© copyright Nora Corwin
All albums
Germany entered into a non-aggression agreement with Poland. That means a valuable contribution to the European peace. Germany will hold on to this unconditionally. Hitler 21.5.35
I am feeling offended by the allegations, that I should want a war. Do they think I am crazy? War? That only would worsen the situation of the world.. Hitler. 10.11.33 I guarantee, that I will not be interested in the Czech Republic any more. Hitler 26.9.38 PRAGUE OCCUPIED BY GERMAN TROOPS ON 15.3.39 The German State and the kingdom of Denmark will not under any circumstance go to war or start an aggression towards each other. Art.1 of the German-Danish non-aggression pact. 31.5.39 HITLER OVERPOWERS DENMARK 9.4.40 The German Government declares that Germany has no intention to assault now or in the future the sovereignty of the kingdoms of Holland or Belgium, or their European or colonial possessions. Memorandum of the German Government to the Governments of Holland and Belgium. 9.5.40 HITLER INVADES HOLLAND AND BELGIUM THE NEXT DAY. 10.5.40 In all countries where German troops have been fighting, they always respected the European culture and all cultural treasures. Speech on the radio to England 27.7.42 It is impossible, that somebody should claim that the Bolshevist armies will ever be strong enough to start a new offensive against Germany. Goebbels 19.1.42
“The capacity for absorption of the crowd is very limited and her understanding is weak. Propaganda should be aimed more to the emotion of the public than to their reason”. “It is possible to make people believe by ingenious and continued propaganda, that Heaven is Hell or that the most miserable life is like Paradise”. “Every lie, even the most scandalous one leaves a track behind……..that fact is well known to all professional liars, who conspire in this art.” A.Hitler in Mein Kampf.
Mussert and Van Geelkerken. Reception by the Fuhrer and Himmler In Russia Mussert and van Geelkerken visited the Dutch SS Legion where “Dutch lads are combating the Soviet colossus.” In Russia Mussert and van Geelkerken visited the Dutch SS Legion where “Dutch lads are combating the Soviet colossus.”
The living mockery of all racial theories represented by Hitler.
“Every person in Germany, and in the whole world, knows what a genius and propagandist Dr Goebbels is. Often his propaganda would have been so successful if it was not built from the beginning on a scarcity of truth! Often the Doctor fooled the nation. He never muttered in his beard, but praised something to high heaven that later proved to be a lie. His propaganda was founded in absolute truth, in unyielding fanatical truthfulness. (Wilfrid Bade)
“Our leadership assumed a mobile defence and took new positions that would greatly shorten our transport routes in order to put numerous forces, who were previously employed in the rear, into operation in order to provide for favourable possibilities for the future defence of the front in the east.” 1943
Demons of a dictatorship
The miracle weapon that would bring about the great turnaround did not arrive… The propaganda trumpets of Goebbels, highly praised by his admirers, called Goebbels and his Fuhrer to the “Latest Rumour” [the highest judge].
The Flying Dutchman Daily distributed by the Allied Air Force Last edition 10 May 1945 Germany capitulates [centre] The Third Reich signs the unconditional surrender – first at Reims and then in Berlin
The Flying Dutchman Daily distributed by the Allied Air Force Friday 20 April 1945 [top] Allies at the western edge of the Veluwe hills Apeldoorn, Ede and Harderwijk liberated – British approaching Hamburg battles over in the Ruhr – Americans conquer Leipzig battle in centre of Nurnberg [right centre] Fierce struggle on the Oder and Neisse Powerful Russian offensive, immediately east of Berlin [right bottom] Blokzijl arrested Max Blokzijl, author of speeches for the German-Japanese radio in Hilversum was arrested in Groningen by members of the Dutch Internal Armed Forces. Even in 1944 a book by him was published: “I personally was there”. Now he is at … On 26 March Blokzijl still said on the radio: “Whoever has read the text of the most recent weekly article by Minister Goebbels attentively would have been impressed by a few sentences that reflect a huge confidence in the further development of matters on the fronts, that one needs to come to the conclusion that there is a rock-fast confidence on the German side that the Allied superiority will be assailed exactly at this moment.”
The “North West” Senior SS and Police Chief Nijmegen, 13 September 1944 In terms of a radio order of 3 September 1944, recorded by me, the operational section in Austerlitz, the Netherlands, will be transferred with immediate effect from Austerlitz near Zeist to a place in the east of the country, as near as possible to the German border. I am ordering that the headquarters be located at Oldenzaal. The local group at Oldenzaal is hereby informed that it will place its accommodation at our disposal so that it could be used jointly. The senior officer at Stollenwerk, Oldenzaal, will request living quarters from the local commander. [title] signed Dr Beck Major … [bottom] From Oldenzaal they could flee more quickly.
[left top] Knickerbocker Weekly “Free Netherlands” HM Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands and the President of the United States of America. Special edition for occupied Netherlands: distributed by the RAF. [right top] The distribution of these articles in whatever form serves the national interest. Please pass this along. [left bottom] The Netherlands’ voice in America. Compatriots! This special edition for the Netherlands, brought to you by the men of the RAF, is edited in New York where the Netherlands Publishing Company Inc., a completely Dutch enterprise, publishes The Knickerbocker Weekly; Free Netherlands. It is a major weekly by Dutchmen for Dutchmen and for Dutch-Americans. It is the voice of the Netherlands that continues speaking out clearly. It is a publication that exclusively serves the Dutch cause by keeping the Americans informed about the abuse of the Netherlands and what is being done from outside the Netherlands by Dutchmen to liberate you. The Knickerbocker Weekly is an independent Dutch weekly that has set itself the goal to engage itself for your cause and to see to it that America stays informed about your faithfulness to your own traditions and of your steadfast will to become free again. The Knickerbocker Weekly is published partly in English and partly in Dutch and his its offices on the fiftieth floor of the second highest office block in New York, the well-known Radio City, adjacent to Holland House. We depict a photograph of our building. A bond is created through the Knickerbocker Weekly between all Dutchmen and Dutch-Americans who live in freedom in this country and always think of you, leave no stone unturned not only to liberate you, but also to assist you in what you will need in terms of reconstruction. Our weekly is your voice. The numerous Americans who read this can learn from this that a good Dutchman will never bow before a German or Japanese. The whole staff and the men who have established this weekly have committed themselves not to rest until the last Nazi has been driven out of the Netherlands and the last Japanese from India. The American nation expresses itself every day in its press and on the radio in its appreciation for the nation in the Netherlands and in Dutch-India that has conducted itself and is still conducting itself so heroically. [right bottom] HM the Queen after her voyage by aircraft across the ocean to Canada , united with her daughter, Princess Juliana, and the young Beatrix and Irene.
The American are there! On 26 January 1942 American troops landed again on European territory, 24 years and 7 months after the First US Expeditionary Army arrived in France and so decided the war in favour of the Allies. Without the loss of a single life the convoy of troop ships arrived safely from America in Northern Ireland where the troops have now moved into their barracks. Following this Winston Churchill announced in the House of Commons on 27 January: “The vanguard of an American army has already landed in the United Kingdom. Substantial armed forces will follow when the opportunity is favourable. These armed forces will be stationed in the British Isles and together with us they will face everything that confronts us. They give mobility to all armed forces in Britain; greater than which we would have had otherwise. Numerous American fighter and bomber squadrons will also participate in the defence of Great Britain and in the steadily increasing intense bombing offensive against Germany.” Two black dates for the Jerries: 26 June 1917: The Americans land in France 26 January 1942: The Americans land in Northern Ireland What they said about these: In the previous war: Before the German defeat “Our enemies are presently bluffing against us and we see that they are calling upon the big army on the other side of the ocean. That army can neither swim nor fly. It won’t come”. Hergt, Prussian Finance Minister, January 1918. After the German defeat: “Would America arrive in time to wrest the laurels off our heads? That, and only that, was the decisive question. I believed I could reply to this in the negative. But I was wrong.” Hindenburg in his memoirs. In this war: Before the German defeat: “What are they hoping for? That America will enter the war? Right from the beginning we took every possibility into account. Every ship, whether in a convoy or not, and appears in front of our torpedo launchers will be torpedoed.” Adolf Hitler, 30 January 1941. After the German defeat:
The rest smoked surrogates such as dried cherry, cabbage or other leaves.
Privileged people smoked Machorka. Fortunately “home made” and consisting of pure poison.
Announcement The male population did not sufficiently respond to the appeal by the Mayor for labour input. The measures taken will now be applied fiercely. Towards this end some arrests have already been made. All male persons in the municipal area of Zwolle born between 1920 and 1928 have to report immediately at the Municipal Labour Office at 18 Kamper Street, Zwolle. Persons with a surname starting from A to L must report on Thursday 22 February 1945 between 09:00 and 17:00 and persons with a surname from M to Z must report on Friday 23 February 1945 between 09:00 and 17:00. Persons with a document of exemption need top produce this for control purposes. This labour service will be performed in the town’s vicinity. If the town does not reach the required number of workers on 23 February 1945 then reprisals against life and property will follow. Your attention is again drawn to the decree of 14 September 1944 (see the announcement). The Plenipotentiary of the Reich Commissioner for the Province Overijssel.
Nation and Fatherland, 26 May 1944 Before the great safe break-in [bottom] The Archbishop of Canterbury: And grant Oh Lord that there is no weak point in the European safe so that these men may successfully get hold of the loot under their watch.
Germany wins on all fronts on behalf of Europe HELP! The victory action was ridiculed.
PUTTEN. How the brutes carried on in our village Putten An hommage to the Swiss and the Swedish Red cross. _______Lest it be forgotten________
EPILOGUE The Germans burnt down a large part of Putten, deported 600 men to Germany. By personal order of General Christiansen. Only 5 of them survived; they returned as human wrecks.
In June 1943 NSB Police Inspector Peter Kaay was shot dead on the Kuipersdijk in Enschede. As reprisals 24 career police employees were taken to a Stalag in Germany. Dirk Bongers was one of them.
In addition to Jews many Dutch citizens were locked up in the “Police Transit Camp” in Amersvoort. The Dutch mostly played a role in politics and also persons who did not hide their negative feelings against the Nazis too carefully. They were maltreated and humiliated in the “lager” and especially the Jews to a terrible extent. The non-Jews were either released after a short while or sent to a concentration camp. The Jews were murdered directly or transported to a gas camp.
In Haaren and St Michielsgestel good Dutchmen were locked up as hostages. If “sabotage” took place anywhere against the Nazis, some of these innocent persons were shot.
In these prisons are no riffraff, but Holland’s glory, dash it all!
The penitentiary at Scheveningen, the “Orange Hotel.”
Inauguration Mayor of Oldenzaal (From our correspondent) Oldenzaal, 13 June. Last Saturday afternoon the new Mayor of Oldenzaal, Mr AHG Weustink, previously secretary of the municipality of Oostmarsum, was inaugurated ceremonially by the Commissioner of the province Overijssel, Mr Von Bönninghausen. The WA and SS from Enschede and Hengelo and the NJS were present and formed a guard of honour. Others present included Dr Schröder, Plenipotentiary of the Reich Commissioner, Dr Mattar from Enschede, circuit leader of the NSB in Twente, various municipal sections, representatives of the SS and WA, etc. The orange, white and blue flag, as well as the black-red flag of the NSB flew from the municipal offices and city towers. In the council chamber of the municipal offices where the inauguration too place, a portrait of the leader of the NSB, Mussert, had pride of place, surrounded by flags in the same colours. The Commissioner delivered an inaugural address, to which the Mayor responded. Before and after the inauguration a concert was given by the city carilloneur of Enschede, Mr B de Bruin in the St Plechelmus Tower. Afterwards the SSA, the WA and the NJS held a march through different streets of the town. Handelsblad, 1942. Inauguration of an NSB mayor. Master, I’m a member of the NSB, Well done, lad, and keep yourself in check, and then you can become mayor!
The National Socialist Weekly Official struggle mouthpiece of the National Socialist Dutch Labour Party Editor Adalbert Smit [left] The National Socialist Weekly Official struggle mouthpiece of the National Socialist Dutch Labour Party Editor Adalbert Smit [right top] Oldenzaal. The inauguration of Mayor Weustink. As we already reported yesterday, Mr AHG Weustink will be inaugurated next Saturday afternoon as Mayor of Oldenzaal. In the meantime some changes have come about in the inaugural programme. It is currently arranged as follows: From 3 to 3:30: concert on bells by Mr B de Bruin, city carilloneur of Enschede; 3 o’clock: arrival of the mayor at the city hall being received by members of the PO and NSVO. 3:10: Inspection of the WA, SS and youth movement. 3.30 – 4.30: inauguration ceremony in the council chamber. 4.30- 5 o’clock: reception in the mayor’s chamber. 4.30 – 5:15 march by the WA, SS and youth movement through the town, after which a defilé march in front of the municipal offices; 5.30- 6 o’clock: second part of the concert on bells. Twentsche Courant.
Traitors to their country Mary my child, please play “I love you my Netherlands” again, but quite loudly so that all can sing along and so that the traitor to our country standing outside can hear this very well. September 1941 Traitors to their country by Max Blokzijl The unmarried engineer with a very high income has been sacked because of his convictions and he now sells magazines about the struggle – for the Netherlands. The courageous citizens now sit behind their windows and grimace: “There he stands, the traitor to the country, freeze yourself to death, and then freeze yourself to death. Mary, play on the piano the beautiful song, “I love you, my Netherlands”. And children, all sing along! And daddy too. Loudly, so that the lad outside should hear it well! The devil may take me, but I don’t know why these hundreds of thousands of traitors to their country are traitors. Can one then be, or have been a traitor to his country when one has shown that one wants to give everything one possesses to the country, that one now wants to betray? Mary – your song sounds quite false. Or is it your parents who are forcing you to play like this? I don’t want to hear the song from you anymore.
Max Blokzijl Press chief of the NSB
Italy still has the same King as in the year 1915. Victor Emanuel III Allied propaganda pamphlets
The Italians believe in Realpolitik Mussolini actually stated: “We are going with Germany to the bitter end!” In any event Mussolini shortly afterwards sent his son in law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, as Italian Ambassador to the Pope. The Vatican State, of which the Pope is the leader, is neutral. The Pope has said time and again that his highest political wish is: Peace on earth. A delegation of captured Italian Generals, under the leadership of General Bergonzoli, was received recently by the Mayor of New York, F. La Guardia. Mayor La Guardia is of Italian descent – and, as is known, he is not very friendly towards the Germans. In America the Italians are legally no longer regarded as hostile foreigners.
During 1943 important events happened in the Mediterranean area. We wanted to know whether the Axis powers have lost anything by the treason of the spiteful royal Victor Emanuel or of his politically inferior equal, Umberto. The answer is ‘no!’ (Dr Ley)
On 25 July 1943 the King dismissed Mussolini outright. On 8 September the capitulation of Italy followed. The diary of Goebbels: “The King of Italy is a traitor!” “The capitulation is a stab of a dagger in the back!”
In May 1938 the Fuhrer was in Italy for the second time. In his honour a number of festive occasions were held, a march of the fascist militiamen and of Italian troops in Rome and also a large naval exercise in the Bay of Naples!
The treason of the House of Savoy! (1943)
This is the war that the Anglo-Americans preferred.
Soldiers and labourers are fighting for the final victory.
The V-weapons repay the English for their aerial terrorism. New weapons are stopped from being used.
Millions of people are struggling and working in contributing to the salvation of Europe
We are winning with absolute certainty because of new German weapons
Shoulder to shoulder to victory
Ciano’s diaries: “We have never been treated as allies, but always as servants. Every [military] operation has always been conducted without our knowledge.”
“The German nation is a militaristic but not a bellicose one!” “Give the German a lot of sausages, butter, beer and a Volkswagen, and then he does not feel like having his stomach pierced!” Il Duce remarked in this regard. (Ciano’s diaries)
10 March 1939: “Mussolini was very impressed by a report from Attalice essentially confirming two matters: 1. That the Fuhrer feels very strongly about the solidarity and is prepared to march with us. 2. That the German nation stands in closed ranks behind the Führer but would like to see any danger from war being disposed of.”
[Left top] The tragic dictator and his imitator. [Right top] Two nations and one catastrophe [Centre] For the fifth time the Fuhrer and Il Duce met with one another: Venice, June 1934; Berlin September 1937; Rome, May 1938; Munich September 1938 and on the Brenner Pass, March 1940. “At the altitude of 1370 metres on the Brenner pass, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini had a fateful meeting. The discussion of two and a half hours was wide-ranging and of importance not only for German-Italian friendship, but also for the whole of Europe.” (Newspaper report) “18 March 1940. It is snowing on the Brenner. Mussolini is waiting for the guest with a kind of anxious joy. In recent times he became increasingly aware of the Führer’s fascinating power. The reasons are Hitler’s military successes, the only thing that Mussolini really appreciates and longs for.” (Ciano’s diaries)
Mussolini, why are you smiling like this?
State visit by the Fuhrer to His Majesty the King of Italy and Emperor of Ethiopia and appearing also with Il Duce of fascist Italy. “Since the cooperation of both dictators started in September 1937, the Axis had to endure quite a burden. For the first time they are behaving themselves as neighbours. The anschluss has not been forgotten in Italy and the concern about South Tyrol is increasing! The English-Italian agreement of April was not received with any enthusiasm in Berlin.” (Bullock)
Protocol required of Hitler, as head of state, to stay at the Quirinale Palace with the King. The ceremonial reception bored him and left him with an increasing feeling of aversion towards the Italian royalty. Diary of Goebbels: “Mussolini deserved a better nation than the one he is leading at present…” (27 March 1942)
Victor and Adolf greet each other at the station.
Two nations; one catastrophe!
The Munich Agreement. Article 1: The German and Italian nations are in agreement that they will also in future strive side by side with a united strength to secure their lebensraum [space of living] and to maintain peace. Article 2: If, against all wishes and hopes, it should happen that one or more of the parties in the agreement would become involved in warlike actions with another power, or with other powers, then the other party to this agreement will immediately come to his aid as an ally and support him with all military forces on land, at sea and in the air. Article 5: The parties to the agreement already now commit themselves that, in the event of a war waged in common, they would only conclude a truce or peace in consultation with each other.
Mussolini is greeted by Sir Franz von Epp (1938). Mussolini gave along a secret memorandum with General Cavallero on 30 May 1938 for Hitler. In this many of the points were again repeated that Mussolini prepared in his memo for Ciano before the meeting in Milan. He emphasised very strongly that Italy still needed until 1942 for a period of preparation and of peace! It would be advantageous to whittle away the powers of the Western countries to resist, because Il Duce did not want any war! If, however, Mussolini had known what Hitler said on 23 May – in other words on the day after concluding the ‘Iron Pact’ – to the commanders in chief of the army, navy and air force, his concern would have shot up sky high! War, said Hitler, was inevitable… 9 September 1943, Goebbels wrote: The Italians are leaving us in a critical time. It will be clear to them that they have chosen the most disgraceful political decision in history. They have lost face. One can after all not break one’s word twice in 25 years without one’s political honour going down in history with disgrace and shame.
Diary of Goebbels, 10 September 1943. The Fuhrer has absolutely expected the Italian treason with certainty! Where Mussolini is at the moment, is completely [un]known. 14 September 1943 The fortunate news came early in the evening that in a surprise move it was possible to free Il Duce. That is an act of heroism of the SD, the parachute troops of Student and the Waffen SS. Together with Il Duce was Caballero, who was thus not shot. We are of course humanly moved that the liberation of Il Duce succeeded. Badoglio brought Il Duce to a small hotel at Gran Sasso, high in the Abruzzi. Otto Skorzeny executed the surprise move with a section of the SS.
Adolf Hitler with Victor Emanuel III, King of Italy, Emperor of Abyssinia, later also for a time King of Albania. Victor Emanuel was only interested in his coin collection. This was probably the reason why Mussolini found it so easy to wrest away the real power in his favour. The King can only be regarded as a puppet!
Diary of Goebbels 11 September 1943: The King too cannot be spared anymore in our propaganda. The Führer gave his opinion that Princess Mafalda (the second daughter of the King, married to Prince Phillip of Hessen, who died in the Buchenwald concentration camp) provides the most friction from all in the Italian royal household. He believes that she bumped off her brother in law, Boris of Bulgaria, from alive to dead. It would also be possible that the Italian plutocratic clique had treated Mussolini with some poison, because Mussolini’s illness has been a mystery over a period of time.
Mussolini: The King always plays the anti-German game, but he had his daughter married to a German, his son to a Belgian woman of German descent and in his house one counts the marriages with Germans in their dozens!
“When Il Duce thought the time was right when the continuing intolerable attacks against him by especially the French and the British and he assumed his position with a rifle in the hand and the King declared war, this then happened in the full freedom of his decision. Italy’s entry has contributed to speeding up the full realisation in France that further resistance is futile. Since I personally have the honour the be this man’s friend, good fortune smiles upon me to have so much in common with someone than both our revolutions and yes, above all, the history of our unity and the overall victory on the part of both nations! Our cooperation on the political and military terrain is a complete one! The injustice will be solved that has been placed upon the German and Italian nation over the centuries. So: At the end of it all stands our common victory!”
Il Duce was very annoyed this morning about the King that told him some unpleasant things, e.g. Konrad of Bavaria had told him that Mussolini is only referred to in Munich as the Gauleiter of Italy. Il Duce said to me: “If Hitler had such a floppy tail as the King between his legs he would never have been able to take over Austria and Czechoslovakia.” (Ciano, 27 September 1939).
Initially friends, later on brothers in suffering. They drank on fraternity, but they were not “the real brothers”! Nothing was said about South Tyrol: In ‘Mein Kampf’, page 708, Hitler wrote: “Whoever today believes that through protests, declarations or club parades, the South Tyrol question can be solved, is either a total rogue or a German bourgeois.”
Julius Caesar!
Frederick the Great!
“Germany and Italy have two completely different structures, but history has closely intertwined the fate of both nations. The key to this agreement in the most divergent areas is found in the outlooks on the world embodied by the great personalities of the Fuhrer and of Il Duce. From their cradle – and in neither case this stood in an aristocratic castle – through a hard time of youth right up to their present role as statesmen, fascinating parallels are to be seen. The enormous experience of the Italian corporal Benito Mussolini, and also of his German counterpart, Adolf Hitler, during the First World War formed the idea of the need for an inner unity and to bring their nations closer to each other. They believed this is necessary when called upon to have a voice in the concert of nations. Both created their parties upon this idea. Based upon this they pointedly conducted their struggle to create the state of their ideals. The Führer and Il Duce furthermore feel the same about the struggle for real socialism and concomitantly about their sharp rejection of Marxism and the world pest of Bolshevism for which the word, “socialism”, is a mere slogan propagating the aims of this destructive class struggle”. (Dr Otto Dietrich, Reich press chief).
Hitler publicly praised Il Duce at the Berlin Olympic Stadium as one of the lonesome men of all time who are not tested by history, but who make history! (28 September 1937).
The militiaman’s ten commandments 1. The fascist, and especially the militiaman, may not believe in permanent peace. 2. Punishment is always earned. 3. Also the guard of a barrel of fuel serves the fatherland. 4. The comrade is your brother – 1) because he is living with you and 2) because he thinks and feels like you. 5. Your rifle and bandolier should not be neglected when you are resting, but be held ready for the war. 6. Never say: The government is paying, because it is you who are paying. You have voted for the government and you wear its uniform. 7. Obedience is the god of the army, without it no soldier is conceivable, but only unruliness and defeats. 8. Mussolini is always right. 9. The volunteer has no rights when he is not obedient. 10. One thing is most important above all else: Il Duce’s life! (From: La Dottrina del Fascismo). .
In every person’s history – his history his hates and loves are clearly written. His inner being appears here in the light but not everyone can read it not everyone understands. Friedrich Bodenstedt, 1819 – 1892.
The Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler, born 20 April 1889 and committed suicide on 30 April 1945.
Il Duce, Benito Mussolini, born 1883, hanged in April 1945. Giervius: “The trip was completely unsuccessful. Both dictators are highly jealous of each other. They prowl around each other suspiciously. They feel like competitors rather than allies!”
And what are you doing?
Prices are rising! It is the nationalist robbers’ fault.
Italians: Don’t buy any German goods!
Fascist proletariat: Wake up!
The poet, Gabriele d’Annunzio, born in Pescara in 1863, was promoted in 1924 to the Prince of Monteneroso.
Benito Mussolini was born in 1883 in Predappio, a village in the Forli region of Romagna. His father was Alessandro Mussolini, a poor smith and an ardent socialist. Benito became a teacher, but after only a few months he left this position. He travelled around in Switzerland and occupied himself with revolutionary socialist propaganda. He was arrested in 1902 in Lausanne for vagrancy and in Berne for a political transgression and he was ultimately banned from Switzerland. Returning to Italy, he became a journalist with the newspaper, ‘Il Populo’, and afterwards of the socialist paper, ‘Lotto di Classe’ and of ‘Avanti.’ He participated in the First World War and was soon released from service because he was wounded. When communists became active, he founded the Fascist Party in 1919. In 1922 he executed a coup d’etat and became the dictator of Italy. In the meantime d’Annunzio, who did not want to go along with Fiume being granted to Yugoslavia by the League of Nations, occupied Fiume in 1919 with a crowd of volunteers in order for Fiume to stay within Italy. With funds that were in reality been gathered for the children of Fiume, Mussolini was able to conduct his famous march in 1922 from Naples to Rome.
The lofty ideals of humanity bridge many thousands of years; Rudolf Ismair. The Olympic gold medallist of 1932, swears the Olympic oath to all the participants; Haendels “Hallelujah” solemnly concludes the festive scenery;
The Hitler youth was the guard of honour for the bell.
Only a few of the contenders knew of the country hosting the Olympics. What they knew , they had often heard only in parts and and maliciously twisted;
The Olympic Bell sends its ironclad message to the world. A thundering salute comes from the cannons; Spyridon Louis, the winner of the 1896 Marathon, hands the Fuehrer an olive branch he has cut in the holy Grove of Olympia; Past and present join hands;
The Olympic Bell with the inscription:” I call the youth of the world”
The Olympic oath: In the name of all competitors, I promise that we shall take part in these Olympic games, respecting and abiding by the rules that govern them, in the true spirit of sportsmanship, for the glory of sport and the honour of our teams.
The Olympic flame spread its light over the heights of the Werdenfelser Land. The olympic flag flew on the highest pole in the skiing stadium; After the youthful teams of 28 Nations had entered the stadium and Adolf Hitler,Fuehrer and Chancellor of the new Germany had announced the opening of the fourth Winter Olympics, we have put up those signs of the desire for Olympic peace;
The countryside around Garmisch-Partenkirchen accommodated from the 6th to the 16th of February 1936 an extended family of nations, filled with mutual respect and affectionate understanding;
What nobody could or would have asked for ,for the first time English man and French man gave their host the German salute at an official meeting
Presence of mind and quick decisions are often apart from all other sailing factics, decisive in contending for place and victory with an equally matched opponent. Neither the redoubted Scandinavian countries, nor the United States ,so accustomed to winning ,were victorious. Instead, the winners were Italy, England, Germany and Holland .
The Fuehrer,accompanied by the Commander of the Navy and the Reichssportfuehrer on board of the yacht “Nixe”, attended the olympic sailing regattas on th Kieler Foerde.
Between the calm and the storm on Germany’s blue Kieler Foerde a regatta week was held,in such weather conditions as could only have been wished for to have an ideal Olympic competition;
The son of the former builder of the German stadium in Gruenewald,Werner March, designed a new project based on the ideas of the Fuehrer which surmounted in spaciousness and compactness everything that has been created in the world so far; West of the capital, surrounded by the greenery of the Grunewald,the Reichssportfeld was built on an area of 120 hectare.
