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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.
-Adolf Hitler
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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.
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Decision
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Failure
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Mean
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Believe
Government
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Should
Force
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Justice
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God Help
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Race
People
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Sick
Insanity
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Butchery
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I Do Not See Why Man Should Not Be As Cruel As Nature
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Blessed
Fighting
Thinking
England, Unlike In 1914, Will Not Allow Herself To Blunder Into A War Lasting For Years.... Such Is The Fate Of Rich Countries.. .not Even England Has The Money Nowadays To Fight A World War. What Should England Fight For? You Don't Get Yourself Killed Over An Ally.
Country
Military
War
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.
Country
Light
Anxiety
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.
Boys
Race
Done
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Christian
Regret
Lying
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Believe
Pride
Past
It Seems To Me That Nothing Would Be More Foolish Than To Re-establish The Worship Of Wotan. Our Old Mythology Ceased To Be Viable When Christianity Implanted Itself. Nothing Dies Unless It Is Moribund.
Would Be
Worship
Christianity
Only In The Steady And Constant Application Of Force Lies The Very First Prerequisite For Success. This Persistence, However, Can Always And Only Arise From A Definite Spiritual Conviction. Any Violence Which Does Not Spring From A Firm, Spiritual Base, Will Be Wavering And Uncertain.
Spiritual
Religious
Spring
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.
Religious
Believe
School
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.
Party
Men
Two
The Fact That, With Time, This League [of Nations]-which Was Presumably Designed By Its Founders To Exist For All Eternity-cannot Be Coupled With A Treaty The Short Term Of Which Is Inherent In Its Own Weaknesses And Impracticabilities, Is A Point Which Can Perhaps Be Contested By Today's Interested Parties, But Which Will One Day Be Deemed A Matter Of Course In History.
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League
One Day
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War
Defense
Wipe
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Believe
Eye
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.
Stars
Reality
Humanity
The Doom Of A Nation Can Be Averted Only By A Storm Of Flowing Passion, But Only Those Who Are Passionate Themselves Can Arouse Passion In Others.
Military
Passion
Fate
People Have Killed Only When They Could Not Achieve Their Aim In Other Ways There Is A Broadened Strategy, With Intellectual Weapons Why Should I Demoralize The Enemy By Military Means If I Can Do So Better And More Cheaply In Other Ways?
Military
Mean
People
A Man Does Not Die For Something Which He Himself Does Not Believe In.
Believe
Men
Doe
The Earth Continues To Go Round, Whether It's The Man Who Kills The Tiger Or The Tiger Who Eats The Man. The Stronger Asserts His Will, It's The Law Of Nature. The World Doesn't Change; Its Laws Are Eternal.
Men
Law
Stronger
[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.
Hate
Lying
Media
The Great Masses Of The People Will More Easily Fall Victims To A Big Lie Than To A Small One.
Lying
Fall
Thinking
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.
Christian
Country
Religious
But Even More: All At Once The Jew Also Becomes Liberal And Begins To Rave About The Necessary Progress Of Mankind.
Progress
Mein Kampf
Rave
The Broad Mass Of A Nation Will More Easily Fall Victim To A Big Lie Than A Small One. The Greater The Lie, The Greater Chance That It Will Be Believed. All Epoch-making Events Have Been Produced Not By The Written, But The Spoken Word.
Lying
Fall
Events
But In The Great Hour Heaven Sent The German People A Great Man, Herr Von Cuno.
Men
Heaven Sent
People
It Is Not Truth That Matters, But Victory.
Truth
Individual Happiness
Victory
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.
Perseverance
Support
Atheism
If Positive Christianity Means Love Of One's Neighbour, I.e. The Tending Of The Sick, The Clothing Of The Poor, The Feeding Of The Hungry, The Giving Of Drink To Those Who Are Thirsty, Then It Is We Who Are The More Positive Christians. For In These Spheres The Community Of The People Of National Socialist Germany Has Accomplished A Prodigious Work.
Christian
Mean
People
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.
Character
Men
Ideas
I Have Followed The Church In Giving Our Party Program The Character Of Unalterable Finality, Like The Creed. The Church Has Never Allowed The Creed To Be Interfered With. It Is Fifteen Hundred Years Since It Was Formulated, But Every Suggestion For Its Amendment, Every Logical Criticism, Or Attack On It, Has Been Rejected.
