else considered suitable, the particular National-Socialist being honoured, and almost always those present give the Hitler salute before or after this toast. Sometimes bonfires are lit, if the festival is held out-doors.
These celebrations do not require formal words, or any other structuring, as they should not be performed or undertaken in specific buildings designated 'places of worship' since the cosmos, and Nature, cannot be contained within such a building, as the cosmos and nature cannot be represented by such a building. Rather, they should be either (i) undertaken out-doors, in places where the profundity of Nature and/or the cosmos can be felt and experienced, or has been felt, experienced or made manifest; or (ii) should be undertaken in open structures built near to such places. The former include natural, 'pagan', sites (such as on hill-tops; in forests; glades) and also those places connected with Adolf Hitler and his followers, and thus where the cosmos became manifest.
Ceremonies:
The following ceremonies are structured National-Socialist ceremonies involving set texts. Ideally (and with the exception of the Celebration of Death) they should be performed in either such places as mentioned above in respect to NS celebrations, or in a special area set aside for them within a dwelling. In all cases, the area should be adorned with a swastika banner, or banners, with a photograph or painting of Adolf Hitler being predominately displayed. No other adornments are necessary, except fresh flowers, should those involved so choose. Suitable individuals to conduct these ceremonies are family Elders; those who have distinguished themselves in combat or on behalf of the National-Socialist Cause; and those chosen by those assembled for such a ceremony.
These ceremonies are purposefully simple and devoid of ostentation. Neither the chosen Celebrant, nor the others present, need to dress in any particular way, although if the celebrant so decides he/she can wear a swastika armband as a sign that they are the Celebrant for a particular ceremony. Those attending the ceremony should assemble in the chosen place at a specified time, the proceedings being opened by the Celebrant entering this place.
The Celebration of Birth
Before the ceremony a suitable name is chosen. This should be of the culture of those celebrating the birth, or the name of someone famous because of their distinguished National-Socialist life.
Celebrant: "We are gathered here to celebrate the birth of a new child - a gift to us from the cosmos. Who names and who vows to nurture and protect this child until the day or his/her Coming of Age?"
The parents or guardians of the child say: "We do."
Celebrant: "What name is chosen?"
Parents: "We have chosen .............."
Celebrant: "May the divine cosmos - from whom we are born and to whom we return when we die - be made manifest in this child, now named ............. May this child healthily grow to excel, and so be a joy to his/her parents/guardians and a providential gift for our race and culture. May he/she come to understand Adolf Hitler as we understand him."
The Celebrant then raises the child up toward the swastika banner when all present give a brief Hitler salute. The Celebrant then returns the child to his/her parents/guardians.
A feast follows after the ceremony.
The Ceremony of Coming of Age
The family and friends of those undergoing the ceremony are gathered together. The Ceremony is conducted when a boy or girl reaches the age of sixteen.
Celebrant: "We are gathered here to celebrate the Coming of Age of ............... This is the time when you who were young become responsible for yourselves, and when you pledge yourselves to live in a National-Socialist way, as is befitting for someone born of noble race.
Do you...............present here swear, on your honour, to uphold the principles of National-Socialism?"
Those young involved answer: "We so swear on our honour."
Celebrant: "Then affirm the Nine Principles of our National-Socialist Faith."
Those young involved then read aloud the Nine Fundamental Principles of National-Socialism:
1) In everything that I do or undertake, I shall strive for excellence.
2) I shall do my duty by placing the welfare and well-being of my race and culture before my own self-interest, and seek to preserve and extend my race by marrying among my own kind, and by producing/nurturing healthy children.
3) I shall uphold the noble ideal of honour in my own personal life, and strive to live, and die, in an honourable way.
4) I shall strive to uphold the noble, human, ideals of fairness and courtesy by being fair and courteous toward others, regardless of their race and culture, and strive to treat animals in a humane way.
5) I shall be loyal to those I have sworn loyalty to, if necessary unto death. My word, once given, shall not be broken since to break my word is a dishonourable act.
6) I shall be intolerant of what is harmful and unhealthy to, and what endangers, my race, and what is detrimental to the other creations of the divine.
7) I shall reverence Nature and be respectful toward what reveals or expresses the divine.
8) I shall always strive to be ready, willing and physically fit enough to defend myself and my family - and thus my own personal honour - and always carry a defensive weapon to enable my honour to be saved.
9) I shall seek always to make the world a better, a more noble, place by striving to make others aware of the noble ideals of honour, loyalty and duty."
All present then face the swastika banner and give a brief Hitler salute. A feast follows after the ceremony.
The Ceremony of Marriage
Celebrant: "Marriage is a joining together of a man and a woman who pledge their loyalty to each other for the mutual benefit of them both. The primary purpose of this joining together of a man and a woman is for them to continue the divine work of the cosmos by producing and nurturing children. Thus shall they who are so joined live on, to the glory of the cosmos.
Do you ............. [he names the man] pledge, on your honour, your loyalty to ...........[ he names the woman] for as long as you both shall live?"
The man answers: "I do so pledge."
Celebrant: "Do you .........[he names the woman] pledge, on your honour, your loyalty to .......[he names the man] for as long as you both shall live?"
The woman answers: "I do so pledge."
Celebrant: "Therefore let no man or no woman come between these two here who have made this pledge. For that would be a dishonourable act. So saying, and you two so having said, I now declare you joined together in marriage as man and wife."
The man and woman now exchange gifts of rings, if they so desire. A feast follows after the ceremony.
The Celebration of Death
There are two forms of this celebration. The first involves burial, in the ground. The second involves a funeral pyre. The celebration takes places in an area suitable to whichever form is chosen. In both cases, the body of the deceased is placed in a coffin which is draped with a swastika banner. This banner is removed from the coffin before it is lowered into the ground, or before the pyre is lit, and given by the Celebrant to the next of kin of the deceased, someone nominated by the deceased, or a Comrade of the deceased. All National-Socialists should be buried/cremated with their NS Honour Knife at their side, unless they have in their Will or otherwise handed it on/bequeathed it to someone of their choosing.
Small wooden bowels or goblets should be available for all present to drink a toast to the deceased.
Celebrant: "We are gathered here to celebrate the life of our faithful Comrade .............. and to witness the next stage of their transformation when the cosmos who gave them their birth, reclaims them.
Though dead, here on our planet, their memory lives on, in us, as they themselves live on in another time and space. And, though we do mourn and we shall mourn this passing of theirs, this mourning will be for us only a brief mourning for their life and their death has meaning. So let us now toast their memory (and their glorious deeds)."
All present raise their bowls/goblets and speak the name of the deceased before drinking. If there is a funeral pyre, the banner is removed, the pyre lit, with the wooden goblets/bowls being thrown into the flames. All present then give a brief Hitler salute. If there is a burial, the banner is removed, and the body is lowered into the ground. Before the earth is placed over the coffin, all throw their goblets/bowls onto the coffin which is then covered by earth, and all present give a brief salute.
A feast follows after the celebration.
Ceremony for the Dedication of the NS Honour Knife
Except for ceremonial occasions such as fests (when an SA/SS type dagger can be used) the NS Honour Knife is a hunting/sheath type knife with a natural staghorn covering over the handle and a blade at least 4 inches in length. This should be worn or carried in a leather sheath. The workmanship of the knife, and the steel used for the blade, should be of the highest quality. However, an acceptable and temporary alternative (until the above can be obtained) is a folding lock-knife, with a natural staghorn covering and a blade at least 4 inches in length.
The staghorn symbolizes Nature and her creations; the blade the consciousness, and thus the inventiveness, of our race; and the handle which joins the staghorn to the blade and makes the knife useful, symbolizes the creative intervention of the cosmos which produced both Nature and ourselves, and which we both depend on to survive.
After the making/purchase of the knife, the National-Socialist should, at dawn on a suitable day, lay it upon a swastika banner placed below a photograph or painting of Adolf Hitler. While standing in front of this and giving the Hitler salute, the National-Socialist says:
"I am here to dedicate this knife and swear upon it, by my honour, and before the cosmos whom I revere, that I will keep to and uphold the Nine Principles of the National-Socialist faith. I shall treasure and guard this knife and let no one take it from me since it is my honour."
The individual then takes hold of the knife, holds it in his outstretched hand, turns toward the direction of the rising sun, and says:
"Thus do I consecrate this knife and myself to the cosmos."
So saying, the National-Socialist reads aloud the Nine Principles [as above - see Ceremony of Coming of Age]. The knife is then dedicated.
Appendix - The Life of Adolf Hitler
[ Note: All that we need to know about Adolf Hitler are the most basic facts of his life. What is important is what he achieved, and the divine legacy he left to us. We need only know when he was born, and the most important things that he did to try and create a new Golden Age, a divine society, here on this planet. Everything else is irrelevant, and should not concern us. Adolf Hitler was and is National-Socialism. He lives on in National-Socialism, and in we who are National-Socialists. So many lies have been told and written about him by our enemies, that we need to concentrate on his essence, on his spiritual significance, and not allow ourselves to become distracted by trying to refute every lie and every fabrication which our ignoble and profane enemies make.]
Adolf Hitler was born at approximately eighteen minutes past six on the evening of the twentieth day of the fourth month of what was, by the calenаr of the period, the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty nine. The place of his birth was the Austrian border town of Braunau, situated by the river Inn.
His family background was modest. Although his father worked as an official for the Austrian government, he - like the boy's mother - was descended from those who had worked on the land. As a youth of thirteen, Adolf's father had left his home to seek to learn a trade in Vienna. At this, he was successful - but unsatisfied. He aspired to something better, and resolved to become a government official. In this, he was also successful, at the age of twenty-three.
The young Adolf possessed a similar determination - for at any early age he had decided for himself that under no circumstances would he become an Austrian government official. Instead, he wanted to be an artist, and he stood resolutely by his decision, despite the misgivings of his father, who wanted his son to follow him and become an official of the Austrian government. The young Adolf even began to neglect some of his studies at School so that it would be impossible for him to become an employee of the Austrian government - for it had become clear to him, even as a youth, that his loyalties lay with the German people and not with the multi-racial Habsburg Empire. Moreover, School studies bored him; he was restless, eager to be part of a more adventurous world. Even in his young days he was different from his school-fellows; more determined; more intuitive; more aware of life's deeper meaning. Stories of adventure and war filled him with enthusiasm.
So it was that, after the death of his father, and at the age of sixteen, he moved to live by himself in Vienna. He had dreams of being a great artist; but perhaps his greatest love at this time was music. Music - often Wagner - inspired him, and seemed to express his own inner feelings, and his intimations of Destiny. For he felt even then, at so young an age, that life had, or should have, a higher, a noble, purpose. Through art, the young Adolf felt, he could find, and express, this purpose.
But his life in Vienna forced him to face what was, for the majority, the hard reality. He himself had to live in poverty, in vermin-infested tenements. He came to know the sufferings, the hunger, the desperation, of the poor, as he came to understand the real causes of the sufferings, the desperation and the degradation he found around him. As he himself said, it was a hard school, in which he learnt many things. During these years he became determined to act, to do something for his people, for he was often roused to anger by the injustices he found as he was often moved to try and express his hopes and dreams for a better, a more noble, way of life. These years of suffering brought him a deep, abiding understanding of the true purpose of life - for they enabled him to gave shape and form to the feelings, the vision, within him. He came to desire, more than anything else, to make his vision real. This vision was of a new world, a new type of society, where people worked together, in harmony and joyfully, for the common good - and where they strove to continue the upward work of Nature.
But Adolf Hitler was not an impractical, romantic or mystic dreamer. He knew people, as he knew what stood in the way of making such a vision real. He also knew what was necessary to make this vision real. But perhaps most of all, he knew that it could be made real, and was determined to try and make it real. It was this combination of vision, will, knowledge of people and insight which truely made Adolf Hitler unique. He was self-disciplined, resolute, visionary, intuitive and selfless. And he possessed genuine charisma.
At the time, having left Vienna for Munich, he was considering how he could begin to make his vision real when the First World War began. He enlisted in the Germany Army, volunteered for one of the most dangerous assignments, that of messenger, and showed great courage and devotion to duty, spending almost the whole of the war at the Front Line in the trenches. He was wounded, and was awarded the Iron Cross First Class for bravery.
Toward the end of the War, he - like most Germans who fought at the front - came to realize that many ordinary German citizens had developed a defeatist attitude about the War. Strikes, organized by the Bolsheviks, were common, and, perhaps worst of all, those returning from the front line were often not accorded respect. Minor Bolshevik revolutions broke out throughout Germany toward the end of 29 yf, and after the Armistice, which marked Germany's defeat, armed insurrection became a way of life in many parts of Germany as the Bolsheviks strove to create a revolution.
The majority of those who had served at the front were appalled by what had happened to and what was happening in Germany. Adolf Hitler was no exception, and it was during this period of turmoil that he decided to become involved in politics. Almost a year after the War had ended, he attended a meeting of a pitifully small patriotic organization, the German Worker's Party. But Adolf Hitler soon realized what such an organization, properly led, could achieve - it could be the instrument to rescue Germany from the terror and slavery of Bolshevism, win power and create a new way of life for his people. He felt and believed he could make his noble vision real by leading such an organization to victory.
So began the struggle for power, which he pursued with indomitable determination and selflessness for over 13 years. Ordinary Germans came to respect and love him, for they knew or felt that he was sincere - that he was working to provide them with a better way of life. The Movement that he led - the NSDAP - embodied their hopes, their aspirations, for a better world, as this Movement came to embody the noble idealism he believed in. A genuine spirit of classless comradeship was developed, where the common interest of the folk came before self interest. Adolf Hitler inspired others - making them aware of the true, noble purpose of life. He gave them back their vision, their dreams, their yearning for a golden age. He raised them up out of the quagmire of selfish materialism and petty concerns by revealing to them the inner meaning of life. He made them joyful, determined, and noble. He captured and expressed something beautiful and sublime.
Year after year his popularity grew, with the NSDAP gaining success after success until it could be longer be denied power. Then, on January 30th 44 yо, Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, enabling him to make his noble vision real. Thus he began to make Germany a joyful, cultured, harmonious, stable country where noble values were once again ideals to be aspired to. Rather than persecuting his enemies, he converted most of them - and those who could not or would not change themselves or understand his vision he allowed to leave Germany. He became a true leader, not a dictator - for the majority of Germans loved and trusted him and gave him authority to transform their lives for the better. Not once in any way did he abuse this trust and authority. He was always modest in his personal life; he was always genuine and spontaneous with others; he was always kind to those around him. But perhaps above all, he was selfless. He truly was a great man who inspired others with his noble ideals. He truly was more gifted, more highly evolved, more genuinely human, than others.
In a few short years he had solved the problem of unemployment; created better, more just social conditions; and brought about a noble revolution in people's attitudes. It was as if a new Golden Age had dawned. People came to realize and understand that they could change themselves for the better, and so develop - thus continuing the glorious work of evolution.
But there were some who did not like this, for it threatened what they had achieved, and what they wanted to achieve. They feared this vision of a new age might spread, and so undermine their influence, their power, and their own dark dreams. These were the ones who had created, fostered and used the twin powers of Marxism and International Finance to control and subvert nations. These were the ones who had a vested interest in maintaining in others only lowly material goals and desires. So they used the twin doctrines of Marxism and International Finance - both of which are different forms of gross materialism - in their quest to dominate, and bring about the type of world that they desired. This was a world full of materialism; replete with egotistical individuals fulfilling selfish, petty, animal desires. This was an ignoble world in disharmony, where the glorious diversity of Nature - produced over thousands of millennia - was gradually undermined and destroyed by reducing everything and everyone down to the lowest common level. It was a world ruled by abstract dogma which saught to control and disrupt Nature. This was the world over which this group of people wanted to rule - for such a world, with such selfish, slavish individuals lost to nobility, would provide them with wealth, luxuries, and power. These people saw this rule as a god-given right, their messianic destiny, as they saw all other peoples as merely means to be used so that this destiny could be achieved, whatever the cost. Adolf Hitler, and his followers, were the greatest threat this group of people had ever faced.
For Adolf Hitler saught to free his people from this twin slavery - this gross materialism. He represented everything this messianic group detested and feared. So this group saоght to discredit him, his followers, and the beliefs behind his Movement, as they sаоght to physically destroy this Movement from its very beginnings. At first, and in Germany, they failed - they could not prevent Adolf Hitler achieving power as they could not prevent him from transforming Germany into a noble society. But they were relentless in their opposition, using all their power, all their influence to spread lies about National-Socialist Germany.
Covertly and overtly they agitated for a war to destroy what Adolf Hitler had achieved, and such was their cunning and mendacity that they succeeded, rallying all those countries influenced or controlled by them or their nefarious doctrines, to fight on their behalf. Such were their nefarious lies that they persuaded these countries to fight a savage, unconditional war to destroy National-Socialist Germany, Adolf Hitler and his followers. So began the savage destruction of Germany and its people - for the messianic cabal wanted and needed a dark revenge.
This cabal wanted to ensure that what Adolf Hitler had achieved would be forgotten. They wanted to ensure that his noble vision would never be a threat to them again. So they created the shameless, ignoble, lie of 'the holocaust' to enslave the minds of those they wanted to rule over, hoping thereby to discredit for all time the noble idealism of National-Socialism. So did they fabricate lies about Adolf Hitler and his life, as they used all their power and influence to make these lies known in an attempt to destroy his numinous significance and the inner meaning of National-Socialism.
But they have failed. For the inner meaning of National-Socialism lives on. The spiritual significance of Adolf Hitler is increasingly understood.
The spiritual significance of Adolf Hitler is his noble vision - he has made us aware of what is possible. He has made us aware that we can evolve further; we can create and live in a noble society dedicated to high, cultured ideals. We can make real the beauty, the numinosity that some classical music tries to capture and express. We can express in our own lives the greatest beauty and the greatest joy, as we can aspire to greatness. He has made us aware that we can work in harmony with Nature - we can celebrate and uphold and extend the glorious diversity which Nature has produced, and which is evident in race and individual character, as we can extend this still further in a noble constructive way. He has made us aware that we can live in a way which expresses our true humanity - accepting our difference and diversity as a species and using that as a basis to evolve still further.
This noble vision raises us up from the pettiness of egotism; it raises us up out of the squalor and dishonour of materialism. It and it alone enables us to fulfil our potential as human beings.
Adolf Hitler has given us a unique legacy. He has shown us that we can, by the power of our wills, transform ourselves and those around us in a positive, noble way. We can undertake and complete an inner transformation. He has shown us the goal, as he has shown us that this goal can be achieved. He has shown us that our life, as individuals, does after all have a glorious purpose.
National Socialism: A Biological World View
by Povl H. Riis-Knudsen
"At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to state this or that or the other, but it is "not done". Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the highbrow periodicals".
George Orwell
As a National Socialist you constantly experience the difficulty in carrying on a meaningful conversation with a Non-National Socialist. You often feel that such a dialogue is outright impossible and that you live in two totally different worlds. Partly, of course, the reason for this deplorable situation lies in the propaganda image of National Socialism as the culmination of human viciousness that our enemies have created in the public mind. However, to young people what happened half a century ago is not all that important any more. From their earliest childhood they have been able to follow all the malice and cruelty that has been ravaging the world since the "victory of humanism" in 1945, vividly presented through television, and there is a very encouraging tendency among the young generation to have a less biased attitude to life and its various problems than the previous generation had.
However, this does not mean that young people have any idea at all what National Socialism is really all about, nor that they show much comprehension when you tell them. They have grown up in a world where they have been deliberately alienated from all natural values and natural ethical norms and taught that everything is relative, and where the borderline between truth and lie has ceased to exist, as there are no absolutes and everything depends on the way you choose to look at it. In this value-free world people live in a mental vacuum, totally out of contact with the real world, its relentless biological laws, and absolute moral and social obligations, and it is unavoidable that the National Socialist idea is felt as an incomprehensible alien element in such a political and philosophical universe.
As opposed to today's carefree relativism, where all ideas - in principle at least - are equally acceptable and valid, National Socialism represents the unremitting effort to find the absolute truth and to make this. truth the foundation of human society. Unlike the nebulous ravings of inane armchair philosophers and oriental mysticism, however, National Socialism is based on common sense, and it seeks its arguments in the real world, where the difference between truth and lie and between good and evil is determined by facts and not by wishful thinking and theoretic reveries.
In this light it is obvious that National Socialism must reject the conceptions and moral norms of all the ruling ideologies, and this, naturally, leads to a comprehensibility gap that is difficult to bridge - simply because there is no common frame of reference between National Socialists and people whose thinking is determined by the ideas of the present order. National Socialism simply means an absolute, irrevocable, and uncompromising fight against the very philosophical foundations of the entire ruling world order. On the following pages we shall try to explain the implications of such a showdown.
As it has probably been made clear on the previous page, the National Socialist idea has very little to do with politics in the normal sense of the word. The National Socialist movement is not one of the usual political organizations, which just represent some group interests of more or less materialistic nature. Their aim is merely to piece together a political program that is sufficiently vague and vapid to attract the necessary voting fodder for a parliamentary platform where their "elected representatives of the people" can appropriate as large a slice of the cake as possible to themselves - and perhaps their party members - at the expense of the rest of society.
National Socialism is far more than this - it is a world view, a complete philosophy of life, covering all aspects of human existence. As an adherent to a such a world view you regard all phenomena in society from one and the same angle, so that every single aspect becomes part of a unified whole, just as your opinions in all areas are determined by the same uniting principle that enables you to understand and explain all facets of life and its mysteries. Thus a world view is the basis of its followers' attitude to religion, ethics, politics, economics - and of the way they organize their personal lives.
Now, of course, National Socialism is not the only philosophy of life that claims to cover all aspects of existence. Other examples are for instance all the religions, which in principle give everybody who believes in them a guiding line for his conduct and attitudes in every situation in life. Today, however, the religions have been forced to compromise in a desperate attempt to bridge the quickly widening gap between the religious dogmas and reality - a gap which during the last 500 years has led to a steadily increasing secularization of the Christian countries in the old world and which today makes the westernized governments of most Islamic countries leave the strict religious structure of society in favour of either Capitalist or Communist materialism.
An example of a society that has gone in the opposite direction and radically stresses the unity between politics and religion is Khomeini's Iran. Another example is Israel, which is based on the religious belief that the Jews are "God's chosen people" and have a divine right to the territory they claim from the Arabs, and where especially the most orthodox groups consequently reject the slightest deviation from Talmudic law. This law is a product of the old nomadic society and is impossible to apply to a modern industrial state, which leads to a number of typically Semitic constructions to circumvent the strict religious rules around e.g. the Sabbath and the Shmitta-year, where all land ought to lie fallow, but doesn't!
Similar methods can be seen in Arab countries, where the Ramadan is more or less abolished permanently, because the countries are "at war" with poverty. All such attempts to "cheat" clearly show that these world views are totally inadequate as guiding lines in the modern world with its western technology - and that they have not been strong enough to prevent their followers from wanting this new life, which is not part of their culture but the result of successful parasitism. The reason for this failure is simply that these religions are based on blind faith and not on reality.
Naturally, devote Christians have the same wish to preserve the Bible as an ultimate authority and a focal point for all thinking. Thus, the Catholic Church constantly tries to increase its influence on the development of society in traditionally Catholic countries like Ireland, Italy, Spain and Latin America - and to do this it must gain political power. Its main weakness is, however, the many internal disagreements as to how this goal should be achieved and which parts of the Christian doctrine should be stressed. Also in North America Christianity enjoys a very important political influence that should in no way be underestimated, and also in Europe most countries have Christian political parties that try to strengthen so-called Christian values as part of their political program. However, religion as such plays a very moderate part in these parties - simply because Christianity has lost its grip on people - if it has ever had one. Somehow it has always been felt as an alien idea among the men of the North, and their interpretation of it has often been very un-Christian. Today is has been reduced to an anachronistic relic. In Denmark, for instance, about 95% of the inhabitants are members of the Lutheran state church. However, only 2% go to church and even less claim to believe in the doctrine. As a spiritual force in the people Christianity is dead.
However, Marxism also is a philosophy of life, representing a world view that governs all facets of human life, whereas all the other political ideas in our part of the world mainly concentrate on trifling administrative and economic problems. These ideas are loosely linked to a certain fundamental attitude to life in general and the relation between the individual and society, but regarding man's spiritual needs, they are - in principle - totally uncommitted. They do not exclude any religious affiliation - on the contrary, they always stress the total religious freedom and claim that religion and politics have nothing to do with each other and should be kept apart - as if religion were something unimportant compared to politics. Thus, members of all these liberal or conservative parties can be Christians, Jews, Moslems, Atheists, or Buddhist. Their religious persuasion is considered totally irrelevant for their political work. They are united in an attempt to solve some fairly well defined practical problems in the state machinery, but they may have totally different spiritual goals in view. As mentioned above, this fragmentation is really incompatible with the nature of religion, but it must be accepted more or less reluctantly by the religious communities if they want to exercise any influence on society at all.
A true philosophy of life like National Socialism has absolutely no room for such an atomistic splitting up of life into different compartments with no relation to each other. National Socialism is able to solve all practical problems in society by applying the principles of its fundamental philosophy, and its followers do not need any foreign element to satisfy their spiritual needs. National Socialism itself gives a full answer to any question man may ask.
It is a well-known fact that the religions are based solely on faith - something they are proud to acknowledge! Thus, the existence of God, the immaculate conception, the resurrection, the second coming etc. are all things that you cannot prove - unless, of course, you accept God as the author of the Bible, another thing that you must just believe - in spite of any evidence you may have to the contrary. And if you do not believe without evidence you are suspicious - just like the doubting Thomas. As opposed to this pride in ignorance, both Marxism and National Socialism claim to based on scientific truth. Marxism, was invented behind a desk, loaded with learned, philosophical books - but without any contact with reality or science, for that matter. At a closer look Marxism is just as much based on faith as any religion - namely on the completely unscientific belief that all biological beings who walk on two legs and don't have feathers are created equal, and the just as absurd idea that it is the conditions of production that have determined history in the same way as it is claimed to be the environment - and not heredity - that determines the development of the individual. This, of course, is to put the cart before the horse. It does not take much intelligence to realize that in reality it is man who has formed his environment - and established the social order, including the conditions of production - and not the other way round.
Unlike all these other philosophies, National Socialism has never been invented - it has been derived from the eternal Laws of Nature, which have existed as long as the universe and which have governed all life since the first primitive organism came into existence. This has been expressed beautifully and clearly by Savitri Devi, the famous late National Socialist philosopher, in her book "The Lightning and the Sun":
"In its essence, the National Socialist idea exceeds not only Germany and our time, but the Aryan race and mankind itself and any epoch; it ultimately expresses that mysterious and unfailing wisdom according to which Nature lives and creates: the impersonal wisdom of the primeval forest and of the ocean depths and of the spheres in the dark fields of space; and it is Adolf Hitler's glory not merely to have gone back to that de vine wisdom, but to have made it the practical regeneration policy of world-wide scope"
In other words, National Socialism was not invented by Adolf Hitler, but is the conscious expression of the fundamental Laws of Nature governing our lives. It is based on a infinite love of the creation in all its diversity, a deep, unconditional respect for the wisdom of Nature, and an ardent will to preserve life as it has grown out of this wisdom. The only way to do so is to organize the society of man in accordance with these fundamental Laws. Thus being against National Socialism is just as absurd and illogical as it would be to oppose the law of gravity or the fact that the earth is round! National Socialism is really nothing but the application of physical and biological laws to the political, economic, social, and religious areas of human life in the same way as they are today applied to technology. In this light, National Socialism is truly scientific - unlike any other world view. It does not wish to make reality fit any preconceived theories but to make the theories fit reality. New epoch making scientific landmarks would thus immediately be reflected in the practical life of a National Socialist community.
Of course, we might sometimes wish that some of these Laws had been a little different, but we must necessarily accept that it would be impossible to change them. Laws of Nature cannot be abolished or amended through a vote in the General Assembly of the United Nations, the US Congress, or any other national parliament! Perhaps everything had been easier if all human beings and all races had been created equal, and if there had not been any hereditary factors governing and limiting our individual possibilities of development. However, that is not the case, and there is absolutely no chance of changing this fact by wishful thinking, i.e. by doing as if these Laws did not exist. To build a society on such wishful thinking is a deadly sin that can only have disastrous consequences.
These consequences are seen only too clearly when we take a look at the societies that have been built by our enemies in East and West. Unanimously they refer to National Socialism as the "Gospel of Evil" - while they themselves rule over a world on the brink of economic and moral disaster, a world afflicted by inflation, unemployment, crime, senseless violence, drug abuse, pollution, pornography, corruption, hunger, and ecological catastrophes - a world that has experienced only 16 days of peace since 1945 and where 30 million people have been butchered over the same period. And over this dreary world hovers the dreadful threat of a nuclear war that will destroy all higher life on earth.
No wonder, indeed, that man lives in constant fear of what the next day has in store for him! Unfortunately, this fear and hopelessness is most widespread in the Aryan part of the world, where decadence and moral decay are most advanced. Here people have been totally alienated from all sound and natural values and made into mindless zombies, whose anxieties are soothed by material affluence - in a constant race against economic chaos. In spite of all the material goodies of the modern world, these people are neither happy nor satisfied. They completely lack ideals and enthusiasm and they have lost all faith in the future. The Aryan is simply afraid to bring children into this world. As he sees no future, he prefers the luxuries of the moment to the preservation of his race and culture. He tries to secure as comfortable a life for himself as he can in this cesspool, and his only hope is that the inevitable catastrophe will not occur in his lifetime. Thus, he passively watches the land of his forefathers being slowly but steadily taken over by aliens, who do not yet realize that the end of the white man means the end of all civilization.