The magnificent Olympic happening has relayed its waves to the farthest places on earth; The Olympic idea has grown new powerful buds faraway from Germany’s borders!
In the meantime Adolf Hitler had taken the fates of the German people to heart; The Fuehrer had the conversion plans brought to him, studied them and inspected the site; He then decided that the construction will take place.
Outside Berlin in Doeberitz an Olympic Village has been built with the help of the army, enabling all of its occupants to prepare themselves in perfect tranquillity for their competition; A dreamy residential village; This magical landscape with its forests and green meadows is refreshing;
Germany skillfully utilises the occasion to show the “Third Reich” at its best ( on the back:Loyalty is the mark of honour,Von Hindenburg )
Airship,Olympic Mail;
Finally we can not win with muscular or spiritual force only, externally and internally.The more these feelings have blood and race at their roots,the more succesful the effort will be.
The motto of the Olympic games :Fortius,Altius Citius (Stronger,higher,faster)
On the opening day of the Olympic Games the airship “Hindenburg” captained by Dr.Hugo Eckener,an apparent anti-Nazi) flew over the stadium and Berlin.
Mens sana in corpore sano(not Hitlers words)
On postcard; For us the future men with brilliant spirit period in a beautiful body is our highest ideal;
New people are born from earth’s womb and fight forever for honour and victory; Slowly the tree of friendly competition blossoms into a different flower as sports become a consciously felt meaning of life; The era of machinery and motors casts men into a new form. The pure magnificence of the body is revealed to be a miracle of nature and considered to be of equal state to the realm of spirituality; The naturalness of acting and thought returns on a national level. This era was still dawning when the classic sites of antiquity were carefully lifted into the light of sun and perception by German scientists; ( L.E.May )
Athens 1896 , Berlin 1936 , Tokyo 1940
The flags of Germany, Greece and Japan are hoisted on the olympic victory masts; A voice sounds from their visible heights:” I call the youth of the world to Tokyo”; Hands join and the earth’s nations are peacefully united in the magic of Olympia.
Leading in this process is radio technology, as new technologies had to be developed to deal with this special tasks in the giant stadiums with their complicated acoustics.
Not only the big sports events and the exemplary arenas are admirable, but also the fantastic technical apparatus which has made the recording, processing, preparation and execution possible;
May the Olympic flame shine through all generations for the benefit of humanity in its strie for a more courageous and purest world. (Baron de Coubertin )
The fine architectural colonnade at the Olympic arena is a wonderful sight;
State, government and people are united in supporting the will of Adolf Hitler in calling the youth of the world to the German Heimat; The youth of foreign countries looks with astonishment
at the wonderful image of German unity and future
The final scene is tremendous; United States and Germany; The United States, with their incomparable sense of justice ( later the multinational warmongers ) and with their numerous non-Arians, are for the German people the most powerful sports competitors; In comes Germany, the Swastika banner at its head. Behind it, Reichssportfuehrer von Tschammer and Osten leads his Olympic team, dressed in dazzling white, through the Marathon Gate. The German hymn resounds with mighty power. The march of nations is ended.
Every German speaker is overwhelmed with emotion as German winners are honoured! The Deutschland Lied and the Horst Wessel Lied emanate from the throats of hundreds of thousands of people.
The Fuehrer stays until the last competitor have left the arena; The wonderful day comes to an end , unforgettable for those who lived it ,incomparable in its harmoniousness and beauty, its solemnity and purity, realising the highest ideals of humanity;
The entry of the contending nations begins. A strict tradition is being followed; Greece is given the all-time honour to lead the march, followed by the other nations in alphabetical order; The end is brought about by the host country; Applause and cheers roar over the contenders; People from all around the world meet at the festival of peace; The blue-and-white flag of Greece is lowered in front of the VIP stand as a greeting, and the guests all salute the German Fuehrer with raised hands.
For Goebbels, it is not interesting that somebody wins, but that he is a German; Or, if that is not possible, at least an Arian. In the third Reich, sport is a matter of propaganda;
The Olympic flame burns in Berlin. An enormous wave of enthusiasm swells up and continues to flow with an ever increasing volume and power over man and his work;
The Olympic Games now belong to the past; They have gone down in the history of sports and nations; A new era began with these universal games, especially with regard to our fatherland; Germany’s youth had convincingly shown its athletic abilities.; 33 gold, 26 silver and 30 bronze medals were won by our young men and women for their fatherland; And this is the country of Adolf Hitler! The whole world recognises with admiration what the Fuehrer has created; He and he alone was the originator of the most wonderful Olympic Games of all times in the whole wide world; Only two nations dominated the Olympic Games 1936, Germany and the United States; We are the leading sports nation in the world and our thanks go only to Adolf Hitler. (Ludwig Hayman,former heavyweight boxer ).
The Cigaretten-Bilderdienst edited many books during the Nazi period; The Garbaty-Cigaretten-Factory wanted to give its customers complementary pleasure;
Cheers of joy as the retrieval of youth and energy are addressed with unrestrained openness at all the young messengers from all nations ; Nowhere in the world were both men and space so filled with the Olympic spirit as in Berlin. State, government and people are one in supporting the will of Adolf Hitler, who called the youth of the world to the German “Heimat”. (From : Olympia)
From the newspaper :”Der Mittag”
By God, this entry of the participants of all nations; But whilst everybody is listening breathlessly to music and cheering, the last torch bearer appears and runs through the stadium with the holy flame, lit at the altar of Olympia, mounts the steps to the sacrificial bowl and lights the Olympic flame, which will from now on burn continuously throughout the Olympics Games.
***And here comes Spyridon Lenis the Greek ,who won the first marathon of the modern games in Athens 40 years ago and who, dressed in the national costume of his home country mounts the steps to the Fuehrer and hands him the olive branch from the Olympic Grove;
Flaming torch passed from hand to hand
Via Triumphalis
Highlight : the daily visit of the Fuehrer!
The highlight was the daily visit of the Fuehrer, an integral part of the festive days that could not have been missed, which stimulated general enthusiasm, incited the German contenders,both female and male and brilliantly underlined the significance of those days in the eyes of the Germans and the whole world;
Over all obstacles of the Olympic idea as an ideal of peace unites the outstanding athlets of the world and constitutes as such the recognition of a new universal concept of harmony of body, spirit and soul; ( The fascinating eloquence of Dr.Josef Goebbels led to this imaginative picture of the Olympic Games);
The Fuehrer appears saluted with cheers. The hymn of German fighting spirit;
Dark clouds float over Europe! In anxious anticipation millions of people live in great tension, enormous revolutions discharge powerful sparks; Germany however floats like an island of peace in the sea of nations; the German people led by their Fuehrer have rediscovered their self-esteem and are passing strongly and surely through the troubles of time;
Solemn and clear the last words:” Burn, holy flame, keep on burning and never be extinguished!” sound over the large stadium. A quiet murmuring in the national banners seems to confirm their understanding;
The sports festival of all nations is displayed in magnificent splendour on this island of peace
The International Olympic committee gave the games to Germany in 1932, when Hitler was not yet in power. Starting in 1933, growing numbers of people protested against having the games in a country in which people believe in superior and inferior races, and which continues to proclaim its love for war; Other people maintained, however, that sports should be separated from politics and that it would be unfair and not “sportive“ to take the Olympic Games away from a country at the last moment! These defenders of fairness did not see that the Nazis, and especially Goebbels, used the sports event to convince their country that the world has accepted Hitler.
Everything is done to give foreign visitors a favourable opinion; They get a good impression, eating and drinking well, seeing a well tended Berlin. They start doubting the reports about concentration camps and Gestapo cellars.
The placards “Jews not admitted” disappeared from the streets; Even the journal of Julius Streicher could not be displayed in newsagents for a few weeks;
There is only one “but” to the games; They do not prove the superiority of the arian races but instead, the extraordinary performances of the American blacks;
Incomprehensible and strange is the act of fate assigning the Olympic Games to Germany when it was in the midst of bloody battles. No country on earth, however ,has earned the right to celebrate this solemn festival of youth more than Germany in this hour;
Internally the Jews in German sports leagues were subjected to the directives defended by the Director of Sports of the SA,in his book” Body training “in National Socialist thinking as follows: The Jewish leaders in sports and those contaminated by Jewish influence, the pacifists and the appeasers, and the pan -Europeans have no place on German territories;they are worse than the cholera, than pest, than syphilis, worse than the burning hoards of Mongolians, worse than fire storms, famine, breaking dikes, drought, poison gas; The world has still to face its greatest battle: the fight against Jewry.
One of the fundamental principles of the Olympic games is the solidarity of all nations and races; Hitler announced that the government of the Reich would respect the rights of non-arians throughout the Olympic games; The outside world was misled by this promise. (“ The yellow stain”) by Lion Feuchtwanger.
Publicity card .Think of Olympia 1936! ( Support fund )
Trumpet blasts break the silence, Hitler, Fuehrer of the Reich, patron of the Olympic Games, comes down the steps that lead to the internal arena next to the marathon gate;
Next to him walk Count Baillet – Latour and his Excellence Lewald,both wearing the Olympic chain of office; All arms go up as if to say : you have given a miracle to us and the world; Accompanied by the music of Wagner’s “Huldigungsmarsch”( March of honour) Hitler
mounts the steps of the VIP stand. On reaching his seat he greets his people; The German hymn is played,and the German nation sings with heartfelt emotion.
The Olympic idea was deeply engraved in hearts and minds;
The loudspeaker asks to listen to the words of the initiator of the Olympic Games, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, spoken from the quietness of his home to the world : The idea of the Olympic Games is not victory but participation; Its aim is not contention, but chivalry;
The ocean of Berlin’s houses trembles with the expectation of events never seen before; The greatest event is still to come and the flapping of the banners in the festive decorations is no more than a forewarning of dawning greatness.
All streets are packed. The Regimental band of the “Watchregiment Berlin” plays a big wake-up call at eight o’clock in the morning. There are huge poles with enormous Swastika-Banners everywhere.
An endless stream of people floods the Main Street.
A Compatriot answers: The fact alone that such a despicable and discredited contemporary such as Dr Goebbels has the audacity to speak on behalf of our fallen, our fighters, and our workers, is pure scorn and derision and really makes an answer superfluous. Nevertheless – we again need to become used to not allowing his one-sided Party arguments and moral sermons to go unchallenged, but rather to contradict him through the opinion of an open-minded nation. Because the author of the so-called “Thirty war articles for the German nation” is the voice of a system in terms of the principle: “No answer is also an answer” he has forced the “yes” by the German nation to the right of general silence – and thereby bringing us to the verge of the abyss. Here is the answer, article by article: Answer 17. Everything is transitory Everything passes by, First Heinrich Himmler goes And then the Party. Answer 18. There is no more stupid phrase than the burden of responsibility is the heaviest. What kind of responsibility is it then when the “responsible” cannot be held to account for his responsibility? But our leaderships sees to it that it cannot be brought to accountability. Answer 19. Nothing is more contemptuous than the point of view of the leadership and of hundreds of thousands of “busy” party members … [here the page ends]
West-Kurier 13 March 1945 Newspaper for the soldiers of an army Appeal by the Fuhrer to the German Wehrmacht With regard to the Heroes’ Memorial Day of 1945 the Führer directed the following appeal to the German Wehrmacht: Soldiers! In the peace treaty of Versailles the same opponents as today lay upon Germany the condition to disarm completely and to institute a ridiculous professional army rather than a national army. It was also solemnly promised that this disarmament would be the condition for a general worldwide disarmament. All of this was a lie and deceit. Germany had scarcely finally laid down its arms when the time began of oppression and of plundering. In the peace treaty the dismemberment of the Imperial Empire was detailed. But the hostile powers rearmed themselves as never before – with Soviet Russia at the forefront. The eyes of the rest of the world were closed and so this state built up gigantic armed forces with the objective, that was never denied, to overwhelm Europe by force, rendered defenceless by the Jewry. How large the dimensions of this armament are, you know best, my soldiers from the East. If Germany had remained in its situation of military impotence, the whole of Europe would have been under Bolshevism by now, in other words the war of extermination would have been in full flow for some years already. In the knowledge of the threatening future lying across our continent I ordered immediately after I assumed power to prepare the Reich to be defended again so that there should be no fear of at least a minor attack. But this only happened after our enemies denied my numerous offers for a general disarmament, to limit the size of the air force, to exclude warfare by bomber aircraft, to eliminate heavy artillery and armour, to limit troops to a minimum number, etc. This denial simultaneously showed us the brutal objectives of our enemies. Now 10 years have passed since March 1935 when general military service was instituted and Germany had possession of a means of power that was necessary to maintain itself. Without this action there would now have been no Germany anymore. The Jewish alliance between capitalism and Bolshevism threatening Europe today, has in the meantime lifted the veil from the gigantic armament efforts to destroy our continent. Nevertheless the German Reich, shamelessly betrayed by most of its allies, has now been offering military resistance for more than six years and achieved victories of unique proportions. Even if fate has seemingly conspired against us there is no doubt that these set-backs will be overcome, as so often before, with courage, persistence and fanaticism. There is no great historical state in the past that did not find itself in a similar state: Rome in the second war against Carthage, the Prussians in the seven year war against Europe. These are but two examples from many. It is, therefore, my irrevocable decision and it has to be our resolute general will not to give the world around the kind of bad example that this world has given us. The year 1918 will thus not be repeated. We all know what otherwise the fate of Germany will be. Drunk from their victorious inebriation our opponents have already announced: The extermination of the German nation. Today, since the tenth anniversary of the day is approaching on which national military service was instituted, there is only one commandment: To do everything with bitter determination to withstand the dangers, to effect the turning of the tide and to strengthen materially and spiritually the aim of our nation and of its Wehrmacht. And equally our resistance has to be fanatical to crush those who seek to resist. When a great nation, such as the German, with a history of nearly two thousand years never allows to lose its faith in success, but fulfils its duty fanatically, regardless of whether better or worse times are approaching, then the almighty Lord will eventually not withhold his blessings. Who fails in history, has been found as too light and the God of the worlds only help them who are determined to help themselves! We are already experiencing in large parts of the East what is facing our nation and also in many parts of the West. What we thus have to do is quite clear: Offer resistance as long as possible and hit back against the enemy so that they would become tired and then fall apart! ….
West Falian Daily Newspaper ‘Neuer Emsbote,’ 19 February 1943. Arousing and compelling speech by Dr Goebbels in the Sports Palace. The nation is standing up! The storm is erupting! The world will soon recognise what the unanimous will of some 90 million can achieve. There is no turning back anymore, only forwards now! In Germany’s greatest hour the Lord God sent us the greatest leader of all times! … Stalingrad was and is the greatest warning cry of fate to the German nation! A nation that has the strength to suffer such a misfortune and overcome this, and yes, to garner strength from this, is unconquerable. The memory of the heroes of Stalingrad should be a strong duty for me and for all…
18 October 1941. In terms of certain information it would appear that the Germans are slowing down their march on Moscow. Did they not introduce their victory song somewhat too early? 20 October 1941. Allieri reported on a long conversation with Von Ribbentrop who played the old song again: Victory has been reached, the Russian army has been smashed and England’s days are numbered. In addition the armoured divisions outside Moscow came to a halt facing strong fortifications and many German soldiers will still have to call for their mothers before the Reich’s banners would be waved in front of the Kremlin. In the meantime winter is creeping up! (Count Galeazzo Ciano: Diaries)
[continued] … nation that is a rock of iron from which all attempts bounce off to break it. It was created during long peaceful times and killing the highest moral strength of the national soul bit by bit, namely the love for the fatherland for which no sacrifice is too high. Therefore, oh Lord, rather give us some war again, so that the ‘Teutonic furore’ so that its sharp sword can hack through the tied knot of the essentially Jewish and its national inciting press. We are facing large changes. Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear: Our father did not only give us Jewish prophets!” (Editorial committee of the viribus unitis appeal, PO Box 17 Weimar. 1912!
“May Jupiter grant that the Germans will acknowledge their strength, grant that they will aspire to loftier matters with their diligence. They will then not be people, but gods!” We were not spared the war and rather earlier than later before the ongoing destructive process in the interior diminishes the probability of victory. The great capital, dominated by liberalism, of course does not fear anything more than a courageous, enthusiastic and belligerent … [continued]
May the wish of Giordano Bruno (1548 – 1600) be fulfilled …
“Voyagers to England” or “Blood without Territory”
“For weeks our soldiers did not attack Kiev to save German blood and because the leadership knows that this city will in any event fall into our hands, where last Saturday the encompassing battle came to an end. The enemy may of course not learn of this plan. In the meantime the mendacious British propaganda news is claiming that our attack faltered because pest amongst the corpses has broken out. Mr Bramsig and Mrs Knöterrich heard this on the English radio during their edification time and furthermore said that rumour has it that a wife or a mother whose husband or son is stationed near Kiev are thus full of concern and heart ache, and we cannot tell them the truth because we have to remain silent in the interests of our soldiers!” (Goebbels: The Iron Heart) 5 October 1941
This is what the newspapers looked like on 11 April 1943 [after large scale British air raids against Hamburg]
Milton Shulman in “Defeat in the West” “There is no army, no British and no American, that can encircle or capture us! It is certain that we will be victorious in this war. It is equally certain that our illustrious divisions will never stop fighting and that they will do their duty – unconquered right to the end of the war. Whoever thinks and speaks differently will get a good clip in the face! Order of the Day on 14 August 1944 from Lieutenant General Richard Schimpf.
Hitler on 19 July 1940 before the Reichstag: In this struggle now, Members of Parliament, the German nation has again proved itself to be what it always was: The best infantry in the world! The war forced upon the Great German Reich by the capitalist rulers of France and England has to become the most glorious victory in the German history!
“The more difficult the circumstances, the more I trust the Fuhrer”. At a speech, 14 November 1943. Eduard Dietl, commanding officer of the German troops in the extreme north, fatally crashed on 23 June 1944.
The Knight’s Cross! In the night of 13-14 October 1939 In spite of all British defence measures young Captain Günther Prien sank the battleship, the Royal Oak, in Scapa Flow! The Gratitude! Because the handsome, heroic, talented Captain Prien by far outshone his superiors in terms of popularity, it was decided to cut him down to size. He should take to sea in a U-boat that needs repairs! He refuses, is arrested, disappears in a concentration camp and dies in the damp cells of the military detention barracks of Torgau! On 24 May 1941 the public heard: “Prien did not return from a voyage against the enemy!”
Tasso in Torquato Tasso by Goethe: “So I have been decorated and adorned in order to lead me as a sacrificial animal to the altar!” (Extract from his appearance).
Our Luftwaffe does its duty, not through words, but by deeds they achieved air superiority!” (Hermann Göring)
There was also a sympathetic Nazi corps from Turkestan that had the above emblem. Just as the Japanese they were not Aryan!
“The Fuhrer made despairing people again into hopeful Germans, from cracked up compatriots into people of action. He brought about a turn around in every German! The Führer is our great strength!” Dr Ley
“What name in the history of humanity has during the lifetime of its bearer had such a near magical influence on the people?” Dr Ley
“Thursday afternoon the first division of our victorious army marched into the Reich capital through the Brandenburg Gate. They are men from especially Berlin and Brandenburg who are received here by a grateful Berlin population after long and hard months of warfare. Now many families in Berlin will hear of the heroic deeds from their fathers and sons. Now they can be cheered and be thanked by those present. On the breast of some men shines the ribbon of the Iron Cross. Now the day of honour has arrived that will remain a great memory for everyone.” (War reporter Lieutenant Heysing) (From: Advance across Battlefields by Kurt Hesse)
Makeshift gantry rather than blown up bridge. The enemy is destroyed. The way is open again. Free for the infantry to race on further, free for the heroic sappers who now start with bridge-building, free for the larger part of our troops. The crossing has been forced…” War correspondent Dr Storz.
Crossing the Meuse at Maastricht.
The banner of the new German infantry: The black Iron Cross with a silver border, with four swastikas on the corners, in which an eagle stands on top of a swastika.
The new ensigns issued in 1936 are different for the army, air force and navy.
Hagen of Tronje maliciously murdered the great hero, Siegfried (of the Nibelungen). With the victory of the Nazis a whole number of new banners, standards and flags were introduced. A banner is always bound to a pole, while a flag is hoisted and hauled from its pole. A standard is mostly a small square banner.
Banners and standards are symbols of loyalty, unity and solidarity. The Reich banner showed 955 AD (the battle of Lochtfolde), Archangel Michael, and later the eagle. From the white dress of the orders and the black cross of the German order of knights the Prussian colours of white and black came into being.
German nation! At this moment an advance is taking place that is the largest in terms of expanse and scope that the world has ever seen. In the company of Finnish fighters, the victors of Narvik are standing at the northern Arctic Ocean. The formations of the German eastern front range from East Prussia to the Carpathians. On the banks of the Pruth to the lower regions of the Danube to the beaches of the Black Sea German and Romanian soldiers are united under head of state Antonescu! The objective of this front is thus not the protection of individual countries anymore, but the security of Europe and thereby everybody’s salvation! (22 July 1941) Inexorably the German march advanced through the villages burnt down by the Soviets! Flowers for the German liberation troops – in rolling attacks the German Luftwaffe decimated Soviet aircraft with its rows of Red bombers. In Ukraine the German soldiers were welcomed as liberators. Dr Ley: We have the best soldiers on earth. They persevere in the East amongst unimaginably cold conditions. Stalin had hoped differently. He believed that he would be able to win with the masses of his people, but Stalin is wrong. The German soldier will break down the immensely large steppes, the Red czar and his masses. Our soldier even conquers natural disasters and also the cruelty of the Bolshevists! (Ley: The big Hour).
Dr Ley: The German genius is triumphant! The most highly paced Bolshevist is in all aspects always still lower than the must humble German person! 2 February 1942 The German Sixth Army was cut off at Stalingrad. The catastrophe has arrived!
Plutocracy and proletarian dictatorship. Superficially seen they are as divergent as fire and water. But they are both sides of the coin. Their common denominator is the Jewry. (The common cause of the Eastern and of the Western war.) Nibelungen Publishers, Berlin.
On 10 March 1813, the birthday of his late wife, Luise, King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia created the Order of the Iron Cross, “the unadorned serious, but thus more moving mark of honour of the coming war for freedom.” (From the Hohenzoller and the German fatherland).
Reich armed forces helmet with the Nazi “national symbol”.
20 July 1944, or 8 August 1944, was a victory of the Party over the generals. On 20 July the generals sought to assassinate Hitler and on 8 August the execution of eight generals took place by means of the rope. Although they forced the Nazis on 30 June to purge their own ranks, the account was paid on 8 August, because their victories that they achieved after the outbreak of war for the Nazis, suddenly did not count anymore after their losses. With the day of the attempted assassination of Hitler came the disgrace and ignominy that has ever been perpetrated upon a German general, and with him, also the whole of the officers’ corps. This became the day on which eight generals were hanged on the gallows!
30 June 1934 saw a victory of the Reich army generals over Nazidom. The tragedy of the whole of the German nation was encapsulated in their lack of understanding value of this victory. The generals felt that they were not a match for the lack of scruples and of the brutality that the Nazis used ostensibly to save and preserve their powerful positions in the state. They committed the mortal error to leave the power in the state to the Nazis! They had to abandon their last positions of power step by step! Ultimately the generals were forced to give up the homogeneity of the Reich armed forces and of the officers’ corps in return for which they received a Trojan horse in the form of an army of a million men with grandiose equipment.
“Raid” As soon as one had heard this word in the occupied territories the streets emptied of people. Everyone rushed to his hiding place to avoid falling in the hands of the “green police”. Even women and children fled because it was possible to be shot senselessly without any reason! Hitler before the special court in the Munich military training institute in Blutenburg Street on 26 February 1924, after the failed attempt of 9 February1923: “I believe that the hour will arrive when the masses who are today standing on the streets with our swastika banners will unite with those whop had shot us on 9 November. I believe that the blood will not divide us for ever. When I learned that the green police had fired on us I had a lucky feeling: it was at least not the Imperial army. The hour will arrive one day when the Imperial armed forces will stand on our side!” (Hitler Process, p. 269).
“Upon the declaration of war rationing immediately came into effect … We have also developed in all areas our German possibilities to the utmost … They will not be able to subjugate us in the least either militarily or economically. Only one can win here, and that is us!!”
Shortly after the Führer leaving the citizen’s beer hall on 8 November 1939, a heavy explosion happened at the place where the Führer had stood! (Unfortunately the Führer was not there anymore!…) “The circumstances that point towards England, are being investigated” (Newspaper report).
On 8 November 1939, apropos the commemoration of 9 November 1923 in the beer hall in Munich, the Führer addressed the old warriors of the Nazi party.
Songs of the Hitler Jugend We have not yet come to an end The struggle is not yet over Our hands are folded into fists We are still not going home The first battle was won This was only the beginning: Continue fighting, storm columns, For Hitler’s dictatorship! “I have calculated in every possibility right from the start!”
Admiral Doenitz: 17 May 1945. Germany capitulates unconditionally. VE day!
Appeal to the German nation! 3 September 1939 We are now accepting the battle against the new attempt to destroy Germany. Germany will not capitulate again! Adolf Hitler
“One fundamental principle has to be followed absolutely by an SS man: be honest, respectable, loyal and a true comrade. This we need to be towards our own blood and otherwise to no one else!” (Himmler)
A system of bunkers made a peaceful crossing impossible. High above the water of the Meuse splashed under a hail of bullets and it is no reassuring feeling to see our sappers in their MG clothing…” (War reporter Biebrach in Southern Holland).
The first four paragraphs of the German soldier’s catechism read as follows: 1. The Wehrmacht is the arms carrier of the German nation. It shields the German Reich and the fatherland, the nation united in Nazism and its territory. The sources of its power lie in a glorious past, in the German nationhood, the German earth and German labour. Service in the Wehrmacht is an honourable service to the German nation. 2. The honour of a German soldier lies in his uncompromising commitment of his person to the nation and fatherland right up to sacrificing his life. 3. The highest soldier’s virtue is his bellicose courage. He encourages hardness and decisiveness. Cowardice is intolerable and vacillation is unsoldierly. 4. Obedience is the basis of the Wehrmacht, belief is the basis of obedience.
Already since the days of Frederick the Great the Germans have looked with fear and respect to soldiers. It was, therefore, only natural that the soldiers doing general national service would so readily adopt the discipline that encouraged the cult of the professional soldiers. The thought of a complete subjugation to a Fuhrer was strengthened considerably by the approach of Nazism and its theory of a ‘Fuhrer principle.’ The officer corps made an idol of discipline and in this way suppressed any secret resistance that could break out amongst the soldiers.
It depends on you! – It depends on you! In you hands lie the fatherland’s good and bad fortune! It depends on you! As heavy as never before your action in this high moment. It depends on you, you, the farmer behind the plough you, the labourer who operates the machine it depends on you who thinks boldly in your spiritual flight of the last wonder of the universe. It depends on you Your sacrifice builds the stages from night and ice towards the eternal light It depends on you! The expensive dead are calling Horst Wessel is watching you: Do your duty! Heinrich Hanacker, from ‘German reader for national schools.”
“I would like to close now by referring to those nameless ones who are now fulfilling their duty no less than those millions who are doing their duty and placing life and limb in peril and who were prepared at any time to bring the highest sacrifice as German officers and soldiers for their nation as a man has to offer. Many of them now lie imbedded on the side of the graves in which their fathers from the Great War are resting. They are the symbols of the hundreds of thousands of musketeers, anti-tank gunners and armoured protectors, sappers and gunners, sailors of the navy, and men of the air force, men of the Waffen SS and of all the other combatants in the German Wehrmacht who have stood up for freedom and the future of our nation and for the eternal size of the Nazi Great German Reich!” (Germany, Sieg heil!)
