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<div class="mw-indicators"> </div> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wikiquote</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"><span class="mw-redirectedfrom">(Redirected from <a href="/w/index.php?title=Nazis&redirect=no" class="mw-redirect" title="Nazis">Nazis</a>)</span></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_119-0289,_M%C3%BCnchen,_Hitler_bei_Einweihung_%22Braunes_Haus%22.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Bundesarchiv_Bild_119-0289%2C_M%C3%BCnchen%2C_Hitler_bei_Einweihung_%22Braunes_Haus%22.jpg/220px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_119-0289%2C_M%C3%BCnchen%2C_Hitler_bei_Einweihung_%22Braunes_Haus%22.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="161" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Bundesarchiv_Bild_119-0289%2C_M%C3%BCnchen%2C_Hitler_bei_Einweihung_%22Braunes_Haus%22.jpg/330px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_119-0289%2C_M%C3%BCnchen%2C_Hitler_bei_Einweihung_%22Braunes_Haus%22.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Bundesarchiv_Bild_119-0289%2C_M%C3%BCnchen%2C_Hitler_bei_Einweihung_%22Braunes_Haus%22.jpg/440px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_119-0289%2C_M%C3%BCnchen%2C_Hitler_bei_Einweihung_%22Braunes_Haus%22.jpg 2x" data-file-width="792" data-file-height="580" /></a><figcaption>One of our most important tasks will be to save future generations from a similar political fate and to maintain for ever watchful in them a knowledge of the menace of Jewry. ~ <a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1968-101-20A,_Joseph_Goebbels.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1968-101-20A%2C_Joseph_Goebbels.jpg/220px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1968-101-20A%2C_Joseph_Goebbels.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="295" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1968-101-20A%2C_Joseph_Goebbels.jpg/330px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1968-101-20A%2C_Joseph_Goebbels.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1968-101-20A%2C_Joseph_Goebbels.jpg/440px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1968-101-20A%2C_Joseph_Goebbels.jpg 2x" data-file-width="572" data-file-height="768" /></a><figcaption>My Party is my church, and I believe I serve the Lord best if I do his will, and liberate my oppressed people from the fetters of slavery. That is my gospel. ~ <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels" title="Joseph Goebbels">Joseph Goebbels</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1969-054-53A,_N%C3%BCrnberg,_Reichsparteitag.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1969-054-53A%2C_N%C3%BCrnberg%2C_Reichsparteitag.jpg/220px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1969-054-53A%2C_N%C3%BCrnberg%2C_Reichsparteitag.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="135" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1969-054-53A%2C_N%C3%BCrnberg%2C_Reichsparteitag.jpg/330px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1969-054-53A%2C_N%C3%BCrnberg%2C_Reichsparteitag.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1969-054-53A%2C_N%C3%BCrnberg%2C_Reichsparteitag.jpg/440px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1969-054-53A%2C_N%C3%BCrnberg%2C_Reichsparteitag.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="492" /></a><figcaption>It was the spirit of the front that created National Socialism. In the face of looming death at the front, ideas of social standing and class collapsed. At the front, the sharing of common joys and common sorrows led to a previously unknown camaraderie between citizens. At the front, everyone could see that the common fate towered above the individual fate. ~ <a href="/wiki/Rudolf_Hess" title="Rudolf Hess">Rudolf Hess</a></figcaption></figure> <p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Nazism">Nazism</a></b> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English" class="extiw" title="w:Help:IPA/English">/ˈnɑːtsɪzəm</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" class="extiw" title="w:Help:Pronunciation respelling key">ˈnæt-/ NA(H)T-siz-əm</a></i>; <a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a>: <i><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Nazismus" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:Nazismus">Nazismus</a></i>), the common name in <a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a> for <b>National Socialism</b> (German: <i><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Nationalsozialismus" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:Nationalsozialismus">Nationalsozialismus</a></i>, German: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Standard_German" class="extiw" title="w:Help:IPA/Standard German">[natsi̯oˈnaːlzotsi̯aˌlɪsmʊs]</a>, is the <a href="/wiki/Far-right" class="mw-redirect" title="Far-right">far-right</a> <a href="/wiki/Totalitarian" class="mw-redirect" title="Totalitarian">totalitarian</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/political_ideology" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:political ideology">political ideology</a> and practices associated with <a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Nazi Party">Nazi Party</a> (NSDAP) in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Nazi Germany">Nazi Germany</a>. During <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler%27s_rise_to_power" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Hitler's rise to power">Hitler's rise to power</a> in 1930s <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a>, it was frequently referred to as <b>Hitlerism</b> (German: <i>Hitlerfaschismus</i>). The later related term "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/neo-Nazism" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:neo-Nazism">neo-Nazism</a>" is applied to other far-right groups with similar ideas which formed after the Second World War. </p><p><br /> </p> <div role="navigation" style="margin-left: 2em;"> <p>Arranged alphabetically by author or source:<br /><a href="#A">A</a> · <a href="#B">B</a> · <a href="#C">C</a> · <a href="#D">D</a> · <a href="#E">E</a> · <a href="#F">F</a> · <a href="#G">G</a> · <a href="#H">H</a> · <a href="#I">I</a> · <a href="#J">J</a> · <a href="#K">K</a> · <a href="#L">L</a> · <a href="#M">M</a> · <a href="#N">N</a> · <a href="#O">O</a> · <a href="#P">P</a> · <a href="#Q">Q</a> · <a href="#R">R</a> · <a href="#S">S</a> · <a href="#T">T</a> · <a href="#U">U</a> · <a href="#V">V</a> · <a href="#W">W</a> · <a href="#X">X</a> · <a href="#Y">Y</a> · <a href="#Z">Z</a> · <a href="#See_also">See also</a> · <a href="#External_links">External links</a> </p> </div> <dl><dd><a href="#DiMeglio">DiMeglio, Germany 1933–1945</a> || <a href="#Friedlander">Friedlander, The origins of Nazi genocide</a> || <a href="#Proctor">Proctor, Racial Hygiene</a></dd></dl> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_NSDAP_(1920%E2%80%931945).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Flag_of_the_NSDAP_%281920%E2%80%931945%29.svg/220px-Flag_of_the_NSDAP_%281920%E2%80%931945%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="132" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Flag_of_the_NSDAP_%281920%E2%80%931945%29.svg/330px-Flag_of_the_NSDAP_%281920%E2%80%931945%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Flag_of_the_NSDAP_%281920%E2%80%931945%29.svg/440px-Flag_of_the_NSDAP_%281920%E2%80%931945%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption>When the Nazis came for the <a href="/wiki/Communists" class="mw-redirect" title="Communists">communists</a>,<br />I remained <a href="/wiki/Silent" class="mw-redirect" title="Silent">silent</a>;<br />I was not a communist.<br /><br />When they locked up the <a href="/wiki/Social_democrats" class="mw-redirect" title="Social democrats">social democrats</a>,<br /> I remained silent;<br />I was not a social democrat.<br /><br />When they came for the <a href="/wiki/Trade_unionists" class="mw-redirect" title="Trade unionists">trade unionists</a>,<br />I did not speak out;<br />I was not a trade unionist.<br /><br />When they came for the <a href="/wiki/Jews" class="mw-redirect" title="Jews">Jews</a>,<br />I remained silent;<br />I wasn't a Jew.<br /><br />When they came for me,<br />there was no one left to <a href="/wiki/Speak" class="mw-redirect" title="Speak">speak</a> out. ~ <a href="/wiki/Martin_Niem%C3%B6ller" title="Martin Niemöller">Martin Niemöller</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:FDRfiresidechat2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/FDRfiresidechat2.jpg/220px-FDRfiresidechat2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="190" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/FDRfiresidechat2.jpg/330px-FDRfiresidechat2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/FDRfiresidechat2.jpg/440px-FDRfiresidechat2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1773" data-file-height="1530" /></a><figcaption>Nazi forces are not seeking mere modifications in colonial maps or in minor European boundaries. They openly seek the destruction of all elective systems of government on every continent-including our own; they seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers who have seized power by force. These men and their hypnotized followers call this a new order. It is not new. It is not order. ~ <a href="/wiki/Franklin_Roosevelt" class="mw-redirect" title="Franklin Roosevelt">Franklin Roosevelt</a></figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quotes_by_Nazi_members">Quotes by Nazi members</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nazism&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Quotes by Nazi members"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>So why did National Socialism take up the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_question" class="extiw" title="w:Jewish question">Jewish question</a> in its programme already during the period of the party’s struggle? The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Jews" class="extiw" title="w:German Jews">Jewish population</a> had in percentage terms relative to the rest of the population a disproportionately high share in the <a href="/wiki/Management" title="Management">management</a> of the economy, in the free professions, in the <a href="/wiki/Press" title="Press">press</a>, in the <a href="/wiki/Radio" title="Radio">radio</a>, in the <a href="/wiki/Theatre" title="Theatre">theatre</a>, etc. <b>So the enmity between host people and guests, between the <a href="/wiki/Judaism" title="Judaism">Jewish</a> part and the non-Jewish part of the population grew to such an extent that this would have doubtless led at some point to an explosion</b>. That was why the leadership was concerned to reduce the tension in an orderly, normal and legal way. This enmity had been present already for a long time in the <a href="/wiki/Germans" title="Germans">German population</a>, because the Jews had been able to enrich themselves with brutality and violence, and to let the <a href="/wiki/Germans" title="Germans">German people</a> starve. Especially during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/hyperinflation_in_the_Weimar_Republic" class="extiw" title="w:hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic">period of hyperinflation</a> dramatic events had arisen and the Jews themselves partially admit that they had enriched themselves at the expense of the German people, their host people. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adolf_Eichmann" title="Adolf Eichmann">Adolf Eichmann</a>, <i>The Eichmann Tapes: My Role in the Final Solution</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Just so are idealistic National Socialists judged even today, ten, twelve years after the end of the war. Certainly, in a hundred or more years, laurels will be handed even to National Socialism. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adolf_Eichmann" title="Adolf Eichmann">Adolf Eichmann</a>, <i>The Eichmann Tapes: My Role in the Final Solution</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adolf_Eichmann" title="Adolf Eichmann">Adolf Eichmann</a>, While awaiting trial in Israel, as quoted in LIFE magazine (5 December 1960).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>According to the idea of the NSDAP [Nazi party], we are the German left. Nothing is more hateful to us than the <a href="/wiki/Conservatism" title="Conservatism">right-wing</a> national ownership block.” <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels" title="Joseph Goebbels">Joseph Goebbels</a> <i>Der Angriff (The Attack)</i>, (6 December 1931), quoted in Wolfgang Venohr’s book: <i>Documents of German existence: 500 years of German national history 1445-1945</i>, Athenäum Verlag, 1980, p. 291, In German: „<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://historyuncensored.wixsite.com/history-uncensored/historical-quotes">Der Idee der NSDAP entsprechend sind wir die deutsche Linke. Nichts ist uns verhaßter als der rechtsstehende nationale Besitzbürgerblock</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>While National Socialism brought about a new version and formulation of <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">European</a> <a href="/wiki/Culture" title="Culture">culture</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bolsheviks" title="Bolsheviks">Bolshevism</a> is the declaration of war by Jewish-led international subhumans against culture itself. It is not only anti-bourgeois, it is anti-cultural. It means, in the final consequence, the absolute destruction of all economic, social, state, cultural, and civilizing advances made by western civilization for the benefit of a <a href="/wiki/Zionism" title="Zionism">rootless and nomadic international clique of conspirators</a>, who have found their representation in Jewry. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels" title="Joseph Goebbels">Joseph Goebbels</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/goeb58.htm">Speech at the Nazi party Congress at Nuremberg (September 1935)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We are against the political <a href="/wiki/Bourgeoisie" title="Bourgeoisie">bourgeoisie</a>, and for genuine <a href="/wiki/Nationalism" title="Nationalism">nationalism</a>! We are against <a href="/wiki/Marxism" title="Marxism">Marxism</a>, but for true socialism! We are for the first German national state of a socialist nature! We are for the National Socialist German Workers’ Party! <ul><li>Written by <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels" title="Joseph Goebbels">Joseph Goebbels</a> and Mjölnir, <i>Die verfluchten Hakenkreuzler. Etwas zum Nachdenken</i> (Munich: Verlag Frz. Eher, 1932). Translated as “Those Damned Nazis,” (propaganda pamphlet). <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/haken32.htm">[1]</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The path to <a href="/wiki/Freedom" title="Freedom">freedom</a> leads through the <a href="/wiki/Nations" title="Nations">nation</a>. The more united this nation, the stronger and more fervent the will to freedom. To set in motion this passionate will for freedom in the nation, that is the task of National Socialism. We want freedom, as you do, but with other means, with the solidarity of the nation, the community of the people as ours. I noticed one thing yesterday with joy: You now believe me that our community of the people is not the <a href="/wiki/Pacifism" title="Pacifism">pacifistic</a> mush that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Marx" class="extiw" title="w:Wilhelm Marx">Mr. Marx</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gustav_Stresemann" title="Gustav Stresemann">Mr. Stresemann</a> mean. The community of the people today is nothing but the struggle for the rights of the people for the sake of the nation. We want this struggle because it alone can bring freedom. There must be fighting for the future. You and I, we fight each other without really being enemies. In this way we splinter our forces, and we never reach our goal. Perhaps the most extreme need will bring us together. Perhaps! Do not shake your head! This question is a matter of Germany’s future, and more, of <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a>’s future. The new state or the decline of the West, both lie in our hands. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels" title="Joseph Goebbels">Joseph Goebbels</a>, <i>Nationalsozialismus oder Bolschewismus?</i> (25 October 1925)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We and we alone [the <a href="/wiki/Nazis" class="mw-redirect" title="Nazis">Nazis</a>] have the best social welfare measures. Everything is done for the nation. . . .The <a href="/wiki/Jews" class="mw-redirect" title="Jews">Jews</a> are the incarnation of capitalism. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels" title="Joseph Goebbels">Joseph Goebbels</a>, <i>I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1942-1945</i>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Klemperer" class="extiw" title="w:Victor Klemperer">Victor Klemperer</a>, Vol. 2 , Random House, Inc. (2001) p. 317. Goebbels’ “Our Socialism” editorial was written on April 30, 1944.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>My Party is my church, and I believe I serve the Lord best if I do his will, and liberate my oppressed people from the fetters of slavery. That is my gospel. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels" title="Joseph Goebbels">Joseph Goebbels</a>, <i>Joseph Goebbels' diaries</i> (16 October 1928)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Our nation has the good fortune today to be led largely by front soldiers, by front soldiers who carried the virtues of the front to the leadership of the state. The rebuilding of the Reich was guided by the spirit of the front. It was the spirit of the front that created National Socialism. In the face of looming death at the front, ideas of social standing and <a href="/wiki/Class" class="mw-redirect" title="Class">class</a> collapsed. At the front, the sharing of common joys and common sorrows led to a previously unknown camaraderie between <a href="/wiki/Citizenship" title="Citizenship">citizens</a>. At the front, everyone could see that the common fate towered above the individual fate. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rudolf_Hess" title="Rudolf Hess">Rudolf Hess</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/hess4.htm">Speech to the Gau Party Rally in East Prussia</a> (8 July 1934)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>One of our most important tasks will be to save future generations from a similar political fate and to maintain for ever watchful in them a knowledge of the menace of <a href="/wiki/Jewry" class="mw-redirect" title="Jewry">Jewry</a></b>. For this reason alone it is vital that the Passion play be continued at Oberammergau; for never has the menace of Jewry been so convincingly portrayed as in this presentation of what happened in the times of the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Empire" title="Roman Empire">Romans</a>. There one sees in <a href="/wiki/Pontius_Pilate" title="Pontius Pilate">Pontius Pilate</a> a Roman racially and intellectually so superior, that he stands like a firm, clean rock in the middle of the whole muck and mire of Jewry. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a>, <i>On the Passion Play at Oberammergau</i> (5 July 1942)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Socialism" title="Socialism">Socialism</a> is the science of dealing with the common weal. <a href="/wiki/Communism" title="Communism">Communism</a> is not Socialism. <a href="/wiki/Marxism" title="Marxism">Marxism</a> is not Socialism. The Marxians have stolen the term and confused its meaning. I shall take Socialism away from the Socialists. Socialism is an ancient <a href="/wiki/Aryan_race" title="Aryan race">Aryan</a>, Germanic institution. Our German ancestors held certain lands in common. They cultivated the idea of the common weal. Marxism has no right to disguise itself as socialism. Socialism, unlike Marxism, does not repudiate <a href="/wiki/Private_property" title="Private property">private property</a>. Unlike Marxism, it involves no negation of personality, and unlike Marxism, it is patriotic. We might have called ourselves the <a href="/wiki/Liberal" class="mw-redirect" title="Liberal">Liberal</a> Party. We chose to call ourselves the National Socialists. We are not <a href="/wiki/Internationalism" title="Internationalism">internationalists</a>. Our socialism is national. We demand the fulfilment of the just claims of the productive classes by the state on the basis of race solidarity. To us state and race are one. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2007/sep/17/greatinterviews1">Interview with George Sylvester Viereck, 1923</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The National Socialist State recognizes no ‘<a href="/wiki/Social_class" title="Social class">classes</a>’. But, under the political aspect, it recognizes only citizens with absolutely <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%B6lkisch_equality" class="extiw" title="w:Völkisch equality">equal rights</a> and equal obligations corresponding thereto. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a>, "Mein Kampf", Volume Two: The National Socialist Movement, chapter 12 (1926).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We National Socialists see in <a href="/wiki/Private_property" title="Private property">private property</a> a higher level of human economic development that according to the differences in performance controls the management of what has been accomplished enabling and guaranteeing the advantage of a higher standard of living for everyone. Bolshevism destroys not only private property but also private initiative and the readiness to shoulder responsibility. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a>, speech made at the Reichstag (21 May 1935) Found in <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=r_-htwAACAAJ&dq=hitler+may+21+1935+speech&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwir0MTAmInWAhXPaCYKHaFIB2UQ6AEIJjAA">Translation of Herr Hitler's Speech to the German Reichstag on May 21, 1935</a></i> Foreign Office Press. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/RedeDesFhrersUndReichskanzlersAdolfHitlerVorDemReichstagAm21.Mai/MicrosoftWord-Ah19350521#page/n11/mode/2up">German version</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Germany's economic policy is conducted exclusively in accordance with the interests of the German people. In this respect <b>I am a fanatical socialist</b>, one who has ever in mind the interests of all his people. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a>, <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler%27s_Speech_on_the_21st_Anniversary_of_the_National_Socialist_Party_(24_February_1941)">Speech on the 21st Anniversary of the National Socialist Party (24 February 1941)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The consequences of the activity of this regime were nothing but <a href="/wiki/Chaos" title="Chaos">chaos</a>, <a href="/wiki/Misery" title="Misery">misery</a> and <a href="/wiki/Starvation" title="Starvation">starvation</a> in all countries. <b>I, on the other hand, have been striving for twenty years with a minimum of intervention and without destroying our production, to arrive at a new Socialist order in Germany</b> which not only eliminates <a href="/wiki/Unemployment" title="Unemployment">unemployment</a> but also permits the worker to receive an ever greater share of the fruits of his labor. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a>, <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Führer_to_the_German_People:_22_June_1941">The Führer to the German People: 22 June 1941</a> - Proclamation of War with the Soviet Union</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>All the more so after the war, the German National Socialist state, which pursued this goal from the beginning, <b>will tirelessly work for the realization of a program that will ultimately lead to a complete elimination of class differences and to the creation of a true <a href="/wiki/Socialism" title="Socialism">socialist</a> community.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a>, <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler%27s_Speech_for_the_Heroes%27_Memorial_Day_(21_March_1943)">Speech for the Heroes' Memorial Day (21 March 1943)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The greatest <a href="/wiki/Revolution" title="Revolution">revolution</a> which National Socialism has brought about is that it has rent asunder the veil which hid from us the <a href="/wiki/Knowledge" title="Knowledge">knowledge</a> that all human failures and mistakes are due to the conditions of the time and therefore can be remedied, but that there is one error which cannot be remedied once men have made it, namely the failure to recognize the importance of conserving the blood and the race free from intermixture and thereby the racial aspect and character which are <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>'s gift and God's handiwork. It is not for men to discuss the question of why <a href="/wiki/Providence" title="Providence">Providence</a> created different <a href="/wiki/Race" class="mw-disambig" title="Race">races</a>, but rather to recognize the fact that it punishes those who disregard its work of creation. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a>, speech before the Reichstag (30 January 1937).