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Knowledge Above The Average Can Be Crammed Into The Average Man, But It Remains Dead, And In The Last Analysis Sterile Knowledge. The Result Is A Man Who May Be A Living Dictionary But Nevertheless Falls Down Miserably In All Special Situations And Decisive Moments In Life.

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Knowledge Above The Average Can Be Crammed Into The Average Man, But It Remains Dead, And In The Last Analysis Sterile Knowledge. The Result Is A Man Who May Be A Living Dictionary But Nevertheless Falls Down Miserably In All Special Situations And Decisive Moments In Life.

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[it Is] Useful To Know The Laws Of Nature - For That Enables Us To Obey Them. To Act Otherwise Would Be To Rise In Revolt Against Heaven.

All Great Movements Are Popular Movements. They Are The Volcanic Eruptions Of Human Passions And Emotions, Stirred Into Activity By The Ruthless Goddess Of Distress Or By The Torch Of The Spoken Word Cast Into The Midst Of The People.

The Seed Has Been Sown That Will Grow One Day . . . To The Glorious Rebirth Of The National Socialist Movement Of A Truly United Nation.

The Dogma Of Christianity Gets Worn Away Before The Advances Of Science. Religion Will Have To Make More And More Concessions. Gradually The Myths Crumble.

If In The Past, After Every Lost War, The Unlucky Vanquished Were Divested Forever Of Their Honor And Their Equality Of Rights, The League Of Nations Would Even Now Have To Be Satisfied With A Whole Series Of Non-equal And Thus Ultimately Dishonorable And Inferior Nations.

We Are A People Of Different Faiths, But We Are One. Which Faith Conquers The Other Is Not The Question; Rather, The Question Is Whether Christianity Stands Or Falls.... We Tolerate No One In Our Ranks Who Attacks The Ideas Of Christianity... In Fact Our Movement Is Christian. We Are Filled With A Desire For Catholics And Protestants To Discover One Another In The Deep Distress Of Our Own People.

Neutrals And Lukewarms Do Not Make History.

One Of Our Most Important Tasks Will Be To Save Future Generations From A Similar Political Fate And To Maintain For Ever Watchful In Them A Knowledge Of The Menace Of Jewry. For This Reason Alone It Is Vital That The Passion Play Be Continued At Oberammergau; For Never Has The Menace Of Jewry Been So Convincingly Portrayed As In This Presentation Of What Happened In The Times Of The Romans. There One Sees In Pontius Pilate A Roman Racially And Intellectually So Superior, That He Stands Like A Firm, Clean Rock In The Middle Of The Whole Muck And Mire Of Jewry.

The Anti-semitism Of The New Movement Was Based On Religious Ideas Instead Of Racial Knowledge.

Historically Speaking, The Christian Religion Is Nothing But A Jewish Sect... After The Destruction Of Judaism, The Extinction Of Christian Slave Morals Must Follow Logically... Ah, The God Of The Deserts, That Crazed, Stupid, Vengeful Asiatic Despot With His Power To Make Laws!

Differentiation Of Treatment Is Not Motivated By The Difference Of Value Of The Two Races, But Of The Fundamental Difference Of Their Respective Natures.

The President Of The United States Has A Much Wider Power Than The German Kaiser Had, For He Depended On Parliament.

The Purpose Of Social Work Should Not Be To Distribute Favours, But To Restore Rights.

The National Socialist Movement Has Wrought This Miracle. If Almighty God Granted Success To This Work, Then The Party Was His Instrument.

The Women Has Her Own Battlefield With Every Child She Brings Into The World She Fights A Battle For The Nation

A Sharp Difference Should Exist Between General Education And Specialized Knowledge. As Particularly Today The Latter Threatens More And More To Sink Into The Service Of Pure Mammon, General Education, At Least In Its More Ideal Attitude, Must Be Retained As A Counterweight.

To Be A Leader Means To Be Able To Move Masses

God Grant That This Is The Work Of The Communists. You Are Witnessing The Beginning Of A Great New Epoch In German History. This Fire Is The Beginning.

The Day Of Individual Happiness Has Passed.

Individual Happiness

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.

I Am Convinced That Nothing Will Happen To Me, For I Know The Greatness Of The Task For Which Providence Has Chosen Me.

