BOLSHEVISM F R O M MOSES T O L E N I N :

A DIALOGUE BETWEEN
A D O L F HITLER & ME
by Dietrich Eckart

Translated from the German by William L. Pierce

E D I T O R ' S F O R E W O R D : The following ma- sequence of the Munich putsch of November 9,

terial has been translated from a pamphlet 1923, were followed shortly by his death.
found in the N S D A P Hauptarchiv. Its German Second, it is instructive, as being representa-
title was Der Bolschewismus von Moses bis Le- tive of a certain category of propaganda. Eck-
nin: Zwiegespräch zwischen Adolf Hitler und art was a practical propagandist as well as an
mir, and it was originally published in Munich idealist and a poet, and Der Bolschewismus is
in March, 1924, from unfinished notes on which an excellent example of his style. Aimed at the
Dietrich Eckart had been working in the au- reader with the equivalent of a high-school ed-
tumn of 1923. ucation, it is skillfully contrived to avoid te-
Dietrich Eckart was born on March 23, 1868, diousness and maintain a relatively unsophis-
in the Bavarian town of Neumarkt, which is ticated audience's interest while making a rath-
about twenty miles southeast of Nürnberg, and er extensive, if not intensive, historical inves-
he died on December 26, 1923, in Berchtesga- tigation of the Jewish question. It achieves this
den. He was a poet, a playwright, a journalist, by relegating the great majority of documenta-
a scholar, and a philosopher, as well as a dedi- ry evidence to footnotes and by liberally inter-
cated fighter for the National Socialist cause. spersing historically significant points with
Among his better-known works are his play spicy or amusing tidbits.
Lorenzaccio and his translation and adaptation Third, it is of considerable interest, even to-
to the German stage of Ibsen's Peer Gynt. He day, for its own sake. Although the last forty
was for a while editor of the Völkischer Beo- years have unfortunately provided us with con-
bachter, and he wrote the Party song, with the siderably more experience of Jewish-Bolshevist
famous words "Deutschland erwache," which activities, Eckart did quite well with the mate-
later became a Party byword. rials available to him in 1923. Of particular in-
The reader interested in more details of Eck- terest is his use of the Old Testament, as a his-
art's life, as well as a fairly extensive sampling tory of the Jews, to throw light onto more re-
of his poetry, is referred to Alfred Rosenberg's cent Jewish activities.
book, Dietrich Eckart, Ein Vermächtnis ( M u - Eckart's notes for Der Bolschewismus were
nich, 1928 f f . ) . still in rather rough and unfinished form when
Der Bolschewismus is of interest to today's he died, and this will be evident at a few places
English-speaking National Socialists for three in the text which follows. The editor has slight-
reasons. First, it is the last earthly work of the ly condensed the original material during his
man who, as the intimate companion of Adolf translation, omitting several of the more
Hitler during those critical, early years in M u - ragged portions and such things as untranslat-
nich, helped prepare the spiritual foundations able puns, as well as a few sections which have
of National Socialism. Eckart had been serious- limited interest for present-day readers. A d d i -
ly i l l as he was writing the pamphlet, and his tional footnotes have been added by the editor
arrest and temporary imprisonment, as a con- in a few places, and these are so designated.
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" Y e s ! " he cried. "We've been on the wrong for their mills.' Similarly, the influence of the
track! Consider how an astronomer would han- Jews with Augustus was so great that they
dle a similar situation. Suppose that he has completely intimidated Pontius Pilate, who, as
been carefully observing the motion of a cer- deputy of the Roman Emperor, was certainly
tain group of celestial bodies over a long period not a nobody. Thus he said, 'For God's sake,
of time. Examining his records, he suddenly away with this sordid Jewish affair!' as he
notices something amiss: 'Damn it!' he says. reached for the washbasin and condemned
'Something's wrong here. Normally, these Christ, whom he considered guiltless, to death. 3

bodies would have to be situated differently Considering these things, my friend, every
relative to one another; not this way. So there child knows—or, rather, could know—how late
must be a hidden force somewhere which is re- the hour already was at that time."
sponsible for the deviation.' And, using his ob- A reach for the Old Testament, a brief flip-
servations, he performs lengthy calculations ping of pages, and — "There," he cried, "the
and accurately computes the location of a plan- recipe from which the Jews always brew their
et which no eye has yet seen, but which is there hellish broth! We anti-Semites are really some-
all the same, as he has just proved. But what thing. We manage to find out everything ex-
does the historian do, on the other hand? He cept that which is really important." Word for
explains an anomaly of the same type solely in word, he emphatically read with a hard voice:
terms of the conspicuous statesmen of the time. "And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyp-
It never occurs to him that there might have tians: and they shall fight every one against his
been a hidden force which caused a certain turn brother and every one against his neighbor; city
of events. But it was there, nevertheless; it has against city and kingdom against kingdom. And
been there since the beginning of history. Y o u the spirit of Egypt shall fall in the midst thereof;
know what that force i s : the Jew." and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they
shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to
"Yes, certainly," I replied, "but to prove it, them that have familiar spirits, and to the wiz-
to prove i t ! For the last fifty or hundred years, ards. 4

so far as I'm concerned, it's been obvious; in- "Yes indeed," he laughed bitterly, "now the
deed, a good deal further back, perhaps even in people w i l l seek to Dr. Cuno, and Dr. Schweyer,
pre-Christian times. . . ." and D r . Heim, and whatever other charmers
5

" M y dear fellow," he replied to me, "we can and wizards they have. When asked why Ger-
read in Strabo that already in his time, short-
1
many has become a pigsty these gentlemen will
ly after the birth of Christ, there was hardly a answer reproachfully, 'You yourselves are to
place to be found on the whole earth which was blame. You have no more good breeding, no
not then dominated by the Jews; dominated, he faith, only selfishness and conceit. Now you
writes, not merely inhabited. Already decades will try to put the blame on the Jews. It's al-
earlier, Cicero —at that time a great and pow-
2
ways been like that when you have needed a
erful man, my friend!—suddenly lost his nerve scapegoat. Then everyone has jumped on the
when, in his well-known defense plea in the Jews and persecuted them unmercifully. A n d
Capitol, he was obliged to point out the great just because they had the money, and because
influence and the cohesiveness of the Jews: they were defenseless. Is it any wonder that a
'Softly, softly! I want none but the judges to few individual Jews are behaving in a repre-
hear me. The Jews have already gotten me into hensible manner now? After all, one finds some
a fine mess, as they have many another gentle- black sheep in every group. As if there weren't
man. I have no desire to furnish further grist a good number of decent Jews! Look at their

1
Strabo (Greek geographer and historian, ca. 63
3
John 19:12.
B.C. — ca. 24 A.D.), Geographica.
4
Isaiah 19:2-3.
2
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Oratio pro. L. Flacco. In
5
Three figures prominent in German politics in
59 B.C. Cicero defended the proconsul Flaccus, who, 1923: the German Chancellor, the Bavarian Minister
at the urging of Jews, was accused of corruption in of the Interior, and the founder and leader of the
connection with his administrative activity in Syria. Bavarian People's Party, respectively. [Editor]
FALL, 1966 N A T I O N A L SOCIALIST W O R L D 15

piety, their sense of family responsibility, their Egyptians were glad to be rid of them. The 8

sober way of life, their readiness to make sac- best, though, was the reward the Jews gave
rifices, and, above all, their ability to stick to- their stupid accomplices. Suddenly they began
gether! And you? At one another like dogs and calling them 'rabble,' whereas formerly they
9

cats: sheer insanity!' had called them 'comrade' and pretended to love
"Thus will the charmers and wizards prattle them. Imagine the faces these deluded ones
on and on, till one night the blood sign will ap- must have made in the desert when they heard
pear on all the Jewish houses, and the infu- this."
riated masses, led by the Jews, will swarm "The murder of seventy-five thousand Per-
forth to smite all the firstborn in the land sians, in the Book of Esther, no doubt had the
again, as in Egypt." 6
same Bolshevist background." I answered.
"Remember how it was here in Munich dur- "The Jews certainly didn't accomplish that all
ing the Communist takeover?" I interjected. by themselves."
"The houses of the Jews certainly weren't "No more," he confirmed, "than the dreadful
marked with blood, but there must have been bloodbath over half the Roman Empire, which
a secret arrangement, because among all those took place during the reign of Emperor Trajan.
who suffered the misfortune of a house search Hundreds of thousands of non-Jewish nobles
not one was a Jew. As a matter of fact, one of in Babylonia, in Cyrenaica, in Egypt, and on
the stupid Red troopers who had me by the hair Cyprus butchered like cattle, most of them after
answered my sarcastic question by explaining the most abominable torture! A n d today the
10

that it was forbidden to search the Jewish Jews still rejoice over that. 'If only the various
houses. centers of rebellion had cooperated,' triumphs
" A n d in 1871, in Paris, the Jewish defense the Jew, Graetz, 'then perhaps they would have
also ran according to plan. There the Commun- already been able to give the Roman colossus its
ists destroyed whatever they could, but the death blow at that time.' " 11

many palaces and houses of the Rothschilds re- "The Jews call our Sedan Day celebration
12

mained completely intact. A l l this enables us

7
barbarous," I remarked. "But they find entire-
to understand the place in Exodus according to ly in order the fact that, year in and year out,
which 'a mixed multitude' also left Egypt with they still, after all this enormous time, celeb-
the Jews."
"In Egypt, the scoundrels' scheme succeeded 8
Exodus 12:35-36; Psalms 105:38.
only about halfway," he finished. "The Egyp-
9
I n the translation from the Hebrew of Exodus
tians became masters of the situation at the 12:38, that word which is rendered in the K i n g
James version as "mixed multitude" appears in the
last moment and sent the 'mixed multitude' to
German Bible as "Pöbelvolk," meaning "rabble."
the devil, together with the Jews. There must [Editor]
have been a dreadful struggle. The slaughter 10
I n volume two, chapter 16 (page 384 of the 1783
of the firstborn reveals that clearly enough. London edition) of his History of the Decline and
Just as they have done with us, the Jews had Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon reports:
won the great lower stratum of the population "From the reign of Nero to that of Antoninus Pius,
for themselves — 'Liberty, Equality, Frater- the Jews discovered a fierce impatience of the do-
nity!' — until one night they sent out the or- minion of Rome, which repeatedly broke out in the
most furious massacres and insurrections. Humanity
der, 'Down with the bourgeois! K i l l them, the is shocked at the recital of the horrid cruelties
dogs!' But things didn't turn out so well as they which they committed in the cities of Egypt, of
had expected. That portion of the Egyptian na- Cyprus, and of Cyrene, where they dwelt in treach-
tion that had remained patriotic turned the erous friendship with the unsuspecting natives . . .
tables and booted Moses, Cohn, and Levi out of In Cyrene they massacred 220,000 Greeks; in Cyprus,
the country, followed by the inhabitants whom 240,000; in Egypt, a very great multitude. Many of
they had incited. During this exodus, they car- these unhappy victims were sawed asunder, accord-
ried along as much stolen booty as they could ing to a precedent to which David had given the
sanction of his example. The victorious Jews de-
manage, the Bible reports with satisfaction. It voured the flesh, licked up the blood, and twisted
also reports, in no uncertain terms, that the the entrails like a girdle round their bodies." [Ed.]
11
Heinrich Graetz, Geschichte der Juden von den
Ältesten Zeiten (Breslau, 1853).
6
Exodus 12:7-13, 29-30. 12
September 2. Sedan was the site of the great
7
James K. Hosmer, The Jews (New York, 1885), Prussian victory in the Franco-Prussian war, on
p. 272. [Editor] this day in 1870. [Editor]
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rate in the synagogues their heroic deed con- passed away and was succeeded by another
cerning the seventy-five thousand Persians, in Pharaoh, who 'knew not Joseph,' and, seeing
the feast of Purim." the multitude of Jews, who meanwhile had
"None of this evidence seems to make any grown very powerful, he became quite fright-
impression on us, however," he said dryly. "One ened. He feared lest: 'when there falleth out
would think us deaf and blind. any war, they join also unto our enemies'; 16

