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Re: nαzι Ideology
« Reply #120 on: June 27, 2018, 06:11:39 PM »
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  • Read the entire thread. The point is that nαzιs hated the Catholic Church.
    BS. Prove it. I can prove the exact opposite. 
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    Re: nαzι Ideology
    « Reply #121 on: June 27, 2018, 06:12:44 PM »
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  • Indeed!  Finally an analysis which contains an accurate picture of the situation without the obligatory tipping of the hat to the propaganda of the west and the Jews.
    Agreed. Asinine comments by Jezus.
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    Re: nαzι Ideology
    « Reply #122 on: June 27, 2018, 06:55:50 PM »
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  • When he ran for president in 2008, he participated in one of many debates, and his only talking point was that he was mayor of NYC during 9/11.

    Yes, it was a valiant effort and a good job in a broken and beaten city that was reeling from possibly the biggest act of Islamic terrorism the world has ever seen. That's not disputed.

    Wow, did I hear you right?!  After 17 years of exposure are you actually going on record here to claim that 9-11 was carried out by Islamic terrorists?!

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    Re: nαzι Ideology
    « Reply #123 on: June 29, 2018, 10:46:52 PM »
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  • What!?
    Praising the nαzι ideology? Poche, nαzιsm is tribalistic paganism that extols race and distorts the Catholic faith for evil motives. It's about as Catholic as a Buddhist temple.

    The only thing to praise Adolf Hitler for is that he died, and not naturally.

    If we're going to start praising every non-Catholic hoohah in the room simply because of its perceived anti-Judaism, then what's the next thread?

    "Allah is God and Muhammad is his messenger"?
    So why are you complaining when I bring up what Pope Pius XI, a contemporary of Hitler and the nαzιs, had to say about them to their face?  

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    Re: nαzι Ideology
    « Reply #124 on: June 29, 2018, 10:53:48 PM »
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  • Was he "Orthodox" when he supported his election and the helping of the NSDAP's rise to power?
    Pope Pius XI didn't support the NSDAP. The people who supported them were the Protestant people of Germany.


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    Re: nαzι Ideology
    « Reply #125 on: June 29, 2018, 11:22:05 PM »
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  • Pope Pius XI didn't support the NSDAP. The people who supported them were the Protestant people of Germany.

    The original docuмents supported both churches of Germany: 2 thirds Evangelical Christian and 1 third Roman Catholics.

    The common enemy was Jєωιѕн Bolshevism (Marxism, Materialism, Liberalism, Free-Thinkers, etc).

    I don't see anything remotely anti-Christian, at least in the party's official docuмents. If anything, it was pro-Christian. It was not pagan in any way, but defended the interest of Christianity. Hitler himself referred to those enthusiasts of old German paganism as "men in bear-skins".  
    If anyone says that true and natural water is not necessary for baptism and thus twists into some metaphor the words of our Lord Jesus Christ" Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit" (Jn 3:5) let him be anathema.

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    Re: nαzι Ideology
    « Reply #126 on: June 30, 2018, 12:14:52 AM »
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  • Wow, did I hear you right?!  After 17 years of exposure are you actually going on record here to claim that 9-11 was carried out by Islamic terrorists?!
    No, I'm just saying how Poche regurgitating MBS and Rudy Giuliani regurgitating the "I was mayor during 9/11" are the exact same; vomiting out the same series of words whenever convenient.

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    Re: nαzι Ideology
    « Reply #127 on: June 30, 2018, 12:16:38 AM »
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  • The original docuмents supported both churches of Germany: 2 thirds Evangelical Christian and 1 third Roman Catholics.

    The common enemy was Jєωιѕн Bolshevism (Marxism, Materialism, Liberalism, Free-Thinkers, etc).

    I don't see anything remotely anti-Christian, at least in the party's official docuмents. If anything, it was pro-Christian. It was not pagan in any way, but defended the interest of Christianity. Hitler himself referred to those enthusiasts of old German paganism as "men in bear-skins".  
    They didn't just arrest Jєωιѕн Bolsheviks. They also arrested Jєωιѕн converts and Catholics of Jєωιѕн descent.