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>National Socialism is not a cult-movement—a movement for worship; it is exclusively a 'volkic' political doctrine based upon <a href="/wiki/Racism" title="Racism">racial principles</a>. In its purpose there is no mystic cult, only the care and leadership of a people defined by a common blood-relationship. Therefore we have no rooms for <a href="/wiki/Worship" title="Worship">worship</a>, but only halls for the people — no open spaces for worship, but spaces for assemblies and parades. We have no religious retreats, but arenas for <a href="/wiki/Sports" title="Sports">sports</a> and playing-fields, and the characteristic feature of our places of assembly is not the mystical gloom of a cathedral, but the brightness and light of a room or hall which combines beauty with fitness for its purpose. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a>, speech in Nuremberg (6 September 1938).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I was a young student of <a href="/wiki/Law" title="Law">law</a> and <a href="/wiki/Economics" title="Economics">economics</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Left-wing_politics" title="Left-wing politics">Left Wing</a> student leader, and a leader of ex-soldier students. <ul><li>Quote from Nazi party leader <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Strasser" class="extiw" title="w:Otto Strasser">Otto Strasser</a> in <i>Hitler and I</i>, Boston: MA, Houthton Miffin Company, (1940) p. 3.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Yes, from the Right we shall take <a href="/wiki/Nationalism" title="Nationalism">nationalism</a>, which has so disastrously allied itself with <a href="/wiki/Capitalism" title="Capitalism">capitalism</a>, and from the Left we shall take Socialism, which has made such an unhappy union with <a href="/wiki/Internationalism" title="Internationalism">internationalism</a>. Thus we shall form the National-Socialism which will be the motive force of a new Germany and a new Europe. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gregor_Strasser" title="Gregor Strasser">Gregor Strasser</a> as quoted in <i>Hitler and I</i>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Strasser" class="extiw" title="w:Otto Strasser"> Otto Stresser</a>, Boston: MA, Houghton Mifflin Company (1940) p. 9</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We are Socialists, enemies, mortal enemies of the present <a href="/wiki/Capitalism" title="Capitalism">capitalist</a> <a href="/wiki/Economic_system" title="Economic system">economic system</a> with its <a href="/wiki/Exploitation" title="Exploitation">exploitation</a> of the economically weak, with its injustice in wages, with its immoral evaluation of individuals according to <a href="/wiki/Wealth" title="Wealth">wealth</a> and <a href="/wiki/Money" title="Money">money</a> instead of <a href="/wiki/Responsibility" title="Responsibility">responsibility</a> and <a href="/wiki/Achievement" title="Achievement">achievement</a>, and we are determined under all circumstances to abolish this system! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gregor_Strasser" title="Gregor Strasser">Gregor Strasser</a>, “Thoughts about the Tasks of the Future,” June 15, 1926. One-page talking points memo sent to Nazi leaders.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Capitalism" title="Capitalism">Capitalist</a> system with its exploitation of those who are economically weak, with its robbery of the workers labour power, with its unethical way of appraising human beings by the number of things and the amount of <a href="/wiki/Money" title="Money">money</a> he possesses, instead of by their internal value and their achievements, must be replaced by a new and just <a href="/wiki/Economic_system" title="Economic system">economic system</a>, in a word by German Socialism. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gregor_Strasser" title="Gregor Strasser">Gregor Strasser</a>, <i>Tradition & Revolution: Collected Writings of Troy Southgate</i>, editors: Patrick Boch, Jacob Christiansen and John B. Morgan, UK, Arktos Media (2010) p. 66</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="A">A</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nazism&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: A"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The National Socialist-Labor Party, of which Adolf Hitler is patron and father, persists in believing <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin" title="Vladimir Lenin">Lenin</a> and Hitler can be compared or contrasted in a party meeting. Two weeks ago an attempted discussion of this subject left to one death, sixty injuries and $5,000 damages to beer glasses, tables, chairs, windows and chandeliers in Chemnitz. Last night DR. Göebells tried the experiment in <a href="/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a> and only police intervention prevented a repetition of the Chemnitz affair. On the speaker's assertion that Lenin was the greatest man, second only to Hitler, and that the difference between <a href="/wiki/Communism" title="Communism">communism</a> and the Hitler faith was very slight, a faction war opened with whizzing beer glasses. When this sort of ammunition was exhausted a free fight in which fists and knives played important roles was indulged in. Later a gang marched to the offices of the Socialist paper Vorärts and smashed plate-glass windows. <a href="/wiki/Police" title="Police">Police</a> made nineteen arrests. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anonymous" title="Anonymous">Anonymous</a>, <i>Hitlerite Riot in Berlin: Beer Glasses Fly When Speaker Compares Hitler to Lenin</i>, <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Times">New York Times</a></i> (November 28, 1925)<br /><small><b>Note</b>: during the 20s the New York Times's reporting on Communism was neither unbiased nor accurate. See <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_controversies_involving_The_New_York_Times#The_Russian_Revolution,_1917–1920" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:List of controversies involving The New York Times">List of controversies involving The New York Times#The Russian Revolution, 1917–1920</a></small></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>By exploiting material wealth confiscated and plundered in a racial war, Hitler’s National Socialism achieved an unprecedented level of economic equality and created vast new opportunities for upward mobility for the German people. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/G%C3%B6tz_Aly" title="Götz Aly">Götz Aly</a>, <i>Hitler’s Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State</i>, New York: NY, Metropolitan Books (2007) pp. 7-8</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Another source of the Nazi Party’s popularity was its liberal borrowing from the intellectual tradition of the <a href="/wiki/Socialist" class="mw-redirect" title="Socialist">socialist</a> <a href="/wiki/Left-wing_politics" title="Left-wing politics">left</a>. Many of the men who would become the movement’s leaders had been involved in <a href="/wiki/Communist" class="mw-redirect" title="Communist">communist</a> and socialist circles. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/G%C3%B6tz_Aly" title="Götz Aly">Götz Aly</a>, <i>Hitler’s Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State</i>, New York: Metropolitan Books (2007) p. 16</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In one of his central pronouncements, Hitler promised 'the creation of a socially just state,' a model society that would 'continue to eradicate all [social] barriers.' <ul><li><a href="/wiki/G%C3%B6tz_Aly" title="Götz Aly">Götz Aly</a>, <i>Hitler’s Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State</i>, New York: NY, Metropolitan Books (2007) p. 13. Hitler’s speech to workers at the Berlin’s Rheinmetall-Borsig factory (Oct. 10, 1940)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="B">B</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nazism&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: B"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>All <a href="/wiki/Dictatorship" title="Dictatorship">dictators</a> risk being overthrown by their opponents... [and] therefore need large police forces to protect them. ...The police force in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Nazi Germany">Nazi Germany</a> ...their job was to arrest people before they committed crimes. ...All local police units had to draw up lists of people who might be '<a href="/wiki/Enemies" title="Enemies">Enemies</a> of the <a href="/wiki/State" title="State">State</a>'. They gave these lists to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestapo" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Gestapo">Gestapo</a>... a branch of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzstaffel" class="extiw" title="w:Schutzstaffel">SS</a>... [with] the power to do... as it liked. ...'Enemies of the State' ...are [likely] woken ...by a violent knocking at the door. ...[M]en in black uniforms ...[give] three minutes to pack a bag. ...[T]hey take you to the ...police station where you are shut in a cell. ...[D]ays, weeks or months ...[later] ...you are ...told to sign Form D-11, an 'Order for Protective Custody' ...agreeing to go to prison ...[Y]ou are too scared to refuse to sign ...Without ...a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_a_fair_trial" class="extiw" title="w:Right to a fair trial">trial</a> you are ...taken to a <a href="/wiki/Concentration_camp" title="Concentration camp">concentration camp</a> where you ...stay for as long as the Gestapo pleases.<br />...A former prisoner ...described ...'In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchenwald_concentration_camp" class="extiw" title="w:Buchenwald concentration camp">Buchenwald</a> there were 8000 ...2000 Jews and 6000 non-Jews. ...first ..."<a href="/wiki/Political_prisoner" title="Political prisoner">politicals</a>" ...many ...in concentration camps ...since 1933 ...many ...accused of having spoken abusively of the sacred ... <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%BChrer" class="extiw" title="w:Führer">Fuehrer</a> ...After the "political", the ..."<a href="/wiki/Refusal_of_work" title="Refusal of work">work-shy</a>" is the largest. ...A business employee lost his position and applied for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment_benefits" class="extiw" title="w:Unemployment benefits">unemployment relief</a>. ...he was informed by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employment_agency" class="extiw" title="w:Employment agency">Labour Exchange</a> that he could obtain employment as a <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/navvy#Noun" class="extiw" title="wikt:navvy">navvy</a> on the ...roads. This man, who was looking for a commercial post, turned down the offer. ...[R]eported as "work-shy" ...he was ...arrested and taken to a concentration camp.<br />The next group were the "Bibelforscher" a <a href="/wiki/Religion" title="Religion">religious</a> sect ...<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/proscribe#Verb" class="extiw" title="wikt:proscribe">proscribed</a> ...by the Gestapo since ...members refuse <a href="/wiki/Military_service" title="Military service">military service</a>.<br />The fourth... homosexuals... To charge this offense is a favorite tactic of the secret police. ...The last class ...professional criminals...' <ul><li>Josh Brooman, <i>Hitler's Germany: Germany 1933-45</i> (1985) p. 6.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicherheitspolizei" class="extiw" title="w:Sicherheitspolizei">Sipo</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicherheitsdienst" class="extiw" title="w:Sicherheitsdienst">SD</a> was a <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/conglomerate#Noun" class="extiw" title="wikt:conglomerate">conglomerate</a>, formed... when <a href="/wiki/Heinrich_Himmler" title="Heinrich Himmler">Heinrich Himmler</a></b>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsf%C3%BChrer-SS" class="extiw" title="w:Reichsführer-SS">Reichfuehrer SS</a>, became chief of the German Police. He <b>fused the Criminal Investigative Police (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriminalpolizei" class="extiw" title="w:Kriminalpolizei">Kripo</a>) and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestapo" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Gestapo">Gestapo</a></b> (the political police) <b>to form the Security Police (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicherheitspolizei" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Sicherheitspolizei">Sicherheitspolizei</a> or Sipo)</b> under the command of SS General <a href="/wiki/Reinhard_Heydrich" title="Reinhard Heydrich">Reinhard Heydrich</a>. ...[T]he exchange of personnel ...produced an amalgam of party and state agencies that became <b>central to the execution of most of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror_(politics)" class="extiw" title="w:Terror (politics)">terror</a> and mass murder of the <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Third Reich</a></b>. ...Although no single organization carries full responsibility for the <a href="/wiki/Evil" title="Evil">evils</a> of the Third Reich, <b>the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzstaffel" class="extiw" title="w:Schutzstaffel">SS-police system</a> was the executor of <a href="/wiki/Terrorism" title="Terrorism">terrorism</a> and "population policy"</b> in the same way that the <a href="/wiki/Military" title="Military">military</a> carried out the Reich’s <a href="/wiki/Imperialism" title="Imperialism">imperialistic</a> aggression. <b>Within the police state, even the <a href="/wiki/Concentration_camp" title="Concentration camp">concentration camps</a> could not rival the impact of Sipo and SD. It was the source not only of the "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/desk_murderer" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:desk murderer">desk murderers</a>" who administered terror and <a href="/wiki/Genocide" title="Genocide">genocide</a> by assigning victims to the camps, but also of the police executives</b> for identification and arrest, <b>and of the command and staff for</b> a major instrument of <b><a href="/wiki/Capital_punishment" title="Capital punishment">execution</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einsatzgruppen" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Einsatzgruppen">Einsatzgruppen</a>. ...Sipo and SD was ...central to many ...controversial developments in the Third Reich</b>—the <a href="/wiki/Totalitarianism" title="Totalitarianism">totalitarian</a> efforts to achieve <a href="/wiki/Conformity" title="Conformity">conformity</a> and to end opposition, the <a href="/wiki/Racism" title="Racism">race</a> and <a href="/wiki/Population_transfer" title="Population transfer">resettlement programs</a>, the development and implementation of imperialistic <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansionism" class="extiw" title="w:Expansionism">expansion</a> ...<b>The creation of the totalitarian police state</b> as <b>an essential step toward the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Solution" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Final Solution">Final Solution</a></b> provides one ...perspective for this study. ...[H]ow [could] a <a href="/wiki/Modernity" title="Modernity">modern</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/industrial_society" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:industrial society">industrial society</a> of such <a href="/wiki/Culture" title="Culture">cultural</a> prestige as <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a>... be twisted to <a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Hitler</a>'s ends, how so many thousands of <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/functionary#Noun" class="extiw" title="wikt:functionary">functionaries</a>—more ordinary Germans than <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Nazi</a> <a href="/wiki/Extremism" title="Extremism">extremists</a> or <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sadism#Noun" class="extiw" title="wikt:sadism">sadists</a>—could be found to execute Hitler's will[?] When the Nazi experience becomes <b>the will of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuehrer" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Fuehrer">Fuehrer</a></b>... the result is both an alabi... and a smoke screen that <b>obscures insights into how similarly extreme developments might reoccur, perhaps without a Hitler or a German <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonderweg" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Sonderweg">Sonderweg</a></i>.</b> <ul><li>George C. Browder, <i>Foundations of the Nazi Police State: The Formation of Sipo and SD</i> (1990) Introduction, pp. 1-4.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>[T]he real key to power in the State—control of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussia" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Prussia">Prussian</a> police force and of the... State Administration—lay with <a href="/wiki/Hermann_G%C3%B6ring" title="Hermann Göring">Goering</a>, as Prussian Minister of the Interior. ...In the critical period of 1933-1934, no man after <a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Hitler</a> played so important a role in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler%27s_rise_to_power" class="extiw" title="w:Adolf Hitler's rise to power">Nazi revolution</a> ...His energy and <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ruthless#Adjective" class="extiw" title="wikt:ruthless">ruthlessness</a> together with his control ...were indispensable to Hitler's success. Goering showed no intention of being restrained ...he enforced his will, as if he already held absolute <a href="/wiki/Power" title="Power">power</a>.<br />The moment Goering entered office he began a drastic <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/purge" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:purge">purge</a> of the Prussian State service, paying particular attention to the senior police officers, where he made a clean sweep in favour of his own appointments, many of them — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung" class="extiw" title="w:Sturmabteilung">S.A.</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzstaffel" class="extiw" title="w:Schutzstaffel">S.S.</a> leaders. ...<b>Goering issued an order to show no mercy to the activities of</b> "<b>organizations hostile to the State</b>" ...Goering continued: "<b>Police officers who make... use of fire-arms in the execution of their duties will... benefit by my protection; those who... fail in their duty will be punished</b>..." In other words, when in doubt shoot. ...<b>All they had to do was ...put a white arm-band over their brown ...or black shirts: they then represented the</b> authority of <b>the State</b>. ...<b>For the citizen to appeal to the police</b> for protection <b>became more dangerous than to suffer assault</b> and robbery in silence. At best, the police... looked the other way; more often the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxiliary_police" class="extiw" title="w:Auxiliary police">auxiliaries</a> helped ...S.A. comrades ..beat up their victims. This was “legality” in practice.</b> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Bullock" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Alan Bullock">Alan Bullock</a>, <i>Hitler: A Study in Tyranny</i> (1990) pp. 111-112.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>From the point of view of fundamental <a href="/wiki/Human_rights" title="Human rights">human liberties</a> there is little to choose between communism, socialism, and national socialism. They all are examples of the <a href="/wiki/Collectivism" title="Collectivism">collectivist</a> or totalitarian state … in its essentials not only is completed socialism the same as communism but it hardly differs from fascism. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivor_Bulmer-Thomas" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ivor Bulmer-Thomas">Ivor Bulmer-Thomas</a>, in <i>The Socialist Tragedy</i> (1951), p. 241.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_aspects_of_Nazism#Nazism_and_Christianity" class="extiw" title="w:Religious aspects of Nazism">The Nazis despised Christianity</a> for its <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split_of_early_Christianity_and_Judaism" class="extiw" title="w:Split of early Christianity and Judaism">Judaic roots</a>, effeminacy, otherworldliness and universality... One would have to visit the <a href="/wiki/Protestant_Reformation" title="Protestant Reformation">Reformation</a> or the extremes of <a href="/wiki/Liberal" class="mw-redirect" title="Liberal">liberal</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/anti-clericalism" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:anti-clericalism">anti-clericalism</a> in the modern era to find anything analogous to their vicious and vulgar attacks on <a href="/wiki/Priests" class="mw-redirect" title="Priests">priests</a>. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Burleigh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Michael Burleigh">Michael Burleigh</a>, <i>The Third Reich: A New History</i>, New York: NY, Hill and Wang (2000) p. 255</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="C">C</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nazism&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: C"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><p>One fine day the <a href="/wiki/Bourgeoisie" title="Bourgeoisie">bourgeoisie</a> is awakened by a terrific reverse shock: the gestapos are busy, the prisons fill up, the torturers around the racks invent, refine, discuss.</p><p>People are surprised, they become indignant. They say: “How strange! But never mind — it’s Nazism, it will pass!” And they wait, and they hope; and they hide the truth from themselves, that it is barbarism, but the supreme barbarism, the crowning <a href="/wiki/Barbarian" title="Barbarian">barbarism</a> that sums up all the daily barbarisms; that it is Nazism, yes, but that before they were its victims, they were its accomplices; that they tolerated that Nazism before it was inflicted on them, that they absolved it, shut their eyes to it, legitimized it, because, until then, it had been applied only to non-European peoples; that they have cultivated that Nazism, that they are responsible for it.</p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aim%C3%A9_C%C3%A9saire" title="Aimé Césaire">Aimé Césaire</a>, <i>Discourse on Colonialism</i> (1955), p. 36</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We are confronted with another theme. It is not a new theme; it leaps out upon us from the <a href="/wiki/Dark_Ages" title="Dark Ages">Dark Ages</a> – <a href="/wiki/Racism" title="Racism">racial persecution</a>, <a href="/wiki/Religious_intolerance" title="Religious intolerance">religious intolerance</a>, deprivation of <a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_speech" title="Freedom of speech">free speech</a>, the conception of the <a href="/wiki/Citizenship" title="Citizenship">citizen</a> as a mere soulless fraction of the <a href="/wiki/State" title="State">State</a>. To this has been added the <a href="/wiki/Militarism" class="mw-redirect" title="Militarism">cult of war</a>. <a href="/wiki/Children" title="Children">Children</a> are to be taught in their earliest schooling the delights and profits of <a href="/wiki/Conquest" title="Conquest">conquest</a> and <a href="/wiki/Aggression" title="Aggression">aggression</a>. A whole mighty community has been drawn painfully, by severe privations, into a warlike frame. They are held in this condition, which they relish no more than we do, by a party organisation, several millions strong, who derive all kinds of profits, good and bad, from the upkeep of the regime. Like the <a href="/wiki/Communism" title="Communism">Communists</a>, the Nazis tolerate no opinion but their own. Like the Communists, they feed on hatred. Like the Communists, they must seek, from time to time, and always at shorter intervals, a new target, a new prize, a new victim. The <a href="/wiki/Dictatorship" title="Dictatorship">Dictator</a>, in all his pride, is held in the grip of his Party machine. He can go forward; he cannot go back. He must blood his hounds and show them sport, or else, like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actaeon" class="extiw" title="w:Actaeon">Actaeon</a> of old, be devoured by them. All-strong without, he is all-weak within. As <a href="/wiki/Lord_Byron" title="Lord Byron">Byron</a> wrote a hundred years ago: “These Pagod things of Sabre sway, with fronts of brass and feet of clay.” <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/speeches/1930-1938-the-wilderness/the-defence-of-freedom-and-peace-the-lights-are-going-out/">Broadcast to the United States and to London</a>, 16 October 1938</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fascism" title="Fascism">Fascism</a> was the shadow or ugly child of communism… As Fascism sprang from Communism, so Nazism developed from Fascism. Thus were set on foot those kindred movements which were destined soon to plunge the world into more hideous strife, which none can say has ended with their destruction. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a>, <i>The Second World War, Volume 1, The Gathering Storm</i>, Mariner Books, 1985, pp. 13-14. First published in 1948</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The power of the Executive to cast a man into <a href="/wiki/Prison" title="Prison">prison</a> without formulating any charge known to the <a href="/wiki/Law" title="Law">law</a>, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all <a href="/wiki/Totalitarian" class="mw-redirect" title="Totalitarian">totalitarian</a> government whether Nazi or Communist. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a>, as quoted in <i>In The Highest Degree Odious : Detention Without Trial in Wartime Britain</i> (1992), by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._W._B._Simpson" class="extiw" title="w:A. W. B. Simpson">A. W. B. Simpson</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Nazi leaders were noted for love of their pets and for certain animals, notably apex predators like the <a href="/wiki/Wolves" title="Wolves">wolf</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Lions" title="Lions">lion</a>. <a href="/wiki/Hitler" class="mw-redirect" title="Hitler">Hitler</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Vegetarianism" title="Vegetarianism">vegetarian</a> and hater of <a href="/wiki/Hunting" title="Hunting">hunting</a>, adored dogs and spent some of his final hours in the company of Blondi, whom he would take for walks outside the bunker at some danger to himself. He had a particular enthusiasm for birds and most of all for wolves. [...] <a href="/wiki/Goebbels" class="mw-redirect" title="Goebbels">Goebbels</a> said, famously, ‘The only real friend one has in the end is the dog. . . The more I get to know the human species, the more I care for my Benno.’ Goebbels also agreed with Hitler that ‘meat eating is a perversion in our human nature,’ and that <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a> was a ‘symptom of decay’, since it did not urge vegetarianism. [...] On the one hand, monsters of cruelty towards their fellow humans; on the other, kind to animals and zealous in their interest. In their very fine essay on such contradictions, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Arluke" class="extiw" title="w:Arnold Arluke">Arnold Arluke</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boria_Sax" class="extiw" title="w:Boria Sax">Boria Sax</a> offer three observations. One, as just noted, many Nazi leaders harboured affection towards animals but antipathy to humans. Hitler was given films by a maharaja which displayed <a href="/wiki/Animals" title="Animals">animals</a> killing people. The Führer watched with equanimity. Another film showed humans killing animals. Hitler covered his eyes and begged to be told when the slaughter was over. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Cockburn" title="Alexander Cockburn">Alexander Cockburn</a> "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2005/08/18/vegetarians-nazis-for-animal-rights-blitzkrieg-of-the-ungulates/">Vegetarians, Nazis for Animal Rights, Blitzkrieg of the Ungulates</a>". CounterPunch. (August 18, 2005). Retrieved April 6, 2013.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">America</a> had a fling at National Socialism. <a href="/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt" title="Franklin D. Roosevelt">Roosevelt</a> was for all administration purposes a <a href="/wiki/Dictatorship" title="Dictatorship">dictator</a>, but a benevolent one, and the country loved it. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alistair_Cooke" title="Alistair Cooke">Alistair Cooke</a>, "Alistair Cooke's America", New York: NY, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (1973) p. 329.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="D">D</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nazism&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: D"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Reichszentrale-Erlass-1936.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Reichszentrale-Erlass-1936.jpg/220px-Reichszentrale-Erlass-1936.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="314" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Reichszentrale-Erlass-1936.jpg/330px-Reichszentrale-Erlass-1936.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Reichszentrale-Erlass-1936.jpg/440px-Reichszentrale-Erlass-1936.jpg 2x" data-file-width="647" data-file-height="922" /></a><figcaption>In view of the often acrimonious debates surrounding many discussions of <a href="/wiki/Abortion" title="Abortion">abortion</a>, and the occasional references to <a href="/wiki/The_Holocaust" title="The Holocaust">the Holocaust</a>, it seems appropriate to review the abortion experience in Germany during the Hitler years (1933-45). Increasingly severe restrictions were placed on the availability of <a href="/wiki/Contraceptives" class="mw-redirect" title="Contraceptives">contraceptives</a> and on access to legal abortion. During <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> special courts in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vichy_France" class="extiw" title="w:Vichy France">Vichy France</a> and Nazi Germany were authorized to impose the <a href="/wiki/Death_penalty" class="mw-redirect" title="Death penalty">death penalty</a> for the illegal termination of unwanted <a href="/wiki/Pregnancy" title="Pregnancy">pregnancies</a>, and carried out their mandate. ~ Henry P. David, Jochen Fleischhacker and Charlotte Hohn</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>In view of the often acrimonious debates surrounding many discussions of <a href="/wiki/Abortion" title="Abortion">abortion</a>, and the occasional references to <a href="/wiki/The_Holocaust" title="The Holocaust">the Holocaust</a>, it seems appropriate to review the abortion experience in Germany during the Hitler years (1933-45). Increasingly severe restrictions were placed on the availability of <a href="/wiki/Contraceptives" class="mw-redirect" title="Contraceptives">contraceptives</a> and on access to legal abortion. During <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> special courts in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vichy_France" class="extiw" title="w:Vichy France">Vichy France</a> and Nazi Germany were authorized to impose the <a href="/wiki/Death_penalty" class="mw-redirect" title="Death penalty">death penalty</a> for the illegal termination of unwanted <a href="/wiki/Pregnancy" title="Pregnancy">pregnancies</a>, and carried out their mandate. <br /> While “fifty thousand books and monographs” have been written about the Nazi period (Koonz, 1987, p.3), a search of numerous German and American archives, research libraries, and indexes of volumes especially oriented to the experiences of women produced few references specifically pertaining to abortion trends in the Hitler era. <ul><li>Henry P. David, Jochen Fleischhacker and Charlotte Hohn, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/1972501”Abortion">and Eugenics in Nazi Germany”</a>, <i>Population and Development Review</i>, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Mar., 1988), p. 81</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Revelations of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Sterilization&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sterilization (page does not exist)">sterilization</a> abuse during that time exposed the complicity of the <a href="/wiki/Federal_government_of_the_United_States" title="Federal government of the United States">federal government</a>. At firs the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Health,_Education_and_Welfare" class="extiw" title="w:United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare">Department of Health, Education and Welfare</a> claimed that approximately 16, 000 women and 8, 000 men had been sterilized in 1972 under the auspices of <a href="/wiki/Social_programs_in_the_United_States" title="Social programs in the United States">federal programs</a>. Later, however, these figures underwent a drastic revision. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Shultz" class="extiw" title="w:Carl Shultz">Carl Shultz</a>, director of HEW’s Population Affairs Office, estimated that between 100,000 and 200,000 sterilizations had actually been funded that year by the federal government. During Hitler’s Germany, incidentally, 250,000 sterilization were carried out under the Nazi’s Hereditary Health Law. Is it possible that the record of the Nazis, through the years of their reign, may have been almost equaled by the U.S. government-funded sterilizations in the space of a single year? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Angela_Davis" title="Angela Davis">Angela Davis</a>, “Racism, Birth Control, and Reproductive Rights in Fried, Marlene Gerber (ed.). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=keE5EmSKYr0C">“From Abortion to Reproductive Freedom: Transforming a Movement”</a> (1990). South End Press. <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780896083875" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn">ISBN 9780896083875</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>As for the explanation that fascism is a last desperate attempt of <a href="/wiki/Capitalism" title="Capitalism">capitalism</a> to delay the socialist revolution, it simply is not true. It is not true that ‘<a href="/wiki/Big_business" title="Big business">big business</a>’ promoted fascism. On the contrary, both in <a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a> and in <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a> the proportion of fascist sympathizers and backers was smallest in the industrial and financial classes. It is equally untrue that ‘big business’ profits from fascism; of all the classes it probably suffers most from totalitarian economics and <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wehrwirtschaft" class="extiw" title="w:Wehrwirtschaft">Wehrwirtschaft</a>.</i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Drucker" title="Peter Drucker">Peter Drucker</a>, <i>The End of Economic Man</i>, The John Day Company, The End of Economic Man (1939) p. 7</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>[T]he enemy of <a href="/wiki/Totalitarianism" title="Totalitarianism">totalitarian</a> Nazism is not in the <a href="/wiki/East/Central_Europe" title="East/Central Europe">East</a>. It is not <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russian</a> <a href="/wiki/Communism" title="Communism">communism</a>. The complete collapse of the belief in the attainability of <a href="/wiki/Freedom" title="Freedom">freedom</a> and <a href="/wiki/Equality" title="Equality">equality</a> through <a href="/wiki/Marxism" title="Marxism">Marxist</a> socialism has forced Russia to travel the same road toward a totalitarian, purely negative, noneconomic society of unfreedom and inequality which Germany has been following… During the last few years <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a> has therefore been forced to adopt one purely totalitarian and <a href="/wiki/Fascism" title="Fascism">fascist</a> principle after the other; not, it must be emphasized, because of a ‘<a href="/wiki/Stalinism" title="Stalinism">Stalinist</a> <a href="/wiki/Conspiracy" title="Conspiracy">conspiracy</a>,” but because there was no other possibility. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Drucker" title="Peter Drucker">Peter Drucker</a>, <i>The End of Economic Man</i>, The John Day Company, The End of Economic Man (1939) pp. 245-246</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion. And it has been proven as much of an illusion in Stalinist Russia as it proven an illusion in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar_Republic" class="extiw" title="w:Weimar Republic">pre-Hitler Germany</a>. Communism in anything but name was abandoned in Russia when the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-Year_Plans_of_the_Soviet_Union" class="extiw" title="w:Five-Year Plans of the Soviet Union">Five-Year Plan</a> was substituted for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Economic_Policy" class="extiw" title="w:New Economic Policy">New Economic Policy</a> (NEP) after <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/death_of_Vladimir_Lenin" class="extiw" title="w:death of Vladimir Lenin">Lenin’s death</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Drucker" title="Peter Drucker">Peter Drucker</a>, <i>The End of Economic Man</i>, The John Day Company, The End of Economic Man (1939) p. 246</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="E">E</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nazism&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: E"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The full name of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party, the political movement that brought him to power and supplied the infrastructure of the fascist dictatorship over which he would preside, was Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, the National Socialist German Workers' Party. According to historians, the complicated moniker reveals more about the image the party wanted to project and the constituency it aimed to build than it did about the Nazis' true political goals, which were building a state based on <a href="/wiki/White_supremacy" title="White supremacy">racial superiority</a> and brute-force governance.<br />Given that Nazism is traditionally held to be an <a href="/wiki/Far-right_politics" title="Far-right politics">extreme right-wing</a> <a href="/wiki/Ideology" title="Ideology">ideology</a>, the party's conspicuous use of the term "socialist" — which refers to a political system normally plotted on the far-left end of the ideological spectrum — has long been a source of confusion, not to mention heated debate among partisans seeking to distance themselves from the genocidal taint of Nazi Germany. <ul><li>David Emery, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.snopes.com/news/2017/09/05/were-nazis-socialists/">Were the Nazis Socialists?</a> (5 September 2017), <i>Snopes</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The debate has heated up to the point of critical mass in recent years, thanks to the rise of nationalist political movements reacting in part to stagnant economic conditions and the perceived threat of <a href="/wiki/Globalization" title="Globalization">globalism</a>, and also in part to a flood of <a href="/wiki/Immigration" title="Immigration">immigrants</a> and foreign <a href="/wiki/Refugee" title="Refugee">refugees</a> pouring into <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a> and the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> because of war and economic crises abroad.<br />A subset of these groups, identified as <a href="/wiki/White_nationalism" title="White nationalism">ethno-nationalists</a>, hold racially-tinged views ranging from nativism (the belief that the interests of native-born people must be defended against encroachment by immigrants) to full-on, hate-mongering white supremacy. Some of the latter openly align themselves with historical Nazism, to the point of waving <a href="/wiki/Swastika" title="Swastika">swastikas</a>, spouting <a href="/wiki/Antisemitism" title="Antisemitism">anti-Semitic</a> rhetoric, and imitating the tactics of Adolf Hitler.<br />Add to this mix the ascendancy of President <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a>, who won the 2016 election in part by courting a nativist, anti-immigrant constituency, and whose reticent condemnation of <a href="/wiki/White_nationalism" title="White nationalism">white nationalist</a> protesters who held a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia that erupted in fatal violence in August 2017 drew howls of criticism from all but his most loyal supporters, and the urgency of sorting out these political associations begins to make sense. <ul><li>David Emery, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.snopes.com/news/2017/09/05/were-nazis-socialists/">Were the Nazis Socialists?</a> (5 September 2017), <i>Snopes</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>However, the assumption that because the word "socialist" appeared in the party's name and socialist words and ideas popped up in the writings and speeches of top Nazis then the Nazis must have been actual socialists is naive and ahistorical. What the evidence shows, on the contrary, is that Nazi Party leaders paid mere lip service to socialist ideals on the way to achieving their one true goal: raw, totalitarian power. <ul><li>David Emery, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.snopes.com/news/2017/09/05/were-nazis-socialists/">Were the Nazis Socialists?</a> (5 September 2017), <i>Snopes</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Despite continuing certain <a href="/wiki/Weimar_Republic" title="Weimar Republic">Weimar</a>-era <a href="/wiki/Social_welfare" class="mw-redirect" title="Social welfare">social welfare</a> programs, the Nazis proceeded to restrict their availability to "racially worthy" (non-Jewish) beneficiaries. In terms of labor, worker <a href="/wiki/Strikes" class="mw-redirect" title="Strikes">strikes</a> were outlawed. <a href="/wiki/Trade_unions" title="Trade unions">Trade unions</a> were replaced by the party-controlled <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Labor_Front" class="extiw" title="w:German Labor Front">German Labor Front</a>, primarily tasked with increasing <a href="/wiki/Productivity" title="Productivity">productivity</a>, not protecting <a href="/wiki/Working_class" title="Working class">workers</a>. In lieu of the socialist ideal of an egalitarian, worker-run state, the National Socialists erected a party-run <a href="/wiki/Police_state" title="Police state">police state</a> whose governing structure was anti-democratic, rigidly <a href="/wiki/Hierarchy" title="Hierarchy">hierarchical</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Military" title="Military">militaristic</a> in nature. As to the <a href="/wiki/Redistribution_of_income_and_wealth" title="Redistribution of income and wealth">redistribution of wealth</a>, the socialist ideal "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need" was rejected in favor of a credo more on the order of "Take everything that belongs to non-Aryans and keep it for the master race."<br />Above all, the Nazis were German <a href="/wiki/White_nationalism" title="White nationalism">white nationalists</a>. What they stood for was the ascendancy of the "Aryan" race and the German nation, by any means necessary. Despite co-opting the name, some of the rhetoric, and even some of the precepts of socialism, Hitler and party did so with utter cynicism, and with vastly different goals. The claim that the Nazis actually were leftists or socialists in any generally accepted sense of those terms flies in the face of historical reality. <ul><li>David Emery, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.snopes.com/news/2017/09/05/were-nazis-socialists/">Were the Nazis Socialists?</a> (5 September 2017), <i>Snopes</i></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="F">F</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nazism&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: F"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>It is true, as <a href="/wiki/A._J._P._Taylor" title="A. J. P. Taylor">Taylor</a> contended, that Hitler improvised his way through the diplomatic crises of the mid-1930s with a combination of intuition and luck. He admitted that he was a gambler with a low aversion to risk ('All my life I have played va banque'). But what was he gambling to win? This is not a difficult question to answer, because he answered it repeatedly. He was not content, like <a href="/wiki/Gustav_Stresemann" title="Gustav Stresemann">Stresemann</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Bruning" class="extiw" title="w:Heinrich Bruning">Bruning</a>, merely to dismantle the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Versailles" title="Treaty of Versailles">Versailles Treaty</a> - a task that the <a href="/wiki/Great_Depression" title="Great Depression">Depression</a> had half-done for him even before he became Chancellor. Nor was his ambition to restore Germany to her position in 1914. It is not even correct, as the German historian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Fischer" class="extiw" title="w:Fritz Fischer">Fritz Fischer</a> suggested, that Hitler's aims were similar to those of <a href="/wiki/German_Empire" title="German Empire">Germany</a>'s leaders during the <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">First World War</a>, namely to carve out an <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Europe" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern Europe">East European</a> sphere of influence at the expense of <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a>. Hitler's goal was different. Simply stated, it was to enlarge the German Reich so that it embraced as far as possible the entire <a href="/wiki/Germans" title="Germans">German</a> <i>Volk</i> and in the process to annihilate what he saw as the principal threats to its existence, namely the Jews and <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet</a> <a href="/wiki/Communism" title="Communism">Communism</a> (which to Hitler were one and the same). Like <a href="/wiki/Empire_of_Japan" title="Empire of Japan">Japan</a>'s proponents of territorial expansion, he sought living space in the belief that Germany required more territory because of her over-endowment with people and her under-endowment with strategic raw materials. The German case was not quite the same, however, because there were already large numbers of Germans living in much of the space that Hitler coveted- When Hitler pressed for self-determination on behalf of ethnic Germans who were not living under German rule - first in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saarland" class="extiw" title="w:Saarland">Saarland</a>, then in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhineland" class="extiw" title="w:Rhineland">Rhineland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Austria" title="Austria">Austria</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudetenland" class="extiw" title="w:Sudetenland">Sudetenland</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_City_of_Danzig" class="extiw" title="w:Free City of Danzig">Danzig</a> - he was not making a succession of quite reasonable demands, as <a href="/wiki/Government_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Government of the United Kingdom">British statesmen</a> were inclined to assume. He was making a single unreasonable demand which implied territorial claims extending far beyond the River Vistula in <a href="/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Poland</a>. Hitler wanted not merely a Greater Germany; he wanted the Greatest Possible Germany. Given the very wide geographical distribution of Germans in East Central Europe, that implied a German empire stretching from the <a href="/wiki/Rhine" title="Rhine">Rhine</a> to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volga" class="extiw" title="w:Volga">Volga</a>. Nor was that the limit of Hitler's ambitions, for the creation of this maximal Germany was intended to be the basis for a German world empire that would be, at the very least, a match for the <a href="/wiki/British_Empire" title="British Empire">British Empire</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Niall_Ferguson" title="Niall Ferguson">Niall Ferguson</a>, <i>The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West</i> (2006), pp. 314-315</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There are some good reasons why National Socialism belongs to the left rather than the right politically. In any case, [Hitler] had more in common with Stalin's <a href="/wiki/Totalitarianism" title="Totalitarianism">totalitarianism</a> than with <a href="/wiki/Benito_Mussolini" title="Benito Mussolini">Mussolini's</a> fascism. In Italy in the twenties and thirties there were still the traditional class differences, while Hitler, unlike the socialists of all shades, promoted social equality. After the so-called seizure of power, contrary to what some members of the upper classes hoped, he did not restore the privileges lost in 1918. Instead, he simply replaced <a href="/wiki/Karl_Marx" title="Karl Marx">Marx</a>'s term of classless society with the vocabulary of the ‘people's community’ and sold the still terrifyingly socialist-sounding term as a kind of permanent fraternity celebration. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Fest" class="extiw" title="w:Joachim Fest"> Joachim Fest</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://taz.de/!703669/">“Was Adolf Hitler a leftist?”