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A Definite Factor In Getting A Lie Believed Is The Size Of The Lie. The Broad Mass Of The People, In The Simplicity Of Their Hearts, More Easily Fall Victim To A Big Lie Than To A Small One.

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A Definite Factor In Getting A Lie Believed Is The Size Of The Lie. The Broad Mass Of The People, In The Simplicity Of Their Hearts, More Easily Fall Victim To A Big Lie Than To A Small One.

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The More Abstractly Correct And Hence Powerful This Idea Will Be, The More Impossible Remains Its Complete Fulfillment As Long As It Continues To Depend On Human Beings... If This Were Not So, The Founders Of Religion Could Not Be Counted Among The Greatest Men Of This Earth... In Its Workings, Even The Religion Of Love Is Only The Weak Reflection Of The Will Of Its Exalted Founder; Its Significance, However, Lies In The Direction Which It Attempted To Give To A Universal Human Development Of Culture, Ethics, And Morality.

But The Most Brilliant Propagandist Technique Will Yield No Success Unless One Fundamental Principle Is Borne In Mind Constantly And With Unflagging Attention. It Must Confine Itself To A Few Points And Repeat Them Over And Over. Here, As So Often In This World, Persistence Is The First And Most Important Requirement For Success.

If We Consider How Greatly He Has Sinned Against The Masses In The Course Of The Centuries, How He Has Squeezed And Sucked The Blood Again And Again; If Furthermore, We Consider How The People Gradually Learned To Hate Him For This, And Ended Up By Regarding His Existence As Nothing But Punishment Of Heaven For The Other Peoples, We Can Understand How Hard This Shift Must Be For The Jew.

A Decision By The Fuhrer In The Express Form Of A Law Or A Decree May Not Be Scrutinized By A Judge. In Addition, The Judge Is Bound By Any Other Decision Of The Fuhrer.

Today Christians ... Stand At The Head Of [this Country]... I Pledge That I Never Will Tie Myself To Parties Who Want To Destroy Christianity .. We Want To Fill Our Culture Again With The Christian Spirit ... We Want To Burn Out All The Recent Immoral Developments In Literature, In The Theater, And In The Press - In Short, We Want To Burn Out The Poison Of Immorality Which Has Entered Into Our Whole Life And Culture As A Result Of Liberal Excess During The Past ... (few) Years.

The Size Of The Lie Is A Definite Factor In Causing It To Be Believed.

All Propaganda Must Be So Popular And On Such An Intellectual Level, That Even The Most Stupid Of Those Towards Whom It Is Directed Will Understand It. Therefore, The Intellectual Level Of The Propaganda Must Be Lower The Larger The Number Of People Who Are To Be Influenced By It.

The State Must Act As The Guardian Of A Millennial Future In The Face Of Which The Wishes And The Selfishness Of The Individual Must Appear As Nothing And Submit.

Our Thoughts And Actions Must In No Way Be Determined By The Approval Or Disapproval Of Our Time, But By The Binding Obligation To A Truth Which We Have Recognized.

As Soon As By One's Own Propaganda Even A Glimpse Of Right On The Other Side Is Admitted, The Cause For Doubting One's Own Right Is Laid.

The Most Foolish Mistake We Could Possibly Make Would Be To Permit The Conquered Eastern Peoples To Have Arms. History Teaches That All Conquerors Who Have Allowed Their Subject Races To Carry Arms Have Prepared Their Own Downfall By Doing So.

Politics Is History In The Making.

The Great Strength Of The Totalitarian State Is That It Forces Those Who Fear It To Imitate It.

I Speak In The Name Of The Entire German People When I Assure The World That We All Share The Honest Wish To Eliminate The Enmity That Brings Far More Costs Than Any Possible Benefits. It Would Be A Wonderful Thing For All Of Humanity If Both Peoples Would Renounce Force Against Each Other Forever. The German People Are Ready To Make Such A Pledge.