This is the Golden Age our enemies promised the world in 1945 - this is what they have been able to build in the forty years they have had absolute power. Under these circumstances the prospects for the future sure are gloomy. However, it does not have to be this way. That the world is in such a sinister condition is solely the result of man's total disrespect for the Laws of Nature.
As a National Socialist you inevitably feel like someone from another planet when you have once realized the nature of the present order. You can have no part in this system and the very daily struggle to keep alive within the framework of this society must seem like a futile waste of time. As National Socialists we envisage a totally New World Order, based on the "unfailing wisdom according to which Nature lives and creates". Only within such a new world order can life survive on this planet in the long run. However, to establish this New Order man must accept that he is not elevated above Nature. Man is not the master of creation but an integrated part of the totality of Nature, and he is subject to exactly the same laws as all other living organisms. Likewise, he must also accept the scientifically proven fact that the races of man are different - not only in their outward appearance but also with regard to their mental and intellectual characteristics - and, finally, that all human beings are individuals created unequal, and that their lives are mainly determined by hereditary factors and not by their environment.
This may, of course, seem "unjust", but one of the things man must recognize is that in Nature there is no conception of justice in the sense we normally apply to that word. As human beings we can - and should - organize a society built on legal and social justice, because all members of society have a useful function and can therefore also claim equal protection under the law and safety from economic exploitation. This is part of the security that is necessary and natural in an organized society - as a matter of fact it is part of the very reason why human beings engaged in establishing stable social structures that they wanted this security. However, we cannot create biological justice - just as we cannot create biological equality. From a human point of view it will always seem extremely unjust that some people are attacked by horrible, painful, and incurable diseases at a young age, whereas others can enjoy good health until they are a hundred years old - also, even if the one who dies at the age of 25 has far greater mental gifts and could have given humanity so much more than the one who reaches old age. No matter what we feel about it, this is the way it is - in spite of all our medical skills - and man must learn to accept that Nature does not recognize our conception of justice, and any attempt to introduce a kind of divine justice in a life to come must be rejected as an absurd attempt to escape from reality.
In this connection the enemies of National Socialism often claim that the biological conception of human nature, which is the very basis of National Socialism, is "unethical". To this we can only reply that it is the so-called "ethics" of these opponents that are immoral, because they are based on norms and values that are not founded on Nature. For National Socialists there is only one truth: the Laws of Nature. and anything that is not in full accordance with this truth is absolutely 100% wrong!
This, of course, means a total rejection of Christianity, whose unnatural dualism is the very basis of the predominant "moral" code - also where this code is disguised under a liberal/Humanistic or a Marxist label. According to Christianity, man enjoys a very special position among all creatures by having a divine soul. This soul is universal and unbiological. It does not differ from race to race or from individual to individual, and it does not depend on intelligence or any other mental or physical quality in the individual, nor is it hereditary or in any other way influenced by Nature. It is this soul that makes all people equal in the eyes of God, no matter what they do or what they are, as long as they believe in Him. To the Christian, speaking about man as a product of biological factors is a "disparagement". According to Christianity, man's whole life is a constant struggle between the divine soul (the spirit) and "matter", i.e. Nature, or - on the personal level the flesh, which represents Evil and must be defeated in order to gain eternal life in an undefined paradise in the clouds. Life on earth is only a preparation for that life to come - either in Abraham's bosom or in Hell, all depending on how successful they have been in fighting their biological nature. In itself, life on earth is without any value, just a vale of tears.
Thus, Christianity is characterized by a distinct contempt of life and Nature. It is a religion for losers and dreamers who cannot cope with the the challenges of life but just vegetate along, trusting that "the last shall be first and the first shall be last", as Christianity regards any criminal good-for-nothing and mentally deficient fool as a more valuable human being than the industrious and creative citizen. It represents a set of norms and values that put the virgin above the mother, the monk above the father of a family, and the weak and suffering above the strong and victorious, indeed, the dead above the living. It scorns any pleasure in life and glorifies self torture and self-abasement as positive indications that man fights his flesh and accepts that he is born as a vessel of sin because he is not all spirit.
No matter from what angle you look at it. Christianity represents a perverted and misanthropic attitude to life that can under no circumstances be tolerated in a healthy society. To put it bluntly. Christianity is a kind of spiritual AIDS that has destroyed our natural immunity against unbiological thinking. It is a contaminating disease of the mind and must be fought with all means.
Unlike the Christian, the National Socialist is supposed to live. He is supposed to expand his abilities and unfold his personality as much as he can within the boundaries of his biological nature - both physically and spiritually. He is not supposed to spend life on his knees in front of a Middle Eastern god, begging for mercy and forgiveness for the "sin" of having been born into Nature. We want to see proud and harmonious people who are confident of themselves and their mission in life - not frightened and dejected products of misanthropic conceptions like "original sin". which only leaves man one pleasure in life: that "God" will forgive you. if you just believe and repent. Nor do we want the diffident and despairing victims of the pluralistic world view with its denial of absolute values. We are not atheists. We do believe in a deity, but our deity is an absolute contrast to the Jewish-Christian Jahwe. For National Socialism there is only one true deity: the inscrutable creative power that is manifested everywhere in Nature. That is the deity we pay our tribute to by showing veneration and respect for the wisdom of the Laws of Nature. As National Socialists we follow no other voice than the voice of Nature and no other ethic than the ethic of Nature, and we know only one mortal sin: to try to revolt against this ethic.
Although man is part of Nature, National Socialists are, of course, fully aware that man differs from all other living organisms in one particular respect: his unique brain that enables him to think in abstract terms. This ability has made it possible for man to avert or mitigate some of the cruelty of Nature that other beings must suffer under. Our brain has enabled us to cure diseases that had otherwise been terminal and to find the underlying principles for many of the Laws of Nature, so that we have been able to use some of these principles to our own advantage and - for better or for worse - to develop the technology which was necessary to explore the earth and utilize its riches.
Unfortunately, our brain has also made it possible for us to consciously disregard the Laws of Nature when we find it more comfortable to try to ignore them than to follow them. In a primitive society you would soon feel the consequences of such a transgression, but in a highly developed technological society you will be able to survive a violation of the Laws of Nature for quite some time without feeling the inevitable reprisals. However, sooner or later they will come with inexorable force and then it will be, if not impossible, at least extremely difficult to remedy the mistakes.
Finally, our unique brain has also given us feelings that are hardly found with any animal: the fear of the unknown, the certainty of death, and thus also a desperate need for something that can give man a feeling of spiritual security and make him see a meaning in life beyond the mere scramble for material goodies. This is the need that lies behind the religions, but unlike them, National Socialism concentrates on satisfying these needs on earth. In this connection it should be noted that neither brain nor feelings are isolated, unbiological factors but an inseparable part of the living organism and like the physical characteristics of man, so is also the "spirit" subject to the Natural Laws concerning heredity. As National Socialists we are of the firm opinion that society as a whole must be organized so that all aspects of Natural Law are considered. Thus it is not enough to meet people's material needs by establishing a sound economic life. It is also necessary to look to it that the spiritual needs are satisfied as well!
It is often claimed by the enemy of man that the spiritual universe of National Socialism is one of coercion and manipulation, where the individual is robbed of his freedom and individuality just to be made part of a mindless mass. This, of course, is far from the truth. As a matter of fact this comes much closer to a description of democracy. It is the democrats who regard the people as a large grey mass, where the differences between the single individuals are explained as the result of casual environmental influences that society must "correct" in order to "socialize" people into democratic ways. National Socialism, on the other hand, respects the individual. We know that all human beings are biologically unique and that they have different talents and abilities. To combine all these individual gifts within the framework of society is one of the most important tasks of the National Socialist state. Only in this way is it possible to use the total amount of mental resources in a people - for the benefit of both the individuals and society.
However, we also know that genius and progress have never come from the mass but always from single, outstanding individuals, and only by ensuring the individual the opportunity of finding and developing himself as freely as possible in an organized society can we further the advancement of man towards ever higher perfection. If we want to solve the enormous problems the world faces after 45 years of democracy, this is necessary. As it is obviously impossible to lift people to a level above their inborn possibilities of development, all the stupid attempts to make all people equal in all respects necessarily lead to a unification on the lowest level, i.e. to the suppression of all individuals who rise above average in intelligence or in any other way. This trend is not the work of National Socialism but of Democracy, and it is not likely to improve the conditions of life on earth.
However, every attempt to foster an elite is rightfully seen as a threat against the very foundation of the Democratic system, where it is believed that everybody should not only have equal legal rights but also equal influence on public affairs, no matter whether he has the necessary qualities or not. Such a system can only lead a country into the abyss. In a National Socialist state, the leadership will consist of the very best in the nation. Only they will be able to solve the problems that arise - and to face the responsibility. The individual members of a democratic assembly cannot be held responsible for their actions, because all decisions are made by a vote and everybody has to bow to the majority - no matter whether he agrees or not. Clearly, this kind of forum provides amble room for the most depraved elements of society. It is ironic that big commercial enterprises spend enormous amounts of time and money on finding and educating the best people , for the leading positions in the corporation, whereas any political charlatan without any education at all can become his country's prime minister or president, if he just has the right connections and does not show too much intelligence, which might indicate that he could not be manipulated so easily by the various interest groups and that would never win him any support. This is pathetic!
This denial of individuality and of the biological differences between human beings has also led to a complete repression of the concept of "genetic hygiene". Today hygiene is only something about washing you hands and brushing your teeth. Man does know the principle of "genetic hygiene", though, and he spends an enormous amount of time and energy on the breeding of horses, cows, dogs, pigeons, parakeets etc. - all according to the best genetic principles, but when it comes to the reproduction of his own kind, he totally abandons these principles - as if they were only valid in the world of animals - and willingly contributes to the total biological degeneration of mankind.
In the natural state, every population is subject to biological selection, which means that the individuals who are best fit for the given circumstances rise to the top of that society, whereas those who cannot cope with life as it is must perish. This is one of the iron, relentless Laws of Nature that man has been able to mitigate by building societies where there is also room and protection for the weaker elements of the population, who also have a meaningful role to play in a developed society. However, if we completely close our eyes to the existence of this Law of Nature, we, too, will be heading for disaster, as we would then no longer be able to secure the necessary biological quality in the population to preserve a system that is strong enough also to protect the weak. Without regard for the biological realities of life we will end in a free for all where the weakest individuals will be the very first to perish.
Thus, National Socialism will not as it is often claimed - mean that the weak are abandoned and left to their fate. On the contrary! National Socialism is the only guarantee the weak can have against certain destruction. Here, however, it must be stressed that weakness is not an ideal - it is something that must be fought and this is only possible through consequent genetic hygiene. The National Socialist state will enlighten the people about the biological mechanisms and thus make sure that man recovers his natural instincts in this field so that man can advance biologically. Only fools can believe that man has already reached the highest possible peak of development. However, in order for man to advance further, society must make sure that diseases and weaknesses are not perpetuated through inherity. Freedom to transfer sufferings to your children and to break down the population genetically is a crime against coming generations!
At the same time society must also make sure that there is a healthy environment so that diseases caused by external influences disappear forever. Here we think not only of the social milieu and the conditions in the places of work but also of the ecological environment. In a National Socialist society it is completely unacceptable that profit mongering and greedy materialism allow pathogenic artificial additives in food and clothes, unhealthy synthetic materials in our homes and public buildings, and the increasing pollution of earth, air, and water - not to mention lethal radioactive contamination that will last for hundreds of thousands of years. All this is the logical result of the complete perversion of life's true values seen in this terminally sick society. Genetic hygiene and general pollution control are only two aspects of the same cause: the preservation of Nature and the ecological balance to ensure the continued spiritual and physical well-being of man. Without a healthy environment even the best genes will be destroyed, and without a sufficient amount of these genes, there will be nobody who can create a healthy environment.
To a good milieu also belongs a healthy family where children can grow up in harmony and be happy, and another evil of the present order is that this kind of family is being destroyed by the usual un biological thinking and the nonsense of women's libbers. Just as the races are different, so are the sexes, and the idea that man and woman are biologically equal is a serious threat to the survival of man. The differences between them are not the result of social ."sex roles" but of biological roles! It is not a coincidence that it is the woman who gives birth to the children. She is not only biologically fit for this task, but also mentally, and as the mother of the new generation she has the most important role in society. The idea that she must "fulfil herself" by joining the labour force and getting a job at an assembly line, while her children are left to others, is criminal! Women can only fulfil themselves with-in their biological role as mothers. Without a mother the family crumbles. The children are left to themselves or to a state education. When they get home, nobody has time for them. They are not taught any ideals and they get their idols from television, bad music, and even worse literature. They live on fast food and fall victims to the worst kind of commercial materialism. That is, if the woman does not choose to avoid having any children at all - either by using some kind of "birth control" device or by having an abortion if she gets pregnant anyway. Of course, the femin-ists claim that it would be just as natural for the man to look after the children and the woman to go to work. The fact is that if it had been just as natural, the man would have given birth, too.
On the contrary, the female biology will always mean that the woman is in a weaker position on the job market because she is less stable as a man. Not to mention the jobs that demand a certain physical strength. It is no won-der that Elisabeth Badinter, a Jewish-French feminist, in a new book (L'un est l'autre, = "One is the other", pub-lished by O. Jacob (!), Paris 1986, and, not surprisingly, translated into virtually every Western-European language) demands that uterus and ovaries be transplanted into men to ensure equality! A society where such a book finds read-ers is terminally ill, indeed!
It is part of man's biological nature that he is not just an isolated individual but also a social being, and his social instinct goes beyond the nuclear family. From the earliest times human beings have lived together in groups so that they could better resist the dangers of their primitive existence. If they had not done so, man would hardly have survived as a species. In other words, life in organized societies is a condition for man's existence, and the urge to organize is part of our nature. Without an organized society every individual would have had enough to do trying to gather the daily necessities. There would have been no surplus for art, science, education, or any health service. A high degree of organization is simply the precondition for both cultural and technological development. Therefore, it is in no way a coincidence that the highest cultures have always been created by the peoples with the best ability for organizing, i.e. the Aryans.
In any organized society, however, it is absolutely necessary that the individual adapts himself to a norm that is shared with other members of that community and that he abstains from misusing his intelligence and talents in a way that is harmful to the very community that has made the development of these talents possible.
However, the necessary loyalty within the group cannot be based on materialistic considerations alone. It is not enough to have a common welfare office. It only makes sense to renounce some of one's personal freedom in a community with a common destiny, consisting of people with a common background, common norms and values, and with a common purpose in life - people whose forefathers have won and defended the same territory throughout generations, because they wanted to preserve their specific linguistic, cultural, and biological character.
It is this wish that has produced our culture in close accordance with our people's talents, conceptions, ideals, and values - with what we can call our people's soul. Other peoples have other talents, conceptions, ideals, and values, and they have therefore produced other cultures. These may be as "good" as ours - but they are alien to us, just as our culture is alien to other peoples. To speak about a coming, universal "culture of the world", common to all people, is nonsense. A "culture" that has not emerged naturally as the mirror of a people's soul is a denial of the very meaning of the word "culture", and history shows very clearly that every civilization that has no longer been able to preserve and further develop its own culture and has therefore imported and integrated whatever foreign cultural elements it happened to come across has been standing directly before its inevitable fall.
A society consisting of a random medley of races. religions and philosophies is most certainly not an expression of spiritual and cultural wealth. as it is often claimed today. It is an absurd hotchpotch whose existence cannot be justified on any grounds - a certain indication of the imminent disintegration of the nation and the total dissolu-tion of all norms and values. Such a society is a degenerate parody of a true community - and it cannot last, because the social loyalty between the various groups who tempo-rarily happen to live on the same piece of land is broken by a far stronger - spiritual - loyalty towards religious and philosophical ideas that do not have their basis in the nation itself and its history.
The most serious threat to the coherence of society is, without comparison, the biological race-mixing that has always either come hand in hand with the mixing of cultures - or even been its precondition. The disintegration of culture itself can be stopped at any time and a people can find its way back to its own cultural norms and values again - as long as the racial stock is intact. The mixing of the races, however, is irrevocable - and its consequences are incalculable and disastrous. It is a fact that Nature has always developed towards greater racial variation. Through the unnatural race-mixing we now witness a levelling of all the various natural talents, which all of them are determined by race. Where one race has developed in one particular direction and has built a community and created a culture based on the qualities it has developed, the mixing with other races means that after a few generations the bastard offspring will have lost every condition for understanding what their forefathers have created.
Unfortunately, there are only too many opportunities to study the kind of societies we have as a consequence of race mixing. Latin America, India, and Egypt are all excellent examples, and so are Hellas and the Roman Empire. Just as the Indian, Persian, and Egyptian cultures also the Greek and Roman civilizations were created and sustained by an immigrated minority of predominantly Nordic race. This higher developed minority first suppressed the original majority and their culture, but later they slowly succumbed to their predecessors' numerical superiority. Weakened by innumerous wars that had cost them their most valuable blood and subverted by Asian ideas of false humanitarianism they gradually gave increasing numbers from the subdued peoples citizenship and brought new slaves and labourers from their colonies in Africa and Asia - who were then integrated and acquired citizenship in the next generation. This sure is a familiar picture, isn't it? And it was this disintegration of the Nordic race that changed the proud state of Hellas into present day Greece and Rome into Italy - or put in another way: civilization into chaos! In school you still spend at least some time teaching the children about the ancient cultures, but not one word is said about the people who created those cultures. It does not seem to puzzle anybody that the ability to organise a state can disappear so completely. The truth is that most of the people who masquerade as "Romans" today racially have very little in common with their mighty predecessors. Too many of their ancestors had their home south of the Mediterranean!
When speaking about racial biology today, you soon face a whole lot of tabues. Studying racial biology has become something naughty - that is, if it is the human races you want to study - and not even medical doctors or so-called anthropologists can be expected to know anything at all about this matter. Even to want such knowledge is damaging to your career, so why care? Thus, it is always maintained, with a contemptuous sneer, that there does not exist any "pure" white race and that "Aryan" is a purely linguistic term etc., which is all meant to prove that racial science is nonsense. Of course, these arguments are not altogether wrong - but the conclusion is! It is true that there has been a mixture of the various European races, but this was a mixture of closely related races within the same main race, the so-called White Race, which you may very well refer to as the Aryan Race - as long as you define what you are talking about! Furthermore, there is absolutely no basis for claiming that this mixture - which has by no means been complete - has absolutely been an advantage for the Europeans! Probably it has been the opposite, and there is absolutely no good reason to continue the process of disintegration by further miscegenation.
The ignorant also claim that race mixing is necessary to avoid "inbreeding". This, of course, is un biological non-sense. Inbreeding only refers to breeding between closely related individuals, who necessarily resemble one another from a biological viewpoint. through inbreeding we have an accumulation of the various genetic factors - good as well as bad. If both father and mother carry the same genes, there is a good chance - or risk - that the offspring will add up these genes, and as we practically all carry unfortunate genes, it is obviously desirable that these are not accumulated. It is here unimportant that there will also be an accumulation of positive genes: a higher tendency to develop hereditary diseases cannot be made good by other positive qualities. However, inbreeding is only a danger in very small populations, say, on a very small island or in so-called "royal" or "noble" families. In a population with millions of individuals it simply does not exist in normal circumstances.
In all events, adding racially alien genetic elements is not a good way of avoiding inbreeding. It only leads to inharmonious individuals, because the parents are too different. To this the ignorant would object that you seem to get very good results in the animal world - and with plants when you crossbreed the different races. This is, of course, very true, but here we are talking about strongly controlled crossbreedings where the scientists have defined in advance which concrete qualities they want to breed. Thus, you select the parents with that purpose in mind by taking the individuals who carry the best of the qualities you want to crossbreed. When you have got the offspring, you again choose the individuals where you find most of the qualities you want. They are used for further breeding. They rest is simply slaughtered as inevitable waste. A continued breeding with these individuals would give the opposite results as those that are wanted. In no case do you allow casual breeding. If it happens by mistake - e.g. with dogs - you must destroy the offspring!
How dangerous crossbreeding can be is illustrated by the so-called "killing bees". They are the artificial product of an attempt to create a robust race with a high yielding capacity. The result was aggressive swarms of bees that cannot pollinate flowers at all. By accident, some of these escaped from a laboratory and today they are a serious threat in all Latin America and the southern parts of the USA, partly because they are highly dangerous for both animals and human beings as they kill anything that moves, but also because they supersede ordinary bees so that the plants are not pollinated. This is a good example of what race mixing can lead to if the necessary control fails - and then imagine that the spreading mixing of human races is totally without any control at all!
There is probably no one who would suggest the introduction of the same procedures for the crossbreeding of human races that you have for animals - quite apart from the fact that we here have to do with far more complicated factors than with animals. It is not so easily definable things as stature, meat quality, or milk producing capacity that determine whether human beings can cope with the demands of society, but factors like disposition of character, intelligence, creativity, and inner harmony - all qualities that are known to suffer greatly when you mix the races. In this connection it is also worth noticing that all the people who favour unrestrained race mixing have completely failed to tell us which desirable qualities the alien racial elements that are now pouring into the Aryan world could possibly enrich the white race with!
In all events, the present tendencies of disintegration in all fields of society cannot fail to make people insecure and unhappy. Only in a real. harmonious community consisting of people with the same cultural, historical. and biological background and with the same spiritual aspira-tions for the future can the individual find the peace of mind and the inner security that it needs. Only here can the human being feel that it is a natural part of a greater whole. of something that is mightier than the individual itself and which will continue to exist when the individual is no more. just as it has existed before the individual was
born. Only in such a national community of fate does man find the eternal life he has always sought. In our children and our people we will live forever but that is the only share of eternity we have. Without that we might as well never have lived!
If, on the other hand, man must seek his identity and his goal in life outside the national community, this community has lost its meaning and will inevitably fall apart like a marriage where the partners have nothing but the address in common.
This is a fundamental Nationalist viewpoint.
However, loyalty within a group must be reciprocal. It is not only the citizen who must be loyal to society -it is also society that must be loyal to the citizen. Loyalty thus presupposes just social conditions and an economic system where nobody is exploited and where everybody does all he can for the common good to sustain the order that safeguards the common values, guarantees the life and happiness of its citizens, and gives each individual his share of the people's eternal life.
This is a fundamental Socialist viewpoint.
Nationalism without Socialism is absurd - and the other way round: Socialism without a clearly defined com-munity has no meaning.
Today it is often claimed that the National Socialist attitude leads to war and to attempts to suppress other nations. This is absolutely nonsense. Quite the opposite is true. Respect for other peoples' cultural and biological identity is only possible if you recognize the existence and desirability of racial and cultural differences - and you can hardly respect other peoples' identity if you do not appreciate your own! If you deny the existence of racial differences, it is quite obvious that you will constantly try to impose on other peoples what you yourself find best - without any regard for their own special character.
The disastrous idea, shared by Christianity and Marxism, that there is only one civilization that is right for all people regardless of race, is the basis for both the European colonial empires of the previous century and today's incessant attempts to force the barren materialistic life style of the modern industrialized world down on naive third world peoples, who only see glitter, but cannot calculate the cost. This is going to be their undoing as it is ours! The consumer society simply only sees markets and consumers - and here uniformity is the keyword. A uniform clientele does not have any special demands, and this makes production simpler and cheaper, which means a larger sale and a higher profit. National peculiarities and different cultural patterns are here a nuisance and are therefore fought. For the multinational industries and chains all people are equal - if they can just consume. They have absolutely no respect for human values at all. They crush them.
For National Socialism difference is part of the natural order and we want to maintain this order with all its differences between races, peoples, and individuals. We have absolutely no wish to make a Negro tribe practise our religion, eat our food, or use our laws. We want other peoples to find their own way into the future. Of course, we should be glad to cooperate with them if that is mutually beneficial, but we shall not disturb them. If they cannot find their way, it is their problem - not ours. We do not seek any conflict with anybody - we just want to be left in peace. However, we are not pacifists. We know that at times every people must fight to survive as a nation. If it does not, it will perish and we cannot just sit back and let our own people be destroyed. If our existence is threatened, we must defend ourselves and we know that only a new National Socialist world order consisting of independent nations with mutual respect for each other can secure a lasting peace and preserve the world from impending nuclear disaster.
If the world does not accept National Socialism as its only hope of a future, man will be facing destruction. This will be a logical consequence of his continuous violations of the Laws of Nature. However, it will not be the end of the Universe. Seen from there, the planet Earth and the human beings on it are minute and totally dispensable parts of a vast machinery. If we disappear, the various civilizations of the last 10,000 years will just be a negligible episode in the infinite and timeless space - an experiment that went wrong. Even after a total nuclear war there will probably still be basis for biological life in some places of the earth, and then the development towards ever higher forms will start all over again. Even if the Earth should be totally destroyed in such a war or for any other reason - it is more than likely that there is life somewhere on another planet in a very distant solar system somewhere in space, perhaps quintillions of light years away. In all events, Nature will always exist - also without people. Even without life, there will still be a natural order in the Universe. This Universe does not accept any special laws for man, and if he does not realize that, he will have deserved his coming destruction and nothing will be able to change that.
LEGACY OF STEFAN NEMANJA
LEGACY OF THE LAND
The nation which doesn’t have the land cannot be called a nation.
Land makes the nation, my dear child.
The nation is not the flock of birds or the herd moving from the south to the north, landing to the land for picking up the seeds or stopping by just to graze and drink a water.
The human hordes, which are still moving through the space in this way, are not a nation. They can become the nation just after they stop and inhabit the fields, forests, rivers and lakes, seas and coasts. Nations are still transiting through Serbia from one part of the world to another. AVARI and HUNI, PECENEZI and KUMANI, and together with them all the other nations stormed through these lands as a foreign flows. But, child of mine, these flows have never become rivers. Only the trails of destruction were left behind.
They were born at one end of the world and died on another. They have never drunk the water form the same well. They have never spent the night where they’ve spent the day. They have never passed the winter where they’ve passed the summer.
From the land they were passing through they had only the roads. The fields, forests, rivers and mountains, villages and cities belonged to the ones who lived there before their arrival and to the ones who lived there after they came.
My dear child, those hordes can become the nation after they are borne and they die on the same ground, start to inseminate and plant, than harvest and gather on the same land and not only taking by force fruits from a land that belong to others.
Write this down, child of mine, for this nation to remember, nation destined to move and walk in the path of blood.
Write this down, child of mine, the land as well as a woman belongs to the one who’s leaving the seed, fructifies it and to whom she bears. Write down, my child, the following: the land as well as the woman cannot be abducted or taken away on a journey. If you desire the land to stay yours, you have to be present and stay in it.
The nations, which intrude one country, to rob, burn or destroy it are not its masters. We have entered these lands long time ago to inhabit, model and master by it.
Child of mine, for hundreds of years we have already been here and still we haven’t mastered with the wanderers urge within us. We are everywhere. This nation bursts and flows on every side as a young wine.
The land still can’t keep us, neither can we keep her.
Sometimes I fear, my child, that we will flow to some other, solid nations and will be spilled like a water down the mountain to some outlandish rivers and vanish in them as if nothing had ever existed.
Never be separated from the land and never separate it by yourself.
Gather all of our countries and never take away the land from yourself or from another.
If one nation has a mother, than his mother would be the land she lives on. The land bears and feeds us over and over again. The land is eternal bearer of the nation.
Take a good care of her and don’t lose it, my child. Kiss not only all of her fields and mountains, rivers and seas; but also every grain of hers. You have to know, my dear child that that grain which fits in a palm is all the land. That’s why you must take your land in your palms and never for any reason let it go from your hands, because you are nation only with this land in your hands; and without it, empty handed we are just lost wanderers between nations.
LEGACY OF THE BLOOD
And remember my child, a blood and the blood only make a nation.
The blood is eternal.
The blood of a new borne child is thousands of years old. The child is young, but a blood in his veins is that same old blood which flew through the veins of his ancestors thousands of years before.
Mine blood, dear child, flows in your veins as well and if you hadn’t intended to go through the life and time with a streams of a body and blood, but with the spiritual wings; your blood would also flow in your children. But you already have your spiritual children and they will take you to the depth of the centuries and remote times.
My dear child, as the great river flows through the gorges to the fields, such is the streaming of the blood through time, from one generation to other, from one century further away and so on.
What is than a man, but a small cup ceding the eternal and holy blood from one generation to another.
That’s why the blood doesn’t belong to the man but to nation, it’s never in flow for one man but for the whole nation and when the time comes they don’t’ ask you who are you and what are you like but what blood do you bare: Serbian or Hungarian, Greece or AVARSKA. In horrible time like that when everyone are silent, the blood speaks in language of ancestors and you will not be asked who are you and what are you like but whose blood flows in your veins.
Children of mine, in the name of the blood and the spirit of mine, let there be no hatred towards the other blood and especially not toward the brotherly blood.
Don’t spill others blood because it’s form another nation. But and the same time my child without any doubt strongly defend yourself because its your blood and the blood of your ancestors.
Never give our blood to be spilled because it’s Serbian.
Go with peace into war and with war give peace.