</a> Taz.am Wochenende (27 September 2003)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>After the war, the army sent [Hitler] to investigate political movements in Munich. In the insignificant German Workers' Party he discovered the opportunity and latent talents that brought him success. He left the army, joined the party, and rapidly became its most skilled speaker and propagandist. Under the name National Socialist German Workers' Party, [NSDAP or Nazis], it held its first large public meeting in 1920, when Hitler denounced <a href="/wiki/Democracy" title="Democracy">democracy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Capitalism" title="Capitalism">capitalism</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Judaism" title="Judaism">Jews</a>. The next year, facing a split within the party, he resigned and only returned when he was given complete control. He established the '<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuhrerprinzip" class="extiw" title="w:Fuhrerprinzip">Fuhrer Principle</a>' of unquestioning <a href="/wiki/Obedience" title="Obedience">obedience</a> that marked the rest of his career. As his following grew, he attempted to seize power in Bavaria in 1923. He failed and went to prison. There he wrote the autobiographical <a href="/wiki/Mein_Kampf" title="Mein Kampf"><i>Mein Kampf</i> [<i>My Struggle</i>]</a> that blamed all the ills of society on the Jews and laid out plans for a future <a href="/wiki/Totalitarianism" title="Totalitarianism">totalitarian</a> state. After his release, he re-established his control of the NSDAP but made little progress until he redirected it away from the generally <a href="/wiki/Socialism" title="Socialism">socialist</a> workers to small towns and the lower middle class. His stress on traditional German values and denunciation of the Jews and Communists brought him increasing support, especially as the <a href="/wiki/Great_Depression" title="Great Depression">Depression</a> struck Germany. The Nazis seemed the only party willing to take drastic action to save the <a href="/wiki/Economy_of_Germany" title="Economy of Germany">economy</a>. Hitler worked incessantly, giving vague but powerful speeches that played on the emotions of his audience. He also built practical support in the storm of Storm Troopers, thugs in brown shirts who spread party <a href="/wiki/Propaganda" title="Propaganda">propaganda</a> and disrupted meetings of its opponents. By 1933 the Nazis were the largest party in <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a>. <ul><li>Clive Foss, <i>The Tyrants: 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption</i>, London: Quercus Publishing, 2006, <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1905204965" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn">ISBN 1905204965</a>, pp. 140-141</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fascism" title="Fascism">Fascism</a>, Nazism and <a href="/wiki/Stalinism" title="Stalinism">Stalinism</a> have in common that they offered the atomized individual a new refuge and security. These systems are the culmination of alienation. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Erich_Fromm" title="Erich Fromm">Erich Fromm</a>, in <i>The Sane Society</i> (1955), p. 237</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The discource of Nazism was vital force, power was its only end, and violence it only means. By camouflaging its means by its end through the use of <a href="/wiki/Marxism%E2%80%93Leninism" title="Marxism–Leninism">Leninist</a> language, it betrayed its origins, like <a href="/wiki/Vices" title="Vices">vice</a> paying hidden homage to <a href="/wiki/Virtue" title="Virtue">virtue</a>, as it continued to declare that reconciliation of humanity was its goal. .... To a society justifiably terrified by the threat of Communism, the Nazis offered <a href="/wiki/Protection" title="Protection">protection</a> and renewal, at the price of the same means used by Communism but in an ideological version that radically suppressed any idea of <a href="/wiki/Morality" title="Morality">morality</a>. ... Nazism was a German form of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolshevism" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Bolshevism">Bolshevism</a> turned against its initial form. ... It was in Nazi Germany that <a href="/wiki/Bolsheviks" title="Bolsheviks">Bolshevism</a> was perfected; there, political power truly absorbed all spheres of <a href="/wiki/Existence" title="Existence">existence</a>, from the economy to religion, from <a href="/wiki/Technology" title="Technology">technology</a> to the soul. The <a href="/wiki/Irony" title="Irony">irony</a>, the tragedy, of history was that both <a href="/wiki/Totalitarian" class="mw-redirect" title="Totalitarian">totalitarian</a> regimes, identical in their aim for absolute power over dehumanized beings, presented themselves as protection from the danger presented by the other. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Furet" title="François Furet">François Furet</a>, <i>The Passing of an Illusion, The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century</i>, University of Chicago Press (1999) pp. 205-07</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="G">G</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nazism&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: G"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>[Nazi] Germany is showing to the world how efficiently violence can be worked when it is not hampered by any hypocrisy or weakness masquerading as <a href="/wiki/Humanitarianism" title="Humanitarianism">humanitarianism</a>. It is also showing how hideous, terrible and terrifying it looks in its nakedness. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi" title="Mahatma Gandhi">Mahatma Gandhi</a> in <i>Zionism and Anti-Semitism</i> (November 1938), as quoted in <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.co.za/books?id=pjN3jZQ74AoC&pg=PA319#v=onepage&q&f=false">The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings,</a></i> p. 319.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_ideology" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Nazi ideology">Nazi ideology</a> cannot be summarized in a program of platform. It can be better understood as a maelstrom of <a href="/wiki/Prejudice" title="Prejudice">prejudices</a>, <a href="/wiki/Passion" title="Passion">passions</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hatred" title="Hatred">hatreds</a>, <a href="/wiki/Emotions" title="Emotions">emotions</a>, <a href="/wiki/Resentment" title="Resentment">resentments</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bias" class="mw-redirect" title="Bias">biases</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hope" title="Hope">hopes</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Attitude" title="Attitude">attitudes</a> that, when combined, most often resembled a religious crusade wearing the mask of a political <a href="/wiki/Ideology" title="Ideology">ideology</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jonah_Goldberg" title="Jonah Goldberg">Jonah Goldberg</a>, in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Fascism" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Liberal Fascism">Liberal Fascism</a></i> (2008), p. 59</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>[P]erpetrators of <a href="/wiki/The_Holocaust" title="The Holocaust">the Holocaust</a> were ordinary Germans</b>. Many were not particularly <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Nazified</a>... not being in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzstaffel" class="extiw" title="w:Schutzstaffel">SS</a> or even in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Nazi Party">Nazi Party</a>. ...<b>Many</b> of the perpetrators, at least <b>in the police battalions, were older.</b> They were not particularly <a href="/wiki/Martial_arts" title="Martial arts">martial</a>. ...It is not just that perpetrators were ordinary Germans, but that there were also <b>vast numbers</b> of them... The number... who <b>took part</b> in the extermination of the <a href="/wiki/Judaism" title="Judaism">Jew</a>... was greater than 100,000... probably far greater. ...Over 10,000 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camps" class="extiw" title="w:Nazi concentration camps">German camps</a> of various sizes and kinds existed for incarcerating and destroying Jews and non-Jews. ...The German justice center ...catalogued over 333,000 people ...who served ...institutions used to kill Jews and others. ...Nazi authorities ...assigned ...virtually anyone who was available. <b>The perpetrators were not coerced to kill</b>. ...[I]n many units officers announced... they did not have to kill, and... at least nine police battalions... had been informed that they did not have to kill. There is similar evidence for the some... <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einsatzkommando" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Einsatzkommando">Einsatzkommandos</a></i>. There is... evidence... <a href="/wiki/Heinrich_Himmler" title="Heinrich Himmler">Himmler</a>... issue[d] orders allowing those... not up to the killing... excused... [O]rdinary Germans killed... <b>[T]he... <i>initiative</i>... <i>zeal</i>, and... <i>cruelty</i>... all were found among the ordinary Germans who were the perpetrators of the Holocaust.</b> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Goldhagen" class="extiw" title="w:Daniel Goldhagen">Daniel J. Goldhagen</a>, presentation on <i>Hitler’s Willing Executioners</i> (1996) in the “Willing Executioners”/“Ordinary Men” Debate, Selections from the Symposium at the United States Holocaust Research Institute , April 8, 1996.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="H">H</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nazism&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: H"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hitler_portrait_crop.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Hitler_portrait_crop.jpg/220px-Hitler_portrait_crop.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Hitler_portrait_crop.jpg/330px-Hitler_portrait_crop.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/Hitler_portrait_crop.jpg 2x" data-file-width="426" data-file-height="568" /></a><figcaption>Germany's economic policy is conducted exclusively in accordance with the interests of the German people. In this respect <b>I am a fanatical socialist, one who has ever in mind the interests of all his people.</b> ~ <a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>When [Hitler] talked of National-Socialism what he really meant was military-Socialism, Socialism within a framework of military discipline or, in civilian terms, police-Socialism. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ernst_Hanfstaengl" title="Ernst Hanfstaengl">Ernst Hanfstaengl</a>, <i>Hitler: The Memoir of a Nazi Insider Who Turned Against the Führer</i>, New York: NY, Arcade Publishing, 2011, pp. 70-71</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Rooted in extreme nationalism, National Socialism is driven by ideas of Germanic supremacy. It promotes aggressive expansionism and a totalitarian state where the people are united under a leader with absolute power, the Führer. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearts_of_Iron_IV" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Hearts of Iron IV">Hearts of Iron IV</a>, Description of Nazism</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>De Rougemont began by thinking that Hitler’s state was a regime of the right. But during a lengthy stay in Frankfurt as a visiting professor, he found himself involuntarily questioning this. “What unsettled him,” writes Boyd, “was the fact that those who stood most naturally on the right—<a href="/wiki/Lawyers" title="Lawyers">lawyers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Doctors" class="mw-redirect" title="Doctors">doctors</a>, <a href="/wiki/Industrialists" class="mw-redirect" title="Industrialists">industrialists</a> and so on—were the very ones who most bitterly denounced National Socialism. <b>Far from being a bulwark against Communism, they complained, it was itself communism in disguise”</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Hitchens" title="Peter Hitchens">Peter Hitchens</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/09/hitler-the-progressive">Hitler The Progressive</a>, <i>First Things</i>, 16 September 2019</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>National Socialism was <a href="/wiki/Egalitarianism" title="Egalitarianism">egalitarian</a> and horribly modern. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Hitchens" title="Peter Hitchens">Peter Hitchens</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/09/hitler-the-progressive">Hitler The Progressive</a>, <i>First Things</i>, 16 September 2019</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Socialism as the final concept of <a href="/wiki/Duty" title="Duty">duty</a>, the ethical duty of work, not just for oneself but also for one’s fellow man’s sake, and above all the principle: <a href="/wiki/Common_good" title="Common good">Common good</a> before own good, a struggle against all parasitism and especially against easy and unearned <a href="/wiki/Income" class="mw-redirect" title="Income">income</a>. And we were aware that in this fight we can rely on no one but our own people. We are convinced that socialism in the right sense will only be possible in nations and races that are Aryan, and there in the first place we hope for our own people and are convinced that socialism is inseparable from nationalism. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a> "Why We Are Anti-Semites," August 15, 1920 speech in Munich at the Hofbräuhaus. Hitler gave this speech a number of times in August of 1920 to members of the National Socialist German Workers Party. Translated from <i>Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte</i>, 16. Jahrg., 4. H. (Oct., 1968), pp. 390-420. Edited by Carolyn Yeager. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://carolynyeager.net/why-we-are-antisemites-text-adolf-hitlers-1920-speech-hofbr%C3%A4uhaus">[2]</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>After all, that’s exactly why we call ourselves National Socialists! We want to start by implementing socialism in our nation among our Volk! It is not until the individual nations are socialist that they can address themselves to international socialism. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a> according to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Wagener" class="extiw" title="w:Otto Wagener">Otto Wagener</a> in <i>Hitler Memoirs of a Confidant</i>, editor, Henry Ashby Turner, Jr., Yale University Press (1985) p. 288</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We are socialists, we are enemies of today's <a href="/wiki/Capitalism" title="Capitalism">capitalistic</a> <a href="/wiki/Economic_system" title="Economic system">economic system</a> for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair <a href="/wiki/Salaried" class="mw-redirect" title="Salaried">salaries</a>, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to <a href="/wiki/Wealth" title="Wealth">wealth</a> and <a href="/wiki/Property" title="Property">property</a> instead of responsibility and performance, and we are determined to destroy this system under all conditions. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a> as quoted in <i>Adolf Hitler: The Definitive Biography</i>, John Toland, New York: NY, Anchor Books, 1992, p. 224. Quote is from a speech at the Clou restaurant center on May 1, 1927. Hitler is paraphrasing Gregor Strasser’s one-page Nazi talking points memo from June 15, 1926.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>For we [National Socialists] too are considered ‘upstarts’ and ‘leftists’ by those same reactionaries. They are only too eager to apply such terms as ‘enemies of the fatherland,’ ‘Bolsheviks,’ and ‘inferiors.’” <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a>, according to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Wagener" class="extiw" title="w:Otto Wagener">Otto Wagener</a> in "Hitler Memoirs of a Confidant", editor, Henry Ashby Turner, Jr., Yale University Press (1985) p 288.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Since we are socialists, we must necessarily also be antisemites because we want to fight against the very opposite: <a href="/wiki/Materialism" title="Materialism">materialism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Satanism" class="mw-redirect" title="Satanism">mammonism</a>… <b>How can you not be an antisemite, being a socialist!</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a>, "Why We Are Anti-Semites," August 15, 1920 speech in Munich at the Hofbräuhaus. Translated from <i>Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte</i>, 16. Jahrg., 4. H. (Oct., 1968), pp. 390-420. Edited by Carolyn Yeager. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://carolynyeager.net/why-we-are-antisemites-text-adolf-hitlers-1920-speech-hofbr%C3%A4uhaus">[3]</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>This German <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksgemeinschaft" class="extiw" title="w:Volksgemeinschaft">Volksgemeinschaft</a> is truly practical socialism and therefore National Socialism in the best sense of the word. Here everyone is obligated to carry his load. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a>, as quoted in <i>Stagnation and Renewal in Social Policy: The Rise and Fall of Policy Regimes</i>, editors: Martin Rein, Gøsta Esping-Andersen, and Lee Rainwater (1987) p. 63.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liberalism" title="Liberalism">Liberalism</a> was failing. If I'd been <a href="/wiki/Germans" title="Germans">German</a> and not a <a href="/wiki/Jew" class="mw-redirect" title="Jew">Jew</a>, I could see I might have become a Nazi, a German nationalist. I could see how they'd become passionate about saving the nation. It was a time when you didn't believe there was a future unless the world was fundamentally transformed. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eric_Hobsbawm" title="Eric Hobsbawm">Eric Hobsbawm</a>, “A Question of Faith,” Maya Jaggi, <i>The Guardian</i> (Sept. 14, 2002)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Had Hitler died in middle of the 1930's, Nazism would probably have shown, under the leadership of a <a href="/wiki/Hermann_G%C3%B6ring" title="Hermann Göring">Goering</a>, a fundamental change in its course, and the <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">Second World War</a> might have been averted. Yet the sepulcher of <a href="/wiki/Hitler" class="mw-redirect" title="Hitler">Hitler</a>, the founder of a Nazi religion, might perhaps have been a greater evil than all the atrocities, bloodshed and destruction of Hitler's war. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eric_Hoffer" title="Eric Hoffer">Eric Hoffer</a>, <i>The True Believer</i> (1951) Ch.18 Good and Bad Mass Movements, §122</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="K">K</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nazism&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: K"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>gentiles persecuted the Jews for thousands of years before the Nazis got efficient at it <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Melanie_Kaye/Kantrowitz" title="Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz">Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz</a> "Some Notes on Jewish Lesbian Identity" in Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology (1982)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The craziest of all political systems, the unique dictatorship, found its earned end. History will note for eternity that the German people were not able on their own initiative to shake off the yoke of the National Socialists. The victory of the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">Americans</a>, <a href="/wiki/British_Empire" title="British Empire">English</a> and <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Russians</a> was a necessary occurrence to disrupt the National Socialists' delusions and plans for <a href="/wiki/World_domination" title="World domination">world domination</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Kellner" title="Friedrich Kellner">Friedrich Kellner</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Opposition" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:My Opposition">My Opposition</a></i>, diary entry for May 1, 1945.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Most of the <a href="/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws" title="Jim Crow laws">American laws defining race</a> are not to be compared with those once enforced by Nazi <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a>, the latter being relatively more <a href="/wiki/Liberalism" title="Liberalism">liberal</a>. In the view of the Nazis, persons having less than one fourth Jewish blood could qualify as Aryans, whereas many of the American laws specify that persons having one-eighth, one-sixteenth, or 'any ascertainable' <a href="/wiki/Black_people" title="Black people">Negro</a> blood are Negroes in the eyes of the law and subject to all restrictions governing the conduct of Negroes. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stetson_Kennedy" class="extiw" title="w:Stetson Kennedy">Stetson Kennedy</a>, <i>Jim Crow Guide: The Way it Was</i> (1955), Ch.4, "Who is Colored Where".</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Much of the pot-pourri of ideas that went to make up Nazi ideology – an amalgam of <a href="/wiki/Prejudice" title="Prejudice">prejudices</a>, <a href="/wiki/Phobias" class="mw-redirect" title="Phobias">phobias</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Utopia" title="Utopia">utopian</a> social expectations rather than a coherent set of intellectual propositions – was to be found in different forms and intensities before the <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">First World War</a>,… <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ian_Kershaw" title="Ian Kershaw">Ian Kershaw</a>, <i>Hitler 1889- 1936: Hubris</i>, New York and London, W.W. Norton & Company (1999) p. 134</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Intensified <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism#Anti-capitalism" class="extiw" title="w:Nazism">anti-capitalist</a> rhetoric, which Hitler was powerless to quell, worried the business community as much as ever. During the presidential campaign of spring 1932, most business leaders stayed firmly behind <a href="/wiki/Paul_von_Hindenburg" title="Paul von Hindenburg">Hindenburg</a>, and did not favour Hitler. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ian_Kershaw" title="Ian Kershaw">Ian Kershaw</a>, <i>Hitler 1889- 1936: Hubris</i>, New York and London, W.W. Norton & Company (1999) p. 359</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>For <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholics</a>--the other sub-culture which Nazism found greatest difficulty in penetrating, before and after 1933—Hitler was above all seen as the head of a 'godless', anti-Christian movement... On the nationalist-conservative Right, the relatively sympathetic treatment of Hitler at the time of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Plan" class="extiw" title="w:Young Plan"> Young Plan</a> Campaign [1929-30] had given way to hostility. Hitler was portrayed for the most part as intransigent and irresponsible, a wild and vulgar <a href="/wiki/Demagogue" title="Demagogue">demagogue</a>, not a <a href="/wiki/Statesmanship" title="Statesmanship">statesman</a>, an obstacle to political recovery, the head of an <a href="/wiki/Extremism" title="Extremism">extremist</a> movement with menacing socialistic tendencies. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ian_Kershaw" title="Ian Kershaw">Ian Kershaw</a>, <i>Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris</i>, W.W. Norton & Company (1999) p. 412.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Sexual propaganda against the Jews as a race was a cornerstone of the Hitlerian attack on that group in Germany. Both Nazi and <a href="/wiki/Japan_during_World_War_II" title="Japan during World War II">Japanese</a> propaganda included attacks on the sexual behavior of Americans at home. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Kinsey" title="Alfred Kinsey">Alfred Charles Kinsey</a>, Wardell Baxter Pomeroy, Clyde Eugene Martin, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=pfMKrY3VvigC">“Sexual Behavior in the Human Male”</a>, Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Co., (1948), p.389</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The National Socialist state will guarantee that every one of our people finds work.” <ul><li>As quoted by Bernhard Köhler, head of the Nazi Party Commission for Economic Policy, in <i>Nazi Economics: Ideology, Theory, and Policy</i>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avraham_Barkai" class="extiw" title="w:Avraham Barkai"> Avraham Barkai</a>, Yale University Press, 1990, p. 169. Source: Bernhard Köhler, <i>Unser Wille and Weg 2</i>, 1932, p. 132</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>For the <a href="/wiki/Germans" title="Germans">German people</a> the battle for work is the turning point from capitalism to socialism because its intention is to provide every member of the nation once again with a job…. When he [Adolf Hitler] said ‘We will liquidate <a href="/wiki/Unemployment" title="Unemployment">unemployment</a> by our own strength,’ capitalism received its death blow.” <ul><li>As quoted by Bernhard Köhler, <i>Nazi Economics: Ideology, Theory, and Policy</i>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avraham_Barkai" class="extiw" title="w:Avraham Barkai"> Avraham Barkai</a>, Yale University Press, 1990, p. 169, A. Holtz, “Sozialistische Wirtschaft,” <i>Der Aufbau</i> 4, no. 17, 1936, pp. 6-7</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>National Socialism is at bottom incomparably more anti-Western than Bolshevism. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurel_Kolnai" class="extiw" title="w:Aurel Kolnai"> Aurel Kolnai </a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_Against_the_West" class="extiw" title="w:The War Against the West"> The War Against the West</a></i>, New York: NY, The Viking Press (1938) p. 18</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The Nazi State is not a "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourgeoisie#Nazism" class="extiw" title="w:Bourgeoisie">bourgeois</a>" but a "<a href="/wiki/Right-wing_socialism" class="mw-redirect" title="Right-wing socialism">Socialist</a>" State, on the strength of which it can afford to prevent workers from defending their own interests. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurel_Kolnai" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Aurel Kolnai">Aurel Kolnai</a>, <i>The War Against the West</i> (1938) London, UK, p. 325.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="L">L</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nazism&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: L"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="M">M</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nazism&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: M"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>I would say, on the basis of having observe a thousand people in the experiment and having my own intuition shaped and informed by these experiments, that if a system of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_camps" class="extiw" title="w:Death camps">death camps</a> were set up in the United States of the sort we had seen in Nazi Germany, one would find sufficient personnel for those camps in any medium-sized American town. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Stanley_Milgram" title="Stanley Milgram">Stanley Milgram</a>, Interview on <i>Sixty Minutes</i> (31 March 1979)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The ‘totalitarian’ label is part of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ideological_warfare" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:ideological warfare">ideological warfare</a> in another way as well – in so far as it covers both Communist and Fascist regimes, and is thereby intended to suggest that they are very similar systems. More specifically, the suggestion is that Communism and Nazism are more or less identical. This may be good propaganda but it is very poor political analysis. There were similarities between <a href="/wiki/Stalinism_and_Nazism" class="mw-redirect" title="Stalinism and Nazism">Stalinism and Nazism</a> in the use of mass terror and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/mass_murder" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:mass murder">mass murder</a>. But there were also enormous differences between them. Stalinism was a ‘revolution from above’, which was intended to modernise Russia from top to bottom, on the basis of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/state_ownership" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:state ownership">state ownership</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Means_of_production" title="Means of production">means of production</a> (most of those ‘means of production’ being themselves produced as part of the ‘revolution from above’); and Russia was indeed transformed, at immense cost. Nazism, on the other hand, was, for all its transformative rhetoric, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/counter-revolutionary" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:counter-revolutionary">counter-revolutionary</a> movement and regime, which consolidated capitalist ownership and the economic and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/social_structure" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:social structure">social structures</a> which Hitler had inherited from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar_Republic" class="extiw" title="w:Weimar Republic">Weimar</a>. As has often been observed, twelve years of absolute Nazi rule did not fundamentally change, and never sought to change fundamentally, the <a href="/wiki/Social_system" title="Social system">social system</a> which had existed when Hitler came to power. To assimilate Nazism and Stalinism, and equate them as similarly ‘totalitarian’ movements and regimes of the <a href="/wiki/Far-right_politics" title="Far-right politics">extreme right</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/extreme_left" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:extreme left">extreme left</a> is to render impossible a proper understanding of their nature, content and purpose. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Miliband" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ralph Miliband">Ralph Miliband</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Liebman" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Marcel Liebman">Marcel Liebman</a>, "Reflections on Anti-Communism", <i>The Socialist Register</i> (1984)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>To socialize is to <a href="/wiki/Nationalization" title="Nationalization">nationalize</a>. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Moeller_van_den_Bruck" class="extiw" title="w:Arthur Moeller van den Bruck"> Arthur Moeller van den Bruck</a> , as quoted in <i>The War Against the West</i>, Aurel Kolnai, New York: NY, The Viking Press, 1938, p.329 <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://archive.org/details/TheWarAgainstTheWest/page/n329">[4]</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If you love our country you are national, and if you love our people you are a socialist." <ul><li>Sir <a href="/wiki/Oswald_Mosley" title="Oswald Mosley">Oswald Mosley</a>, founder of the British Union of Fascists, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Mann_(sociologist)" class="extiw" title="w:Michael Mann (sociologist)">Michael Mann</a>, <i>Fascists</i>, New York: NY, Cambridge University Press (2006} p. 7.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Historians have a word for <a href="/wiki/Germans" title="Germans">Germans</a> who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored <a href="/wiki/Patriotism" title="Patriotism">patriotism</a>, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political <a href="/wiki/Opportunity" title="Opportunity">opportunism</a>, or convenience, or <a href="/wiki/Ignorance" title="Ignorance">ignorance</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Greed" title="Greed">greed</a>.</b><p><b>That word is "Nazi." Nobody cares about their motives anymore.</b></p><p><b>They joined what they joined. They lent their support and their moral approval. And, in so doing, they bound themselves to everything that came after. Who cares any more what particular knot they used in the binding?</b> </p><ul><li>A.R. Moxon, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.armoxon.com/2017/01/sky.html">Sky</a>", <i>A.R. Moxon</i> (<span class="mw-formatted-date" title="2017-01-16">2017-01-16</span>), quoted in <cite style="font-style:normal" class="" id="CITEREFDavid_Atkins2019">David Atkins (20 July 2019), "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://washingtonmonthly.com/2019/07/20/its-2019-time-to-stop-making-excuses-for-trump-supporters/">Stop Making Excuses for Trump Supporters</a>", <i>Washington Monthly</i>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Serial_Number" class="extiw" title="w:International Standard Serial Number">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://worldcat.org/issn/0043-0633">0043-0633</a></cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Stop+Making+Excuses+for+Trump+Supporters&rft.jtitle=Washington+Monthly&rft.aulast=David+Atkins&rft.au=David+Atkins&rft.date=20+July+2019&rft.issn=0043-0633&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwashingtonmonthly.com%2F2019%2F07%2F20%2Fits-2019-time-to-stop-making-excuses-for-trump-supporters%2F&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Nazism"><span style="display: none;"> </span></span></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Thirty centuries of <a href="/wiki/History" title="History">history</a> allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the descendants of those who were illiterate when <a href="/wiki/Rome_(ancient_city)" title="Rome (ancient city)">Rome</a> had <a href="/wiki/Julius_Caesar" title="Julius Caesar">Caesar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Virgil" title="Virgil">Virgil</a> and <a href="/wiki/Augustus" title="Augustus">Augustus</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Benito_Mussolini" title="Benito Mussolini">Benito Mussolini</a>'s early opinion of Nazism, as quoted in <i>Hitler's Ten-year War on the Jews</i> (1946), by Institute of Jewish Affairs</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="N">N</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nazism&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: N"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Only members of the nation may be citizens of the state. Only those of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan_race" class="extiw" title="w:Aryan race">pure White blood</a>... may be members of the nation. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Movement_(United_States)" class="extiw" title="w:National Socialist Movement (United States)">National Socialist Movement of the U.S.</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140904023924/http://www.nsm88.org/25points/25pointsengl.html"><i>25 Points of American National Socialism</i></a> (3 September 2014).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The common good before the individual good. (<i>Gemeinnutz geht vor Eigennutz</i>) <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Program" class="extiw" title="w:National Socialist Program"> The Nazi 25-point Program</a>, Adolf Hitler proclaimed his party's program on February 24, 1920 in Munich, Germany. <i>Nazi Ideology Before 1933: A Documentation</i>, Barbara Miller Lane, ‎Leila J. Rupp, introduction and translation, Manchester University Press (1978) p. 43.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Konrad_Heiden" title="Konrad Heiden">Konrad Heiden</a> translated this line as “The good of the state before the good of the individual” in his <i>A History of National Socialism</i>, (1935) p. 17.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Antisemitism" title="Antisemitism">No Jew</a> <a href="/wiki/Homophobia" title="Homophobia">or homosexual</a> may be a member of the nation. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Movement_(United_States)" class="extiw" title="w:National Socialist Movement (United States)">National Socialist Movement of the U.S.</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140904023924/http://www.nsm88.org/25points/25pointsengl.html"><i>25 Points of American National Socialism</i></a> (3 September 2014).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>When the Nazis came for the communists,<br />I remained silent;<br />I was not a communist.<br /><br />When they locked up the <a href="/wiki/Social_democracy" title="Social democracy">social democrats</a>,<br /> I remained silent;<br />I was not a social democrat.<br /><br />When they came for the trade unionists,<br />I did not speak out;<br />I was not a trade unionist.<br /><br />When they came for the Jews,<br />I remained silent;<br />I wasn't a Jew.<br /><br />When they came for me,<br />there was no one left to speak out.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Martin_Niem%C3%B6ller" title="Martin Niemöller">Martin Niemöller</a>, "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came..." class="extiw" title="w:First they came...">First they came...</a>", a speech (6 January 1946)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/J._Robert_Oppenheimer" class="mw-redirect" title="J. Robert Oppenheimer">J. Robert Oppenheimer</a>: You're talking about turning theory into <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_weapons" title="Nuclear weapons">a practical weapons system</a> faster than the Nazis. <br /> <a href="/wiki/Leslie_Groves" title="Leslie Groves">Leslie Groves</a>: Who have a twelve month head start. <br /> J. Robert Oppenheimer: Eighteen. <br /> Leslie Groves: How could you possibly know that? <br /> <a href="/wiki/J._Robert_Oppenheimer" class="mw-redirect" title="J. Robert Oppenheimer">J. Robert Oppenheimer</a>: Our fast neutron research took six months. The man they've undoubtedly put in charge will have made that leap instantly. <br /> Leslie Groves: Who do you think they put in charge? <br /> J. Robert Oppenheimer<b>: <a href="/wiki/Werner_Heisenberg" title="Werner Heisenberg">Werner Heisenberg</a>. He has the most intuitive understanding of atomic structure I've ever seen. <br /> Leslie Groves</b>: You know his work? <br /> J. Robert Oppenheimer<b>: I know <i>him</i>. Just like I know <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Bothe" class="extiw" title="w:Walter Bothe">Walter Bothe</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_von_Weizs%C3%A4cker" class="extiw" title="w:Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker">von Weizsäcker</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Diebner" class="extiw" title="w:Kurt Diebner">Diebner</a>... In a straight race, the Germans win. We've got one hope. <br /> Leslie Groves: Which is? <br /> J. Robert Oppenheimer: <a href="/wiki/Antisemitism" title="Antisemitism">Antisemitism</a>. <br /> Leslie Groves: What? <br /> J. Robert Oppenheimer: <a href="/wiki/Hitler" class="mw-redirect" title="Hitler">Hitler</a> called <a href="/wiki/Quantum_mechanics" title="Quantum mechanics">quantum physics</a> "Jewish <a href="/wiki/Science" title="Science">science</a>", said it right to <a href="/wiki/Einstein" class="mw-redirect" title="Einstein">Einstein</a>'s face. Our one hope is that Hitler is so, so blinded by hate that he's denied Heisenberg proper resources, because it'll take vast resources.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Nolan" title="Christopher Nolan">Christopher Nolan</a>, writer/director of <i><a href="/wiki/Oppenheimer_(film)" title="Oppenheimer (film)">Oppenheimer</a></i> (2023) the film, as interpreted by <a href="/wiki/Matt_Damon" title="Matt Damon">Matt Damon</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cillian_Murphy" title="Cillian Murphy">Cillian Murphy</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="O">O</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nazism&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: O"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Reichsparteitag_1935_mod.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Reichsparteitag_1935_mod.jpg/220px-Reichsparteitag_1935_mod.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="309" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Reichsparteitag_1935_mod.jpg/330px-Reichsparteitag_1935_mod.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Reichsparteitag_1935_mod.jpg 2x" data-file-width="404" data-file-height="567" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Fascism" title="Fascism">Fascism</a>, at any rate the German version, is a form of <a href="/wiki/Capitalism" title="Capitalism">capitalism</a> that borrows from <a href="/wiki/Socialism" title="Socialism">Socialism</a> just such features as will make it efficient for <a href="/wiki/War" title="War">war</a> purposes. ~ <a href="/wiki/George_Orwell" title="George Orwell">George Orwell</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>In fact, all over Germany the [Nazi] party seemed to pour propagandistic venom on the capitalists and decadent bourgeoisie. <ul><li>Dietrich Orlow, <i>The Nazi Party 1919-1945: A Complete History</i>, Enigma Books (2010) p. 61, referring to the 1926-1927 time period</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fascism" title="Fascism">Fascism</a>, at any rate the German version, is a form of <a href="/wiki/Capitalism" title="Capitalism">capitalism</a> that borrows from <a href="/wiki/Socialism" title="Socialism">Socialism</a> just such features as will make it efficient for <a href="/wiki/War" title="War">war</a> <a href="/wiki/Purposes" class="mw-redirect" title="Purposes">purposes</a>. Internally, Germany has a good deal in common with a Socialist state. Ownership has never been abolished, there are still capitalists and workers, and—this is the important point, and the real reason why rich men all over the world tend to sympathise with Fascism—generally speaking the same people are capitalists and the same people workers as before the Nazi revolution. <b>But at the same time the State, which is simply the Nazi Party, is in control of everything.</b> It controls investment, raw materials, rates of interest, working hours, wages. <b>The factory owner still owns his factory, but he is for practical purposes reduced to the status of a <a href="/wiki/Manager" title="Manager">manager</a>. Everyone is in effect a State employee, though the salaries vary very greatly.</b> The mere efficiency of such a system, the elimination of waste and obstruction, is obvious. In seven years it has built up the most powerful war machine the world has ever seen. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Orwell" title="George Orwell">George Orwell</a>, <i>The Lion and the Unicorn</i> (1941)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>National Socialism <i>is</i> a form of Socialism, <i>is</i> emphatically revolutionary, <i>does</i> crush the property owner as surely as it crushes the worker. The two regimes, having started from opposite ends, are rapidly evolving towards the same system—a form of <a href="/wiki/Oligarchy" title="Oligarchy">oligarchical</a> <a href="/wiki/Collectivism" title="Collectivism">collectivism</a></b>. . . . It is Germany that is moving towards Russia, rather than the other way about. It is therefore nonsense to talk about Germany ‘going Bolshevik’ if Hitler falls. Germany is going Bolshevik <i>because</i> of Hitler and not in spite of him. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Orwell" title="George Orwell">George Orwell</a>,<i>Orwell: My Country Left or Right 1940 to 1943, Vol. 2, Essays, Journalism & Letters</i>, Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus, edit., Boston, MA, Nonpareil Books (2000), p. 25, originally from “Review of <i>The Totalitarian Enemy</i> by F. Borkenau,” <i>Time and Tide</i> (4 May 1940)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In the long run the Nazi movement was moving to a position in which the economic New Order would be controlled by the Party through a <a href="/wiki/Bureaucracy" title="Bureaucracy">bureaucratic</a> apparatus staffed by <a href="/wiki/Technocracy" title="Technocracy">technical experts</a> and dominated by political interests, not unlike the system that had already been built up in the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Overy" title="Richard Overy">Richard Overy</a>, <i>War and Economy in the Third Reich</i>, Oxford: UK, Oxford University Press, 1994, p. 118</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>During the Third Reich state ownership expanded into the productive sectors, based on the strategic industries, <a href="/wiki/Aviation" title="Aviation">aviation</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminum" class="extiw" title="w:Aluminum">aluminium</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_oil" class="extiw" title="w:Synthetic oil">synthetic oil</a> and rubber, <a href="/wiki/Chemical" class="mw-redirect" title="Chemical">chemicals</a>, <a href="/wiki/Iron" title="Iron">iron</a> and <a href="/wiki/Steel" title="Steel">steel</a>, and army equipment. Government finances for state-owned enterprises rose from RM 4,000m in 1933 to RM 16,000m 10 years later; the capital assets of state-owned industry doubled during the same period; the number of state-owned firms topped 500. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Overy" title="Richard Overy">Richard Overy</a>, <i>War and Economy in the Third Reich</i>, Oxford: Clarendon, (1994) p.16</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="P">P</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nazism&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: P"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Some of the similarities and parallels include: Frequent recognition by Hitler and various Nazi leaders (and also Mussolini) that their only revolutionary and ideological counterparts were to be found in the Soviet Union . . . [and the] espousal of the have-not, proletarian-nation theory, which Lenin adopted only after it had been introduce in Italy . . . Hitlerian National Socialism more nearly paralleled <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_communism" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Russian communism">Russian communism</a> than has any other non-<a href="/wiki/Communist_system" class="mw-redirect" title="Communist system">Communist system</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Stanley_G._Payne" title="Stanley G. Payne">Stanley G. Payne</a>, <i>A History of Fascism, 1914-1945</i>, University of Wisconsin Press (1995) pp. 210-211</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>At the Twelfth Party Congress in Moscow in 1923, <a href="/wiki/Nikolai_Bukharin" title="Nikolai Bukharin">Nikolai Bukharin</a> stressed that the Nazi Party had ‘inherited Bolshevik political culture exactly as Italian Fascism had done.’ On June 20, 1923, <a href="/wiki/Karl_Radek" title="Karl Radek">Karl Radek</a> gave a speech before the Comintern Executive Committee proposing a common front with the Nazis in Germany. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Stanley_G._Payne" title="Stanley G. Payne">Stanley G. Payne</a>, <i>A History of Fascism, 1914-1945</i>, University of Wisconsin Press, 1995, p. 126</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If demands coming under the first of these principles were interpreted objectively, something very much resembling <a href="/wiki/Marxism" title="Marxism">Marxian communism</a> would result. Here are some of them: abolition of all <a href="/wiki/Profit" title="Profit">income</a> not earned by work; workers to share the <a href="/wiki/Profit" title="Profit">profits</a> of the large industries; abolition of land rent, and enactment of a law under which <a href="/wiki/Land" title="Land">land</a> might be confiscated without compensation for purposes of common interests; <a href="/wiki/Nationalization" title="Nationalization">socialization</a> of all incorporated <a href="/wiki/Business" title="Business">business</a> organizations. <ul><li>Kate Pinsdorf on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Program" class="extiw" title="w:National Socialist Program">NSDAP's programme</a>, in '<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/nature-and-aims-of-the-national-socialist-german-labor-party/6FB58959AF43C406669A0FE08473317F">Nature and Aims of the National Socialist German Labor Party</a>', <i>The American Political Science Review</i>, Vol. 25, No. 2 (May 1931), pp. 377-388</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="R">R</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nazism&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: R"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Biology" title="Biology">Biology</a> and <a href="/wiki/Genetics" title="Genetics">genetics</a> are the roots form which the National Socialist world-view has grown. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Ramm" class="extiw" title="w:Rudolf Ramm">Rudolf Ramm</a>, 1943; as qtd. in Proctor, Robert (1988). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Racial_Hygiene/hogbxS2Gp1QC?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover">“Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis”</a>. Cambridge, MA: <i>Harvard University Press</i>. ”The Origins of Racial Hygiene”, p.10</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Goebbels" class="mw-redirect" title="Goebbels">Goebbels</a> saw the ultimate enemy as international capitalism, and those who held power in Germany as its lackey, betraying their nation for personal gain. These were the traditional targets of the <a href="/wiki/Communists" class="mw-redirect" title="Communists">Communists</a>, of course, so the Nazis and the KPD, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Germany" class="extiw" title="w:Communist Party of Germany">Communist Party of Germany</a>, were in direct competition for the same constituency, two rabid dogs fighting for one bone… And Goebbels, who has so recently been happy to describe himself as a ‘German Communist’ led the fight with all the intensity of a religious convert. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Read" class="extiw" title="w:Anthony Read">Anthony Read</a>, <i>The Devil’s Disciples: Hitler’s Inner Circle</i>, New York: NY and London: UK,, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. (2004) pp. 141-142</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Such terms as communism, socialism, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_socialism" class="extiw" title="w:Fabian socialism">Fabianism</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Welfare_state" title="Welfare state">welfare state</a>, Nazism, fascism, state interventionism, <a href="/wiki/Egalitarianism" title="Egalitarianism">egalitarianism</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Planned_economy" title="Planned economy">planned economy</a>, the <a href="/wiki/New_Deal" title="New Deal">New Deal</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Deal" class="extiw" title="w:Fair Deal">Fair Deal</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Republicanism" class="extiw" title="w:New Republicanism">New Republicanism</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Frontier" class="extiw" title="w:New Frontier">New Frontier</a> are simply different labels for much the same thing. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Leonard_E._Read" title="Leonard E. Read">Leonard E. Read</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://cdn.mises.org/Elements%20of%20Libertarian%20Leadership_2.pdf">Elements of Libertarian Leadership</a> (1962), pp 62-63</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The basis of National Socialism’s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_psychology" class="extiw" title="w:Mass psychology">mass psychology</a> differs from that of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_II" class="extiw" title="w:Wilhelm II">Wilhelmian</a> <a href="/wiki/Imperialism" title="Imperialism">imperialism</a> in that the former had a pauperized middle class, whereas the German empire had a prosperous middle class as its mass basis. Thus, the Christianity of Wilhelmian imperialism had to be different from the <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a> of National Socialism. For all that, the ideological modifications did not undermine the fundamentals of the mystical world view in the least; rather they intensified its function. <br /> To begin with, National Socialism rejected the <a href="/wiki/Old_Testament" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Testament">Old Testament</a> as being ‘<a href="/wiki/Jewish" class="mw-redirect" title="Jewish">Jewish</a>’ - that, at least, was the position of its well-known exponent, Rosenberg, who belonged to the right wing. In the same way the <a href="/wiki/Internationalism" title="Internationalism">internationalism</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic Church">Roman Catholic Church</a> was regarded as ‘Jewish’. The international church was to be replaced by the ‘<a href="/wiki/German" class="mw-disambig" title="German">German</a>’. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich" title="Wilhelm Reich">Wilhelm Reich</a>, <i>The Mass Psychology of Fascism</i>, (1933), p. 117.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We have already seen how the <a href="/wiki/Ideology" title="Ideology">ideology</a> of <a href="/wiki/National" class="mw-redirect" title="National">national</a> <a href="/wiki/Honour" class="mw-redirect" title="Honour">honour</a> derives from <a href="/wiki/Authoritarian" class="mw-redirect" title="Authoritarian">authoritarian</a> ideology and the latter from the sex-negation regulation of <a href="/wiki/Sexuality" title="Sexuality">sexuality</a>. Neither <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a> nor National Socialism attacks the institution of compulsive <a href="/wiki/Marriage" title="Marriage">marriage</a>: for the former, apart from its function of procreation, marriage is a ‘complete, life-long union’; for the National Socialists it is a <a href="/wiki/Biologically" class="mw-redirect" title="Biologically">biologically</a> rooted institution for the preservation of <a href="/wiki/Racial" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Racial">racial</a> <a href="/wiki/Purity" title="Purity">purity</a>. Outside of compulsive marriage, there is no sexuality for either of them. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich" title="Wilhelm Reich">Wilhelm Reich</a>, <i>The Mass Psychology of Fascism</i>, (1933), p. 119.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Italian" class="mw-redirect" title="Italian">Italian</a> and <a href="/wiki/German" class="mw-disambig" title="German">German</a> National Socialism became international <a href="/wiki/Fascism" title="Fascism">fascism</a>. In the strict sense of the word it attracted masses on an international scale in the form of a perverse ‘nationalistic internationalism’. In this form it crushed genuine democratic revolts in <a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a> and in <a href="/wiki/Austria" title="Austria">Austria</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich" title="Wilhelm Reich">Wilhelm Reich</a>, <i>The Mass Psychology of Fascism</i>, (1933), p. 228.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Profits are so completely subordinated in [Nazi] Germany and [Fascist] Italy to requirements of a militarily conceived national interest and of full employment that the maintenance of the profit principle is purely theoretical. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Richards_(academic)" class="extiw" title="w:Howard Richards (academic)"> Howard Richards</a> and Joanna Swanger, "The Dilemmas of Social Democracies: Overcoming Obstacles to a More Just World", Lexington Books, (2008) p. 192</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Nazi forces are not seeking mere modifications in colonial maps or in minor European boundaries. They openly seek the destruction of all <a href="/wiki/Democracy" title="Democracy">elective systems of government</a> on every continent-including <a href="/wiki/North_America" title="North America">our own</a>; they seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers who have seized power by force. These men and their hypnotized followers call this a new order. It is not new. It is not order.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Franklin_Roosevelt" class="mw-redirect" title="Franklin Roosevelt">Franklin Roosevelt</a>, Address to the Annual Dinner for White House Correspondents' Association, Washington, D.C. (15 March 1941). A similar (but misleading 'quote') is inscribed on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Delano_Roosevelt_Memorial" class="extiw" title="w:Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial">FDR memorial</a>, in Washington D. C., which says "They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers... Call this a New Order. It is not new and it is not order"</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A totalitarian government with a scientific bent might do things that to us would seem horrifying. The Nazis were more scientific than the present rulers of Russia, and were more inclined towards the sort of atrocities that I have in mind. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bertrand_Russell" title="Bertrand Russell">Bertrand Russell</a>, in <i>The Impact of Science on Society</i> (1951)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="S">S</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nazism&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: S"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Scholl-Denkmal,_M%C3%BCnchen.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Scholl-Denkmal%2C_M%C3%BCnchen.jpg/220px-Scholl-Denkmal%2C_M%C3%BCnchen.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="312" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Scholl-Denkmal%2C_M%C3%BCnchen.jpg/330px-Scholl-Denkmal%2C_M%C3%BCnchen.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Scholl-Denkmal%2C_M%C3%BCnchen.jpg/440px-Scholl-Denkmal%2C_M%C3%BCnchen.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="1454" /></a><figcaption>He continued with a leer: “If some of you <a href="/wiki/Girls" title="Girls">girls</a> lack sufficient <a href="/wiki/Charm" title="Charm">charm</a> to find a mate, I will be glad to assign you one of my adjutants for whose ancestry I can vouch I can promise you a thoroughly enjoyable experience.” <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Giesler" class="extiw" title="w:Paul Giesler">Giesler</a>’s performance inspired foot-shuffling, murmurs, heckling, whistles, women and men walking out, and, finally, a full-fledged protest. SS men at the doors could not control the demonstration, which spilled out into <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwigstrasse" class="extiw" title="w:Ludwigstrasse">Ludwigstrasse</a>. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Arm&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Arm (page does not exist)">Arm</a> in arm, the <a href="/wiki/Students" title="Students">students</a> <a href="/wiki/Sang" class="mw-redirect" title="Sang">sang</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Chanted&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Chanted (page does not exist)">chanted</a> <a href="/wiki/Slogans" class="mw-redirect" title="Slogans">slogans</a> in the only open display of political defiance that ever occurred in Nazi Germany. A month later, three uncowed student distributors of the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Pamphlets&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pamphlets (page does not exist)">pamphlets</a>, the leaders of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rose" class="extiw" title="w:White Rose">White Rose</a> Resistance group, were beheaded by guillotine on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Himmler" class="extiw" title="w:Heinrich Himmler">Himmler</a>’s explicit orders. ~ Roger Shattuck</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>I hated the <a href="/wiki/Brutality" class="mw-redirect" title="Brutality">brutality</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Sadism_and_masochism" class="mw-redirect" title="Sadism and masochism">sadism</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Insanity" title="Insanity">insanity</a> of Nazism. I just couldn't stand by and see people destroyed. I did what I could, what I had to do, what my <a href="/wiki/Conscience" title="Conscience">conscience</a> told me I must do. That's all there is to it. Really, nothing more. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Oskar_Schindler" title="Oskar Schindler">Oskar Schindler</a>, Oskar Schindler speaking about his take on the final solution (refers to the German Nazis' plan to engage in systematic genocide against the European Jewish population during World War II)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I have a message to the neo-Nazis, to the <a href="/wiki/White_nationalism" title="White nationalism">white nationalists</a>, and to the neo-<a href="/wiki/Confederates" class="mw-redirect" title="Confederates">Confederates</a>: Your heroes are losers. You are supporting a lost cause. And believe me, I knew the original Nazis, because you see, I was born in <a href="/wiki/Austria" title="Austria">Austria</a> in 1947, shortly <a href="/wiki/Aftermath_of_World_War_II" title="Aftermath of World War II">after the Second World War</a>. And growing up, I was surrounded by broken men, men who came home from <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">a war filled with shrapnel and guilt</a>, men who were misled into a losing <a href="/wiki/Ideology" title="Ideology">ideology</a>. And I can tell you: that these <a href="/wiki/Ghosts" title="Ghosts">ghosts</a> you idolize spent the rest of their lives living in <a href="/wiki/Shame" title="Shame">shame</a> and right now, they’re resting in <a href="/wiki/Hell" title="Hell">hell</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arnold_Schwarzenegger" title="Arnold Schwarzenegger">Arnold Schwarzenegger</a>, -,<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://twitter.com/attn/status/898328098529083394">ATTN video</a> (August 2017)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>He continued with a leer: “If some of you <a href="/wiki/Girls" title="Girls">girls</a> lack sufficient <a href="/wiki/Charm" title="Charm">charm</a> to find a mate, I will be glad to assign you one of my adjutants for whose ancestry I can vouch I can promise you a thoroughly enjoyable experience” (quoted in Richard Hanser, “A Noble Treason, 220). <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Giesler" class="extiw" title="w:Paul Giesler">Giesler</a>’s performance inspired foot-shuffling, murmurs, heckling, whistles, women and men walking out, and, finally, a full-fledged protest. SS men at the doors could not control the demonstration, which spilled out into <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwigstrasse" class="extiw" title="w:Ludwigstrasse">Ludwigstrasse</a>. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Arm&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Arm (page does not exist)">Arm</a> in arm, the <a href="/wiki/Students" title="Students">students</a> <a href="/wiki/Sang" class="mw-redirect" title="Sang">sang</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Chanted&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Chanted (page does not exist)">chanted</a> <a href="/wiki/Slogans" class="mw-redirect" title="Slogans">slogans</a> in the only open display of political defiance that ever occurred in Nazi Germany. A month later, three uncowed student distributors of the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Pamphlets&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pamphlets (page does not exist)">pamphlets</a>, the leaders of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rose" class="extiw" title="w:White Rose">White Rose</a> Resistance group, were beheaded by guillotine on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Himmler" class="extiw" title="w:Heinrich Himmler">Himmler</a>’s explicit orders. <ul><li>Roger Shattuck, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=5u3se3N0bZQC&pg=PA197&lpg=PA197#v=onepage&q&f=false">“Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography”</a>, <i>San Diego, California: Harcourt Brace and Company</i>, 1996, p.207</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>When the Nazis invaded and occupied other countries in Europe, particularly those considered Aryan, they began to claim for the Third Reich children fathered by German troops. A few <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensborn" class="extiw" title="w:Lebensborn">Lebensborn</a></i> homes were established outside Germany. In some cases, mothers were kidnapped with their children. As time went on, a vast operation of baby snatching to supply the foreseeable need for manpower was carried out under <a href="/wiki/Himmler" class="mw-redirect" title="Himmler">Himmler</a>’s direction. The children were selected according to strict physiognomic rules and measurements based on race. The undesirables were sent to labor camps or simply eliminated-by allowing them to freeze to death, for example. Severe discipline, brandings, and injections to hasten maturity were common. The preferred children were separated from their mothers indoctrinated with Nazi propaganda, adopted by German families, and repossessed at puberty by the state. <br /> By this large-scale breeding and resettlement project in positive eugenics, Himmler and his associates exploited scientific research for social purposes-to augment the German birthrate and to monitor the racial purity of the population. According to Hillel and Henry, these goals were never achieved, despite Himmler’s personal interest. Little wonder. Not only did this mad Faustian raid on scientific knowledge violate the sanctity of human life, it relied on erroneous science. <ul><li>Roger Shattuck, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=5u3se3N0bZQC&pg=PA197&lpg=PA197#v=onepage&q&f=false">“Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography”</a>, San Diego, California: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1996, p.207</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Buried under mountains of red tape, <a href="/wiki/Planned_economy" title="Planned economy">directed by the State</a> as to what they could <a href="/wiki/Production" title="Production">produce</a>, how much and at what <a href="/wiki/Price" title="Price">price</a>, burdened by increasing <a href="/wiki/Taxation" title="Taxation">taxation</a> and milked by steep and never ending 'special contributions' to the party, the <a href="/wiki/Businessperson" title="Businessperson">businessmen</a>, who had to welcome Hitler's regime so enthusiastically because they expected it to destroy <a href="/wiki/Trade_unions" title="Trade unions">organized labor</a> and allow an entrepreneur to practice untrammeled <a href="/wiki/Free_enterprise" class="mw-redirect" title="Free enterprise">free enterprise</a>, became greatly disillusioned... <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Thyssen" class="extiw" title="w:Fritz Thyssen"> Fritz Thyssen</a>, one of the earliest and biggest contributors to the party,... recognized that the 'Nazi regime has ruined German industry.' <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_L._Shirer" title="William L. Shirer">William L. Shirer</a>, <i>The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany</i>, New York: NY, Simon & Schuster, 2011, p. 261.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Today people commonly use the word "<a href="/wiki/Fascism" title="Fascism">fascism</a>" instead of "national socialism." Presumably this is what you are asking. No. <a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Hitlerism</a> had racism as its essential <a href="/wiki/Dogma" title="Dogma">dogmatic</a> foundation. But in a <a href="/wiki/Multiculturalism" title="Multiculturalism">multiethnic</a> country, such an ideology has no chance of success. And <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a> has never had such a movement. But if we speak about the rampage of militant chauvinism, then it exists--and in bloody form--in several republics of the former <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">U.S.S.R.</a>, but certainly not in Russia. And if one were to count all the instances of <a href="/wiki/Violence" title="Violence">violence</a> perpetrated on <a href="/wiki/Nationalism" title="Nationalism">nationalist</a> grounds and in local wars, all of them took place outside of Russia and were not perpetrated by <a href="/wiki/Russians" title="Russians">Russians</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn" title="Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn">Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.forbes.com/2008/08/05/solzhenitsyn-forbes-interview-oped-cx_pm_0804russia.html?sh=510b79d25f53">Interview With Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on the New Russia and Ukraine (May 1994)</a>, by Paul Klebnikov, in the (9 May 1994), issue of <i>Forbes</i> magazine</li></ul></li> <li>In contrast to the asexual chasteness of official <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/communist_art" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:communist art">communist art</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_art" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Nazi art">Nazi art</a> is both prurient and idealizing. A <a href="/wiki/Utopia" title="Utopia">utopian</a> <a href="/wiki/Aesthetics" title="Aesthetics">aesthetics</a> (physical perfection; identity as a biological given) implies an ideal eroticism: <a href="/wiki/Sexuality" title="Sexuality">sexuality</a> converted into the magnetism of leaders and the joy of followers. The fascist ideal is to transform sexual energy into a "spiritual" force, for the benefit of the community. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Susan_Sontag" title="Susan Sontag">Susan Sontag</a>, in "Fascinating Fascism" (1974), published in <i>The New York Review of Books</i> (6 February 1975) and reprinted in Sontag's <i>Under the Sign of Saturn</i> (1980), p. 93</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Is it really true that German fascist troops are invincible, as is ceaselessly trumpeted by the boastful <a href="/wiki/Fascism" title="Fascism">fascist</a> <a href="/wiki/Propaganda" title="Propaganda">propagandists</a>? Of course not! <a href="/wiki/History" title="History">History</a> shows that there are no invincible armies and never have been. <a href="/wiki/Napoleon" title="Napoleon">Napoleon</a>'s <a href="/wiki/French_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="French Army">army</a> was considered invincible but it was beaten successively by Russian, English and German armies. <a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_II,_German_Emperor" title="Wilhelm II, German Emperor">Kaiser Wilhelm</a>'s German Army in the period of the first <a href="/wiki/Imperialism" title="Imperialism">imperialist</a> war was also considered invincible, but it was beaten several times by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allies_of_World_War_I" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Allies of World War I">Russian and Anglo-French forces</a> and was finally smashed by the Anglo-French forces. The same must be said of Hitler's German fascist army today. This army had not yet met with serious resistance on the continent of Europe. Only on our territory has it met serious resistance. And if, as a result of this resistance, the finest divisions of Hitler's German fascist army have been defeated by our Red Army, it means that this army too can be smashed and will be smashed as were the armies of Napoleon and Wilhelm. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Stalin" title="Joseph Stalin">Joseph Stalin</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/stalin-speaks-to-the-people-of-the-soviet-union-on-german-invasion-july-1941">Speech to the People of the Soviet Union on German Invasion</a>, July 3, 1941</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The enemy is cruel and implacable. He is out to seize our <a href="/wiki/Land" title="Land">lands</a>, watered with our sweat, to seize our <a href="/wiki/Grain" title="Grain">grain</a> and <a href="/wiki/Oil" title="Oil">oil</a> secured by our labor. He is out to restore the rule of <a href="/wiki/Landlord" class="mw-redirect" title="Landlord">landlords</a>, to restore Tsarism, to destroy national culture and the national state existence of the <a href="/wiki/Russians" title="Russians">Russians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ukrainians" class="mw-redirect" title="Ukrainians">Ukrainians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Byelorussia" class="mw-redirect" title="Byelorussia">Byelo-Russians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lithuania" title="Lithuania">Lithuanians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Latvia" title="Latvia">Letts</a>, <a href="/wiki/Estonia" title="Estonia">Esthonians</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzbekistan" class="extiw" title="w:Uzbekistan">Uzbeks</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatars" class="extiw" title="w:Tatars">Tatars</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldova" class="extiw" title="w:Moldova">Moldavians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Georgia_(country)" title="Georgia (country)">Georgians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Armenians" title="Armenians">Armenians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan" title="Azerbaijan">Azerbaijanians</a> and the other free people of the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>, to Germanize them, to convert them into the slaves of German <a href="/wiki/Prince" title="Prince">princes</a> and barons. Thus the issue is one of life or death for the Soviet State, for the peoples of the USSR; the issue is whether the peoples of the Soviet Union shall remain free or fall into slavery. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Stalin" title="Joseph Stalin">Joseph Stalin</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/stalin-speaks-to-the-people-of-the-soviet-union-on-german-invasion-july-1941">Speech to the People of the Soviet Union on German Invasion</a>, July 3, 1941</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="T">T</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nazism&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: T"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Conscious of the hazards inherent in the use of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/interuterine_device" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:interuterine device">interuterine devices</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Grafenberg" class="extiw" title="w:Ernst Grafenberg">Dr Grafenberg</a> took up the search for the serviceable IUD in the early 1920s. Whether he knew about Dr Richter's pessary remains an open question. Initially, he used star-shaped devices and coils of silkworm gut (1924). Because they were expelled too readily, he conceived the Ring IUD, made of helicoidal1y wound silver filaments, which still bears his name. He did not hesitate to publish clinical results (1928-30), thus making his invention known beyond the boundaries of his native Germany. Shortly thereafter, other <a href="/wiki/European" class="mw-redirect" title="European">European</a> physicians added statistics, issuing an increasing number of damaging reports of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelvic_inflammatory_disease" class="extiw" title="w:Pelvic inflammatory disease">pelvic inflammatory disease</a> associated with IUD use. Gräfenberg's last presentation on the subject was in 1931 at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Congress_of_Gynecology" class="extiw" title="w:German Congress of Gynecology">German Congress of Gynecology</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt" class="extiw" title="w:Frankfurt">Frankfurt</a>. His report was denounced by virtually all leaders of German gynecology attending the congress, who branded intrauterine contraception as a medically unacceptable method of <a href="/wiki/Birth_control" title="Birth control">birth control</a>. Shortly thereafter, the streamroller of the <a href="/wiki/Nazi" class="mw-redirect" title="Nazi">Nazi</a> regime started poisoning the air of Germany. <a href="/wiki/Jewish" class="mw-redirect" title="Jewish">Jewish</a> physicians were removed from the hospital posts and <a href="/wiki/Contraception" class="mw-redirect" title="Contraception">contraception</a> was proclaimed to be a threat to the physical and <a href="/wiki/Mental_health" title="Mental health">mental health</a> of Aryan women. Ultimately, the advertising of contraceptives and/or contraceptive <a href="/wiki/Advice" title="Advice">advice</a> became illegal in Germany and the other <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_Powers" class="extiw" title="w:Axis Powers">Axis States</a>. <ul><li>Thiery, M., <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060820044102/http:/www.contrel.be/Articles%20and%20videos/Pioneers%20of%20the%20intrauterine%20device.pdf">"Pioneers of the Intrauterine Device"</a>, "Pioneers of the intrauterine device" (PDF). <i>European Journal of Contraception and Reproductive Health Care</i>. 