Only In The Struggle Between Two Philosophies Can The Weapon Of Brutal Force, Persistently And Ruthlessly Applied, Lead To A Decision For The Side It Supports.

Just As A Man's Denominational Orientation Is The Result Of Upbringing, And Only The Religious Need As Such Slumbers In His Soul, The Political Opinion Of The Masses Represents Nothing But The Final Result Of An Incredibly Tenacious And Thorough Manipulation Of Their Mind And Soul.

Political Opinions

The National Socialist State Refuses To Admit Female Labour In Factories Merely Because Such Labour Is Cheap. There Is, Of Course, A Certain Amount Of Industrial Work Which Can Only Be Performed By Women, But An Essential Condition Is That This Sort Of Work Should Not Be Injurious To Health.

The National Government Sees In Both Christian Denominations The Most Important Factor For The Maintenance Of Our Society.

Our Teachers Were Absolute Tyrants. They Had No Sympathy With Youth; Their One Object Was To Stuff Our Brains And Turn Us Into Erudite Apes Like Themselves. If Any Pupil Showed The Slightest Trace Of Originality, They Persecuted Him Relentlessly, And The Only Model Pupils Whom I Have Ever Got To Know Have All Been Failures In After-life.

The Only People I Have Been Able To Use Are Those Who Fought

Providence Has Ordained That I Should Be The Greatest Liberator Of Humanity. I Am Freeing Man From The Restraints Of An Intelligence That Has Taken Charge, From The Dirty And Degrading Self-mortification Of A False Vision Called Conscience And Morality, And From The Demands Of A Freedom And Independence Which Only A Very Few Can Bear.

The War Against Russia Will Be Such That It Cannot Be Conducted In A Knightly Fashion. This Struggle Is One Of Ideologies And Racial Differences And Will Have To Be Conducted With Unprecedented, Unmerciful And Unrelenting Harshness.

Nature Knows No Political Boundaries. She Puts Living Creatures On This Globe And Watches The Free Play Of Forces. She Then Confers The Master's Right On Her Favourite Child, The Strongest In Courage And Industry ... The Stronger Must Dominate And Not Blend With The Weaker, Thus Sacrificing His Own Greatness. Only The Born Weakling Can View This As Cruel.

The Best Characterization Is Provided By The Product Of This Religious Education, The Jew Himself. His Life Is Only Of This World, And His Spirit Is Inwardly As Alien To True Christianity As His Nature Two Thousand Years Previous Was To The Great Founder Of The New Doctrine.

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You, My Brown Guard, Will Regard It As A Matter Of Course That This German People Should Go Only By The Way Which Providence Ordained For It When It Gave To Germans The Common Language. So We Go Forward With The Profoundest Faith In God Into The Future. Would That Which We Have Achieved Have Been Possible If Providence Had Not Helped Us?

I Want Everyone To Keep The Property That He Has Acquired For Himself According To The Principle: Benefit To The Community Precedes Benefit To The Individual. But The State Should Retain Supervision And Each Property Owner Should Consider Himself Appointed By The State. It Is His Duty Not To Use His Property Against The Interests Of Others Among His Own People. This Is The Crucial Matter. The Third Reich Will Always Retain Its Right To Control The Owners Of Property.

Die Breite Masse Einesvolkes?einer GroÞen Lu« Ge Leichter Zum Opfer F A« Llt Als Einer Kleinen. The Broad Mass Of A Nation?will More Easily Fall Victim To A Big Lie Than To A Small One.

There Could Be No Issue Between The Church And The State. The Church, As Such, Has Nothing To Do With Political Affairs. On The Other Hand, The State Has Nothing To Do With The Faith Or Inner Organization Of The Church

The Wage Of A People Has Meaning Only When It Arises From Production. Every Increase In Production Should Benefit The Whole People And Raise The People's Standards Of Living.