"Before the first clash with the Egyptians, thus he was smarter than Wilhelm II, who 17

the head scoundrel, the modest Joseph, had hoped for their support. The Jews must work,
things pretty well prepared: The seven lean he decided. In all seriousness, work. 'Unmerci-
cows, all the granaries filled, the people raging ful,' wailed the Jewish chronicler. No wonder
with hunger, the reigning Pharaoh a perfect that they breathed vengeance. After all, for
flunky of the Jews, and Joseph, with a corner what did one have the Pöbelvolk, if not to do
on the grain supply, 'ruler over all the land'! 13
the work?
A l l the lamentations of the Egyptians were in " B y now, the Egyptians had forgotten dear
vain; the Jew held the warehouse closed with Joseph, who was dead and gone; but there was
an iron fist until they, in return for a bit of no lack of others on whom to blame the state
bread, were obliged to give away first their of affairs, namely, the landowners, the indus-
money, then their cattle and their land, and trialists, the bourgeois. According to the Jews,
finally their freedom. And suddenly the capital no one else was responsible. 'Proletarians of all
was swarming with Jews; old Jacob was there, countries, unite!' A n d the masses believed it
and 'his sons, and his sons' sons with him, his and turned on their own flesh and blood for the
daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his sake of the 'chosen people,' who had brought
seed' — the entire hodgepodge. And Joseph
14
on all their distress in the first place. But to us
'wept a good while' for joy. Afterward, he said they touchingly read aloud in school the beauti-
to his brothers: 'ye shall eat the fat of the land,' ful story of Joseph and his brothers. No doubt
and 'the good of all the land of Egypt is many teachers 'wept a good while.' It's enough
yours.' 15 to drive one to despair."
"But some time after this glorious Egyptian He paused with a dark look at the Book of
citizen of the Jewish faith, one hundred and Hate.
ten years old, had died, the old Pharaoh also
Exodus 1:6-10.
16

Emperor William II of Germany, who abdicated

17

13
Genesis 41:43. in 1918 after the Marxist-Jewish revolution in Ger-
14
Genesis 46:7. many led to the crumbling of her war effort and the
15
Genesis 45:18, 20. loss of World War I. [Editor]

II
" A n d so it goes, through the entire Old Tes- young nor old remained among the living; only
tament," he began again. "Indeed, I'm telling the harlot was spared. She and her whole, noble
you nothing new, but we must bring it home to family were rewarded with the privilege of liv-
ourselves as often as possible in order to be able ing in Israel. And what good-natured peoples
18

to negate the constant hypocritical babble. they were who, one after another, were com-
Really, the Book of Joshua should suffice; such pletely exterminated! Delitzsch, who has thor-
a thing of uninterrupted genocide, of bestial oughly investigated that period, writes, for ex-
cruelty, of shameless rapacity and cold-blooded ample, about the Canaanites: on all the hills,
cunning — Hell incarnate! And everything in under every shady tree, they rendered adora-
the name of Jehova, in fact, according to his tion and reverence to the sun god and to the
express wish! When the city of Jericho fell salutary goddess Aschera; and he compares
victim to the Jews through the treachery of the
harlot Rahab, neither man nor beast, neither 18
Joshua 6:25.
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this beautiful, poetic custom with the pious way against non-Jewish royalty hadn't changed a
of our Catholic villagers, serving the Almighty bit."
in remote mountain chapels." 19
" A n d in all eternity nothing will change," he
"Joshua alone," I emphasized, "was respon- proceeded, "so far as the attitude of the Jews
sible for the massacre of thirty-one kings, with toward our kings and our leaders is concerned.
all their people. Among those nations exter- To destroy them is their eternal aim, and when
minated in these predatory raids were several they can't accomplish this by force, then they
who had yielded themselves trustingly to him. will use cunning. Whenever we have a strong
Each time the sinister words, 'let none survive,' leadership, the Jews are obliged to keep their
were heard. I am inclined to believe that the noses clean. Our leadership can be truly strong,
Pöbelvolk, or at least their descendants, must however, only if it is based completely in our
have still been the obedient shock troops of the people; only if it concerns itself with the wel-
Jews, not because the work was so atrocious, fare of the least among them just as much as
but because the children of Israel have always with that of the wealthiest of them; only if, in
let deluded gentiles do their dirty work, par- the firm conviction of its own worth, it bars
ticularly where danger was involved. Besides, every alien influence from the beginning; only
they would not have been strong enough to sub- if it is not merely national, but is also social,
due' the peoples to whom they were opposed, down to its very bones. No matter what others
without the bellicose enthusiasm of their bru- may say, I assert this: a time will come when
talized comrades. all the elite nations of the world w i l l have such
" O f particular interest is the evident satis- a leadership; and then everyone w i l l be aston-
faction with which the Jews have deliberately ished to see that, instead of grating on one
enumerated each of the slain kings. One is re- another as has previously been the case, they
minded of the prophet Isaiah. In one place, he will treat one another with respect and consid-
raves as if possessed: 'The Lord is angry at all eration. For then there will be no more whip-
ping up of land greed, of an itching for power,
the gentiles; he will deliver them to the slaugh-
of suspicion — sentiments which exist in un-
ter; their land will become burning pitch; it
mixed form only in the isolated few, and not in
w i l l become a wasteland, soaked with their
the more trusting general populace, anyhow.
blood; there will be no nobles in the land; their
There will be an end to the lying praise
princes will die out.' Between Isaiah and
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of an indiscriminate human brotherhood, which

Joshua were hundreds of years, but in that would be possible, if at all, only under the sup-
whole time the infernal rage of the Jews position that one had from the first excluded
19
Friedrich Delitzsch, Die Grosse Täuschung: Kri- that eternal mischief-maker, the Jew. But had
tische Betrachtungen zu den alttestamentlichen Be- this been done, there would be no need to push
richten über Israels Eindringen in Kanaan, die Got- the universal brotherhood idea; the various
tesoffenbarung vom Sinai, und die Wirksamkeit der peoples would find themselves compatible of
Propheten (Stuttgart, 1920). their own accord."
20
lsaiah 34.

III
"Tell me," I interrupted h i m ; "strictly speak- of the world toward themselves than with their
ing, do you consider the Jew to be national, or own attitude toward the world. Internationalism
international?" requires basically good intentions. But the Jew
"Neither," was the answer. "One who really fundamentally and completely lacks these. He
feels international has as much regard for the hasn't the remotest idea of classifying himself
rest of the world as he does for his own nation. with the rest of humanity. His aim is to domi-
Were our so-called international swarms really nate others in order to extort from them at his
like that—fine. But I fear that they are secret- leisure. Were he really interested in comrade-
ly more concerned with the attitude of the rest ship, he has had the longest and most abundant
18 N A T I O N A L SOCIALIST W O R L D FALL, 1966

opportunity for it. Jehova's command to him er's Encyclopedia, however, a statement which
to make no alliances with foreign peoples, but, calmly claims that the Jews, through their he-
on the contrary, to devour one after the other, roic spirit in the War of Liberation, proved
went straight to his heart. Everywhere one
21
themselves as worthy German citizens."
greeted him with cordiality, at first: in ancient "Just as they did in the World War," he
Egypt, in Persia, in Babylonia, in Europe; the winked expressively. "If I had my way, I'd re-
cloven hoof appeared everywhere. The early quire placards to be hung in all the schools, at
Germanic conquerors found him with a number every street corner, and in every public room,
of arrogated rights and made no move to dis- on which would be printed nothing but Scho-
possess him of these. He was allowed to do bus- penhauer's description of the Jews: 'Great
iness wherever and however he wanted, even masters of the lie! There is no better descrip-
27

in the slave trade, toward which he has always tion. A n d it applies without exception to every
been peculiarly inclined. Like everyone else, he Jew equally, whether high or low, stock ex-
could hold public office, including the magis- change tycoon or rabbi, baptized or circum-
tracy; and his so-called religion was protected cised. Our servile people! Provoked for thou-
by the state. Thus wrote Otto Hauser, who is sands of years! A n d the innocents are taken in
an excellent source of fascinating illuminations again and again by this blatant swindle. It is
regarding the Jews." 22 understandable that they become surly with
the Jews, but only after the latter have shame-
"I should say so!" I nodded. "One must par-
lessly abused their naive good nature and plun-
take of him with caution though, otherwise one
dered them to the skin with their usury and
may not see the black forest for the 'blond'
fraud. And that has been the case everywhere:
trees. On the whole, I prefer Werner Sombart,
23

in the old Roman Empire, in Egypt, in Asia,

even though his Berlin lectures swarm with
later in England, Italy, France, Poland, Hol-
Jews." land, Germany, and even, as Sombart writes,
"Now, he says the same thing!" he cried. 'in the Iberian peninsula, where the Jews have
"According to him the Jews were by no means experienced so many blessings'!
always second-class citizens. In antiquity one
even found them often with special privileges " A n d the game they're playing today, they
which absolved them from certain duties, such have been at for two thousand years," he con-
as military service. It was never their strong
24 tinued. "I think that suffices to characterize
side to risk armed conflict. In the War of L i b - the nature of Jewish internationalism. Now we
eration, the Jews of Deutsch-Krone, in Pom-
25 still have left to consider the national feeling of
erania, sent a petition to the king, requesting the Jews. Naturally not that of the one for Ger-
permission to remain home from the campaign many, of the other for England, and so on. Not
in return for money. In this petition they ar- many mice are to be caught with that bait any
gued that ten thousand talers would be of much longer. 'Send me a box full of German soil, so
more use in the war effort than the frankly that I can at least symbolically defile the
questionable fighting ability of a Jew. The peti- accursed country,' wrote the German Jew
B ö r n e ; and Heinrich Heine sniffed out Ger-
28

tion was accepted, not only from them but also

many's future from a toilet bowl. The physi-
29

from the Jews of five more of the seven Prus-

cist, Einstein, whom the Jewish publicity
sian districts." 26

agents celebrate as a second Kepler, explained

"Yes, I know that place in Hauser," I added;
he would have nothing to do with German na-
"it is authentic. He also quotes there from May- tionalism. He considered 'deceitful' the custom
of the Central Association of German Citizens
Exodus 34:12; Deuteronomy 7:16.
21

of Jewish F a i t h of concerning themselves only

30

Otto Hauser, Geschichte des Judentums (Wei-

22

mar, 1921), p. 251.