We will never forget you Who marches you into death We measure in your heroes’ death What this time delivers. You are the death’s pains, The soft reconciliatory sense Of the nation kneels with a burning heart before our sacrifices. You hear the shots echoing With bodies covered by blood You could not make a fist anymore You knew he did not fall: You knew the Führer is alive! (Gerhard Schumann)
“Last night regular Polish troops fired shot on our own territory. As from 05:45 we are returning the fire! And from now on every bomb will be retaliated by another. Whoever fights with gas will know we fight back with gas. Whoever distances himself from the rules of humanitarian warfare, can expect nothing else from us to take the same steps. I will continue this struggle, regardless of against whom, for as long as it takes to guarantee the security of the Reich and its rights. I have now been working for more than six years in building the German Wehrmacht up again. In this time more than 90 billion Marks have been spent in rebuilding our Wehrmacht. It is today the best equipped and it is far beyond comparison with the year of 1914. My confidence in you is unshakeable.” (Speech on 5 September 1939)
German Nazism was the most dangerous exponent of German militarism, the hereditary and vile evil that has made the German nation ill for many centuries and from which the healing can only be successful if this militarism can be eradicated from top to bottom.
Militarism is always and everywhere an aggressor’s spirit. His core being was always the corps of officers, the brotherhood of war labourers, a preferred caste, the idol of a nation. The power state recruited its henchmen amongst these and surrounded them with the glory of a “hero” and they are simultaneously also virtuous heroes!
German militarism means the destruction of the so-called “Prussian spirit” and this is the dubious merit of Nazism that it popularised this Prussian spirit into the Nazi spirit and forced this upon the nation in all its classes, provinces and districts and inculcated especially the German youth.
The old orchestra, but with another conductor!
The Badenweil march.
The organisation of “education before and after military service”. Until the outbreak of the war it was foreseen that youth would leave the Hitler Jugend upon becoming 18 years old and then enter the Reich labour corps in conjunction with doing a two year stint of national military service. After his period in the Wehrmacht he became a so-called “after military educated,” submitting to the SA. In terms of the “Fuhrer’s order” of 27 January 1939 a “commanding council” was founded specifically for the SA. This organisation was of significant importance that was neither respected nor acknowledged by military experts from abroad. Without this newly created organisation it would have been impossible in the autumn of 1944 to establish the so-called Volkssturm and the National Grenadier Division and to let it arise from the earth apparently from one day to the next. All reserve officers too who were not liable for military duty anymore, were encompassed by this organisation and drawn in as instruction officers.
“In their education towards heroic people,” the German youth was brutalised against “people not like us”. The biggest brutes became the “best heroes” The old customs of good manners and morals became twisted. To breed a “characteristic” race extramarital sex was not only tolerated, but it was encouraged. In some defined geographical areas the aiding and abetting gave rise to coercion. A long healing process was needed until the recuperation was visible.” (Orb)
“The Nazi state recognised correctly that parents and family had a decisive influence on the education of their children. Therefore, it saw to it that the German youth would be alienated to a large degree from the parental homes. The co-determination of the parents on the education of their children was minimised. In decisive matters it was completely abolished. Parents were powerless against any ‘order’ that a 12 or 14 year old banner bearing leader gave to their 8 or 10 year old son!”
The old Barbarossa the Emperor Friederich in the underground castle he stays there bewitched. He has never died he is thus still alive lost in the castle he lay down to sleep. He took upon himself the empire’s splendour and will one day be resurrected together with you, at his own time. The throne is of ivory upon which the Emperor sits the table is of marble that supports his head. His beard is not flaxen it is the fire’s glow it grew through the table upon which his chin rests. It nods as if in a dream his half open eye twinkles and after a long while he winks at a boy. He speaks in his sleep to the boy: “Go to the front of the castle, oh gnome and see whether the magpies are still flying around on the mountain. And if the old magpies are still flying there so I need to sleep further bewitched for another hundred years. Friedrich Rückert (16 May 1788 – 31 January 1866) And when stupid flags are flown around the castle I fly to my ancestors and I climb on my steed. (Added later)
Club songs of the SA Standard The princes and the parsons they do not bring us any salvation. We beat the princes and the parsons with an axe. Refrain: And when our singing and sound are not to the liking of the princes and the parsons Hey you, the world belongs to us the young Hitler soldiers. Rosenborg: The Germanic being is the source of all values!
Kyffhauser is in the Wald Mountains in northern Thuringia. Tales relate of the return of Emperor Friedrich the Red Beard who is buried there. The Imperial association of German students was founded 1881. It was in the forefront for a national monument for the students’ movement. The Imperial association of war veterans (established 1898) is the leading organisation of all German war veterans’ associations, alter incorporated into the Nazi Reich war veterans’ association. The Kyffhauser war veterans’ association has declared that it is loyal to Hitler.
Kassel, the capital of the Hessen – Nassau province. From 1807 tot 1813 it was the capital of the Napoleonic Kingdom of West Falia.
The Nazi Reich war veterans’ association emerged from the Imperial Kyffhauser war veterans’ association was the leading organisation of the associations and leagues of previous members of the old Imperial army, navy and colonial troops, the Imperial armed forces and of the new Wehrmacht. The leader of the Reich war veterans was Gen Reinhard.
Our indestructible belief: “My mission as standard bearer of the movement is to proceed uninterruptedly in front. As long as fate allows me to live, so long will I carry this flag and never haul it down and never roll it up.” Hitler 22 January 1933. The Fuhrer’s words have become for us memorable words of a specific kind because we always experience it again that when the Führer speaks, that wonderful power that emanates from him to all of us and that these by themselves give us security and confidence. The Führer has allied himself with the German nation and this duty bounds us to the movement of standard bearers. (18 April 1941).
Versailles By Ernst Kleuker “Father!”- “My boy?” – “Tell me, have you ever wept?” Do men also weep? Say: has an enemy ever conquered you? Father, don’t laugh! See how grey your hair became And when you laugh, your laughter is not honest!” “But I’m your boy and one day I’ll be a man, One day I’ll force others, which today I cannot do! Don’t shake your head so wearily and in suffering The youth wants to fight; he is steeled by derision.” “Boy, my last son: hear my word: The war sometimes whisks away the eldest It brought him down to earth in a maniac’s game And I – was proud, because he fell in the name of pride!” “Mother? – yes, I often find mothers as being too soft – Mother was ill and followed him soon after Then – peace came that broke Germany asunder Son, ‘Versailles’ is the name of our shame!” When you hear ‘Versailles, then you turn scarlet from shame: This is the name of the word that removed our honour from us! When you hear ‘Versailles’ your hand clamps together, and this is the name of the word that broke our country asunder!” When you hear ‘Versailles’ then your head hangs, because your fathers believed traitors. When you hear ‘Versailles’ give death your blessing Rather rotten than brutalised in disdain!” “Look, you are young – my heart is torturing me: Still, believe in the sun, be glad when you joke, Don’t listen to the shout from the robbed land Don’t look at the hate around the smouldering fire.” “Father, stop! Because my word is my bond!” “Germany is not perishing, it is still only asleep, Germany is ill and it is awaiting its time, Germany will one day again wear its robe with pride, Germany needs to go down pitch black ways, Germany must die in order to be resurrected, Germany lives forever! ‘Versailles’ is the name of the appeal That will see Germany’s boys becoming men!”
Leader of the Germanic SS JH Feldmeyer Secretary general of the movement Huygen Main leaders of the NSB
Labour front leader Woudenberg Commander of the WA Zondervan
Main leader of the NSB Van Geelkerken Goedewagen Top figures of the NSB
Plenipotentiary for Limburg Dr Merchand d’Ansembourg Chief of the Division of Economic Affairs Rost van Tonningen
Lieutenant General Friedrich Christiansen, called in the army “the old papa” was a famous pilot in the First World War 1914-1918 and received the then highest Prussian wartime order, “Pour le Merite”. In 1930 he was the Commander of the Do X (American Flight) and he was later engaged at the Dornier aircraft company. He was not, as was normal, from the cavalry, but he came from the navy as lieutenant commander to the flying corps. He was a personal friend of Udet and Goring, he was no old party member and was thus not promoted to Reich leader of the Nazi party but only as corps leader of the Nazi Flying Corps. “When the invasion was threatening in 1940/41”, for which the Luftwaffe was supposed to be the spearhead, he was appointed as Holland’s Military Governor. (H Orb)
Dr Arthur Seyss-Inquardt was Reich Governor in 1938/1939 in occupied Austria and then became a Reich Minister. His treason against Austria after the annexation earned him the gratitude of the Nazis. When the “need arose to place the neutrality of Belgium and the Netherlands ‘under the armed guard of the Reich’ and provided proof at the time that ’the former government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands was neither in the position nor seriously willing to apply the obligations in international law emanating from the declaration of neutrality”, Seyss-Inquardt was named by the Fuhrer after the capitulation of the Dutch army as Reich Commissioner. He started his duty in a festive way on 25 May 1940. (Du Prel/Janke: The Netherlands)
Marriage: The Plenipotentiary of the Leader HJ Leeuwenberg and M Eman The civil marriage ceremony will take place in Tilburg in the palace municipal offices on Saturday 6 September at 11:30. The religious ceremony as requested will provisionally not take place since the Roman Catholic clergy has denied this. Opportunity for congratulations will be given after the marriage ceremony at the provincial quarters of the NSB in Tilburg.
Yes, you Dutchman! You need to fulfil your honourable duty. Winter assistance.
Dutch East Company Dutch land Class Urban dwellers descended from farmers Let your son become a farmer and return to the land. Farmers’ inputs in Eastern Europe are opening up and there are many possibilities for you and your son. Farming leader Roskam, leader of the Dutch land class, will be speaking to you about this on 28 June 1943 in the Krasnapolsky Hotel, starting at 2 o’clock.
The working environment of the Nazi party in the Netherlands has the aim and the will not to allow anyone to be outdone it in its efforts on behalf of the Fuhrer and to concretise in exemplary fashion the idea of a communal life between the Germans and the cohabitation with the Netherlands in terms of Nazidom.
The Netherlands’ Germanness does not stand aside anymore as a small slandered and ridiculed group, but it is today the best representative of National Socialism in the Dutch territory for the continually growing understanding between the Dutch and Germans.
“The will to common labour by all Nazis was most clearly demonstrated at the festivities arranged by the Dutch Nazi organisation (NSB) for the Fuhrer’s birthday in 1941. For the first time representatives from the Dutch group spoke at all Nazi local branches and agreed to their alliance with all Germanic people under Adolf Hitler! (Reich Party Office Leader Sommer)
The Colour Guards of the “Reichsdienst” with the regimental colours named: COUNT OF HOORN, COUNT OF EGMONT, WILLIAM OF ORANGE, ADMIRAL DE RUYTER, PETER PAUL RUBENS, ANTON VAN DIJCK, REMBRANDT VAN RHIJN, PAUL KRUGER are on the march.
Holland’s flag, you are my glory… in a free country, goodness gracious!…
Labour Service For young women Sewing circle
I serve. Dutch Labour Service Love for one’s fatherland is innate for everyone…
For a New Europe With Germany for a new Europe
Against Bolshevism With Germany against Bolshevism
Second Order of the Commissioner General for Public Safety on the Conduct of Jews in Public On the basis of article 45 of Ordinance 138/1941 of the Reich Commissioner for the occupied Dutch territory regarding the maintenance of public order, it is determined: Article 1. Jews must stay inside their homes between 20:00 to 06:00. Article 2. Jews are prohibited from being in houses, gardens, or other private places of recreation of non-Jews in as far this may not be necessary on the basis of existing rental or labour agreements. Jews who are married to non-Jews are exempt form this order. Article 3 (1). Jews may only enter shops between 15:00 and 17:00, which have not been designated as being Jewish. Pharmacies are exempt. (2). Jews are prohibited from having goods delivered at their homes. (3). This ordinance falls outside the specific measures that have already been ordained for the City of Amsterdam by the Plenipotentiary of the Reich Commissioner or which may be ordained. Article 4. Jews are prohibited to enter hairdressers or any other paramedical institutions or to use their services in as far as these institutions are not designated as Jewish. Reference is made to paragraph 2 of the instruction of the Reich Commissioner for the occupied Dutch territory in execution of Ordinance 198/1941 of 30 June 1942 regarding the arrangements for the execution of a profession by Jews. Article 5 (1). Jews are prohibited from entering railway premises and to use public and private transport. (2) Exempt are (1) the use of ferries, (2) using bicycles within the municipal area of Amsterdam, (3) using tricycles for transporting goods for commercial purposes as permitted for the specific occupation, (4) transporting seriously ill persons in an ambulance and transporting invalids in special vehicles, (5) using means of urban transport by the owner of a driver’s licence recommended by the Weapons Inspector of the Netherlands and granted by the Security Police, (6) using the railways with a travel permission granted by the Security Police, (7) using means of transport by persons in possession of a travel permission issued by the Central Office for Jewish Emigration, Amsterdam. (3) Jews who may use public transport in the above circumstances must travel in the lowest class (smokers’ section). They may only alight and take their seats when there is sufficient place for non-Jewish travellers. Article 6. Jews are prohibited to use a public telephone. Article 7. In the ambit of this Ordinance a Jew is one who in terms of article 4 of Ordinance 189-1940 on the reporting of companies is a Jew or is regarded as a Jew. Article 8. Plans for putting into operation and further exemptions from paragraphs 1 – 6 will be announced in the Jewish weekly. Article 9. He who contravenes the provisions of paragraphs 1 – 6, or who circumvents these, will receive – in as far as a heavier penalty is foreseen in another ordinance – a penalty of being placed under arrest for a maximum of six months or a fine of a maximum of one thousand guilders or with one of these penalties. Everyone is also subject to these provisions who sees to it that they are circumvented or who collaborates in the process. The right of the Security Police to take the necessary measures is not encumbered. Article 10. This order is valid as from the day it is announced. ‘s-Gravenhage, 30 June 1943. The Commissioner General for Public Safety RAUTER SS Gruppenführer and Lieutenant General of the Police Instruction from the Reich Commissioner for the occupied Dutch territory for the execution of Ordinance 198/1941 relating to the arrangements for following a profession by Jews. On the basis of article 2 of the Ordinance No. 198/1941 relating to the arrangements for following a profession by Jews, I hereby determine: Article 1. Jews are prohibited from working as an auctioneer, pawnbroker, labour or professional broker, counsellor for professional guidance, economic, financial and tax matters, pharmacist, marriage broker or guide for foreigners. Areticle 2 (1). Jews are prohibited to work as an accountant, also in terms of special education or paramedical professions, unless this is done exclusively on behalf of another Jew. (2). Under a paramedical profession, mentioned in the previous sentence, is meant the profession of a lecturer in health gymnastics, natural healer, oculist, chiropodist (pedicure and manicure), bandagist, masseur, beautician and hairdresser. Article 3 (1). Jews are prohibited from working as a street vendor, with the exception of trading in goods of old metal, lumps and scrap. (2) In the area of Amsterdam or in specific areas of the abovementioned the Plenipotentiary of the reich Commissioner of the City of Amsterdam may request that exemption may be granted from the prohibitions contained in the previous sub-article. Duties will be payable for such exemption. Article 4. An activity mentioned in sub-articles 1 and 2, as well as an activity for which no exemption exists in sub-article 3 or is to be solicited, may be executed until 31 July 1942, in as far as it takes place in executing an existing agreement upon this Ordinance taking effect. Article 5 (1). In the ambit of this Ordinance a Jew is one who in terms of article 4 of Ordinance 189-1940 on the reporting of companies is a Jew or is regarded as a Jew. (2) Actions in contravention with the stipulations of this instruction will be punished in terms of article 6 of Ordinance 138/1941 regarding the maintenance of public order, as amended by Ordinance 182/1941 on predetermined punishments. Article 6. This order is valid as from the day it is announced. ‘s-Gravenhage, 30 June 1942. The Reich Commissioner for the occupied Dutch territory On his behalf: DR HANS FISHBöCK Commissioner General for Financial and Economic Affairs Non-Jews not to enter In order to avoid any misunderstanding apropos various questions the appropriate German authorities have pointed out very clearly that paragraph 2 of the second order for Jews, issued by the Commissioner General for Public Safety should be interpreted that Jews are strictly prohibited from entering the homes of non-Jews. The exceptions are described in the relevant order for specific cases. Jews must hand in their bicycles Order by the Commissioner General for Public Safety regarding bicycles in Jewish possession. On the basis of article 45 of Ordinance 138-1941 regarding the maintenance of public order, as amended by Ordinance 182-1941, I am ordering: Article 1(1). Bicycles that are the legal or economic possession of Jews have to be handed in no later than 24 June 1942 at 13:00, together with their spare parts, including reserve inner tubes and tyres, in a rideable and proper condition, to the mayor of the municipality where the Jew lives or has his business. (2). Bicycles also have to be handed in when they have a right to use them. (3). The handing in is to be done by: 1. The owner; 2. Whoever is entitled to represent the owner; 3. Whoever holds a bicycle in the occupied Dutch territory or has one under his care. Article 2. It is prohibited to lend a bicycle for a longer or a shorter period to a Jew. Article 3. This order is not applicable to bicycles, whose 1. Spare parts belong to Jews living in the City Of Amsterdam, or 2. Belonging to the supply of a bicycle trader. Article 4. In the ambit of this order a Jew is one who in terms of article 4 of Ordinance 189-1940 on the reporting of companies is a Jew or is regarded as a Jew. Article 5 (1). On whomever the obligation rests in terms of article 1 and not hand in the bicycle timeously or completely, acts in contravention with the prohibition in article 2 and will be punished by being in arrest for a maximum of six months and with a fine of a maximum of one thousand guilders or with one of these penalties. (2). The right of the Security Police to take any necessary measures is not encumbered. ‘s-Gravenhage, 20 June 1942. The Commissioner General for Public Safety RAUTER SS Gruppenfuhrer and Lieutenant General of the Police
The City council of Losser No 18. 01/488 The Burgomaster of Losser announces by order of the German authorities that from Monday 22 September 1941, it will be forbidden for Jews of both sexes and of every age, to be in the open air after 8 o’clock in the afternoon until 5 o’clock at night, or to be with someone else. They are only allowed to be in their own house. Losser, 21 September. The burgomaster, Van Helvoort
Central Office of Jewish Emigration, Amsterdam. Amsterdam, 28 September 1942. [address] On 1 October 1942 between 08:00 and 13:00 you are to appear at the Central Office of Jewish Emigration in Amsterdam to ascertain whether you (or your spouse and children) would be eligible to be excused from compulsory labour. You are to bring along your passport, identification document (also your spouse’s and children’s), marriage certificate, baptismal certificate and similar documentation that may justify your being exempted from compulsory labour. This instruction is also valid as a travel permit from your place of dwelling to Amsterdam at the Central Office of Jewish Emigration and return on the abovementioned day of travel. i.s. aus der Funten SS Captain
YANKEE, ENGLISHMAN, BOLSHEVIC, THEY ALL DANCE TO THE PIPING OF THE JEWISH CLIQUE!
Blood and ground The foundation on which a real vibrant nation is based, are blood and earth. Blood: Life itself, both of the nation and of compatriots, it binds individuals to clans and clans to nations. Blood is and simultaneously symbolises the vitality of a nation. Earth: It gives life and it dissolves this in the eternal cycle of creation and decay. The earth is and simultaneously symbolises the conditions of life of a nation. It is not be coincidence that reference is made to a real vibrant nation. One could use the Jewish nation as example where the bond of blood and of clans is present – but where the link with the earth is lacking – then it becomes apparent that this nation is not really vibrant. Exactly this being removed from his own piece of earth, “ubi bene ibi patria,” gave course and direction to the Jews – apart from his strong bonds of blood – and contributed to their parasitic role that this nation has played in world affairs since early times.
Our emblem The wolf’s hook is a sign (it presumably came about as a combination between the Germanic writing signs of […] and […] meaning victory, and […] emergency, danger, with which the German nations sought to denote places where wolves were known to have been sighted. The wolf’s hook simultaneously a sign of caution for whomever entered onto that site and also a magical sign to ward off any danger. This is why the wolf’s hook is this magazine’s emblem the aim of which is to inform our nation of its own character and its own strength so that hey can maintain themselves in the midst of the dangers threatening their existence.
What earlier was incredible for us, happened in this way. The Germanic person was pushed from the centre-point of his existence, his world was uprooted, and his spiritual world was dissolved! One thing though could not be taken away from him: his racial identity. This wonderful fact gave rise to the fact that resistance has continually taken place, sometimes even vehemently. This resistance is also now occurring with a resolute, revolutionary violence under the genial leadership of Adolf Hitler! Even if racial degradation is increasingly encouraged by means of racial mixing on the part of the decadent materialism in all its forms, our racial identity is indeed the only factor that has elevated itself above every external influence. This is where the eternal value of our blood is situated! Each time the unsullied is reborn in a young Germanic child who grows up and quite soon would want to be completely himself.
Dr Van Genechten : An Appeal to Common Sense National Socialism is to listen to the commitment that God has placed in every human heart in the form of feelings. Nenasu, Utrecht. Establishing guide. In the first instance the German Fuhrer is a National Socialist. He is no conqueror, but a prophet. He is the creator of a new world. He is a man who has always demonstrated that he understands what a mature culture is that is not driven by capitalist tendencies, but which feels responsible for preserving the civilisation that white nations have built up over centuries, that will not destroy it but will preserve it even when it is alien to its own spirit and its own nation.
Awakening Nation. Establishing Number. Monthly magazine for establishing the Dutch spirit.
Your place is in the Dutch Labour Service [right] And look here at the Labour Service that will place the deeper and liberating feeling of labour again in the hands of the Dutch youth. In what way? The name is self-explanatory: by working while serving, by working as a service, as an offering, yes, as a service of honour for nation and country. The youth that is noble-minded and readily gives will find the Labour Service as an opportunity to get to work and to do something for the benefit of the fatherland. Do you want to learn what kind of comradeship this labour can provide, how much energy this can emanate, how much pleasure even the most simple work – together and singly and done at the behest of your country and nation – will give you? Do you want to experience how artificial contradictions and schisms are that are based on difference in descent, development, religion, and spirituality, and how to bridge these with ease? Do you want to experience with others a spiritually and bodily enervating camp life where you will be transformed into a Dutchman who is worthy of his place in society? Well then… Go and register yourself! The registration for voluntary service in the Labour Service is available for all male Dutch citizens. These Dutch need to comply with the following conditions: 1. They need to be no younger than 17 and no older than 23; 2. They need to be unmarried; 3. They need to be healthy. Registration at: a. all municipal offices; b. all labour offices; c. the staff of the Dutch Labour Service, 59 Gevers Deynoot Road, Scheveningen; Tel. No. ‘s-Gravenhage 55.36.95.
To the Fascist Young Women The Fascist young woman knows what she is: a future mother, being the moral basis on which the state rests. This conscience gives her an elevated feeling of responsibility: this conscience gives her dignity. A person without anxiety is an irresponsible person. To have duties is to have anxieties and is to be responsible. The fascist young woman is not afraid of having anxieties. She knows that internal struggles lead to a person reaching self-realisation. Important things are not reached without struggles. Only when one has struggled to achieve something, does one realise what it is worth. The fascist young woman no longer asks for personal rights, for pleasure or to be gaudy. She knows she has a high calling.
Subscribe to “Nation and Fatherland”, weekly of the Nazi movement in the Netherlands. [bottom] Mocking song on the Dutch Nazi Movement (NSB) On the corner of the street stands an NSB supporter who is neither a man nor a woman who is a Pharisee. With the newspaper in his hand he stands there flogging selling Nation and Fatherland for six loose cents.
Why Mussert is showing the way In 1931 Mussert showed the way towards the new Europe. For nearly nine years he brought the truth to the attention of the Dutch population without needing to be concerned about “popular favour” or “support”. All these years Mussert, in full view of the whole of the Dutch nation, described the views in word and in deed and led throughout in accordance with the lines of the Dutch Nazi Party. Mussert was the best and thus also the most dangerous Dutch Nazi for politicians. Mussert was also the man who was most exposed to terror, slander, calumny by aliens and their flunkies in the political parties. Mussert lost his job in 1934 because he rated the struggle for the future of his nation than the interest of his own community job.
Here German official mail uses a post stamp that does not reveal the place where the latter was posted – in other words a secret stamp.
Appeal to the citizens of Oldenzaal You will all know that on 26 August a rubberised cable of the German Wehrmacht was cut in this town. Hitherto the perpetrator(s) has/have not been detected. Of course a similar deed that cannot be condoned, with which nothing at all can be achieved, will not be tolerated in the least by the German occupying power in time of war. They have reiterated that if this to be repeated, the strongest possible measures will be taken. I can tell you that should a similar case happen again in future the most severe penalties can be expected in terms of which severe measures – even leading to shooting – of fellow citizens who have been taken as hostages will follow. Until now only light penalties have been instituted against the population, such as cable guard duties, confiscation of radios and house arrest for juveniles. The perpetrators should and must be found! I am, therefore, urgently appealing to all of you who will condemn these deeds from the bottom of your heart to prevent all deeds of such sabotage, that the London radio and others are encouraging. The fomenters stay behind the scenes. You are carrying the brunch and become the victims! I am strongly appealing to you to inform me or the police of every case that may lead to sabotage. I am referring inter alia to the circulation of anonymous letters encouraging sabotage, suspected persons, rumours, etc. Anything that you may convey to me or the police will be treated in strict confidence. Especially parents and teachers of the youth should all co-operate. The acting Mayor of Oldenzaal AHG Weustink Oldenzaal, 4 October 1941.
Even the few Jews who had the good fortune of not having been transported out, also had to stand cable guard.
The Mayor of Losser orders that you perform guard duty at the cable of the German field telephone between Rijk Road, Oldenzaal, and Denekamp, starting on … day of … 1941 from … o’clock to … o’clock. The place where you are to be is at picket No. … on the line to be guarded and stretches to the next picket, expresses in a higher number. Not complying with this order in accordance with […] The Mayor of the above Van Helvoordt To: H.M. Cohen ….. I received the above
1. The artistic painter and author, Willem JC Arondeus, from Amsterdam, born 22 August 1894. 2. The Jew, Rudolf Bloemgarten, from Amsterdam, born 7 May 1920. 3. Previously a medical student, Karl BRP Groeger, from Amsterdam, born 7 February 1918. 4. Previously a medical student, Coos Hartogh, from Amsterdam, born 10 April 1917. 5. The civil servant, E Samuel van Musschenbroek, from Amsterdam, born 25 August 1916. 6. The office assistant, Guus ACJ Reitsma, from Amsterdam, born 26 July 1922. 7. The shop assistant, Henri Halberstadt, from Amsterdam, born 10 February 1911. 8. The author, Dr Johannes Brouwer, from Utrecht, born 31 May 1898. Announcement: 10.000 Guilders award Amsterdam, 29 March 1943 – On 27 March 1943, at approximately 23:00, unknown persons wearing uniforms of the Amsterdam police, overwhelmed the police and civilian guards a the Population Register in Plantagekerk Avenue, Amsterdam and attacked it with explosives that caused a fire in the building. All German and Dutch police units will receive declarations that may lead to the discovery of the perpetrators. The senior SS and the police chief have promised a 10.000 Guilder reward for those discovering the perpetrators. The reward will be distributed outside of legal formalities. signed Lages SS Sturmbahnfuhrer 9. The architect, Koenraad Limperg, from Amsterdam, born 19 July 1908. 10. The tailor, Sjoerd Bakker, from Amsterdam, born 10 June 1915. 11. The leader of a distribution service, Cornelis Leendert Barentsen, from Voorburg, born 1 October 1892. 12. The police constable, Cornelis Roos, from Amsterdam, born 13 September 1912. Two others also sentenced to death were reprieved and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment: Cornelis Adriaan Honig, medical doctor from Hilversum, and Willem Beck, medical doctor from Utrecht. The unmarried Johanna Scholten from Naarden was sentenced to life.