Either One Is Factually Equal, And Consequently Morally Equal As Well; On The Other Hand, If One Is Morally Equal, There Is No Reason Why One Should Contest Factual Equality Of Rights Or Simply Refuse To Grant Them.

As For The Jews, I Am Just Carrying On With The Same Policy Which The Catholic Church Has Adopted For Fifteen Hundred Years, When It Has Regarded The Jews As Dangerous And Pushed Them Into Ghettos Etc., Because It Knew What The Jews Were Like. I Don't Put Race Above Religion, But I Do See The Danger In The Representatives Of This Race For Church And State, And Perhaps I Am Doing Christianity A Great Service.

The National Socialist Movement, Which Aims At Establishing The National Socialist People's State, Must Always Bear Steadfastly In Mind The Principle That Every Future Institution Under That State Must Be Rooted In The Movement Itself.

The Fact That The Catholic Church Has Come To An Agreement With Fascist Italy ... Proves Beyond Doubt That The Fascist World Of Ideas Is Closer To Christianity Than Those Of Jewish Liberalism Or Even Atheistic Marxism.

Life Never Forgives Weaknesses.

Since I Have Fought Against These Jewish-soviet Ideas In Germany, Since I Have Conquered And Stamped Out This Peril, I Fancy That I Possess A Better Comprehension Of Its Character Than Do These Men Who Have Only To Deal With It In The Field Of Literature.

Not Until My Fourteenth Or Fifteenth Year Did I Begin To Come Across The Word 'jew,' With Any Frequency, Partly In Connection With Political Discussions.... For The Jew Was Still Characterized For Me By Nothing But His Religion, And Therefore, On Grounds Of Human Tolerance, I Maintained My Rejection Of Religious Attacks In This Case As In Others. Consequently, The Tone, Particularly That Of The Viennese Anti-semitic Press, Seemed To Me Unworthy Of The Cultural Tradition Of A Great Nation.

We Can Safely Make One Prophecy: Whatever The Outcome Of This War, The British Empire Is At An End. It Has Been Mortally Wounded. The Future Of The British People Is To Die Of Hunger And Tuberculosis In Their Cursed Island.

A Stronger Race Will Drive Out The Weaker Ones, For The Vital Urge In Its Ultimate Form Will Break Down The Absurd Barriers Of The So Called Humanity Of Individuals To Make Way For The Humanity Of Nature Which Destroys The Weak To Give Their Place To The Strong.

Columbus's Eggs Lie Around By The Hundreds Of Thousands, But Columbuses Are Met With Less Frequency.

Never In This World Can The Jew Become Master Of Any People Except A Bastardized People.

If You Dont Like A Rule... Just Follow It.. Reach On The Top.. And Change The Rule

Universal Education Is The Most Corroding And Disintegrating Poison That Liberalism Has Ever Invented For Its Own Destruction.

In The Spanish People There Is A Mixture Of Gothic, Frankish And Moorish Blood. One Can Speak Of The Spaniard As One Would Speak Of A Brave Anarchist. The Arabian Epoch-the Arabs Look Down On The Turks As They Do On Dogs-was The Most Cultured, The Most Intellectual And In Every Way Best And Happiest Epoch In Spanish History. It Was Followed By The Period Of The Persecutions With Its Unceasing Atrocities.

By Means Of Shrewd Lies, Unremittingly Repeated, It Is Possible To Make People Believe That Heaven Is Hell - And Hell Heaven. The Greater The Lie, The More Readily It Will Be Believed.

[the Crowd] Will Finally Succeed In Remembering Only The Simplest Concepts Repeated A Thousand Times.

Pride In One's Own Race - And That Does Not Imply Contempt For Other Races - Is ... A Normal And Healthy Sentiment.

In This Hour I Would Ask Of The Lord God Only This: That, As In The Past, So In The Years To Come He Would Give His Blessing To Our Work And Our Action, To Our Judgement And Our Resolution, That He Will Safeguard Us From All False Pride And From All Cowardly Servility, That He May Grant To Us To Find The Straight Path Which His Providence Has Ordained For The German People, And That He May Ever Give Us The Courage To Do The Right, Never To Falter, Never To Yield Before Any Violence, Before Any Danger.