Return love with love, but defend the Serbian blood with the blood.
LEGACY OF THE GRAVES AND THE BONES
The graves, my dear child, graves and bones makes the nation.
Those who are not aware of their graves and their bones can never become a nation. They are more aliken to the wolves and foxes, those who do not know their graves.
And the graves are, my child, silent villages under the ground still having deceased for its inhabitants. The graves are silent beds they sleep in forever, resting in untouchable peace, these bodies of our ancestors.
The nation is not build just of the living ones who walk and create above the ground, but each and every of the dead as well, resting inside.
One swath does not make a field, nor does one mow. One swath for the field is the same as the one battle or qualm for the nation.
The nation grows in waves and falls in mows of death as grass, but at the same time it develops thicker and thicker through the ground and flourishes with new generations.
Remember, my child, our graves are the holiest marks of our nation and the holiest boundaries of our country.
If no one of the living can give you the answer to the question, what distance does you land and your heritage reach, search for the bones and graves, and the dead will tell you the truth.
LEGACY OF THE HEAVEN AND THE STARS
Certain things cannot be at earth, man and nation cannot be without them or, if they can, they are neither humans nor nation.
Certain things cannot be plowed, forged in the blacksmith shop, become covered with leaves within wood, dreamed within dream, told by tongue, attained by mind, killed by sward, within story told, child of mine.
Certain things cannot be onto the earth at all.
Moreover, every man has its own sky over his head, every nation its own heaven. There is everything they have not in the earth.
There is, child of mine, exactly everything that at the cultivated field cannot be grown, in the blacksmith shop cannot be forged, does not become covered with leaves within wood, cannot be burned by fire, cannot be dreamed within dream, and cannot be told by tongue, not attained by mind, cannot be killed by sword and within story told.
Everything that is not onto earth, there is, really.
Everything is possible there. Moreover, not everybody can know that nor see it.
Only prophets and clairvoyants, astronomers and astrologers can know that. Again, that can nebogledac and nebotvorac, neboteča and nebohodac, neboslov and neboslovac, neboljub and neboljubac, neboplovni neboplovac and neborodni neborodac (Serbian various terms for gifted people in a meaning of knowing and loving the sky and heavenly things). In addition, there are other spirituals and wonder men, heroes and sages, lunatics, martyrs and lucky men, the wizards of sky; those who has knowledge of ascending earth to heavens, VOZNESUT ZEMLJU DO NEBES, AND WHO HAS POWER TO BRING DOWN HEAVENS TO THE EARTH.
Those are people with knowledge of opening heavens.
Above is everything we do not possess down here, everything we are waiting for.
Remember well, child of mine, that human’s body exists on earth, but his soul flutters trough sky.
In such a way, nation exists on earth but his soul lives in the sky. Nation without soul has no its own sky. Heavens
LEGACY OF THE LANGUAGE
Guard to your language like your country, child of mine. The word can be lost like city, like land, like soul. What would the nation be if lost all that?
Do not talk with foreign words. If you do, know that you have not take it over, but that you converted yourself. You would better lose the greatest and hardest city and your countries than the smallest and most insignificant word of your language.
Swards are not the only arms to conquer the countries and lands, languages are too. Know that your enemy conquers you by quantity of words he cancels and overcomes.
If the nation lost its words, it is no longer the nation.
There are illnesses, child of mine that attacks language like an infection the body. I can remember those illnesses and foolishnesses. Oftentimes that is happening at the edges of people, at points of contact, where one language rubs with another.
Two nations, my dear, can fight and reconcile. Two languages can never reconcile. Two nations can live within greatest peace and love, but their languages can only fight. Whenever two languages meet and mix, they are like two armies in a battle for death and life. Until when both can be listened, the battle is equal; when one starts to overpower, that one will prevail over. At the end, there is the only one. The battle is over. One language vanished and one nation disappeared.
That battle between languages neither lasts for a day or two, child of mine, like battle between armies, nor for a year or two like war between people, but a century or two; and for language that is so tiny measure of time like a moment or two for a man. Therefore, it is much better, child of mine, to lose all battles and wars than lose a language. If the language is lost so is the nation.
Man learns his language for one year and memorizes it as long as he lives. Nation memorizes its language as long as exist. Foreign language man learns for one year also. That is time he needs to gave up of his own and accept foreign. Dear child of mine that is the illness and the peril of language, when one man starts to give up his own one and accepts a foreign one, no matter if that is by his own will or to be obliged to.
Even I have been using the language as the most dangerous weapon in my battles, child of mine. Even I have been releasing the illnesses and perils onto their languages. During sieges and long after, I have been sending herdsman, peasants, artisans and vagabonds to flood their cities and villages as servants and slaves, merchants, bandits, libertines and promiscuous women. I have conquered more by language than by sword.
Be aware child of mine from those speaking different languages. They imperceptible arrive, you do not know when and how. They are bowing and getting away at every step. They are lovable and fawning like dogs cause, they do not know your language. You can never tell what are they thinking of you, and you cannot, they are mostly silent. The first ones coming to investigate the situation inform others and, here they are, they crawl over the night in constant rows like ants.
Some day you dawns surrounded by a mob of people speaking different languages from all sides.
You are too late finding out they are not mute; they have their own language, songs, dances and rites. They are becoming louder, they are not pleasing and begging but asking for and grabbing. You are staying at your own but in a foreign country. All you can is to drive them away, or you to run away which seems more possible.
Conqueror of land conquered that way needs no army, just to take what language won.
Language is harder than any rampart, child of mine. When all your ramparts and fortresses are broken by your enemy, do not desperate but listen to what is going on with your language. If the language remains intact, you do not have to worry. Send spies and merchants deep into the villages and cities, to observe. Where our word echoes and revolves like gold coins, there our country still exists in spite of the ruler, child of mine. Emperors are changing, states collapsing, but language and people stays; in such a way overcame parts of country and people will be rejoining some day with its source of language and home of people. Remember well, child of mine, not every overcoming or secession is of that danger for a nation as for a generation. It can harm only one
LEGACY OF THE CHURCHES
Man builds a house not only for himself but also for his children and grandchildren. That is the genesis of family and household.
Ruler builds a church not only for himself and his sons and grandchildren but also for his people that will attend it trough centuries. That is the genesis of state.
What remains after man is the house.
Church remains after the ruler.
House remains to children, church to people.
The church is like great ship sailing to deeper and further times and nations unknown to us, child of mine. Arriving to any century, it will bring us and reveal to our unborn descendants.
I feel happy and tranquil child of mine that now, my Studenica departed toward centuries. At the universal deluge of time only ships like Noah’s boat are capable of saving us from deepest abyss and oblivions. We, builders of those churches, shall be the navigators of time at those big ships, child of mine. I, Nemanja, the son of Zavida, I, Simeon the monk, am crying and mourning for those splendid people who couldn’t sail to present times onto their fragile structures, whose descendants we are. Their huts and hovels were weaker than they were and not able to bring them into our times. Their giant figures are coming in sight through unclear contours of stories and songs.
Into our solid churches that are capable of withstanding the horrible gusts of time, we immured ourselves. They are all of stone and marble, all the toughest in the world. We gave us into our churches, we wrote in our faith and we painted figures within. In Studenica, our far ancestors shall recognize us. They shall know who we are and what kind of we are. Moreover, they shall be proud to have us I know that, for sure. They shall be proud to be of Nemanjic’s tribe, child of mine.
When I decided to construct Studenica, you were only eight years old. I asked a skilled artisan how many years he would need to construct the church.
- Seven – he answered shortly.
- That is too long!
- If I build it for at least seven years, it will last for seven centuries at least.
- How many times it takes people to destroy it artisan?
- Neither people for seven days, time for seven centuries, the great head of a tribal state, but neither after seven days nor seven centuries you shall not lose Studenica, for I shall build it to be magnificent and very beautiful. I have seen more beautiful and magnificent ruins than completed structures, the great head of tribal state.
Build them for today; build them for tomorrow child of mine, but for centuries too. When you build for nation, build to be lasting and strong as nation itself.
LEGACY OF THE STATE
The country and the nation are not the same.
The nation is older than the state. The nation is older than everything is.
The nation lasts longer than the state. Exist before state and remains after.
One nation can live in different countries; also, one country can have different nations.
Now, here me well child of mine, listen attentively. One nation, one country, that was my intention and that remains, and I am handing it over to all of you as bequeath, from now to forever.
Serbs does not own their own country yet, they are scattered in all directions. Slavs swarmed lands from northern to eastern seas. They could become the greatest empire on the earth and the greatest people under the heaven. They remained and they still are just a multitude in foreign countries.
Every tribe is fighting to create its country. The great people of Slavs are scattered into minorities and smaller countries. Small country is like small fish in the sea that the big one swallows.
Big countries swallow smaller ones.
Serbia is too small in the mouth of big Byzantium, child of mine. It always protrudes out of entrails of big countries. As soon as that grasping has left us or we managed to escape, immediately the other grabbed us.
The biggest trouble was when everyone wanted to create a kingdom of his hill and valley.
I have decided to create the country of all Serbs, child of mine, so I have done it. I have not created a kingdom or empire. That is your inheritance. There are enough Serbs for the kingdom and the empire. In front of the great tribal state that I have created, bigger and smaller kingdoms and empires stepped back.
No village can dream to become an empire in my country. Now I have my own state confirmed by its own force, golden seals of kingdoms and empires and charters.
Guard to it, spread it and strengthen it. There are enough room to spread it and with whom to strengthen. In foreign countries around us live our fellow tribesmen with the same blood and the same language.
There are more Serbs out of our country than within. That has a meaning that the state of mine is just the beginning, child of mine.
That looks like when childbirth starts and only a head perceived.
Primordial birth pangs move within woman, head appears and part by part of body. That is the bearing of man.
ROŽDAETSJA ČELOVEK! (THE MAN IS BORN!)
Primordial instincts of many generations and tribes of same blood and same language began to gather in one state. That is the bearing of the nation. NAROD ROŽDAETSJA! (THE NATION IS BORN!)
The end of my life is near, child of mine. I can declare the most joyous proclamation: that is the born of the great child of mine, Serbia.
ROŽDAETSJA SERBIJA! (SERBIA IS BORN!)
LEGACY OF THE AUTHORITIES
To be the beggar is better than the czar in Serbia, child of mine.
Everywhere is the same. Czar dies, another came, the third kills him, the fourth dethrone the third, while the fifth is overthrow by the sixth, and so on until kingdoms and empires lasts. The worst is while neither empire nor czar exists, neither kingdom nor king, neither authority nor ruler, but only disbanded people as ours, ready to easily accept everyone for czar and master, and even readier to throw him of and renounce like of leper.
That cannot happen to beggar.
I have had the happiness and the unhappiness child of mine to govern the Serbia. The biggest achievement I was able to reach was to become the great head of a tribal state, which often meant to be the great servant of great emperors.
Foreign czars and emperors have not allowed us to establish our kingdom. Their greatest mercy started and ended with let me, the great head of a tribal state to govern with the people they could not cope with, because they neither can conquer us nor recognize as equal.
They needed someone to keep with this craggy people, to mobilize army for wars, to collect taxes and to protect them like human impenetrable barrier from other nations at borders of empire.
While we are doing it, we are fine; even we can become the great heads of a tribal state. If we think of our country and us, here they are with great army to punish us and demonstrate who the master is and who the servant at our own land is.
When they move into campaign against Serbia, they are more relying on our army commanders than onto theirs. Their messengers proclaim that czar will overturn the head of a tribal state and replace him with Serbian army commander or duke that helps the most.
One by one, Serbian traitors are crossing then on czar’s side; the great head of a tribal state is running away with some followers into deepest forests and caves or asking help from some other czar.
Nobody recognize the Serbian ruler, czar nor king, pope nor patriarch, either foreigner nor brother, or last cobbler of peasant shoe. There was a poor cobbler named Blaž at Dioklitija. Even he was not recognizing me. He was over his head of awl and a cord so he fled into the woods, roads, and gathers quite a bit associates all alike him. Therefore, decided Blaž to crown him and took over not only the woods and roads but also the whole country.
If a cobbler of peasant shoe can decide that, than duke or prince certainly can. At the end, everything remained as at the beginning, child of mine, only awl stayed without cobbler, principalities without princes and armies without dukes. God and all the saints were helping me.
What else our history is, child of mine, than constant appointing and removing of the rulers, innumerable attempts to establish authority and state.
When I was born I had everything, but my given name Nemanja means one that has no possessions. My second name is Stefan, the one who carries the wreath. Stefanos, the wreathed, but on my head fell no wreath or crown. Now I am Simeon the monk; from all possesses I have had now remains this feeble body and from governance my naked soul. The body I am handing over to the earth it walked on, and my sinful soul to you child of mine, to cleanse it with your prays in front of the judge of heavens.
LEGACY OF THE BOOK AND THE LETTERS
A nation without possessions of its own literacy and books, writers and book lovers cannot have name of the nation.
Say our biggest word, child of mine, say SRB and tell how long it rings in your ears. One moment it rings. Said word lasts only while saying it, than vanishes like breath from chests that made them.
Only written word can survive.
Say AZ (A – letter), BUKI (B), VJEDI (V), GLAGOL (G), and all these words will fly away as soon as said, like flock of birds. However, write them on the stone, wood, stags skin, frail peace of papyrus, and you will always find them where you left them. Written words last longer than mouth saying them, throats shouting and ears hearing them. Forever lasts. Even after thousand years of silence on stags and papyrus, they shall speak. I saw and read ancient books, child of mine, written thousand years ago. You are reading yourself the books written by heads turned into dust or hollow skulls long time ago.
Facts written down in the books are remaining after us.
We are groping in the dark of past and searching through far history something about us Serbians and not finding any trace of us, like we have never been existed. However, we have been. If we have never been than we could never be here now. We Serbians are children of Adam too. We existed but we have never been record. Only nations written in enter the history.
I am telling you, child of mine, speaking is like having conversation with the moment. Writing is like talking to centuries, so we must begin our great conversation with our descendants for the eternity, VO VJEKI VJEKOV, child of mine.
Letters are an odd seed, the best semen of every nation. It buds from the paper after thousand years, blooms into voice and word within picture and tale, thought and emotion, ancient hard-beats.
What a nation cannot with a sword and plow, with book and pencil it can, my dear child of mine. Quill of cane and light feather makes deeper furrows than plow or hoe.
GLAGOLJATI (to say mass – from the Glagolitic missal) means passing by; writing means eternity.
Nation without its own writers and bookbinders does not own the history in the past and life in the future. Sometimes foreign hands by foreign letters wrote about us in foreign books. Quill in a foreign hand is more dangerous than a sword, my son. We shall come into being as nation when we record about us in our books, by our language and letter.
Good writer values more than three severe dukes and three great cities.
Capable duke can conquer any city, other can seize. Nobody can subjugate the book; the book between hard covers saved many countries and cities.
Your hand is skilled for quill and paper, child of mine. God endowed and determined you first, to legible record us within books. Record us in the book of people of this world, for knowledge that we have always been, we are and we shall be.
LEGACY OF THE SERBIAN NAMES
Guard to the Serbian names, child of mine. They recognize us by them between other nations. The names of our fathers and mothers, our brothers and sisters, and our personal names. Rastko, my son, they are sacred, as these saintly we are having now.
The foreign clergymen, Greece and Latin, would gladly put us on their foreign names. They would gladly die out every Serbian name.
And what would it be if just all the Serbs put over their sacred names? I am afraid; there are will not be any more Serbs. And our fight is not to annihilate Serbs, Serbia and everything that is Serbian, but to praise. Splendid are the Serbian names.
Have, for example, child of mine, any Serbian name. For example, look at Dobrašin. Is there anything wrong with our Dobrašin? In that name, in Dobrašin, there is a lot of goodness and something more than goodness, because if it is not, it would be simply Good (name Dobrashin, caries the significance of being good). In such a way, our name Dobrilo, is not having a character that he is good, but that he makes other to be better. Child of mine, without our Dobre and Dobraša, Dobrašina and Dobreše, Dobrice and Dobrihne, Dobrila and Dobromila, Dobrimira and Dobrinka, Dobriše and Dobrivoja, Dobroja and Dobroje, Dobrohvala and Dobroljuba, Dobromira and Dobronje, Dobroslava and Dobrote, what would we be? The nation possesses such goodness in their names, can only be The People of God. By their names, they preserve goodness, longing for it and carrying throughout the world. We should not take away that goodness and touch their souls. Their names consider the soul of nation.
I am not saying, child of mine, that it is not worthy to name our people by holy names. It is good, but not with force and not to all of them. Like yeast and salt placed in flour, to slowly and a little bit, raise the bread, and be flavorful. Bread made with too much salt and yeast is not edible.
We, child of mine, have started the great fight for faith and Serbia. In that fight, we must not obtain religion and lose Serbia.
God, what are we doing? To these people we are taking away their old religion, destroying their shrines and old Gods. We have forbidden their old rites and habits, reversed their souls. Here, we started to replace their names with foreign once, although sacred. God, is there anything to left out of this people? Will it be, when we are done with all our intentions? Would wasteland and ruins be everything to left behind us? To destroy we have to, to destroy to be able to create. Oh God, let us to create as much as possible, and to destroy as less as possible.
Let us not touch their names. Their names are innocent and very beautiful. Let us add them some holy names, and that would be sufficient for God and nation. Why would we name them by foreign and unwilling names they would not recognize by significance? We should not take away from them what is the most precious and the most beautiful that Love devised and placed in their names. Those names hold their secret of life, Love and happiness. They devised the most beautiful names in the world, splendid with sound and full of sense. There would be too much sadness if there would not be any more Držislava, Vojislava and Vladimira in this country. And who would create our country, who would defend our country and who would govern our country? What should we get if our common shepherds and peasants became Anastazije, Teodore, Simonide, Veronike and Magdalene or some other saints and empresses? Would they be better than our Milica, Danica, Cvijeta or Tankoslava? How many joys are there in Radojka and Radovan, graciousness in Milinka and Milun, gloriousness in Slavna and Slavoljub, peacefulness in Tijana and Tihomir? What a thick hair are there within Kosara, charm within Miljana and Miljan, scent within Ljubica and Miomir, soul within Dušan and Dušica? Zlatko and Zlata with gold gild us. Srebrenka with silver silver-plate us. Who would defend us without too many Branislava? Who would expel the evil away if there would not be Zlogonje? Herbs without Biljana would not name herbs. Gentleness would not be known without Blaža, Blagoja and Blaženke. Who would guard tenderness without Grube, Grubiše and Grubana. Miroljub and Miroslav are kissing the peace. The most beautiful collection of poems could be composed of our names; they could be stringed like pearls! And what are we doing?
So, remember well, the child of mine: we shall never be the grater Christians if we have been the Serbs.
I admire the greatest power of our people to similar everything to them, to make Serbian everything. Do you see what is going on: we would like to Christianize Serbs, but they Serb the Christianity. Every nation has something to give to the Christianity. When they do, Christianity is no longer foreignism, but theirs. And more they gave, and more they accept through their souls, they become more and more Christian. I prefer a Serbed Christian than Christianized Serb, because this world has many Christians, but there is only one Serbian. From the East and from the West, many of them would like to adopt us and destroy through Christianity, and it’s up to us, child of mine, to survive in Christianity and stay who we are. That is the meaning of the faith. Our faith is Christian, our Christianity is Orthodox and our Orthodoxy is Serbian.
Why Do We Want to Join the Reichstag?
by Joseph Goebbels
We are an anti-parliamentarian party that rejects for good reasons the Weimar constitution and its republican institutions. We oppose a fake democracy that treats the intelligent and the foolish, the industrious and the lazy in the same way. We see in the present system of majorities and organized irresponsibility the main cause of our steadily increasing miseries. So why do we want to be in the Reichstag?
We enter the Reichstag to arm ourselves with democracy's weapons. If democracy is foolish enough to give us free railway passes and salaries, that is its problem. It does not concern us. Any way of bringing about the revolution is fine by us.
If we succeed in getting sixty or seventy of our party's agitators and organizers elected to the various parliaments, the state itself will pay for our fighting organization. That is amusing and entertaining enough to be worth trying. Will we be corrupted by joining parliament? Not likely. Do you believe that once we march into the meeting of the illustrious parliamentarians we will propose a toast to Philipp Scheidemann? Do you think us such miserable revolutionaries that you fear that the thick red carpets and the well upholstered sleeping halls will make us forget our historical mission?
He who enters parliament perishes! Well, that is true if he enters parliament to become a parliamentarian. But if he enters with a tough and driving will to carry on an uncompromising battle against the growing corruption of our public life he will not become a parliamentarian, rather will remain what he is: a revolutionary.
Mussolini entered parliament. Shortly afterward, he marched on Rome with his Black Shirts. The communists also sit in the Reichstag. No one is naive enough to believe that they want to work seriously and positively. One more thing: If we do not succeed in making our dangerous men immune to legal prosecution, they will all find themselves behind bars sooner or later. Will that happen if they possess parliamentary immunity? Certainly. When democracy is near its end it will resort openly to the terror of capitalistic dictatorship that it ordinarily uses covertly. But that will not happen for some time, and in the meanwhile the fighters for our faith will enjoy parliamentary immunity long enough to broaden our fighting front such that shutting them up will not be as easy as democracy would like it to be.
Another thing. Our party's agitators pay 600 to 800 Marks a month [in travel costs] to strengthen the Republic. Is it not proper for the Republic to cover these costs by providing them with railroad passes? Who of you thinks that we should throw our own small change to the Jewish Dawes railroad when the Republic longs to help us out?
Is it the beginning of a compromise? Do you really think that we who have stood before you a hundred or a thousand times preaching faith in a new Germany, who have smilingly faced death dozens of times from the red mob, who have joined you in battling every form of resistance whether of official or nonofficial nature, who have bent before no command or terror, do you really think that we would lay down our weapons in exchange for a railroad pass?
If we only wanted to become representatives, we would not be National Socialists, rather I suppose German National Party members or Social Democrats. They have the most seats at their disposal and one does not need to risk one's life to compete with their leading lights. We do not have the stomach for that.
We do not beg for votes. We demand conviction, devotion, passion! A vote is only a tool for us as well as for you. We will march into the marble halls of parliament, bringing with us the revolutionary will of the broad masses from which we came, called by fate and forming fate. We do not want to join this pile of manure. We are coming to shovel it out.
Do not believe that parliament is our goal. We have shown the enemy our nature from the podiums of our mass meetings and in the enormous demonstrations of our brown army. We will show it as well in the leaden atmosphere of parliament.
We are coming neither as friends or neutrals. We come as enemies! As the wolf attacks the sheep, so come we.
You are not among your friends any longer! You will not enjoy having us among you!
Unfortunately, jews and there democratic/marxist friends have learned from there mistake in the past, so the chance that history will repeat itselve in such a manner is nihil to put it midely.
The Racial Biology of the Jews
by Baron Otmar von Verschuer, M.D.
TRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTION (Charles E. Weber, Ph.D.)
The following article was taken from Volume III (1938) of the very important series, Forschungen zur Judenfrage (Studies on the Jewish Problem), the first six volumes of which were published by the Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt in Hamburg during 1937 to 1941. The nearly fifty articles in these six volumes represent the thinking on the Jewish question by some of the best German minds of that time. The authors of the articles were specialists, in some cases internationally known specialists, in a variety of fields, including anthropology, demography, genealogy, genetics, history, law, literary scholarship, musicology, philosophy and theology. The earlier articles in the series were given as lectures before meetings of the Reichsinstitut für die Geschichte des neuen Deutschlands, Forschungsabteilung Judenfrage (National Institute for the History of the New Germany, Research Division for the Jewish Problem). It is not at all difficult to imagine that the research efforts which went into these articles cost the erstwhile German government hundreds of thousands, if not millions of Reichsmark.
Although the research was subsidized by the National Socialist government, the tone of the articles is by no means generally and uniformly hostile to Jews. Baron von Verschuer's article, for example, is nearly free of value judgments and it concedes in a number of passages that Jews have special strengths characteristic of their race.
By 1936 a number of circumstances had converged which made possible the publishing of this large body of research by non-Jews on the Jewish question. Such a constellation is highly unlikely ever to appear in the sky again, certainly not in our lifetime, and that is a fact which in itself gives these volumes a unique position and value in the serious study of the Jewish question. One circumstance was the importance which the German government attached at that time to the Jewish question and its willingness to allocate considerable economic resources to the study of the question in an attempt to find a constructive solution to it. This circumstance was combined with the willingness and ability of German scientists and scholars to come to grips with the Jewish problem as far as their areas of expertise were concerned. Perhaps most important, however, was the circumstance that there were individuals who had the vision and ability to organize such efforts. Especially noteworthy was Dr. Karl Alexander von Müller (1882-1964), who, was a history professor at the University of Munich from 1917 to 1945 and who also became President of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Not only did he publish a number of notable books between 1923 and 1949, but he also published the Historische Zeitschrift during the years 1933-1945. His student, Walter Frank (1905-1945), became President of the above-mentioned Reichsinstitut für die Geschichte des neuen Deutschlands. We encounter Frank's vivid and interesting exposition of the objectives of the Forschungsabteilung at the beginning of the first volume of the series. One need only read Frank's sixteen-page address to understand the attitude toward the Jewish problem held by many middle class Europeans in its historical perspective.
It would be difficult to imagine that the present generation of effete, career-oriented, intimidated American academic types could ever produce a series similar to the Forschungen zur Judenfrage. The American academic establishment has been far too seriously corrupted by funds from Washington and Jewish donors. Fortunately, not all American scholars kowtow. There are individual Americans in academic life who have shown the courage, vision, ability and integrity necessary to challenge some of the historical and anthropological myths which have been used with cynically evil calculation to manipulate American public opinion. Such scholars have been harassed and in some cases even dismissed from their hard-earned positions which required many years of professional preparation.
Even the most philo-Semitic of readers will have to concede the historical value, if nothing else, of the Forschungen zur Judenfrage because they throw penetrating light on the European attitudes toward Jews during the 1920s and 1930s and how they came about. Many Jews, but not all of them, would have us believe that they were just the convenient victims of a scapegoat mentality, prevalent especially in the defeated nations of Europe after 1918. However, this is a grossly oversimplified, self-serving explanation that disregards a number of strong historical forces, such as the great and justifiable fear which the European middle classes had of the barbarically cruel Communist government which had been installed over the former Russian Empire and which was correctly sensed as an essentially Jewish government.
As a result of the energetic book burning and intellectual intimidation on the part of officials of the powers which occupied Germany beginning in 1945 after the tragic, unnecessary and fratricidal Second World, War, these volumes are especially scarce. The number of known copies in the United States could very well be Ins than a dozen. I have learned that they are in strong demand and are being sold at high prices in the German book trade.
The first article I have chosen for translation is certainly one of the most important in the series and perhaps one of the most interesting ones for the American reader concerned with the Jewish question. It deals with genetically determined characteristics which, in their totality, differentiate Jews from other races Many Jews, but by no means all of them, have energetically sought to deny that such genetically determined differences exist, or at least they have sought to deny to non-Jews the existence of such differences, even if they themselves are consciously or subconsciously aware of them. Here we need only think of Franz Boas (1858-1942) and his all too influential school of anthropology.
The author of this incisive article, Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer (1896-1969), had a distinguished career in the study of human genetics. From 1927 to 1935 he was a division chief of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Genetics and Eugenics in Berlin and during 1942 to 1945 he was its director. He published studies of tuberculosis in twins in 1933. His Eugenik was published in 1966. Baron von Verschuer also held professorial posts in Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Münster. The second edition of his layman's manual on hereditary diseases and eugenic measures, Leitfaden der Rassenhygiene, was published in 1944.
When reading von Verschuer's Rassenbiologie der Juden we must bear in mind that it was written nearly a half century ago. I have not chosen to modernize his vocabulary or use such fashionable euphemisms as "mental retardation" for "feeblemindedness" (Schwachsinn).
Lest it be thought that von Verschuer was simply summarizing his own subjective observations or was exclusively dependent on materials published after 1933, we need only note that nearly all of the literature cited in the valuable bibliography at the end of the article originated before 1933 and that many of its authors would seem to be Jewish.
Since the center of gravity of the Jewish problem has passed from Europe to North America, especially during the course of the twentieth century, it is now high time that some of the best non-Jewish research ever done on the Jewish problem be made available to English-speaking readers. Even just the titles and the names of the authors make exciting reading for those who wish to acquire a deeper knowledge of the roots of one of the gravest and most pressing of American national problems. In order to convey a hint of the breadth and depth of the articles in the Forschungen zur Judenfrage we shall list the original titles and their English equivalents after the conclusion of the article by Baron von Verschuer.
Finally let me recommend to Jews themselves that they read and reflect on the Forschungen zur Judenfrage, for these studies contain many astute observations and much valuable historical information as seen through the eyes of outstanding non-Jewish scholars. The Jews' persistence in blind hatred of their host populations, their insensitivity to or even total disregard of the sufferings of their victims, their ruthless use of the media which they now largely control, their insidious but shortsighted attempts to destroy the mores of their host populations, their disregard of the lessons of history and their arrogant presumption of their own moral superiority can only render impossible a constructive, nonviolent solution to the Jewish Problem.
RACIAL BIOLOGY OF THE JEWS
by Baron Otmar von Verschuer, M.D.