Then We'll Work A Hundred Years Without Physics And Chemistry.

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

I Am Now As Before A Catholic And Will Always Remain So.

Catholic Religion

If You Wish The Sympathy Of The Broad Masses, You Must Tell Them The Crudest And Most Stupid Things.

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.

National Socialism Is The Determination To Create A New Man. There Will No Longer Exist Any Individual Arbitrary Will, Nor Realms In Which The Individual Belongs To Himself. The Time Of Happiness As A Private Matter Is Over.

There Is, Then, No Danger In The Circumstances That Anti-semitism Will Disappear, For It Is The Jews Themselves Who Add Fuel To Its Flames And See That It Is Kept Well Stoked. Before The Opposition To It Can Disappear, The Malady Itself Must Disappear. And From That Point Of View, You Can Rely On The Jews: As Long As They Survive, Anti-semitism Will Never Fade. (13th February 1945)

We Must, Therefore, Coolly And Objectively Adopt The Standpoint That It Can Certainly Not Be The Intention Of Heaven To Give One People Fifty Times As Much Land And Soil In This World As Another.

When Barbarossa Commences, The World Will Hold Its Breath And Make No Comment.

Nearly All Bolshevist Agitators In Germany And Elsewhere Were Jews.

I Know That One Is Able To Win People Far More By The Spoken That By The Written Word, And That Every Great Movement On This Globe Owes Its Rise To The Great Speakers And Not To The Great Writers.

In Vowing Ourselves To One Another, We Are Entitled To Stand Before The Almighty And Ask Him For His Grace And His Blessing.

The Greater The Lie, The Greater The Chance That It Will Be Believed.

I Intend To Set Up A Thousand-year Reich And Anyone Who Supports Me In This Battle Is A Fellow-fighter For A Unique Spiritual-i Would Say Divine-creation... Rudolf Hess, My Assistant Of Many Years Standing, Would Tell You: If We Have Such A Leader, God Is With Us.

To Whom Should Propaganda Be Addressed? To The Scientifically Trained Intelligentsia Or The Less Educated Masses? It Must Be Addressed Always And Exclusively To The Masses.

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.

Nudity Is Undignified And An Error Of Taste

I Die With A Joyful Heart In The Knowledge Of Our Infinite Achievements And Of A Contribution Unique In The History That Bears My Name.

Great, Truly World-shaking Revolutions Of A Spiritual Nature Are Not Even Conceivable And Realizable Except As The Titanic Struggles Of Individual Formations, Never As Enterprises Of Coalitions.

Thousands Of Americans, Englishmen And Frenchmen Have Visited Germany During The Months After The National Revolution And Were Able To Testify As Eye-witnesses That There Is No Country In The World Where Law And Order Are Better Maintained Than In Present-day Germany. That There Is No Country In The World Where Person And Property Are Held In Better Respect Than In Our Own, But That There Is Perhaps Also No Country In The Word Where A More Rigorous Fight Is Put Up Against Those Who Believe That They Are Free To Let Loose Their Lower Instincts To The Detriment Of Their Fellow-beings.

The Folkish State Must Not Adjust Its Entire Educational Work Primarily To The Inoculation Of Mere Knowledge, But To The Breeding Of Absolutely Healthy Bodies. The Training Of Mental Abilities Is Only Secondary.

I Believe Today That My Conduct Is In Accordance With The Will Of The Almighty Creator.

National Socialist Germany Wishes For Peace Because It Recognises The Simple Fact That No War Would Be Likely To Substantially To Ameliorate The State Of Distress In Europe. The Distress Would Probably Be Made The Greater Thereby. If Only The Leaders And Rulers Had Wanted Peace, The People Would Never Have Wished For War.

I Am A German Nationalist, That Means I Am Openly Committed To My Volkstrum. All Of My Thoughts And Actions Belong To It. I Am A Socialist. I See Before Me No Class Or Rank, But Rather A Community Of People Who Are Connected By Blood, United By Language, And Subject To The Same Collective Fate.

I Wish And Will Continue To Wish, That The German People Should Learn That By Reason Of Practical Examples Afforded By Their Ability And Work, They Are Not A Second-rate Or Inferior People In Comparison With Others. On The Contrary They Are Their Equals According To All True Standards Of Values And Therefore Entitled To Equal Rights In All Respects.