Religious
Party
Character
Then We'll Work A Hundred Years Without Physics And Chemistry.
Hard Work
Science
Years
All Upright Germans Will Be National Socialists, But Only The Best National Socialists Will Be Party Members!
Party
Members
Nations
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.
Intelligent
Men
Imagine
Life Is Like A Game, There Could Be Many Players. If You Don't Play With Them, They'll Play With You.
Player
Games
Life Is Like
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.
Freedom
Lying
Fall
The Fact That The Vatican Is Concluding A Treaty With The New Germany Means The Acknowledgement Of The National Socialist State By The Catholic Church. This Treaty Shows The Whole World Clearly And Unequivocally That The Assertion That National Socialism Is Hostile To Religion Is A Lie.
Lying
Mean
Catholic
Paris Must Either Not Fall Into The Hands Of The Enemy Or The Enemy Must Find It Only A Wasteland.
War
Fall
Hands
What Good Fortune For Those In Power That People Do Not Think.
Fear
Thinking
People
Besides That, I Believe One Thing: There Is A Lord God! And This Lord God Creates The Peoples.
Believe
Religion
Lord
Woman's World Is Her Husband, Her Family, Her Children And Her Home. We Do Not Find It Right When She Presses Into The World Of Men.
Children
Husband
Home
I Am Convinced That 1941 Will Be The Crucial Year Of A Great New Order In Europe. The World Shall Open Up For Everyone. Privileges For Individuals, The Tyranny Of Certain Nations And Their Financial Rulers Shall Fall. And Last Of All This Year Will Help To Provide The Foundations Of A Real Understanding Among Peoples, And With It The Certainty Of Conciliation Among Nations. . . . Those Nations Who Are Still Opposed To Us Will Some Day Recognize The Greater Enemy Within. Then They Will Join Us In A Combined Front, A Front Against Jewish Exploitation And Racial Degeneration.
Real
Fall
Order
The Purpose Of Social Work Should Not Be To Distribute Favours, But To Restore Rights.
Rights
Purpose
Favour
The National Government Sees In Both Christian Denominations The Most Important Factor For The Maintenance Of Our Society.
Christian
Government
Religion
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.
Attitude
Differences
Today
I Don't Talk For The Sake Of Talking. I Do Become Intoxicated With Sound. When I Open My Mouth, It's To Say Something.
Talking
Sound
Mouths
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.
Pain
Eye
Fearless
Nearly All Bolshevist Agitators In Germany And Elsewhere Were Jews.
Germany
Jew
Elsewhere
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.
Order
Essentials
Able
The Right Of Personal Freedom Recedes Before The Duty To Preserve The Race.
Race
Duty
Personal Freedom
I Wouldn't Watch Football If It Wasn't For Lord Bendtner
Football
Watches
Lord
The Beginning Of Every War Is Like Opening The Door Into A Dark Room. One Never Knows What Is Hidden In The Darkness.
War
Dark
Doors
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.
Religious
Winning
Views
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.
Dog
Blood
People
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.
Unity
Limits
Spirit
Soldiers Of The Reich! This Day, You Are To Take Part In An Offensive Of Such Importance That The Whole Future Of The War May Depend On Its Outcome.
War
Soldier
World
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!
Military
Party
Democracy
For The Folk-community Does Not Exist On The Fictitious Value Of Money But On The Results Of Productive Labour, Which Is What Gives Money Its Value.
Money
Giving
Community
It Would Have Been More To The Point, More Honest And More Christian, In Past Decades Not To Support Those Who Intentionally Destroyed Healthy Life Than To Rebel Against Those Who Have No Other Wish Than To Avoid Disease. Moreover, A Policy Of Laissez Faire In This Sphere Is Not Only Cruelty To The Individual Guiltless Victims But Also To The Nation As A Whole... If The Churches Were To Declare Themselves Ready To Take Over The Treatment And Care Of Those Suffering From Hereditary Diseases, We Should Be Quite Ready To Refrain From Sterilizing Them.
Christian
Past
Support
Whoever Lights The Torch Of War In Europe Can Wish For Nothing But Chaos.
War
Light
Europe
Gentlemen, You Are About To Witness The Most Famous Victory In History.
War
Gentleman
Victory
Germany Neither Intends Nor Wishes To Interfere In The Internal Affair Of Austria, To Annex Austria, Or To Conclude An Anschluss
War
Wish
Germany
The Goal Of Female Education Must Invariably Be The Future Mother.