Out of sheer sadism the Germans feigned that the Dutch have cut German Wehrmacht cables. As a result practically all young Jews in Twente were arrested, taken to Mauthausen and murdered there. The men of Twente had to stand guard. Mayor Bloemen, a well-known resistance fighter, was quickly replaced by a Nazi Mayor, Weustink.
As a result of the severance of a cable of the German Wehrmacht and upon command of the Security Police you have to be present to guard this in Parallel Street opposite the factory of the firm of W Kan on … day … 1941 at … o’clock in order to perform guard service until … o’clock. You may not leave your post until you are relieved. It is forbidden to smoke at your post or to talk to anyone. No attendance in masses may occur whilst every demonstration during or after the guard period will be punished strictly. Oldenzaal, … 1941 The Mayor of Oldenzaal, [signed] The undersigned … living at … in Oldenzaal declares that he has received the order to report for cable guard duty in good time. (signature) …
Municipal Authority of Enschede Subject: Depiction of Prince Bernard To: The Principals of Public Education Facilities in Enschede 25 November 1940 The following circular was received from the Acting Secretary General of the Department of Education, arts and Sciences: “I am hereby informing you that it the wish of the German authorities that all depictions of Prince Bernard that may be in your school, schools or institution, must be removed. I request that you comply with the above as soon as possible”. We request that you apply this circular strictly in accordance with its contents and sense and to report to us by return mail that this is being done. Mayor and City Councillors of Enschede [signed]
Department of Education, Arts and Sciences Regarding: Celebration days relating to members of the House of Orange [Dutch royal family] ‘s-Gravenhage, 2 August 1940. I am communicating to you the following announcement by the Reich Commissioner for the occupied Dutch territory of 30 July 1940: With a view to the upcoming commemorative days during the next few weeks of members of the House of Orange, the attention is explicitly drawn to the fact that every demonstrative action in general, or each demonstration by persons, whether singly or collectively, whether indirectly or directly, or in any other fashion, aimed against the occupying force, will be prosecuted accordingly. Demonstrations in support of the Queen or other members of the House of Orange who are continuing the war against the Great German Reich, will be regarded as demonstrations or riots against the occupying force. The affirmation or wearing of emblems, flowers, colours or other objects denoting loyalty to the House of Orange will be tolerated just as little as the exhibition of flags or of decorations on buildings in honour of a member of the House of Orange. This also applies to any other conduct that serves or may serve the above aim. Whoever acts in contravention of this announcement will be punished strictly and especially severely if he causes any demonstrations or riots relating to the contents of this announcement, or support them. […]
How are families of volunteers cared for? [top third column] Who can register himself? Dutch from Aryan blood in the ages of 17 to 45 years (also married) who are well developed physically and also psychologically and who can devote themselves fully to the challenges that their training demand. For what period does one commit himself? Duration of the war. 2 – 4 years. It is possible to commit oneself for a longer period. Who can become an officer? Anyone can become an officer in the Waffen SS who has proven his proficiency after a year’s service. His school record is not a determining factor. The eventual promotion of an SS officer is determined by character, conduct and performance. In which armed sections can one serve? The sections of the SS are … [top fourth column] … completely motorised and comprise all sections, such as infantry, cavalry, armour, anti-armour, mountaineering troops, sappers, motorised troops, intelligence corps, medical corps and anti-aircraft artillery. Placement at a guard battalion in Holland is also possible. Wishes in terms of a specific section are accommodated as far as possible after completion of basic training. Dutchmen initially serve in “their” SS regiment, “Westland”. What follows afterwards? After demobilisation a volunteer is returned to his previous occupation. Upon resuming his old work he is supported in all possible ways. For volunteers who served longer (2 or 4 years) placement at the police or other services is also possible. If you so desire, you can also obtain German nationality. [bottom] Follow the call of honour and conscience!
I cannot be insulted by Mr Roosevelt as a whole because I regard him, just as Woodrow Wilson, as mentally deranged!” (December 1941)
Hitler: “I will allow the insulting attacks and ridicule by the so-called President against my person to go by as being unimportant.
11 December 1941. Germany at war with the USA.
After liberation he wore this arm band openly and with honour.
Mr JE Scharrenburg had to serve time in the prison in Zwolle for “insulting” a member of the Dutch Nazi party. He served 14 days. The insult was calling the Nazi a “traitor.” Scharrenburg subsequently made a declaration that he had lost his identity document, but in reality he gave this to the underground movement for its use.
Since the neutral south eastern states refused to allow war to be waged in favour of the plutocracies, the latter planned with the permission of Holland and Belgium to invade Germany. And also this time the Fuhrer went one better than his opponents. On 10 may German troops crossed the Dutch and Belgian borders. And so the Great German army entered into a decisive struggle in terms of the Fuhrer’s call on the soldiers at the western front that “the fate of the German nation will be decisive for the next thousand years.”
The Herrenvolk along Holland’s roads. “There is darkness everywhere where the Germans are seen.” (Queen Wilhelmina on Radio Oranje.)
“German honour is German trustworthiness” (Himmler) “Concentrate on the victory! The Fuhrer is a unique example for you as a German! One of the essential characteristics of the unique genius, Adolf Hitler, is that this titan understands how to concentrate on the efforts that need to be solved first.” (Dr Ley)
Colonel Brauer, the first parachute soldier, the conqueror of Dordrecht and Moerdijk. This is how the war started for the Dutch: During the early hours of 10 May 1940 many hundreds of German aircraft flew into our territory and released countless parachute troops over our airports and bridges. So our small country was overwhelmed callously and treacherously. And this by a neighbour who feigned his friendship with us! (From: ‘Five moving Years.’) “To the soldiers on the Dutch war theatre. For five days you attacked a strong, well-prepared army and surmounted apparently invincible obstacles and military fortresses that were strongly defended. You knocked out their air force (about 20 aircraft) and then forced them to surrender. In doing so you rendered a performance (such as bombing Rotterdam) that is unique. On behalf of the German nation I express my thanks and my admiration.” Fuhrer’s Headquarters 16 May 1940.
“Only through your exemplary cooperation, because of the equally strong leadership, the heroism of the soldiers, as well as specifically the heroic death-defying efforts of the parachute and air transported troops this success became possible”. (Adolf Hitler) After engaging parachute troops for the first time in this war, Rotterdam capitulated on 14 May. The Dutch commander gave up his doomed resistance and ordered the Dutch army to stop fighting.”
Speech on 1 September 1939 before the Reichstag in Berlin: “The neutral states have assured us of their neutrality as such, exactly as we had assured this to them earlier. We are very resolute in our assurance!” “In secret agreements with the ostensibly neutral states of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemburg the English and French armies are preparing themselves to invade the Reich’s territory through these countries. Therefore, in the early hours of the morning the German army crossed the Reich’s borders and marched into Belgium, Holland and Luxemburg!”
The compiler of this collection was taken on 16 September 1943 by the abovementioned Dutch members of the Security Service (SD) to Assen because of illegal work, in order to be shot there. However, he succeeded in jumping from the train at the village of Wijster and to go into hiding.
The false identity document of the compiler of this collection.
The war has broken out! A German army consisting of 89 divisions marched into Holland, Belgium and France on the morning of 10 May. ‘The postal service has been suspended. Return to sender!’
The sender wrote on 22 November 1939: “Hopefully Holland can be saved from the war. Although here in Bolivia this is not thought feasible. The atmosphere here is currently emigration friendly and Nazi unfriendly!”
Legal sterilisation The Jewish press commission informed us that in the “Artzliche Mitteilungen” [Medical Journal] of 20 May, published by the Association of German Medical Practitioners – the so-called Hartmann Association – an article, written by Dr L Vellguth, was published about legal sterilisation. To promote racial hygiene the author demands the promulgation of a law that would grant the sterilisation of persons under certain conditions. The author writes: “With the above mind, this will unite large groups of inferior people with easily observable common characteristics. In this connection good use can be made of the divisions I made when inferior persons were registered in my district. There are seven groups: 1. Feeble minded; 2. mentally deranged; 3. epileptics; 4. unsocial ‘criminal’ elements; 5. dumb and deaf; 6. bodily debilitated because of tuberculosis; 7. persons of a foreign race.” In the further course of the article he states his opinion about each of the abovementioned groups. Regarding point 7 he wrote: “The mixture of blood of a foreign race in the organism of our nation should be avoided as far as possible. Jews, Negroes, Mongols, and such nations can thus be sterilised without any penalty and voluntarily regardless of whether they are healthy or ill.”
“Am I an Aryan or not?” Question that thousands of Germans are asking – Active work at the population register. Dr. Gercke gives orders. BERLIN – 31 May [1933]. Now that the Nazis are distinguishing between Aryan and non-Aryan races, the population register offices are overwhelmed daily by persons who like to know more about their descent, mostly hoping that they would appear to be full-blooded Aryans. Private research offices too are run off their feet by similar enquiries. Since the German bourgeoisie formally dates back to 1875, one needs to research in parish registers that date back to the 16th century both amongst Protestants and Catholics, but they are quite incomplete because much has been lost in the Thirty Year War. Dr Achim Gerke, head of the government’s office of racial research, replied in answer to a question who is and who is not an Aryan that all non-European tribes – such as Mongols and Negroes – are not Aryan. Slav nations are Aryan, but there is a difference between Aryans and persons of the Germanic race. The latter are naturally born Aryans, but vice versa not every Aryan is of the Germanic race. According to Gerke, “as far as the Nazi party is concerned only those who can prove a pure Aryan descent since 1800 belong to our race. This date was chosen because the emancipation of the Jews in the German provinces took place between 1806 and 1813 and before this it was quite impossible that Jews may have married Aryans.” (Reuter) July 1933
“Roosevelt, lackey of the Jews.”
Text on the right: Get off your high horse! Roosevelt, lackey of the Jews, has made the lying claim that Germany wants to wipe out all of the world’s religions. On November 8th, the Fuehrer replied to this accusation as follows: ‘I am now 52 years old, and I have better things to do than to occupy myself with childishness and stupidity. Moreover, it does not interest me in the least which religions exist in the world and what attitude the world’s peoples take towards these religions. The only person interested in any of this is the American President, Mr. Roosevelt. In the German Reich (and in our own view) anyone may seek his salvation in whatever way he pleases! I have read that, in the United States, it is forbidden for a preacher to argue against the state, and that soldiers are prohibited from attending such sermons. It is the same here, with one difference: that in Germany the various religions receive almost 900 million Marks from the state every year. In America, by contrast, they receive not a penny!’ Word of the Week, No. 49/1941 / Central Press of the NSDAP, Munich
[The images at the top show two real stamps along with one defaced version produced by the Nazis.]
Obergruppenfuhrer* Franz Ziereis, Commander of Mauthausen concentration camp and its annexes, was responsible for the death of thousands of our comrades. When his son was questioned, he made the following statement: “On my birthday, my father ordered some prisoners to be brought before me. He handed me his revolver and I used it to shoot one prisoner after another, because he wanted me to learn to shoot at living targets.” Ziereis was captured when the camp was liberated. He escaped for a time, but was later recaptured and then executed. *Translator’s Note: The rank of Obergruppenfuhrer was the highest in the SS.
Obergruppenfuhrer* Franz Ziereis, Commander of Mauthausen concentration camp and its annexes, was responsible for the death of thousands of our comrades. When his son was questioned, he made the following statement: “On my birthday, my father ordered some prisoners to be brought before me. He handed me his revolver and I used it to shoot one prisoner after another, because he wanted me to learn to shoot at living targets.” Ziereis was captured when the camp was liberated. He escaped for a time, but was later recaptured and then executed. *Translator’s Note: The rank of Obergruppenfuhrer was the highest in the SS.
CAPTION; The Camp Commander: SS Standartenfuhrer* Ziereis.
“Herrenmenschen” (“Members of the Master Race”): Himmler, Kaltenbrunner and the SS Camp Commanders Ziereis and Bachmeyer, visiting Mauthausen concentration camp in 1941. Himmler and Kaltenbrunner agreed that the “re-education” of the inmates was proceeding well. (SS Archive) The wall to the right of the entrance was known as “The Wailing Wall”: Here, the prisoners had to stand up close to the stone surface with their faces to the wall, sometimes for day and nights on end. Most of these were prisoners who had not yet been checked and approved by the “Political Department”. They stood there without food or drink, and without any possibility of relieving themselves, until they collapsed. Often, naked or near-naked prisoners had to stand at the wall for three days in freezing temperatures; and at intervals of approximately three hours, they had cold water poured over them. Connected to the crematorium was the gas chamber. Cemented into the wall at the entrance was an iron structure that served as a gallows. There was a also a cellar where prisoners were shot in the neck. The gas chamber is disguised as a bathhouse, with showerheads and drains. Only one element seems out of place here: halfway up the wall, a thick iron pipe with a wide slit… *Translator’s Note: The Nazi rank of Standartenfuhrer was comparable to that of Colonel
Broad instructions on what prisoners should take with them to Kamp Westerbork: General: Robust clothing; if possible, older items, due to severe wear-and-tear. No more than two large suitcases (with well-functioning locks) plus one rucksack or large lunchbox. In addition, as many blankets as possible, either in a bundle or else tied firmly to a suitcase or rucksack. Men’s Clothing: To be worn on the body: casual suit, sports shirt, pullover, sturdy shoes, thick socks, warm underwear, winter coat with raincoat on top, cap, shawl, warm winter gloves. Women’s Clothing: To be worn on the body: ladies’ suit, woollen blouse, pullover, sturdy shoes, winter coat with raincoat on top, cap, shawl, warm winter gloves. In addition, per person: Handkerchiefs, pocket knife, watch, small satchel for money, etc., pencil, fountain pen, passport, identity card, Jewish Identity Card (small yellow card), birth- and marriage-certificates, police clearnace doumentation (certificates of good conduct), tax documentation. Food for 1-2 days, cutlery (knife, fork, spoon), mug, shaving gear, pocket torch, medicinal goods (aspirin, iodine, cotton wool, etc.)
Mauthausen Concentration Camp Upper Danube The following regulations must be observed when corresponding with prisoners: 1) Each of the prisoners in protective custody* is entitled to receive and to send two letters or cards per month from and to his family. Letters to prisoners must be written legibly in ink and may contain a maximum of 15 lines per page. Only one standard-sized page is permitted. Padded envelopes may not be used. Each letter may contain no more than five 12-Pfennig stamps. Anything more than this is forbidden and may be confiscated. Postcards are ten lines in length. Photographs may not be used as postcards. 2) It is permitted to send money, but the prisoner’s surname, first name, date of birth, prison-block and cell must be stated. 3) Newspapers are permitted, but may only be ordered via the post office of Mauthausen Concentration Camp. 4) Packages are not permitted, as the prisoners can buy everything [they need] in the camp itself. 5) It is pointless to request that the camp authorities release any of the prisoners in protective custody. 6) Visits to the prisoners in the concentration camp, or requests to speak with them, are strictly forbidden. Any postal items that fail to conform to these regulations will be destroyed. The Camp Commander *Translator’s Note: “Schutzhaft” was a Nazi term, designed to suggest that the inmates of the concentration camps were being kept there for their own protection (against the purported “fury of the people”).
“When Jewish blood sprays from the knife, Then we feel better than ever!” National Socialism: A swastika mounted on a skull.
Lublin: a place of horror, of human beings brutally murdered just because they were Jews or because they were not National Socialists. Lublin: one of the many scenes of National Socialist criminality, where the most shameful atrocities were committed against human culture in the name of the German people.
“Putting people in cages, like wild animals, fencing them in with the most shameful laws, as if in a monstrous circus, doing all this with one single, shocking goal in mind: to let the murderous mob loose on them… terrible, terrible!” Leo Tolstoy, 1904.
In Russia, repeated pogroms until 1920. …and then the Nazi hell.
615 A.D.: Spanish Jews escape King Sisebut’s persecution by fleeing to the kingdom of the Franks. Ca. 1350: The Black Death. “The Jews have poisoned the wells!” In Provence, in Burgundy, in Strasbourg, in Freiburg, in Nuremberg, in Muhlhausen, in Esslingen, Worms, Mainz and Bamberg, thousands of Jews were murdered and burnt. Entire communities were wiped out.
During the Crusades, thousands of Jews were killed. 1492 – 1497: Expulsion of the Jews from Spain and Portugal. Expulsion of the Jews from England by Edward I (1272 -1307). Expulsion of the Jews from France by Charles IV (1388 – 1422) Expulsion of the Jews from Bohemia by Maria Theresa. (1740 – 1765). September 20th, 1761: Auto-da-fe in Lisbon.
“The persecution of the Jewish race dates from the very earliest period in which Christianity obtained the direction of the civil power; […] and hatred of the Jew was for many centuries a faithful index of the piety of the Christians.” (W.E.H. Lecky, 1865)
Dachau Concentration Camp
Dachau 3K Concentration Camp The following regulations must be observed when corresponding with prisoners: 1) Each of the prisoners in protective custody is entitled to receive and to send two letters or cards per month from and to his family. Letters to prisoners must be written legibly in ink and may contain a maximum of 15 lines per page. Only one standard-sized page is permitted. Padded envelopes may not be used. Each letter may contain no more than five 12-Pfennig stamps. Anything more than this is forbidden and may be confiscated. Postcards are ten lines in length. Photographs may not be used as postcards. 2) Money and postal orders may be sent, but the prisoner’s surname, first name, date of birth and prisoner number must be stated precisely. 3) Newspapers are permitted, but may only be ordered via the post office of Dachau 3K Concentration Camp. 4) A limited number of packages may be sent by post. 5) It is pointless to request that the camp authorities release any of the prisoners in protective custody. 6) Visits to the prisoners in the concentration camp, or requests to speak with them, are strictly forbidden. Any postal items that fail to conform to these regulations will be destroyed. The Camp Commander, Dachau Concentration Camp
Dachau! Buchenwald! Mauthausen! Auschwitz! Lublin! Bergen-Belsen! Neuengamme! Sachsenhausen! Natzweiler! Flossenburg, Ratibor, Ravensbruck! Names stained with the blood of innocent people, names that embody the worst crimes ever charged against any nation.
“As a first stage in the final solution of the Jewish question, Heydrich announced, all Jews living in rural regions were to be transported to the cities. Apart from the areas east of Krakow that were densely populated with Jews, no Jewish communities with a population of less than 500 would be permitted to exist, except in places with a railway connection. Each of these was obliged to elect a ‘Jewish Council’ with at least 24 members. The main task of these Jewish Councils would be to organise the transportation or reception of those Jews who had been selected for relocation.” (Gerald Reitlingen)
The Valley of Dry Bones: “The hand of the LORD was upon me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the LORD and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry.” Ezekiel, 37: 1-14
On March 4th and April 28th 1941, several large “transportations” were made from Theresienstadt to the “transport point” at Izbica.
A hellish tragedy – no words for this…!
Murder on a factory scale.
On May 5th, led by the International Committee, the surviving inmates of the Mauthausen camp staged a revolt. The Committee took over the camp, armed the prisoners, and organised defences against the SS hordes, who still wanted to liquidate all the inmates in the very last days of the war. On May 7th 1945, the area of the Mauthausen camp had finally been cleansed of the SS. The prisoners were free. The International Committee then issued the following announcement (here reproduced in part): Today, one of the worst and bloodiest camps opens its doors: Mauthausen… Only yesterday, the inmates, now liberated, were still threatened with death at the hands of the Nazi thugs. From their deepest hearts, they thank the victorious allied nations for their liberation, and they send their greetings to all peoples, with the jubilant cry of freedom regained… On the secure foundations of the international community we want to raise the most beautiful memorial we can imagine to the fallen soldiers of liberty: a world of free people! To the entire world, we say: Help us in this task! Long live international solidarity! Long live freedom!
PHOTO: The procession in Munich on November 9th: Hitler, Goering, von Ribbentrop and others walking behind the “Blood Flag” held by Grimminger. Heading the parade is the Jew-hating primary schoolteacher Julius Streicher, publisher of the vicious and trashy paper “Der Sturmer”. He was sentenced to death in Nuremberg.
Von Krosigk: “In a furious tirade, the Frankish schoolteacher appealed, not to the rationality of those who read his ‘Sturmer’, but to their lowest impulses. He was a sadist who took pleasure in torture.”
Judgement at Nuremberg: As Jewish Enemy No.1, Julius Streicher had poisoned the German spirit with the bacillus of anti-Semitism. He was responsible for the Nuremberg Laws, and he demanded and pushed through the extermination of the Jews.
At Hitler’s 50th-birthday celebrations, it was a grotesque moment when Rudolf Hess presented his “Fuhrer” with fifty letters written by Friedrich II. The King had written these in his capacity as founder and first Grandmaster of the Old Prussian Grand Lodge “The Three Spheres”.
The enemies: Jews, Bolsheviks, Marxists, Capitalists, Plutocrats, Priests, Clerics, Freemasons
POSTCARD: A dagger in the heart of the Jews: In the triangular stone (from the Museum of the Masonic Lodge) is inscribed the word “Jehoedi”: Jew. We are to understand, then, that there is no difference between a Jew and a Freemason.
The great honour of the Noble Prize was bestowed on the following German Jews: 1905: Professor Dr. Adolf Ritter von Bayer: Chemistry 1909: Professor Paul Ehrlich: Medicine 1910: The poet Paul Heyse Literature 1911: The writer Alfred Fried Peace 1915: Professor Richard Willstadter: Chemistry 1918: Professor Fritz Haber Chemistry 1921: Professor Albert Einstein: Physics 1921: Professor Meyerhof: Medicine 1925: Professor Hertz: Physics 1931: Professor Warburg: Biology 1931: Professor Otto Loewi: Medicine From Dinter’s “The Sin against the Blood” to the crude forgery “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” to the Nazi’s racial theory to Streicher’s repulsive filth to Goebbels’ oily blatherings to Hitler’s lie about “the Jewish war against Germany”… For decades, and in a calculated, systematic fashion, the German people have been deceived and lied to about Judaism and the part it has played in the social, political and cultural life of the German people and the peoples of the world. (From: Der Ruf, No. 8, Year 3: Munich, 1948)
Specialists believed that Hitler’s stomach-cramps were hysterical in origin, for he would have needed an iron constitution to meet the demands he placed upon himself between 1930 and 1943. Through the good offices of Marshall Antonescu of Rumania, he obtained a Jewish cook named Marlene Kunde. Antonescu himself had had a stomach ailment. Having delivered his country into the hands of the Nazis, he now presented his health-bringing cook to the Nazi commander-in-chief. Marlene knew how to make excellent vegetarian meals. She brought the Fuhrer sauerkraut and noodles, turnips, kidney beans and apple strudel, until it came to Himmler’s attention that Marlene Kunde was a Jew. “Let her be Aryanised!” roared Hitler. Eventually though, he had to choose between Marlene’s culinary skills and his own hatred of the Jews; Marlene departed, making way for Miss Manzialy, who liked to smoke cigarettes, which Hitler had strictly forbidden. She was in constant fear that her master would suddenly turn up in her kitchen.
Racial anti-Semitism sees its goal as the liberation of Aryan humanity from Jewish influences, for it regards the Aryan and the Jewish spirit as polar opposites: where the two meet, the Jewish spirit dissolves the Aryan. Therefore, the future of Germanic culture can only be saved by eradicating all Jewish influences, spiritual, intellectual, cultural or moral. Racial anti-Semitism is tireless in its prosecution of the struggle against the Jewish essence and its carriers: against Jewish writers of the present and the past, against Jewish artists and scholars, journalists and publishers. It has only one objective: the spiritual autarchy of the Germanic-Aryan race. In this struggle against the Jewish spirit, it was impossible to ignore religion. On the one hand, the anti-Semites could not avoid noticing that the Holy Book of the overwhelming majority of Germans is a national product of the Jewish spirit: the Bible. Both Testaments, in their entirety, are the work of Jewish authors: Jewish writers and historians, poets and philosophers, kings and lawmakers, prophets and saints. One part of this work contains the Jewish national history, another the Jewish national law; the Psalms constitute the finest flower of Jewish poetry, while other Biblical scriptures embody the highest pinnacle of Jewish ethics. This great document of the Jewish spirit has had an incomparably deeper influence on the spiritual structure of the Germans and other European peoples than all the other works by Jewish authors combined. And that influence continues undiminished today. In their history lessons, German schoolchildren are taught about the deeds of the great German Kaisers; then, next door, in their religion class, they hear the Biblical history of Israel, they hear tell of the great deeds of Moses and David, the heroism of Samson and the wisdom of Solomon. Every Sunday, many millions of German men, women and children gather in their churches to hear the words of Jewish prophets or Evangelists and the songs of Jewish poets. Through the Bible, countless fragments of ancient Jewish thought have become part of the German nation’s common heritage. Meanwhile, the Ten Commandments proclaimed by Moses are recognised even by most non-Jewish Europeans as the highest laws of morality. European art in its entirety is fertilised by the Bible: in churches and chapels, on bridges and marketplaces, in Germany and throughout Europe, there are millions of statues and paintings that depict Jewish patriarchs and prophets, apostles, evangelists, saints and martyrs. A movement that aimed to eradicate all Jewish influences from German culture could not ignore the fact that the religion of contemporary Germans emerged from the Jewish religion and is rooted, first and foremost, in Jewish thought. (R. N. Coudenhore-Kalergi: Judenhass von heute [Jew-Hatred Today], 1936)
This question is by no means as strange as it looks! Let us see what kind of peculiar creature the Jew is. He has been abused, terrorised, persecuted and oppressed, kicked, slaughtered, burned and hanged, by every ruler and every nation, singly and in unison – and yet he lives! What is a Jew, that he was never capable of allowing himself to be seduced by any kind of wordly goods offered to him by his oppressors and persecutors, offered repeatedly, if only he would change his faith and abandon his own Jewish religion? The Jew is the sanctified being who brought from heaven the eternal flame and thereby illuminated the entire world. He is the religious source, the wellhead from which the other peoples have drawn their faith and their religion! The Jew is the pioneer of culture and liberty, the emblem of civic and religious tolerance, and the emblem of eternity. He, whom neither the butcheries nor the tortures of millennia could wipe out; he, whom neither fire nor sword nor Inquisition could remove from the earth; he, who was the first to announce the word of God; he, who for so long was the guardian of the prophecies, and who communicated them to the rest of humanity – such a nation cannot die. The Jew is eternal, as permanent as eternity itself!
What is a Jew?
Leo Tolstoy, 1904: “Love the stranger and the foreigner” demands Moses, “because you yourself were a stranger in the land of Egypt.” And that was said in such wild and distant times, when races and nations were trying to enslave each other! When it comes to religious tolerance, the Jewish faith is far removed from the spirit that hungers to convert others. On the contrary: The Talmud instructs rabbis that they must make it clear to those who come freely that their acceptance into the community will create difficulties for them, and that the just men and women of all nations have their part in the life to come. Not even the moralists of the present day can lay claim to such a lofty and ideal tolerance!