"Jewry was and is a religion -- but never a race" is the final conclusion at which the Jew M. Fishberg arrives in his book, Die Rassenmerkmale der Juden (The Racial Characteristics of Jews), Munich, 1913. A large number of similar opinions of Jewish authors could be quoted additionally. Among the opinions of Jewish authors, however, there are also opposing ones. Thus, we find in the book by F.A. Theilhaber, Der Untergang der deutschen Juden (The Decline of German Jews), Munich, 1911, the remarkable passage: "Inbreeding guarantees the only objective Jewish identification and maintains the racial nature of Jews while the adherence to the Jewish religion represents the subjective aspect of belonging to the Jewish group." Thus, within the Jews' own ranks there is not only to be found denial but also recognition of the racial aspect as their own identification and differentiation from their host populations.
Much confusion has been caused by the improper formulation of the question, "Are Jews a race?" The term "race," a systemic race [Systemrasse], as it has been established by scientific anthropology, cannot immediately be applied to Jews. As we heard in the lecture by Professor Fischer ["Rassenentstehung und äteste Rassengeschichte der Hebräer" (Racial Origin and Earliest Racial History of the Hebrews), Forschungen zur Judenfrage, Volume III, pp. 121-136], the Jews have developed from various racial roots. They consist of a number of races which are contrasted as a foreign element to the races of our nation. By means of this simple formulation we have not yet sufficiently grasped the racio-biological problem of the Jews as we encounter it today. The racial history of the Jews during the past 2,000 years must be taken into consideration. The inherently astonishing phenomenon that an ethnic group could preserve itself so long without a territory (the Teutons lost their ethnic identity in southeastern Europe and northern Africa within centuries -- the Nordic racial admixture which the Teutons imparted to those countries can be noticed even today) has been explained too unilaterally simply by the racial characteristics of Jews and their genetic isolation. The communality of religion, the special education through the Talmud and the idea of being a chosen people have maintained themselves with such force that during the course of history individuals and even groups of people could be absorbed into Jewry by marriage and conversion without their being any change in the characteristics of Jews. Taken as a whole, the Jews have remained racially isolated within the other nations.
Quite contradictory conclusions have been drawn from the history of the Jews for the judging of the racial question: Some emphasize the preservation of the original racial character while others speak of an "adaptation" of the Jews to the racial characteristics of their host populations. The attempt is made to substantiate this by individual pictures of "Nordic," "Ethiopian," "Indian" or even "Mongolian" Jews. Even the strictest laws cannot erect any absolute barriers between human beings when they live together, "Border crossings" cannot be avoided forever and the occurrence of persons of mixed race is the result. (I am grateful to Karl Georg Kuhn for pointing out that in some cases it also could be a matter of missionized Jews.)
In order not to encumber the investigation of the racial biology of modem Jews with any hypotheses, I shall first give a description of the Jews simply confined to those living in central Europe. The purpose of this description shall be to separate the genetic from the non-genetic characteristics in order to reach the objective of recognizing the genetic differences between Germans and Jews (I.e., persons of German extraction -- "of German or racially related heritage." [Translator's note: The phrase "deutschen oder arterwandten Blutes" is a formulation taken from the German racial laws of 1935].) From this position of hereditary biological makeup, which has its foundation in laws of nature that are generally recognized today, it will be easier to arrive at a clear insight into the racial-biological problem of the Jewish question.
If two groups of human beings are compared with one another, it must first be observed that every characteristic within a group has a certain more or less wide-ranging variational latitude. A distinguishing difference in a characteristic is then present if the variational latitude of the one group does not overlap with that of the other group, i.e., characteristics of the one group do not occur in the other group. The observation of such a characteristic then clearly establishes the membership of a human being. Such characteristics that are absolutely typical of a race are, for example, the black skin color of the Negro races, the "fil-fil" or peppercorn hair of the Bushmen and the slanting upper eyelid fold of the Mongolians. These characteristics do not occur among persons of German extraction. By such characteristics one would immediately be able to recognize the strain of a foreign race. Such an individual characteristic by which a Jew could be recognized with absolute certainty is not known.
All individual characteristics of the German racial groups are also found in individual Jews and characteristics typical of Jews do not prove with certainty a Jewish strain in the ancestry of a person of German extraction when they occur isolated in him. The racial characteristics of the Jews (preponderantly Near Eastern-Oriental) can also have come to us through non-Jews in individual cases. Obviously, those are rare exceptions; as a rule we are correct in our racial diagnosis, which, however, is always based on the observation of typical combinations of characteristics.
Between a group of Germans and a group of Jews the differences can easily be observed because the distribution curve in many characteristics is a clearly different one. The mean values are different as well as characteristic types which occur with greatest frequency. Nevertheless the curves of distribution of characteristics overlap. It is thus a question of gradual differences as they are, in most cases, expressed in frequency differences. A decision from the characteristic as to the membership in one group or the other can then be made only with greater or lesser probability.
After these general preliminary remarks, we are going to discuss the characteristics, one by one, by which the Jews are differentiated from the persons of German extraction. As the first group of characteristics we shall observe the normal physical features, the racial characteristics in the narrower sense of the word. Thereafter the sicknesses and the psychological characteristics, will undergo a discussion.
As the medium height of the Jews, values between 161 cm and 164 cm [2.54 cm=1 inch] are found for the male sex. If we compare this measurement with the anthropological data which are recorded in Deutsche Rassenkunde ("German Anthropology"), published by Eugen Fischer and now comprising 16 volumes, we find that all German comparative groups have a higher average height, between 166 cm and 173 cm. Height of the body is, aside from certain environmental variations, a preponderantly genetically determined characteristic.
During the course of growth, differences occur by virtue of the fact that rather generally sexual maturity begins earlier in the case of the Jews. The beginning of menstruation in the case of Jewesses occurs 1/2 to 1 year earlier than in groups in comparable climatic and social circumstances. Even if the onset of puberty is changed by external influences such as climate, urban life and occupational activity, racial differences manifest themselves. The early maturity of Jewish children is manifested in the physical as well as psychological areas.
In the growth ratios of the body the Jew is characterized as follows: In relation to the length of the torso the length of the legs is not as great, frequently resulting in the impression of a squat build. The arms are also relatively short. Hands and feet are often narrow. On the legs, which are frequently crooked, a weak calf musculature is often quite noticeable. The musculature and connective tissue exhibit a flabbiness which is caused in part by a lack of use and bodily exercise, but also in part by a hereditary tendency. As a result of these factors, one often observes a flat chest, a round back, a limp posture and the so frequent tendency to flat feet. According to Salaman, among the enlisted men of the English army during the war flat feet were found in a frequency of 1 to 40 in the English soldiers and in a frequency of 1 to 6 in the Jewish soldiers. Of course, these body ratios have an effect on the gait, which is described as soft or slinking, or, as groping, dragging or shuffling.
The head of the Jew is of medium size. In the majority of cases it is short to medium. The comparable German groups show in part larger measurements, and some groups also narrower heads in the length-breadth ratio without the differences being particularly noticeable.
Pronounced differences can be seen in the soft parts of the face. In the case of Jews, to some extent (more commonly in the case of young people and the female sex), the "almond eye" characteristic of the oriental race is found. The inner comer of the eye is inclined to be round, while the outer comer is inclined to be pointed and turned up toward the outside. The upper lid is often described as thickened and of a heavy appearance.
In most cases the lips are somewhat fleshy, often puffed up, and above all the outward-hanging lower lip is noticeable, which is in conjunction with the high position of the furrow of the lower chin lip.
The "Jewish nose" has been described rather often. It is characterized by the fact that the tip of the nose is hook-shaped and beat downward and the sides of the nose are drawn upward. Viewed from the side, the shape of a "6" thus results with a stroke extended upwards. The sides of the nose are characterized by a special fleshiness, the cartilage of the tip of the nose is rather thick and the nasal septum sags downwards. Only a minority of Jews have this nasal form, which, for example, is not only characteristic of Jews but also the Near Eastern race. In addition to the course, thick and hooked "Jewish nose" there is also found the narrow, gently curved nose of the oriental race.
The ear is often described as especially "fleshy," relatively large and jughandle-like.
The skin of the Jews is often lacking in a ruddy color and of a light yellow, dull color, which often appears especially light in contrast to the dark color of the hair.
According to more recent investigations, the various human races are differentiated in the patterns of the side lines of the finger tips, and probably also of the surfaces of the hands and feet. From a table compiled by Fischer it is to be observed that the Jews occupy a special position among the European groups; they have more of the whorl pattern and less of the loop pattern. The pattern formation of the skin lines is essentially determined by special hereditary factors, it is completed after the first two to three months of the development of the embryo and it is not alterable by later environmental influences. Thus, a new proof of the distinct racial position of the Jews is to be seen in this observed difference from the European nations, which is greatest in contrast to the predominantly Nordic nations.
The color of the hair and of the eyes is darker on the average than in our case. Hair colors between brown and black and brown eyes are encountered most frequently. For many Jewish groups, a relatively large portion of red-haired persons is alleged (between 3% and 6% according to Martin), while in the case of Virchow's investigation of school children only 0.5% of Jewish children were observed to be red-haired. Redness of hair is often associated with strikingly white skin and an increased formation of freckles. Blond hair and blue eyes are not a rarity amongst Jews, however. In the case of the investigation of school children during the years 1874-1877 initiated by Virchow, amongst all school children in the German Empire, including the Jewish children, there were found 31.8% with light skin, blond hair and blue eyes, and amongst the Jewish children alone there were 11.17%. Altogether, children with dark skin, dark hair and dark eyes were found at a ratio of 14.35%, while the ratio was 42% amongst the Jewish school children.
The question does not have to be discussed here in detail as to whether the blond people and the people with light eyes were to be found with a similar frequency amongst the Jews even of ancient times or whether they were absorbed by the Jews at a later time. I concur with Günther's view that a strain of the Nordic race must not be seen as a primary factor in the light pigments amongst the Jews, but that it is mostly a matter of strains of the East Baltic race. Fischer also thinks of a mutational new origin of the hereditary makeup.
The form of the head hair in the case of Jews is less frequently straight and more frequently twisted in a spiral manner than is the case with German ethnic groups. The black head hair, which is twisted in a closely spiral manner and which is still occasionally encountered amongst Jews, is viewed as a result of an earlier Negroid admixture.
The body hair cover and the beard growth are often especially strong amongst Jews. Occasionally the border of the head hair ends in a downward point over the middle of the forehead.
The differences in characteristics of movement and gestures are more difficult to set forth in an objective, scientific manner than the differences in morphological characteristics, although the former, in particular, are especially strongly noticeable as a pure impression and are also striking to the layman. The fact that the Jews are different from us in typical movements and gestures is not doubted by Jews themselves. I quote two statements by Walther Rathenau: "A strange vision! In the midst of German life a separate, foreign kind of human beings, brilliantly and strikingly attired, with a hot-blooded, mobile behavior! An Asiatic horde on the sand of the March [i.e., Brandenburg]!" In another passage he says of the Jew: "It is difficult for him to find the happy mean between tail-wagging subordination and nasty arrogance." We have already spoken of the general lax body stance. Günther describes [the following] as characteristic: "The movements of the head often have a rocking aspect, just as the movements of the shoulder area, which gives the impression of something padded in the case of many Jews. In the case of many Jews the head appears pushed forward along with the neck, so that the collar is at some distance from the neck." "The arm movements of many Jews are characterized by the fact that the upper arm is closer to the thorax down to the elbow, while the lower arm gives a lively accompaniment to speaking with its movements." An alert observer will recognize the Jew amongst people on the street by his gait and by movements, even in the case of actors. The fact that in the kind of movement of a human being there is much which is hereditary, and thus of racial origin, has been demonstrated by observations of families and twins as well as comparative racial studies.
It is difficult to answer the question as to what extent the peculiar manner of speaking of many Jews, the "jabbering," must be viewed as an hereditary tendency or as something which has originated through education and other environmental influences.
It has also been claimed by various sources that the Jews are characterized by a particular "racial scent." It is difficult to judge what is attributable in this regard to environmental influences, such as living quarters, clothing, occupational activity, cleaning of the body and the composition of food; one need only think of the consumption of garlic, which the Jews like. The secretion of odorous substances takes place through the so-called apocrine glands, which form part of the sweat glands and are differentiated from the sweat glands by several features. They are to be found only at particular places on the body. They are supposed to be present to a greater extent among the colored races and the Jews, especially of the female sex (Leven, according to Schubert).
It has thus far been impossible to distinguish between Jews and non-Jews on the basis of the characteristics of their blood. In 1925 Manoiloff published an article, according to which he believes he can distinguish between the blood of Jews and that of Russians on the basis of a different coloration with cresol violet. Further data on the process have not been published. Subsequent investigations appear to have been without success. The investigation of blood groups, which was all the rage for a while, has not furnished us with any new method for differentiating human races. Only the proportion of the blood group hereditary characteristics is different in the racial groups. In this incidence the Jews occupy a position between Near Eastern and oriental groups, which is quite in keeping with our conception of the racial origin of Jews. The Jews are differentiated from the German population only by a somewhat higher proportion of blood group B.
On the whole, from the comparison of physical racial characteristics it is clear that the Jews living in Germany are quite distinct from the German population. Since it is a question of characteristics which are quite essentially genetically determined, the observed difference cannot be caused by external influences of any kind; the difference can only be explained by the different racial origin of the Germans on the one hand and of the Jews on the other hand. The characteristics which are considered typical of the present-day Jew and by which we can recognize him in his outward appearance, point to the Near Eastern and oriental-Mediterranean races. Hence, the results of research on racial history and those of the racial-biological examination of the Jews of the present time are in keeping with each other. The racial types of the Near Eastern and oriental races, known as Ashkenazim and Sephardim are still found today amongst the European Jews. The Ashkenazic type is the predominant one amongst the Jews in Germany.
Obviously, it must not be expected that every Jew can be classified as one of these types; this is possible only for a minority of them. Quite incorrectly there has been a tendency to see in this circumstance an "adaptation" to the environment or the host populations!
The distribution of racial characteristics and the divergence from typical combinations of characteristics in the present-day populations is a rather general phenomenon. Let us simply consider our own nation: How many exhibit in their physical appearance, for example (not to mention at all the psychological characteristics), the "pure" type of the Nordic race, which, after all, forms the basic component of our entire nation? If a group of people of another race is absorbed in another population (let us assume of an originally uniform race) and if finally a state of being completely mixed comes about, then the correlation between the characteristics of the two races is dissolved, that is, for example, the characteristic of blue eyes of the first race as well as the characteristics of dolichocephalism and smooth hair of the first race can be combined just as with the characteristics of brachycephalism and wavy hair of the second race. The frequency with which such "harmonic" or "unharmonic" combinations occur is then determined only by the frequency of the characteristics. In the case of the individual person, then, (in a state of being completely mixed) the presence of other characteristics of this race cannot be ascertained off hand from the one characteristic. For this reason the heritage of the Nordic race must not be sought in special "purity" only in those who conform to the racial pattern in the characteristics of the external physical type. Someone can display "defects" in comparison with this racial pattern (such as a round head or brown eyes) and still be quite preponderantly of the Nordic race; and vice versa a good Nordic type can exhibit in one instance a complete lack of Nordic characteristics in his psychological behavior.
On the basis of these general racial-biological investigations we understand the lack of uniformity in the physical racial pattern of the Jews. Various racial springs have flowed together in them. For that reason "pure" types of the Near Eastern race or oriental race are now only seldom to be found amongst them. Most Jews can indeed be recognized as to their racial origin and type by several physical characteristics. [Being a member of a foreign race cannot be circumvented by "assimilation." For that reason Jews who favor assimilation (Assimilationsjuden) are especially inclined to admit the possibility of the change of racial characteristics by the environment.] However, there are also Jews who cannot be recognized as such by their external appearance. Mind you, those are not, for instance, especially well "adapted" and especially slightly "Jewish" Jews! They are types of combinations which have simply remained free of the physical characteristics by which we recognize the Jew externally. There are not any indications of the other Jewish characteristics, especially the psychological ones, which can be inferred from them. It is therefore of little consequence whether prominent persons of intellectual Jewry can be recognized as Jews also in their purely physical characteristics or not. [There are rare cases of Jews by religion who are not Jews by race; under those circumstances, however, the conversion of the parents or grandparents, illegitimate origin or, if not those, adoption must be proved.]
We cannot cover the racial-biological problem of the Jews completely until we have examined the sicknesses and the normal psychological characteristics of Jews.
The different ways in which two human races are afflicted by diseases can be caused by three different groups of factors:
1. Pathological racial traits. Just as there are normal traits which characterize a race and differentiate it from the other human races, a racial difference can also be defined in terms of pathological hereditary traits. Up to the present there is no pathological hereditary trait known which occurs only in one race and in no other races. For that reason all differences of pathological racial traits can only be expressed in the different frequency of pathological hereditary traits.
2. Racial predisposition. A human race is characterized by the common possession of hereditary characteristics by which it differentiates itself from other races. A certain constitution of the whole body as well as of individual organs is necessarily concomitant with a particular susceptibility or, also, resistance in the presence of certain pathogenic influences. As a result of this the statistics give a varied frequency of diseases; the course of the disease and the kind of clinical picture can also bear a particular stamp in accordance with the racial predisposition.
3. Externally caused differences. Differences of two races in contracting illnesses can also be only apparently racially caused: Makeup of the soil, climatic conditions, exposure to infection, habitation, clothing, nutrition and occupational activity are seldom the same in the case of two races. However, in the evaluation of racial-pathological data they require extremely great attention.
In the following section only such observations are listed which have been confirmed by repeated investigations and which cannot find their explanation in various environmental influences.
The special need for physicians and the fear of disease on the part of Jews is confirmed by nearly all observers. Weissenburg speaks of nosophilia and nosophobia of Jews. Psychopathic and in nervous persons go to their physicians more frequently, even on account of imagined illnesses, and, on the other hand, just the fear of sickness rather frequently leads to actually becoming sick. There is thus a close, alternating relationship of cause and effect. The especially strong sensitivity to pain on the part of Jews has also been noted.
The average life expectancy is a somewhat longer one in the case of Jews and correspondingly the mortality rate is lower, From this circumstance, we cannot conclude that Jews have a greater vitality, for instance. The statistical averages are strongly influenced by the mortality rates of infants and small children, which are lower in the case of Jews. However, this is essentially concomitant with the social milieu and the lower numbers of children of the Jews. Quite generally there exists a close connection between the number of children and the mortality ratios of infants and small children. A comparison of the age distribution, however, also shows a somewhat greater proportion of the highest age groups amongst the Jews. The cause of this must probably be seen in the fact that the Jews go to their physicians more frequently and sooner. Furthermore, they are afflicted by occupational injuries to a smaller extent.
The lower frequency of various infectious diseases amongst Jews must be explained as a result of the same factors, with the exception of tuberculosis, in the case of which a more profound cause is to be assumed. According to consistent statistical data concerning the occurrence of tuberculosis in Jews and non-Jews in various countries with various non-Jewish populations, and also taking into account the given social conditions, the results are consistent: In the case of Jews, the mortality from tuberculosis is a lower one, the course of the disease is slower and more favorable, less frequently do there come about exudative decomposition processes and more frequently there are found benign forms contained by the formation of connective tissue. It is well known that for the contracting of tuberculosis in a human being, and in particular for the course of the disease, an hereditary predisposition is of significantly contributing importance. On the basis of general epidemiological experiences, tuberculosis exhibits the character of an acute epidemic with a preponderantly rapid and grave course in the case of ethnic groups which come in contact with it for the first time. During the course of generations the sickness takes on more and more the character of a chronic, insidious ethnic epidemic. Those who are predisposed are killed off by the disease with an increased incidence, in large part before the end of their reproductive age. For that reason the number of those who are resistant increases more and more in the population. There comes about that which is called a selective resistance. The Jews are now the race which has been exposed longest of all the races to the conditions of urban life. For that reason this race has been subjected longest to the selection process just described. The result is a genuine racial characteristic.
From the field of internal illnesses the frequency of diabetes in Jews is best known. For that reason diabetes has even been designated as the "Jewish disease." Having diabetes and dying from it are about four times as frequent in the case of Jews as in non-Jews. Nutritional factors are of significance in the occurrence of diabetes. The decline of the disease during the famine years of the war and the postwar period is well known. A sufficient explanation for the difference between Jews and non-Jews is not furnished by that circumstance. The greater frequency of marriage of related persons in the case of Jews has been pointed out, by which recessive hereditary diseases appear more frequently. There is no doubt about the fact that bearers of rare recessive hereditary diseases are especially frequently the products of marriages between related persons. In this connection, however, diabetes is not a rare hereditary disease. In addition to the recessive hereditary process there is also the dominant one. For that reason I am inclined to assume that the hereditary tendency to diabetes occurs more frequently amongst Jews than amongst non-Jews.
Two further grave metabolic diseases, Gaucher's disease and Niemann-Pick's disease, in the case of which the metabolism of fatty substances is impaired, occur with greater frequency in Jews. A special form of grave feeble-mindedness, amaurotic idiocy, also belongs in the group of disturbances of the lipoid metabolism. The infantile form of this disease occurs predominantly in Jews from the East.
Diseases of the blood vessels, especially arteriosclerosis, are said to occur more frequently in Jews. As a result of the arteriosclerosis of certain leg vessels there occurs a disease which is known as intermittent limping. It has been observed especially frequently in Jews. Spontaneous gangrene, a gangrene of the limbs resulting from disturbances of the vessels, is also especially common in Jews.
The problem of race and cancer has frequently been worked on. A number of things which were originally viewed as racial difference have been explained differently when subjected to critical examination. Thus, much which was reported about differences between Jews and non-Jews should not be considered. No differences exist in the frequency of cancer. On the other hand, the places attacked by it are perhaps not the same in the case of individual races. There are consistent reports from numerous observers concerning the low frequency of cancer of the uterus in Jewesses.
In the national census of handicapped people of 1925 more blind and deaf-mute persons were enumerated amongst Jews than in the rest of the population. This difference is to be attributed principally to a greater frequency of hereditary blindness and deafness amongst Jews. A more exact differentiation on the basis of the particular causative hereditary diseases is not yet possible. The only certain observation is the more frequent occurrence of glaucoma in Jews. Astigmatism is also reputed to be more frequent in Jews.
All investigators agree on a greater frequency of nervous and mental diseases in the case of the Jews. The organic nervous diseases are quite scarce and a statistical comparison is difficult for that reason. According to various reports Parkinson's disease (paralysis agitans) is especially common in Jews, while hereditary St. Vitus' dance is supposed to occur less commonly. Organic tics and bilateral athetoses, as well as hemicranic and neuralgic diseases, appear more frequently in Jews. Special investigations have been concerned with the shaping of the clinical picture of paralysis. During these it was noticed that in the case of the Jews the cheerfully excited, manic conditions occurred more commonly. More frequent were also sensory delusions, hypochondria imaginations and symptoms of a sexual-erotic nature (Gutmann).
Schizophrenia is strikingly more frequent among Jews. According to statistics from Polish insane asylums, among insane Jews schizophrenia is twice as common as among insane Poles (Becker). Atypical patterns are quite frequently found amongst the Jewish schizophrenics. Several observers have found hysterical reactions in schizophrenics. According to another observation the schizophrenic form of the disease is supposed to be more common amongst Jews. Since it is a matter of a hereditary disease in the case of schizophrenia which comes about rather independently of external influences, the more frequent occurrence of the disease in Jews must be viewed as a racial characteristic.
Manic-depressive insanity is also found to be more frequent amongst Jews, but the difference between Jews and non-Jews is not as great as in the case of schizophrenia. Here, too, atypical clinical pictures with hysterical admixtures are more frequent. From the Munich clinic, Lange reports that the disease occurs more frequently in Jews before the twentieth year of life and that it takes a graver course. In the case of the melancholy disorders, hypochondriac illusions are of great importance, a grumbling, gross and dissatisfied behavior is more frequent and ideas of persecution and impoverishment play a considerable rôle, while guilt complexes play a lesser rôle. Frequent were self-reproaches about the family, the business and personal assets; ideas of religious shortcomings were completely lacking. In the case of the manic disorders, which relatively frequently occur amongst Jews, the disturbance of thinking very often went as far as a case of disintegration. There was often lacking the actually happy phase, in place of which there occurred vexed, gross dissatisfaction, with slander, quarreling, arrogant behavior and frequent paranoid ideas. Lange sees in his observations a relation to the normal dispositional characteristics of Jews: Their need for medical attention, anxiety, insufficient physical skill, preoccupation with profit, their lack of imagination (monotony of the clinical pictures), their critical attitude toward everything, the preference for extremes, the exaggerated expressive movements and, with regard to the lack of guilt complexes, the fact that the Jews are either orthodox or, indifferent with regard to religion.
From numerous statistics there are consistent reports about the scarcity of epilepsy amongst the European Jews. The attempt has been made to explain this fact by the likewise seldom occurrence of alcoholism in Jews. It was believed that alcoholism was an important factor in epilepsy. Today we view the connections between alcoholism and epilepsy differently inasmuch as we know that the most important cause of true epilepsy is a pathological hereditary predisposition. In most cases, too, serious and chronic alcoholism comes about on the basis of a hereditary psychopathic constitution. The concomitance of alcoholism and epilepsy in one family must therefore be sought, essentially, in an at least partial, equal or similar pathological hereditary predisposition. Hence, there appears to me to exist a connection between the less frequent occurrence of epilepsy and alcoholism in Jews. The causative pathological hereditary tendencies appear to be scarcer amongst them.
A comparison of the incidence of feeble-mindedness in two groups of human beings involves great difficulties. Very careful investigations were necessary in order to obtain usable statistics for the German ethnic groups. Various observers assume a greater frequency of congenital feeble-mindedness in the case of Jews in comparison with non-Jews. In particular, grave forms of feeble-mindedness appear to be more frequent in Jews. It is possibly a question of particular hereditary types (Schottky).
In general there are reports concerning the special frequency of psychopathy and neurasthenia in Jews. Buschan is of the opinion that the majority of Jews are neurasthenics and Ziemssen is of the opinion that "there is a neurotic character through the whole Jewish ethnic group" (according to Schottky). It is certainly no coincidence, but rather a result of a racial characteristic that psychoanalysis originates, in essence, with Jewish authors and that Freud has made sexuality, and Adler has made the drive for prestige and power the central aspect of their doctrines on neuroses. Hysterical phenomena are also supposed to be especially common in Jews.
Even if we observed a lower proportion of Jews amongst alcoholics, addiction to morphine and cocaine is found more frequently amongst them than in the case of non-Jews. In choice of the narcotic the psychological makeup is of considerable importance and its inheritability is quite characteristic: In families of alcoholics only alcoholism, and in the families of morphine addicts only morphinism is found to be clustered.
From 1849 to 1907 the frequency of suicide in Jews increased by sevenfold. While suicides were formerly less frequent amongst Jews than non-Jews, they are more frequent today. There has been an inclination to make emancipation, with its decline of religious restrictions, responsible for that fact. However, only persons with psychopathic and neurotic tendencies will react in such a manner to such a change in their external condition.
A typical difference betweens Jews and non-Jews is manifested in the kinds of criminal behavior. According to earlier statistics, the Jews in Germany were less frequently involved in punishable acts than the remaining population. Lenz views in this circumstance a confirmation of the rule that intelligence prevents a person from transgressions to a certain extent. He adds "that it keeps a person from getting caught to an even greater extent." A considerably lower incidence of crime is found amongst Jews in the case of bodily injury and larceny but they are sentenced far more than average for slander, fraud and forgery. In addition to social position and occupation, racial psychological differences are certainly of considerable importance here.
The characteristics which have just been discussed already lie on the border between the pathological and normal. In themselves, they throw light on the problem of intellectual traits and traits of character of Jews. If I were to give a detailed discussion of this topic I would be going beyond the limits of this paper. I am able to forego this all the more inasmuch as the intellectual nature of Jews, especially as it is manifested in outstanding representatives of Jewry, is the theme and content of numerous papers which were given, at our working meetings and are published in the two volumes [I and II] of the Forschungen zur Judenfrage (Studies on the Jewish Problem). I also refer to the exposition by Lenz in Menschliche Erblehre (Human Genetics) by Baur, Fischer and Lenz (4th edition, 1936, pp. 746 ff.).
This general and basic observation can be made: The Jews have preserved a rather high degree of uniformity, particularly in their intellectual traits and traits of character, and have not only kept a distance from their host populations at all times, but have accented their differences. The fact that they have maintained themselves as an ethnic group without a country and as a community in spite of dispersion throughout the world through two-millennia must be ascribed to their psychological nature in particular. The attempt has been made to portray the psychological characteristics of the Jews as a result of the milieu in which they live, grow up and are educated. Numerous Jewish authors are especially energetic in trying to deny the connection between race and culture. The basic resolution of this question has been made on the basis of modern genetic research on man: It can no longer be contested that the psychological characteristics in man, just as the physical ones, are essentially determined in their development by hereditary tendencies. The results of research on twins in particular have had in this case an elucidating and clarifying effect. [This, however, could not prevent a series of Jewish speakers at the last international congress for demographics in Paris in 1937 from ignoring these research results in order to stay in line with the prejudiced hypothesis of the environmental causation of all cultural achievements. The manner of delivery which characterized the German and Jewish speakers gave the best demonstration of the subject of "race and culture" to every attentive and objective observer!] The psychological differences between Germans and Jews are caused by a different hereditary makeup, i.e., by a different racial origin.