with the religious interests of the Jews and not
Hauser distinguishes "light" or "blond" men, or,
23

as he says, men of noble race, from "dark" or

"black" men of inferior race. Wherever he has occa-
27
Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga und Paralipo-
sion to mention a blond Jew in his book, he praises mena II, § 174.
him to the sky. For my part, I have met some of the
28
Ludwig Börne (alias Löb Baruch), Briefe aus
greatest rascals among blond Jews. Paris (Hamburg, 1832), I.
Werner Sombart, Die Juden und das Wirtschaft-
24
29
Heinrich (alias Chaim) Heine, Deutschland, ein
sleben (Leipzig, 1911), p. 356. Wintermärchen (1844).
Against Napoleon Bonaparte, 1813-1815. [Editor]
25
30
Zentralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen
Hauser, op. cit., p. 376.
26 Glaubens. [Editor]
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with their racial community also. A rare bird? man' Jews toward the country where they live,
No, only one who believed his people already of the fact that they have united themselves
safely in control, and thus considered it no with the rest of the world's Jews toward the
longer necessary to keep up pretenses. In the ruin of Germany. 'Why?' jeers the Jew. 'Be-
Central Association itself, the mask has already cause the German is a vulgar scoundrel, a back-
fallen. A Dr. Brünn frankly admitted there ward, medieval creature, who hasn't the faint-
that the Jews could have no German national est idea of our worth. And we should help such
spirit. We always mistake their unprincipled
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rabble? No, he has the Jews he deserves!' Such
exertions to accomodate themselves to all and arrogance is indeed staggering to behold."
everyone for impulses of the heart. Whenever I reminded him of Russia. "Before the revo-
they see an advantage to be gained by adopting lution, the Jews condemned her as a downright
a certain pose, they never hesitate, and certain- sewer of vileness, even though they were the
ly wouldn't let ethical considerations stand in evident vermin in that sewer; now, the same
their way. How many Galician Jews have first Jews are at the helm, and, wuppdiwupp, the
become Germans, then Englishmen, and final- same Russia is a great nation."
ly Americans! And every time in the twinkling "In the year 1870," he rejoined, "we Ger-
of an eye. W i t h startling rapidity they change mans had the privilege of being a great people.
their nationality back and forth, and wherever The Jews considered that the time had arrived
their feet touch, there resounds either the for replacing the French emperor, who had be-
'Watch on the Rhine,' or the 'Marseillaise,' or come undependable, with a pliable president.
'Yankee Doodle.' Dr. Heim does not once ques-
This also seemed an excellent opportunity to es-
tion the fact that our Warburgs, our Bleichrö-
tablish the Commune; thus the 'heroic Ger-
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ders, or our Mendelssohns are able to transfer

man people.' No wonder that right behind our
their patriotism as well as their residence of
princes and generals, a pack of gesticulating
today to London or to New York on the mor-
Jewish financiers rode into Paris. Meanwhile,
row. 'On the sands of Brandenburg an Asiatic
horde!' Walther Rathenau once blurted out though, we have sunk back down into the pack
about the Berlin Jews. He forgot to add that
32 again. The press, 'that select tool of the A n t i -
the same horde is on the Isar, the Elbe, the christ,' as Bismarck called it, has designated us
Main, the Thames, the Seine, the Hudson, the as 'Boches' and as 'Huns.' But have patience!
Neva, and the Volga. And all of them with The more quickly we approach Bolshevism, the
the same deceit toward their neighbors. Our more glorious we will become again. A n d one
charmers and wizards, however, distinguish fine day it will be the English and the French
between respectable and not-so-respectable, be- who are the scoundrels. One doesn't need spec-
tween settled and newly immigrated, between tacles to see that. 'I am a British subject but,
western and eastern Jews; and if worse comes first and foremost, a Jew,' screamed a Hebrew
to worst, they shrug their shoulders and mut- years ago in a large English-Jewish news-
ter, 'Every country has the Jews it deserves.' paper. And another: 'Whoever has to choose
34

It means nothing to them that it was a Jew between his duties as an Englishman and as a
who coined this fine-sounding phrase. Nor that Jew must choose the latter.' And a t h i r d :
35

in the case of Germany, considering the quality 'Jews who want to be both patriotic English-
of the Jews we have 'deserved,' it becomes a re- men and good Jews are simply living lies.' 36

sounding slap in the face. ' A l l Israel stands That they could venture things of that sort so
openly in the British camp!' announced the openly indicates how overrun with Jews E n g -
American union leader, Samuel Gompers, in land already was then."
1916. And that includes the German Jews too, "The stronghold of European Jewry had its
as the American, Ford, well knew. He has writ- origin in the period between Cromwell and E d -
ten of the faithlessness of the so-called 'Ger- ward V I I , " I emphasized. "Since then, however,
A Jew-controlled, socialist government of Paris
3 3

which lasted only from March 18 to May 27, 1871,

31
Artur Brünn, Im Deutschen Reich (the periodi- but which was responsible for thousands of horribly
cal of the Zentralverein) 1913, No. 8. atrocious murders during this brief period. [Editor]
32
Walther Rathenau, Berliner Kulturzentren, 1913.
34
M. J. Wodeslowsky, Jewish World, January 1,
Rathenau was a Jewish war profiteer in World War 1909.
I and later a minister in the Weimar government.
35
Joseph Cohen, Jewish World, November 4, 1913.
He was executed by German patriots in 1922. [Ed.]
36
Jewish Chronicle, December 10, 1911.
 20 N A T I O N A L SOCIALIST W O R L D FALL, 1966

the center of Jewish activity seems to have been secret advisory committee met with President
transferred to America. They have had a good Wilson for the sole purpose of preparing the
footing there for a long time. Sombart main- country for war against Germany. And who
39

tains that it was Jewish money which made the was the chief wire-puller in these nefarious ac-
first two voyages of Columbus possible. A Jew,
37
tivities, which were set into motion a full two
Luis de Torres, is supposed to have been the years before the engagement of the United
first European to step on American soil. And, States in the war? The previously unknown
topping everything else, the Jews have recent- Jew, Bernard Baruch. 'I believed that the war
ly claimed Columbus himself as one of them." would come, long before it came,' he later calm-
"That's not surprising," he laughed. "Every- ly explained to the special committee of Con-
one who has somehow played a role in the gress which confirmed all this. And no one got
world, the dear Lord included, is a Jew. They up and beat the crafty scoundrel to a pulp."
even have Goethe and Schopenhauer on their "The resolution of the Jewish high command
list. And blessed be he who believes it. For my many years ago to unleash the World War is
part, I contest them Columbus as well as Tor- well authenticated," he said. " A t the sixth Zion-
res; ocean travel was much more hazardous ist Congress in Basel, in 1903, the president,
then than now." Max Nordau, proclaimed: 'Herzl knows that
"According to Hauser," I replied, "Columbus we stand before a tremendous upheaval of the
was an Aryan, perhaps even of German de- whole world.' Good old Herzl! What an ideal-
40

scent." ist! Our charmers and wizards were filled with

"It's all the same to me," he responded. " A s awe at the thought of this noble patriarch. The
far as I'm concerned, he could have been a Zulu. scoundrel knew, however, what his filthy peo-
I'd sooner attribute his deed to a Negro than to ple had in mind for us!"
a Jew." "But Herzl was a Zionist," I interjected.
"Completely aside from that, it's clear that "He was a Jew!" he said, striking the table
they have had America by the throat for quite with his fist. "The word Jew says everything.
a while," I continued. "No country, writes Som- There is no need for any further distinction!
bart, displays more of a Jewish character than 'God's chosen people' want to have their own
the United States. We have already seen a
38
'God's country' again. Catch that: 'again'!
consequence of this in the World War. In 1915, God's people and God's country, neither of
at a time when the true Americans hadn't the which, in reality, ever existed! Every portray-
slightest thought of a war against us and, in al ridicules for its depravity that general state
fact, were so disposed toward us that any i n - of affairs which existed for some six hundred
dication of a possible conflict of interest could years in Palestine, till the Assyrians put an end
have been smoothly and amicably settled, a to the mischief. Can you call that a country?