Hate Is More Lasting Than Dislike.

I Am Personally Convinced Of The Great Power And Deep Significance Of Christianity, And I Won't Allow Any Other Religion To Be Promoted.

I Desire A Violent, Domineering, Fearless, And Ferocious Upcoming Generation. It Must Be Able To Bear Pain. It Must Show No Signs Whatsoever Of Weakness Or Tenderness. The Free And Magnificent Predator Must Once Again Glint From Their Eyes.

Of Course, Even The General Designation 'religious' Includes Various Basic Ideas Or Convictions, For Example, The Indestructibility Of The Soul, The Eternity Of Its Existence, The Existence Of A Higher Being, Etc. But All These Ideas, Regardless Of How Convincing They May Be For The Individual, Are Submitted To The Critical Examination Of This Individual And Hence To A Fluctuating Affirmation Or Negation Until Emotional Divination Or Knowledge Assumes The Binding Force Of Apodictic Faith.

First, Therefore, [the Jew] Goes About Making Up To The People For His Previous Sins Against Them. He Begins His Career As The 'benefactor' Of Mankind. Since His New Benevolence Has A Practical Foundation, He Cannot Very Well Adhere To The Old Biblical Recommendation, That The Left Hand Should Not Know What The Right Hand Giveth.

Only A Handful Of Germans In The Reich Had The Slightest Conception Of The Eternal And Merciless Struggle For The German Language, German Schools, And A German Way Of Life. Only Today, When The Same Deplorable Misery Is Forced On Many Millions Of Germans From The Reich, Who Under Foreign Rule Dream Of Their Common Fatherland And Strive, Amid Their Longing, At Least To Preserve Their Holy Right To Their Mother Tongue, Do Wider Circles Understand What It Means To Be Forced To Fight For One's Nationality.

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.

The More The Linguistic Babel Corroded And Disorganized Parliament, The Closer Drew The Inevitable Hour Of The Disintegration Of This Babylonian Empire, And With It The Hour Of Freedom For My German-austrian People.

Gentlemen, You Are About To Witness The Most Famous Victory In History.

As Soon As One Point Alone Is Removed From The Sphere Of Dogmatic Certainty, The Discussion Will Not Simply Result In A New And Better Formulation Which Will Have Greater Consistency But May Easily Lead To Endless Debates And General Confusion.

...a Man Does Not Die For Business, But For Ideals.

I Have Not Come Into This World To Make Men Better, But To Make Use Of Their Weaknesses.

[propaganda] Does Not Have Multiple Shadings; It Has A Positive And A Negative; Love Or Hate, Right Or Wrong, Truth Or Lie, Never Half This Way And Half That Way.

It Would Be Easier For The Devil To Go To Church And Cross Himself With Holy Water Than For These People To Comprehend The Ideas Which Are Accepted Facts To Us Today.

...the Unprecedented Rise Of The Christian Social Party... Was To Assume The Deepest Significance For Me As A Classical Object Of Study.

For The Political Leader The Religious Doctrines And Institutions Of His People Must Always Remain Inviolable; Or Else Has No Right To Be In Politics, But Should Become A Reformer, If He Has What It Takes!

Anyone Who Dares To Lay Hands On The Highest Image Of The Lord Commits Sacrilege Against The Benevolent Creator Of This Miracle And Contributes To The Expulsion From Paradise.

He Who Would Live Must Fight. He Who Doesn't Wish To Fight In This World, Where Permanent Struggle Is The Law Of Life, Has Not The Right To Exist.

I Hold To My Conviction That, Once This Path Of Mutual Understanding And Consideration Has Been Taken, More Will Come Of It In The End Than Through Ever So Extensive Pacts Inherently Lacking In Clarity.

Himmler Wants To Send An Expedition To Tibet To Look For Ancient Manuscripts On The Aryans. The Man Is Like A Little Schoolgirl. What Culture Is There In An Old Jug, I Ask You?

Life Does Not Forgive Weakness.

To Fight, We Must Have Oil For Our Machine.

When I Compare Myself And My Opponents In Other Countries In The Light Of History, I Do Not Fear The Verdict On Our Respective Mentalities.