The racial characteristics (physical and mental) of the Jews of the present day are probably explainable to a considerable extent on the basis of the origin of the Jews from the geographical area of the Near Eastern and Oriental races. However, the present-day Jews are different from the ethnic groups now living in this area. The profound contrast between Arabs and Jews in Palestine also has a racial root! Jewry possesses a distinct racial nature which is found in no other groups of people and which therefore appears to justify our speaking of Jews as a race. Of course, we must keep clearly in mind that the Jews are not one of the races which we designate as "systemic races" because they form a group in the genetic system of mankind. Humanity, however, is in a constant state of development which leads to the formation of new races, i.e., to reproductive groups which are differentiated from other people by the common possession of certain genetic traits.
The Jews have "bred" their race themselves. This particular objective might have been a conscious one only amongst a few of their leaders. We can forego the discussion of that here. However, it is a fact that in most cases the Jews have reproduced themselves by strong inbreeding. The absorption of rather large groups of people of other races into Jewry has been a rare occurrence. Individual conversions to Judaism, for example as a result of marriage, have certainly occurred more frequently than is generally supposed. The absorption of individuals into Judaism did not take place haphazardly but were guided by a selective process. One need only think, for example, of how the choice of a marital partner was determined by social and occupational objectives in the peasantry, nobility and middle class and how the formation of groups of people is determined as a result of intellectual objectives by which people of a certain makeup are attracted. The occupational types are the best example of this. As a result, I believe that only people of a certain type feel attracted by Judaism and could decide on conversion to it, people in particular who felt related to Judaism on the basis of their intellectual and psychological makeup. (It may only seldom have been physical reasons.) in this sense, the element which was absorbed into Jewry was not "foreign."
In addition to this selection of admissions into Jewry, there are selective processes, perhaps even more important ones, to which Jewry has been subject for more than 2,000 years. The following environmental circumstances appear to me to be of special importance in the determining of the direction of the selective process:
1. For over 2,000 years Jews have been living far from the natural attachments to a certain region. Perhaps there were specific racial traits which led the Jews into the diaspora even in ancient times and caused them to live in cities. Even at that time the Jews must have been especially well adapted to urban life; otherwise he would not have been able to preserve himself and increase his numbers. Other races perish in the city, they cannot live without a close attachment to nature and they need a home, a piece of soil to which they feel attached.
2. The Jews prefer to be active in the commercial occupations, not as a result of an external compulsion but as a result of an inner nature; that has frequently been demonstrated. By selection of marital partners and the selective process involving life and reproduction tied in with occupation selection, an "enrichment" of such traits comes about and thus a stronger emphasis of the original character.
3. As a result of their Talmudic education, the Jews were kept at a purely formal, logical intellectual activity. A certain direction of education not only leaves its stamp on people because certain attributes develop while others are repressed, but it also influences the choice of an occupation and the social stratification. The kind of person who corresponds to the educational ideal is the more successful in life. With this, in turn, there is a reproductive selection.
4. A specific religious-ethnic idea of being a chosen people has constantly given Jewry an intellectual exclusivity, which reinforced the isolation from other peoples and favored the preservation of their own racial peculiarity.
By means of such selection processes, the intellectual type of the Jew in particular has been preserved and constantly shaped anew, while the physical type has remained less uniform. The effect of these selective processes has also become clear through the investigation of the sicknesses of the Jews: The selective resistance of the Jews to tuberculosis is a result of urban life, likewise the pathological hereditary tendencies to metabolic disturbances, blindness, deaf-muteness and above all nervous and mental diseases, since such hereditary tendencies are more frequently eradicated under the conditions of a natural rural life. The specific mentality of Jews has as its result the concentration of hereditary traits which, in turn, lead to the more frequent manifestation of psychopathic and neuropathic conditions and endogenous psychoses.
The Jew is the specific type of the urban human being, that is, of a human being who no longer has an inner connection with the natural foundations of life and who no longer lives from instinct or the subconscious, but rather only believes and views as his world that which he can grasp with his reason. In such a despiritualized world there is no room for faith, for genuine, unselfish, devoted love and for respect. There are also urban people of other races. However, do we not readily sense them as "Jewish?" It is not a coincidence that the people who have entered into marriages with Jews are quite preponderantly urban people.
The danger which Jewry meant for the German population was a double one:
1. By excessive racially foreign influence the preservation of the character of our people was threatened. The complete racial separation of Germans and Jews was an absolute necessity for that reason.
2. The excessive intellectually Jewish foreign influence sought to introduce principles of living and selection which were favorable for the preservation of Jewry, but would have meant the decline of our people. For that reason the racial separation of Germans and Jews has the national separation as a requisite.
(Translated from the German by Charles E. Weber, Ph.D.)
This lecture is not intended to contribute new anthropological material, but rather simply to
present observations from the point of view of racial research concerning the biological aspect of
the origin of the Hebrew people. An examination of the historical and philological original
research projects had to be omitted. These are not the author's field. For that reason source notes
were omitted entirely.
The question of the origin of a single, particular, present-day human race involves two groups of
phenomena which, in fact, are closely related to each other; for one thing, the question of the
place, the time and, above all, the external circumstances of the formation of the race, and, for
another thing, the question of the racial initial form and its individual stages of modification
from this initial form down to the time of its present character. Since it is a matter of
developments in the distant past, the initial questions concerning the environment and the actual
developments can be examined only indirectly. The other questions concerning the past forms
(of the race) can be answered only if a fortunate chance has preserved for us remains from the
past. For this reason, in the investigation of the origin of a particular race our knowledge of the
origin of races in general must be presented in order to attempt then, to apply these data to the
particular race while taking into account the geographical and chronological circumstances. The
significance of selection and adaptation in general and in the area of origin, in this case the
prehistoric Near East, will prove to be important, not only for the time of the origin, but also for
the further development. Hence, after these general considerations I would like to describe the
traces of prehistorical man in Palestine. These have a bearing, in turn, on the question to what
extent the population which now emerges into the light of history, as Semites and then as
Hebrews, descends from that prehistorical man. Only then can a racial history of the Semites be
attempted and the original racial composition of the Jews and the absorption of subsequent racial
elements into the Jewish nation that had developed be described down to the time of the
extinction of the Jewish state.
We have had an understanding of the origin of human races only since that time when human
genetics has furnished us the absolute proof that all human racial characteristics are genetic
characteristics and only such characteristics.
This proof is furnished by the investigation of racial cross-breedings, by which it was shown
beyond any doubt that the characteristics in question are transmitted without exception in
accordance with Mendel's genetic laws in the first and second generations of persons of mixed
breed. (Then, of course, into further generations.) These racial characteristics, like all other
inherited characteristics, are thus based on individual, specific genetic predispositions which we
call "factors," the bases of which we call "genes." In this connection it has been learned that, as
in the case of all other hereditary characteristics, the hereditary predisposition permits a certain
range of reaction for its realization in actual development, even in the case of racial hereditary
characteristics. Within this range the environment brings about the actual development. The
range of reaction is of quite varied magnitude in the case of the inherited characteristics,
including racial characteristics. In the so-called blood groups, for example, this range amounts to
zero, so far as we know. In the case of body height, the range is rather broad. A person, for
example, does not inherit a height of 1.70 meters (=6603 inches) but rather a "tall build."
Whether he then actually attains a height of 1.66 or 1.82 meters or his 1.70 meters depends on
the effects of environment. Moreover, he inherits his tendency to tallness, no matter whether he
has reached Its lower or upper genetically possible height. The environmental effects, as such,
are never inherited. Races are groups of people with quite specific hereditary predispositions
which are purely hereditary in them and which are lacking in other races. Every race, of course,
also has in addition hereditary predispositions which are also present in certain other races and
ultimately such hereditary predispositions which are present in all human beings. For obvious
reasons it must be especially emphasized that mental hereditary predispositions are amongst
those that belong to one race exclusively as well as those which are characteristic of human
beings in general. We have conclusive proof that mental and psychological characteristics are
just as much based on hereditary predispositions as are physical characteristics, normal and
pathological ones. (This is not to say anything about the mental and psychological aspects per se
and their relation to bodily predispositions.) (The sentence in parentheses apparently refers to the
correlations of body types with psychological characteristics as presented in such works as Ernst
Kietschmer's Körperbau und Charakter, 1921, and works by W. H. Sheldon. -- Translator) What
was said above concerning the range of reaction is just as true of mental predispositions as
bodily ones. Within this range there is the effect of education and other environmental factors.
Race is thus a totality of immutable characteristics of a physical and mental-psychological kind
determined by its genetic composite. Race is not simply some given body form group, nor is it
simply a distinction which can be made from other such groups on the basis of a couple of
external characteristics. It is an exclusive biological unit which has come about by special,
orderly processes in the genetic mass, sharply differentiated genetically from other such units.
The processes which led to it are known to us from the general study of genetics. It is very
difficult or often impossible to survey and describe their particular development in the particular
case of a quite specific race.
Our ideas about the origin of races must start out with the demonstrated reality of an originally
undifferentiated human race. Just as all forms of animals living in the wild are undifferentiated
and just as they exhibit, at the most, minor variations of size and color in the case of an
extensive geographical range, the earliest man was an undifferentiated form. There can be no
detailed discussion at this point of the proofs afforded by morphology, physiology, psychology
and pathology. This human race thus also had a common stock of genetic material and, except
for individual hereditary lines, a uniform stock of genetic factors. As mentioned above, the
genetic factors per se are independent of the environmental factors which have an effect on the
body. However, the gene is not entirely and completely immutable forever. There are changes,
albeit rare, of individual genes which we call mutations. Generally, we do not know their causes.
We can produce mutations artificially by means of X-rays and by means of certain poisons (in
the case of plants). They are almost always pathological. In nature we occasionally see the
occurrence of a mutation without any recognizable cause. In this way albinos, for example,
occur (white stags, white bats, white blackbirds, and white domestic animals). In human beings,
too, there are these mutations, and indeed in all races. In the case of the animals living in the
wild such mutations are eliminated in the callous eradication process of nature. The only animals
which are divided into numerous races, like man, are the domestic animals. The racial
characteristics of these animals are just as hereditary as those of human beings, as racial crossing
has demonstrated in this case also. We can not go into details at this point. The fact that all racial
characteristics of our domestic animals are anatomically and genetically quite analogous to the
racial characteristics of man can be seen, for example, in the color differences of blond, brunette,
red, black in the hair of human races, horses, bovines, dogs, etc. Curly hair, straight hair, and
stiff hair correspond to the same forms in the case of domestic animals (for example, the
Angora). Dwarf build, tall build, forms of lips, forms of noses (e.g., ram's nose), colors of eyes
and all such racial differences are found in domestic animals and man. Things are similar down
to the finest details of the tissue structure. The breeds of domestic animals have come into
existence by virtue of the fact that mutations which have arisen "spontaneously," i.e., for
unknown reasons, have not been eliminated, for example, but have been retained artificially by
the breeder. There is quite strong evidence that life in the domesticated condition causes the
occurrence of numerous mutations by the change of nutritional factors, temperature maintenance
and reproductive conditions, as opposed to life in the wild. The breeds of domestic animals thus
came about by their selection and combination. It should be emphasized that their differences
are not only of an exterior physical nature, but also of a physiological and psychological nature.
This means that metabolic processes, capacities, and mental characteristics are racially clearly
different in the case of individual domestic breeds. That, too, is based on mutation and its
breeding.
The formation of human races must also be based on the same laws, because the human genes
are basically analogous. After man became man, with the beginnings of his civilization, with the
use of fire and hence the great broadening of his nutritional possibilities, with tools, language
and social institutions, he lived, from a biological point of view, basically in a condition which
corresponds completely to that of domestic animals. In keeping with this, numerous mutations
occurred. In this case arbitrary choice and caprice take over the rôle of deliberate breeding of the
races of domestic animals. Selection and breeding by external factors were also not lacking at
first. At the same time humanity migrated in groups from its place of origin over the whole
earth. No mammal is the equal of man in that regard. The constant venturing into new
environmental conditions, in some cases of a quite different kind, must have had a tremendously
selective effect and wiped out unsuitable mutations. The isolating of individual groups by
emigration now made possible for the first time the preservation of genetic mutations which had
occurred in conjunction with the effect of (natural) selection. These ideas, which were converted
into a well-founded theory on the basis of observations on domestic animals, are fully confirmed
by the skeletal remains preserved for us from the early time of man. From the area of origin
which the Java Man and the Peking Man indicate to us, man at the Neanderthal stage of
development (that is, even before the last glacial period) spread out as far as the inhabitable
northern edge, the western end and the southern part of Europe and as far as the southern tip of
Africa. However, the human form, as far as we can determine, is still almost uniform (at this
time). Furthermore, this form will also encounter us on Palestinian soil. At the time of, but
toward the end of the last glacial period, the next migratory wave now covers the whole world.
However, the formation of rates has now commenced and the finds show us differences in the
shape of the skull, facial form and tallness which we can only interpret as racial differences.
From this time on, mankind is divided into races. It may probably be assumed that the
differences now became fully established and strengthened during the course of the subsequent
periods.
The processes which led to the development of races are thus the occurrence of mutations, the
isolating of tribes by migration, the increase of the frequency of mutations by cultural influences
(domestication), the change of climatic and other environmental effects through migration and
by the change of climate in the glacial and post-glacial periods, adaptation by selective
processes, evolution and growth or decline. Thus, the different nature of the races would seem to
depend on the kind of mutations, on the one hand, and the phenomena of selection and
adaptation on the other hand. Certain mental and psychological characteristics will be decisive
factors in this regard even if, naturally, physical health, efficiency and adaptation of
physiological developments to the environment have always been an absolute requisite for the
prospering of the race in question. Only in this manner can we explain the simply remarkable
adaptation of many races to their environment. I am thinking, for example, of the special
adaptation of the Bushman to the life in the sand of his desert and prairie, of his sharpness of
senses, of his capacity to go without food and water and to walk around in the hot sun and
dryness and his lack of capacity for sedentary work or any very high mental achievement.
Migratory races with certain mental talents and a simultaneous physical capacity will withdraw
from desolate regions and leave them to inferior races, but they will, when caught up in the
climatic change of the glacial periods, for example, become a battle-accustomed, special race of
strong character in an extremely selective process under unfavorable conditions, such as along
the edge of the ice, by taking up a struggle for mere existence. The Nordic race is an example of
such a race. Thus, the interaction between the gene stock of a mental and physical nature
provided by mutation and the environment, with its selective effect, brings about the varied
nature of the individual races. In view of this, it becomes immediately clear that races from one
branch can develop in an infinitely diverse manner by that force, while other races can become
similar to one another without being especially close to each other in a genealogical sense.
Individual characteristics of a physical and mental nature, moreover, can arise separately and
independently of each other by the appropriate mutation and appropriate selection at various
locations of the human race. (This can be readily demonstrated in the case of certain physical
characteristics.)
This outline should show that we comprehend the origin of races quite well in a general sense,
after all. The basic aspects seem well established. On the other hand, tremendous and largely
insoluble problems arise at once when it is a question of tracing the origin of a single, quite
specific race within the general framework. Actually, we have more or less complete
information only in a single case; that is the origin of the Westphalian (Falid) type of the Nordic
race from the late Paleolithic Cro-Magnon race. Here we have, indeed, the fossil records with
rather few gaps down to the present-day representation in the living population. In the case of all
other races the glacial and post-glacial forerunners are uncertain or completely unknown. Even
the place of origin and hence the external conditions and the selective processes are, in most
cases, uncertain or at most are to be assumed with some degree of probability . This is also the
case with the question before us today with regard to the origin of those races which were and
still are the bearers of the Semitic civilizations and hence also with regard to the origin of the
Jews.
This question leads us initially not only to Palestine, as far as the area is concerned, but also to
the land of the Tigris and Euphrates, from the Persian Gulf on up to the Armenian highlands and
Asia Minor and thence down to Arabia and over as far as Egypt. Since we know that the Semitic
peoples did not migrate into their later dwelling areas until early historical times, the skull
remains of Palestine originating from the previous time are of value to us for the racial history of
the immigrants only to the extent that they give us evidence concerning the possible substratum
which was absorbed by the immigrating conquerors.
In Palestine the oldest finds of human remains extend chronologically before the beginning of
the last glacial period. They are the famous, so-called Galilee skull from Tabona on the Sea of
Chinnereth and perhaps also a find from Mount Carmel. It is a human being from the group of
the Neanderthal man, the form of development which preceded present-day humanity. Even if
there are only these sparse finds, numerous flint tools originating at this time in various localities
of the country show that this human being permeated the whole country. This find is not
geographically isolated. We may assume that all of the Near East and North Africa and Europe
shared that form of human being. Proceeding from Palestine, the nearest finds are certain finds
of teeth from Malta and, further to the west, the Neanderthal skull from Rome. To the north, the
Palestine find is connected with a skull find from Podkumok north of the Caucasus. From there
the finds go in a westward direction to Moravia, Croatia, central Europe and western Europe.
But this type of human being might not have been absorbed into the later Near Eastern
population, or at least we have no reason for such an assumption. Such a human type perhaps
died out or emigrated and might have been replaced by later types during the course of the
following glacial period. However, we know nothing about these later forms. During the glacial
period which now came about, when the Cro-Magnon man and other races were living in Europe
(and not only in Europe, because the Cro-Magnon races also entered northern Africa and even
eastern Africa), during this period when Europe was covered with ice except for a narrow central
belt and its southern peninsulas, there was neither a Sahara nor the deserts of Arabia and the
Near East. These were all fertile land under the southern rain climate dependent on the ice cover.
Thus, there were tremendously large areas where tribes that had immigrated could form races.
Moreover, during the course of, let us say, forty thousand years, this region underwent a
worsening of the climate which was not even, but with periodic declines of heat. There took
place a slow drying up down to the time of the present forming of deserts. It was only the very
most recent reshapings of the land, such as the formation of the fertile land subject to inundation
along the lower valley of the Tigris and Euphrates and the final sanding up of many Arabian
rivers that are retained in the memory of the first men recorded in history. These reshapings were
recorded in the writings of the Sumerians, the later Babylonians, the Hebrews, etc. What is
interesting to us in this connection took place earlier. The finds which are chronologically
closest after those on Palestinian soil mentioned above are only from the later Stone Age, when
man had domestic animals along with polished stone instruments, tilled the soil and possessed
the art of ceramics. As the most important find, I mention that of Gezer (situated between
Jerusalem and the coast), where bodily remains of these settlers are preserved for us. These
remains, unfortunately, are quite sparse. These people, as far as we may conclude from the
several skeletons, were rather slight of build and dolichocephalic. In most cases cremation took
place. Even in this case, cultural remains show that the settlement was widely distributed across
the region. Concerning their ethnicity and language we know nothing. This might coincide
chronologically with the time in which we see the first makers of Bandkeramik and
Schnurkeramik (Neolithic pottery styles decorated by bands or imprints of string) coming onto
the scene in central Europe. We might classify these Gezer people as members of the
Mediterranean race. (This designation is better than the "Western" preferred by Günther; the two
terms intend to convey the same meaning.) From present-day ethnology we know that the whole
edge of northern Africa as well as southern Italy, the large Mediterranean islands and the Iberian
Peninsula, and even the Atlantic coasts of southern France and England, were occupied by their
race before the arrival of the Indo-Germanic people. Although it is not proved, everything can be
said for and nothing against the assumption that this Mediterranean race originated in the broad
zone of northern-Africa, which was quite habitable during the glacial period, as I have pointed
out. This race spread out toward the west as well as toward the east, over the Near East and as
far as western India. In India huge finds have come to light which might belong to this race. In
this huge area particular branches might have sprung up in the lap of this race in the manner
which I have described above. I assume that such a separate region was the present Arabian
peninsula, an area spacially separated from the rest by the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, which
extended far to the north at that time. As a result of the climatic fate of this land, a special race
probably developed from the same root as the Mediterranean race, which I designated as the
"Oriental" race many years ago. This name is now in general use. During the course of the
declining glacial period, which was a period of slowly declining rainfall and moisture in this
area in transition from forested and open land to a prairie or even sandy desert, these people,
whose origin from a truly glacial period we do not know, had to adapt themselves slowly to
these changing conditions. Here, in this tremendous space, the climatic change of which was
certainly uneven from zone to zone, inbreeding groups could form with a pronounced natural
selection that favored certain mutations. That is the manner in which I postulate the origin
somewhere in this region of the "Oriental" race from the lap of the proto-Mediterranean race.
The "Oriental" race, with the nose form, eye form, color of the skin and hair and all the other
characteristics peculiar to it, received its form in this area. And primarily amongst all these
characteristics, the psychological type of this race was formed here, its adaptation to the initially
poor life, the formation of mental capacities for the creation of the civilization of a sheepraising,
half nomadic grassland population.
Indeed, today we view the development in such a manner that we attribute to the game hunters
or primitive hunters a certain tendency to remain in one location, the taming of animals and first
attempts to sow seeds of nutritional plants at favorable places and we assume the origin of the
first stages of cultivation with the hoe from these activities. The transformation of the game-rich
forest into open land and then grassland its the taming of goats and sheep (the dog had already
long ago been tamed). Sheep-farmers come into existence, for whom the pasturing involves a
nomadic movement, but not the life of a true desert nomad. At fertile places (later oases)
settlement takes place for a longer period and cultivation with the hoe is carried on. In regions of
rather extensive drying out the true desert nomad might develop from this stage, as we see in the
area of that "Oriental" race, a final form of a cultural specialization. On the other hand, however,
the sheep-raising people who carry on some cultivation with the hoe and who have a tendency to
settle, even if not permanently, will arrive at a true agricultural existence and then become city
builders and city dwellers. The fact that, along with all such developments extending over
millennia, a very distinctive mental-psychological type developed in every case is taken quite for
granted by the biologist, but let us emphasize it. This distinctive type, once having come into
being by selective breeding, will be eradicated only by an opposing, strongly selective process.
In general, thus, it will exist during the coming centuries or millennia. This type is characteristic
of the Oriental race.
Furthermore, the later Jewish people have preserved for themselves the recollections of those
earlier stages. The tales of Abel, who was a herdsman, and Cain, who was engaged in
agriculture, (along with) the tale of Abraham's sheep trade with his brother-in-law and the
migrations through the desert indicate that. Just as with these recollections, certain mental and
psychological characteristics have remained and have their effects to this day.
This Oriental race is relatively pure, the basic stock of the so-called southern Semites, i.e., the
present-day Arabs, who thus partly underwent the development to real desert nomads and partly,
at a somewhat earlier state, probably likewise arrived at a settled existence. Furthermore, this
race is the basic stock of all those Semites who spread out onto African soil in numerous thrusts
in prehistoric times and who were absorbed into the Egyptian people and many other Hamitic
peoples, along with a strong interbreeding with Negroes.
The later, so-called northern Semites (Assyrians, Babylonians, Aramaeans, Phoenicians, and
others) likewise developed from this same race. However, they spread out from the original area
and encountered other racial elements with whom they mixed in close contact, with some
elements more, with others less. These contacts caused them to be different from the southern
Semites. Amongst these northern Semites naturally, are the Hebrews we are considering.
As mentioned above, during the later Stone Age, that is, many thousands of years later than the
time of the origin of races and the geological revolutions, there were located in Syria and
Palestine those people whom we call Gezer Man on the basis of the place where their remains
were found. Around this time and further to the north, i.e., in the upper Tigris and Euphrates
country, in all of Asia Minor, in the highlands of Iran and as far as Hindu Kush, another race
must have been settled. We simply designate this race as the "Near Eastern" race (von Luschan's
Armenids). We have no finds which prove its existence from such a remote time. We presume
the existence of this race, which will later be demonstrated. We do not believe that this race even
originated in the aforementioned area, but we do not know its origin. It seems most logical to
think of central Asia. We have ideas concerning the shape of its skull from burial finds of
approximately the fourth millennium (B.C.) and from the distribution of certain racial elements.
This conclusion seems to me to be sufficiently established.
One can see that these conclusions, which are based purely on prehistoric finds of skulls and
tools, and the results of geological, climatic and general biological considerations furnish a
certain basis, but nothing else. Let us now turn to other sources of information.
In the case of prehistoric finds, mention must be made of another circumstance. Still other
people must have entered the Palestinian area toward the end of the later Stone Age. They
erected large stone monuments, prominent single rocks, gigantic tables, etc. One speaks of the
Palestinian megalith culture. Even the Old Testament mentions this already. Megalith graves can
be traced from southern Scandinavia across the whole Atlantic coast of Europe, over the entire
northern edge of Africa and the southern edge of Europe, across the Balkan area, across the
Crimea and as far as the Caucasus. It cannot be determined if a single ethnic group spread them
about or if the custom of this ethnic group as such was transplanted. As for myself, I imagine
that bold migrations of people of the Cro-Magnon race from northwestern and western Europe
set up and left their prominent monuments here. I consider these bold migrations to be the first
ones, which were followed by numerous others before and during the second millennium (see
below). I do not believe that their blood was mixed into that of the native population in
appreciable quantities at the places involved. They came as militarily organized conquerors
("Vikings"!) erected their monuments and then went away. This phenomenon is mentioned here
just for the sake of completeness.
If one attempts to ascertain the racial history of the "Semites," one is dependent, for one thing,
on the data which archaeology furnishes us from the wonderful excavation discoveries of
temples and palaces, of pictorial works and utensils, and data concerning the rise and fall of
civilizations and their migrations. One is further dependent on the research of linguists which
reveals to us ancient origins and relationships from the vocabulary of the individual ethnic
groups or at least from language remnants of their proper names or the like. (An American
analogy is the retention of Indian words in place names such as Ohio, Oklahoma, Mississippi,
etc. -- Translator) Finally, anthropological investigation of present-day inhabitants of the areas
which we may think of as "retreat areas" of ancient population strata furnishes us an indication
of earlier (conditions). Such retreat areas are remote mountain valleys and the least fertile parts
of the land, but also, in a figurative sense of the word, membership in religious sects and circles
of nobility and other social isolation. In Asia Minor and the Armenian highlands we have many
of such retreat areas. The anthropological study of these retreat areas by von Luschan helped to
throw a powerful light on the question we are examining. Finally, racial history has as a basis
the actual finds of skulls or other human remains from early historical times. These finds have
been increasing during the past few years to a pleasing and astonishing extent. In addition to
these skulls, there are also portrayals of the people created by themselves and their kind. Quite
honest criticism, cautious evaluation and a knowledge of the art work in question and its history
are necessary for an attempt at an anthropological interpretation on the basis of the excavated
portrayal of the human countenance. With regard to such interpretation, I usually say that one
must consider what the artist in question "could," "was permitted" and "intended." However, by
means of this criticism one can actually obtain a realistic picture from the heads which
Sumerians and Subarians, the Hittites, Babylonians, and Egyptians have passed down to us. All
these sources together permit us to construct the following approximate outline.
Prior to the fourth millennium, as previously mentioned, the Near Eastern race might have been
spread out in the entire area to the north and to the east of Palestine, which is of interest to us.
We know this race, in terms of its bodily characteristics, primarily from von Luschan's
investigations of the small ethnic and sect groups, such as the Ansarijeh, Tachtadshi, Kyzylbash,
and others, as well as those amongst the Lycians, Druzes, Maronites, etc. Hauschild and
Wagenseil have confirmed to a considerable extent the occurrence of these types by
investigations in the Turkish army during the (First World) War. Moreover, this racial picture
corresponds quite well to the relief portraits which were formerly known by the name Hittite,
from Sendshirli, for example, and which are now called Subarian. Accordingly, the Near Eastern
race (also called Armenoid or proto-Armenian) was of medium stature and had a coarse bodily
structure, dark hair and dark eyes. However, as quite distinctive features this race had a very
short, high skull with a quite flat occiput, which von Luschan described "as if hacked off." The
coarse face with a perpendicular forehead is dominated by an extraordinarily large, coarse,
strongly projecting hooked nose. As shown by the well-known sculptures of Sendshirli and other
places, this race was the bearer of the so-called Hittite civilization, or more precisely, the
Subarian civilization.
However, one must not imagine that this Near Eastern race was the only one in the area or that it
filled up the entire area. It perhaps simply moved in as the dominant one. The strong impression
made by von Luschan's survey and brilliant portrayal of this race has hitherto caused the
investigators to assume tacitly that really only this race and the previously described Orientalid
race should be taken into consideration at all. In fact, nothing of the sort can be concluded from
von Luschan's descriptions. Only in remnants and in the most remote places did he find them
still extant. At all other places, that is, in a very great part of the countries involved, a population
is present which cannot be traced back to the Orientalid race. Now, new finds have clearly
demonstrated the presence of the Mediterranean race. Such finds, for example, are the quite
splendid ones from Alisar in northeastern Asia Minor dating from the Neolithic and Bronze
Ages. If the Neolithic Gezer group were really also Mediterranean, the conclusion is suggested
that the Mediterranean race was once the dominant one before the invasion of the Orientalid race
from the south and the Near Eastern race from the north. The Mediterranean race was then
absorbed as a basic component into all the later populations. This race also witnessed the mighty
displacement of land and water in that area, the formation of the delta of the Tigris and
Euphrates, the coastal shift of the Persian Gulf and the mighty flood periods, the memory of
which is in the Biblical Deluge, which the Jews took over from the Sumerians almost word for
word.