“The bloodstained Jewish-capitalist warmongers and Freemasons.” (Adolf Hitler)
MAGES: Caricatures showing the average anti-Semite’s idea of a Jew. “Should our Volk and our state fall victim to this greedy and bloodthirsty Jewish tyrant of the peoples, then the entire planet will sink into the tentacles of this polyp.” (Mein Kampf, p. 703) “The Freemason-Jew makes his marionettes dance.” (Publishing House of the Anti-Freemason Committee) “The testimony of other nations. The study of European history in the last few centuries teaches us one recurrent lesson: nations that accepted the Jews and treated them kindly have flourished, while those that tortured and oppressed the Jews have called down a curse upon themselves.” (Olive Schreiner, 1906) “The history of the daughter-religions is a history of incessant murder attempts against their own mother; whenever such an attempt succeeds, the culprit perishes too, in the very act.” (M. Steinschneider, 1893)
MAGES: Caricatures showing the average anti-Semite’s idea of a Jew. “Should our Volk and our state fall victim to this greedy and bloodthirsty Jewish tyrant of the peoples, then the entire planet will sink into the tentacles of this polyp.” (Mein Kampf, p. 703) “The Freemason-Jew makes his marionettes dance.” (Publishing House of the Anti-Freemason Committee) “The testimony of other nations. The study of European history in the last few centuries teaches us one recurrent lesson: nations that accepted the Jews and treated them kindly have flourished, while those that tortured and oppressed the Jews have called down a curse upon themselves.” (Olive Schreiner, 1906) “The history of the daughter-religions is a history of incessant murder attempts against their own mother; whenever such an attempt succeeds, the culprit perishes too, in the very act.” (M. Steinschneider, 1893)
“Serb, resist the abyss!”
“Parliamentarianism and democracy are inventions of the Jews. They served to drug the people, and then to tame them, domesticate them and exploit them.” “When I look at the representatives of these two worlds, the National Socialist German world and the Bolshevist-Jewish world – when I compare Adolf Hitler with the great beast Stalin – then I see in the former a unique and uniquely-gifted genius of the kind produced by humanity only once in several thousand years; and in the latter, a clumsy desert prince devoted to vodka.” (Dr. Ley)
“There is no cure any more. Neither needle not thread can repair the Bolshevik economy.” (Anti-Freemason Committee of Belgrade)
“Every country has the Jews it deserves!” (Karl Emil Franzos, 1875)
An anti-Semitic field-postcard, signed by the front-line war reporters.
The Jews issued these vignettes:”We are Hungarians – Jewish Hungarians, unshakably faithful to our Fatherland!”
Heydrich assigned Eichmann the task of forming the Central Office for the Solution of the Jewish Question. It was March 1944 before Hungary’s turn came up. Eichmann’s resources were insufficient; but in the Hungarian Ministry of the Interior, State Secretaries Endre and Baky deployed the apparatus of the Hungarian Gendarmerie. Eichmann’s aim was to perform a “lightning action”, and he did indeed carry out this plan. The only part he failed to realise was the deportation of the Jews of Budapest: The plan was revealed in time, and – following the intervention of foreign diplomats – Horthy forbade it. (From: “The Third Reich and the Jews”, by Poliakov and Wolf.) There were no concentration camps in Hungary. Certain preferred Jews were assigned to work groups that were deployed behind the front lines and in the country’s interior. The Post Office assigned them special “Jewish Postcards” featuring a diagonal yellow stripe.
Circular from the Transport Ministry in Bohemia and Moravia (in 1942)
Circular from the Postal Department of the Transport Ministry in Bohemia and Moravia (in 1942): Dear subscribers, It has come to our attention that certain subscribers to the telephone network are still allowing Jews to make use of their telephone connections. The Postal Authority therefore points out that such behaviour is impermissible and will lead to the termination of the telephone connection. Every non-Jewish subscriber to the telephone network is obliged to refuse any request by a Jew to use his telephone connection. It is also forbidden to pass on any messages to Jews by means of the telephone. Transport Ministry (Postal Authority)Jews by means of the telephone. Transport Ministry (Postal Authority)
[CAPTION TO CARTOON: He who gives a Jew his hand, Sells his Volk and Fatherland.] Czechoslovakia has been swallowed up.
[CAPTION TO CARTOON: It’s a sick old nag, that horse he sold you – The slyest swindler is the Jew.] On the Nature of Jewry Gradually, the struggle against Jewry has become the concern of all Europe. The day is not far off when the peoples of the world will recognise Judah as their true enemy. In itself, the struggle against Jewry is nothing new. For as long as Jewry has existed, the peoples have defended themselves against it, and they have done so out of a natural, spontaneous aversion towards the parasitic nature of the Jews. Enemies of the Reich The current war, too, is about primacy in the world. England will lose, Germany will win, and peace will reign once more between the former antagonists. But one conflict will not end: the war against the arch-enemy, Judah. His most dangerous weapon is concealment. Jewry is neither a people nor a race nor a religion. Behind these lofty human values [sic], rather, it conceals a low hunger for power and an unstillable desire to rule the world. Depending on the circumstances, Jewry knows which aspect of itself to put on display: the unity of a people or the breadth of a religion. Therefore, the struggle against Jewry requires clear, firmly-grounded, natural terms, and a brave willingness to face and uphold reality. The struggle against Jewry is fought not only when we encounter the Jew face-to-face, but whenever calculating intellect or short-sighted egotism forgets the eternal values of Volk and Fatherland and betrays these for the sake of petty and momentary advantages. Prof. D. Georg Bertram, Giessen (from “Welt-Dienst”, No. X/17, 1943).
[CAPTION TO MAP: The net spun by the Jews of yore / The axis that then won the war.]
[CAPTION TO CARTOON: Every last thing the Jew must take / Misery and poverty come in his wake.] Adolf Eichmann (to whom Hitler had given the task of executing the programme designed to deal with the Jewish Question) estimated that six million Jews were killed in pursuit of this policy, of whom four million perished in extermination camps! International Military Tribunal, Protocol, p. 16495, Nuremberg. It was not Goebbels (as generally believed), but the historian Heinrich von Treitzschke who coined the phrase: ‘The Jews are our misfortune!’ And he did so as early as 1880.
A letter from the Nazi publication ‘Der Stuermer’ to the manager of the Edel margarine company in Schuettorf, near Hanover: March 22nd, 1938. To the manager: Dear Sir, We note with regret that our letter of Feb. 22 still remains unanswered. Nonetheless: You too will remember how, just a few years ago, Jewish moneygrubbers and stock-market crooks, Jewish banks and Jewish firms, brought utter ruin upon the German economy; how almost 7 million German people, unemployed and impoverished, sought their salvation in Jewish-internationalist Muscovite Bolshevism, and how, in their hunger and desperation, they allowed themselves to be misused for terrorism and crime. The brilliant and unanticipated resurgence of the Germany economy only began when National Socialism assumed power and removed the Jews from their positions in government and industry. This is why World Jewry has declared Germany its deadly enemy. This is why the Jews are forming devilish plans and boycotting our factories, in the hope of wrestling our revitalised German economy to the ground. These Jewish machinations are reason enough to pursue our education campaign with even greater energy than hitherto. We are confident that we can reckon with your cooperation. As an exemplary German manager, you are no doubt conscious of your responsibilities. Therefore: Give your employees the opportunity to deepen their knowledge about the Jews. To this end, join the great community of the Stuermer campaign, which has sworn to exterminate the murderous Jewish race. Heil Hitler! Der Stuermer, Nuremberg.
‘In the Name of Civilization’, judified and niggerfied France has now unleashed its black beasts upon us for the third time. It will have to be the last time. It will be the last time!!
‘Translation into German forbidden!’ – notes the President of the American Peace League, the Jew Th. Nathan Kaufmann, in his hate-brochure. There he writes, among much else: ‘After complete sterilisation of the German people, there will be no further births and the population will cease to grow. With a normal mortality-rate of 20 percent annually, the life [sic] of Germany will shrink by 1,500,000 souls every year. In this way, something will be achieved within two generations which would otherwise have cost millions of human lives and centuries of effort, namely, the complete eradication of Germanness and its carriers.’ Roosevelt collaborated with the Jew Kaufmann on this murder-programme. The German people will take note of that! Word of the Week No. 44/1941 / Central Press of the NSDAP
Hermann Esser: The Jewish World Plague For the first time in the history of the West, a great people of the Nordic-Germanic sort has succeeded in frustrating the global plans of Jewry: we, the National Socialist German people under Adolf Hitler! The Fuhrer unmasked the Jews as the arch-enemies of all Volkish culture. Today, we are the first Germanic people to free ourselves from Jewry; but we are also the last Germanic bastion against World Jewry. This is why Jewry hates us with a passion! And this is why Jewry will use any means at its disposal to destroy us without trace!
The Jew is the opposite pole of the Nordic human being and the arch-enemy of every free people in the world.
In Commemoration of of the Beilis Trial in Kiev A special supplement to the Israelistisches Familienblatt (“Israelite Family Paper”), Hamburg Thursday, December 4th, 1913. No. 49 With this special supplement, we commemorate a grim occasion: the ritual-murder trial in Kiev, a sad and bloody satire that pierced our heart like a sharp knife. Should we grit our teeth in pain, or should we cry with laugher at the grotesque deceitfulness of these echt-Russian demon-hunters? Certainly, this echt-Russian chain of events was a gripping tragedy with an undertone of black humour. Once again, we saw Slander sitting at her spinning-wheel, weaving lies. Once again, unscrupulous demagoguery had busied itself making money by creating and exploiting stupidity amongst the populace. Once again, stupid prejudice had forced its way into a quiet, peaceful Jewish household and tried to cast an absurd and terrible suspicion on the head of an innocent man. Yet the tragedy of Wendel Beilis was not the tragedy of one man alone, but the tragedy of an entire people; for the suspicion cast upon a single individual was also a dreadful slander against Judaism itself and its holy teachings. Much was at stake, for slander has always managed to find ears that would hear it. And so it came about that we had to rejoice at the fact that an innocent man had not been found guilty; that the jury, simple men of the people, refused to have their judgment clouded by slanders — shameless and deliberate slanders concocted by people without conscience. But here is the saddest thing about this trial: Yet again, we had to fetch out our holy scriptures – the books of the Bible, the scrolls of the Talmud, and the works of Chassidic literature – in order to demonstrate the groundlessness of the accusations of ritual murder. Beilis has been declared innocent and set free, and we are pleased that justice has not been desecrated; but all Jews have suffered defamation as a result of these accusations. That we had to experience such a trial in the twentieth century: this has caused us pain we will not so quickly overcome. The ritual-murder trial in Kiev is and remains a sad memorial to the shame of the times we live in. [CAPTION: Beilis with his family.]
From the history of the Jews of Prague: On September 2nd 1744, the Prussian King Friedrich II appeared in person with his army; and the siege of Prague began. One hundred and twenty of the city’s Jews had already been called up to build protective walls. Soon, there was great mistrust against them in the general population, for the Jews did not want to work on their Sabbath. The authorities, however, did acknowledge their desire to observe their customary holy day; but, in return, 240 Jews (i.e. twice the usual number) were expected to work on Sundays. In addition, they had to provide a firewatch comprising 300 men. When the city commander refused to surrender, Friedrich II ordered the bombardment of Prague. Though the cannons caused considerable damage, the Jewish quarter happened to remain untouched; as a result, the population grew even more suspicious, and the Jews were soon hated as “friends of Prussia”. On September 17th, the commander capitulated: shortly thereafter, however, the Prussian king had to withdraw from Bohemia; and now, the population of Prague felt obliged to take revenge on the detested Jews, for the belief that they had served the Prussians as spies and lackeys had already developed into a kind of psychosis. The watchword was: “Get the Jews!” The mob moved towards the Jewish quarter, and the plundering began. Very soon, the Empress also got wind of the rumours that Prague’s Jewish population was “Prussia-friendly”- and she had never made any secret of her own aversion against the Jews. For Maria Theresa, the moment had come to begin eradicating the Jews of Bohemia. On December 18th 1744, she ordered the Jews to leave the city of Prague by January 31st of the following year; and shortly thereafter, they were ordered to vacate the country too. Numerous influential Bohemian aristocrats and civil servants pointed out that this would lead to the collapse of the entire economy; but the Empress remained intransigent. Even England, Holland and Spain intervened; and eventually, she was persuaded to withdraw her decree. In 1748, after four years of exile, the Jews were permitted to return to Prague. Their “eradication” was finally completed by SS Obergruppenfuhrer Reinhardt Heydrich.
Tuesday, June 9th, 1942 The Jewish Star in France Since June 7th, Jews in the Occupied Zone of France have been forbidden to appear in public without wearing a visible yellow star. […] The realisation comes late – as late as the statistics, which now suddenly appear. They inform the astonished French citizen that in the last century-and-a-half, the number of French people has increased by around 44 while the number of Jews living in France has grown more than 3,000 and that 57of all banks, 71of all music publishers and 82of the film industry in France are in Jewish hands. “The Jews were hidden”, complains the French press: “They wore no yellow stars.” … Now they do wear them. Now, thanks to a German initiative, the dividing line between French people and Jews has been drawn, externally. It is now up to France, to the French people, to the compatriots of Gobineau and Drumoni, to draw that line within themselves too. F.F.
Where a synagogue once stood: The Church of the Holy Grave, Deggendorf, Bavaria. In the year 1314, Emperor Ludwig of Bavaria expelled the Jews from his territories. Unluckily for them, they soon found ways to return. In Deggendorf in 1337, they were subjected to the most furious (and best-known) wave of persecution in Bavarian history. It soon spread through all of Bavaria and Austria. “With the help of a Christian woman, the Jews managed to acquire Hosts [the consecrated wafers used in Catholic services]. These they pierced with a cobbler’s awl until the blood sprang out. Then they scratched the Hosts with sharp thorns, whereupon a beautiful boy-child appeared to them. Then they threw the Hosts into an oven, where they merely became more beautiful still than freshly-baked wafers. At last they laid the Hosts upon an anvil and hit them with sledgehammers; but this too was of no use. Then they threw the Hosts into a well, upon which the voice of the Mother of God was heard, weeping and wailing bitterly!”On the day after Michaelmas, the citizens of the town, together with the knight Hartman von Degenberg, fell upon the Jews, who lost their lives under the most appalling tortures. That a church was built to immortalise this act of holiness; that the Popes and Bishops showered indulgences upon the perpetrators; that, from then on, pilgrims streamed into Deggendorf from every corner of the pious Fatherland: all this goes without saying. A painting and a comedy (still performed in 1801, in Regen) depict the cruel murder of the Jews in the most gruesome colours.” From: History of the Jews in Bavaria, by Johan Christ, Freiherr von Aretin, 1803)
We ask: Aren’t those people also guilty who created and supported the racial laws? Aren’t those judges and civil servants equally guilty who delivered “justice” according to these laws, and who willingly assisted in the persecution of those who opposed Hitler? The intellectual progenitors of the Nazi atrocities are as guilty as Eichmann and his accomplices; yet today they sit in high public positions. What contempt this shows for the victims! Whoever tolerates and covers for them damages democracy and the reputation of our people! Eichmann is on trial; but in the Federal Republic of Germany, those who fought against the murderous Nazi regime, those who fell victim to its terror, are being persecuted once again. The Federal Minister of the Interior, Dr. Schroder, slanders their organisations – the Associations of Victims of the Nazi Regime (VVN) — and demands their prohibition. Yet Dr. Schroder was once an SA-Anwärter! Such behaviour speaks for itself! Look at the mistrustful attitude towards those Germans who fought against Hitler and the Eichmanns while in exile. Compare the political incitement against people and organisations that stand up for peace and understanding. It is all part of the same pattern. The prospects are bad for democracy in the Federal Republic of Germany, as long as such things are possible. The prospects are bad for democracy as long as a Dr. Hans Globke can be Secretary of State, and the retired Nazi General Foertsch – who was handed over to the Federal Government as a war criminal without amnesty — can become Inspector General of the German Army. The prospects are bad for democracy as long as former leading Nazis can hold key positions in public life. There must be an end to this! There must be an end to the toleration of those guilty of Nazi crimes; the infiltration of public life by former representatives of the “Third Reich”; the defamation of resistance fighters and victims of the National Socialist regime. The good name of our people demands this. We owe it to the millions of victims of Nazi terror and of the war. Eichmann is on trial. It is high time that the “Eichmanns” in the Federal Republic were made to answer for themselves. Only in this way can we come to terms with our dark past. Only thus can we open the path to a life in peace and freedom. Board of the Associations of Victims of the Nazi Regime (VNN) —————————————————————————– Responsible for the content: A. Gobel, Bremen Printed by A. Haushahn, Schorndorf
Terminus: Auschwitz. Eichmann’s victims make their final journey.
A Monster on Trial The mass-murderer Eichmann is now on trial. He has millions of innocent victims on his conscience: men and women, children and old people. How could this bloodbath take place? Who let the monster Eichmann loose on humanity? Who prepared the ground for the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question”? Eichmann could never have carried out his bloody task without many helpers in the ministries, in the Reich Security Head Office (Reichssicherheitshauptamt), and in the offices of the so-called “Defence Industry Leaders” (Wehrwirtschaftsführer – a title given to those German industrialists who were regarded as particularly important to the war effort.) Even now, some of them are still living among us as “honourable men.”
BUCHENWALD CONCENTRATION CAMP In the fascist concentration camps, the most horrifying places of mass extermination, more than 11 million people, citizens of almost every European nation, were gassed, beaten and tortured to death by the Nazis. Auschwitz, Dachau, Maidanek, Mauthausen, Buchenwald, Ravensbrück, Sachsenhausen: these are just a few of the many “KZs” constructed by the Nazis in Germany and in the European countries they occupied. Until the end of time, these camps will constitute a cry against the inhumanity of a regime that raged with unimaginable cruelty against its own population, and to the other peoples brought war, terror, fire, destruction and bloody oppression. Buchenwald was built in 1937, in the heart of Germany, on the hill of Ettersberg near Weimar. 250.000 people from 23 nations passed through this camp and its 60 external annexes. Fifty-six thousand – more than one-fifth – were slaughtered by the Nazis or died during their imprisonment. In a specially-constructed device that delivered a bullet to the neck, 7,200 soldiers and officers of the Soviet army were shot dead. They had been told they were undergoing a medical examination. Under the dreadful conditions pertaining in the camp, it was clear that only united action could provide any prospect of surviving the terror. An international camp-leadership was created from among the most reliable anti-Fascists. What mattered in this context was not party-membership, religion or world-view, but simply the readiness to fight against the terror of the system. Thanks to this international solidarity, the lives of many conscious anti-Fascists were saved. In the summer of 1942, the first steps were taken to initiate an illegal military organisation of the prisoners. The victorious advance of the Soviet armies also quickened the hearts of the anti-Fascist prisoners, filling them with new confidence. Thanks to the illustrious deeds of the Soviet forces, the day of liberation drew nearer; and shortly before that day, the prisoners’ military organisation succeeded in protecting the camp against the crime planned by the SS. Twenty-one thousand prisoners took the Buchenwald Oath and entered upon the road to freedom. To honour all those who perished in Buchenwald, a special set of stamps was issued, featuring the portraits of some murdered anti-Fascists. In addition, the Board of Trustees for the Erection of National Memorials approved the manufacture of a number of large postcards. These postcards and special-issue stamps depict the following people: Ernst Thälmann, the great leader of the German working class; Rudolf Breitscheid, Social Democrat representative in the Reichstag; the Protestant vicar Paul Schneider; Albert Kuntz, Organisational Secretary of the German Communist party’s Berlin-Brandenburg section; Walter Staecker, chairman of the Communist section in the Reichstag; Rudolf Renner, member of the Parliament of Lower Saxony; Dr. Kurt Adams, Social Democrat member of Hamburg’s State Parliament; and the young Communist and popular block-elder in the Jewish Block at Buchenwald, Rudi Arndt.
Order in the Ghetto German police in the East are ensuring order and cleanliness ******************************************* Photo left: This isn’t much fun for him …but there’s no getting away from it. Once a month, every inhabitant of the ghetto has to undergo a procedure he once barely knew of: bathing. ****************************************** Unfamiliar: Work Ordnung muss sein (“A place for everything and everything in its place”) — and the German police ensures that this motto also applies in the city’s Jewish quarter. ***************************************** No Jewish ruses go undiscovered Continual inspections prevent smuggling by merchant-Jews traveling to their marketplace.
7-Pfennig stamp: Kathe Kollwitz (1867 – 1945), who served art. Daughter of Karl Schmidt LL.D (Dr. jur.), she married the physician Dr. Kollwitz. In her cycle “The War”, we hear the cry of tormented humanity; she herself had had to sacrifice her youngest son on the battlefield. During the period of the German Empire, her pictures were banned; in the Weimar Republic they were held in high esteem; under the Third Reich she was vilified and excluded from the Academy of Arts. Today, Kathe Kollwitz enjoys the recognition she deserves. 10-Pfennig: The prelate Lorenz Werthmann (1858 – 1921),who cared for the workers. 20-Pfennig: Johan Friedrich Oberlin (1740 – 1826).He studied medicine and natural sciences in his native town of Strassburg. In 1770, he founded the world’s first “kindergarten” and developed a planned school-system based on progressive ideas. “Papa Oberlin”, as he was known, was the very model of a genuine teacher of the people. 40-Pfennig: Bertha Pappenheim (1859 – 1936):a striking figure in Jewish history. Born in Vienna to wealthy parents, she was gifted in literature and the arts. Yet she was not content to be a “well-educated young lady”; instead, while still young and full of idealism, she chose to serve her fellow human-beings, who were suffering and dying. At the age of 36, she took on the management of the Jewish Orphanage in Frankfurt. She founded a kindergarten and established the Jewish Women’s Association. She demonstrated her versatility in running the Girls’ Reformatory in Neu Isenburg, which she had also founded. She showed her toughness in combating the criminal trade in young girls. Eventually, however, the floodwaters of racial hatred devastated her life’s work, which had brought so many blessings. The last years in the life of this courageous woman were darkened by painful presentiments of the horrors to come.
Albert Ballin, Director of the Hamburg-America Line (HAPAG) and Alderman of the last German Kaiser: born in Hamburg, buried in Ohlsdorf. Ballin took his own life when his friend Wilhelm II fled to Holland. The Kaiser had wanted to ennoble him if only he would convert to Christianity. Politely, Albert Ballin refused.
Mrs. Irene Harand This courageous and exceptional Viennese Christian tried to combat anti-Semitism by means of her “Irene Harand Movement”. When the Nazis invaded Austria, she only just managed to escape with her life. Irene Harand fled to the USA.
On February 17th 1856, Heine died in his ‘mattress crypt’ in Paris. In 1840, Heine wrote his “Damascus letters”. A Capuchin monk had been murdered in Damascus, and the Jews were blamed, with the notorious “blood libel” that they needed the blood for their Passover celebrations. The French consul Thiers actually promoted this lie. Though Heine had been baptised into the Christian faith, he took up the cause of his fellow Jews, and wrote: Heine wrote: M. Thiers’ response was a masterpiece of perfidiousness. By being evasive, by keeping silent about what he knew, by appearing to be timidly reticent, he managed to cast suspicion on his opponents in a quite exquisite manner. Anyone who heard him speak might end by actually believing that the Jews’ favourite dish was Capuchin flesh! But no, o great historian and very small theologian! In the East as in the West, the Old Testament permits its adherents no such filthy feeding. One of the great idiosyncrasies of the Jews is their horror at the idea of consuming blood. It is expressed in the very first dogmas concerning purity and impurity. No! The descendants of Israel, of the pure, chosen, priestly people: they eat no pork, and no old Franciscans either. And they would no more drink blood than they would drink their own urine, like Saint Elisabeth [de Hongrie], great-aunt of Count Montalembert.
“To present the Talmud as the priceless, peerless, sublime work that comprises all the treasures of science, scholarship and morality, a work beyond all criticism – this is not merely prettification and window-dressing, but actual deception. To defend ethically dubious sections is to indulge in whitewashing; to try to impose a deeper significance upon silly tales is to submit to a Sisyphean task. But those who take this gigantic work and cherrypick questionable lines from it; who remove harmless words from their context and apply a false interpretation, thereby producing caricatures or grotesqueries, making these Talmud verses the object of scorn and contempt: such people are pitiful wretches and dishonourable frauds.”(Emmanuel Goldschmitt)
In the Book of Books it is written (Matthew 26: 52): “All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword!” The best books were burnt by the Nazis!
[Translator’s note: The postcards are postmarked: “8. 11. 38. – German Book Week”] The Jews hold back raw materials, so that firms go bankrupt and workers are left without bread; they agitate in favour of Bolshevism, so as to escape in the chaos of financial divestment and seize everything they have not already bought up. Then we become minions of the Jews, and can only work for starvation wages under their whip. “And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.” (Exodus 17: 13-14)
At the gateway to Dante’s Inferno stood the words: “Through me the way into the suffering city, through me the way to the eternal pain, through me the way that runs among the lost.[…] Abandon every hope, who enter here.” At the gateway to Dachau: “Arbeit macht frei!” (“Work will set you free!”) At the gateway to Buchenwald: “Recht oder Unrecht – mein Vaterland!” (“Right or wrong – my country!”)
Opposite the parade ground stood a long, low building that held the storerooms, kitchen, bathroom, and prisoners’ wardrobes. On the roof were painted the already-faded words: “There is one road to freedom. Its milestones are: obedience, industry, sobriety, cleanliness and orderliness.”
From time to time, the SS camp physician at Dachau carried out a so-called “selection process”. Anyone who was no longer steady on his legs counted as a “Musulman” and was singled out for transportation to Mauthausen or Auschwitz. Each of these groups comprised thousands of people. Once they arrived at their destination, they died very quickly.
The entrance to the camp was through the gateway, located in a low building mainly one storey tall, with a tower in the middle and a platform providing a complete overview of the entire camp. Its balustrade held a large clock -and floodlights that illuminated the barbed-wire area, morning, noon and night.
Dachau: anyone who believes in justice will shudder on hearing its name. Dachau: a name that freezes the blood of any honest man or woman. Dachau: a word that embodies all the misery of oppressed humanity.
Not far from Munich, around 18 kilometres to the north, is the notorious Dachau concentration camp: a small place; a fragment of land, soaked in the blood of innocent human beings. Its name is now notorious, and imprinted forever in the memory of the world.
“My dear husband! Since January 14th, I have heard nothing from you!”
Who amongst the former prisoners of Dachau can ever forget the terrible gravel-pits, where people had to stand barefoot in icy water, labouring until they dropped? And most of them dropped dead, if they hadn’t already been beaten to death, to say nothing of those who were buried alive.(Udo Dietmar)
Who amongst the former prisoners of Dachau can ever forget the torments he had to suffer, the sadism he was subjected to? The tortures, the whips, the trained dogs, the executions, the rifle-butts, the rubber truncheons, the casual shooting of human beings…
“No words, no words are capable of expressing the unspeakable suffering of these people.”
Rings were wrenched from the women’s fingers so that their knuckles broke. Their earrings were torn away with their earlobes!
Germany could make use of this hair: it was raw material. The monsters knew how to make use of everything – leather, paper, cloth — everything and anything that a human being could make use of. They could find a use for all of it. The only thing they despised and trod into the mud was the most precious good of all: human life itself.”(Wassily Grossmann)
“Women had their hair cut off; old women had their wigs taken away from them. This had a strange psychological effect: according to the barbers, this cutting of their hair at the moment of death did more than anything else to convince the women that they were in fact being led to a bathhouse.
The ruler here was Generalgouverneur Dr. Jur. Hans Frank, President of the Academy of German Law!
Day and night, for months on end, deadly fires and smoke rose to the sky. In dozens of surrounding villages and settlements, the inhabitants must have seen all this, for it could not be hidden. Impossible, too, to forget the terrible cries of the women and children, which again went on for months on end! How could anyone eradicate such sights and sounds from their memory? Those cries will forever ring in the ears of the local farming people, who, for months on end, carried the ashes of human beings from the death-camps to the roads of the surrounding area!