Whoever Wants To Understand National Socialist Germany Must Know Wagner.

There Is A Road To Freedom. Its Milestones Are Obedience, Endeavour, Honesty, Order, Cleanliness, Sobriety, Truthfulness, Sacrifice, And Love Of The Fatherland.

Those Who Want To Live, Let Them Fight, And Those Who Do Not Want To Fight In This World Of Eternal Struggle Do Not Deserve To Live.

The Attack Against Dogmas As Such, Therefore, Strongly Resembles The Struggle Against The General Legal Foundations Of A State, And , As The Latter Would End In A Total Anarchy Of The State, The Former Would End In A Worthless Religious Nihilism.

We Stand For The Maintenance Of Private Property... We Shall Protect Free Enterprise As The Most Expedient, Or Rather The Sole Possible Economic Order.

Our Task Is To Harness The God-given Energy Of This German Nation To Stand Firm For The Truth.

Society's Needs Come Before The Individuals Needs

Let Us Never Forget The Duty, Which We Have Taken Upon Us

Through Clever And Constant Application Of Propaganda, People Can Be Made To See Paradise As Hell, And Also The Other Way Round, To Consider The Most Wretched Sort Of Life As Paradise.

A Highly Intelligent Man Should Take A Primitive Woman. Imagine If On Top Of Everything Else, I Had A Woman Who Interfered With My Work.

The German People Are Not A Warlike Nation. It Is A Soldierly One, Which Means It Does Not Want A War, But Does Not Fear It. It Loves Peace But Also Loves Its Honor And Freedom

Mankind Has Grown Strong In Eternal Struggles And It Will Only Perish Through Eternal Peace.

The Folkish-minded Man, In Particular, Has The Sacred Duty, Each In His Own Denomination, Of Making People Stop Just Talking Superficially Of God's Will, And Actually Fulfill God's Will, And Not Let God's Word Be Desecrated. For God's Will Gave Men Their Form, Their Essence And Their Abilities. Anyone Who Destroys His Work Is Declaring War On The Lord's Creation, The Divine Will.

Never Forget That The Most Sacred Right On This Earth Is Mans Right To Have The Earth To Till With His Own Hands, The Most Sacred Sacrifice The Blood That A Man Sheds For This Earth.

The Fight Against Jewish World Bolshevization Requires A Clear Attitude Toward Soviet Russia. You Cannot Drive Out The Devil With Beelzebub.

In The Course Of Carrying Through Our Program For Which We Have Calculated Four Years, Two And One-quarter Million Out Of Six Million Unemployed Have Already Received Employment Again Within A Period Of Eight Short Months.

Imbued With The Desire To Secure For The German People The Great Religious, Moral, And Cultural Values Rooted In The Two Christian Confessions, We Have Abolished The Political Organizations But Strengthened The Religious Institutions.

Verily A Man Cannot Serve Two Masters. And I Consider The Foundation Or Destruction Of A Religion Far Greater Than The Foundation Or Destruction Of A State, Let Alone A Party.

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.

When I Go Out In The Morning And See These Men Standing In Their Queues And Look Into Their Pinched Faces, Then I Believe I Would Be No Christian, But A Very Devil, If I Felt No Pity For Them, If I Did Not, As Did Our Lord Two Thousand Years Ago, Turn Against Those By Whom Today This Poor People Are Plundered And Exposed.

Sporting Chivalrous Contest Helps Knit The Bonds Of Peace Between Nations. Therefore May The Olympic Flame Never Expire.

[this Is The] Very First Condition Which Has To Be Fulfilled In Every Kind Of Propaganda: A Systematically One-sided Attitude Towards Every Problem That Has To Be Dealt With.

By Rejecting The Authority Of The Individual And Replacing It By The Numbers Of Some Momentary Mob, The Parliamentary Principle Of Majority Rule Sins Against The Basic Aristocratic Principle Of Nature.

The Phrase, 'emancipation Of Women' Is Only An Invention Of The Jewish Intellect And Its Content Is Stamped With The Same Spirit. In The Really Good Periods Of German Life The German Woman Never Needed To Emancipate Herself.