Perhaps the picture is now becoming even somewhat more complicated. Certain observations on
the Alisar find {NOTE: Krogman, Cranial types from Alisar Hüyück, Orient. Inst. Publ. V.30}
argue that in addition to (previous to?) the short-skulled Near Eastern race the round-skulled
central European Alpine race (Günther calls them ostisch {=Eastern}, a term I consider
misleading) was established in Asia Minor. In Neolithic times, their area of distribution
extended certainly to Spain in the west, while the Near East was their eastern extent. That would
correspond well with certain conclusions of linguistic research about the connections of the
Basque languages with the languages of the Caucasus and Asia Minor. With regard to the
Sumerian question, too, the key could lie here from an anthropological point of view.
Let us turn from the races to the historically recorded nations. In the southern part of
Mesopotamia we do indeed find the nation of the Sumerians as the oldest known settlers. This
nation is a puzzle to us with regard to origin and race. The achievement in the construction of
gigantic temples and the production of art works that it attained is astonishing. It was established
there certainly toward the end of the fifth millennium. The wonderful excavations in Ur and
Kish have crowned our knowledge of this civilization. As mentioned, the racial origin (of the
Sumerians) is uncertain. In certain documents they are called "black heads." Some of the skulls
that have been found are reputed to exhibit a long, narrow form (?). The portraits are roundheaded
with pointed, short little noses. The physiques are represented as stocky. Their language
was not Indo-Germanic and not Semitic. Some linguists conjecture Turan (agglutinating)
languages, but they were certainly not Mongolids. Other linguists find a linguistic connection
with the Caucasus and pre-Indo-Germanic southern Europe. From an anthropological point of
view, one can first conjecture the Alpine race on the basis of the portraits. This would be in
keeping with the remarks above. But one must also think of the Mediterranean race if one hears
that they came from the east and previously honored their gods on mountains. One could
conjecture a reverse wave of the Mediterranean race out of India.
In any event, the Sumerians settled in lower Mesopotamia, namely as builders of villages and
cities. They were constantly disturbed and as early as the fourth millennium they had constant
fights with roaming hoards. Bedouins, as we would call them today, attacked them repeatedly,
took parts of their land and then were overcome and probably also assimilated by them. I
imagine that in these early times, in the case of very many "tribes," no definite cultural forms
had taken shape as yet and that they only created their later forms, of course. Thus, there were
probably migratory groups which exhibited all possible stages of economic forms, in some cases
people beginning to settle and looking for fertile land for cultivation with the hoe, in some cases
half-sedentary sheep nomads, while in other cases true desert nomads. The struggle between all
such forms lasted for centuries until the immigration from the south became ever stronger and
the government and ethnic identity of the Sumerians broke up under their pressure. Semitic
cultures took their place.
Beginning with the fourth millennium, as mentioned, the Orientalid race moved from the south
to the north from its previously described places of origin. Here, there took place the transition
from the sheep raiser and settler cultivating with the hoe to the true village dweller and farmer
to, finally, the urban civilization. This development certainly repeatedly involved a strong
selective process in a certain direction. The legends and literary monuments of the Sumerians
and later of the Babylonians, Assyrians and Hebrews inform us in agreement about the struggles
lasting thousands of years between such invading groups and groups in the process of becoming
settled on the one hand and on the other hand settled Mediterranean groups and groups of the
Near Eastern race invading in the opposite direction from the north. Thus, in the origin of the
Semitic peoples of the Near East (northern Semites) three races can be discerned. Of these three,
one, the Orientalid race, might be the main element which brought with it the actual Semitic
language and civilization and the mind of the sheep-tending nomads of the plains. This race
penetrated the "Near Eastern" race, furnished it physical and mental characteristics and finally
penetrated the Mediterranean race, which was established there as the old population and was
absorbed into all Semitic peoples (Babylonians and Assyrians) by way of the Sumerians.
However, the picture is not yet complete at this point. From historical sources we learn also
about invasions of conquerors of another origin. And that is also of particular anthropological
interest to us and it is of no small importance in the origin of the final racial composition of the
Hebrew nation.
There was a great astonishment at the time when it could be proved beyond question that the
Hittite language is an Indo-Germanic language. Hence, a conqueror speaking an Indo-Germanic
language must have entered the Suberian civilization at one time. (It was) probably only a thin
dominant stratum which imposed its language on the population. In this process native linguistic
elements were fused into it in large quantities. Now we know, of course, that the creators of the
Indo-Germanic language group were the Nordic race. Elements of this race were thus
unquestionably involved in that invasion, which began before the outset of the second
millennium. However, we must not imagine the arriving people as exclusively blond and blueeyed
or simply purely Nordic. The route from the original homeland to the Near East was far
and must have been covered over long periods of time, with long halts and conquests at other
places. By that time only a dominant element might have possessed the remnants of the Nordic
race. A migration of these conquerors so far away is perhaps not quite so unique. A thousand
years later we see immigrations; of people with the names Thracians and Phrygians, likewise
dominated and influenced by Nordics, invading Asia Minor. Around a thousand years before
these, invasions back from India seem to have taken place into upper Mesopotamia by people
known as Mithanni or Manda, who likewise brought with them Indo-Germanic linguistic
material. From these Hittites came a quite considerable component into that Semitic branch also,
which we later find in the form of Israel. The Amurites of the Bible also belong to this
movement from the north that was subject to Indo-Germanic influences. The Amurites also had
Nordic elements, at least as an upper stratum.
If this picture represents in broad outlines the movements of races and nations during the fourth
to second millennia in the Near Eastern area, the origin of the Hebrew nation in particular must
now be further characterized.
It is not the task of the anthropologist to do that; I am simply going to point out things and
present material which is already known. Of the Semitic immigrants, many groups became
settled founders of cities while being fused with the previous population and while absorbing
foreign elements, as described above. Amongst these were the Babylonians, Assyrians,
Phoenicians and even others. However, other groups remained migratory herdsmen for a rather
long time, as were the Aramaeans, sheep nomads in the highlands of northern Mesopotamia and
the Jordan highlands, and in the same area the Hebrews, who pastured their sheep in the eastern
part of the Jordan valley. They and the Moabites, Edomites and others thus moved through the
whole land of Jordan and the region south of the Dead Sea and on northward as far as Syria
around 1400 B.C. ("Abraham" came from Ur in Chaldaea!) The Aramaeans went over to a
settled formation of government at the beginning of the second millennium in Syria. At first the
Hebrews remained sheep herders. That was the time of the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Times of particular dryness caused some of the sheep-herding tribes (probably not all of them)
to retreat to the southwest and to seek better pastures in the upper delta region of the Nile. Seti I
received them there in his border region. That, then, is the oppression in Egyptian captivity
described in the Bible, probably until Moses led them over the sea of bulrushes to the oasis of
Kadesh in the Sinai peninsula, perhaps before 1250 B.C. Here these tribes might have fused
together as a race during the approximately sixty-year sojourn under Moses' rule. In two thrusts
they then moved into the eastern Jordan region (they have been estimated at 25,000 souls) and
from there they pushed into Palestine proper. They fused with the people who remained there
and who were pressing into Palestine from the northeast. Here they interposed themselves
amongst the Canaanite settlers who were present. As nomads they were inferior to the peasants
in many ways, but they were mentally capable of finally gaining the upper hand and becoming
settled themselves.
Their spirit is demonstrated in the promise, "A land of wheat and barley, of the grape vine, the
fig and pomegranate, etc., with large and bountiful cities which you have not built, houses full of
all sorts of good things which you have not filled, wells that have been dug, but not by you,
vineyards and olive trees which you have not planted." (According to Auerbach.) But little by
little they acquired all those things.
The son of the plain pressed into all of that and he knew how to adapt himself. Of course, there
were centuries of bitter war, actual military wars and, in an extended sense, economic wars and
wars against climate and events of nature. Thus, the nation evolved. In this connection, from a
racial point of view, the imposing of a stratum on an already settled population, which was the
Orientalid-Mediterranean-Near Eastern race, by a race which had not yet been settled, a race
which was at first purely Orientalid, is of interest. What the quantitative ratio was in this mixture
of blood cannot be determined. However, even still other foreign admixtures must now be
emphasized. To the north lay the kingdom of the Hittites; their racial basis was described above.
Their blood entered abundantly into the northern tribes of Israel. Furthermore, the Amurites
were present and played a leading rôle. The land of the Amuri is known from cuneiform
inscriptions. According to pictures, especially from Egyptian representations, (they were)
bearded people with long faces and long heads with stout but not hooked noses. To judge from a
number of intellectual traits, these people were also Indo-Germanic, at least as an upper stratum,
that is, they were racially Nordic. The constant admonitions and interdictions of the Jews'
prophets and lawgivers alone prove that a mixing of blood with all these non-Semitic elements
was constantly taking place. The Horites, who were mentioned in the Bible and known from
other sources might have had the same origin, perhaps separated off the movement which
brought the Aryans to India. They were later established south of the Hebrews in Palestine. The
Philistines became the most important political question for the young Hebrew kingdom. The
Philistines arrived in Palestine, perhaps at the same time when the last movements of the
immigrating Hebrews were taking place. They had previously been located on Crete and perhaps
along the coast of Asia Minor. Their language is Semitic, but all sorts of individual traits of their
civilization point to the Indo-Germanic origin of an earlier dominant stratum. Schuchardt and
Macalister point to the graves reminiscent of the battles around Troy and the helmet of the
"giant" Goliath, to his inclination to single combat, as well as to their military organization and
many traits of their civilization that clearly suggest an Indo-Germanic background. The
Philistines landed, thus, and created the Palestinian State, which projected like a wedge from as
far as the Jordon and which divided the Hebrews into two parts, a northern one and a southern
one. The battles with these people lasted for two centuries. At times one of the peoples was the
victor, while at other times the other people were the victors or the vanquished. There was a
fusion. It was not until the reign of King Saul and especially King David that a final
independence was established for a long time, the kingdom composed of the southern state of
Juda and the northern state of Israel, approximately around 1000 B.C. "Under David the Israelite
nation grew from the fusion of the two main ethnic groups of Palestine" (Auerbach), Hebrews
and Canaanites, (who were) basically similar to each other as far as race was concerned.
One nation is now present with a racial composition that can be explained from the history of its
origin; the Orientalid race as the main component, the Mediterranean race as an admixture, the
Near Eastern race as a strong second component and Nordic elements mixed in now and then.
The fact that the Nordic element was repeatedly mentioned in this presentation must not give the
impression that this admixture was especially large! The Nordic race had (and still has!) a
tremendous migratory strength and rôle as a conqueror, but the dominant strata in question were
very thin, and the Nordic blood migrating to the south was very quickly and thoroughly
eliminated because it was much less adapted to the climate than all others. Only traces of their
culture remained, the language and other things, as evidences of their intellect.
In the discussion of the original racial elements of the later Jewish people there always comes up
the question of a Negroid admixture. There is no doubt about its presence amongst the presentday
Jews. Occasionally one sees Negroid hair, lips and even subdued Negroid nostrils. The
explanation of this is difficult. It is not very likely that a rather strong Negroid component came
into the Hebrews by way of the Egyptians. Further, remains of a Negritic population in the
prehistoric and historic Near East have been conjectured which are alleged to be connected with
the Negritic strata of India (i.e., not African Negroes). These people would have been of a small
build, dark, strongly curly-haired and with fleshy, thick upper lips. Traces (of these people) are
found even today in Baluchistan and southern Persia. Even this explanation is not satisfactory.
At the most, one may think of numerous Negro slaves whom the Jews had in the Diaspora, of
proselytization and a mixture of the two races. (see, for example, Kittel's brilliant presentation.)
(Presumably, this refers to Gerhard Kittel's article on the connubium with non-Jews in the
second volume of the Forschungen zur Judenfrage, pp.30-62. -- Translator) For the race as a whole, this question is not of all too much importance.
Thus, the Hebrew nation arose from the fusion of the Orientalid race with the Near Eastern and
Mediterranean races, with an admixture of Nordic elements. The crossings which lead to the
formation of such a race do not have a quite uniform result from a physical and mental point of
view. We know that the physical traits of two or more interbreeding races are passed on in the
hereditary process independently of each other and are then encountered in all possible
combinations, thus giving the mixed race its variegated appearance. If the interbreeding
components are numerically unequal and if the mixing is not uniform throughout the whole
ethnic group, but is varied by strata, as is always the case with masters and subjugated people,
then the one kind of traits in the total gene pool will naturally be numerically far more common
than others. However, as far as the appearance in life, that is, the image of the nation in question,
is concerned, it is not just a question of these numerical differences in the gene pool, but of the
hereditary process of the individual traits, that is, specifically whether they are inherited in a
dominant or recessive manner, in other words, in an apparent or concealed manner. The traits
which are inherited in a concealed manner actually make an appearance in a racial mixture only
in a manner which cannot be eliminated (unless special selective conditions intervene). In the
Jewish people, for example, we see simultaneously the Orientalid and the Near Eastern nasal
forms and all intermediate forms. However, the Mediterranean and once in a while the Negroid
forms are present, as well as the Nordic form. It must be assumed that there was occasional
blondness even in the ancient Jews, not just the present-day ones. {NOTE: As a matter of fact,
Lenz (Natur. Vers., Stuttgart) demonstrates that blondness came about primarily in the
Diaspora.} It can be explained by that which was said above. In the case of hereditary traits of a
mental and psychological nature the hereditary process is naturally basically the same. However,
the effect will be a quite different one because in this case parts of different origin cannot be
juxtaposed without a mutual influence. Physically, a Negroid lip can be accompanied by a
Nordic nose and blond hair by a Near Eastern skull. The psychological personality, however,
demonstrates by its accomplishments and activities a combination of the effects of character,
imagination, intelligence, temperament, etc. Then, too, one trait can characterize human beings
mentally and psychologically and dominate the other traits! Considering the race as a whole,
certain traits will become dominant here which are the inherent chief components of the racial
mixture. Hence, even in the early history of the Jewish people are seen the emotion, the hatred
and the cruelty often developing into bloodlust on the part of the sheep raiser of the Orientalid
race along with the skill, adaptability, cunning and desire to dominate of the city founder of the
Near Eastern race. In this regard one must not forget the fanatic aspect of the monotheistic belief
in Jehovah and the concept of being the chosen people, conceived and retained fanatically by
desert nomads. These aspects have made possible in the first place the isolation of the Jew
amongst all his host populations. It would be logical to point out the tendency to unbridled
fanaticism, particularly in the religious area, of the Islamic culture, which was borne originally
by the same Mediterranean race!
Only an extremely strong selective process following racial interbreeding can again eliminate
the genetic components of a race from the mixture, then, if this selective process especially
involves the characteristics of the one race for reasons of adaptation. Without this strong
selective process the individual racial elements that went into the mixture remain extant
indefinitely. I could demonstrate that as long as thirty years ago through several generations in
the southern African crossbreeds. Any glance at the Jews beginning with the time of the
founding of their state (in ancient times) down to today proves the same thing.
Although from the time of the founding of the state onwards the incorporation of foreign
elements did not cease, as was pointed out previously, the selective process within the closed
Jewish nation provided for a complete amalgamation. As is well known, after the zenith of their
power, after the death of Solomon in 933 (B.C), the kingdom again divided into the northern
kingdom of Israel and the southern kingdom of Juda. Around 300 years later, Juda, and a bit
later Israel, succumbed to the Assyrians and then to the Babylonians. And after the return of the
Jews from the so-called Babylonian captivity a considerable amount of intermarriage might have
commenced again, but in this process no foreign races were admixed, only similar ones.
This selective process in a special direction thus stamped a whole, particular race with quite
specific racial traits of a physical as well as mental-psychological kind. There is an incorrect
premise when one says that the Jews are not a race, but rather a racial mixture and for that
reason have no racial characteristics peculiar to them. That is incorrect.
An ethnic group has a strong mental-psychological unity even if it consists of a number of races
that have been fusing together with one another for many centuries if they harmonize together.
The Jewish ethnic group has undergone this fusion during its long prehistory and history and the
extremely strong selective process brought about by its fate has shaped irretrievably the
characteristics of the Jewish intellect, of the Jewish psyche and of the Jewish body. To examine
these in detail is no longer the task of this presentation. I can neither describe the physical traits
of the resultant nation of Israel nor those of the present-day Jews. (The following lecture {on the
racial biology of the Jews by Otmar von Verschuer} will have the latter as its theme.) To an
even slighter extent can I describe here their psychology or even just their psychic style, (to use
Clauss' words). That would be a task in itself, and indeed a very large and important one.
The history of the racial origin was really completed long ago with the Babylonian captivity and
the partial return from it as far as a people leading a political existence is concerned. Now there
would no longer have to follow the description of the Hebrews or of the nation of Israel but
rather the history of the Jews in the Diaspora, again a large task and perhaps the most difficult
one.
My own intention was just the description of the origin itself. I hope that I have shown the racial
origin. And if I may make a pronouncement as a systemitizer of races, it is the following: The
European peoples also originated after military conquest, but in this instance the conquest by the
Nordic race of other races. They thus developed into a racial entity by fusion. However, their
racial elements are different ones. Originally, the Orientalid race was not present in any
European nation, nor the Near Eastern race in any European nation.
These races are foreign to the European races and are of a different nature. Moreover, the
Semitic Arabs are not the same as the Jews, because they have no Near Eastern Components. If
Arabian blood lives on in Spain it is racially not the same as Jewish blood. However, the Jews,
the race amalgamated from Orientalid and Near Eastern components, are of a foreign nature to
us Europeans. They are different in body and above all psyche. They are most foreign and
distinct from the Nordic race, however, whose origins took place under conditions which were
just the opposite. Even today we sense that instinctively.
FEMINISM: PHILOSOPHY OF LIBERATION OF ALIEN IDEOLOGY
What is feminism, and what relevance (If any) does it have to the struggle for White Revolution? In an Aryan society, would White women be oppressed and exploited in a male—dominated social structure, as they supposedly have been in the past? Do White women need to be liberated from the roles assigned to them by Nature and Race? Are they perpetually doomed to play no more than a secondary or auxiliary role in the life of the Race? Most importantly, are they somehow inferior to men?
The first of these questions is perhaps the most difficult to answer. As a philosophy and a political program whose professed aim is the liberation of women, contemporary feminism comes In a variety of forms, ranging from the more “polite manifestation which pursues an equal status for women in bourgeois society without necessarily condemning men as the “enemy to the more extreme version which considers all men to be potential rapists, and which longs to replace the present social order with a form a’ matriarch under which women would be encouraged to experience sexual fulfillment” with each other, rather than with their male oppressors. A small minority of feminists characterize themselves as “pro-life, while most see unlimited abortion rights as the key to sexual emancipation. Some extreme feminists have simply replaced the Marxist paradigm of the class struggle between the sexes, while declaring their solidarity with other historically oppressed groups. However, there are certain inherent principles which all feminists must hold in common in order to qualify as feminists, it is these principles which must be addressed In evaluating the role of feminism in relation to The war for Aryan Liberation.
The first principle dear to the hearts of all feminists is the myth of equality Women and men must somehow be regarded as equal to each other if women are to avoid the degradation and misery associated with being relegated to the status of a “subordinate sex." Like the myth of "human equality" that is being used by the jewish propagandists to poison White culture and ultimately destroy Western civilization in its entirety the notion of equality between the sexes is preached as a remedy for the exploitation of women, when the true goal of its most dedicated proponents is the destruction of the White family and, eventually, the White Race as a whole.
In sharp contrast to feminism, it is a basic premise of every true form of Aryan Racial philosophy that there is no such thing as “equality”-—not in Nature, not in society, and not among the races which make up what passes for humankind.” Just as there is an “aristocracy” in Nature which gives the lie to any concept of equality among species, so too there is an “aristocracy” among human beings, even within the same Race. To be sure, it is an “aristocracy” of individual achievement and merit, and one which cuts across lines of class, gender, and nationality, but it is diametrically opposed to false and pernicious notions of equality of any sort whatever. The “Iron Law” of Nature always remains the same:
survival of the fittest and the victory to the strong! How could this fundamental observation be less true among human beings than it is among the lower species? It has been proven time and time again throughout the history of our Race and its battle for supremacy.
No, the false ideology of equality has no place in our revolutionary philosophy. What then does this say about the proper relation between the sexes? Does it follow from this recognition of the Inherent inequality of all things that women are somehow “inferior” to men, and ought merely be content to accept and embrace a “second class” status in relation to their male superiors? Of course not! The idea of feminine “inferiority” is as foreign to the Aryan mindset as is that of equality, or male “supremacy.” The roles proper to men and women are DIFFERENT from each other, and naturally so. This consideration makes the belief in the “equality” of the sexes not only false, but ultimately quite beside the point. Men and women have their respective vocations to fulfill, and the appropriate relationship between the sexes is one of complementarity. Envy, strife, and competition between the sexes are not natural or proper to our Race. Ideally, a man an a women come together as two “halves” to make a “whole.” Each is called upon to discharge the responsibilities of husband and father, wife and mother, in the manner appropriate to their gender, and in mutual cooperation.
At a theoretical level, this is all well and good. But what about its practical applications? The White woman befuddled by feminist propaganda is not really so concerned with the issue of her “equality” with men as she is with the question of, “How can I, as a woman, be treated fairly and properly in society as a whole?” This is a question which essentially has nothing to do with feminism, and everything to do with the inherent dignity and worth of the Aryan woman. When a woman embraces the duties of motherhood, she is not being “relegated” (nor is she relegating herself) to a secondary status in relation to men She is being enabled to fulfill her destiny in the most rewarding manner possible! The dame thing is true for the man who faithfully discharges his duties as a husband and father. (And those who fail to do so honorably can only be considered criminals and cowards.)
Does this mean that in a truly Aryan society no other paths would, or should, be open to women apart from those of wife and mother? Again, the answer is: of course not! Clearly, not every man will feel called to the duties of a husband and father, Just as not every woman will feel obliged to serve as wife and mother, although these functions will remain the norm, as they should and must, for members of the Race as a whole. Our Race has always produced (hopefully, it always will) a number of talented men and women who may answer to the call of “a different drummer” in the pursuit of their life’s work and personal achievements. Opportunities for them to do so must be fostered and encouraged for the benefit of the Race as a whole. The exclusion of women, based on their gender alone, from any profession or enterprise for which they are suited would indeed be absurd and irrational and ha~ no place in our thinking.
Perhaps a few examples from the history of National Socialist Germany (certainly, a sterling example of a society composed, and governed in the interest of, members of the Aryan Race) will serve to illustrate the point. We may consider Magda Goebbels, the “First Lady of the Third Reich,” and wife of Propaganda Minister, Dr. Josef Goebbels. She was a National Socialist “leader” in her own right, and certainly no mere “extension” of her husband. She was also the devoted mother of six children, and her loyalty to the Fuehrer and the cause of National Socialism was unfailing to the end. It was to her that Adolf Hitler gave his golden Party badge shortly before his death as a token of the high esteem in which she was held. Could any woman in Germany have felt more honored? And who would dare to claim, in a disparaging manner, that Magda Goebbels was “only” a wife and mother?
In contrast, another great heroine of the Third Reich was Hannah Reitsch, the test pilot and Luftwaffe ace, and the devoted female companion of Ritter von Greim, who replaces Hermann Gearing as head of the German Air Force shortly before the end of the war She did not pursue the traditional role of wife and mother, but distinguished herself in the service of her Race. (Apparently, the “misogynictic” Nazis forgot to tell Kamerad Reitsch she couldn’t fly because she was “only a woman!”) Then there was Leni Riefenstahl, the great cinematographer selected by the Fuehrer himself to chronicle on film the great events of the Nuremberg Party Rally of 1934, as well as the Berlin Olympics two years later. Certainly, her gender was not an Impediment to her career. As for these women, it would be the rare man indeed who could properly lay claim to being their “equal!”
The point is not that all women must be wives and mothers, or film producers, or combat pilots, or that all women must be "this" or "that." But if it is necessary to "defend" the role of wife and mother for the White woman, it is only because the dignity of White womanhood is being undercut by the poisonous influence of an alien ideology which would rob women of their grandeur and their beauty as the most prized assets of the White Race, all in the name of “liberating” them from the high place of honor that they occupy in Nature and as members of the Aryan Race.
But what about the role of women, if any, in the armed services? As for military service, it must be recognized that the overwhelming majority of White women would be unsuited for it, and certainly unprepared for active combat. For women to be forcibly impressed into the military in the name of equality with men would be catastrophic, and any such move would be denounced and rejected by the vast majority of White women themselves, It can be argued that this more martial role is one that is almost always proper to men alone. (Although, it cannot be denied that during our period of struggle for White Revolution, many White women may have a very positive part to play in combat and guerrilla warfare, and their abilities in these areas could be overlooked or undervalued only at our own peril. The female “Lone Wolf” Is just as valuable as her male counterpart. This will still represent a period of exceptions to the norm, however, and cannot translate into a model for Aryan society.) The same holds true generally for positions of political leadership, although we are justified in recognizing that the exclusion of women from full and active participation, including the assumption of leadership roles appropriate to them, is largely outdated.
In Aryan Racial philosophy, Woman is the giver and nurturer of life. Her part in the perpetuation of the Race is crucial (what an understatement!) and it is in this that the source of her dignity lies. The proper role for Aryan Man is that of the defender of the Race, from enemies Internal and external. Each is called upon to play his or her part in the promotion and survival of the Race. To further understand the point of the respective roles which men and women must play, we may turn again to the philosophy of National Socialism. In a speech delivered on March 18, 1933, Dr Josef Goebbels addressed this question: “The woman in public life today is not different than the women of the past. No one who understands the modern age would have the crazy Idea of driving women from public life, from work, profession, and bread winning. But it must also be said that those things that belong to the man must remain his. That includes politics and the military. That is not to disparage women, only a recognition of how she can best use her talents and abilities.” And, in the words of Adolf Hitler: “What the man sacrifices in fighting for his people, the woman sacrifices in fighting to maintain this people...Each child that she brings into the world is a battle that she fights for the existence or nonexistence of her people.”
In addition to a mythical belief in the equality of the sexes, almost every form of feminism also adopts as one of its basic tenets the concept of “sexual emancipation” or “reproductive freedom.” Feminists argue that women have historically been kept “barefoot and pregnant,” and have been valued by men as little more than outlets for sexual gratification and a source of free domestic labor. The woman is a mere “object’ in relation to the man and she is horribly oppressed as a result. What solution to this dilemma do feminists propose? In their view, women must divorce their sexuality from the confines and demands of motherhood, and pursue their own forms of sexual pleasure for its own sake without the encumbrance of a family. In this instance, a program of sexual licentiousness with disastrous consequences for the individual woman and the Aryan Race as a whole, is again passed off as a form of “women’s liberation.”
During the so—called “second wave” period of organized feminism in the 1960s and early 1970s, a major “battle cry” of feminists was the demand for a Woman’s “right to control her own body.” Men, it was argued, have traditionally been able to engage in promiscuous sexual conduct without the unhappy consequences of an unwanted pregnancy, and without the shame and social stigma attached to women who dared to follow their example. It became the task of feminism to overturn this hypocritical double standard and somehow ensure that women could be “equal” to men in this important area as well. With the rise of widespread contraception, success was on the horizon. Women could take as many lovers as they pleased without fear of the “disastrous” side effect of pregnancy. This approach found fertile ground for development during the hedonistic hey—day of the “Sexual Revolution,” and coincided nicely with the essential disintegration of nuclear family and established society as a whole.
Once acceptance of this basic principle of “reprod4ctive freedom” had been established, It took no quantum leap to arrive at the further conclusion that a woman’s right to “control” her own body should involve unrestricted access to legalized abortion as well. With the Supreme Court decision of “Roe v. Wade,” the longed-for success in this area was achieved. If a sexually active woman had been unfortunate enough to fail to use contraceptives, or if the contraceptives had failed to work properly, she now had the added option of slaughtering the unborn, and unwanted, child in her womb with no legal consequences and, eventually, with no social disapproval as well. With legal abortion, no-fault divorce, and the growing popularity of cohabitation without benefit of matrimony, sexual “emancipation” for women had indeed finally arrived!
As a logical outfrowth of the “Sexual Revolution,” homosexuality also rapidly gained social acceptance, and those who previously kept their brand of perversion private and “in the closet” were now free to pursue their degenerate lifestyles openly, and without fear or shame. Contemporary “third wave” feminism has not been slow in recognizing the implications of “gay liberation” for its own movement. Not content to
“liberate” the heterosexual women from the “chains” of her sexual “oppression,” organized feminism quickly embraced lesbianism as an entirely legitimate and logical extension of “sisterly solidarity” among women. More extreme feminists now regard lesbianism as a preferable alternative to sexual relation with men, and seek to recruit inexperienced women to their ranks. This is truly a case of “Revolution complete!”
It is hardly necessary to point out that this key component of feminism is as foreign to any true Aryan Racialist philosophy as the myth of sexual equality. A lifestyle based on sexual promiscuity offends against the dignity of Aryan men and women alike. There can be no double standard in this area:
men must be regarded as fully responsible for their sexual activity, and held to account to the highest possible standards. Anything less is a source shame and disgrace to our people. It is not the view of Aryan ideology that women are no more than ‘baby breeders,” or sources for male sexual gratification. At the same time, we must learn to recognize what really lies behind the promotion of feminism as a solution to the problems faced by women. How is it that so many of them have been persuaded that “equality’ with men, and sexual emancipation,” really represent the path to forward to their ‘liberation?”