Mother
History
Goal
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.
Death
Crazy
War
All Those Who Are Not Racially Pure Are Mere Chaff.
Mere
Pure
In Political Matters Feeling Often Decides More Correctly Than Reason.
Media
Political
Feelings
For We Love Liberty Just As We Love Peace.
Liberty
The Reason Why The Ancient World Was So Pure, Light And Serene Was That It Knew Nothing Of The Two Great Scourges : The Pox And Christianity.
Light
Two
World
Industry, Technology, And Commerce Can Thrive Only As Long As An Idealistic National Community Offers The Necessary Preconditions. And These Do Not Lie In Material Egoism, But In A Spirit Of Sacrifice And Joyful Renunciation.
Lying
Sacrifice
Technology
I Am Asking Of No Man More Than I Myself Was Ready Throughout Four Years To Do
War
Men
Years
I May Add That We Have More Than Once Stated Our Willingness To Conclude Nonaggression Pacts With The States Neighboring Our Own!
Add
May
States
More People Died As A Result Of The Tiny Abortive Easter Uprising Against British Rule In Ireland (1916) Than Died As A Result Of Political Violence In Germany During The Entire National Socialist Revolution.
Easter
Uprising
People
When I Was A Worker I Busied Myself With Socialist Or, If You Like, Marxist Literature.
Literature
Marxist
Socialist
Thank God I've Always Avoided Persecuting My Enemies.
Enemy
Thank God
Avoided
Success Is The Sole Earthly Judge Of Right And Wrong.
Success
Congratulations
Judging
Thus My Faith Grew That My Beautiful Dream For The Future Would Become Reality After All, Even Though This Might Require Long Years.
Beautiful
Dream
Reality
National Socialism Is What Marxism Might Have Been If It Could Have Broken Its Absurd And Artificial Ties With A Democratic Order.
Order
Ties
Broken
The Jew Almost Never Marries A Christian Woman; It Is The Christian Who Marries A Jewess.
Christian
Christian Women
Jew
There Is Something Very Unhealthy About Christianity.
Christianity
Unhealthy
It Doesn't Dawn On This Depraved Bourgeois World That This Is Positively A Sin Against All Reason; That It Is Criminal Lunacy To Keep On Drilling A Born Half-ape Until People Think They Have Made A Lawyer Out Of Him, While Millions Of Members Of The Highest Culture- Race Must Remain In Entirely Unworthy Positions; That It Is A Sin Against The Will Of The Eternal Creator If His Most Gifted Beings By The Hundreds And Hundreds Of Thousands Are Allowed To Degenerate In The Present Proletarian Morass, While Hottentots And Zulu Kaffirs Are Trained For Intellectual Professions.
Thinking
Race
People
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.
Political
Doubt
Glimpse
Propaganda Must Not Serve The Truth, Especially As It Might Bring Out Something Favorable For The Opponent.
Truth
War
Drug
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.
Education
Determination
Taken
If You Win, You Need Not Have To Explain...if You Lose, You Should Not Be There To Explain!
Truth
Philosophy
Winning
This State Of Mind, Which Subordinates The Interests Of The Ego To The Conservation Of The Community, Is Really The First Premise For Every Truly Human Culture... The Basic Attitude From Which Such Activity Arises, We Call-to Distinguish It From Egoism And Selfishness-idealism. By This We Understand Only The Individual's Capacity To Make Sacrifices For The Community, For His Fellow Men.
Attitude
Sacrifice
Men
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.
Stronger
Opponents
Defeated
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.
Ghetto
Race
Years
When Human Hearts Break And Human Hearts Despair, Then From The Twilight Of The Past The Great Conquerors Of Distress And Care, Of Disgrace And Misery, Of Spiritual Slavery And Physical Compulsion, Look Down On Them And Hold Out Their Eternal Hands To The Despairing Mortals.
Spiritual
Twilight
Heart
The Primitive Simplicity Of Their Minds Renders Them A More Easy Prey To A Big Lie Than A Small One.
Lying
Evil
Simplicity
Either We Are A Sovereign State, Or We Are Not! As Long As We Are Not, We Have No Business In A Community Of Sovereign States.
Long
Community
Sovereign
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.
Fighting
Religion
Atheism
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