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    Re: nαzι Ideology
    « Reply #128 on: June 30, 2018, 01:11:26 AM »
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  • Pope Pius XI didn't support the NSDAP. The people who supported them were the Protestant people of Germany.
    Do you have some reference that Pius XI opposed Hitler's appointment as Chancellor on 30 January 1933?
    How about a reference against the NSDAP when they went from 12 to 107 seats in the Reichstag in the 1930 German federal election?
    Or the majority of seats in both elections in 1932?

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    Re: nαzι Ideology
    « Reply #129 on: June 30, 2018, 02:00:13 AM »
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    It should be avoided like the New Mass.

    Is there any other pre-Vatican II encyclical you equate to the level of the New Mass?
    2 Corinthians 4:3-4 

    And if our gospel be also hid, it is hid to them that are lost, In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of unbelievers, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine unto them.

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    Re: nαzι Ideology
    « Reply #130 on: June 30, 2018, 02:15:18 AM »
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    Is there any other pre-Vatican II encyclical you equate to the level of the New Mass?
    Can't think of any - but if there was one could surely reject it if one rejects the New Mass...


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    Re: nαzι Ideology
    « Reply #131 on: June 30, 2018, 10:39:25 PM »
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  • Do you have some reference that Pius XI opposed Hitler's appointment as Chancellor on 30 January 1933?
    How about a reference against the NSDAP when they went from 12 to 107 seats in the Reichstag in the 1930 German federal election?
    Or the majority of seats in both elections in 1932?

    No, but I have reference that Pope Pius XI opposed the nαzι ideology. 

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    Re: nαzι Ideology
    « Reply #132 on: June 30, 2018, 10:42:08 PM »
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  • Can't think of any - but if there was one could surely reject it if one rejects the New Mass...
    If you reject the pre Vatican II docuмents then how can you call yourself Catholic?

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    Re: nαzι Ideology
    « Reply #133 on: July 01, 2018, 12:31:04 AM »
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    Know Your Enemy

    https://archive.org/details/KnowYourEnemy_201604


    CHAPTER VI

    WOTAN VERSUS CHRIST

    There is no doubt that a world dominated by Germany would suppress the Christian religion and introduce in its place the pagan German Wotan cult. The Christian moral principles and the doctrine of the German Master Race are irreconcilable. They cannot live side by side in the same world. In their attitude toward Christianity, as in so many fields, the nαzιs merely follow in the footsteps of the Pan- German movement of the last century. We shall illustrate this similarity by comparing quotations from the Pan-Germans with similar utterances of the nαzιs.

    The Cross must fall

    1898

    "We have no place for a symbol of gentleness (the Christian Cross), but only for a symbol calling us to war, to defense; and I know of no better symbol than that of our Teutonic divinity Thor: the Hammer!" (Pan-German Magazine "Heimdall," 1898, page 123.)

    1934

    "We must never relax our efforts until Germany has been liberated from the Christian Cross." (Official nαzι publication "Nordland" 1934, No. 13.)

    1936

    "The Cross must fall if Germany is to live!" ("Durchbruch" (Break-Through) 1936, No. 31.)

    1937

    "Our task will not be completed until the day when we have triumphed over Christianity.” ("Durchbruch,” 1937, No. 6)

    Christianity is Weakness

    1910

    "This idea of neighbourly love, developed in the bosom of the Church, has acted like poison on the German national consciousness.” ("Volkserzieher,” (The Educator of the People), 1910, No. 1.)

    1924

    "I think our decline has come because we have followed Christ and because we have lost our German soul, while trying to gain a Christian one.” (Ernst Wiechert, "Totenwolf,” 1924.)

    1932

    "Our entire German education must be based on the recognition of the fact that we do not owe our moral code to Christianity, but that Christianity owes its enduring values to the German character.” (Alfred Rosenberg, the principal theorist of the nαzι Party, "Der My thus des XX. Jahrhunderts,” (The Myth of the Twentieth Century, 4th ed., 1932, page 623.)'

    "But today a new faith is awakening: the concept of the blood, the faith . . . that Nordic blood represents the mystery that has replaced and overcome the old sacraments.” (Alfred Rosenberg, ibid., page 129.)

    1937

    "Christianity no longer can help us; its aim is to make us gentle and meek again, so that we will drop our sword . . .” (Dr. Jankow Janeff, "Heroismus und Weltangst,” (Heroism and Cosmic Fear), 1937.)