37
Sombart, op. cit., pp. 32-33. the Jews. He says that, once the negotiations were
38
Ibid., p. 39. complete, "the change in official and public opin-
39
Five years after Der Bolschewismus was written ion as reflected in the American press in favor of
—on June 2, 1928—an article appeared in Liberty joining the Allies in the War was as gratifying as
magazine, by the former head of the United States it was surprisingly rapid." (A photocopy of the orig-
Secret Service, William J. Flynn, detailing the pre- inal is available upon request.)
viously secret intrigues of Wilson, Baruch, et al. in Eckart, of course, did not know the full story of
1915 to engage the United States in the World War. these arrangements in 1923. [Editor]
But these treacherous proceedings pale into insig-
40
Litman Rosenthal, American Jewish News, Sep-
nificance when compared to the activities of the tember 19, 1919. Rosenthal, writing in reminiscence
Zionist Jews in 1916, following the negotiations be- of his attendance at the 1903 conference, blatantly
tween the British Government and world Jewry lays bare the eager Jewish anticipation of a world
which led to the Balfour Declaration of 1917. war, eleven years before the fact. Nordau's speech
In a pamphlet published in London, in March, continues ". . . let me tell you the following words
1936, by the New Zion Press and entitled Great Brit- as if I were showing you the rungs of a ladder lead-
ain, The Jews, and Palestine, Samuel Landman, the ing upward and upward: Herzl, the Zionistic Con-
well-known Zionist, states that these negotiations gress, the English Uganda proposition, the future
led to a "quid pro quo contract" in which world Jew- world war, the peace conference where with the help
ry agreed to use its influence to bring America into of England a free and Jewish Palestine will be cre-
the war on Britain's side in return for Britain's ated." (A photocopy of the original is available upon
guarantee that Palestine would be handed over to request.) [Editor]
FALL, 1966 N A T I O N A L SOCIALIST W O R L D 21

Can't one accept the Old Testament as the au- time they have complete rights of citizenship
thority on the matter? First we read of the un- of whatever countries they choose to live in.'
interrupted murders and plunderings of the One must read that non plus ultra of arrogance
other peoples of Palestine, which, naturally, twice, indeed, a hundred times, in order to be
took many years. Then right up to the last, with sure one isn't dreaming. Imagine instead: 'The
the most abominable vileness, one state of an- English are citizens of Great Britain. Each
archy followed another. The pinnacle, the flow- Englishman who chooses to live in Germany or
ering, the glory of Jewish statesmanship, name- France or Italy retains all his rights of Eng-
ly, K i n g David, was such a rascal that even the lish citizenship, but at the same time he has the
unprecedented villainy of the letter condemn- complete rights of citizenship of the country in
ing Uriah was not enough for h i m ; on his which he is living.' Now ask yourself what a
deathbed he urged his son to murder his old scream of indignation, not we or the French or
war comrade, Joab. the Italians, but the Jews themselves would
"When Cyrus gave the Jews permission to raise if the English people had actually made
return to Palestine [from their Babylonian such a resolution! The Pan-Jewish Congress,
'captivity'] the overwhelming majority ignored however, issued its resolution as categorically
Zion and remained in immeasurably rich Baby- as a command.
lonia. Completely content there, they continued "This assembly comprised representatives of
their financial speculations and other activ- all the Jews of the world, including the Zionists.
ities." Their intentions were, in short, that the Jews
"In the year 1267," I informed him, "there should stay where they were and that the new
were only two Jewish residents in Jerusalem. Zion should simply have the purpose, first, to
Up to the World War, the number of Jews in strengthen their political backbone, second, to
all Palestine had grown to only 120,000, even 41
gratify their arrogance, and last but most im-
though they had been free to return there since portant, to provide them a state where they
ancient times and certainly weren't lacking could carry on their dirty business without fear
travel expenses. The remaining twenty or so of detection.
millions — exactly how many is difficult to as- "I think we can form a pretty good idea of
certain, since the Jews themselves do the count- Jewish nationalism from this."
ing — fatten themselves upon the sweat of "Okay. So they are neither national nor inter-
others all over the world. It is hard to under- national," I acknowledged. "What, then?"
stand how tiny Palestine can hope to accomo- "In terms of our customary concepts," he
date this enormous crowd." shrugged, "it really can't be defined. It is a
"That's not necessary," he retorted. "The rank growth over the whole earth, sometimes
point is that it is now official. Israel has re- advancing slowly, sometimes leaping ahead in
membered itself. Its chains are cast aside. The great bounds. Everywhere it sucks voraciously
sun of a new God's state rises over Zion. What at the lifeblood of the planet. What was in the
an act! Finally liberated from bondage! Every- beginning a swollen abundance will become in
one is numbed with awe. The Jews grin." the end nothing but dried-up sap. Zionism is
"They have already issued a resolution . . . , " the visible, surface aspect. It is connected un-
I wanted to continue. derground to the rest of the monstrous growth.
"Yes indeed," he cried, " i f anywhere, this is "And nowhere is there to be found a trace of
where the cat jumps out of the bag! The reso- opposition to this thing."
lution of the Pan-Jewish Conference of 1919, "One might say," I laughed, "that the wolves
in Philadelphia! 'The Jews are citizens of the have split themselves into two packs. It has
new Jewish state of Palestine, but at the same been agreed that one of these shall abandon the
land of the sheep in order to go live somewhere,
41
Hauser, op. cit., pp. 484, 491. quite among themselves, as pure vegetarians."
22 N A T I O N A L SOCIALIST W O R L D FALL, 1966

IV
"There is one thing above all others which Lord to his beloved people of Israel," I under-
we must always keep in mind," he thundered, scored his irony.
"one thing of which we must always remind "Christ," he continued with a raised voice,
ourselves: 'Great masters of the lie'! One need "was never other than perfectly straightfor-
only forget Schopenhauer's words for an in- ward and frank. God, not to feel the fact that
stant in order to begin slipping under the in- there two fundamentally different worlds op-
fluence of their deceptions. To be sure, we also posed one another! In Palestine after the Baby-
lie but, in the first place, not as a matter of lonian captivity there was a great lower stra-
habit and, in the second place, clumsily. Any tum of non-Jews ruled over by Jewish money-
really experienced judge of human nature is lenders, powerful through their usury. One can
able to detect the lie of an Aryan, even a very read that in the Book of Nehemiah [especially
shrewd one. Sherlock Holmes himself, however, in chapter five—Ed.]. Sombart says that it
would be at a loss when confronted with the leaves absolutely nothing to be desired in the
Jewish cold-bloodedness in deception. A Jew is way of clarity. The outstanding point is that
44

only embarrassed when he inadvertently blurts the real population, composed of oppressed
out the truth. If he should happen to deliberate- peasants, was of an entirely different race than
ly tell the truth, it is always with a mental res- the Hebrews. Gradually the Jews forced their
ervation, thus making a lie even of the truth." religion on them. Christ himself growled about
that: 'Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees,
"Indeed, Luther," I replied, "said to the
hypocrites! For ye compass sea and land to
Jews: 'You are not German, but a deceiver; not
make one proselyte . . . .' To the Jews, Galilee
45

a Frenchman, but a faker.' His synonym for

42

was the land of gentiles, whose population 'sat

Jew was 'liar'!"
in darkness,' as they impudently imagined. 46

"That's what everyone who knows them says They said: 'Can there any good thing come out
of them," he rejoined, "from the Pharaohs up of Nazareth?' and ' A r t thou also of Galilee?
to Goethe and our time. It has been said in ev- Search, and look: for out of Galilee ariseth no
ery dead and living language: in Greek, Latin, prophet.' The Hebrews were so firmly con-
47

Persian, Turkish, German, English, French, or vinced of the non-Jewish ancestry of Christ
what have you. One would hope that these uni- that they counted him among the especially
versal condemnations, throughout the whole hated Samaritans. We live and learn! There
48

world, would give our charmers and wizards at are many more such examples."
least a little to think about. God forbid! Not
even Christ was able to reach them. He stood "One could hardly recommend a better policy
there among the cringing Jewish rabble, his than that which lets each man find salvation in
eyes flashing, the very image of scorn, and his his own fashion," I stressed. "The tacit assump-
words fell among them like whiplashes: tion in that policy, though, is that each man's
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of fashion should involve some sort of decent sen-
your father ye will do. He was a murderer from timent, some genuine belief, and not just a con-
the beginning and abode not in the truth, because temptible Phariseeism. This distinction should
there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, have been expressly emphasized, long ago. It
he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar and the wasn't, and the religion of the moneychanger
father of it.
43
has received the benefit of this misguided tol-
But to our charmers and wizards that means erance. Christ was not so tolerant. With a whip
no more than the unintelligible stammering of he put a stop to the business of the children of
a child." the devil, even though he had said, 'Love your
"They delude themselves by believing that to enemy'!"
be only a stern but well-meaning lecture of the
42
Martin Luther, Von den Juden und ihren Lügen.
44
Sombart, op. cit., p. 371.
Luther's words are more poetic in German: "Du bist
45
Matthew 23:15.
nicht ein Deutscher, sondern ein Täuscher; nicht
46
Matthew 4:15-16.
ein Welscher, sondern ein Fälscher." [Editor]
47
John 1:46; 7:52.
48
John 8:48.
43
John 8:44.
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"Yes," he replied, "but we must understand we want these things so firmly established that
what Christ meant by 'enemy.' We can love an our children and grandchildren can remain sat-
honorable and decent enemy, even a brutal one, isfied with them."
who is frank and forthright in his enmity. And "They consider that impossible," he said,
at the same time we can beware of him. But "and therefore they consider our program noth-
Christ never dreamed that we should clasp pure ing but empty phrases, of no more sincerity
beasts to our hearts, that we should love men than the empty phrases with which they con-
whom no love whatever could dissuade from sciously try to peddle themselves to the people.
their implacable determination to poison us, But our goals are not only possible, they are
body and soul. Indeed, he himself did not do certain, even if we don't attain them tomorrow.
that. On the contrary, he continued to strike But first a beginning must be made. So far,
with his whip as hard as he could. And the never and nowhere has there been a truly social
words that he flung with indignation into the state. Everywhere and always the upper crust
faces of the rabble breathed of irreconcilability has leaned much more strongly to the principle,
itself. To me, he acted very properly in the 'what is yours, is mine,' than to, 'what is mine,
founding of his religion; there was very little is yours.' These wise ones have only themselves
contradiction between his sermons and his to blame for the fact the lower stratum, full of
deeds! Why, then, have the 'pious' never fol- rage, now is committing the same error. The
lowed his example? They least of all. They mer- Jew is able to take advantage of both these
cilessly persecute even their decent adversaries groups. One of them provides for his affairs,
—as a matter of fact, only their decent adver- the other carries them out. Therefore, we op-
saries. Their eyes remain closed to the most pose them both. We will put an end to unfair
cunning bunch of swindlers in existence. The privileges as well as to slavery."
Bavarian People's Party, for instance, knows "Decidedly," I replied. "Our front stands
quite well that we are defending the Christian against both left and right. A strange situa-
foundations of our nation without mental res- tion; from two directions we must ward off at-
ervations. They also know, however, that we tackers who also fight one another. The Reds
can make no common cause with them as long scream at us as reactionaries, and to the reac-
as they adhere to their present policies. And so tionaries we are Bolsheviks. From both sides
they turned to the Jews, hoping to remain in the Jew directs the attack on us. The lower
power with their help. They surprised them- stratum doesn't see him yet and, thus, hates us
selves. Dripping with friendliness at first, the from sheer stupidity; the upper stratum sees
Jews turned on them murderously when they him but thinks it can serve its own selfish pur-
had gotten the upper hand." poses with him and, thus, shoots us in the back
"That was inevitable," I agreed with him. more from unscrupulousness than stupidity.
"Fortunately, the Jews would not be able to One really needs a good deal of faith under such
provide us with that same sort of dreadful ex- circumstances in order to maintain one's cour-
perience, for we do not betray and murder our age.
own flesh and blood for the sake of profit. So "Which we have, God be thanked, in a hun-
far as we are concerned, the Bavarian People's dred ways," he said, laughing, as he stretched
Party could even remain in office, provided himself. "No words were spoken more directly
they clean the manure out of their pigsty and to our hearts than 'Be not afraid'! And that
49