It is no accident that most of the early feminists of the ‘second wave” were jewisses and lesbians, and that these wretched creatures continue to dominate the feminist movement. Feminism is essentially a frontal assault on the White Race by the ideologues of a Zionist Occupation Government which is intent on the destruction of our Race. The wedge driven between the sexes, along with the degenerates. The growing acceptance and active promotion of homosexuality always precedes the downfall of a civilization, and the feminists deserve recognition for the part which their obnoxious philosophy has played in ensuring the destruction of Western society.
On balance, therefore, feminism must be recognized and identified as the scourge that it is, and no place for it must be allowed within our ranks. As for those who imagine that a moderated” form of feminism can be adhered to, one which rejects the worst aspects of feminist ideology while retaining the “better” elements, this idea too must be completely discarded. For a woman to claim that she is only “moderately” feminist is somewhat like claiming to be a little bit pregnant.” Either you are, or you are not. What Aryan Racialist would wish to promote a “moderate” farm of race mixing (mix with some races, but not others), or a “moderate” attitude towards the Jewish question (only some of them are bad)? The logical absurdity of such a "half way” position is obvious. How can a “moderate” compromise with the enemies of our Race be promoted by those who claim to be Aryan revolutionaries? No, an alien Jewish ideology imposed from without, whose aim is the destruction of the Aryan Race, feminism has no “better’ elements and must be renounced in its entirety.
Most definitely, there is also no place among us for antiquated notions of feminine “Inferiority” and any such ideas must be purged from our consciousness. White women occupy a place of supreme dignity, and their rights and freedoms must be guarded at all costs. They are our comrades in the struggle, and must be respected as such by one and all. It should also be noted that the goal and Ideals referred to in this article pertain to standards for a truly Aryan society, one which no longer exists in North America, Europe, or anywhere else in the world. This is not a diatribe against those who are proud of their Race and who are committed to its survival, but who have nevertheless fallen short in some areas of their personal lives. An outlook based on prudery serves no goad purpose at the present time. Given the enormous pressures exerted upon the White family in recent decades, many of our comrades may have suffered from divorce and separation. Cohabitation as an alternative to matrimony has become a common, and sometimes necessary, occurrence. Affairs of the heart are properly the concern only of those who are engaged in them. White women who are racially conscious are engaged in a truly heroic struggle to nurture their children as best they can in an environment that is hostile to their very survival. We must all aspire to the highest possible goals of proper conduct in our personal lives, but this is not intended as an attempt to Induce feelings of guilt in those among us who are less than perfect. After all, THAT is a category in which we ALL belong.
Radbod Reinhard
Sparta: The First National Socialist State
Written by Reinhard N.
When one thinks of “National Socialism,” images of sunwheels, iron crosses, and “Deutschland über Alles” inevitably enter the mind. However, nearly three thousand years before the birth of the Third Reich, there existed a state which served as the prototype for was to come in the first half of the twentieth century. From the hallowed battlefields of Hellas I introduce to you the Laconian nation-state of Sparta, the model for modern National Socialism.
Sparta was, of course, the home of the Spartans, one of the most revered peoples in the history of the world. Today “Spartan” is and adjective used to describe a strict and almost ascetic lifestyle and for good reason: the Spartans themselves led very strict and definitely ascetic lives. Everyone has heard the tales of Spartan youths being whisked away from their mothers at the tender age of seven to enter into a life of servitude to the state. More savvy readers will know of the training undergone by these children and will gladly tell you about the whippings, the beatings, and the seemingly absurd physical/psychological conditioning imposed upon these innocents. At this point, an inexperienced reader would be forced to ask, “what’s so glorious about all of this?” Allow me to answer.
First, we must begin with a more in-depth description of Spartan culture. Sparta began as a small city-state on the Greek isle of Laconia. After centuries of agricultural peace, the most revered king of Sparta, Lykourgos, restructured Sparta’s way of life entirely during the middle of the eighth century BC. Spartans existed for Sparta. Currency was abolished. Anything that was seen as over-indulgent or unnecessary to the survival of the Spartan nation was eradicated (except in some rare cases of art). They waged war on their Laconian neighbors and soon conquered the Achaeans and the Ionians. It is at this point (around 690 BC) that the class system of Sparta developed.
All Spartans, including their conquered subjects, were divided into three groups. At the top were the hekoioi. These men and women made up the aristocratic class of Sparta and were the only true “citizens.” Only these men could serve in the military, attain political office, or attend meetings of the assembly. Despite what many anti-Spartan critics would have a person think, hekoioi women were among the freest women of the ancient world. While their male counterparts declared and fought wars, they engaged in athletic activities, ran their households, and even owned their own businesses. In fact, Aristotle once claimed that hekoioi women owned as much as forty percent of all Spartan land.
The so-called “middle class” of Sparta were the perioikoi or the “neighbors.” As one might deduce from that translation, the perioikoi were in fact the conquered Achaean and Ionian neighbors of the ancient Spartans. They were not actually citizens of Sparta, but they enjoyed a great deal of liberty. Citizens could not participate in any business other than agriculture, so the perioikoi took over this role. They were the merchants of Sparta and many of them became wealthy off of foreign gold. Perioikoi men were occasionally drafted into the military but they saw far less combat than did the hekoioi.
At the bottom were the helots. The helots were essentially slaves to the hekoioi and outnumbered their masters more than fifteen-to-one. The life of the helot was short, thankless, and brutal. Once a year, the hekoioi formally declared war on their slaves to thin out their numbers and discourage rebellion without technically breaking the Spartan law against murder. The hekoioi allowed their slaves to keep enough of the agriculture they produced to feed their families, but of course took the rest and put it towards the betterment of the Spartan state.
At the age of seven, hekoioi boys were required to begin their military training. They were taught discipline, honour, and courage. Their official training ended at the age of 20, at which point they became the police of the nation. They moved along the countryside, keeping helots in line and correcting any activities which seemed rebellious or anti-Spartan. At the age of 30, hekoioi men became full citizens and were granted all the formal rights of citizenship. Military careers ended at the age of 60 and any man who reached that age earned the respect of all those around him, and rightly so. Generally speaking, the military life of the hekoioi was short. The Spartans were among the fiercest and most selfless warriors that ever lived and any man that survived his full tour of duty in the Spartan military was strong, intelligent, patriotic, and more than worthy of praise and adoration.
What does this have to do with National Socialism? First, let’s observe the most obvious difference: class. National Socialism is at its heart anti-class and seeks to have only one body: the state and the people of which it is composed. However, it is easy to see how the idea of classlessness is embodied by Sparta: the hekoioi are analogous to the Schutzstaffel Nordics, the perioikoi represent the rest of Germany, and the helots are the societal dregs and undesirables. Classism exists in every ideology despite the efforts of the ideologues to remove it; class is unavoidable. Even Germany and Italy had classes.
Most anti-Spartan critics say that Sparta suffered from the same flaw that all liberal/jewish philosophies suffer from: the exultation of quantity over quality. They point to the idea that the survival Sparta (i.e. the group) was more important than the survival of Spartans (i.e. the individual). This is an absurd notion. Judaism, Christianity, Islam, democracy, and all forms of Marxism exalt quantity over quality. They believe that hordes of worthless individuals make great groups simply because there are many of them. On the contrary, the Spartans believed and National Socialists believe that great individuals make great groups because they are better. It is precisely for this reason that 300 hekoioi bodyguards of the Spartan king were able to hold off 200,000 Persians at Thermopylae for nearly a week. The Spartans were more tactically skilled than the Persians. They were not mere conscripts: they were the best of the best of the best. Not even the most elite Persian fighting force, the Immortals, could break their line. In fact, it took the betrayal of Ephialtes (an hekoioi soldier whose name today is synonymous with “nightmare”) to bring the Persians victory. Similarly, this is why German officers and soldiers were able to overrun and defeat the numerically superior armies of the USSR and France. Individuality and the greatness associated with it are attained through distinction within the group, not through distinction from the group. Whether we as Aryans, as National Socialists, or merely as human beings like it or not, we are always part of a greater group. We can and will always be categorized in some manner. Receiving recognition and greatness from one’s own group only works if we lend our greatness to that group.
Some will be quick to say that National Socialism and the Spartans are interconnected inasmuch as they liked to wage war on their neighbors. There is more to this, however, than meets the eye. Let us look at the history of Spartan warfare following the war with Persia. In the years leading up to the Peloponnesian Wars, a type of cold war developed between Sparta and Athens. Realistically it could be compared to the cold war of the twentieth century in many aspects. After the Spartans (the United States of America) and the Athenians (the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) defeated the Persians (the Axis powers), both groups began to build up blocs. First, the Spartans had the Peloponnesian League (NATO) which consisted of it and its neighboring allies, including Corinth, Thebes, Arcadia, Messenia, and others. They compelled all of these cities to accept oligarchies as their governing vessels. Likewise, the Athenians compelled their neighbors to enter into the Delian League (the Warsaw Pact) [which is sometimes referred to as the Athenian Empire (the Soviet Empire)] and made them accept democracy. Sparta did not like democracy as they felt it naturally lent itself to war and empire, so the Spartans did all they could to contain its outbreak. This may seem rather contradictory to the nature of Sparta. Most people have been indoctrinated to believe that all the Spartans cared about was waging war. This is wrong. The Spartans were some of the most race-conscious people who ever lived. They did not merely look after themselves, they looked after all Greeks. As Persia threatened to overwhelm their Hellenic brothers in Athens and elsewhere, Sparta came to their aid and destroyed the land forces of the eastern invaders. The Spartans considered themselves the champions of the Greek people and felt that the democratic tendencies of Athens and its client city-states eroded the nature of the Hellenic spirit. Although Sparta was in a positionto rule all of Greece following the war with Persia, it chose not to. Instead, it returned to its Peloponnesian League and governed its affairs at home.
Similarly, Adolf Hitler saw himself as the liberator of all Teutonic peoples. He freed the Sudetendeutsche from Czechoslovakian control, admitted Austria (his home country) into the Third Reich, and took back the largely Germanic population of Western Poland. A National Socialist state functions to serve the needs of its race. It is for this reason that multiethnic states cannot be National Socialist states. The United States could never be a National Socialist state because of the different races inside its borders. The Spartan state existed to serve the Spartan people. The Spartans understood that they were of course part of a greater ethnic group (that is, they were Greeks just like the Delians, the Athenians, etc.) but they looked after themselves first. This is why Hitler respected the Nordic Scandinavians as well as the Britons: although there are differences between them, the Germans, the Scandinavians, and the Britons are all Teutonic peoples. Hitler did not, however, impose National Socialism on the Scandinavians or the British. The Norwegian leader Vidkun Quisling had come to accept National Socialism years earlier and with the support of the German military overthrew the social democrats of his nations. Likewise, the Swedes were left to their own devices. The Danes were the only conquered Scandinavians, and that stemmed more from political resentment than from ethnic animosity. We all know what happened with the British.
The link between National Socialism and religion is an important one. The Spartans were the most devoutly religious people of the Greek isles. They would refuse to fight in order to observe religious festivals. They worshipped the same gods as the rest of the Greeks. Likewise, religion was an essential part of the Third Reich. Hitler himself was an atheist for the most of his life, but he understood the Wotanic spirit that lay dormant in all Aryans; he knew that by bringing back the old heathen gods of all Teutonic peoples he would strike a raw nerve. He was influenced in this by the operas of Richard Wagner and the writings of the Saxon philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung, the Italian pseudo-dadaist Baron Julius Evola, and the Austrian mystic Guido von List. All of these men realized the power of the Wotanic faith. Wagner realized it aesthetically, Nietzsche morally, Jung subconsciously, Evola metaphysically, and von List symbolically. National Socialism is inherently religious as it must serve the folkish instincts of the people from which all Aryan religions descend.
The importance of military life in National Socialism and Spartan culture cannot be stressed enough. At a young age, German youths entered the HJ; at the age of seven, Spartan youths began their military training. To die in battle was glorious for both camps. Aryan virtues of honour, strength, tactical thought, and skill were taught on the wind-swept plains of Laconia just as they were taught on the grassy plains of Germania.
So what eventually happened to Sparta? Immediately following the Persian War, there was no fighting between the major Greek city-states. However, political intrigue and the proxy war between the Sparta-backed Sicilians and the Athenians eventually led to the beginning of the all-encompassing Peloponnesian Wars. In 404 BC, Sparta finally subjugated the Athenians. Their Theban and Corinthian allies demanded that Sparta burn Athens to the ground, but the Spartans refused: they feared the power vacuum that would be created by the loss of Athens. This was the costliest decision the oligarchy of Sparta ever made. The hekoioi leaders of post-war Athens (known as the 30 Tyrants) were so cruel to their subjects that even the King of Sparta supported the rebellion against them. Eventually Athenian democrats regained control of the city, conspired with Thebes against Sparta, and in 371 BC finally defeated their rivals at Leuctra. Two centuries later, Latin-speaking conquerors from Italy made Sparta one of their provinces.
Today, there is very little left of Sparta. They left us no great monuments, no huge architectural achievements, no standing temples, and very little art. The Spartan landscape today is in a state of perdition. One can still make out the foundations left by some of the buildings there, but a more important foundation is as visible today as it was nearly eighty years ago: the foundation of National Socialism.
National-Socialism, Music, Order and the Golden Age
The fundamental truth about National-Socialism is that National-Socialism represents and expresses something profound, noble, beautiful and civilized(1). It represents and expresses in a realistic and practical way what, for example, all the great Aryan composers have striven to represent and express in their greatest and most profound music. It makes real - and can make real - that profound noble vision, that intuition, which lies at the heart of such music and which expresses the real essence of very humanity, of what it means to be alive and possessed of the divine faculty of consciousness, of individuality itself. National-Socialism represents and expresses the divine light of human existence itself - and those, for some rare, moments of wisdom and insight when we are aware of the awe, beauty, purpose and order of life itself. And it is such moments of wisdom and insight - of awe - that all great artists and musicians have saught to express in their greatest works throughout the thousands of years of civilization.
National-Socialism represents and expresses, for instance, the sublimity, the divine beauty, the almost ineffable numinosity which Beethoven captured in the Second Movement of his Opus 59, number 3 "Razumovsky" Quartet - and which Schubert captured in parts of his "Death and the Maiden" Quartet. It represents and expresses the inspiring Aryan fury, defiance and joy which Wilhelm Furtwangler captured in his tremendous March 53 yf (1942) Berlin performance of Beethoven's glorious Ninth Symphony. It represents and expresses the Aryan desire to transmute great tragedy and suffering into a noble vision of a better world - for it is the vision which Goethe expressed in his "Faust"; which Wagner expressed in his "Ring" cycle, and which Homer expressed in his "Odyssey" and his "Iliad". National-Socialism represents the divine, awesome but simple and beautiful order which is life and which J. S. Bach captured many times in his beautiful and profound counterpoint. National-Socialism represents and expresses the pursuit of a human, personal, excellence and a human beauty which the Greek sculptor Praxiteles captured and which inspired great artists like Michelangelo and Arno Brecker. But above all else, National-Socialism represents and expresses what is noble and civilized - the desire for order and goodness made real through a striving for honour.
Expressed simply, National-Socialism is the culmination of our unique, civilized heritage - a profound yet practical expression of what being human, and being civilized, means. National-Socialism is an expression of the triumph of the Aryan over adversity, tragedy, suffering and disorder; it is a unique expression of the triumph of the Aryan will - of the civilizing destiny of the Aryan, and thus of the very purpose of our lives, as individuals: to capture and try to express the divine order, the divine beauty, the divine excellence, in ourselves and in our world.
Just as we who are civilized and noble at heart, on hearing music such as the Adagio of Schubert's String Quintet (D956) - or Purcell's "Music For A While" (sung by a counter-tenor) - are moved to almost tears, and just as such music captures and expresses the yearning and the often fateful sadness which inhabits our soul, so too can we be moved and inspired by National-Socialism, for this unique way of living, this spiritual movement founded by Adolf Hitler, expresses and represents what, for example, Beethoven was moved to express, all those decades ago.
The sublime, beautiful and simple truth about Adolf Hitler is that he knew - and felt - the inspiration, the awe, the beauty and the sadness which every great artist knows and feels and which inspires them to try and transmute their inner vision, their inner understanding, into a great work of art. Adolf Hitler knew and felt the desire that all great artists have to try and communicate this inspiration, this understanding, to others - and like the greatest of all great artists he possessed a dream of a better, more noble world.
But Adolf Hitler possessed much more than the soul of a great artist; he was much more than a man of noble vision. For he was also gifted with a truely remarkable insight into practical realities and people themselves. He not only yearned to make his noble vision real, but he also - and uniquely - possessed the personal qualities necessary to make it real, against all the odds. In truth, Adolf Hitler loved his people as he desired to create a better, more advanced and more noble society for them, and a more noble world in general. The National-Socialism of Adolf Hitler, and his National-Socialist movement, was the means - the living work of art - whereby this truely remarkable genius could communicate and make real his inner, noble, vision of a new Golden Age, a new and higher, civilized order. The real genius and the real greatness of Adolf Hitler is that he has given us a practical means whereby we can create a new Golden Age and so continue with the glorious and divine work of evolution which is expressed and represented in race(2) and in individual character. He has given us the practical means to fulfil the true and noble purpose of our individual lives - this purpose is to continue the glorious work of evolution which is the human species: to preserve, hand-on and extend still further the divine spark of creation which exists in us and which is made manifest in our consciousness, our ability to think, our ability to understand and discover, and in the civilized order, art, music and goodness we have created.
The simple, and profound, truth about National-Socialism is that it is the greatest work of art, of civilization, yet produced. It possesses the power, the inspiration, necessary for us to change our lives for the better, as it possesses the very essence of nobility - of what is necessary to create a new Golden Age and the first truely evolutionary society on this planet of ours. Furthermore, National-Socialism, and National-Socialism alone, possesses the power and the inspiration necessary to continue our upward development through the creation of a Galactic Empire - freeing us from the confines of our planet to thus enable us to fulfil our glorious god-like Destiny among the stars of our galaxy and among the galaxies of the cosmos itself.
National-Socialism is more profound, more awesome, more Aryan, for instance, than Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Goethe's "Faust" or Homer's "Odyssey" - because it is a conscious and rational expression of our very soul, our inner Aryan vision for a more noble world, a new Golden Age and a new beginning where we can reach up toward a higher form of god-like living. One can go so far as to say that all great works of Aryan art merely prepared the way for National-Socialism. Before National-Socialism, such works inspired, or could inspire us with noble and civilized feelings, as they could provide us with a momentary insight and understanding - when we attended a performance of such music, for instance. But this appreciation of their worth, the inspiration and understanding so afforded, was and is nothing compared to the insight, advancement, change and understanding National-Socialism can bring us.
All this is so because National-Socialism is a living, growing "work of art" - the inspiration, the means whereby we can change ourselves for the better through the power of our will, and a means whereby we can change our society, our way of life, for the better. National-Socialism and National-Socialism alone represents the glorious future which can be ours just as it represents everything which is cultured, noble, ordered, rational, evolutionary and civilized. Everything else represents, in however small a way, the chaos, dishonour and barbarous anti-evolution of a sub-human way of living.
II
Tyranny and Zionist Control
Despite the civilized and civilizing nature of National-Socialism, the sad fact is that today the majority of people are unaware of the true nature of National-Socialism, as they are unaware of the truth about Adolf Hitler and his followers. This is so because the uncivilized forces of darkness - and their willing and manipulated followers - have used all their now considerable power and influence to spread their evil lies about Adolf Hitler and his National-Socialism. The reality is that these dark forces have been trying - for over seventy years - to destroy and discredit National-Socialism, for they know that its triumph will mean the end of their sinister messianic plan to control, enslave and mentally condition the Aryan peoples of this world for their own evil ends(3).
The reality of the present is that all societies where Aryans are in a majority - that is, all the once Aryan nations of the present 'Western' or Thorian civilization - are repressive and fundamentally anti-Aryan. All these societies have progressively outlawed the customs of Aryans, as they are all dedicated to creating a "multi-racial" society(4). All these societies are fundamentally opposed to National-Socialism and the ideals of National-Socialism, and in many of them any expression of National-Socialism, in public, is illegal, just as all National-Socialist books and literature are banned. The reality of the present is that it is right and just to call the modern repressive, anti-Aryan societies which have been created as "evil", as it is right and just to describe those who have spread untruthful lies about National-Socialism and Adolf Hitler as sinister and agents for what is ignoble and uncivilized.
Given the beauty, truth, nobility and civilized nature of National-Socialism - given the honourable conduct of those who fought and died for National-Socialist Germany and Adolf Hitler - and given what the enemies of National-Socialism have done to try and destroy and discredit National-Socialism and its followers, there is no other option but to describe these enemies of National-Socialism as the enemies of civilization itself. However strange it may seem, however distasteful it is, however terrible, however unpopular, however sad and however uncomfortable some individuals may be with it, the truth has to be made known.
The truth is that all the modern societies of our present civilization are what is now called "politically correct" - which means they have introduced or are introducing basically Marxist laws and social policies, designed to create racial equality, for instance, and designed to undermine and destroy excellence of individual character, and the élitism on which such excellence is and must be based. Such "political correctness" is basically the introduction of Marxism and Marxist policies by stealth and deceit. In effect, a whole new type of society has been socially engineered by governments making social laws, outlawing Aryan customs and by social policies designed to implement a "multi-racial" society.
The fundamental moral notions of such an engineered society are based upon one or more of the following: 1) Christianity; 2) Marxist socialism; 3) Social and political dogmas deriving from sociology. These notions are all fundamentally Jewish, or, more correctly, Zionist - they all express a similar "view of the world" based on abstract ideas, and on unnatural, anti-evolutionary speculation, such as the dogma of "racial equality". And, more importantly, they are the creations of, or derived from, Jews. Christianity, for example (like Islam) derives from Judaism. Marxism is the creation of the Jews Marx and Engels. Sociology, and its Marxist doctrines, derives from Marcuse, Durkheim, Mauss and other Jews such as Levi-Strauss. All these doctrines express the same ethos or spirit - a rather restrictive way of living based on an abstract dogma and dedicated to trying to make real a utopian society founded on abstract ideas which contradict the laws and truths of Nature. They are all profoundly against individual noble character, against the élitism which produces excellence of character, against higher or civilized culture, and against the reality of Nature as evident, for example, in the differences of race.
The world itself is being increasingly dominated by the Jewish-derived doctrines of Christianity, Islam, Marxism and the "politically-correct", usury-capitalist consumer society of which the increasingly corrupt and increasingly multi-racial United States of America is the prime example. No where is there an example of what is Aryan - of a society based on Aryan values and Aryan customs. All that there is, are increasingly tyrannical societies dedicated to everything Zionist (such as the concept of a multi-racial society) and everything anti-Aryan. The "politically correct" basically Marxist dogma of racial equality, and the Marxist, Zionist-created myth of "racism" have been used and are being used to mentally condition and manipulate Aryans, and to create societies which are fundamentally anti-Aryan. The truth is that there has been a deliberate, and long-standing, campaign, by Zionists, to so socially engineer such societies. As the Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom once explained: "The Jews were chosen to act as pathfinders for the world, and Israel has a special place to effect the Jew's social engineering upon the world". (5)
The truth is that these sinister, often hidden, forces invented and propagated the evil lie of the "Jewish holocaust" to condition, manipulate and brainwash Aryans into accepting tyrannical multi-racial societies, and in order to try and discredit National-Socialism and Adolf Hitler. In the same way, these social engineers, and their allies, agitated for a war to destroy National-Socialist Germany and the Aryan vision of a new Golden Age. For over seventy years, these enemies of civilization and of National-Socialism have striven to persuade and brainwash people to believe that they, and their anti-evolutionary doctrines, represent what is "civilised" and "free" - whereas the truth is that they, and their dark doctrines, represent everything which is ignoble, tyrannical and uncivilized(6).
The truth is that the ignoble war these enemies of civilization began to destroy National-Socialism is still going on, with National-Socialists being persecuted, imprisoned, tortured, injured and killed. The truth of the present is that a great and important war is being fought, and on the outcome of this war the whole future of our human species depends. Two opposing "views of the world" - two totally opposite ways of thought and of life - are battling for the hearts and minds of our Aryan peoples. On the one side, under the red, white and black of their swastika banner, stands the loyal and honourable followers of Adolf Hitler. On the opposing side, under their blue and white emblems, stand those social engineers, the Zionists, and those who follow the anti-evolutionary, ignoble, doctrines they have created to tame, control and enslave our Aryan race, and other races. Either the legions of Adolf Hitler - and the civilized values of National-Socialism - will triumph, or the Zionists will triumph. The triumph of National-Socialism will mean a glorious future and a continuation of the divine work of evolution evident in race and individual character, while the triumph of Zionism, and their Marxist anti-evolutionary doctrines, can only mean a return to barbarism - the destruction of race, through "race-mixing" and enforced "racial equality", and the destruction of individual character through a Marxist, "politically-correct" tyranny. Were Zionism to be triumphant, the divine light of civilization which Aryans have carried for over three thousand years - from ancient Greece to our own times - will flicker and disappear forever. We must not allow this to happen - the future belongs to us, but we have to be prepared to fight the Zionist enemies of civilization in order to create it.
III
Technology and National-Socialism
Technology - and the science on which it is based - is one of the most important creations of our present Thorian, or "Western", civilization. Indeed, science and technology express the Faustian, or Luciferian, ethos, or soul, of this civilization(7). However, due to the distortion inflicted upon this ethos - and the Aryan peoples of the civilization - by the disease of Christianity and by the abstract, unnatural doctrines of Zionists(8), this technology has seldom been used to pursue Aryan ideals as it has never been controlled, in an Aryan way, to maintain the necessary balance between the individual, Nature and that excellent creation of Nature, race.
Over the last hundred years or so technology has been used to simply provide self-indulgence, comfort, profits, and entertainment and to implement, or try to implement, the abstract doctrines of those "social engineers", the Zionists. That is, technology has been manifestly harnessed in a material way to produce and maintain a materialistic "consumer" and industrial society with individuals, nations, races and Nature herself used in either a profit-driven capitalistic way, or in a totalitarian communist way. In effect, the social engineers, their lackeys and the adherents of their abstract, unnatural, doctrines, have tried, through industry and technology, to harness both Nature and individuals in the service of such abstract and unnatural doctrines. As a consequence, great damage has been done to Nature, individual character and to the races which Nature has laboured to create.
In recent decades, technology has been increasingly used to aid the creation, by Zionists, of the present tyrannical Marxist, "politically-correct" societies which exist in all Aryan nations, with Aryans for the most part docile and tame because well-fed, well-entertained and well-diverted by pursuing materialistic or abstract, Zionist-given, goals.
Instead of liberating the individual, and the race, and being used to elevate or improve the individual and the race - and thus continue the upward progress of evolution - technology has created a society of dependency and State-control, with individuals living artificial lives. The natural balance between the individual, their folk-community, their homeland, their race, and Nature herself, has been totally lost. As a result, the majority of individuals seldom if ever develope any real character because the things which can create or contribute to such character are avoided, done-away with or simply no longer exist in the technological, consumer-driven, self-indulgent society which has been created. Furthermore, few individuals now possess the incentive, or the desire, to develope themselves in a natural way because such technology has made life too easy, too comfortable. In all Aryan countries, urban sprawl has developed, industrial development has continued, driven by profits and materialism, and the use of technology has not been governed by any moral guidelines based on Aryan values(9).
The consequence of all this has been the creation of generation after generation of rootless individuals who possess no real sense of belonging, who have never experienced or felt the primal wonder and awe and danger of Nature, and who have no conscious or even innate understanding of the importance of the natural creations of Nature such as race. In brief, the majority of people today are distanced from the reality of Nature, their own inner reality - or soul - and their natural instincts. Such people are thus easy to control - easily diverted, easily entertained, easily manipulated. An increasingly urbanized "mass-produced" individual has been created - lost to their native, or natural culture; lost to their race and virtually lost to evolution. The whole purpose of the present multi-racial, 'democratic', consumer society is to produce such basically characterless individuals devoid of any understanding of Nature, devoid of any real knowledge of the working of Nature as evident in race and individual character, and devoid of any understanding of their own racial culture and their own innate racial ethos.
Thus, the modern denizen of the urbanized - or even the rural - society of the present has no practical experience of the natural rhythm of the seasons, as they have little or no experience of the harshness, the splendour and the awe of Nature. There is no real sense of belonging - no participation in the natural, slow, change of a particular landscape or place; no slow development of wisdom. Travel, for such denizens, is relatively easy, whatever the weather - cocooned as such denizens are in their fast, heated, automobiles, or in trains or buses. The darkness of night can be done away with by electric lights; the silence of Nature is destroyed by traffic, by urban living, by the music and the sounds pouring easily from radios, televisions and such like. Even the "great outdoors" is increasingly made safe and tamed - with "country walks" (usually reached by motor vehicle, bus or train); with "safety equipment"; with rules and regulations, and "instructors" and "courses" easily available. Individuals have to be "guided", trained by a "qualified instructor" or have the latest "equipment". Risks are reduced, or done away - particularly for children or young adults. One result of all this has been the birth of "adventure" training and the spread of the "Western tourist" seeking pleasurable and challenging experiences in foreign lands - although the challenging experiences, of course, have to be reasonably safe, with such tourists or "adventurers" led by qualified guides or instructors, and so on.