2 (1): pp.16-17. (March 1997).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In no way was Hitler the tool of big business. He was its lenient master. So was Mussolini except that he was weaker. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Norman_Thomas" title="Norman Thomas">Norman Thomas</a>, <i>A Socialist’s Faith</i>, W. W. Norton, 1951, p. 53. Former presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>[B]oth the communists and fascists revolutions definitely abolished <a href="/wiki/Laissez-faire" title="Laissez-faire">laissez-faire</a> capitalism in favor of one or another kind and degree of <a href="/wiki/State_capitalism" title="State capitalism">state capitalism</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Norman_Thomas" title="Norman Thomas">Norman Thomas</a>, <i>A Socialist’s Faith</i>, W. W. Norton, 1951, p. 55. Former presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>And now the beginning of the expropriation of church lands in Austria, have all revealed the true face of National Socialism, which more and more among pious Germans is called, under their breaths, ‘the brown Bolshevism.’ <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dorothy_Thompson" title="Dorothy Thompson">Dorothy Thompson</a>, "Let the Record Speak", Boston: MA, Houghton Mifflin Company (1939) p. 295 (newspaper column: “Pius XII—the former Diplomat,” March, 6, 1939)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Having first robbed the Jews, the Nazis are beginning to rob the Church, and later will almost certainly expropriate what is left of the <a href="/wiki/Bourgeoisie" title="Bourgeoisie">bourgeoisie</a> property. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dorothy_Thompson" title="Dorothy Thompson">Dorothy Thompson</a>, “On the Record”, <i>Harrisburg Telegraph</i>, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, March 6, 1939, p. 7.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Soon [Nazi] Germany will not be any different from Bolshevik Russia; the heads of enterprises who do not fulfill the conditions which the ‘Plan’ prescribes will be accused of treason against the German people, and shot. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Thyssen" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Fritz Thyssen">Fritz Thyssen</a>, as quoted in <i>The Dictators: Hitler’s Germany, Stalin’s Russia</i>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Overy" class="extiw" title="w:Richard Overy"> R. J. Overy</a>, New York/London, W.W. Norton & Company, 2004, p. 392.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Most cruel joke of all, however, has been played by Hitler & Co. on those German capitalists and small businessmen who once backed Nation Socialism as a means of saving Germany's bourgeois economic structure from <a href="/wiki/Radicalism" title="Radicalism">radicalism</a>. The Nazi credo that the individual belongs to the state also applies to business. Some businesses have been <a href="/wiki/Nationalization" title="Nationalization">confiscated</a> outright, on other what amounts to a capital tax has been levied. <a href="/wiki/Profit" title="Profit">Profits</a> have been strictly controlled. Some idea of the increasing Governmental control and interference in business could be deduced from the fact that 80% of all building and 50% of all industrial orders in Germany originated last year with the Government. Hard-pressed for food-stuffs as well as funds, the Nazi regime has taken over large estates and in many instances collectivized agriculture, a procedure fundamentally similar to <a href="/wiki/Marxism%E2%80%93Leninism" title="Marxism–Leninism">Russian Communism</a>. <ul><li><i>Time</i> magazine (Jan. 2, 1939) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221115200200/https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,760539-6,00.html">"Adolf Hitler: Man of 1938" </a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="V">V</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nazism&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: V"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Marxism would be a phenomenon of little more than historical interest, seeing that it has failed even in its principal stronghold, were it not so closely akin to National Socialism. National Socialism would have been inconceivable without Marxism. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Frederick_Augustus_Voigt" title="Frederick Augustus Voigt">Frederick Augustus Voigt</a>, <i>Unto Caesar </i>, New York: NY, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1938, p. 38</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Marxism" title="Marxism">Marxism</a> has led to Fascism and National-Socialism, because, in all essentials, it is Fascism and National Socialism. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Frederick_Augustus_Voigt" title="Frederick Augustus Voigt">Frederick Augustus Voigt</a>, <i>Unto Cæsar</i>, New York: NY, G.P. Putnam’s Sons (1938), p. 85</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="W">W</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nazism&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: W"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_day_after_Kristallnacht.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/The_day_after_Kristallnacht.jpg/220px-The_day_after_Kristallnacht.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="177" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/The_day_after_Kristallnacht.jpg/330px-The_day_after_Kristallnacht.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/The_day_after_Kristallnacht.jpg/440px-The_day_after_Kristallnacht.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1488" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption>For the first <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">time</a>, I am <a href="/wiki/Ashamed" class="mw-redirect" title="Ashamed">ashamed</a> to be a <a href="/wiki/German" class="mw-disambig" title="German">German</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_II_of_Germany" class="mw-redirect" title="Wilhelm II of Germany">Wilhelm II of Germany‎‎</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Nazism, for all its <a href="/wiki/Revolution" title="Revolution">revolutionary</a> jargon, represented in its essence a reaction against the <a href="/wiki/19th_century" title="19th century">nineteenth-century</a> faith in human <a href="/wiki/Progress" title="Progress">progress</a>. It was an attempt to seize history by the collar and frog-march it in a direction determined primary by the selfish interests and obsessive beliefs of those in power. From the outset it wan an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/anti-intellectual" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:anti-intellectual">anti-intellectual</a> movement, offering its adherents the spurious solidarity of the street gang and the prospective enjoyment of stolen booty. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bernard_Wasserstein" title="Bernard Wasserstein">Bernard Wasserstein</a>, <cite style="font-style:normal" class="book"><i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=XicFgasYzWQC&pg=PA244">Barbarism and Civilization: A History of Europe in our Time</a></i>. <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_University_Press" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Oxford University Press">Oxford University Press</a></i>. 2009. p. 203. <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-162251-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-162251-9">ISBN 978-0-19-162251-9</a>.</cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Barbarism+and+Civilization%3A+A+History+of+Europe+in+our+Time&rft.date=2009&rft.pages=p.%26nbsp%3B203&rft.pub=%27%27%5B%5B%3Awikipedia%3AOxford+University+Press%7COxford+University+Press%5D%5D%27%27&rft.isbn=978-0-19-162251-9&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DXicFgasYzWQC%26pg%3DPA244&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Nazism"><span style="display: none;"> </span></span></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>As soon as he became <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chancellor_of_Germany#History_of_the_office_(pre-1949)" class="extiw" title="w:Chancellor of Germany">Chancellor</a>... <a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Hitler</a> prevailed</b> upon <a href="/wiki/Paul_von_Hindenburg" title="Paul von Hindenburg">President Hindenburg</a> <b>to call new elections</b>. ...[H]e hoped to gain enough strength in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_(Weimar_Republic)" class="extiw" title="w:Reichstag (Weimar Republic)">Reichstag</a> <b>to pass an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933" class="extiw" title="w:Enabling Act of 1933">Enabling Act</a>, which would allow him to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/rule_by_decree" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:rule by decree">rule by decree</a></b>. ...During the campaign, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party" class="extiw" title="w:Nazi Party">NSDAP</a> ...exploited the fact that they now had some control... Prussian Minister of the Interior <b><a href="/wiki/Hermann_G%C3%B6ring" title="Hermann Göring">Goering</a> established a 50,000-strong auxiliary police force, including 25,000 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung" class="extiw" title="w:Sturmabteilung">SA</a> members and 15,000 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzstaffel" class="extiw" title="w:Schutzstaffel">SS</a> men. This both legitimised <a class="mw-selflink selflink">National Socialist</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror_(politics)" class="extiw" title="w:Terror (politics)">terror</a> against their political opponents</b>—especially the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_of_Germany" class="extiw" title="w:Social Democratic Party of Germany">Social Democrats</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Communism" title="Communism">Communists</a>—<b>and shifted the burden for funding... the</b> NSDAP’s <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/paramilitary" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:paramilitary">paramilitary</a> machine</b>... to the state.. <b>claiming it was needed to forestall an imminent <a href="/wiki/Revolt" title="Revolt">revolt</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Left-wing_politics" title="Left-wing politics">left</a>. ...[T]his ...heightened the ...<a href="/wiki/Hysteria" title="Hysteria">hysteria</a> among the <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/electorate#Noun" class="extiw" title="wikt:electorate">electorate</a>, which ...boosted support</b> for the NSDAP. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Weale" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Adrian Weale">Adrian Weale</a>, <i>The SS: A New History</i> (2010) pp. 81-82. <small><b>Ref</b>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Bullock" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Alan Bullock">Alan Bullock</a>, <i>Hitler: A Study in Tyranny</i> (1990) p. 273.</small></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>All this would change when Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933 because his deductions from the war differed in important respects from those of others. <a href="/wiki/War" title="War">War</a> had been an intended and even a preferred part of National Socialist policy from the beginning, not so much out of a preference for fighting for its own sake, but from the entirely accurate conviction that the aim of German expansion could be secured only by war. Germany was to seize the agricultural land needed to feed its population, a population that would grow further as it obtained such land, and which would accordingly expand its needs and its lands into the indefinite future. This crude <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Darwinism" class="extiw" title="w:Social Darwinism">Social Darwinism</a>, in which <a href="/wiki/Race" class="mw-disambig" title="Race">racial groups</a> fought for land which could provide the means of <a href="/wiki/Subsistence" class="mw-redirect" title="Subsistence">subsistence</a>, expelling or exterminating but never assimilating other groups, was derived from a view of <a href="/wiki/History" title="History">history</a> as <a href="/wiki/Determinism" title="Determinism">deterministic</a> as that of <a href="/wiki/Karl_Marx" title="Karl Marx">Marx</a>, but substituting race for <a href="/wiki/Class_conflict" title="Class conflict">class</a> as the key to understanding.’ Its application had internal as well as external implications. <ul><li>Gerald L. Weinberg, <i>A World at Arms : A Global History of World War II</i> (2005) Cambridge University Press.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>For the Nazis, race conflict was the driving motor of history. Hard, vigorous, masculine struggle against degenerate races, and against the degenerate members of their own group, marked the synthesis of race-based <a href="/wiki/History" title="History">history</a> and <a href="/wiki/Anthropology" title="Anthropology">anthropology</a>, a particularly radical, Nazi version of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Darwinism" class="extiw" title="w:Social Darwinism">Social Darwinism</a>. Each group, in this view, had an inherent drive to flourish, which necessitated expanded living space and continual conflict with other races. Out of the harshness of struggle, a still more vital and creative race would emerge. Since nature is “<a href="/wiki/Aristocracy" title="Aristocracy">aristocratic</a>” in essence, it favors the victory of the strong while it demands the “annihilation or unconditional surrender of the weaker.” Indeed, <a href="/wiki/Judaism" title="Judaism">Judaism</a> is nature-destroying, because its <a href="/wiki/Ideology" title="Ideology">ideology</a>, <a href="/wiki/Marxism" title="Marxism">Marxism</a>, “rejects the <a href="/wiki/Aristocracy" title="Aristocracy">aristocratic</a> principle of <a href="/wiki/Nature" title="Nature">Nature</a> and replaces the eternal privilege of <a href="/wiki/Power" title="Power">power</a> and <a href="/wiki/Strength" title="Strength">strength</a> by the mass of numbers and their dead weight. Thus it denies the value of <a href="/wiki/Personality" title="Personality">personality</a> in man, contests the significance of nationality and race, and thereby withdraws from humanity the premise of its existence and its culture.” History was fast approaching that cataclysmic moment of decision, a fateful clash worthy of <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Revelation" title="Book of Revelation">Revelations</a>. <ul><li>Eric D. Weitz, <i>A Century of Genocide</i> (2018), p. 107.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The total state led by the Fuhrer was, however, never simply a <a href="/wiki/Dictatorship" title="Dictatorship">dictatorship</a> of one man. The new <a href="/wiki/Politics" title="Politics">politics</a> advocated by the Nazis, the vast project of <a href="/wiki/Social_engineering" title="Social engineering">social and biological engineering</a> that they instigated, required popular participation. Goebbels, as minister for popular enlightenment and <a href="/wiki/Propaganda" title="Propaganda">propaganda</a>, made clear that the regime, the express “will” of the nation, also had to win to its side those elements of the national community that still resisted the siren song of National Socialism. They could not just be “terrorized” but had to be won over through hard work, including propaganda. But <a href="/wiki/Dissent" title="Dissent">dissent</a> could not be tolerated. The claims of the Nazi movement and state upon the individual were total. The National Socialist Revolution, asserted Goebbels, “does not stop for [the realm] of private life.” These totalizing ambitions required not just obedience but also participation. The <a href="/wiki/State" title="State">state</a> had to “set the masses in motion,” as Goebbels put it. If Hitler did not deign to intervene directly in every policy matter, Hitler’s followers believed that “working toward the Fuhrer,” pursuing his goals without his express orders, placed them in accord with the movement of history. Nazi views on the total state and popular mobilization concurred with strategic doctrine, Hitler’s as well as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wehrmacht" class="extiw" title="w:Wehrmacht">Wehrmacht</a>’s. In Nazi doctrine, war would allow the race to flourish; to pursue the war successfully, the race had to be purified. Since the coming conflict was never simply a campaign of territorial conquest but always a racial, ideological war, the links between domestic and foreign policy were particularly tight in Nazi Germany. <ul><li>Eric D. Weitz, <i>A Century of Genocide</i> (2018), pp. 112-113.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The gentlemen of the National Socialist party call the movement they have unleashed a national revolution, not a National Socialist one. So far, the relationship of their revolution to socialism has been limited to the attempt to destroy the social democratic movement, which for more than two generations has been the bearer of socialist ideas and will remain so. If the gentlemen of the National Socialist Party wanted to perform socialist acts, they would not need an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Law" class="extiw" title="w:Enabling Law">Enabling Law</a>. They would be assured of an overwhelming majority in this house. Every motion submitted by them in the interest of workers, farmers, white-collar employees, civil servants, or the middle class could expect to be approved, if not unanimously, then certainly with an enormous majority. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Otto_Wels" title="Otto Wels">Otto Wels</a>, Speech opposing the Passage of the Nazi <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933" class="extiw" title="w:Enabling Act of 1933">Enabling Act</a> (1933). <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/pdf/eng/English_6.pdf">[5]</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It is impossible to engage in intellectual discourse with National Socialist Philosophy, for if there were such an <a href="/wiki/Entity" title="Entity">entity</a>, one would have to try by means of analysis and discussion either to prove its validity or to combat it. In actuality, however, we face a totally different situation. At its very inception this movement depended on the <a href="/wiki/Deception" title="Deception">deception</a> and <a href="/wiki/Betrayal" title="Betrayal">betrayal</a> of one's fellow man; even at that <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">time</a> it was inwardly <a href="/wiki/Corrupt" class="mw-redirect" title="Corrupt">corrupt</a> and could support itself only by constant <a href="/wiki/Lies" class="mw-redirect" title="Lies">lies</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/White_Rose" title="White Rose">The White Rose</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://zulutango.com/whiterose/leaftwoeng.html">Second leaflet</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Though we know that National Socialist power must be broken by military means, we are trying to achieve a renewal from within of the severely wounded German spirit. This rebirth must be preceded, however, by the clear recognition of all the guilt with which the German people have burdened themselves, and by an uncompromising battle against <a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Hitler</a> and his all too many minions… <ul><li><a href="/wiki/White_Rose" title="White Rose">The White Rose</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://zulutango.com/whiterose/leaffoureng.html">Fourth Leaflet</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>For the first <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">time</a>, I am <a href="/wiki/Ashamed" class="mw-redirect" title="Ashamed">ashamed</a> to be a <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">German</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_II_of_Germany" class="mw-redirect" title="Wilhelm II of Germany">Wilhelm II of Germany‎‎</a>, in regard to Nazi anti-Jewish campaigns, after <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht" class="extiw" title="w:Kristallnacht">Kristallnacht</a>, however this statement seems to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_II_of_Germany#Antisemitism" class="extiw" title="w:Wilhelm II of Germany">contradict his other statements regarding Jews</a>. (November 1938); as quoted in <i>Our German Cousins : Anglo-German Relations in the 19th and 20th Centuries</i> (1974) by John Mander, p. 219</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The tragedy is not that nonviolence did not work against the Nazis, but that it was so seldom utilized ...The churches as a whole were too docile or anti-semitic, and too ignorant of the nonviolent message of the Gospel, to act effectively to resist the Nazis or act in solidarity with the <a href="/wiki/Jews" class="mw-redirect" title="Jews">Jews</a>.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Wink" title="Walter Wink">Walter Wink</a>, <i>Engaging the Powers: Discernment and Resistance in a World of Domination</i> (1992), p. 254-256</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Z">Z</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nazism&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Z"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-14468,_Berlin,_NS-Boykott_gegen_j%C3%BCdische_Gesch%C3%A4fte.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-14468%2C_Berlin%2C_NS-Boykott_gegen_j%C3%BCdische_Gesch%C3%A4fte.jpg/220px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-14468%2C_Berlin%2C_NS-Boykott_gegen_j%C3%BCdische_Gesch%C3%A4fte.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="145" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-14468%2C_Berlin%2C_NS-Boykott_gegen_j%C3%BCdische_Gesch%C3%A4fte.jpg/330px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-14468%2C_Berlin%2C_NS-Boykott_gegen_j%C3%BCdische_Gesch%C3%A4fte.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-14468%2C_Berlin%2C_NS-Boykott_gegen_j%C3%BCdische_Gesch%C3%A4fte.jpg/440px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-14468%2C_Berlin%2C_NS-Boykott_gegen_j%C3%BCdische_Gesch%C3%A4fte.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="528" /></a><figcaption>To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing. ~ <a href="/wiki/Adolf_Eichmann" title="Adolf Eichmann">Adolf Eichmann</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Strictly speaking, the message of National Socialism was not radically different from that of other forms of <a href="/wiki/Egalitarianism" title="Egalitarianism">egalitarianism</a> and socialism: strong antibourgeois sentiments expressed through a radical empowerment of a selected group of people at the expense of other groups… What made National Socialism novel and different from earlier forms of socialism was an attempt to blend the ideas of social justice and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Nationalism" class="extiw" title="w:Revolutionary Nationalism"> revolutionary nationalism</a>. <ul><li>Andrei A. Znamenski, “From ‘National Socialists’ to ‘Nazi:’ History, Politics and the English Language,” <i>The Independent Review</i>, Oakland: CA, vol. 19, no. 4, Spring 2015, p. 545. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.independent.org/pdf/tir/tir_19_04_06_znamenski.pdf">[6]</a></li></ul></li></ul> <p><span id="DiMeglio"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="DiMeglio,_Peter_M._(1999)._"Germany_1933–1945_(National_Socialism)"._In_Helen_Tierney_(ed.)._Women's_studies_encyclopedia._Westport,_CN:_Greenwood_Press."><span id="DiMeglio.2C_Peter_M._.281999.29._.22Germany_1933.E2.80.931945_.28National_Socialism.29.22._In_Helen_Tierney_.28ed..29._Women.27s_studies_encyclopedia._Westport.2C_CN:_Greenwood_Press."></span>DiMeglio, Peter M. (1999). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=gQLqRd7hJq0C&pg=PA589&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false">"Germany 1933–1945 (National Socialism)"</a>. In Helen Tierney (ed.). <i>Women's studies encyclopedia</i>. Westport, CN: <i>Greenwood Press</i>.</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nazism&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: DiMeglio, Peter M. (1999). "Germany 1933–1945 (National Socialism)". In Helen Tierney (ed.). Women's studies encyclopedia. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press."