    The nαzιs — even as the Pan-Germans before them — have tried to deal with Christianity in two different ways. They either attack it outright, or they endeavour to adulterate it into a Germanic religion. The new German mysticism thus falls into the wiliest confusion: at times Christ is reviled and rejected as the Son of the Jєωιѕн God, while on other occasions He is claimed as an Aryan and as the Germanic hero of an exclusively German religious mysticism.

    The German “Krist”

    1913

    ... the Krist (the orthography is ’racially pure’) and Father Wotan get on well together! . . . The Krist is Father Wotan’s heart.” ("Volkserzieher,” (The Educator of the People), 1913, page 47 — quoted in “Thus Speaks Germany,” page 7.)

    Reich-Bishop Mueller and Valhalla

    1935

    "Holy Writ, as a human and typical period docuмent, is so relative that, instead of Heaven, you may sometimes just as well say Valhalla.” (Reich-Bishop Mueller in a lecture at the Lessing Academy, Berlin, February 13, 1935.)

    Der Deutsche Gott — The German God

    "Either a German God, or none at all! The international God of Christendom is a patron of the Treaty of Versailles.” (Ernst Niekisch, Independent Socialist in Bavaria, 1923, quoted by Aurel Kolnai, "The War,, Against the West,” London, 1938, page 233.)

    1939

    "I am tempted to believe rather in a Germanic God than a Christian one.” (Dr. Goebbels, Reich- 50 Minister of Propaganda and Enlightenment, speech in Cologne, May 19, 1939.)

    The German Spirit of Christ

    1914

    "It is true that our soldiers in France and Belgium have shot all the brigands, men, women, and children, and that they have destroyed their homes. But to see in that anything contrary to Christian teaching is to show that one has not the least understanding of the spirit of Christ.” (From an article in the leading liberal newspaper of Berlin, “Vossische Zeitung,” 1914, quoted in ’’Paroles allemandes,” Paris, page 134.)

    God in the German Army

    1915

    ’’Just as God has revealed himself in the German people, so He now reveals himself in the German Army.” (’’Volkserzieher,” (The Educator of the People), 1915, No. 10.)

    1915

    ”Jesus of Nazareth would be right in front, in the first ranks of the sword-bearers who are fighting with implacable hatred. That is where he would be, and he would bless the bleeding hands and the death-dealing weapons, would perhaps himself grasp a sword of judgment and drive the enemies of the Germans farther and farther from the frontiers . . (Volkserzieher, (The Educator of the People), 1915, No. 10 .)

    1940

    “God Almighty stands and falls with Germany’s mighty armies . . (“Deutscher Weckruf,” official organ of the nαzι Bund in New York, October 10, 1940.)

    Germany needs a new God!

    "We want no God except Germany itself.” (Adolf Hitler, as quoted by the Catholic newspaper "Bay- rischer Kurier,” (Bavarian Courier) for May 25, 1923.)

    "In the eyes of its believers, National-Socialism is a religion. The National-Socialist movement is today the political church of the German nation.” (Dr. Goebbels, in a speech given in Danzig on May 9, 1937.)

    "We call ourselves German pagans . . . We no longer believe in the Holy Ghost — we believe in our holy blood.” (From the Articles of Faith of the Hitler Youth Organization, quoted in "Kieler Hochschulblaetter der Christlichen Welt,” (Academic News of the Christian World), Kiel, for March 26, 1935.)

    "In National Socialism the Movement of the German Liberation has revealed itself to us. We stand ready to proclaim our faith in it, even were it to be led in the name of the Devil.” (Pastor Mattias of Kerstlingerode, quoted by Edgar A. Mowrer in "Germany Puts the Clock Back,” London, 1933, 10th ed., page 158.)

    “God has revealed Himself in Adolf Hitler"

    "Not in Jesus Christ, but in Adolf Hitler has God revealed Himself.” (Reich-Vicar Engelke, assistant of Reich-Bishop Mueller, in an address in March, 1937, reported in "Deutscher Weg,” (The German Way), May 30, 1937.)

    "The German teacher must firmly believe in the permanence and holiness of our Reich ... In Adolf Hitler, God has revealed Himself to us.” (nαzι-Educator Niemeyer, in a speech before the National-Socialist Teachers’ Organization in July, 1937.)

    "We believe that the Lord God has sent us Adolf Hitler, so that Germany may be established for all eternity.” ("Schulungsbrief,” (Instruction Letters), April, 1937.)