A classic instance of the mis-use of technology - and the detrimental effects of such un-Aryan use - occurs in the motor vehicle, or automobile. This seemed to promise individual freedom, and many other things. But the result of the uncontrolled, self-indulgent, use of such technology has been the destruction of Nature, the loss of community, and the further distancing of the individual from the realness of Nature and life itself. Quite apart from the pollution caused by such vehicles, modern life is now totally dominated by this technological invention, with the natural slow, walking, rhythm and the natural and necessary quietness of life destroyed, with roads and their vehicles dominating over both people and Nature. The unrestricted use of this invention has led to the destruction of both urban and rural communities - since it is easy to "commute" by car to work, or wherever, with little or no necessity to live within walking distance of work or relatives, and with no real need to stay in one's ancestral area or community. Furthermore, the personal ease of travel so made possible by this invention has destroyed real travelling where the traveller was in intimate contact with the landscape passed through, and the local characters encountered. One of the consequences of such easy travel has been the breakdown of that rural isolation and self-sufficiency which aided communal spirit. Little or no thought was given or is being given to the destruction of the quality of life caused by this invention. In brief, an awareness and understanding of Blood and Soil - of Nature, homeland and race - has been lost, with the harmony of a natural balance destroyed(10).
In contrast, National-Socialism seeks to harness and direct technology to elevate or improve individuals in a natural, balanced way. That is, it seeks to use technology to further the evolution of the individual and the race, as it seeks to create a balanced society where Nature is respected. This is so because quite simply National-Socialism is a conscious and rational expression of the ethos of this civilization - it is based on a conscious and rational understanding of Nature, what is necessary to enhance Nature, and on a conscious and rational understanding of what civilization, science and technology are and can be in the service of our humanity. Indeed, only National-Socialism expresses, in a conscious and rational way, the essence of what it is to be human - this essence being expressed in race, in individual honour, in excellence of individual character and in that desire to know, explore and understand which is uniquely Aryan(11).
Because of this rational and conscious understanding, National-Socialism can create a harmonious society and thus restore the natural balance between the individual and Nature. In effect, such a National-Socialist society, or Reich, is based upon the laws or processes of Nature, as it seeks to elevate or develope the individuals in that Reich in accord with these natural laws. The whole structure of the society - from the type of State, to its Institutions, its industry, commerce and its economy - is for National-Socialism simply a means to create and maintain the harmonious balance which is necessary to ensure such an evolution in accord with Nature. That is, National-Socialism is practical and realistic, seeing the State - and such things as its economy - as simply a means, as tools to be created, shaped and used for a specific end. The specific end, the goal, of such a National-Socialist State is the continued health, welfare and advancement of the Aryan individuals of that State. A National-Socialist society, or Reich, is thus a society where change and development are planned and controlled in accordance with definite moral guidelines. That is, such a society has a definite purpose, a definite aim, with the individuals of that society, and all the structures of that society, cooperating together to strive to achieve that aim. The aim itself is a moral, or spiritual one - the health, well-being and advancement of the people of that society. Expressed in individual terms, the pursuit of noble ideals - of the common racial good - comes before self-interest and before profits.
In the same way, the creations or inventions of technology must serve the interest of the people. A National-Socialist Reich would give a high priority to producing individuals of noble character who possessed an awareness of their duties and responsibilities and who could accept responsibility and make wise decisions based on the wisdom they had acquired. It is such mature, insightful, honourable individuals who can govern the society, who can plan and control the development and change necessary in society, and who can create and maintain that natural balance between Blood and Soil and Conquest and Exploration which is necessary for a healthy, expanding, evolving society(12) and which enables us to creatively participate in evolution and Nature in accord with the laws of Nature.
Such a creative participation is our unique Destiny, as human beings, and only National-Socialism understands and expresses, in a practical way, what this Destiny is and how it can be achieved. Because of this, National-Socialism is of vital importance for our survival as rational, thinking, civilized, beings. Indeed, only National-Socialism can ensure the survival and advancement of those things which make us, and keep us, human - race, excellence of individual character, honour and the desire to know, understand and explore.
IV
The Structure Of A Future Reich
Although at present a new Reich - a National-Socialist homeland or State - is still in the future, it is important for us to have ideals to strive for, and important to give our noble vision of a future Golden Age some practical form by expressing in words what it is that we desire to create.
Basically, the new Reich can arise in two ways(13). First, by National-Socialists taking control - through revolution or otherwise - of an existing nation or State, and thus implementing a National-Socialist revolution in that nation or State. Secondly, by creating a homeland, and gaining independence for that homeland, either while the anti-Aryan Zionist System of the present is still in existence, or following the collapse/breakdown of that System.
In the first case, National-Socialists will take control of the structures, Institutions and so on of an existing State, and have at their disposal most of the resources of that State. In effect, National-Socialists will be the government of an existing State or nation, and thus will be able to alter the society of that State or nation in accord with their National-Socialist ideals. Such a National-Socialist government will also exercise power over a large number of people.
In the second case, National-Socialists will have only limited power and resources, and the power they will exercise will also be limited. In effect, in the first case, an existing society will have to be radically changed into a National-Socialist one - with National-Socialism being implemented - while in the second case a National-Socialist society will already have been created on a small scale. Thus, we need only consider here how National-Socialism can be implemented in an existing nation or State.
Implementing National-Socialism:
We National-Socialists view our present society - whatever country we presently reside in - as decadent, corrupt and devoted to sub-human values. In particular, this society has lost, or destroyed, the natural balance which should exist between the individual and Nature, and between the individual, their local community and their larger racial community. Blood and Soil has become replaced by Money and Pleasure.
One of the priorities of a National-Socialist revolution in an existing nation or State is to restore the natural balance which should exist, and which must exist if individuals are to live healthy lives in harmony with Nature. This means replacing the unhealthy, unnatural, uncivilized, ugly urban developments and urban sprawl which have been created in all Aryan nations. No one can have any real pride in belonging to any modern city or town, since such places have no real identity, no real Aryan culture, and no real sense of racial community. They also lack a real sense of noble purpose. Mostly, they are bustling, noisy, dirty places of industry, commerce and materialism surrounded by or containing large housing estates and dominated by the traffic of motor vehicles which grow ever more invasive. Increasingly, these cities and towns are becoming more and more "multi-racial", and more and more overcrowded, with every expansion destroying more land. People living in such areas are forced - by the prices of houses and accommodation - to live in close proximity with each other, with small gardens (if they have any garden at all) and with few open and wooded spaces. Each new development - residential or commercial or industrial - is constrained by cost and by the all-pervasive motor vehicle.
The first thing that needs to be done is to remove non-Aryans from such places, and from the State in general - whatever the cost in terms of human suffering and whatever the practical difficulties. The whole nation or State has to become an Aryan-only one, for this and this alone enables a natural balance to be restored, health and vitality obtained and future evolution made possible. Only such a racial separation can maintain our very humanity and the civilization based upon that humanity(14).
The second thing that needs to be done is to make urban areas decent places to live where people can be free of the noise, manic pace, rampant selfish materialism and decadence of modern sub-human living. In brief, Nature has to make a reappearance, with urban living made human again - with humans and Nature given priority over motor vehicles, commercialism, materialism and so on. Initially, this means an efficient, technologically advanced, subsidized public transport system, with whole areas closed to commercial and private motor vehicles and people encouraged to be healthy and cycle or walk. [The streets would naturally be safe places under a National-Socialist government, with residents encouraged to arm and defend themselves, with regular community patrols by neighbourhood groups, and with the restoration of Aryan justice and punishments for those found guilty of cowardly crimes - for example, stocks would be set-up in public places, with people encouraged to throw items at and mock the offenders so exhibited.] A new commercial transport system would be constructed - mainly using existing urban roads - which allowed for the efficient transportation of goods. This system would be connected to railway stations, with the railway network used to transport most goods between urban areas.
Whole urban areas would be demolished to make way for large parks, lakes and woods, with new urban developments (such as 'retail parks') severely restricted. A new style of housing development would be encouraged, with affordable (if necessary government subsidized) detached houses with large gardens and a plot for vegetable cultivation. Incentives would be given to encourage small, independent, shops in town centres and in suburbs.
In the country, an efficient, technologically advanced and subsidized public and commercial transport system would be developed, with railways a priority, and the construction of new lines and stations. The aim would be to significantly reduce the number of vehicles on the roads by making private and commercial vehicles uneconomic compared with a subsidized and efficient public and commercial transport system. In general, rural life would be re-vitalized, with tenant farms, and small-holdings made available, and rural amenities - such as Schools, public transport and shops - encouraged and subsidized. Good quality, low cost rural housing for young people would be built, with grants of land made available to encourage young families to grow their own produce. Humane farming methods would become compulsory, with livestock reared outdoors, and "battery farming" discouraged. Encouragement would be given to produce more organic produce, and significantly reduce the amount of pesticides and chemicals used in farming. Thus would the food of the Reich become nutritious and healthy again.
Education would become National-Socialist - with National-Socialist values and Aryan culture taught, and with the development of noble personal character given priority. The State would once again seek to care for its people in a noble way, providing excellent State health care, hospitals and welfare facilities.
In general, what development would be allowed, in such a National-Socialist society, would be that which was considered necessary for the health, welfare and advancement of the race in general - that is, the health, welfare and evolution of Aryans would come before any other consideration, be such considerations economic, business, commercial, personal or whatever. In brief, Aryan people would come before profits and before other races, just as the good of the folk in general would come before self-interest and self-indulgence. Individuals would be taught and learn to respect Nature, to strive for personal excellence, and to strive to make the world a better, more noble place, by implementing the noble idealism of National-Socialism. They would develope their character, their innate abilities and their innate nobility, as they would learn to joyfully accept responsibility and do their duty to their fellow Aryans and civilization in general.
A whole new society would be created, based upon the reality of Nature as evident in race and in individual character, with this society consciously striving to evolve and change for the better, so changing and so evolving the individuals within it(15).
What is vitally important is the noble ideals of National-Socialism are used to change society for the better. This means that plans and schemes, based on these ideals, are made and introduced - that is, that guidelines for technology, industry, development and change are consciously and nobly made, and are implemented. This means such a society is consciously ordered - structured and controlled according to definite, conscious, criteria with these criteria reflecting what is moral, and Aryan, and thus necessary for individuals to live healthy, balanced, noble lives. Developments, and change, must be planned as they must be implemented in a practical way. All such development and change must be based upon, or take account of, Aryan values. That is, it must be moral - for the good of the Reich, and the individuals within that Reich.
A priority is to convince people that such planned change is necessary - for such change, to be at all National-Socialist, must be done with the consent, knowledge and willing cooperation of the people. Of course, such idealistic changes will often be difficult to undertake, as they will require a totally new economy to make them possible. But such changes express the essence of the National-Socialist revolution and therefore everything - from the economy of a State to the willing cooperation of the most rural individual - must be harnessed to make them possible. It is fundamentally a question of idealism made conscious and a triumph of the will. National-Socialism provides us with the conscious understanding necessary to change our lives, and our society, for the better as it shows us that we can bring about such changes through a triumph of the will. Obstacles and difficulties are made to be overcome - and if we possess the determination and an idealism based upon the realities of Nature, then we can and will change ourselves and our world for the better.
V
Morality, National-Socialism and the Triumph of Individual Will
The National-Socialism of Adolf Hitler is a unique, civilized and revolutionary way of living, or religion, because it is based on a human ideal and because this ideal is noble and evolutionary.
The morality of National-Socialism - the standards of behaviour which individual National-Socialists strive to uphold - derives from the human ideal of personal honour. An honourable individual strives for excellence, as they strive to be noble, for honour is the natural and healthy instinct for nobility and excellence made conscious through a code of personal conduct. This striving - implicit in personal honour - means a self-discipline, the pursuit of a noble aim or an ideal. For National-Socialists, what is good, and thus civilized, is what is honourable and noble; what is bad or wrong, and thus uncivilized, is what is dishonourable and ignoble. The morality of National-Socialism is thus based upon personal character, as the application of that morality, by individuals in their everyday lives, leads to the creation - or can lead to the creation - of noble mature individuals possessed of individual character.
Furthermore, personal honour, and a striving for excellence, mean an acceptance, by the individual, of the importance of will, or self-discipline. This will, this self-discipline, involves or is based on an aim, an ideal. Fundamentally, will - or self-discipline - means changing or transforming one's self by striving for an ideal based upon excellence of individual character; that is, based upon nobility. Thus, there is implicit in the concept of personal honour an acceptance, by the individual, that they can - and should - change themselves for the better through an act or acts of individual will. National-Socialists regard those who are self-disciplined and who pursue a noble aim or an ideal as better individuals than those who lack self-discipline and who do not pursue, or strive for, a noble aim or an ideal.
In contrast to National-Socialism, all other ways of living, all other philosophies or religions, base their morality on a non-human abstraction - on what undermines or destroys individual, noble, character. Instead of an ideal, based on the best, most honourable or most excellent individual - as in National-Socialism - there is an abstract morality based either upon a "god-given" (or prophet-given) theological dogma, "sin" or upon communal "guilt" or "taboo". National-Socialism implies an upward evolution of personal character based upon an individual using their will to change themselves through pursuing a noble ideal, with this noble ideal representing the reality of Nature and the higher living which is civilization. All other moralities imply either a striving to conform to or uphold a set of historical "commandments", or a desire to avoid "sin", "guilt" or what is "taboo". The result is that conventional moralities are restrictive, with individuals who follow them - or who try to follow them - primarily concerned with avoiding what is considered sinful, "perverse", taboo or "unlawful". A further consequence of such moralities is that they are dogmatic - based upon edicts, commandments or laws, god-given or given by some prophet, with these edicts, commandments or laws having to be "interpreted" by some usually religious authority or Church.
In addition, the "commandments", edicts or laws upon which conventional moralities are derived from, are almost invariably contrary to the facts, or reality, of Nature - to what does exist, and to what might or should exist without such an artificial morality. In effect, conventional moralities are not based upon - or do not reflect - the reality and the truths of Nature, life or a healthy, evolving individual existence. National-Socialism, however, is unique in being based upon - and in reflecting - the reality and truths of Nature, life and healthy, evolving individual existence.
The consequence of conventional morality is the production, or creation, of individuals - and societies - who are distanced from Nature and the truths of existence, and who seek to control Nature, and individuals, in an unhealthy, abstract way. The result is generally the production of individuals obsessed with sin, "normality" or abstract, dogmatic ideas, and the destruction, or undermining, of individual character, excellence and nobility. In brief, the production of a rather characterless "mass individual" pursuing abstract or meaningless goals, and the production of a society detrimental to Nature and the evolution, or advancement, of the individuals within it.
Two examples will illustrate these things. The first example is Christianity. One of the fundamental tenets of this religion - and thus of its morality - is the inherent "sinfulness" of individuals. Christianity considers, for instance, that "the imagination of a man's heart is evil from his youth" [ Genesis 8:21 ]. Furthermore, Christianity considers that all individuals - and all races - are "equal in the sight of God". The result of these, and similar, abstract ideas is the desire to create an egalitarian society where race, the natural or instinctive excellence of individual character, and the natural and healthy striving for an ennobling ideal, no longer exist. In this society, the standard for individuals to admire and to try and emulate is the generally law-abiding, "peace-loving", race-mixing individual concerned about all of their "fellow human beings" and concerned with not committing or doing what they have been told is the "sin" or the "evil" of "racism". This religion, its morality, and the individuals who uphold such a morality, are thus in conflict with, and opposed to, their own innate healthy nature, and Nature herself. They are trying or desire to do away with their own "sinful" nature, as they are trying or desire to do away with the reality of Nature manifest in the differing races which exist, and in the striving and differences between such races manifest naturally in conflict, separate territory and separate culture. They are trying to force themselves, and others, to conform to an abstract idea and an abstract dogma. The result is more conflict, not less - more conflict within themselves; more guilt; more conflict in the world since to create such a society as they desire, based on their unnatural ideas, requires compulsion, dogmatic legislation and a tyrannical enforcement - the forcing of individuals, and Nature, to fit-in with such abstract ideas, with the punishment and/or "re-education" of those individuals considered to be "heretics" because they do not believe in or do not adhere to such abstract, unnatural ideas and dogma. In contrast to such abstract, unnatural, and ultimately de-humanizing ideas of Christianity, National-Socialism accepts the diversity of Nature evident in separate races, as it accepts the importance and naturalness of individual character. It further and importantly accepts that most individuals are natural and good by nature, and require only good honourable leadership, or guidance, for that innate goodness to become manifest, as National-Socialism also accepts that individuals have the capacity to evolve, or develope themselves further. National-Socialism seeks to work in harmony with Nature by, for instance, using the foundation of separate races to develope and advance the uniqueness of each race.
The second example concerns individual behaviour and what conventional moralities would call a "perversion", a deviancy or a departure from the norm: that is, homosexuality. National-Socialism understands this not as some sort of departure from some norm, but rather as a failure of individual will and a lack of individual purpose. According to National-Socialism, homosexuals, for instance, place their own self-interest, their personal pleasure before the duty all individuals have to advance themselves and their race through an act or triumph of will(16). This twofold duty, according to National-Socialism, exists because it is what makes us human - it is the foundation of our very humanity. This duty is what makes us - or can make us - honourable and thus civilized individuals. It is what raises us or separates from sub-human, animal, living. To do our natural duty is to act in a disciplined and honourable way. If we fail to do this duty - preferring, for example, to selfishly indulge ourselves - we are showing or revealing a basic weakness of character; we are being decadent or sub-human. National-Socialism considers practising homosexuals to be decadent because by so indulging themselves, they are placing their own selfish pleasure before their duty to their race as they reveal they lack the will to try and change themselves, or at the very least restrain from so selfishly indulging themselves. It is the duty of every individual to preserve, aid or extend their own unique race - thus building upon the foundations they themselves have inherited from their own ancestors, and thus aiding what Nature has laboured over millennia to create: separate, pure, races. Thus, if a homosexual cannot father racially pure, healthy, children, then they have a duty to restrain their own selfish desires and work to aid or advance their own race in other ways, for example through public service. What is important is that they strive to achieve their own individual triumph of the will as they strive to do their honourable duty to their race. This may make them unhappy in some ways - but it is honourable and human to do one's duty, to strive for something better, as it is dishonourable and inhuman to neglect one's duty by selfish indulgence. Duty, self-discipline and honour come before selfish pleasure, happiness and selfish indulgence. An individual who possesses the desires or the inclination or even the 'nature' of a homosexual, who strives to control themselves, who strives to change themselves through an act of will, and who strives to do their duty to their race, has ceased to be a homosexual.
Fundamentally, and most importantly, National-Socialism maintains that most individuals can change themselves for the better by an act of will. That is, National-Socialism maintains most individuals have the innate capacity, the potential, to so change or develope themselves. All that most of them lack is the will to so change - and a noble aim, or a noble ideal, to harness that will to. National-Socialism provides such an ideal, such an aim, enabling this change for the better to be achieved. Individuals so change themselves when they strive to be honourable, and when they strive to do their duty to their race and thus to Nature herself.
First Published 107 yf [1996]
Footnotes
1. The civilized nature of National-Socialism is explained in Vision of a Future Golden Age - National-Socialism and the Importance of Honour and in The Nobility of National-Socialism. See also the others works in the fourteen volume Thormynd Press National-Socialist Series.
2. See, for example, 'The Spiritual Importance of Race' in The Religion of National-Socialism (Volume IX of the Thormynd Press National-Socialist Series).
3. See The Truth About National-Socialism and Adolf Hitler. See also 'The Tyranny of Social Laws' in National-Socialism, Aryan Culture and Aryan Freedom.
4. Aryan Customs are described in National-Socialism, Aryan Culture and Aryan Freedom.
5. Quoted in The Guardian newspaper (London) 7th August 93 yf [ 1982 ].
6. See, for example, Essays in Aryan Revolution. Also of interest are Vindex - Destiny of the West; 'Social Engineering and Zionist Control' in National-Socialism: Principles and Ideals, and The Truth About National-Socialism and Adolf Hitler.
7. For instance, see Vindex - The Destiny of the West and Chapter III of 'National-Socialism: Principles and Ideals'.
8. See the works cited in the previous footnote, and also 'National-Socialism, Aryan Culture and Aryan Freedom.'
9. For Aryan morality, see National-Socialism, Morality and Justice and Chapter V of this present work: 'Morality, National-Socialism and the Triumph of Individual Will'.
10. See 'The Harmony of National-Socialism' in The Numinosity of National-Socialism.
11. The essence of our humanity is outlined in 'The Spiritual Importance of Race' in The Religion of National-Socialism, in 'The Philosophical Foundations of National-Socialism' in The Numinosity of National-Socialism and in Vision of a Future Golden Age: National-Socialism and the Importance of Honour.
12. See 'The Harmony of National-Socialism' in The Numinosity of National-Socialism.
13. The main means of creating such a Reich are outlined in The Strategy and Tactics of Achieving Power - How To Create A National-Socialist Revolution. See also Essays in Aryan Revolution, and National-Socialism, Aryan Culture and Aryan Freedom.
14. See 'The Spiritual Importance of Race' in The Religion of National-Socialism and 'The Philosophical Foundations of National-Socialism' in The Numinosity of National-Socialism.
15. Further details concerning this future National-Socialist society are given in: (1) 'The Harmony of National-Socialism' in The Numinosity of National-Socialism; (2) 'The Thousand Year Reich' in The Enlightenment of National-Socialism; (3) 'Eugenics and Racial Socialism' in National-Socialism, Morality and Justice; and (4) 'National-Socialism and the Fight Against Decadence' in National-Socialism, Morality and Justice. These works form part of the fourteen volume Thormynd Press National-Socialist Series.
16. This duty is outlined in 'The Numinous Significance of Adolf Hitler' in The Enlightenment of National-Socialism; in 'The Spiritual Importance of Race' in The Religion of National-Socialism and in 'The Philosophical Foundations of National-Socialism' in The Numinosity of National-Socialism. These works form part of the fourteen volume Thormynd Press National-Socialist Series.
DIRECTIVE 46a
The Fuehrer F. H. Qu., the 18. October 1942 NR. 003830/42 g.Kdos.
OKW/WFSt. 12 Copys - Top secret High Command Matter Nr. 12.
1.) Since a long time our opponents avail themselves to warfare methods, which are outside of the international agreements of Geneva. Particularly brutal and hideous behave the members of the so-called commandos, which are even partialy recruited of released Crimminals in enemy countries. From captured instruction we now learned, that they are assigned not only to bind prisoners, but also to kill these defenseless prisoners short handedly at that moment, if they believe that these represent an obstacle or could be otherwise a ballast to the further pursuit of their Mission.
Finally Instruction were found, in which basically the killing of all prisoners was demanded.
2.) Because of this an addition to the Military Bulletin-Report of 7th October 1942 announced, that in the future Germany will fight these sabotage troops of the British and their accomplices in the same manner, i.e.: If engaged by German troops, are to be annihilated inconsiderately in the fight.
3.) I Order therefore: From now on by all encountered so-called "Commando Missions" through German troops, in Europe or in Africa - even if they appearently are soldiers in uniform, sabotage troops with or without weapons, are to be annihilated to the last man during the battle without exception even if they try to escape .
It is thereby completely alike whether they were deployed through an amphibious landing to their Objective or by airplanes, or parachutes.
Even if these Elements should show apparent willingness to surrender, basically each Pardon is to be refused to them.
After such actions a detailed report is to be made towards the 0KW.
4.) Fall individual members of such Commandos as an Agents, Saboteurs, into the Hands of the Wehrmacht in from us occupied countries (through Police for example), then they are to be handed over immediately to the SD. Containment under Official Military (Army) Supervision, e.g. in prisoner-of-war camps etc. is, even for a short period - strictly forbidden!
5.) This Directive does not apply to the handling of such enemy soldiers, who are taken prisoner in the context of normal fighting (large-scale attacks, large landing operations and large air landing enterprises) in the open battle.
Just as well this Directive does not apply to enemy personel which trys to save their life on high sea or has fallen into our hands during air-combat by parachute jump.
6.) I will hold all commanders and officers, through courtmartial responsible if they either neglect their obligation to instruct the troop about this Directive or handle against it, by failing to execute it.
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Directive 46b.
The Führer and Supreme Commanders of the Wehrmacht
18th October 1942
Secret command Matter . top-priority case! Only by officer!
I saw myself forced, to issue a sharp Directive concerning the destruction of enemy sabotage troops and to punish its disreagard severly. I consider it necessary to explain my reasons for this Directive to the responsible commanders and Officers.
As never in a war before a method of disturbance of rear connections, the intimidation of the population working for Germany and the destruction of war-essential industrial plants in occupied territorys has been implemented.
In the east this combat Method know as Partisan-Warfare has already killed numerous German Soldiers,railroadmen, workers of the 0rganisation Todt and Workservice during the last winter.
This had heavy impairments of our combat capability, reduced the transportation capacity for supplys which is needed for the preservation of the combat capability of the troops to the extreme, sometimes interrupted even several-days-long.
A successful continuation or intensification of this war method can sometimes lead to a very severe crisis on critical sections of the front.
Many measures against this cruel, as well hideous sabotage-War simply fail because of the fact that the German officer and his soldiers often dont recognize the extreme danger of the situation, thus do not intervene in detail therefore against these hostile groups, as harsh as it would be necessary, in order to help the foremost front and herewith our entire War Effort.
It was therefore in the east partially necessary to build up specific Units which could handle this danger and it became a task for special SS formations.
Only, where the fight against the partisan nuisance was begun and executed with inconsiderate brutality, successes were not missing, and relief for the fighting frontline was achieved.
In the entire east therefore warfare against partisans has gotten the character of complete extermination of either one or the other side.
The sooner the troop realises this as a common Method of handling such appearances, within a short time it will have this danger finished off. Other aproaches have prooven to be useless and do not guarantee a striking success.
Although under other designations, England and America decided to use the same sort of warfare. Whilst the Russians try to deploy their partisan troops over land behind our frontlines, only exeptionally using air transport for issuing Sabotagegroups or for food supply.
In England and America this warfare is led primarily by ship to shore movement, by sabotage troops from submarines, or by means of life boats or by parachute agents. In its entire nature however this warfare differs in nothing from the Russian partisan activity.
Because the function of these troops is:
1. to draw up a general espionage service with help of willing inhabitants,
2. To build up terrorists groups and to provide them with the neccessary weapons and explosives,
3. to undertake such act of sabotage, which are suitable, to disturb either by destruction of transportation facilities not only constantly our connections which are vital in case of emergency troop movements and disconect our communication system.
Finally however Sabotage-Acts are to be committed against war-important enterprises by these troops, by destroying code factories according to a scientifically investigated scheme, in order to practically paralyze thereby whole industry sectors .
The consequences of this activity are extraordinarily heavy. I do not
know whether each commander and officer is aware that the destruction of only one power station can bring a loss e.g. for the Air Force of many thousand tons of aluminum, and that thereby the building of numerous airplanes precipitates, which are needed for the front in their struggle and thus can lead to severe damage of our homeland and to bloody losses of the fighting soldiers.
This type of warfare seems for the Enemy completely safe. Because by
deploying its sabotage troops in uniform and additionaly in civilian clothes, they can change according to requirement as soldiers or as civilians.
While they have clear Orders to eliminate without regards every German
soldiers or even local inhabitants without any consideration, they do not run
any risks to suffer heavy casualtys, because in the worst case all they would have to do is surrender themselves as Soldiers in Uniform and thus immediately fall under the regulations that the Geneva convention provides them.
However there can be no doubt that this represents an abuse to the Geneva
agreements of the worst kind, all the more, when one considers that some of these Commando Members are criminals, who were released from
prisons, hope to achieve their rehabilitation through such actions back home.
England and America will therefore find constantly Volounteers for this conduct of War, if they can explain to them perfectly right, that any mortal danger does not exist for them.
In the worst case they need to achieve only their assassination and sabotage attempts against humans, transportation facilities or material assets and if cornered by the enemy, simply surrender.
If the German wareffort is not to suffer heaviest damage by such a procedure, then it must be made clear to the Enemy that each sabotage troop without exception will be annihilated to the last man . That is, that
the prospect to get away with their Mission alive is equal to nill.
Under no circumstances can it be permitted that such a sabotage or terrorist Unit simply surrenders itselfe and is taken prisoner,to be treated in accordance to the rules of Geneva convention, but rather it is to be completely exterminated under all circumstances.
The message, which is to appear about it in the official Military-Brodcast Bulletins, should be very brief and laconically state that a enemy sabotage-, terror or destruction troop was engaged and annihilated down to the last man.
I expect therefore that both the commanders and the individual Officers not only understand the neccessety of this Directive, but that they execute it with all their energy.
Officers or NCOS, who fail to execute this Order because they are to weak, are to be reported without hesitation or — if danger in the delay is to be drawn —
immediately be held responsibel in the harshest fashion.
Both the homeland and the fighting soldier at the front have the right to expect that behind their back the base of the nutrition, as well as the supply of war-important weapons and ammunition remain guaranteed.
These are the reasons for the Directive issued by me. If it seems neccescary to spare the lives of one or 2 Men to gather Informations, then these are to be shot after their hearing immediately.
Signed. Adolf Hitler