This card was returned to the sender because picture postcards of any kind were forbidden. What were the Nazis expecting to achieve by this? The card reveals nothing about the SS’s giant human slaughterhouses, the worst of which were located in the territories of the Generalgouvernement: in Lublin, Sobibur, Treblinka, Maidanek, Belschiza and Oswienzim. The Germans could keep nothing secret; they could not hide the evidence that millions of people were being murdered; they could not enforce silence on thousands of witnesses who had seen people from all over Europe transported to veritable death-factories. It was impossible!
“The Black Wall” They appeared in the courtyard: Camp Commander Fritzsch, SS Doctor Entress, SS Platoon Commander Stark, Work Services Commander Hessler, and Rapportfuhrer Palitsch. The last of these held a rifle in his right hand. A moment later, we saw Branek: he was bringing a naked elderly man whose hands were bound behind his back with barbed wire. They stopped in front of the black wall. Palitsch pushed the old man a little further forwards and placed him with his face to the wall. At the same instant, Palitsch raised his rifle to the old man’s neck and pulled the trigger. A shot rang out, the old man took half a step forwards and fell onto the sandy ground. Blood was spurting from the back of his head. Entress appeared, leant over the prone figure, raised its head to check the response of the pupils, and cried: “All right!” The corpse was carried away, and the blood-soaked earth strewn with sand. All this time, the SS men were smoking. Palitsch extinguished his cigarette-end with the heel of his boot, and roared: “Next!” Bronek appeared with a little blonde girl aged about eight or nine, and naked. Her big, pale-blue eyes observed her surroundings with a mixture of curiosity and fear. Her hands, like those of all the others, were bound with wire. With a trembling voice, she asked: “What’s happening now? Where’s Mama? Who are those gentlemen?” The SS men say nothing and stare at the ground. Fritzsch is playing with his fingers, nervously. Entress is cleaning his spectacles, slowly. Palitsch smiles at the girl and leads her to the black wall. With his right hand he holds her arm, with his left he raises the rifle: a shot rings out. The small body lies on the yellowish ground. The child’s hair harmonises weirdly with the sandy soil. And the blood… Palitsch is taking great interest in his rifle. He removes the lock and fiddles round with the hull. His movements are smooth and balanced, he is perfectly calm. “William Tell!” He demonstrates hardness and control of one’s feelings! He looks at his comrades disparagingly, no doubt thinking: “Weaklings!” He is making a show of indifference, although today is quite an occasion: he has shot his thousandth human being. Quite an “achievement” in just one year! Now he glances at the other SS men and says: “Today you’re all invited to a party – a jubilee. The little person I’ve just shot for the Fuehrer in Auschwitz is No. 1,000. You’ll all come, won’t you?” There is a clear tinge of irony to his voice. SS Hauptsturmfuhrer Fritsch, the Camp Commander at Auschwitz, raises himself to his full height: “Platoon Commander, I’ll ask not to discuss your private affairs while on duty!” Palitsch controls himself: “Jawohl, Herr Hauptsturmfuhrer!” He clicks his heels loudly together and gives a signal to Gerlach. The prisoners selected by Hans for the task emerge hastily from the block once more; they are carrying one of the long wooden boxes used for transporting corpses, and in this they lay the dead body. By now, Wacek is smoothing the sandy earth. Palitsch calls out: “Next!” From “Caps off!” by Zenon Rozanski: (“A Report from the Punishment Brigade at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp.”)
In some of these “affiliates” or sub-branches, living-conditions were even worse than in Mauthausen proper. Over the years, an estimated 335,000 persons of both sexes were imprisoned in these camps. According to the surviving documentation, 122,767 political prisoners were cruelly murdered in Mauthausen alone.
The following subsidiary camps were attached to the main camp at Mauthausen: Gusen (10-20,000 inmates) Loiblpass South and East (5,000) Melk (4-6,000 inmates) Schlier-Vocklabruck (1,500) Ebensee (8-14,000) Peggau (600) Linz I, II, III (7,000) Vienna-Jedlesee (400) Steyr (4,000) Vienna-Hinterbrühl (800) Saurerwerke Vienna (1,500) St. Agyd (400) Junkerswerke Vienna (2,000) Dippoldsau (600) Vienna Neustadt (1,000) St. Lambrecht (20) Vienna Neudorf (3,000) …and more. Grossraming (800) Klagenfurt (90)
A photo of the camp, taken by the SS in January 1942 (temperature: minus 10° Celsius). It shows 30 survivors, on their arrival in Mauthausen, out of a group of 2,000 Soviet prisoners of war transported there. The camp had been built in the summer of 1938 after the occupation of Austria.
The auxiliary camp at Melk was first opened in April 1944 and its underground factories were only completed at around the time of liberation. Every month, around one thousand inmates died while working on it.
Classified as ‘Level III’, Mauthausen was an extermination camp; the authorities deemed it ‘undesirable’ that anyone incarcerated there be allowed to return home. The camp lay stretched out on the mountain like a grim beast lying in wait for prey. Its watchtowers and smokestacks pierced the sky like poisonous spines. At night, blinding floodlights and metres-high flames from the crematorium’s chimneys could be seen for miles around in the Danube valley, and the sickly smell of burning human flesh permeated the entire surrounding area. The camp’s granite walls carried miles of deadly electrified barbed-wire: in countless rooms, terrible acts of sadistic inhuman cruelty were carried out.
The workshops were located in a tunnel, dug by inmates of the auxiliary camp at Ebensee. Twelve factory buildings were erected here, each of them 428 metres in length and connected by a corridor. In the course of any one year, thousands of political prisoners died from the effects of forced labour.
Postcard from the Dachau camp with an extract from the camp regulations:
The Murdered Children / by Orli Reichert “Three things have been left to us from Paradise: stars, flowers and children!” Can there be many people who would not give their wholehearted assent to these words of Dante’s? Is there anything that can touch us more than the pure, helpless, trusting eyes of a child? Hardly! How far astray must a human being go, how sad is the state of his soul, of his human feeling, if he is capable of murdering small innocent children! When we hear that a man or a woman has been murdered, a grown human being, repulsion and a diffuse horror awaken in our hearts. But when we hear that the victim is a child, then these two feelings are strengthened even more. They are joined by outrage, and we ask ourselves how such a thing can be possible. Before us, we see the children’s small helpless hands, we hear their high-pitched laughter, and we see their tears: big helpless tears from blue, brown and black eye-stars. Children’s eyes are stars, and woe to him who dims their glow or puts it out forever. He is damned. He has fallen deeper than any human being should ever fall. – I would send all the people in Germany five years into the past, if I could – but especially the women and mothers. I would take them to Auschwitz, in the year 1943. Then they could see, in a single day, that bonfires have been set up; in a long line before them stand women with children in their arms. And these children are torn from their arms, and thrown living into the cracking fire. – And they could see a long, long line of children, children between the ages of six and 14. These children are standing, raising their hands in supplication to men and women in uniform. They are begging for their lives, for their poor helpless lives that have only just begun and are now about to end, so soon and in such a way. But their pleas remain unheard, and their last, stammered words echo in the gas chambers of the crematorium. – And on this day they could see an endless line of prams. They roll out of the barracks beside the crematorium, along the road that leads to Auschwitz Station. They are empty, these prams. When they came here, they were full of joy-bringing life. Little legs were kicking, blue and brown eyes looking round in wonder, tiny thumbs stuck in tiny mouths. Mothers had watched over them, worried and careful. Now these prams are empty, this endless line of prams from the most various countries. Was there ever such a parade of prams? Gone silent is the babbling of those babies; snuffed out, the horrified screams of their mothers. Men in uniform are pushing the empty prams to the railway station. Murderers’ hands! The prams are loaded onto the train and transported to the “Reich”. These three images should be shown to every human being in Germany. Just those three; they would have to be enough. If the screams of those thousands of murdered children have really gone silent, if there was and is no-one in Germany who is willing to hear them, if no-one recognises what has happened and feels profound shame for it, then we are damned, we are lost, and we shall sink ever deeper! ******************************************* AT BOTTOM OF PAGE: At the cabaret: In 1946, at a show in Reichenhall, Bavaria, the survivors were given a clear message when the envious “philanthropic” Nazis in the audience greeted the following simple words with thunderous applause: “The Jews are eating chocolate. Only six million of them gassed – Shame about that!”
From Hitler’s Speeches; To a Hitler Youth rally in 1935: “In stating our will to peace, we must name only one precondition: that we will do no harm to others and allow no others to inflict any harm on us!” Top Secret Reich Document: Experiments with Low Pressure … This was an experiment over an extended period of time, without oxygen, at an elevation of 12 kilometres. The subject was a 37-year-old Jewess in good general condition. Breathing continued for 30 minutes. After 4 minutes, the Experimental Subject (ES) begin to sweat and to waggle her head. After 5 minutes, cramps appeared; between the 6th and the 10th minute, breathing accelerated, ES unconscious. Between the 11th and the 30th minute, breathing slowed to 3 breaths per minute and then stopped completely. In the meantime, very severe cyanosis appeared, along with foam at the mouth. Autopsy report: When the breast cage was opened, the pericardial sac was seen to be filled to bursting (cardiac tamponade). When the pericardial sac was opened, it ejected 80 cc of clear yellowish fluid in a jet. — 1946: ‘We knew nothing!’
LEFT COLUMN, SECOND DOWN: Who is responsible for the war? Vernon Bartlett, one of the leading British political writers, recently let slip the following admission: “Amongst the civilized nations, England is the only one that resorted to the use of arms without having been attacked.” This is an open admission from the British side that England is the aggressor, and that they chose quite groundlessly to go to war with Germany. Yet it is only a partial admission of Britain’s entire guilt. Under the orders of Warmonger-in-Chief Roosevelt, the British government incited Poland against the Reich, compelled France to join in the British declaration of war, drove Norway, Holland, Belgium, Greece and Yugoslavia into war, and finally allied itself with the all-destroying force of Bolshevism. In doing so, Churchill has taken upon himself a monstrous burden of guilt. History will bear witness to the fact that Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin are responsible for this war. But behind them stands the Jew. International Jewry wanted this war as a means of satisfying its striving for world-domination; Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin are its willing tools. For this war, and for all the suffering and privation it has brought upon the world’s peoples, Jewry bears the guilt. Words of the Week, No. 47, 1942 / Central Publishing Institute of the NSDAP, Munich
The Pro-War Agitator – in which we demonstrate that the Jew is the biggest warmonger and the greatest agitator in favour of war. He wishes to annihilate National Socialist Germany. And beyond Germany, he wants to set Europe and the world on fire by means of Bolshevism. Thus, on January 16th 1919, the Jewish newspaper “Jewish World” made the following admission: “International Jewry forced Europe to wage this war, not merely in order to pile up large sums of money, but so as to use that money to finance a new Jewish World War.” Today, that “new Jewish World War” threatens to become a second great struggle amongst the peoples. German Men and Women! Read this Special Edition through, slowly and carefully. It reports on the terrible activities of the Jewish Volk in the wars of the past and in the World War, and it informs you about Jewish agitation for another World War in the present day. This Special Edition belongs in every house, in every school, in every office, in every shop, in every workplace. It should be distributed throughout the entire world. This Special Edition is available from all newsagents, bookshops and Post Offices.
Der Stuermer [The Stormer/The Attacker] German Weekly Paper for the Fight for Freedom PUBLISHER / EDITOR: JULIUS STREICHER Editorial Office and Publishing House: Pfannenschmiedsgasse 19, Nuremberg. Available in every Post Office, or directly from the publishers. The Pro-War Agitator Though only few know him, he has been unleashing wars for millennia. Who, even in the Middle Ages, drove peoples against one another and caused bloody wars? Who, since the dawn of time, has been responsible for mass murders, mass bloodbaths and mass butcheries? Who profited most from the Napoleonic Wars? Who agitated and drove the peoples into war in 1914? Who financed that World War, betrayed the peoples and emerged as the sole winner? Who would like to unleash a second World War against Germany? Drawing on historical data, confessions, admissions, and gruesome and chilling documents, Der Stuermer presents a special edition on the occasion of the NSDAP’s national party congress, the Reichsparteitag: [continues on next page]
303: Regulation Requiring the Jews of the Sudetenland to Register Their Assets; passed on December 2nd 1938. 309: Second Amendment Concerning the Enforcement of the Law (November 12th 1938) Governing the Removal of Jews from Germany’s Economic Life; passed on December 14th 1938. Jews were now no longer permitted to be managers or deputy-managers of German firms. It was stated explicitly that no compensation would be paid for any personal or financial loss thereby incurred. 304: Regulation Governing the Deployment of Jewish Assets; passed on December 3rd 1938.
Poor non-Aryan cows! In 1935, the “Wolfratshauser Tageblatt”, an organ of the NSDAP, published the following official proclamation by the local authority of Konigsdorf: 1. Any cows or other cattle bought directly or indirectly by Jews are excluded from access to the parish bull. 2. Any cows or other cattle kept in stalls that also accommodate livestock owned by Jews, will be kept under observation for a period of one year. During this period, they are excluded from access to the parish bull. The Mayor of the Township of Konigsdorf Signed: Ernst Schreyer, Mayor The management committee of the three bull-keeping cooperatives then passed the same regulation for their own areas of administration! One doesn’t know whether to laugh or cry!
Nowadays, money is brought into circulation by the State; and whenever the State itself needs money, it is forced to borrow it from Jewish banks while paying heavy interest. Were the State itself in charge of the money supply, then the interest on any money it lent out would accrue once again to the State itself. Today, the money is earned by the Jew, and the good German taxpayer is close to collapsing under the weight of this grim economic mismanagement. Therefore: Fight to the death against all unproductive capital – against Jewish lending-and-usury capital! Everyone has a duty to work, to help save our Volk from its current shocking misery. For this reason, we must also demand that the Jewish Volk take an active part, by performing manual labour in the coal mines, in the workshops, in the factories, as farm labourers, etc., — and that it cease to suck and feed and grow fat on the sick body of our Volk. Against their better judgement, some continue to deny their own Germanness and to work consciously against their own Volk for the sake of Jewish Mammon. Let them be unmasked! Already, certain workers’ leaders have learned anew and become convinced of the erroneousness of their party’s principles. There are honest-minded workers’ leaders who really have the best interests of the workers at heart. For the sake of the entire propertyless class, therefore, these leaders should free themselves from all alien and destructive influences and dedicate themselves only to the most ideal objectives of our German Volk. Despite all the invective against anti-Semites, etc., the awakening of the Volk proceeds apace. Comrades in race: it is essential that you do not listen only to the one-sided chatter of the press. Instead, you should take a look at other newspapers, which think differently and which write in a true, volkish, German spirit. There you will find a few grains of truth that will help you to understand the causes of our misery. – Do not forget: it was the press – of which 90is now in Jewish hands or under Jewish influence – that mesmerised us, before, during and most especially after the war. Today, it is only with the greatest mistrust that one can encounter any newspaper written or managed by Jews. Do not let yourselves be mesmerised any longer by slogans about beating the Jews to death, etc.; for we fight the Jew, not as a human being, but as a race. And our struggle will continue until he abandons his ruinous and dissolving influence on our Volk and grasps that he is an alien — a mere guest in our house, and not its master. Therefore, my German comrades in race: I appeal to you urgently to work together in healing and restoring the mortally-sick body of our Volk. Since it is now clear that Juda bears the main guilt for the dissolution of our people, we must demand, with one voice, a judicial solution to the Jewish question. Without reducing the rights due to the Jews as a minority, we must all fight against their fatal dominance in our Volk. Examine the Jewish question closely and in depth, and then form your own opinion. In future elections, give your vote only to those parties that fight ruthlessly against everything rotten and rottenness-inducing in the body of our state. Do not let yourselves be mesmerised by their sloganeering politics. Vote only for German men who place the issue above the individual, and who will not work against their own convictions for the sake of Jewish money. There are still enough honest Germans who are capable of representing your interests strongly. So enough of Jews who claim to speak for you. If our Volk is to be saved from utter downfall, it will only be through the firm solidarity of all honest Germans – and that means, first and foremost, the German working class. The international Jewish dream of world domination is fraudulent, and can only be realised with the help of misguided masses of working people. Therefore: break its chains and stand up for the unity of the German Volk. – Only through Germans can Germans be helped. G. Seifert, joiner, Hanover. Publisher: German People’s Defence and Offence Association, Hanover Branch, P.O. Box 121. Printer: Karl Ebers, Hanover.
Motto: “Through truth to clarity.” It is the duty of every honest German to educate himself! Profoundly serious observations by a German worker, for all comrades in race. “The Battle for the Truth” Dear fellow Germans of all classes and professions! What moves me to address you as a free German worker is no external influence of any kind. My own deepest conviction, my love of my German home, my constant thoughts of the millions of heroes who died for us, and my fears for the future of our children: these are my motivations for appealing to you in this way to do some very serious thinking. I myself have experienced only the bitter side of life; and, like you, I have to live under the pressure of things as they are. All that is left to me is a true German heart, and my health, which was shaken by the war. Politically, I support German socialism. For years, I followed with particular interest the newspapers and publications of all the political parties, for I wished to acquire a deeper understanding of the true causes of our present misery. The right-wing parties place most of the guilt for the current wretchedness and woe on the Social Democrats and the Jews – rather than endeavouring, somewhat earlier on, to take a particular interest in the welfare of the German worker’s soul… By contrast, the left-wing parties vehemently place the blame on pan-Germanists, capitalists, country squires (Kraut-Junkers), coal barons, militarism, the Kaiser, our generals and field marshals, etc. The parties of the centre normally go whichever way the wind blows, and they shout whatever the masses happen to be shouting. I claim, however, that all parties bear the blame: one lot as a result of their snobbery and their mystification of social class — attitudes which embitter the lower classes; the other lot by attacking their comrades in race with undue acerbity and by denying their own nationality; and the third lot through their ongoing and completely inexcusable sleepy-headedness. It is now high time to bury the hatchet at last, and to bring the entire German people together once again as a nation. The main responsibility for this terrible state of affairs is borne by those who have used their exceptional cunning for their own ends: to exploit these party cadres and this class hatred amongst the people. Their spirit of usury, their spirit of Mammonism and materialism, tears apart all peoples, and they have now introduced it into our German Volk. Like a vampire latched firmly onto the previously-healthy body of our own Volk, this international Jewish Volk — a horde of beggars who have acquired the rights of guests in our country — has misused its guest-status in every possibly way. Thanks to their race-consciousness and their irrepressible faith, these Jews have acquired access to every circle of our own people. In particular, they have succeeded in drawing over to their side the discontented working classes, under whose protection they hope to grab control of political and economic life in its entirety. Sadly, and whether consciously or not, the leaders of the German working class are only too willing to serve as lackeys to this alien race. – Would they do the same thing if Hottentots, Zulu kaffirs or Botocudos presumed to claim the same rights in Germany as the Jews? This I can hardly believe. [continues on next page]
The Iron Broom A Journal of Self-Defence Appears on the 5th and 20th of every month No. 4 September 5th 1919 12 Hellers To those returning home! You have been away from home for a long time. Many of you have been gone for years. Only in prison did you really learn properly what home means. In the heavy dreams that filled your nights, in the torment of your defencelessness, in the bitterness of your privations, in your leaden brooding and in your sudden outbursts of despairing anger – in all your feelings was your love of home, your yearning for the Heimat. At last, at long last, came the day of your salvation. The minutes ticked away like endless, foggy days, but each one was bringing you closer to home; and now you are, indeed, back home once more. You knew, of course, that you would not find your homeland the way it used to be. The old homeland is dead. You will have heard how hard, how terribly hard was her death. She can no longer welcome you back. She can no longer thank you for your willingness to sacrifice your property and your blood for her sake — to fight for a free future for your homeland. You will be greeted by a new homeland, a child of the old one. She is small and poor, with but a slight resemblance to her mother. And from the mother she has also inherited the name: Austria. Though humble and impoverished, Austria is still there! Your hearts raced as you saw the first trees, the first cottages of your homeland. Some among you were silent and fearful, while others were jubilant: but, in both responses, love was present. Now she receives you, your poor, little, haggard, and yet so dearly beloved homeland. And in your eyes, the question glows: Whose fault is it that our homeland is no longer proud and strong, but small and poor? Whose fault? Who bears the guilt for the terrible misfortune that has befallen everything we hold dear? Who? Soldiers! To your silent questions, those who welcome you in the name of the new homeland will give no answer –or else they will lie to your faces and say: For hungering after power, the old homeland has been punished with death! Imperialism and militarism have dug her grave. Soldiers, note this and note it well: When they tell you such things, they are lying! And they are lying because they cannot and will not tell you the truth! You set out, not to conquer foreign lands and subjugate foreign peoples, but to defend your dear old homeland against sheer greed and a lust for destruction! And while you were defending your homeland with your bodies against an overwhelming adversary, others betrayed and sold that homeland behind your back. Soldiers! For the sake of your homeland, you have borne the hardest pains and done the boldest deeds. And all the while, others were busy making business deals in safely bullet-free regions far from the front line. They squeezed billions and billions from your homeland, they led a luxurious life, they twisted the news as they saw fit, and they spent prodigious amounts in gambling dens. Where did they get the money for all this? Soldiers! When you were prisoners, did you hear anything about usury, about smuggling, about hoarding and profiteering? And did anyone tell you who committed these shameless crimes, thereby plunging your homeland into a peace that destroyed it? We don’t need to tell you who did these things. Open your own eyes and look around you! Look at the places where fun is to be had: the fine restaurants, the high-class cafés, the theatres and cabarets, the casinos – you’ll find them full of fat Jews and fat Jewesses. In not one Jewish face will you see any sign of deprivation or suffering. You will not find a single Jew-child in the ****illegible*** who doesn’t have an expression of insolent contentment on his face. Plump-hipped and chubby-cheeked, each and every one of them! And then look at the others, who aren’t Jews. Emaciated figures in torn and tattered rags, creeping past you: children whose eyes are begging you for bread; young mothers with bent backs and sunken breasts; men with sunken eyes and a feeble, unsteady gait. Among these poor and wretched people you will search in vain for a Jew! Soldiers: if you have once seen such a sight, then you know – everything. They will welcome you in the name of the “Free Republic”: And when they have the cheek to speak to you of the new homeland and of how lucky we are to have lost the old one… then, soldiers, ask them, with a firm but quiet voice: Why, until the present day, has Jewish usury, Jewish fraud, Jewish black-marketeering, Jewish hoarding, smuggling and profiteering not been rooted out? Why must our fellow-homelanders go hungry, while Jewish interlopers from the East live the high life? Why is wholesale trade, including the sale of groceries and items of daily use, entirely in the hands of the Jews? Why are almost only Jews to be found in every head office or H.Q.? Why can thousands of returning soldiers not find even modest accommodation, while thousands of Hungarian and Polish Jews have rented entire floors? Why must German railway workers, driven out of their homes, live in miserable wooden barracks while Galician and Hungarian Jews own the comfortable houses? Why must our women, our children and our aged parents suffer bitter privations; why is there often not a drop of milk for our babies; why, often enough, can not even a single egg be found for our most seriously ill citizens; while in the Jewish houses and the places of pleasure frequented by Jews, the tables groan under prodigious quantities of the finest delicacies ? Why must our women often search for scraps of paper with which to light their ovens, while the cellars of Jewish “refugees” are filled to the brim with coal? Why is everything that’s missing in open trade available from Jewish black-marketeers, in any quantity desired, for usurious prices? Why can a poor returning soldier not satisfy his surely-modest desire for a few cigarettes, while every café****illegible*** has thousands of cigarettes supplied to it by its Jewish****illegible***? Why are the leaders of the “free republic” mere passive observers of the Jews’ shameless crimes? Why does the government not protect the people, now grown poor and wretched, from vicious exploitation by the Jews? Why indeed are these disgraceful dregs of humanity, these Jewish parasites, still tolerated in our homeland? How did Jewry buy such forbearance from those who govern us? Soldiers! Should you ask such questions of those who greet you in the name of the new homeland, they will certainly be more than a little astonished. They have come to win your approval for the “Free Republic”; they want to deceive you into believing that all the sad things you will see have come down to you from the old republic. But if you ask them why, after ten months of freedom and justice, that heirloom called “Jewry” is fatter and more insolent than ever before; if you ask why the Jews weren’t chased over the border long ago; if you point with one hand at the bellies of the fatted Jews and the provocative luxury of the fat Jewesses, while pointing with the other hand at the miserable faces and starving bodies of your Volkish comrades — then, o soldiers: then you will see these “liberators” and “benefactors” of the people scurrying away with their tails between their legs. And your question will be the first step towards salvation for our beloved homeland and our beloved Volk! +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The Judified American Cities For years now, people have been pointing out that Woodrow Wilson is the lackey of the Jews and a mere “manager” employed by the Jewish plutocracy. Unfortunately, the volkish newspapers have consistently failed to focus steadily on this important point. We, by contrast, point out once again today that Wilson’s secretary is an unbaptised Jew named Tumulten [sic] [Translator’s Note: His name was in fact ‘Tumulty’, and he was not actually Jewish.]; that Wilson made use of Luitgarden, an immigrant Jewish advocate from Galicia, whenever he wished to influence public opinion; that Wilson’s closest and best friends are called Morgentau, Elkas, Baruch, Davidsohn, Loebkahn, Kuhn and Schiff. But the true extent of Jewish influence over the American people can be judged from the following fact: as the Jewish Press Centre (Zurich) just reported, the well-known workers’ leader Samuel Gompers has appointed Rabbi Stephan Wise (New York) to achieve agreement within the steel industry. Samuel Gompers, President of the American Federation of Labor, was born in London to Jewish parents. ____________________ >>>>> Germans: hold meetings and mass rallies to demand the expulsion from Austria of the Galician and Hungarian Jews! <<<<< The "Disgrace of the Century": these words were allegedly spoken by the Emperor Frederick the Great, and they are often quoted in an effort to make any opposition to Jews look contemptible. We owe them to Magnus, a Jewish city representative in Berlin, who claims to have heard these words from the then-Crown-Prince Frederick. Allegedly, only the two of them were present at the time. It's a popular tactic amongst our Hebrew fellow-citizens: putting into other people's mouths words they never uttered. In this the Jews are assisted, on the one hand, by the ingenuous kindliness of the German people, whose good-humoured tolerance may all-too-easily be interpreted as support; and sadly also by a lack of courage, by a failure to stand up stoutly against this "chosen" but cowardly race. This is the true "Disgrace of the Century": that Germans are so foolishly naive as to let the Hebrews lead them around by the nose.
The widow loses her final battle: They’ve requisitioned her corn and cattle.
Loewy’s stocks are doing fine; Time to take wifey out on the town.
The craftsman’s wife, her eyes are red: The child is hungry, his father’s dead.
While Silberleim got rich with War Bonds.
Brave workers perished in their thousands
Mandelstein sat in his swish H.Q. And shared the loot with another Jew.
In times of peace it was this way, In wartime too, and still today.
From dawn till dusk the farmer toils And so ensures there’s bread for all. The worker drives the great machine, The craftsman labours honestly. Without their work, there’d be no light. No shoes, no clothes, a sorry plight. Nothing to eat, not a thing in our hand No house, no home, no Fatherland. But some there are whose biggest wish is To do no work, yet pile up riches. You’ll find they’re named “Karfunkelschein” Or “Silberleim” or “Mandelstein”.