perceive the correctness of our views. We are was supposed to have been said by a Jew?
not willing to tear ourselves apart just for pow- Those creatures of eternal fear? Crazy!"
er. But we want Germanism, we want genuine
Christianity, we want order and propriety, and 49
Matthew 28:10.
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V
"Every time new and promising opportuni- voyage on a ship. The Jews, embarked on the
ties for meddling have arisen," he brought out, same vessel with the Christians, play a charac-
"the Jew has been immediately involved. He teristic role: while the Christians are occupied
has demonstrated an uncanny ability to sniff with sailing the ship, the Jews plunder the
out like a bloodhound anything which was dan- storeroom and bore holes in the hull. St. Thom-
gerous to him. Having found it, he uses all his as recommends that they should be relieved of
cunning to get at it, to divert it, to change its their booty and chained to the rudder. What an
nature, or, at least, to deflect its point from its atrocity! How un-Christian! Poor Jews! One
goal. Schopenhauer called the Jew 'the dregs of can learn so much from them! At least, accord-
mankind,' 'a beast,' 'the great master of the lie.' ing to Drs. Heim and Schweyer. And so the
How does the Jew respond? He establishes a world goes on, governed with the same wisdom
Schopenhauer Society. Likewise, the Kant So- as in the time of Joseph's Pharaoh."
ciety is his work, in spite of the fact that—or, "Namely, by statesmen," I completed, "who
rather, because—Kant summarily declared the are so busy ruling that they completely fail to
Jewish people to be a 'nation of swindlers.' 50
notice that not they but others actually rule;
The same with the Goethe Society. 'We tolerate by men like Czar Nicholas, who indulged him-
no Jews among us,' said Goethe. 'Their reli-
51
self in the same self-deception and got a bullet
gion permits them to rob non-Jews,' he wrote. 52
in the head for it. As early as 1843 Disraeli
'This crafty race has one great principle: as gave us a hint of what we should expect there.
long as order prevails, there is nothing to be 'The mysterious Russian diplomacy is organ-
gained,' he continued. He categorically em-
53
ized by Jews,' he boasted. Also, 'the mighty
phasized: 'I refrain from all cooperation with revolution which is in the making in Germany
Jews and their accomplices.' A l l in vain; the
54
is evolving entirely under the leadership of
Jewish Goethe Society is still there. It would Jews.' "5 5

be there even if he himself had expressly for- "Most of our revolutions," he said, "whether
bidden such knavery." initially with desirable goals or not, have
"With exactly the same right," I interjected, evolved under Jewish leadership. The revolu-
"the two of us could join a Talmud Society. tions of vulgar predisposition were, for the
What impudence that would require! Incon- most part, the work of Jews; and those with
ceivable." loftier tendencies were soon subverted into a
"Not to the Jew," he replied. "To him impu- darker course by Jews. In the case of the strug-
dence has no meaning. He is only able to think gling young Christianity, for example, the
in terms of advantage or disadvantage, profit Jews, quick as a flash, began hanging onto its
or loss. One must approach him with a different coattails. Consider Paul, properly called Schaul,
sort of measuring stick." who was a rabbinical student. That Schaul first
"Our charmers and wizards," I rejoined, "all chose the Roman-sounding name, Saulus, and
fall for their trick. Goethe, Kant, Schopen- then had himself renamed Paulus gives cause
hauer seem to be nothing but babblers to them." for thought. Still more, the fact that in the be-
ginning he persecuted the fledgling Christian
"Bah, Goethe!" he interrupted contemptu-
community with first-rate ferocity. I don't
ously. "Not even the saintly Thomas Aquinas
know: mass murderers who later become saints
is able to reach these people. The great father
—is that not too much of a marvel? Indeed, the
of the Church has described in his writings
Jew Weininger supposed that Christ had also
our relationship with the Jews in terms of a
originally been a criminal. But, my God, a
56

Jew could say that a hundred times, and it still

Immanuel Kant, Anthropologie in pragmatischer
50
need not be true on that account.
Hinsicht (Königsberg, 1798).
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meisters
51 " A s a Jew, Paul certainly knew that of all
Wanderjahre.
52
Goethe, Das Jahrmarktsfest zu Plundersweiler.
55
Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby (London, 1844).
Ibid.
53
56
Otto Weininger, Geschlecht und Charakter (Vi-
Goethe, Tag- una Jahresfeste.
54 enna and Leipzig, 1903).
FALL, 1966 N A T I O N A L SOCIALIST W O R L D 25

the peoples of the world the Jews, first and many charmers and wizards who, on account
foremost, needed their souls saved. 'Go n o t . . . of his extraordinary cunning, or 'spirituality'
to the Gentiles, . . . but go rather to the lost as they call it, look upon him with timid ad-
sheep of the house of Israel,' demanded Christ. 57
miration."
Paul ignored it. He went to the Greeks and the "If it depended on mere possessions," he re-
Romans and brought them his 'Christianity.' turned, "they would be justified. Someone
A 'Christianity' with which the Roman Empire named Goldstein once boasted that the Jews ad-
became unhinged. ' A l l men are equal! Brother- minister the spiritual property of the German
hood! Pacifism! No more privileges!' A n d the people. A pity that he didn't add how they ad-
59

Jew triumphed." minister it.

"I always think," I spun the thread further, "Well, let us be thankful that there will al-
"of the admirable Herr Levine in the Berliner ways be men who, for example, w i l l read Goe-
Lokalanzeiger. He suddenly burst out one day,
58
the through the eyes of Goethe and not through
as if in rapture: only a Jew could have done the slimy spectacles of Goldstein. They may not
that; could have, with Paul's impudence, put be professors, but perhaps vagabonds of a sort.
himself in the middle of the Capitol and there A breed, anyway, which w i l l not become ex-
expounded a doctrine which must bring about tinct and through which the original Goethe
the utter ruin of the Roman Empire! That's will be safely preserved. The Jews can then
what the man said, word for word; I still re- quietly 'administer' the new Goethe. It w i l l not
member it perfectly." be begrudged them." 60

"It certainly hits the nail on the head," he re- "Suppose, however," I interjected, anxiously,
joined. "It may be a long time yet before Chris- "the 'vagabonds' also listen credulously to them
tianity recovers from Paul. Oh, what gullible and fall into the trap?"
souls we are! A Jew murders hundreds of "It lies in the nature of the 'vagabond,'" he
Christians; suddenly he notices that the rest laughed, "to have a heart so full that it matters
only become even more zealous; the well-known not how his head happens to be persuaded; it
light dawns on him; he pretends to be convert- will always be his heart that determines the
ed, throws himself into the great pose, and be- outcome. They feel intuitively that which the
hold: even though he deviates in nearly all his clever, despite their understanding, are not able
doctrines from the other apostles, we listen to see. And they preserve it. One may deceive
devoutly to his sermons. The simple teachings their heads, but not even they have authority
of the Master, which the most childlike mind over their spirits."
might comprehend, we must have 'explained'
to us by a Hebrew." 59
Moritz Goldstein, Kunstwart, March, 1912.
"The Jew," I replied, "certainly must be 60
One is reminded here of what has happened to
tempted to say, 'Why are you so stupid that you Wagner in recent years. If Eckart could have fore-
let everyone make fools of you?' A n d there are seen how Wagner's immortal operas would be some-
day perverted at Bayreuth, he would have been far
57
Matthew 10:5-6. more distressed than he was over Jewish "interpre-
58
I.e., Berlin Advertiser, a Berlin newspaper. [Ed.] tations" of Goethe's writing. [Editor]

VI
" A n d , you see," he pounded on the table, friars, among the learned and the illiterate,
"they alone are to be thanked that at least part everywhere. But not among the nothing-but-
of our Christian heritage, as well as our other rich; but not among the nothing-but-clever;
cultural legacy, has survived administration by but not among the greedy and the insatiable;
the Jews. Where are they? Where were they? but not among the Pöbelvolk. Here the Jew is at
Among high and low, among the kings and the home. Whatever appears here in the way of
soldiers, among the popes and the mendicant spiritual possessions he matter-of-factly admin-
26 N A T I O N A L SOCIALIST W O R L D FALL, 1966

isters; it is his own. Just as everything was torious Turkish army, all to be destroyed. I
transformed into gold for K i n g Midas, every can't believe that the idea for that absurdity
deep and meaningful word is turned into filth originated in a non-Jewish mind. I am always
at his touch. But for the others, for the . . . " reminded of the murder of the children of
"Vagabonds of the spirit," I threw to him. Bethlehem and the slaughter of the Egyptian
"Everything remains as of old," he nodded. firstborn. I would give anything for a photo-
"There have been popes of Jewish blood. Also 61
graph of the priest who preached that Crusade,
there has seldom or never been a shortage of and his flunkeys.
other dignitaries of the same descent in the "Giordano Bruno called the Jews 'such a
Church. Was that which they stood for Catholi- pestilential, leprous, and publicly dangerous
cism? No, it was Judaism. Let's take just one race that they deserved to be rooted out and
thing: the selling of indulgences. The very es- destroyed even before their birth.' This genial
62