    "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. The way has been shown us by the Fuehrer.” (Deacon Eckert, Sermon at Berlin-Tegel, February 10, 1935.)

    God sent us Hitler! "Hitler was sent to us by God so that Germany may endure through all eternity ... We believe in Adolf Hitler alone on this earth, we know that National-Socialism is the only faith that can lead our people to salvation.” (Radio address of Labor Leader Dr. Robert Ley, reported in the newspaper "Duesseldorfer Nachrichten,” February 11, 1937.)

    "Hitler has revealed to use the true meaning of religion. He has come to us to renew the faith of our fathers and to make new men of us.” (Hans Kerri, Reich-Minister of Churches, in an address reported in the newspaper "Frankfurter Zeitung,” November 20, 1935.)

    A systematic campaign is being conducted to make Germany’s youth regard Christianity as worthless and uproot the last remnants of Christian thinking from their hearts. A concerted effort is made to befoul every Christian idea, make it the butt of ridicule and to debase everything that Christians hold sacred.

    The “Satanic Bible"

    1921

    Tear up that lewd Satanic Bible, the Old Testament!" ("Voelkischer Beobachter," August 11, 1921.)

    1935

    "The Bible is the trashiest of literature." (Reich- Governor Roewer, in a speech at a meeting in Oldenburg, April 9, 1935.)


    nαzι “Historical Research produces Blasphemy

    "According to the nαzι magazine ‘Heimdall,’ the father of Christ was a Germanic official of the Roman Empire. Transferred to Palestine for a short time, he won the love of Mary. Their brief relationship was not without its consequences. Mary’s parents were delighted to find an elderly man, by the name of Joseph, who was ready to marry the pregnant maiden. Thus Jesus was only the foster son of Joseph. He had inherited the outward appearance of His Germanic father, but innerly His characteristics were those of a crossbreed: His nature was restless, brooding, self- tormenting, idealistic and overwrought. Jesus admired the Aryans as the race which exemplifies a chosen people to a greater degree than do the Jews.” (Re- ported in the independent Swiss newspaper, "National Zeitung," Basle, July 21, 1935.)

    "The field-grey soldier throwing the last hand grenade, the dying Storm-Trooper whose last word is a call to the Fuehrer, are for us presentations of the divine, much more genuine than is the crucified Jew." (From the German newspaper "Coburger Beobachter," May 13, 1935.)

    The Gospel is fulfilled . . .

    "The idea that Jesus Christ is the Son of God can no longer be maintained ... We must preach in our sermons that the gospel has found its fulfillment in Hitler ... In any case National Socialism is the fulfillment of the Christian message." (Reich-Minister of Churches Hans Kerri, in an address to the delegates of Confessional Churches, February 12, 1937.)

    "He rose long ago from the old Jєωιѕн hordes
    And was crucified by Roman Aryan (!) lords.
    Today, as our Savior Hitler commands
    We now to our swastika nail Jesus’ hands."
    (From a song-book of the Hitler Youth, quoted in the French periodical, "Revue des Deux Mondes," June 16, 1933.)

    “Hitler is greater than Christ"

    In centuries to come, if our word today is judged by the proper criteria, it will be said, in retrospect: Christ was great, but Adolf Hitler was greater." (From an address of District Leader Willi Becker, reported in the newspaper, "Frankfurter Zeitung," October 20, 1935.)

    "It is only on one or two exceptional points that Christ and Hitler stand comparison, for Hitler is far too big a man to be compared with one so petty." (District Governor Julius Streicher, in a speech be- fore the German Academy of Education in Munich, July, 1935.)

    “We must smash Christianity!"

    "Who was greater, Christ or Hitler? At the time of His death Christ had twelve disciples who did not even remain loyal to Him. Hitler, however, has a nation of seventy million behind him today. We cannot permit another organization, one filled with a different spirit, to exist side by side with us. We must smash it. National-Socialism commands in all seriousness: I am the Lord thy God — thou shalt have no other gods beside me!” (SS Division Leader Schulz, 55 in an instruction course given for theological students at Croessinsee, Pomerania, August, 1936.)

    "Hitler is lonely. So is God. Hitler is like God.” (Reich-Minister Hans Frank, quoted by Professor Frederick L. Schuman, in his book: "Hitler and the nαzι Dictatorship," London, 1936, page 365.)