German farmer, look around you! During the war, you acquired some strange “colleagues”: people from the big city who suddenly found their way to you and became “farmers”. How did they do it? Hundreds of farms were bought up during the war (especially in the final years of the war) by people who had never yet in their lives owned an ear of corn or a blade of grass – indeed, by people who could barely tell a potato from a turnip. Who were these city-dwellers, who suddenly found their way to the soil they so detest and deride? They were Jewish war-profiteers, who didn’t merely have millions in cash running through their fingers, but who felt it would be beneath them to go hungry in the city like their comrades in race. The same people whose press and agitators have been screaming and complaining, for years on end, about the “profiteering” farmers. People who would never have dreamt of taking a walk on the soil, to say nothing of actually lifting a finger to make that soil fruitful. Have you ever in your life seen a Jew working as a farmer? And you were expected to deliver up whatever you had harvested and stored in the sweat of your brow! From the farms bought up by the Jews, the food, too, went to the cities – but usually only to the owners’ houses. Little children in the cities often had no milk to drink. Meanwhile, the Jewish owners of farms bought from the profits of war had more milk than they could use, just as they had plenty of flour and meat and eggs and fat. Otherwise they could not have stayed so fat right through the war years. German farmer! From the nationalist parties and the nationalist press, you have never heard a single word spoken against the farming people. But day in, day out, the Jewish press, and the press financed by Jewish gold, agitate against you. You can never deliver enough, never work hard enough. And yet from your sweat, the war corporations have made millions. There was nothing that didn’t go through the hands of Jewish traders – individuals, syndicates and entire companies — before reaching the hungry populations of the cities. A servile press then told the people that the farmers alone were profiting from the high prices. Yet most of the goods taken from you increased in price by no more than one hundred percent – while the things you required, in order to stay alive and run your business, rose in price by a thousand percent and more. Nobody wanted to know about this; they were, and are, happier to complain about the farmers. And yet you have to pay taxes to support people who don’t want to work, and who receive hand-outs to the tune of countless millions. You are forced to look on as they reduce their working-hours yet again, while you are expected to work 16 hours and more. And still they continue to agitate against you, even after you have politely handed over the products of your labour. And why don’t they want to free you from this coercion, while they can wheel and deal to their hearts’ content? What is the main reason for that? Because the Jewish war corporations have to “earn” even more.
Judaism exposed! ________________________ Judaism is not a religious community but an alliance, made indissoluble through oaths of loyalty, for the acquisition of material advantages and the total enslavement of non-Jewish peoples. It creates a “state within a state”. Jewish attitudes towards life and morals and Jewish interpretations of the law differ from, are irreconcilable with, and are opposed to those of other peoples. Irrefutable proof of the truth of these claims is provided in the following publications: Handbook on the Jewish Question: A compilation of the most important facts By Gregor Fritzsch. 29th Edition. 68 – 75,000. Price (hardback): 3.60 Marks. The False God. My proofs against Yahweh. 9th Edition. Price (hardback) 3.25 Marks, (paperback) 2.25 Marks. The Controversy Surrounding God and the Talmud. My answers to Strack, Kittel, Fiebig, Caro, etc. Price (hardback) 1.50 Marks, (paperback) 1.00 Mark. The Justification of Anti-Semitism. Second Edition. Price: 25 Pfennigs. Fritsch, the author of these four publications, is one of the oldest and finest experts on the entire Jewish question. It is no wonder, then, that he penetrates deeply into all aspects of this so complex issue, leaving hardly a single question open. The International Jew. Published by Henry Ford. 24th and 25 Edition (82 – 90,000) Price ETC The Zionist Protocols The political programme of the international secret government. With a foreword and afterword by Theodor Fritzsch. Fifth Edition, 21-25,000. Price: 80 Pfennigs. The “International Jew” and the “Zionist Protocols” can safely be described as two of the most interesting books of current times. They present the most gripping portrait imaginable of Jewish power-hunger and Jewish plans to rule the world. ______________________________ Hammer Verlag, Leipzig 1
Do not throw away! Hand this on! Workers! Throw off the Jewish yoke! German workers! For decades you have been fighting against capitalism and the exploitation of your labour. You struggle and struggle, yet you never reach your goal. Why? Because you are shadow-boxing; because you are fighting a fake battle that consumes your strength, a battle that can never end for you, but will always lead you to the same end: to serfdom, to the work that makes you sweat for others. Who are those others? Workers! Be honest and give an honest answer to this question: Have you ever seen a Jew amongst your comrades? You in the workshop, you at the lathe, you working on the roads, you at the loom, you on the smoking locomotive, you at the glowing steel furnace, you in the sunless coalmine – have you ever seen, even once, a Jew standing beside you as a worker, as a colleague? Jews are everywhere — wherever there is something to dominate, to rule, to command, or to profit from; but in your own ranks, workers, you will not find them. Or will you? Yes: You will find them in leadership positions in your own party, – not fighting for your best interests, for the welfare of you and your family, but in order to drive you against your own brother, your German brother, in order to dazzle you with fine phrases that can never become realities, because again and again, the limits of what you can achieve, of what you are allowed to achieve, are set by your purported leaders, by the Jews, in order to exploit your fellow human beings, in order to make these people work for them, for the profit of the Jews. For this reason, to this end, the Jew is international, not in order to make all men brothers. If today, following the peace treaty, you are even worse off than you used to be, will the Jew be your companion in suffering? Once again we ask you: Give an honest answer, give it to yourself and your comrades. But draw the consequences of your own answers, too: Demand of your leaders, demand of your party, that they finally rid themselves of the domination of the Jews. The Social Democrats claim to be a party of the workers, of the working people. Are the Jews to be counted among the workers, are the Jews a part of the working population? No! No! And no again! That is why the Jews should be expelled from the Social Democratic movement. First and foremost, though, they should be expelled from the Social Democratic press, from the workers’ press! When the Jew no longer oppresses you, when the Jew no longer lies to you, when the Jew can no longer make money from your work, can no longer feed on your sweat, – then (but only then)… Only then will you become a free worker! The German is a man of honest, straightforward human feeling. You are equal to the German; you are his true brother; but, to the Jew, you are and will remain an object of exploitation. If you do not free yourself from the Jew, you are and will remain a slave. A slave in golden chains. The chains are yours, but the gold is his. Workers, German workers: Wake up! The German Defence and Defiance League [Deutscher Schutz- und Trutzbund] Germany to the Germans Educational pamphlets on the Jewish question will be sent on demand, free of charge, from the German Defence and Defiance League, P.O. Box 38, Hamburg 1. H. Haap, Hamburg 36
Appeal to Christian-German Women and Girls by Gertrud von Unruh-Sorge The woman who always runs to the Jews Her own child’s welfare does not choose. The German who buys from Jewish shops In honour and decency is not tops. You wish to know her idea of virtue? Just hear how much she likes her Jew. Buy from Christians! A wife that to Jewish wiles is prone Should not be sent to the shops alone. For Germany honour to vanquish vice, Each must make a sacrifice. You tell me which paper you read And I’ll tell you which thoughts you breed. My dear sisters! I have often thought about why you you do your shopping at Jewish shops. You let yourselves be attracted by the big noisy advertisements, by the flattering attention they pay you when serving you, but also by the apparently cheaper goods on offer – which are undoubtedly of poorer quality. Have you ever seen Jews purchase the necessities of life from Christians? No – except for what they can more easily or cheaply acquire from Christians! Apart from that, Jews buy only from Jews; — and support each other thereby! How much more should Christians, Germans, behave the same way – for this is the first obligation of Christian charity, when the Bible says: “Let us do good unto all men, but especially unto them that are of the household of the faith.†The young businessman will then no longer be so inclined to demand “money”. Instead, as in times past, he will look for thrift, domesticity and all the typical fine qualities of German womanhood, and so it will be easier for your daughters to find a good marriage and a secure home than it is now. I shall close with this appeal: “Think Christian, think German, O German woman, O German girl, and buy in Christian-German shops, and then that Christian deed, co-inspired by German spirit, will fulfil your hopes and your wishes, and you will have performed incomparable work for our German people!” “So let deeds follow words!”
Against the Mass Immigration of Jews from the East! [Caption: On the mass immigration of Galician and Polish nationals to Berlin. Galician Jews conversing on the street.] “Stroll on in to the German Reich! No-one cares where that leaves US!” Not for no reason are we the underdogs in the Jewish war and the Jewish peace. From the East, the racial powerhouse of world-dominating Jewry, hordes of Hebrews are streaming into our Fatherland – which has been left defenceless by Jewish trickery. “The victim lies prone and the ravens descend.” Never before has the tribe of the Israelites had it so good as in the new German Reich. The Profiteers’ Peace — desired by the racially-allied “Berliner Tageblatt”, and now achieved — has ushered in splendid times for the Jewish nation. Now, like the proverbial sparrow in a lark’s nest, the Jews are making themselves at home in crushed and tattered Germany! For, after all: it’s they who propagate the fraudulent idea that everything is equal which wears a human face. Yet for all this talk of “equality”, it’s “all the same” where we Germans are supposed to end up! Wherever we look, in the cities or in the countryside, people are desperately in need of housing! And yet we have mass immigration of Jews into Germany! Are we Germans just carrion for greedy desert vultures? No “German” government dares to deport the Jews! The Entente forbids the hard-pressed people of Vienna to rid themselves of the hundreds of thousands of Jews who came to them as scroungers and conspirators, as pickpockets and black-marketeers, and who took away from them their bread and their homes.
Clerks! Workers! Fellow members of the Volk! Millions of Jews from the East, foreigners to the Reich and alien to your race, are flooding into Germany and being received with open arms. When millions of you are without work, can you tolerate this? Think of your brothers who are still prisoners of war and who will soon be returning home – like you, they will have to remain unemployed! For years, with your weapon in your hand, you defended your house and home to the last drop of blood against an overwhelming enemy. Will you now happily abandon your homeland to these interlopers, who lack all feeling for German-mindedness, German law and German morality? We demand a plebiscite to decide whether millions more Jews from the east should be permitted to settle in Germany. German land must be preserved for the German people as their homeland and fatherland. Therefore, we demand limitations on German emigration and prohibition of Jewish immigration. Germany to the Germans! — Ask us for voting papers against further Jewish immigration. — Whoever agrees should join the German People’s Defence and Defiance League [Deutschvolkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund] Von der Tannstr. 14 Munich group Tel 20647 — Payments should be made applicable to: Post Office Account No.18929, Munich. – Sign clearly and send to the German People’s Defence and Defiance League, Von der Tannstr. 14, Munich. Further voting forms can be acquired, free of charge and in any quantity, from the same address. The following persons declare their desire for a plebiscite against further Jewish immigration: Surname / first name Profession Address Apartment Membership No.
ULK [“Fun”] Weekly Supplement to the Berliner Tageblatt CAPTION: “In the Cage” – “The Germans are suffering. Our investments in London are safe. A good piece of business!” – “Brother mine, in Paris we need money too. When they’re skinny, we grow fat!” ***The Exploiters of Germany’s “Deadly Peace”*** What pleasure All-Judaan feels when observing the fate brought upon the German people by the Jew-Peace! Unambiguous proof of this is provided by the following “funny” cartoon propagated in the Jewish “Berliner Tageblatt”: German men and women! Open your eyes at long last! See the scorn and contempt showered upon you in your misery by the Jews, and learn to recognise their true attitude towards all Germans. Join together in the The German People’s Defence and Defiance League [Deutschvolkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund] Hamburg 1, P.O. Box 38, for communal defence against Jewish domination! Germany to the Germans! [Application for membership]
Workers! Clerks! Farmers! Germans from all walks of life: Awake! The conditions for peace imposed upon us by our enemies imply the lasting enslavement of our people and the continuance of terrible privations. What are the fundamental reasons for these conditions? It is not the power of the enemy that has brought us to this; that power alone could hardly have humiliated us so profoundly. It was unknown adversaries in our very midst who did everything they could to make us weak and defenceless. Did You Know? The major foreign newspapers in France, England, Russia, America etc. – almost all of which are under Jewish influence – had been systematically agitating against Germany years before the war. Did You Know? By pouring scorn on the German character and by belittling Germanhood as such, the major newspapers in Germany (which are also under Jewish influence) supported subversion and incitement against Germans and German interests abroad. These newspapers include, first and foremost, the Berliner Tageblatt and the Frankfurter Zeitung, as well as many others. Did You Know? During the war years, the same German newspapers engendered a sense of defeat in the German people and worked systematically to reinforce it. Did You Know? The worst war-profiteering, in both money and goods, was undertaken by the Jews. Did You Know? At the very beginning of the war, the Jewish Masonic Lodge in Milan declared that the purpose of that war was the destruction of all thrones and altars. Did You Know? The current predatory plans regarding Alsace-Lorraine and other German territories are designed only to fill the pockets of French, German and American billionaires – i.e. Jews. French, English, Italian and American workers will see nothing of billions in cash, natural resources and other goods. Did You Know? The ultimate goal of international Jewry is to place Germanhood under its yoke – and thereby, of course, to reduce the German people to an imbecilic mass. Did You Know? Revolution is prepared by Jewish agitators and Jewish organisations. All this was and is necessary so that Judas Iscariot might complete his devilish task. Just as Judas sold his master for 30 pieces of silver, Judaism has betrayed Germany – our Germany, whose honest and decent spirit and striving stood in the way of Jewry and its global objectives. Did You Know? The Jews Levien, Leviné-Riessen, Axelrod, Toller, Landauer, Mühsam and cohorts were behind the anti-German pogrom, the murder of the hostages in Munich? Germans! Free yourselves from Jewry! Join the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund [German People’s Defense and Offence League], Munich Branch, Post-Office Account 18 9 29. Application for Membership I wish to join the German People’s Defense and Offence League. I have personally appended my signature. I promise in good faith and to the best of my knowledge that I am of German descent; and in particular, that there is no-one of Jewish blood amongst my ancestors – or my wife’s. I pledge to contribute to the League the sum of ___ Marks annually. In addition, I contribute the one-off sum of ___ Marks. Name… Date of birth … Place of birth… Address (exact)… Profession… City… Date signed… The yearly membership fee is 5 Marks and 7 Pfennigs. In the face of Jewish financial domination, however, the League requires larger sums in order to carry out its tasks. Therefore, those members who are able to do so, should commit themselves freely to contributing larger annual membership fees. One-off contributions are also called for. A single payment of 250 Marks will provide lifelong membership as well as freedom from any further obligation to contribute. Anyone who contributes 500 Marks will become a Benefactor of the League. Therefore: everyone should give whatever he can afford towards the battle for Germany’s renewal. Germans for Germany to the Germans! Send the filled-out form, without delay, to the Deutschvolkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund, Munich, Von der Tannstrasse 14. Tel 26 7 57. Financial contributions to: Post-Office Account 18 9 29.
Ludendorff: What I Strive Towards (1933) I strive towards a strong and free Greater Germany that binds the people closely to their native earth and restores to them, in a German world-view, the firm union of blood (racial inheritance), faith, culture and economy. Battlesomeness and freedom necessitate a strong and characterful race, inspired with its divine task, proud of its blood and the achievements of its ancestors, conscious of its power, its duties and its rights. Battlesomeness and freedom require that both sexes be brought up in this spirit; that male youths be given a military education; that men exercise their right to national self-defence in a people’s army, following the introduction of universal, compulsory national service; and that, in times of war, national service be required of both sexes, whether on the front line or in the home. Battlesomeness means that, after the battle, soldiers must be honoured and warriors cared for, including both wounded men and bereaved dependents. A people is disgraced when its defenders are destituted. Freedom requires unhindered self-determination, and therefore the restoration of military autonomy. The German people are being throttled by the Treaty of Versailles, along with the other dictates, codicils and amendments concocted by the servants of that policy. Such agreements are null and void, for they are based on the lie that Germany was responsible for the World War. We must regain our silenced voice and throw off the yoke imposed on us by foreign nations and by supra-national powers, who have given us war and revolution and who now hold us in their grip. In its innermost essence, our struggle is with the global capitalists and their economic forms, such as socialism, fascism and Bolshevism; with their financial systems and their money-trading; with their ever-changing methods of stealing, from workers and producers, the fruits of their labour, of dispossessing owners and thereby collectivising peoples. Our struggle is with Jewry, which strives to achieve global rule over collectivised peoples via Freemasonry and Marxism in all their variants, through global capital and the imposition of serfdom, by means of racial pollution and insidious propaganda. The Jews would have the peoples of Europe, including the German people, labour for them in autonomous economic provinces of a Pan-Europa. With cunning and force, by means of the Christian religion, they would compel us to bow down before Yahweh, they would uproot the German people and transplant them to an utterly alien culture. Our struggle is with the catholic activities of the Roman Church, which for centuries has used every available means to enslave us, despoil us racially, and compel us to bow down at the throne of Peter. Our struggle is with any instrumentalisation of Christian teaching that weakens German vitality by means of the state and the church. Indeed, our struggle is to overcome Christianity itself; for if even a trace of it remains in the people, it will facilitate the rule of supra-national powers and imperil the formation of a racial community: a Volk. Yet we struggle, not by means of violence – which was once used against our ancestors and is now being deployed against us – but through education and by conducting ourselves ethically. In the same way, our task is to overcome the legal terminology of an alien power that came to us in the wake of Christianity, and which serves only too well the hegemony of the supra-national powers. Greater Germany should unite in a single state all the Germans of Central Europe and provide support and protection for Germans abroad. Within that nation, each of the tribes should stand side-by-side in freedom, equality and self-determination. This will put an end, not only to federal states and independent Länder, but also to the bureaucratic destruction of tribal idiosyncrasies. The state should be strong and ethical, its sole guideline the well-being of the people as a whole. Whether it be a monarchy or a republic in form is today of only secondary importance. All that matters is that a German man, answerable only to himself and the people, should hold the reigns of government. The Führer of the Reich will be in charge of the army and the administration; ministers and civil servants will be responsible to him alone. In accordance with the principles of meritocracy, the people are to be represented by the most meritorious Germans, who will bear full responsibility for their own actions. The administration of the tribes will take place according to an extension of the principles formulated by Stein. In line with the same principles, each community will develop a form of free, self-governing local administration. By such means, the un-German maladies of our times will disappear: parliamentarianism and bureaucratism — those irresponsible means to power, those feeding-stations of the supra-national powers and their dependents. Political rights will be granted in accordance with the principle of meritocracy; therefore, preference will be given to those who have carried out military service or achieved motherhood. Jews and other alien peoples may not become German nationals, nor may they hold any kind of office or exercise any kind of authority over Germans. Prohibited are: oaths of obedience or any kind of binding oath towards non-state superordinates or foreign authorities; and membership of any secret society with its own authority, for example Freemasonry or other secret orders of any kind. These are irreconcilable with the the duties of national sovereignty and the responsibilities of the state, which alone has the right to demand obedience from the citizen and to exercise legal judgement. The Volk is a living unity of German people, who — in self-preservation and beyond — serve one another through labour with head and hand, and who fulfil their divine task. Whatever their social position, those who do not fail in this task have the right to respect, fellow-feeling and the necessities of life. In this living unity of the Volk, man and woman stand side-by-side as equals who are yet differ in their essential natures. Woman should once again be granted the lofty position in Volk and family that she once enjoyed amongst our ancestors – before the penetration of alien attitudes and alien mores and morals. The family is the wellspring of strength for German life. As young people grow towards adulthood, they are guided by the example of their parents; a youth movement can complement this but never replace it. The home soil is the irreplaceable Fatherland of the Volk, grown part of its very substance. This unity of people and land will become even more intimate when love of the homeland is cultivated, when settlements and homes are created to rescue the immured denizens of the great cities. The Holy German Earth must never be a commodity to be bought and sold. For thousands of years, we were a happy peasant people; and, even today, under altered circumstances, we must find sustenance in the rural population, without therefore undervaluing any other class of the people. Our ancestors once knew the unity of blood, faith, culture and economy; by growing one with the soil, the Volk must regain that unity and thus survive, or else grow degenerate and die. Blood-consciousness and racial pride are the backbone of the Volk. Purity of the race is the sacred law by which its soul is maintained. To guard that purity is the highest duty of those who lead the people. The admixture of alien blood is the poisoning of the Volk. With the reawakening of racial consciousness, the arrogance and hubris of individual racial groups will also disappear. Care for the health of the race is a necessity in the maintenance of the race. It is an office of trust, held by physicians of the same blood, under the eyes of the people. In this task, the curing of disease is less important than the cultivation of physical strength and careful tending of the people’s genetic health. Though we respect any serious religious conviction, we oppose any limitation of the people’s freedom through the alien doctrines of Christianity. We reject as immoral the initiation of infants into religious communities and the lifelong religious binding of people who are incapable of choosing for themselves. Only adults are entitled to make such decisions. Culture is the product of faith in God, and of the moral ideals of the Volk. These are the sources of power and life that inform every branch of art and science, and indeed the entire educational system. Art and science will be freed from everything alien and restrictive; education and upbringing will be led by the state. Whatever poisons the people’s soul, whatever suppresses its opinions, whatever tames and trains the people’s minds by means of suggestion and “spiritual” exercises – all this will be more severely punished than physical assault or murder. A people’s dearest possession is its freedom to develop spiritually. The mother tongue, the script and the customs of a people are essential constituents of its culture, and sacred to it. German law must be rooted in German recognition of the godly and a German conception of the world; and must thereby also defend honour. Civilization and its progressive achievements must serve the welfare of the Volk; the labour of German researchers thereby acquires the people’s blessing. The economy should integrate itself into the ethical ideals of the people. Within the border-fence erected by these ideals, the economy can develop freely. The task of the economy is to supply the people’s requirements, at affordable prices, in abundance, and as independently as possible from foreign imports. Its bedrock is dependability. Excessive prices that favour single groups will be made impossible by strict state action. Private property is subject to the moral demands of the Volk community. The abolition of property is senseless, and would undermine both faith in the law and the pleasure taken in work. The reward for labour must be in accordance with the work done. Pleasure in work and peace in the workplace will be secured through the close involvement of each individual in his work, its intrinsic values and his own successes in performing it. Both the selfishness of employers and the response to it, the intransigence of the workforce: these are not the workings of a civilizational process, but the symptoms of a disease — the disease of degenerate economic forms in a deracinated people. The monetary system will be cleansed of all pollutions caused by foreign blood, and arranged in accordance with a German sense of justice. And the means of evaluating money will be located at home, untouchable from abroad. Financial increase by moral methods, and liberation from the yoke of interest laid upon us by global capital: these will bring prosperity to all Germans, end the unspeakable misery of struggling Germans in all classes of society, and re-integrate all Germans in the creative unity of the Volk. On this foundation, every free German can stand firm. Ludendorff ———————————— Read Ludendorff’s Volkswarte The journal strives to create a living Volk, and to establish the unity of racial genetic inheritance, faith, culture and economy. Monthly, 86 Pfennigs, incl. subscription fees ——————————————— General Ludendorff, as anti-Semitic as he was anti-Catholic. Pampered child of the Nazis.
Adolf Hitler: Mein Kampf: Aryans and Jews (p. 330): The Jew has never possessed a culture of his own. In every epoch, his intellect has developed by the use of those cultural achievements which he has found ready-to-hand around him. Anti-Semitism / German Jews / Concentration Camps (KZ)
We will not leave to our children and descendants the things we can do ourselves. HERMANN GOERING
The soldier, Adolf Hitler forged the German sword sharp; the general Adolf Hitler directs it with victorious blows. HERMANN GOERING
No doubt, in these times the DESTINY OF EUROPE for the next 1000 YEARS will be decided. ADOLF HITLER
THIS IS OUR PLEDGE; To think every hour, every day of Germany and the people and of the State and of our great nation only. ADOLF HITLER
In the sacrifice of the own life for the community lies the crown of all selflessness. ADOLF HITLER
Only composure and an iron heart will bring VICTORY GOEBBELS
When this war will be over I will return a still more fanatic National Socialist than I was before. ADOLF HITLER
GERMANY will not go down as long as it keeps its belief in the big mission in the history of the world. HINDENBURG
GERMAN PEOPLE, Whatever may occur, we will be in command. THE VICTORY IS AT THE END.
We do not talk about peace, we fight for it! DR.GOEBBELS
Firmly we should look the Great Time in the eye. ERNST MORITZ ARNDT
He who does well to the people, will be blessed and that is a true glory. FREDERIC THE GREAT
DO MORE THAN YOUR DUTY ORDERS YOU .
When the Germans stand to each other, they will beat the devil out of hell. BISMARCK
1813 1914 TO SCORE LARGE SUCCESSES, IT IS NECESSARY TO TAKE CHANCES.( nothing ventured nothing gained ) MOLTKE
Alfred Rosenberg THE PARTY’S PROGRAM NATURE, BASIS AND AIMS OF THE NSDAP. Dedicated to the Fuhrer of the German movement for freedom. 1. We claim the joining of all Germans by reason of the right for self determination. 2. We claim equal rights for the German people against other nations; Cancelling of the treaties of Versailles and St. Germain. 3. We claim land and territory ( colonies ) to feed our people and settlement for the surplus of our population. 4. Only he can be a fellow citizen who has German blood, no matter what religion. As a consequence; no Jew can be a fellow citizen. 22. We claim abolishment of the army of mercenaries and the formation of an army of the people. 23. The salvation of Germany lies in the destruction of the democratic – Marxian – capitalistic idol. That is the aim of the national socialistic movement. It strives to eliminate the sources that directed to the power of the Jewish – Mammonistic mind and to give the whole people a new direction.
LORD You see, we have changed ourselves. The German people in not dishonourable or disgraced any more; Not stripped or faint hearted. NO LORD, The German people has grown, It is strong in spirit, strong in perseverance, Strong in enduring sacrifices. LORD We do not abandon you, Now give your blessing to our battle for our freedom, And so to our German people and our country. Adolf Hitler
THE FUHRER CALLS. The fuhrer calls, the flame flares up, No German man is to be missed. Up to the light, out of night and need, We want peace, freedom and bread, To steel the arms for the battle. We give our life, our heart and hand For our homeland and our country. K.Kayser
Werner von Blomberg, 1878 – 1946. The first Minister of War and Field Marshall General of the Third Reich, devoted to Hitler, but ultimately forced to resign his post because he had remarried to a lady with a past. His chosen spouse was one Erna Gruehn. Police records revealed that his wife was known to the authorities as a prostitute, and had even been charged on one occasion with posing for licentious photographs. Blomberg had thus brought dishonour on the Officer Corps, and the Generals wanted rid of him because they had long suspected his relationship with Hitler.
Field-Marshall Erwin Rommel the ‘Desert Fox’, 1891 – 1944. ‘Hitler’s favourite’ In 1941, he was Commander of the German Africa Corps. By 1943, he was a Commander in northern Italy. In 1944, he moved his command to France, to defend the Atlantic front. There, he was seriously wounded on 17.7.1944. He was Hitler’s favourite General. Hitler awarded him the Knight’s Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds for his efforts in the North Africa Campaign on 11 March 1943. One year later, when he acknowledged Hitler’s failure, he became one of Hitler’s most bitter opponents. Some time after the assassination attempt on Hitler, it appeared that this former favourite was one of the co-conspirators. Two high-ranking officials immediately visited his home, near Ulm, where he was recuperating. They gave him two options: imprisonment, pending a humiliating show trial at a People’s Court, or quietly commit suicide and die a hero, with his family cared for. He would even receive a state funeral. Without hesitation, he told his wife of his decision before putting the vial to his lips…
In August 1915, the vessel ‘die Arabic’ was torpedoed. American citizens were among the casualties. In March 1917, the American vessels ‘Algonquin’ and ‘Vigilantia’ were torpedoed, and the USA declared war on Germany. In May 1941, another American vessel, the ‘Robin Moor’, was sunk by German submarines. On 11 December 1941, Germany declared war on America “due to a clear breach of neutrality”.