sence of the Jewish spirit. We are both Cath- philosopher was burned at the stake. For his
olics, but dare we not say that? Are we really heresy? Opponents of the Church were swarm-
supposed to believe that there has never been ing in Italy during his time, yet he, the most
anything in the Church with which one can impartial of them, was seized."
find fault? Just because we are Catholics, we "Well, how about now?" I interrupted him.
say it. That has nothing to do with Catholicism. "In Russia one Catholic priest after another is
We know that Catholicism would have re- tortured to death by the Jewish beasts; hun-
mained intact even if half the hierarchy had dreds have already been liquidated; the Church
consisted of Jews. A number of sincere men is taking its last gasp; but Rome cannot bring
always held it high, though often only secretly, herself to call the child by its real name. Many
many times even against the pope. Sometimes times she has made a small start in that direc-
there were many such men, sometimes few. tion — but only to be immediately squelched.
"The investigation of the Jew and his activi- Catholicism wants to speak; Jewry paralyzes
ties should have been the alpha and the omega its tongue."
of our historians. Instead, they investigate the "Rome," he replied, " w i l l pull herself togeth-
bowel movements of the past. er, but only if we pull ourselves together first.
" K a r l the Great favored the Jews at every And one day it can be said that the Church is
turn. It seems to me that his slaughter of the whole again."
4500 Saxons at Verden — the best German "Since those who are responsible for the
blood — and his Jewish advisers had something trouble w i l l have been discovered!" I cried.
to do with one another. "Since the disguised Hebrew, together with his
"The notorious insanity of the Crusades bled cuckoo eggs, will have been thrown out of the
the German people of six million men. Finally Christian community! He has set not only
the Hohenstaufen, Frederick II, succeeded the Egyptians but also the Christians against
through mere negotiation, without striking a one another so that 'they shall fight every one
blow, in securing the Holy Land for Christen- against his brother, and every one against his
dom. What did the curia do? F u l l of hatred, neighbor,' and he is still at this game. He works
they hurled the ban of excommunication on from the outside, carefully building his pitfalls
Frederick and refused to recognize his treaty and making his destructive influence felt in the
with the sultan, thus neutralizing his great suc- press. But he also works from the inside, where
cess. It seems that, to those pulling the strings, he is even more dangerous, in the mask of the
the incidental bloodletting was more important Christian minister. The Christian confessions
than the avowed objective of the Crusades. swarm with Jewish and half-Jewish clergymen,
" A t last came the Children's Crusade. Tens the Protestant denominations even more so
of thousands of children sent against the vic- than the Catholic. They already feel so sure of
victory in the Protestant churches that in Dres-
den a certain Pastor Wallfisch had the impu-
61
Anacletus II (1130-1138), Innocent II (1130- dence to announce publicly: 'I am a Jew and
1143), Calixtus III (1168-1178), Clement VIII (1424- will remain one; yes, now that I have learned
1429), Alexander VI (1492-1503), and even Pius XI the Christian beliefs I have become more than
(1922-1939). In addition, Gregory VI (1045-1046)
and others may have been Jews or part-Jews. Ana-
cletus II, Calixtus III, and Clement VIII are general-
62
Giordano Bruno, Spacio della Bestis Trionfante
ly classified as antipopes. [Editor] (1584).
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ever a true Israelite.' And in Hamburg a

63
the incest of Lot's daughters has been given a
preacher named Schwalb said: 'I consider my- religious shimmer. Jehova's command to be
self a genuine Jew and have always considered fruitful and multiply had to be obeyed by these
myself thus.' Where that sort of thing is pos-
64
two pious maidens—at any price!"
sible, Christianity might as well let itself be "Schopenhauer expressed a similar opinion,"
buried. I confirmed. "He said that if one wants to un-
"Luther's spirit seems to be completely derstand the Old Testament one must read it in
played out among our Protestants. On the ques- the Greek version. There it has an entirely dif-
tion of all questions, the Jewish question, they ferent tone, an entirely different color, with no
either hush him completely or try to tone him presentiment of Christianity! Contrasted with
down. One of the most well meaning among the Greek, Luther's translation seems 'pious';
their theologians, Professor Walther, calls also 'often erroneous, indeed, sometimes inten-
Luther's attitude toward the Jews 'so offensive tionally, and delivered throughout in a church-
that it must arouse not only confused astonish- ly, edifying tone.' Luther has permitted himself
ment among Christians but also great indigna- changes 'which one could call forgeries' and
tion among Jews.' Those Christians with a con- so on." 66

fused astonishment wouldn't have found them- "Not Luther," he raised his finger. "The rab-
selves in that state if they had not previously bis who helped him with the entire translation
let themselves be confused by the Jews. A n d as introduced the changes and forgeries. Hebrew
for the great indignation of the Hebrews, we is a difficult language. Luther translated a cer-
are not grieved a bit. Where, by the way, has tain word, for example, as 'racial kinsman.' But
that indignation been apparent? So far, Israel then the rabbi came and said that the word
has been quiet as a mouse about it. They have means 'neighbor.' And so we have the transla-
always praised Luther greatly as the enemy of tion: 'Love thy neighbor as thyself,' rather
Rome. Heine began a ceremonious hymn of joy than, as it should be: 'Love thy racial kinsman
to the Reformer with the words, 'Luther, you as thyself.' A small piece of cunning, but—it
dear man.' " served its purpose of giving the Jews the aspect
"He had good reason," he jeered. " A l l Jews of real humanitarians."
have good reason to celebrate Luther and to ig- "Yes, even Luther was taken in by the 'cho-
nore his anti-Semitism. Without intending to sen people,' " I replied. "He looked upon the Old
do so, he paved the way for them, and how! Testament as divine revelation. He approached
The more they extol his authority, the less the the book with infatuation, convinced that it
world notices his error. That he later cursed could contain nothing but sheer preciousness.
them as a pestilence is indeed bitter to them, Then he began wading into the vile thing. A f -
but — how many people are even aware of his ter a few steps he blinked his eyes, bewildered.
condemnation of the Jews?" He was stunned. That just couldn't be so! It
"The Jew Goldmann," I put in, "stated their must have some other meaning! A n d so, with
reason plainly enough. 'Luther has again perfectly honest intentions, he read between the
brought the Old Testament to honor.' " 6 5
lines what simply wasn't there. Everywhere he
"Instead of to dishonor," was the reply. " H i s managed to see allusions to Christ, although
translation to the German language might have nothing could be farther from the Jews' actual
been of some use; as it is, it has grievously dam- thoughts on the matter. Their Messiah is no
aged the German power of discernment. L o r d 'lamb's tail,' Heine jeered at Christ, no scorner
in heaven, what a halo now surrounds Satan's of earthly existence. On the contrary, their
67

'Bible'! Luther's poetry sparkles so that even Messiah is a brutal dog who will conquer the
earth for his Jews; he is the 'prince of this
world.' Page after page it says: ' Y e shall eat
63
In his lecture in 1894, entitled Umpires of the
Jewish Question.
the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory
64
In his farewell sermon in March, 1894. shall ye boast yourselves,' or 'Ask of me, and I
65
Nahum Goldmann, the well-known Russian shall give thee the heathen for thine inherit-
Jewish Zionist who also had the unbelievable au- ance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for
dacity to announce that the Jews "no longer recog-
nize the right of any country to consider the ques-
tion of the treatment of its Jewish population as an
66
Schopenhauer, loc. cit.
internal affair."
67
Heinrich Heine, in his poem "Disputation."
28 N A T I O N A L SOCIALIST W O R L D FALL, 1966

thy possession.' One of these is the statement aground on it. The greatest German the unsus-
of a 'divinely inspired' prophet, the other a pecting cause of the German collapse; Luther,
'deeply spiritual' psalm. 68
the mighty opponent of the Jews, the one who
"Credulously, Luther viewed everything in a most disastrously paved the way for them—
rosy light. This became easier for him when, in incomprehensible, I tell you, incomprehensible.
the middle of the great morass, he came to pas- To happen too late by a paltry ten or twenty
sages like: 'Ye will have no permanent exist- years! To first become awake to the Jews short-
ence among the nations, and the soles of thy ly before his death, when everything had al-
feet shall find no rest,' and 'Ye will be an abom- ready been determined! Previously, body and
70

ination among all peoples.' Compassion seized soul for the traitors! Then the Hebrews had
him. 'The Jews,' he thought to himself, 'have still been 'cousins and brothers of our Lord' to
become untrue to their godly doctrine, but they him, while we Christians were only 'brothers-
will again find the way home to it.' It never oc- in-law and strangers.' Wringing his hands, he
curred to him that these direly threatening ser- entreated the populace to associate with them
mons served only the purpose of holding the in a 'decent and proper' manner. To him they
Jews to their course. were exalted above the Apostles! The late E r z -
"On the other hand, many passages of ap- berger couldn't have carried on more absurd-
parently lofty stamp have quite a different pur- ly." 71

pose; namely, they serve as protective cover. "Only not for an instant as sincerely," I
He later recognized this Jewish tactic, but only stopped him. " I f Luther had been a contem-
in the living Hebrews, not in their Bible. 'The porary of Erzberger, he wouldn't have had to
Jews desire to make all their affairs ambigu- find out about the purpose of Jewish hush-
ous, so that nothing about them is really cer- money first, in order to see through Judaism.
tain,' he said. If one belabors them for an es- As early as his student days he would have
pecially low-minded passage, they can indig- promptly leaped with both feet into the battle
nantly point at one which is dripping with lov- against the devil's brood."
ing kindness. Heine, for example, writes an " M y God," he immediately returned, "one
utterly vulgar poem about Germany; five min- cannot blame him. A lot has happened in the
utes later he is praising 'the dear homeland' to last four hundred years. But there is one thing
the skies. A matter of changing mood? Oh, dear to remember: popular instinct was more alert
God! I suppose we are to believe that an old then than nowadays. A l l along the line mistrust
street whore often finds herself in the mood to of the Jews was quite firm. Luther was a man
sing the 'Ave Maria,' or that a basically honest of the people, the son of simple folk. H i s pre-
fellow often is in the mood to steal. What non- dilection of many years toward the Jews is a
sense!" bit misleading; one must take into account a
"No, you are right," he said. "The Jew often certain naivete, a lack of worldliness, the re-
plays the role of a benefactor of mankind only sult of his stay in the cloister. The same rule
in order to accomplish his destructive aims seems to have applied here as elsewhere: too
without notice. It's always been that way."
"This ambiguity," I completed, "one finds 70
M a r t i n Luther died in 1546. His two principal
even in Spinoza. One can hardly imagine a
69
anti-Semitic writings, Von den Juden und ihren
bolder, more outspoken world view than his; Lügen and Vom Schem Hamphoras, appeared in
1543. A philo-Semitic tract by him was written in
but his ethics would horrify a pig. 'In all things 1523. The modern reader may refer to Walther L i n -
seek that which is advantageous' is the quintes- den, Luthers Kampfschriften gegen das Judentum
sence of his moral philosophy — the genuine (Berlin, 1936), which contains the complete text of
Jewish viewpoint." Von den Juden und ihren Lügen and extracts from
"It is the most terrible tragedy," he said sad- Vom Schem Hamphoras; or to E.V. von Rudolf, Dr.
ly, "that Luther bears the responsibility for Martin Luther Wider die Juden (Munich, 1940),
which has extracts from both. [Editor]
such a dire development — the consequence of 71
Matthias Erzberger (1875-1921) was a left-wing
deeds committed in perfect innocence — that member of the Catholic Center Party. A collaborator
today all civilization is in danger of running with the Jews and Social Democrats during World
War I, he favored the Versailles Treaty and became
Isaiah 61:6; Psalms 2:8.
68
German vice chancellor in 1919. He was executed
69
Baruch Spinoza, the greatest Jewish philosopher for his treasonable activities by German patriots
(1632-1677). in 1921. [Editor]
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much studying ruined his vision. Nevertheless, he would have branded it as the arsenal of the
Luther was a great man, a giant. With a shock Antichrist. A n d the Jew—the Jew would have
which pierced the twilight he saw the Jews as stood there in his abominable nakedness, as an
we have only begun to see them today. But, un- eternal warning. He would have been obliged
fortunately, too late, and even then not there, to get out of the Church, out of society, out of
where he had done the most damage—in Chris- the halls of the princes, out of the castles of the
tianity. Oh, had he only seen them there; had knights and the houses of the citizens. F o r
he only seen them in his youth! Then he would Luther had the strength and the courage and
not have attacked Catholicism, but, rather, the the overpowering w i l l . It would never have
Jews behind i t ! Instead of a wholesale condem- come to the splitting of the Church or to the
nation of the Church, he would have let his war which, in accordance with the wishes of
whole, passionate impetus fall on the true v i l - the Hebrews, spilled A r y a n blood in torrents
lains. Instead of glorifying the Old Testament, for thirty long years."