    "20,000 storm troopers addressed their prayers to the Fuehrer." (From a report in the official organ of the Storm Troopers: "Der SA-Mann," (The Storm Trooper), August 21, 1937.)

    It is hardly necessary to comment specifically on these hate-filled and blasphemous utterances against the Christian doctrine. Special emphasis should be given, however, to the systematic persecution of Christians. Soon after they came to power, the nαzιs set out to destroy Christianity by closing churches, staging mass-arrests of priests and nuns and ministers on morals charges, assaulting clergymen and churchgoers, prohibiting church newspapers, agitating for mass-resignations from the church, and forcing or persuading the youth to stay away from the church services. In a number of cases the nαzιs did not stop at the assassination of ministers and the burning of churches. The fury of the nαzιs against the Christian Church represents, in addition to the horrors in the cσncєnтrαтισn cαмρs and the regime of terror in the occupied countries, a particularly shameful chapter of German history under nαzι rule. Since 1934 the persecution of the Christian faiths in Germany has been the subject of numerous books with a wealth of facts and docuмents, from the hands of Protestant and Catholic authors.

    Today it is a fact that on account of the systematic anti-Christian propaganda, considerable portions of the German people, among them the overwhelming majority of the German youth, have been alienated from the Christian Churches.
    2 Corinthians 4:3-4 

    And if our gospel be also hid, it is hid to them that are lost, In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of unbelievers, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine unto them.

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  • Hitler, Adolf. Mein Kampf: The Stalag Edition (p. 548-549). Ostara Publications. Kindle Edition.

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    Volume 2, Chapter 14

    . . . an alliance which is not for the purpose of waging war has no meaning and no value. The object of forming an alliance is to wage war.

    (. . .)

    It must not be forgotten that the international Jew, who is to-day absolute master in Russia, does not look upon Germany as an ally, but as a State condemned to the same doom as Russia itself.

    One does not form an alliance with a partner whose only aim is the destruction of his co-partner.

    Above all, one does not enter into alliances with people to whom no treaty is sacred, because they do not exist as the upholders of truth and honour, but as the protagonists of lying and deception, thievery, plunder and robbery.



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    What Hitler Wants

    https://archive.org/details/LorimerE.O.WhatHitlerWants1939



    CHAPTER II

    THE PRINCIPLE OF THE BIG LIE

    During his life in Vienna Hitler suffered under Trade Union pressure, and began to study the skill with which Communists and Social Democrats exploited the workers’ discontent for their own ends. He saw them as masters of the art of propaganda, and he set to work to study the principles of this art for himself— perhaps with a premonition that he would one day be able to turn these principles to good account.

    The first conclusion he came to was that all great movements, whether religious or political, whether good or evil, derive their momentum from" the magic power of the spoken word ” reinforced by the Mass Demonstration.

    Next in importance was the power of the popular press, the adult’s continuation school supplemented by poster, picture, and film. Thirdly, but of less significance, the more high-brow printed word of book, pamphlet, and better-class newspaper, which appeal to the educated strata of the population.

    He debated the questions: Can spiritual ideas be eradicated by the sword? Can violence combat a philosophy of life ? He concluded that the answer to both questions was in the negative: force alone could never destroy an idea. Violence was necessary, but it must be backed by a new and inspiring thought, and he attributed the failure of Bismarck’s efforts to defeat Socialism to the fact that he offered no alternative doctrine.

    Hitler’s later experience brought him face to face with war propaganda, and he was filled with reluctant admiration for the skill with which Germany’s enemies conducted it. “ While we fought for bread, England fought for ‘ Freedom,’ and not even for her own freedom, but for the freedom of the little nations ” (168 ). Hitler naturally gives England no credit for having been sincere, but a great deal for the brilliant hypocrisy of so stirring a slogan.

    Despite his appreciation of the real injustices under which the workers laboured, Hitler has a low opinion of “ the masses,” to whom in various contexts he applies many opprobrious terms. They are “ an empty-headed herd of sheep ” (9) and the incarnation of stupidity. Their receptiveness is very limited, then- understanding is negligible (198 ).

    Nevertheless, it is to the masses that propaganda must be addressed. It must not aim at instruction; the less it is weighted with fact or information the better, for at all costs it must avoid the risk of being above the heads of the hearers. It must work always and wholly on the emotions.