Knowledge Above The Average Can Be Crammed Into The Average Man, But It Remains Dead, And In The Last Analysis Sterile Knowledge. The Result Is A Man Who May Be A Living Dictionary But Nevertheless Falls Down Miserably In All Special Situations And Decisive Moments In Life.

The [nazi Party] Should Not Become A Constable Of Public Opinion, But Must Dominate It. It Must Not Become A Servant Of The Masses, But Their Master!

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.

For Over Five Years This Man [winston Churchill] Has Been Chasing Around Europe Like A Madman In Search Of Something He Could Set On Fire. Unfortunately He Again And Again Finds Hirelings Who Open The Gates Of Their Country To This International Incendiary.

Thank God I've Always Avoided Persecuting My Enemies.

The Disastrous Consequences Of Widespread European Butchery In The Future Would Be Even Worse.

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

History Is As Old As My Grandfather

The Main Plank In The National Socialist Program Is To Abolish The Liberalistic Concept Of The Individual And The Marxist Concept Of Humanity And To Substitute For Them The Folk Community, Rooted In The Soil And Bound Together By The Bond Of Its Common Blood.

It Is Necessary That I Should Die For My People; But My Spirit Will Rise From The Grave And The Whole World Will Know That I Was Right.

The World Has No Reason For Fighting In Our Defense, And As A Matter Of Principle God Does Not Make Cowardly Nations Free.

The Universalists, The Idealists, The Utopians All Aim Too High. They Give Promises Of An Unattainable Paradise, And By Doing So They Deceive Mankind. Whatever Label They Wear, Whether They Call Themselves Christians, Communists, Humanitarians, Whether They Are Merely Sincere But Stupid Or Wire-pullers And Cynics, They Are All Makers Of Slaves. I Myself Have Always Kept My Eye Fixed On A Paradise Which, In The Nature Of Things, Lies Well Within Our Reach. I Mean An Improvement In The Lot Of The German People. (21st February 1945)

The State Is A Means To An End. Its End Lies In The Preservation And Advancement Of A Community Of Physically And Psychically Homogenous Creatures.

Peoples Which Bastardize Themselves, Or Let Themselves Be Bastardized, Sin Against The Will Of Eternal Providence.

I Began To Study Again, And Now For The First Time Really Achieved An Understanding Of The Content Of The Jew Karl Marx's Life Effort. Only Now Did His Capital Become Really Intelligible To Me, And Also The Struggle Of The Social Democracy Against The National Economy, Which Aims Only To Prepare The Ground For The Domination Of Truly International Finance And Stock Exchange Capital.

Our German Language Has A Word Which In A Magnificent Way Denotes Conduct Based On This Spirit: Doing One's Duty [pflichterfüllung]-which Means Serving The Community Instead Of Contenting Oneself. We Have A Word For The Basic Disposition Which Underlies Conduct Of This Kind In Contrast To Egoism And Selfishness-idealism. By 'idealism' We Mean Only The Ability Of The Individual To Sacrifice Himself For The Whole, For His Fellow Men.

I Must Frankly Admit That... I Should Probably Lose All Interest In Life And Would Rather Not Be A German At All. But Since, Thank The Lord, This Cannot Be Done, We Have No Need To Be Surprised That The Health, Unspoiled People Avoid 'bourgeois Mass Meetings' As The Devil Holy Water.

There Is Something Very Unhealthy About Christianity.

I Am Convinced That I Am Acting As The Agent Of Our Almighty Creator. By Fighting The Jews, I Am Doing The Lord's Work.

The Young [nazi] Movement Is In Its Nature And Inner Organization Anti-parliamentarian; That Is, It Rejects... A Principle Of Majority Rule In Which The Leader Is Degraded To The Level Of Mere Executant Of Other People's Wills And Opinion.

Surrender Is Forbidden. Sixth Army Will Hold Their Positions To The Last Man And The Last Round And By Their Heroic Endurance Will Make An Unforgettable Contribution Toward The Establishment Of A Defensive Front And The Salvation Of The Western World.

Lord God, Let Us Never Hesitate Or Play The Coward, Let Us Never Forget The Duty Which We Have Taken Upon Us.... We Are All Proud That Through God's Powerful Aid We Have Become Once More True Germans.