VII
" 'And I will set the Egyptians against the is enough for them. A certain Jewess called the
Egyptians: and they shall fight every one Talmud 'a grandiose, monumental work of the
against his brother and every one against his spirit,' a 'heroic monument of ideas, to which
neighbor,' " he ground out. "What hatred, what the millennia have given the breath of their
demonic hatred! That's not human; what is experience.' Immediately upon encountering
72

it?" such a gem the German professor whips out his

"That, my friend," I joked, "is the 'geniality notebook—and the next day his students have
of the heart' of which the Jew, F r i t z Kahn, has devoured and digested the new tidbit. That's
spoken, through which 'Israel has become the the way it goes in our gymnasia. They are all
ethical mother of mankind.' These fellows are designed, so they say, to turn out nothing but
really quaint in their impudence. Kahn has geniuses; instead, one lackey after another is
called Moses 'an almost unique phenomenon in graduated."
the history of civilized peoples: a national hero "A few hours spent browsing in the Talmud,"
without weapons.' At the same time he reproves I proceeded, "is quite sufficient to remove any
us with the remark that 'on stormy nights the doubt about the Jews. It's understandable that
distressed wail of widows may be heard around they have only the most inordinate praise for
the bronze heroes of our market places,' that is, the book. When they peep into it their own
around our statues of Prince Eugene, Marshal peculiar nature peers back out at them. And
Blücher, and so on. I wonder what he thinks that, of course, is the greatest source of joy for
Moses used to massacre the Egyptian firstborn, them. Thus, every Jew is in essence a Talmud-
if not weapons. Gumdrops, perhaps? Or were ist, even if he has never looked at the Talmud.
they smothered to death from sheer love? A p - It makes no difference when it was written; in
parently we are to believe that the Pöbelvolk fact, it needn't have been written at all. The
consisted entirely of baby sitters and wet first Jew comprised all its essential ingredi-
nurses. ents. The Jewish leaders fully understand that,
"Well, all these fellows operate the same way but they only say it metaphorically. 'The Tal-
at least. They don't even bother to deny any- mud is an unimpeachable authority,' trum-
thing; instead they flatly maintain exactly the peted the rabbi, Dr. Gronemann, before a Han-
opposite." over tribunal in 1894. 'The legal doctrines of
"That tactic seems to work quite well with the Talmud have precedence,' a Professor Co-
our men of learning," he growled. "The Jews hen imperiously told a criminal court in Mar-
say whatever they please; it is all gospel to our burg in 1888. A n d he added—now pay atten-
scholars. They wouldn't think of trying to veri-
fy anything; the fact that it appears in print
72
Doris Wittner, Ostjüdische Antlitz, No. 252 (1920).
30 N A T I O N A L SOCIALIST WORLD FALL, 1966

tion to this!—that it applied also to non-be- however, is that non-Jewish girls 'who are less
lieving Jews who, however, were none the less than three years and one day old' are consid-
still a part of the Jewish community, 'since ered 'suitable' for rabbis, since Moses had writ-
they acknowledge the moral doctrines of the ten: 'But all the women children that have not
Talmud.' A masterpiece! From time to time the known a man by lying with him, keep alive for
fellows blurt out a real secret in their babbling, yourselves,' namely, for the rabbis. 75

but we just don't pay attention. 'Whatever is "The most abominable perversity and the
in the Talmud we acknowledge to have absolute most tedious syllable-thrashing in the same
precedence over the whole law of Moses,' a breath. What goes on inside Jewish heads must
group of so-called reform Jews testified in really be frightful."
Paris in 1860, with the concurrence of the "They," I returned, "are of a contrary opin-
Alliance Israelite. And a rabbi, D r . Rahmer, ion on that. Otherwise their mirror image, the
has written in Pierer's Encyclopedia that the Talmud, wouldn't inform us that 'the Israelites
Schulchan Aruch, a kind of Talmud for home are more pleasing before God than the angels,' 76

use, has been 'taken on by the Israelitish com- or that 'the world was created on behalf of the
munity as an authoritative guide for religious Israelites alone,' or that 'whoever slaps a Jew
practice.' Taken on? Such a wag! Pretty soon in the face has struck God himself,' or that 'the
I'll be 'taking on' the features of Dietrich sun illuminates the earth and the rain makes
Eckart." it fertile only because Israelites live on it,' and
" L o r d , " he said, "whoever doesn't become more of the same sort of modesty."
sickened and nauseated upon making a closer "I really doubt that there is any medical en-
acquaintance with the Talmud can put himself cyclopedia which contains terms suitable for
on display in a circus side show." describing the Jewish megalomania," he said.
"The local side show," I remarked, "has cer- "But what an incredible talent they have for
tain limits on the degree of abnormality it will disguising i t ! "
exhibit. The young student from Tübingen who "Their book Sirach," I completed, "howls:
could gulp down half-a-dozen toads with gusto 'Terrify all peoples; lift your hand up against
has been its greatest attraction till now. No strangers, that they may see your power. The
one, though, has a stomach capable of digesting fire of wrath must burn them. Crush the heads
even this one passage from the Talmud: 'Rabbi of the princes, who are our enemies!' And the 77

Johanan said the penis of Rabbi Ishmael was Schulchan Aruch rages: 'Pour out, oh Lord,
as large as a, six-kab wineskin. Rabbi Papa
73
your fury over the goyim, who do not know you,
said the penis of Rabbi Johanan was as large and over the kingdoms which do not invoke
as a five-kab wineskin; according to others, your name. Pursue them in wrath and extin-
three kabs. The penis of Rabbi Papa was as guish them beneath God's heaven!'78 They make
large as one of the baskets of the inhabitants the same threat in both places, with the distinc-
of Harpania.' The high-minded competitive
74
tion that the Schulchan Aruch emphasizes that
zeal of the three old rabbis could knock an un-
prepared person off his chair."
"One finds a whole series of such pleasant-
75
Talmud, Jabmuth, 60b. The exact words of Gold-
schmidt's 1931 Berlin edition of Jabmuth are: Es
ries in this magnificent example of a religious wird gelehrt: R. Simon b. Johaj sagte: Eine Prose-
book," he said disgustedly. "The real clincher, lytin unter drei Jahren und einem Tage ist für Pri-
ester tauglich, denn es heisst: und alle Kinder unter
73
The kab is an ancient Hebrew unit of measure den Weibern, die die Beiwohnung eines Mannes
equivalent to about two quarts. [Editor] nicht erkannt haben, lasst für euch leben . . . .
74
Talmud, Baba Mecia, 84a. It is interesting to [Editor]
note that recent editions of the Talmud replace the
76
Talmud, Hulin, 91b. One really must take the
word "penis" (männliches Glied in German) with trouble to look into the Talmud oneself, in order to
"waist" (Körperumfang in German). The 1933 Ber- believe the truly astounding things to be found
l i n edition translated by Lazarus Goldschmidt, for therein. We have referred to Goldschmidt's German
example, claims in a footnote to this passage that translation, published by the Jüdischer Verlag (Ber-
the appearance of männliches Glied in earlier edi- l i n , 1930-1936), but the Talmud is also available in
tions was due to a 'mistake", in translation. One English translation (with the exception of a few of
only needs, however, to read the material adjacent the more perverse passages) from the Soncino Press
to this passage, with its distinctly smutty character, (London, 1935). [Editor]
to see that the original translation was no "mistake." 77
Sirach 36:2-12.
[Editor] 78
Schulchan Aruch, Orach Caijim 480.
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all must be exterminated who do not swear on religion is such a masterful creation that it
Jehova." stands alone in the world. Then bring the Tal-
" A n d with such an abominable moral doc- mud forward! It contains the Jewish religion
trine on his conscience," he began to boil, "that in its purest form—theology, dogmatics, moral-
marvel of modern Jewry, Moses Mendelssohn, 79
ity, everything together in the same place. Why
had the impudence to assert that 'dominion do they hold back the magnificent book so ner-
over the earth belongs by right to Jewry.' Be- vously, if indeed 'the millennia have given the
cause of their religion! As a trained Talmudist breath of their experience' to it? As born bene-
he certainly knew his way around in the whole, factors of mankind they should have long since
vile thing—those extracts we have just quoted made it accessible to the general populace. In-
are only a tiny fraction—but he still . . . oh, stead, it still hasn't been completely translated,
this lying, this utterly mendacious pack, the even today. A n d who in the devil has read what
very essence of the lie!" there is of it? One would think they were afraid
" A l l Berlin," I said, "buzzed with praise then some medieval church is still waiting to burn
for the 'wise,' for the 'noble' Moses. But Goethe it for heresy.
wasn't deceived. 'Jewish trivia!' was his com- "Some religion! This wallowing in filth, this
ment on the pious trickery. It struck no one as hate, this malice, this arrogance, this hypocrisy,
odd that the incomparable Moses philosophized this pettifogging, this incitement to deceit and
himself in the twinkling of an eye from a sim- murder—is that a religion? Then there has
ple, private tutor to the powerfully wealthy never been anyone more religious than the dev-
founder of the banking house of Mendelssohn, il himself. It is the Jewish essence, the Jewish
thus avoiding by a wide detour the well-known character, period!"
eye of the needle. This benefactor of mankind "Luther," I interjected, "expressed his opin-
slyly promoted the idea that the Jewish people ion of it plainly enough. He urged us to burn
constitute a religious community only. Today the synagogues and Jewish schools and to heap
this still constitutes a favorite nostrum of the earth on the remains 'so that no man would
Jews. A certain D r . Ruppin has revealed why. ever again see one stone or cinder of them.'
'Special laws against the Jews,' he tells us as God would forgive us for what we had former-
he chuckles and rubs his hands together, 'have ly tolerated through our ignorance—'I hadn't
always been directed at the religious aspects known it myself,' he wrote—but now that we
of Jewry, since this sphere of activity provided were aware of what went on, we dared not, at
the only easily conceivable target for legisla- any price, protect these buildings 'wherein
tion. Anti-Semitism, however, has never really they slander, curse, spit on, and revile both
been inimical to the Jewish religion, but has Christ and us.' We could hardly speak more
81

been indifferent to it.' So! We now have an

80
strongly ourselves. He also urged the destruc-
admission that their 'religion' serves a very tion of their houses, for they carried on there
useful diversionary purpose. Anyone, however, in the same way as in their schools. 'Some may
who has become acquainted with it has found feel,' he complained, 'that my judgment is too
out that what the Jews call their religion co- harsh. It is, if anything, too lenient, for I have
incides exactly with their character." seen their writings.' 82