    No amount of skill in concocting propaganda is of any use if the basic principle is forgotten, viz. that its subject-matter must be severely restricted and the content must be repeated over and over again. The presentation may be infinitely varied, but the theme must be always the same; the one refrain must eternally recur. The results which can be achieved by this procedure are simply incalculable (203). ‘‘The skillful and unremitting use of propaganda can persuade people to believe that Heaven is Hell or conversely that the most miserable existence is Paradise ” (302).

    Similar calculations yielded the axiom that hate must be worked up against one enemy only, lest it lose force by dispersion. There may, in fact, be many enemies to combat, and they may have little relation to each other, or none; but the wise propagandist will succeed in making them all “ appear to belong to one category ” (129). This explains why, in Hitler’s mouth, the “ international Jew,” the Communist, the Pacifist, the Democrat, the Liberal, the Revolutionary, and the Parliamentarian are equated with such entire absence of logic; one and all are "the Enemy.”

    Hitler is proud of his readiness to learn from his enemies, of having stolen the technique of propaganda, first from the Social Democrats and Marxists of Vienna, then from the Allies. He claims further to have learned from the Jews “ the very sound principle ” that “ a definite factor in getting a lie believed is the size of the lie . . . for the broad mass of the people in the primitive simplicity of its heart more readily falls victim to a big lie than to a small one ” (252).

    Acting on this last principle, Hitler has created the legend of the War; that an innocent and reluctant Germany was dragged into it by her fatal loyalty and chivalry to her worthless ally Austria, that the German armies were victorious all the time, and all along the line, and were stabbed in the back by a conspiracy of Jews, Pacifists, etc., and all the rest of the contemporary German legend, so big a lie so untiringly reiterated— to infants in the kindergarten in words of one syllable and to the mass of the nation on every occasion—that the sheer bigness of the untruth has had the hoped-for effect on “ the primitive simplicity ” of the German mind. Indeed, it is more than probable that by force of iteration Hitler has hypnotised himself into believing it. How long, the unhypnotised observer asks himself, will it be after Hitler and his regime have passed away before the German mind can be decontaminated ? How long before another Ranke will arise in Germany to write “ true history which deals with things as they actually were,” before the German ear is again attuned to hear the voice of Goethe: “There is no Wisdom save in Truth”?

    The doctrine of the big lie enables Hitler unblushingly to state, in his Reichstag Speech of May 1935 (for foreign consumption):  ‘ We are prepared to do everything to arrive at a true peace and a real friendship with the French nation,” while he continues to present to every newly-wedded couple in Germany free copies of Mein Kampf (the price of which is covered by an enhanced marriage-fee), in which he still shouts in 1938 that “ France is the deadly enemy of our nation ” (755), that the prerequisite for every success is “ to concentrate all our will-power and all our physical force on a thrust into the heart of our most infamous foe ” (718 ).

    The same Reichstag speech assures the world that “ the present German Government has no other wish than to live on peaceable and friendly terms with all neighbouring States . . . not only the larger States, but also the surrounding smaller States,” while Mein Kampf continues to state for home consumption that “ Germany sees in the annihilation of France only a means to an end, so that we may thereafter give our people room for expansion in another direction ” (767), and that room for 250 million Germans must be found at the expense of Russia and the small countries on her borders.

    The same big-lie principle enabled Hitler to reaffirm, in his Reichstag speech of February 20, 1938, the accord with Austria of July 11, 1936, by which the Reich Government recognised the full and independent sovereignty of the Austrian Federal State, while he was perfecting, or had already perfected, the elaborate and minute preparations for the sudden and overwhelming invasion of Austria on March 12, 1938.

    The News Chronicle (September 28,1938 ) has tabulated some facts which Parliament would do well to digest:

    May 17, 1933.—“ Germany will tread no other path than that laid down by the treaties. The German Government will discuss all political and economic questions only within the framework and through the treaties. The German people have no thought of invading any country.”— Reichstag speech of Herr Hitler, the new Chancellor.

    October 14, 1933.— Germany left the League and the Disarmament Conference just when Sir John Simon was making a statement at Geneva aimed at achieving a compromise between the French and German views on disarmament.

    October 14, 1933.—“ When the Saar territory has been restored to Germany, only a madman would consider the possibility of war between the two States (France and Germany). No one could demand that millions of men should be annihilated for the sake of a readjustment of our present frontier.”— Speech on radio.

    November 10,1933.—“ When has the German people ever broken its word ? ”— Speech in Berlin.