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

For I Must Not Measure The Speech Of A Statesman To His People By The Impression Which It Leaves In A University Professor, But By The Effect It Exerts On The People. And This Alone Gives The Standard For The Speaker's Genius.

University Professors

How To Achieve The Moral Breakdown Of The Enemy Before The War Has Started - That Is The Problem That Interests Me. Whoever Has Experienced War At The Front Will Want To Refrain From All Avoidable Bloodshed.

If I Can Send The Flower Of The German Nation Into The Hell Of War Without The Smallest Pity For The Shedding Of Precious German Blood, Then Surely I Have The Right To Remove Millions Of An Inferior Race That Breeds Like Vermin.

Gold Is Not Necessary. I Have No Interest In Gold. We'll Build A Solid State, Without An Ounce Of Gold Behind It. Anyone Who Sells Above The Set Prices, Let Him Be Marched Off To A Concentration. That's The Bastion Of Money.

Every Healthy Völk Sees The Right To Expansion Of Its Living Space As Something Natural.

Belief Is Harder To Shake Than Knowledge.

I Have No Further Interest In The Czecho-slovakian State, That Is Guaranteed. We Want No Czechs

If Today I Stand Here As A Revolutionary, It Is As A Revolutionary Against The Revolution.

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.

For How Shall We Fill People With Blind Faith In The Correctness Of A Doctrine, If We Ourselves Spread Uncertainty And Doubt By Constant Changes In Its Outward Structure? ...here, Too, We Can Learn By The Example Of The Catholic Church. Though Its Doctrinal Edifice, And In Part Quite Superfluously, Comes Into Collision With Exact Science And Research, It Is None The Less Unwilling To Sacrifice So Much As One Little Syllable Of Its Dogmas... It Is Only Such Dogmas Which Lend To The Whole Body The Character Of A Faith.

We Have Now Armed To Such An Extent As The World Has Never Before Seen.

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.

Anyone Who Sees And Paints A Sky Green And Fields Blue Ought To Be Sterilized.

For There Is Hardly A State Or Nation In Existence Which Has Not Once Had The Misfortune, Even If It Was In The Right A Thousand Times Over, To Be Defeated By A Stronger Opponent Or A Stronger Coalition.

The Unity Of A Nation's Spirit And Will Are Worth Far More Than The Freedom Of The Spirit And Will Of An Individual; And That The Higher Interests Involved In The Life Of The Whole Must Here Set The Limits And Lay Down The Duties Of The Interests Of The Individual.

...we Must Pray To The Almighty Not To Refuse His Blessing To This Change And Not To Abandon Our People In The Times To Come.

While Both Denominations Maintain Missions In Asia And Africa In Order To Win New Followers For Their Doctrine- An Activity Which Can Boast But Very Modest Success Compared To The Advance Of The Mohammedan Faith In Particular- Right Here In Europe They Lose Millions And Millions Of Inward Adherents Who Either Are Alien To All Religious Life Or Simply Go Their Own Ways. The Consequences, Particularly From A Moral Point Of View, Are Not Favorable.

It May Be That Today Gold Has Become The Exclusive Ruler Of Life, But The Time Will Come When Man Will Again Bow Down Before A Higher God.

We, As Aryans, Can Conceive Of The State Only As The Living Organism Of A Nationality Which Not Only Assures The Preservation Of Its Nationality, But By The Development Of Its Spiritual And Ideal Abilities Leads It To The Highest Freedom.

Political Parties Has Nothing To Do With Religious Problems, As Long As These Are Not Alien To The Nation, Undermining The Morals And Ethics Of The Race; Just As Religion Cannot Be Amalgamated With The Scheming Of Political Parties.

We Have To Put A Stop To The Idea That It Is A Part Of Everybody's Civil Rights To Say Whatever He Pleases.

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.

If Providence Had Not Guided Us I Would Often Never Have Found These Dizzy Paths. Thus, It Is That We National Socialists Have In The Depths Of Our Hearts Our Faith. No Man Can Fashion World History Or The History Of Peoples Unless Upon His Purpose And His Powers There Rests The Blessing Of This Providence.