><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>From its inception, the Nationalist Socialist German Worker’s Party (NSDAP Nazi Party) had no place for women in its ranks. At its first general meeting in early 1921 a unanimous resolution passed that stated that women could never be accepted either into the leadership of the party or into any governing committee. National Socialism viewed German women as wives and mothers who did not wish to work in factories or offices or even represent themselves in the government. A cozy home, a beloved husband, and a multitude of happy children were their only aspirations. Hitler believed in suppressing the drive for women’s emancipation by emphasizing the differences between men and women and the woman’s role as the preserver of the biological <a href="/wiki/Inheritance" title="Inheritance">inheritance</a>, domestic virtue, and even eternal morality. <ul><li>p.587</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The Nazi definition of the role of <a href="/wiki/Women" title="Women">women</a> actually expanded and contracted with party needs. Prior to Hitler’s ascension to power, men and women worked together. Following 1933, Hitler made employed women give up jobs to return to the home and raise families. After 1936, however, when he needed them to work, he put them in factories. Because of Hitler’s war preparation, the Nazis moved to improve the <a href="/wiki/Women_in_the_workforce" title="Women in the workforce">employment of women in the workplace</a>. Despite all of these changing roles, however, at no time did women have any demonstrable influence over policies that affected themselves, their families, or the Nazi Party. They were not placed in positions where they wielded political power or party and state responsibility. <ul><li>p.588</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The Nazis were strongly opposed to feminism and held that feminists were unduly influenced by both Jews and Marxists, had an unhealthy preoccupation with their sexuality, and were determined to destroy Christian-German life. The Nazis discouraged dieting, cosmetics, smoking, and foreign dress. German couples needed medical examinations to marry, and the fear of “hereditary defects” led to a black market in documents proving Aryan ancestry. Wives of SS men were forced to attend special bride schools. Almost 28,000 so-called undesirable women underwent forced sterilization by 1934. Aryan men were encouraged to divorce Jewish wives, and their children were taken from the mother. In 1939, it was announced that Jewish women could seek abortions, but non-Jewish women could not. Non-Jewish women who did not marry or have children were harassed. <ul><li>pp.588-589.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The response of the Christian faithful to racism was not uniform. A population as enormous as that of Christian women could not be socially, politically, or temperamentally monolithic. Michael Phayer states that <a href="/wiki/Protestant_work_ethic" title="Protestant work ethic">Protestants</a> were more tolerant toward Nazi racism than <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholics</a>. Protestant women were more nationalistic than Catholics, which made them more receptive to National Socialism. Some Protestant women, however, also fought National Socialist ideology and the paganism it espoused. Scholt-Klink promoted her own women’s organization by playing Catholic an Protestant’s women’s organizations against each other.<br /> The experiences of German women living under Nazi rule varied. As pointed out in “When Biology Became Destiny”, Nazism did not begin with overt attacks against the emancipation of women. It was cloaked in extreme nationalism calling for love of the country, reduction of the unemployment by keeping women out of the workforce, and reversion of women back to the role of <a href="/wiki/Mothers" title="Mothers">motherhood</a>. <br /> What can be said of the attitude of German women toward the racism of Hitler? A great deal of information has been derived from studying the most prominent organizations of women. Many <a href="/wiki/Protestantism" title="Protestantism">Protestant</a> and <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic</a> leaders were aware that if Germany were victorious, there would be a showdown between <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a> and the neopaganism of National Socialism. Some courageous women dared to challenge the establishment. For example, Agnes von Grone and Helene Weber both spoke out against anti-Christian elements in Nazism. Ultimately, faith, not feminism, made Nazi women reject Nazi neopaganism. Institutional and religious elements overwhelmed social factors. <ul><li>p.589</li></ul></li></ul> <p><span id="Friedlander"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Friedlander,_Henry_(1995)._“The_origins_of_Nazi_genocide:_from_euthanasia_to_the_final_solution”._Chapel_Hill:_University_of_North_Carolina_Press."><span id="Friedlander.2C_Henry_.281995.29._.E2.80.9CThe_origins_of_Nazi_genocide:_from_euthanasia_to_the_final_solution.E2.80.9D._Chapel_Hill:_University_of_North_Carolina_Press."></span>Friedlander, Henry (1995). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=gqLDEKVk2nMC&pg=PA23&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false">“The origins of Nazi genocide: from euthanasia to the final solution”.</a> <i>Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press</i>.</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nazism&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Friedlander, Henry (1995). “The origins of Nazi genocide: from euthanasia to the final solution”. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press."><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The Nazi regime issued numerous laws and regulations during the 1930s to implement its eugenic and racial program, and, as we shall see, the practitioners of race hygiene-anthropologists, <a href="/wiki/Genetics" title="Genetics">geneticists</a>, <a href="/wiki/Psychiatry" title="Psychiatry">psychiatrists</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Physician" title="Physician">physicians</a>-were involved in drafting and applying them. Of course, their role had changed. They profited from being governed by a regime that favored race hygiene, but they also had to accommodate themselves to the regime’s political needs. They continued to consider the Nazis “vulgar and ordinary” and Nazi anti-Semitism somewhat extreme, but they accepted, even applauded, Nazi policies because they reflected an ideology they as individuals and as scientists had long supported. But even though they may have tried to maintain a certain scientific detachment, their assistants and students enthusiastically embraced all aspects of Nazi ideology. <br /> At times, however, Nazi ideology made life inconvenient for the race scientists. Fritz Lenz discovered the futility of objecting to one of <a href="/wiki/Heinrich_Himmler" title="Heinrich Himmler">Heinrich Himmler</a>’s pet projects. At a committee meeting attended by Himmler, Lenz opposed equality for illegitimate children because he believed it would have a negative impact on the quality of the transmitted germ plasm. Himmler disagreed. The powerful Reich leader SS argued that illegitimacy was not a disgrace in the “real world” and that equality was needed to assure a high birthrate and to prevent the spread of homosexuality and abortion. <br /> German science was rapidly synchronized (“gleichgeschaltet”) with Nazi ideology after 1933, especially after scientists opposed to the new regime, as well as those with the wrong ethnic background, were fired. There was no effective resistance. Still, not all science was dominated by Nazi ideology in disregard of the German scientific tradition. For example, the attempt to establish an Aryan physics failed as older traditions reasserted themselves. <br /> Such restraints did not apply in the biological sciences concerned with the questions of race and heredity. There Nazi ideology and German scientific tradition complemented each other. Without hesitation, the race scientists fired their Jewish colleagues. <ul><li>Ch.1 “The Origins of Nazi Genocide”, p.19</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>As the Nazi regime moved toward war, Hitler authorized state and party planners to proceed form the exclusionary policies of <a href="/wiki/Emigration" title="Emigration">emigration</a>, <a href="/wiki/Prison" title="Prison">incarceration</a>, and sterilization to the most radical exclusionary solution of killings. The first group targeted were the handicapped. They were excluded by being <a href="/wiki/Institutionalization" title="Institutionalization">institutionalized</a>, but this was not enough. Hostile to their existence, institutions reduced services and sought to cut the costs of caring for mental and disabled patients. Excluded, incarcerated, sterilized, and neglected, the handicapped were viewed as expendable, and thus a logical progression led to the killing of the handicapped in the so-called <a href="/wiki/Euthanasia" title="Euthanasia">euthanasia</a> program. The other group of undesirables-the “Asozialen” were treated similarly: those committed to institutions by the courts were among the first killed; others were later selected for killing when euthanasia was applied within the concentration camps. <ul><li>Ch.1 “The Origins of Nazi Genocide”, p.21</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Against the handicapped, the regime enacted into law the program long advocated by race scientists to control a population considered degenerate and inferior. The so-called sterilization law, promulgated in July 1933, served throughout the Nazi period as the model for all eugenic legalisation. It introduced compulsory sterilization for persons suffering from a variety of mental and physical disorders and in the process defined the groups to be excluded from the national community. This legislation was followed in October 1935 by the Marriage Health Law, which mandated screening the entire population to prevent marriages of persons considered carriers of hereditary degeneracy, particularly those covered by the sterilization law. Numerous ordinances defining and enlarging these two laws followed. As race hygiene had always linked the handicapped to criminal and antisocial behavior, the bureaucrats drafting this legislation believed that their eugenic laws should also cover “inherited criminal traits.” To accomplish this, the regime enacted in November 1933 the Law against Dangerous Habitual Criminals and the Law on Measures of Security and Reform. The new provisions- articles 220a and 42a-m of the penal code-gave the courts substantial new powers to confine and punish persons considered habitual criminals. In addition to the penalties already provisioned by the penal code, the court were authorized to commit the ”Asozaielen” to state hospitals, to impose protective custody or longer prison terms on habitual criminals, to mandate castration for sexual offenders, and to prohibit defendants from practicing their professions or occupations. <ul><li>Ch.2 Excluding the Handicapped, pp.23-24</li></ul></li></ul> <p><span id="Proctor"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Proctor,_Robert_(1988)._“Racial_Hygiene:_Medicine_Under_the_Nazis”._Cambridge,_MA:_Harvard_University_Press."><span id="Proctor.2C_Robert_.281988.29._.E2.80.9CRacial_Hygiene:_Medicine_Under_the_Nazis.E2.80.9D._Cambridge.2C_MA:_Harvard_University_Press."></span>Proctor, Robert (1988). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Racial_Hygiene/hogbxS2Gp1QC?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover">“Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis”</a>. Cambridge, MA: <i>Harvard University Press</i>.</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nazism&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Proctor, Robert (1988). “Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis”. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press."><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The Nazi medical experiments and even the program for the destruction of “lives not worth living” represent only the tip of a much larger iceberg. In fact, the ideological structure we associate with National Socialism was deeply embedded in the <a href="/wiki/Philosophy" title="Philosophy">philosophy</a> and institutional structure of German biomedical science long before the beginning of the <a href="/wiki/Euthanasia" title="Euthanasia">euthanasia</a> program in 1939-and to a certain extent, even before 1933. The published record of the German medical profession makes it clear that many intellectuals cooperated fully in Nazi racial programs, and that many of the social and intellectual foundations for these programs were laid long before the rise of Hitler to power. What I want to argue in addition to this, however (and here I shall be drawing upon a growing body of recent German scholarship on this question) is that biomedical scientists played an active, even leading role in the initiation, administration, and execution of Nazi racial programs. In this sense the case can be made that science (especially biomedical science) under the Nazis cannot simply be seen in terms of a fundamentally “passive” or “apolitical” scientific community responding to purely external political forces; on the contrary, there is strong evidence that scientists actively designed and administered central aspects of National Socialist racial policy. <ul><li>p.6</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We should not allow our judgment of the ethical character of Nazi medical practice to hinge entirely on whether we consider it to have been based on “genuine science”. One cannot (or at least should not) radically divide the practice of science from its product science is, among other things, a social activity, and the politics of those who practice it is part of that science. Furthermore, we miss something if we assume at the outset a fundamental hostility between science and a form of political practice such as National Socialism. This was not how scientists themselves viewed the matter[..] <ul><li>Introduction, p.9</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>American eugenicists rejected the entire concept of <a href="/wiki/Birth_control" title="Birth control">birth control</a> because it was associated, in their view, with an “antibaby strike” on the part of emancipated women. <br /> Curiously, at the same time that racial hygienists warned of a declining population, conservative apologists for the Pan-German League argued that overseas colonies were needed to relieve the “overcrowding” caused by Germany’s rapidly growing population. Similar contradictions would persist in the Nazi period. Nazi Interior Minister <a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_Frick" title="Wilhelm Frick">Wilhelm Frick</a> in 1933 thus found it possible to warn of “race suicide” (caused by the declining birthrate) in one breath and then to call for the need to acquire “Lebenstraum” for Germany’s growth, in the next. Such pronouncements make one suspect that population concerns were (then as now) more the product of political interests than of incontrovertible facts. <ul><li>p.20</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Hereditary theory remained a point of political contention throughout the period of Nazi rule (and indeed, for some time after). In 1939 the Moscow Anthropological Museum sponsored an exhibit on “Race and Race Theory” attacking the Nazi ideal of Nordic supremacy as part of an “effort by the German <a href="/wiki/Ruling_class" title="Ruling class">ruling class</a> to justify its domination over subjugated classes as ‘natural’.” Nazi physicians reporting on the exhibit claimed that by virtue of their support for the inheritance of acquired characteristics, Soviet <a href="/wiki/Biology" title="Biology">biologists</a> had abandoned the goal of “pure <a href="/wiki/Science" title="Science">science</a>”; Nazi physicians also suggested that the Soviets hoped, with the help of the <a href="/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Lamarck" title="Jean-Baptiste Lamarck">Lamarckian</a> doctrine, to “disprove the existence of racial boundaries” and thereby “facilitate the assimilation of Jews into the country.” By this time, however, Russia was not the only country issuing official proclamations on the nature of <a href="/wiki/Genetics" title="Genetics">heredity</a>. In 1937 the Nazi party published its official “Handbook for the <a href="/wiki/Hitler_Youth" title="Hitler Youth">Hitler Youth</a>”, issued as required reading for the 7 million members of this organization. The “Handbook” presented a chapter titled “Race Formation: heredity and Environment,” including discussions of <a href="/wiki/Gregor_Mendel" title="Gregor Mendel">Mendel’</a>s laws of inheritance, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Darwin" title="Charles Darwin">Darwin</a>’s theory of the origin of species by <a href="/wiki/Natural_selection" title="Natural selection">natural selection</a>, and the Lamarckian principle of the inheritance of acquired characteristics. <ul><li>p.37</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>One of the leading research efforts of Germany’s racial hygiene institutes was twin studies (for example, studies of identical twins raised apart) designed to determine the relative importance of heredity an environment. Suggestions that the study of twins might be used for this purpose date back at least as far as <a href="/wiki/Francis_Galton" title="Francis Galton">Francis Galton</a>’s 1875 “History of Twins as a Criterion of the Realtive Powers of Nature and Nurture.” In the Third Reich, twin studies were lavisihly funded as part of an effort to prove that heredity was the key to many human talents and imperfections. Twin studies purportedly demonstrated the heritability of everything from <a href="/wiki/Epilepsy" title="Epilepsy">epilepsy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Criminality" class="mw-redirect" title="Criminality">criminality</a>, <a href="/wiki/Memory" title="Memory">memory</a>, and hernias to <a href="/wiki/Tuberculosis" title="Tuberculosis">tuberculosis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cancer" title="Cancer">cancer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Schizophrenia" title="Schizophrenia">schizophrenia</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Divorce" title="Divorce">divorce</a>. In 1933 Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer published a book purporting to provide exact ratios of the relative influence of heredity and environment in a wide range of bodily traits; he derived his data from the study of several thousand identical and nonidentical twins. (see Figure 8). Verschuer’s studies were followed by hundreds of others. By 1936 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Reche" class="extiw" title="w:Otto Reche">Otto Reche’</a>s Institute for the Study of Race and Volk had examined 12,50 pairs of twins, recording forty-two separate physical or physiognomic traits for each pair. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen_Fischer" class="extiw" title="w:Eugen Fischer">Eugen Fischer</a> called twin studies “the” single most important research tool in the field of racial hygiene; Verschuer called twin research the “sovereign method for genetic research in humans” Racial hygienists were able to convince Nazi authorities that twin studies warranted substantial government support: in 1939 Interior Minister <a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_Frick" title="Wilhelm Frick">Wilhelm Frick</a> ordered the registration of all twins, triplets, or quadruplets born in the Reich, for the express purpose of research to isolate the effects of nature and nurture in the formation of the human racial constitution. <ul><li>pp.42-43</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The Nazis found biology and <a href="/wiki/Medicine" title="Medicine">medicine</a> a suitable language in which to articulate their goals; scientists found the Nazis willing to support many of their endeavors. Furthermore, racial hygiene was not “imposed on” the German medical community; physicians eagerly embraced the racial ideal and the racial state. This in fact was perceived by observers at the time. In 1933 Fritz Lenz noted: <br /> Whatever resistance the idea of racial hygiene may have encountered in previous times among German doctors, this resistance exists no longer. The German core [Kern] within the medical community has recognized the demands of German racial hygiene as its own; the medical profession has become the leading force in making these demands.<br /> Lenz than cited the words of Gerhard Wagner, leader of the German medical profession: <br /> Knowledge of racial hygiene and genetics has become, by a purely scientific path, the knowledge of an extraordinary number of German doctors. It has influenced to a substantial degree the basic world view of the State, and indeed may even be said to embody the very foundations of the present state [“Staatsraison”]. <ul><li>Ch.1 “The Origins of Racial Hygiene”, p.45</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Why did physicians join the Nazi party in such numbers? Professional opportunism certainly played a role: many reasoned that by driving out the Jews, jobs could be created for non-Jewish physicians-an important motive, given the overcrowding and financial stress suffered by the profession in the years before the rise of the Nazis (see Chapter 6). The traditionally <a href="/wiki/Conservatism" title="Conservatism">conservative</a> character of the medical profession was another factor. Prior to 1933, many German physicians identified with the Deutschnationale Volkspartei, a conservative and nationalistic party that eventually threw its support to Hitler. Most <a href="/wiki/Physician" title="Physician">physicians</a> shared a strong sense of national pride: in the spring of 1933, for example, the “Deutsches Arzteblatt” noted that most German physicians had taken part in <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a> and that 1,000 had died “on the field of honor.” <br /> In the years preceding the triumph of the Nazis, physicians were faced with a series of economic shocks that moved many to realign their politics. <a href="/wiki/Impoverishment" class="mw-redirect" title="Impoverishment">Impoverishment</a> after the war and <a href="/wiki/Great_Depression" title="Great Depression">economic collapse</a> during the final years of the Weimar Republic polarized the profession politically. At the same time, physicians warned of a “crisis in medicine,” a crisis variously construed as the <a href="/wiki/Bureaucracy" title="Bureaucracy">bureaucratization</a> specialization, or scientization of medicine-problems blamed on the socialists, the Jews, or the numerous quacks that eternally plague the profession. Physicians expressed a desire to win back “the confidence of the people.” <ul><li>p.69</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The single most important classes of journals that, generally speaking did “not” survive the Nazi seizure of power were those publishing in the field of social hygiene (“Sozialhygiene”). These were journals concerned primarily with broader social or public health aspects of medicine, often from a socialist or communist point of view. The journal “Soziale Medizin”, for example, folded in the first year of Nazi rule, as did “Der Sozialistische Arzt”, the official journal of the Association of Socialist Physicians. <ul><li>p.77</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The Nazi medical community also published special journals designed either to popularize the new racial ideal or to keep Nazi physicians abreast of social and racial policy. “Ziel und Weg” was the primary journal responsible for articulating Nazi philosophy in the sphere of medicine. In 1931 it began publishing in editions of 3,000 copies; by 1934 this number had grown to 16,000; and by 1939 the journal was publishing 40,000 copies twice a month. The Office of Racial Policy (Rassenpolitisches Amt) published the popular health magazine “Neues Volk” (New people), issued as the successor to the pre-Nazi journal “Das Horrohr”, in editions that ran as high as 360,000 copies (in 1939); the office also published an in-house journal called the “Informationsdienst” (Information service) to keep its members informed on issues of racial policy. Circulation of the “Informationsdienst” was deliberately limited to 5,000 copies in order to be able to include confidential information; readers were asked not to repeat information published in the journal unless they withheld the source. Published from 1934 to 1944 the “Informationsdienst” today serves as one of the most revealing sources of information on Nazi racial policy. <ul><li>pp.77-78</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Socialist physicians wanted to legalize <a href="/wiki/Abortion" title="Abortion">abortion</a>; Nazi physicians saw abortion as a <a href="/wiki/Feminism" title="Feminism">feminist</a> plot designed to sap the strength of the nation. <ul><li>p.269</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nazism&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Authoritarianism" title="Authoritarianism">Authoritarianism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dictatorship" title="Dictatorship">Dictatorship</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eugenics" title="Eugenics">Eugenics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fascism" title="Fascism">Fascism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Race" class="mw-disambig" title="Race">Race</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Totalitarianism" title="Totalitarianism">Totalitarianism</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nazism&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="noprint" style="clear: right; 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