With The Defeat Of The Reich And Pending The Emergence Of The Asiatic, The African And, Perhaps, The South American Nationalisms, There Will Remain In The World Only Two Great Powers Capable Of Confronting Each Other-the United States And Soviet Russia. The Laws Of Both History And Geography Will Compel These Two Powers To A Trial Of Strength, Either Military Or In The Fields Of Economics And Ideology. (2nd April 1945)

Propaganda Tries To Force A Doctrine On The Whole People; The [party] Organization Embraces Within Its Scope Only Those Who Do Not Threaten On Psychological Grounds To Become A Brake On The Further Dissemination Of Ideas.

I Shall Give A Propagandist Reason For Starting The War, No Matter Whether It Is Plausible Or Not. The Victor Will Not Be Asked Afterwards Whether He Told The Truth Or Not. When Starting And Waging War It Is Not Right That Matters, But Victory.

It Is Better To Make A Mistake Than To Do Nothing.

The Demand That Defective People Be Prevented From Propagating Equally Defective Offspring Is A Demand Of The Clearest Reason And If Systematically Executed Represents The Most Humane Act Of Mankind.

As Soon As The Theoretician Attempts To Take Account Of So-called 'utility' And 'reality' Instead Of Absolute Truth, His Work Will Cease To Be A Polar Star Of Seeking Humanity And Instead Will Become A Prescription For Everyday Life.

While We Destroyed The Centre Party, We Have Not Only Brought Thousands Of Priests Back Into The Church, But To Millions Of Respectable People We Have Restored Their Faith In Their Religion And In Their Priests. The Union Of The Evangelical Church In A Single Church For The Whole Reich, The Concordat With The Catholic Church, These Are But Milestones On The Road Which Leads To The Establishment Of A Useful Relation And A Useful Co Operation Between The Reich And The Two Confessions.

The Internal And International Criminal Gang Will Either Be Forced To Work Or Simply Exterminated.

The Primitive Simplicity Of Their Minds Renders Them A More Easy Prey To A Big Lie Than A Small One.

The Art Of Reading And Studying Consists In Remembering The Essentials And Forgetting What Is Not Essential.

State Authority Can Never Be An End In Itself; For, If That Were So, Any Kind Of Tyranny Would Be Inviolable And Sacred. If A Government Uses The Instruments Of Power In Its Hands For The Purpose Of Leading A People To Ruin, Then Rebellion Is Not Only The Right But Also The Duty Of Every Individual Citizen.

Secular Schools Can Never Be Tolerated Because Such A School Has No Religious Instruction And A General Moral Instruction Without A Religious Foundation Is Built On Air; Consequently, All Character Training And Religion Must Be Derived From Faith . . . We Need Believing People.

We National Socialists Must Hold Unflinchingly To Our Aim In Foreign Policy, Namely To Secure For The German People The Land And Soil To Which They Are Entitles On This Earth. And This Action Is The Only One Which, Before God And Or German Posterity, Would Make Any Sacrifice Of Blood Seem Justified: Before God, Since We Have Been Put On This Earth With The Mission Of Eternal Struggle For Our Daily Bread.

For The Greatest Revolutionary Changes On This Earth Would Not Have Been Thinkable If Their Motive Force, Instead Of Fanatical, Yes, Hysterical Passion, Had Been Merely The Bourgeois Virtues Of Law And Order.

If I Made Peace With Russia Today, I'd Only Attack Her Again Tomorrow. I Just Couldn't Help Myself.

Paris Must Either Not Fall Into The Hands Of The Enemy Or The Enemy Must Find It Only A Wasteland.

Defend Paris To The Last, Destroy All Bridges Over The Seine And Devastate The City.

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