I Ought To Have Seized The Initiative In 1938 Instead Of Allowing Myself To Be Forced Into War In 1939; For War Was, In Any Case, Unavoidable. However, You Can Hardly Blame Me If The British And The French Accepted At Munich Every Demand I Made Of Them! (14th February 1945)

Pacifism Is Simply Undisguised Cowardice.

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.

Social Honour Recognises No Distinction Between The Employer And The Unemployed. All Of Them Work For A Common Purpose And Are Entitled To Equal Honour And Respect.

My Feeling As A Christian Points Me To My Lord And Savior... I Am Fighting For The Work Of The Lord.

I'll Put An End To The Idea That A Woman's Body Belongs To Her... Nazi Ideals Demand That The Practice Of Abortion Shall Be Exterminated With A Strong Hand.

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.

If We Had These Rockets In 1939, We Should Never Have Had This War.

Christianity Is A Rebellion Against Natural Law, A Protest Against Nature. Taken To Its Logical Extreme, Christianity Would Mean The Systematic Cultivation Of The Human Failure.

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.

Due To His Own Original Special Nature, The Jew Cannot Possess A Religious Institution, If For No Other Reason Because He Lacks Idealism In Any Form, And Hence Belief In A Hereafter Is Absolutely Foreign To Him. And A Religion In The Aryan Sense Cannot Be Imagined Which Lacks The Conviction Of Survival After Death In Some Form. Indeed, The Talmud Is Not A Book To Prepare A Man For The Hereafter, But Only For A Practical And Profitable Life In This World.

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.

The Whole Of Education Should Be Designed So As To Occupy A Boy's Free Time In Cultivation Of His Body. He Has No Right To Loaf About Idly; But After His Day's Work Is Done, He Ought To Harden His Young Body, So That Life May Not Find Him Soft When He Enters It. No One Should Be Allowed To Sin At The Expense Of Posterity, That Is, Of The Race.

It Is Thus Necessary That The Individual Should Finally Come To Realize That His Own Ego Is Of No Importance In Comparison With The Existence Of The Nation, That The Position Of The Individual Is Conditioned Solely By The Interests Of The Nation As A Whole.

The Big Lie Is A Major Untruth Uttered Frequently By Leaders As A Means Of Duping And Controlling The Constituency.

Today In May 1938, The World Around Us Suffers From The Anxiety Which The Unemployment Of Millions Brings With It. In Germany We Begin To Be Anxious Because We Have Not Enough Workmen.

Blood Sin And Desecration Of The Race Are The Original Sin In This World And The End Of A Humanity Which Surrenders To 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.

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.

I Do Not See Why Man Should Not Be As Cruel As Nature

Individual Happiness

If Artists Do See Fields Blue They Are Deranged, And Should Go To An Asylum. If They Only Pretend To See Them Blue, They Are Criminals And Should Go To Prison.

All Those Who Are Not Racially Pure Are Mere Chaff.

Only So You Can Appeal To Your God And Pray Him To Support And Bless Your Courage, Your Work, Your Perseverance, Your Strength, Your Resolution, And With All These Your Claim On Life.

Czechoslovakia Has Ceased To Exist.

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.

The Essential Thing Is The Formation Of The Political Will Of The Nation: That Is The Starting Point For Political Action.

I Use Emotion For The Many And Reserve Reason For The Few.

Germany Will Never Break The Peace Of Its Own Accord.

Life Never Forgives Weaknesses.

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.

Pressure Or Violence Will Ever Move Us To Relinquish Our Honor Or Our Equality Of Rights.

Only Force Rules. Force Is The First Law

Consequently, The Value And Importance Of The Monarchic Idea Cannot Reside In The Person Of The Monarch Himself Except If Heaven Decides To Lay The Crown On The Brow Of The Heroic Genius Like Frederick The Great Or A Wise Character Like William I.

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?

The Black-haired Jewish Youth Lies In Wait For Hours On End, Satanically Glaring At And Spying On The Unsuspicious Girl Whom He Plans To Seduce, Adulterating Her Blood And Removing Her From The Bosom Of Her Own People. The Jew Uses Every Possible Means To Undermine The Racial Foundations Of A Subjugated People.

People Are More Likely To Believe A Big Lie Than A Small One.

For We Love Liberty Just As We Love Peace.