"That's what they themselves say," he said. "Our school inspectors apparently haven't
"They are incessantly boasting, too, that their seen them, nor have our charmers and wizards."
"Burning their synagogues, I am afraid,
would have been of little avail," he shrugged.
79
Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) was a troll-like,
hunchbacked, little Jew, originally a Talmudic schol-
"Even if there had never been a synagogue, a
ar, who eventually displayed a vastly greater affin- Jewish school, an Old Testament, or a Talmud,
ity for a fast buck than for the peculiar "wisdom" the Jewish spirit would still have been there
of the Talmud. Starting as a tutor in the house of and had its effect. It has always been there.
a rich, Jewish silk merchant in Berlin, he soon be- Every Jew ever born has embodied it. And that
came a partner in the business and amassed an is even more pronounced with the so-called en-
enormous fortune. He was celebrated by his fellow lightened Jews. Heine belonged, certainly,
Jews, as well as by a circle of gentile admirers,
however, as an extraordinarily pious and clever
among the most enlightened, but he had just as
philosopher. [Editor]
80
Arthur Ruppin, Die Juden der Gegenwart (Ber-
81
Luther, Von den Juden und ihren Lügen.
lin, 1904), p. 203 ff.
82
Ibid.
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much insane arrogance as the greasiest Gali- of the curtain! Behind it, however, lurk the
cian kike. Moses Mendelssohn passed for a pampered 'Pöbelvolk,' the Red Army, the dregs
downright wonder of wisdom. Yet, lo and be- of non-Jewish humanity."
hold, he found it actually shocking that the "The toll of Russians sacrificed since the be-
Jews still didn't have the domination over the ginning of Bolshevik domination is estimated
earth which was due them!" by the authorities at about thirty million," I
" F r o m long years of experience," I brought answered. "Those who weren't summarily exe-
out, "Dostoevski, depicted the hair-raising con- cuted fell to famine and disease. Were they all
ceit of the Russian Jew. F o r a long time he
83
bourgeois? Only an imbecile could believe that.
lived with all kinds of convicts, including sev- Who among us, then, has the most to suffer?
eral Jews, sleeping on the same wooden bunks The thousands who every day stand for long
with them. Everyone treated these Jews in a hours at their various occupations. Capitalists
friendly manner, he reported, not even taking are hardly a majority among them. But that
offense at their raving-mad manner of pray- hasn't dawned on our workers. In their eager-
ing. Probably their own religion had once been ness to be the masters, they let themselves be
like that, thought the Russians to themselves, led about by the nose like children.
and they quietly let the Jews do as they pleased. "Ebert has thundered against capitalism
85

But, on the other hand, the Jews haughtily re- his whole life. Now he is president. And? At
jected the Russians, didn't want to eat with every street corner banks sprout from the
them, and looked down on them. A n d where ground like mushrooms. That is certainly a
was this? In a Siberian prison! A l l over Rus-
84
fact. Everyone sees it. Anyone can reach out
sia Dostoevski found this antipathy and loath- and touch it. But does that lead anyone to smell
ing of the Jews for the natives. Nowhere, how- a rat? Not on your life!
ever, did the Russian people resent their be- "The first thing the Jew Eisner did after
86

havior, indulgently believing it to be a part of the revolution was have the banks guarded by
the Jewish religion." the army. Capitalists smuggled their enormous
"Yes indeed, and what a religion!" he said hordes of money out of the country for months,
scornfully. "It is the character of a people and he didn't raise a finger to stop them. He
which determines the nature of their religion, felt it was more important to travel to the So-
not the other way around." cialist Congress in Switzerland and there place
"Dostoevski," I continued, "was compassion the entire guilt for the world war on Germany.
itself, but, like Christ, he took exception to the Do penance, he said, and the French will for-
Jews. With foreboding, he asked what would givingly clasp you to their hearts. Quite likely!
happen in Russia if ever the Jews should get Experience has gloriously confirmed it."
the upper hand there. Would they even approxi- "The same Eisner," he nodded, "who, at the
mately give the natives the same rights they beginning of the war, sent a flood of telegrams
themselves enjoyed? Would they likewise allow to the other Social Democrat leaders, entreat-
them to pray in the manner they wished? Or ing them to remain true to the Kaiser. A dis-
would they not simply make slaves of them? graceful stab in the back must be avoided at
Still worse, 'wouldn't they skin and fleece all costs, said he. It went like that until the
them?' Wouldn't they even exterminate them, treaty of Brest Litovsk. U p till then all Ger
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as they had so often done with other peoples in

their history?" 85
Friedrich Ebert (1871-1925) was the Marxist
" A h , could our workers but share his fore- leader of the Social Democrats. He collaborated with
bodings, particularly those who hope for salva- other traitors to bring about the German collapse
tion from the Soviets!" he cried. "Famine, mass of 1918 and became Reichspräsident under the new
graves, slavery, Jewish whips. Whoever goes regime, in 1919. [Editor]
on strike is hanged. 'Come hither, all ye who
86
Kurt Eisner (1867-1919) was a Jewish journalist,
are weary and heavy laden.' How they whistle, politician, and Marxist leader in Bavaria. A princi-
pal organizer of the 1918 revolution (Dolchstoss),
the dogs! A n d how fine that sounds, in front he became first president of the Bavarian repub-
lic. He was executed by a German patriot in 1919.
Feodor Dostoevski, An Author's Diary (1876-
83 [Editor]
1880).
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The treaty of March 3, 1918, ending hostilities
Dostoevski spent five years in a Siberian prison
84 between Germany and Russia, was signed at Brest
camp at Omsk (1849-1854). [Editor] Litovsk. [Editor]
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man Jews were inspired monarchists. But then Their rage would be unimaginable. ' A h a ! '
came the about-face. The Moor had done his everyone would roar. 'With principles like that
duty and crushed Czarist Russia; now for him it is no wonder the devils torment us so! Imag-
to crush himself. The rest is silence. Visible to ine that! How can anyone be that mean and
all eyes, the Jew also made his bid in Germany. vile? The whole bunch of them should be ex-
"Oh, workers! To let yourselves be thus de- terminated!' They would carry on like that, as
ceived! Things are different than that which if possessed, and rightly so. But, on the other
innocents let themselves dream. The Commun- hand, when one shows them that the Jews have,
ist Party in Germany still has fewer than a in their official religious books, the most hair-
quarter of a million members; yet it owns over raising statements about the plundering and
fifty newspapers. What that costs is simply in- murder of all gentiles, it makes no difference at
calculable. Millions. Who pays these enormous all to them. They either dispute it or, when that
sums? We National Socialists have our hands seems hopeless, say that most Jews haven't
full just keeping our one Beobachter going.
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been that religious for a long time and don't
If we had an arrangement with the Jews, we concern themselves with that stuff any more.
would have a prodigious number of party news- It never occurs to them that the Jewish char-
papers in an instant. Are there comrades who acter is the source of their vile literature."
doubt that? I'd like to meet one. And, look here, "But this," he said, "tops it a l l : all—and I
this is the incredible thing: they know that the mean all—social injustices of any significance
Jews are secretly behind things, but they act in the world today can be traced back to the
as if it weren't so at all. Is that honest? Can subterranean influence of the Jews. The work-
that lead to a happy outcome? To rush to de- ers seek, therefore, to eliminate with the help
struction unsuspectingly is one thing, but to of the Jews those evils which none other than
do it knowingly and to single out one's grim- the Jews themselves have consciously and de-
mest enemy as an accomplice is another." liberately established. One can imagine what
"I'd like to know," I remarked, "what the kind of help they w i l l receive."
comrades would say if one proved to them in "Behold the modest Joseph!" I rejoined. " H i s
black and white that the Junkers or the big i n - influence on the Pharaoh caused the Egyp-
dustrialists have had a secret moral philosophy tians dreadful distress, from which they later
of the most abominable sort since time 'x'. thought they would free themselves with the
help of Moses. I must admit that that episode
The Völkischer Beobachter was the official
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does not lack a certain grim humor."
NSDAP newspaper, from December, 1920, on. [Ed.]

VIII
"The truth," he said, "is, indeed, as you once torments men to despair, to madness, to ruin.
wrote: one can only understand the Jew when If a halt is not ordered, he will destroy all men.
one knows what his ultimate goal is. A n d that His nature compels him to that goal, even
goal is, beyond world domination, the annihila- though he dimly realizes that he must thereby
tion of the world. He must war down all the destroy himself. There is no other way for h i m ;
rest of mankind, he persuades himself, in order he must act thus. This realization of the uncon-
to prepare a paradise on earth. He has made ditional dependence of his own existence upon
himself believe that only he is capable of this that of his victims appears to me to be the main
great task, and, considering his ideas of para- cause for his hatred. To be obliged to try to an-
dise, that is certainly so. But one sees, if only nihilate us with all his might, but at the same
in the means which he employs, that he is se- time to suspect that that must lead inevitably
cretly driven to something else. While he pre- to his own ruin, therein it lies. If you w i l l : the
tends to himself to be elevating mankind, he tragedy of Lucifer."

Here the notes of Dietrich Eckart break off.