    January 30, 1934.—“ After this question [the Saar] has been settled, the German Government is ready to accept, not only the letter, but also the spirit of the Locarno Pact.”— Speech in Reichstag. March 13, 1934.—“ The German Government have never questioned the validity of the Treaty of Locarno.” —Note to France.

    March 19, 1934.—“ German boundaries have always changed. They will continue to change until all German peoples arc united in one."—Speech at Munich.

    February 3, 1935.—Britain and France invited Germany to co-operate in “a general settlement” which would, among other things, free Germany from the one-sided military restrictions of Versailles. Hitler, insisting on separate, private talks, instead of an open conference, invited Sir John Simon to Berlin. March 7 was the appointed day.

    March 5, 1935.—Invitation to Sir John Simon suspended because Hitler had caught a cold.

    March 10, 1935. —General Goring announced the existence of a German Air Force (forbidden by the Peace Treaty).

    March 16, 1935.—Hitler decreed Conscription (forbidden by the Peace Treaty). March 20, 1935.—Hitler’s cold was pronounced better, and the invitation to Sir John Simon was renewed, and accepted.

    May 21, 1935.—“The German Government will scrupulously observe every treaty voluntarily concluded. In particular, they will hold to and fulfill all obligations arising out of the Treaty of Locarno, so long as the other partners are ready to stand by that treaty.” —Reichstag speech. “ Germany neither intends nor wishes to interfere in the internal affairs of Austria, to annex Austria, or to conclude an Anschluss.”— Same speech.

    March 7, 1936.— Germany denounced the Treaty of Locarno and reoccupied the demilitarised Rhineland zone.

    March 7, 1936.—“ Germany will never break the peace of Europe. After three years, I can regard the struggle for German equality as concluded to-day. We have no territorial demands to make in Europe.”— Reichstag speech. April 1, 1936.—Germany submitted a “ Peace Plan,” including a “ Twenty-five Year Pact of Non-Aggression.”

    May 7, 1936.—Britain sent a questionnaire to Germany on the “ Peace Plan.” To this questionnaire Germany has never replied.

    August 27, 1936.—Germany adhered to the Spanish Non-Intervention Agreement.

    August 30, 1936.— Twenty-eight German 'planes arrived at Cadiz {to be followed by many more).

    January 30, 1937.—“ The period of so-called surprises is now over. . . . Peace is our dearest treasure.” —Reichstag speech.

    February 12, 1938.—In the agreement reached with Dr. Schuschnigg at Berchtesgaden, Hitler reaffirmed his recognition of Austrian sovereignty, already expressed in the Austro-German Agreement of July 1936. March 11, 1938.— Germany annexed Austria.

    March 14, 1938.—Mr. Chamberlain told the House of Commons that Germany had given assurances that she had no hostile intentions against Czechoslovakia. (Goring gave the Czech Minister in Berlin his “word of honour” on this.)

    September 24, 1938.— Germany sent her seven-day ultimatum to Czechoslovakia.

    September 26, 1938.—“ And now the last problem which must be solved confronts us. It is the last territorial claim which I have to make in Europe, but it is one I will not renounce.”— Speech in Berlin.

    Working the Big Lie, and completely controlling press and publishing, wireless and cinema and every branch of publicity, Hitler has deliberately evoked in the German people that “fanaticism and compelling hysteria ” (above, p. 23) that were necessary to compass his ends. For five years the “ empty-headed herd of sheep,” of whom he has made himself the Leader, has been convinced that the world had formed a sinister conspiracy to encircle and annihilate them. They have brought themselves a willing sacrifice to an unprecedented bondage. Every shred of personal freedom has been laid on the altar of the nαzι state (see below, Chapter XI) in the service of Hitler’s hatred of Freedom, especially the freedom of democratic states like Czechoslovakia, France, and Britain. And verily the Germans are reaping their reward. Czechoslovakia is gone. With the wealth, resources, and man-power of the Danube and the Balkans at Hitler’s command, the annihilation of France seems within sight. Hitler may well calculate that a complacent British Cabinet will offer him France on a golden platter and set him free to devote his undivided attention to the enslavement of Britain and the dismemberment of the British Empire.
    2 Corinthians 4:3-4 

    And if our gospel be also hid, it is hid to them that are lost, In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of unbelievers, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine unto them.