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

The Result Of The Revolution In Germany Has Been To Establish A Democracy In The Best Sense Of The Word. We Are Steering Towards An Order Of Things Guaranteeing A Process Of A Natural And Reasonable Selection In The Domain Of Political Leadership, Thanks To Which That Leadership Will Be Entrusted To The Most Competent, Irrespective Of Their Descent, Name Or Fortune. The Memorable Words Of The Great Corsican That Every Soldier Carries A Field Marshal's Baton In His Knapsack, Will Find Its Political Complement In Germany.

What Good Fortune For Those In Power That People Do Not Think.

Help Thyself, Then Thou Wilt Also Have The Help Of The Almighty.

In This World Him Who Does Not Abandon Himself The Almighty Will Not Desert. Him Who Helps Himself Will The Almighty Always Also Help; He Will Show Him The Way By Which He Can Gain His Rights, His Freedom, And Therefore His Future.

Nothing Falls Into A Man's Lap From Heaven. It Is From Labour That Life Grows.

For As Soon As The Procreative Faculty Is Thwarted And The Number Of Births Diminished, The Natural Struggle For Existence Which Allows Only Healthy And Strong Individuals To Survive Is Replaced By A Sheer Craze To 'save' Feeble And Even Diseased Creatures At Any Cost. And Thus The Seeds Are Sown For A Human Progeny Which Will Become More And More Miserable From One Generation To Another, As Long As Nature's Will Is Scorned.

A Car For The People, An Affordable Volkswagen, Would Bring Great Joy To The Masses And The Problems Of Building Such A Car Must Be Faced With Courage.

Cruelty Impresses, People Want To Be Afraid Of Something. They Want Someone To Whom They Can Submit With A Shudder, The Masses Need That. They Need Something To Dreed.

I'm Sure That Nero Didn't Set Fire To Rome. It Was The Christian-bolsheviks Who Did That, Just As The Commune Set Fire To Paris In 1871 And The Communists Set Fire To The Reichstag In 1932.

We Need Not Fear The Judgement Of History. Who, After All, Speaks Today Of The Extermination Of The Armenians?

As Long As The National Socialist Movement Is Leading Germany-and That Will Be The Case For The Next Few Centuries, No Matter How Often Our Emigrants Conjure Up The Opposite View- This Opinion Will Not Change.

The Fight Against Syphilis Demands A Fight Against Prostitution, Against Prejudices, Old Habits, Against Previous Conceptions, General Views Among Them Not Least The False Prudery Of Certain Circles. The First Prerequisite For Even The Moral Right To Combat These Things Is The Facilitation Of Earlier Marriage For The Coming Generation.

I Will Never Allow Anyone To Divide This People Once More Into Religious Camps, Each Fighting The Other

There Must Be No Majority Decisions, But Only Responsible Persons, And The Word 'council' Must Be Restored To Its Original Meaning. Surely Every Man Will Have Advisers By His Side, But The Decision Will Be Made By One Man.

I Shall Never Come Personally To Terms With The Christian Lie.

All Work Which Is Necessary Ennobles Him Who Performs It. Only One Thing Is Shameful - To Contribute Nothing To The Community.

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.

For The Sake Of Historical Truth I Must Verify That Only The Greeks, Of All The Adversaries Who Confronted Us, Fought With Bold Courage And Highest Disregard Of Death.

In Order To Persuade Britain To Pack Up, To Compel Her To Make Peace, It Was Essential To Rob Her Of Her Hope Of Being Able Still To Confront Us, On The Continent Itself, With An Adversary Of A Stature Equal To Our Own.

May Therefore God Give Us The Strength To Continue To Do Our Duty And With This Prayer We Bow In Homage Before Our Dead Heroes, Before Those Whom They Have Left Behind In Bereavement, And Before All The Other Victims Of This War.

Man Has Become Great Through Struggle

All Propaganda Must Be Confined To A Few Bare Necessities And Then Must Be Expressed In A Few Stereotyped Formulas . . . Only Constant Repetition Will Finally Succeed In Imprinting An Idea Upon The Memory Of A Crowd.

I Will Employ My Strength For The Welfare Of The German People, Protect The Constitution And Laws Of The German People, Conscientiously Discharge The Duties Imposed On Me, And Conduct My Affairs Of Office Impartially And With Justice To Everyone.

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