Grand-Admiral Erich Raeder, born 24 April 1876, figurehead of the ‘old navy school’. From 1935 to 30.1.1943, he was Commander-in-Chief of the navy. He was given a life sentence at Nuremberg, but was released in September 1955, at the age of 79, for medical reasons.
“Raeder had to be pushed aside for the benefit of the victory!”
Ehrhard Milch, Field Marshall-General, born 1892. 1939 – Inspector General of the Luftwaffe. Owed his ‘aryanisation’ to wartime comrade Goering.
Friedrich Hildebrand, Governor of Mecklenburg (hanged). In place of Count Fritz von der Schulenberg, who was later implicated in the assassination attempt on Hitler, the failure of which was to cost him his life at the gallows, Hildebrand was elected Governor of Mecklenburg. He was one of the most evil local party leaders in the Nazi apparatus. He was an enthusiastic proponent of the terrible game that Hitler and his followers played out in public life: violence, robbery, arson, breach of the peace, and demolition of Jewish homes and enterprises. Together with Erich Koch, the violent megalomaniac party leader in East Prussia, he represented the terror wing of the party at its most brutal. He was not tried until 5 November 1948, in Dachau, where he was found guilty by the Americans and hanged.
“Air assault troops have made the first steps possible in some places!”
While the German fighter pilots were besieging British territory day after day, they only came under cover of darkness and scattered their bombs at random on farmland and villages. Wherever they could see light, they dropped a bomb. Now we will give them their answer, night by night! If the Royal Air Force drops 2000, 3000 or 4000 kg of bombs per night, then we will respond with 150,000, 180,000, 230,000, 300,000 and 400,000! And if they tell us they intend to step up their attacks, we will rub some of their cities off the map! (Speech, 4.9.1940)
Major Wick Thousands of aircraft and dive bombers, backed up by fighters and destroyers, besieged enemy airports. Within a few days, the battle for air supremacy had been won. Enemy fighters or bombers could only fly in airspace where there were no German planes! (Hitler speaking in front of the Reichstag on 19 July 1940).
Born into a Westphalian Catholic family, he served in one of the feudal Uhlan cavalry regiments and was a gentleman cavalier. He was said to be highly charming and had considerable political ambitions. In WWI, he was military attache in Washington. After the aging Hindenburg had dismissed Bruening, von Papen became Chancellor. Everyone was surprised at von Papen’s appointment and few were pleased, with one important exception: the President. He was delighted to have a Chancellor who acceded to his every wish. Eventually, however, he had to go and was succeeded by the Commander of the Armed Forces, Kurt von Schleicher. Von Papen managed to get his own back by making contact with Hitler once he had been released from his official duties. Once Hitler had made it to the post of Chancellor, he appointed von Papen his deputy. In his Marburg Speech, drafted by Dr Edgar Jung, he began to criticise many aspects of the new system. He had Hindenburg’s backing, so he was safe; however Dr Jung, von Papen’s private secretary, was not so lucky: he disappeared, never to be seen again after his arrest by the Gestapo in 1934. In light of this, von Papen took his leave and went to take up diplomatic service in Vienna (1934-38). He was dismissed prior to the annexation of Austria and, in spring 1939, he moved to the legation in Ankara. There he strove to put an end to the murders by seeking contact with other diplomatic representatives.
Franz von Papen, born 1879, acquitted in the Nuremberg Trials.
“On 17 June 1934, Herr von Papen gave an address to the professors and students of the University of Marburg that created a sensation. In a refreshingly open turn of phrase, he explained that many Germans were dissatisfied that they were apparently being told what to think and how to feel. Two days later, Dr Goebbels gave his answer: ‘Ridiculous little nonentities!’ he thundered. ‘The nation has still not forgotten the days when you, gentlemen, ruled the land from the comfort of your armchairs!'”
The creator of the KdF car, Adolf Hitler, with the car’s constructor, Dr Porsche, and Jakob Werlin, non-executive director of Volkswagen. On 26 May 1938, Hitler visited Fallersleben to witness the start of construction of the Volkswagen factory. Among other things on that day, his speech included the following: “When the National Socialists came to power in 1933, I identified one area in particular as being ripe for the fight against unemployment: the problem of motorisation! The first step in the solution of this problem was to get away from the idea that the car was a luxury item. What was needed was to bring the purchase price and the servicing costs of such an item into line with earnings. At the time, people said to me ‘It can’t be done!’ To which all I can say is ‘Whatever is possible in other countries must also be possible in Germany!’ I hate the word ‘impossible’; it has always been the hallmark of cowards who didn’t dare to make big decisions… I say to you: the car must become the vehicle of the people! This car is being made for the widest possible public… It will bear the name of the organisation that most closely cares about the strength and joy of our people. It will be called the Kraft (strength) durch Freude (joy) car!”
Alfred Rosenberg (1893 – 1946), author of ‘Mythe des 20. Jahrhunderts’. Responsible for philosophical education within the NSDAP. Appointed Minister for the ‘Eastern Regions’ in 1941. Sentenced to death at the Nuremberg Trials. Rosenberg was a ‘Baltic German’ and it was his dream to be the prophet of a new spiritual world order. His race doctrine and his masculine point of view were the armouries from which the weapons to be used against the Jews were to be produced, and he was also guilty in respect of the fate of the Unfortunate because it was his doctrine which planted the seeds of racial hatred that, whether or not it was his intention, gave rise to the gas chambers and burners in the East. However, what he had to say in his teachings was nothing new. In 1912, the Kyffhauser Verlag published books on the principle of racial segregation and the racial issue. Even then, the swastika was a symbol of anti-semitism and Gobineau was frequently cited as the ‘father of modern racial teachings’. Even then, people could be heard saying that since Gobineau, the ‘French nobleman of Germanic descent’, it was common knowledge that the great works of human endeavour had been perpetrated by the blond, north-European race, which is and would remain the most noble! (Almanac of the Nobility, Weimar, 1912)
From the Luxemburger Wort, 17 November 1934: Christ managed to overcome the ‘old Gods’ only after a re-alignment of the spiritual hierarchy. Rosenberg’s book ‘Mythe des 20. Jahrhunderts’ (Myth of the 20th Century) contradicts this in no uncertain terms. The book is an attempt to lay the foundations of a ‘national blood legend’. Rosenberg, a German of Russian descent, who spent the war in Moscow, is entrusted with overseeing the spiritual and moral education of the National Socialist party; his book has hence become the political creed of the Third Reich and is gradually becoming part of the armoury of present-day ‘anti-Christianity’.
The Master Indoctrinator
From ‘Wesen, Grundsaetze und Ziele des NSDAP’ (Ways, Principles and Aims of the National Socialist party). The Programme for the movement, published and with a foreword by Alfred Rosenberg. “To be a citizen, one must be a comrade. To be a comrade, one must be of pure German blood regardless of denomination. Hence it is impossible for a Jew to be a comrade.” “We expect that all non-Germans who have entered Germany since 2 August 1914 immediately leave our territory of their own free will. Force will be used if necessary. Non-Germans will no longer be allowed to settle in Germany.” “‘Democracy’ is nothing but the replacement of German citizens in the spheres of politics, economics etc. by Jews.”
Wilhelm Frick, born 12 March 1877 in Alsenz (Pfalz), was hanged in 1946 after being found guilty of war crimes in Nuremberg. He started his career as a Bavarian civil servant and, by 1920, had worked his way up to a post as assistant to the Police Commissioner in Munich, Ernst Poehner, who is on record as having said “In Bavaria these days there are not nearly enough political assassination brigades!” In 1930, Frick became the first National Socialist minister of a German state legislature, becoming Minister of the Interior for Thuringia. He subsequently became chairman of the parliamentary National Socialist party and, as such, official leader of the party. In 1933, he became Minister of the Interior in the Reichstag, before fulfilling the same post, from 1934, at state level in Prussia. In 1939, he became Minister without Portfolio and was appointed to the Defence Council. His last official post was from 1943-45, when he was Governor of Bohemia and Moravia, having been moved out of the Ministry of the Interior by Himmler. He then faded into the background. To Goering and Goebbels, he was a nobody. In common with many other Nazis, he remarried late in life ’to improve his social standing’. He appointed Hitler to the post of Commissioner of the Gendarmerie in Hildburghausen, which made Hitler a German citizen.
Arthur Axmann, born 1893, was the successor to Baldur von Schirach when the latter was made Governor of Vienna. He was in the bunker when Hitler and Eva Braun took their own lives at half past three on the afternoon of 30 April 1945. Hugh Trevor-Roper, who undertook a thorough examination of the circumstances surrounding Hitler’s last days was of the opinion that Hitler was cremated, his ashes put in an urn and given to Axmann, who had been head of the Hitlerjugend.
Dietrich Klagges – Prime Minister of Brunswick, National Inspector of Teacher-Training Colleges. He wrote ‘Geschichte als national-politische Erziehung’ (The Role of History in Political Education), in which he claimed that the heroic fighting spirit of National Socialism was in no way characterised by the throwing of spears at random, nor by belligerent balladry; it was not even concerned with the possession of weapons and skirmishes, while in no way ruling either out. National Socialist heroism was not treachery, just action. (c.f. Diesterberg Verlag, Frankfurt/Main, 1942).
Will and Power The Organ of the Hitler Youth Published by Baldur von Schirach In this issue: The final word on a falsified historical account On being called up to the front by Sepp Keller Nietzsche on the British and Russians Alfred Weidemann: I spoke with citizen Morat Poetry by Hans Gstettner Supplement: old German masters in today’s Germany Twice monthly, no. 22 Berlin, 15 November 1939 Price 30 pfennigs
Baldur von Schirach, born 9 May 1907, led the National Socialist German Students League, and became youth leader of the National Socialist party. In 1933, he became leader of the Hitlerjugend. He wrote poetry, such as ‘Die Fahne der Verfolgten’ (The Flag of the Persecuted) and also wrote ‘Die Hilterjugend – Idee und Gestalt’ (The Hitler Youth – Idea and Character). In 1940, he was made Governor of Vienna. He married the daughter of photographer Heinrich Hoffmann. He saw the gas-chamber process in Mauthausen at first hand. He was found guilty at the Nuremberg Trials and sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment.
No. 4, MARCH 1943 Comrades! On the tenth anniversary of the Fuehrer’s rise to power, the Commander-in-Chief of the SS has appointed me Chief of the State Security Main Office. My appointment precisely on this day is a clear symbol for us. Ten years ago, the National Socialist movement rove the German people up and out of their impoverishment, their spiritual vacuum, and the emptiness of their words and deeds. In place of that, National Socialism has given them a firm belief in Germany’s ability to crush the Judaeo-liberal conspiracy, and to deal with the problems of internal political fragmentation and anarchy. Today, we are faced with the decisive battle for the values we stand for, and the ideals that have enabled us to become a powerful, independent nation. The Jewish conspiracy in the rest of the world wants to deny us our right to self-representation and work. Men of the State Security Main Office, hear what I have to say! Many of you have been fighting for years in the military, the paramilitary SS and the police force for our future, and the future of our children! However, as SS fighters it is our bounden duty at all times to keep in mind our unshatterable faith in the victory of our combined convictions and be ready for action unconditionally. Our gallant fallen comrades of the Great War and now this war, not least of which is SS Obergruppenfuehrer Heydrich, are both our reminder and example. That is why toughness and fortitude are our uppermost commands, coupled with the belief in Germany, our stronghold! With this in mind, I am prepared to stand shoulder to shoulder with you all and to share all toil, adversity and the renunciation of everything that could be called ‘happiness’ for the fuehrer and for Germany. I am aware that all of you on the outside worry about the future for yourselves and your families, that they would be better off if you were at home, with them. The woman of the house misses the helping hand of her husband; the children miss the guiding hand of their father. Rest assured, however, that I shall do everything in my power to ensure the safety of you and your families. We must remain true to our principles at this difficult time. I am counting on you; you can count on me. With a relationship of trust we can be the equal of our duties. Heil Hitler! E. Kaltenbrunner Berlin, January 1943
Commander-in-Chief of the SS Heinrich Himmler: With the death of SS Obergruppenfuehrer Reinhard Heydrich, the acting Governor of Bohemia and Moravia and Chief of the State Security Main Office, the National Socialist movement has once again offered up a sacrifice to the furtherance of our people’s struggle for liberation. Incomprehensible though the idea is for us that this imposing, radiant man of hardly 38 summers should no longer be in our midst, fighting alongside his friends, a man of incomparable intellect with a character of the rarest purity, possessed of logical and coherent comprehensive faculties, we would not be acting in his best interests were we not to remind ourselves, here at his grave, of the heroic sentiment of transformation through immolation, which has long been a comfort to our people at the death of their loved ones. Heydrich was absolutely convinced that only the best of our people, those carefully selected by racial profile, of unimpeachable character, pure in word and deed, and endowed with a will of iron, were suitable to fight in a positive way that would benefit us all, against the negativity that surrounds us, to bear the brunt of this responsibility. In terms of his contribution to state security, the spiritual father of both the State Security Service and the State Security Police, it is unlikely that we shall ever see his like again; he remains an example to us all. His legacy will be that Bohemia and Moravia are and shall remain German sovereign territory as they were in the past. Up there, in the other world, he will enjoy the company of our other old comrades Weitzel, Moder, Herrmann, Muelverstedt, Stahlecker and many others that form what has become a long list of gallant SS fighters who have given up their lives for the cause. However, it is our sacred duty to atone for his death, to take on the task he started. How will we do this? By destroying the enemies of our people without mercy or weakness. I have but one more thing to say: you, Reinhard Heydrich, were truly a worthy SS officer!
The Devil incarnate, Heinrich Himmler, Commander-in-Chief of the SS and Hitler’s favourite, inspecting the Guard of Honour.
Josef Wagner (1899 – 1945). Originally Gauleiter of Westphalia; later Gauleiter of Silesia. In 1936, he was appointed Reichskommissar fuer die Preisbildung (National Commissioner for Prizes), but was relieved of the post in December 1941 following accusations of corruption. In April 1945, he was accused of complicity in plot against Hitler, and executed.
Streicher was Gauleiter (regional party leader) for Nuremberg and publisher of the viciously anti-semitic “Der Stuermer”, the self-proclaimed German weekly behind the struggle for truth. Streicher was a sadist; nothing was too low for him, not even (as Gauleiter) going into prisons and whipping political opponents or those of a different race with his riding crop. He owned a large collection of pornographic works and had a significant influence in Germany through Der Stuermer, comparable only with Goebbels’ propaganda machine. His goal was to exterminate every last Jew.
Himmler and Streicher: the two most evil and gruesome figures of the regime. Heinrich Himmler received a strict catholic upbringing from his father, a grammar-school master and tutor to the Bavarian royals. However, the benefits of his father’s attempts to raise him in the catholic tradition failed. Himmler’s father’s bigoted interpretation of Christianity had the opposite of the desired effect on the young Himmler: he became a modern-day heathen who tried to wipe out all traces of Christian belief. The SS became his instrument of state power. He appropriated the motto “Die Treue ist das Mark der Ehre” (Faithfulness is the lifeblood of honour) from Hindenburg. At the age of 45 he was captured by the Allies and, in an act of supreme cowardice, swallowed a cyanide capsule.
Ritter Franz von Epp, born 16 October 1858. “One of the most decorated military personalities, and one of the most exemplary leaders of the new regime.”
Under their new leader, Chief-of-Staff Lutze, the SA never again played an independent, or even prominent role within the Third Reich.
On the evening of 29 June, Viktor Lutze, one of the most reliable leaders of the SA from Hanover was flown to Godesberg to participate in a discussion between Hitler, Goebbels and Otto Dietrich. (Bullock)
Viktor Lutze was killed on the way back from a trip to procure supplies when his car was involved in an accident. Ham and eggs were strewn across the road. Regardless of his unseemly demise, Hitler gave him a full state funeral. “Never before in the history of the Third Reich has a man been given such an honourable burial as Viktor Lutze. My eulogy was very impressive. Then Hitler took over and gave a short speech in praise of him. Then he posthumously awarded him the highest rank of the Order of Germany. I then led his wife and family out of the Mosaiksaal. There was a very solemn and decorous funeral procession through the Wilhelmstrasse.” (Goebbels’ diary)
“The first prominent SA Chief of Staff, Group Captain Stennes, led a revolt against Hitler in Berlin in 1929. The revolt was put down by SA General Kurt Daluege and, in the aftermath, the SS, initially a subdivision of the SA, was formed. Stennes went into exile, becoming Chiang Kai-shek’s military adviser. Stennes’ successor in the SA was Ernst Roehm, under whom the SA very much got a new lease of life. In the aftermath of the Night of the Long Knives, Roehm was falsely accused of conspiring to lead an SA revolt, and shot. Consequently, the SS and SA became independent of each other. After Roehm’s death, SA General Viktor Lutze was immediately promoted to SA Chief of Staff and, later, Scheppmann was promoted to Lutze’s old position. Both had been officers in the Great War.” (Orb)
Hitler formed The National Socialist Motor Corps (NSKK) by decree of 23 August 1933 from the earlier Motorized Corps of the SA, which was subsequently elevated to independent status within the NSDAP. General Huehnlein, who had been in charge of the Automobile Corps, became ‘Korpsfuehrer’ of the NSKK. Huehnlein was one of Hitler’s ‘Old Guard’ from the Munich days and had been an officer who had risen to the highest echelons of the party. As Korpsfuehrer of the NSKK, he became a party Reichsleiter. He was also made Major General of the German armed forces.
“To ensure victory in the battle for milk, betting offices were introduced to individual agricultural businesses in recognition of excellent performance. The press and propaganda machine were strongly attracted to this. In particular, radio and flyers proved good educational material.” (Oskar Zweigler)
CONFIDENTIAL! 1 June 1938, date of postmark According to our records, your company uses certain vehicles. Large-scale requisitioning of the vehicles in question may be carried out by the Wehrmacht in the event of mobilisation. It is highly probable that all transportation will be carried out by train or waterway. Where this is not possible, it may be necessary to commandeer suitable vehicles. In the event of mobilisation, we will ensure that your company is left with a fleet of essential vehicles. To ensure that our records are correct, we need exact details of the vehicles available to your company and an inventory of mobile units. Please enter information on the available vehicles on the attached card and return it in triplicate within eight days of receipt of this letter to the Stelle fuer Ernaehrungssicherung for the agricultural district of Weser-Ems. Please also fill in and return the enclosed questionnaire carefully. Answer the questionnaire honestly: all information provided will be checked, so it is pointless to answer incorrectly, or to exaggerate. If this is found to be the case, there could be serious consequences for your company. When filling in the attached card, please pay good heed to the explanations provided. If you fail to return the card and questionnaire within the aforementioned limit of eight days, it is possible that all your vehicles will be seized in the event of mobilisation. Heil Hitler! p.p. Dr Schreiber Authorised signatory [signature]
At the time, killjoys said “Four years of Darre is like four years of drought!”
“The Fuehrer has, after all, decided to dispense with Darre. He will be replaced by Backe. He is no mere theorist like Darre; rather a dyed-in-the-wool, first-class example of someone who gets things done. Actually, I never really liked Darre. His theories are pure literature; he understands very little of the practical agricultural life. His constant repetition of the ‘blood and soil’ slogan is now so tired that it would be difficult to drum up any enthusiasm for it at all” (Goebbels’ Diary, 22 May 1942)
Richard Walter Darre, born 1895. From 1933 – 42, German and Prussian Minister for Food and Agriculture.
Darre, Hess and Rosenberg were all German citizens born abroad.
Richard Walter Darre, born 1895 in Argentina, was a German citizen born abroad. After his return to Germany, he became head of the ‘Race and Re-Settlement Office’, which was concerned with the purity of those in the SS, philosophy (Blut und Boden, blood and soil), and had the Ministry of Agriculture in its portfolio. Darre was one of the Nazi ‘Old Guard’, whom Hitler had got to know through Hess. He had an interest in agriculture which led him to write ‘Das Bauerntum als Lebensquell der Nordischen Rasse’ (Peasantry as the Life-Source of the Nordic Race). At Hitler’s request, he drew up an agricultural programme, published under Hitler’s name in March 1930. It emphasised the social importance of the Peasantry. Darre was completely unsuitable for his responsible position. All he did was write books and memoranda: eventually he was replaced by his deputy, Herbert Backe. In 1940, he said in a speech that America should be occupied, as the world’s resources lay there for the taking. Roosevelt used this speech to his advantage.
The ‘Stock-keeper’. “To compare a doctor’s relationship to racial purity and marriage guidance with that of a veterinary surgeon and husbandry would be an affront to our doctors. Doctors should confine themselves to helping the infirm back to health. What we need is a new class of specialist, whose educational profile closely matches that of a doctor, a discipline which assumes a body is healthy, health being the uppermost concern in the realm of natural selection. Rather than the word ‘eugenicist’, I would like to suggest the German word ‘Zuchtwart’, or ‘stock-keeper’ to denote a position, like a judge, financed by the state.” (from ‘Neuadel aus Blut und Boden’)
Minister Darre greets the Fuehrer on the occasion of Harvest Festival
Born 9 April 1865 in Kruszewnia, Schwersenz, Prussia. Died 20 December 1937, Munich. Became Chief of General Staff for the Army Command (East) and, in tandem with Hindenburg, led operations on the Eastern Front from the Battle of Tannenberg onwards. On 29 September 1916, he was attached to the Supreme Army Command with Hindenburg. On 9 November 1923, he took part in the ‘National Ennoblement of Adolf Hitler’, marching on the Feldherrnhalle. Hitler wanted to give him command of the new ‘National Army’ before taking that post himself. Ludendorff’s aim in WWI was ’total war’, words which Goebbels later put to good use. Ludendorff, an anti-Semite through and through, insisted that the First World War had been lost because socialists and Jews had undermined moral fortitude!
Quartermaster-General Erich Ludendorff. In 1918, shortly before the signing of the armistice, Ludendorff’s nerve broke. Sulking, he retired to Munich, from where he planned his revenge against the Ministry of Defence. His opinion of himself, his vanity and his boundless lust for glory gave him an affinity with Adolf Hitler’s fledgling National Socialist movement. On repeated occasions, the two were photographed together. However, after the attempted Putsch of 9 November 1923 that affinity came to an abrupt end.
Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, born 1877, Banker. Appointed Commissioner for Currency in 1923, and from 1923-30 and 1933-39 President of the Reichsbank. From 1934-37, he was Finance Minister. He stood trial at Nuremberg, but was acquitted. He had a hand in Hitler’s rise to the post of Chancellor, because he persuaded Hindenburg to make the appointment. However, he belonged to a select group of ‘conspirators’ who intended to forcibly subdue Hitler if he were to give orders to invade Czechoslovakia. The conspiracy never came to fruition. When Goering demanded, on 14 October 1939, that all the Nation’s resources be channelled to tripling the rate of rearmament, Schacht was disturbed. He had already protested against unbridled government expenditure (7 January 1939), so Hitler dismissed him without further ado. He said: “Your face does not fit in the National Socialist picture!” Schacht undoubtedly pushed his luck in an attempt to create a break with Hitler. He tried to make the cause of his inner torment visible to the outside world. He was replaced by the compliant Finance Minister Walter Funk, the Reichsbank came under the direct control of the Fuehrer and the government was compelled to extend all credit for which a request was made.
The end: “The Goebbels family spends most evenings in their private bunker, which has direct access to the house. The proximity of danger seems to have brought the couple even closer together. Magda knows that the end is nigh. In mid-February, she asks Hitler’s personal physician, Dr Morell, for fast-acting poison. It is remarkable how convinced this woman is about her decision to end her life. This is indeed where Goebbels and his propaganda machine has had the greatest effect, although Goebbels himself probably had a different scenario in mind: he had asked his wife on several occasions to take the children and flee westwards.” (Curt Riess).
Lyda Baarova, a pretty Czech film actress, was the love of Goebbels’ life. She had starred in the film Barcarole (1934), alongside Gustav Froehlich. Froehlich and Goebbels subsequently became neighbours. One day, Magda invited them to the house, and it was love at first sight for Goebbels. One evening, Froehlich found Goebbels and Baarova in a compromising situation in her car, whereupon he left her. Word had it that Froehlich had given Goebbels a slap: Froehlich promptly became a folk hero, as Goebbels was universally despised. The popular comedian Werner Finck exploited this, using the words “Wer moechte nicht einmal Froehlich sein?” (we all like a bit of fun now and then) in his act. Goebbels wanted to divorce Magda, but a furious Hitler intervened: “What sort of example is that for the German people?” he asked. Baarova’s films were proscribed and she was called a whore. Eventually, she left Berlin for Prague. Magda had had a relationship with a certain Hanke. Nonetheless, Hitler ordered Goebbels and his wife to reconcile their differences and, soon after, pictures of them together appeared on the front pages of the newspapers, both looking distinctly annoyed, with Hitler in the middle.
Magda Rietschel, tall, slim and blonde, was the child of an unhappy marriage. Her father sent her to a Belgian convent, where she became fluent in French and English. Magda’s mother divorced her father and married a Berlin businessman by the name of Friedlaender, a Jew, who suited her better. However, this second marriage was also unhappy. She divorced again, and married a man named Behrendt, but this only led to a third divorce! In 1917, Magda’s mother had a perfumery, which Friedlaender had fitted out for her. On holiday, mother and daughter made the acquaintance of Guenther Quandt, a rich industrialist in his mid-forties. He fell in love with the eighteen-year-old Magda and asked for her hand in marriage. Magda, who had always wanted to be rich, married at the age of nineteen. Quandt’s villa was in Babelsberg and had twenty-four rooms. Quandt had two sons from his previous marriage, Herbert and Helmuth. Herbert died. On 1 November 1921, she gave birth to a son, Harald. However, Magda was unfaithful to her husband, and he divorced her (1929). She received 50,000 marks as a lump sum, and 4000 marks per month maintenance until she re-married. As ’the Party’ was becoming fashionable in society, she went to work for the Nazis. She got to know Goebbels, who soon told her he could not live without her. The couple had six children. Helga (born 1.9.1932), Hilde (born 13.4.1934), Helmuth (born 21.10.1935), Holde (born 9.2.1937) and Heide (born 29.10.1940). As with Harald, all the names began with ‘H’. Hitler was aware that the couple, with their growing family, could be used for propaganda purposes. The Goebbels family legend was an asset for the Third Reich. Hence Goebbels could, on no account, divorce his wife (at the time of the Baarova affair). Although he loved Baarova, he obeyed his ‘Fuehrer’.
Goebbels was born on 29 October 1897 in Rheydt, an industrial town on the Rhine. His father, Fritz Goebbels, was a factory clerk in a small textile factory. His mother, Maria Katharina, bore him three sons and one daughter. Their house was on Prinz Eugenstrasse, later renamed Paul-Joseph Goebbelsstrasse. He was very intelligent, and, being the son of devout catholics, was able to attend the Albertus-Magnus-Gesellschaft Gymnasium (grammar school). Being a cripple, he felt inferior to other students. However, he was cleverer than most, and so was able to rise above this inferiority complex. On leaving school, he was knocked back by a string of people who were his intellectual superior; Professor Gundolf, for instance, and the editor-in-chief of the Berliner Tageblatt. Both were Jews. Walter Rathenau, too, whose books, like those of Karl Marx, he had devoured, was a Jew! National Socialism allowed him to feel superior to all Jews, no matter how much he had once admired them, no matter how much he would have loved to have written articles for them! (Curt Riess: Joseph Goebbels)
Paul Joseph Goebbels ‘The inventor of the soundbite’! Diarist ‘Minister of Public Enlightenment’ ‘Womanizer’ ‘Plenipotentiary for Total War’ ‘Fighter to the bitter end’ His pseudonym was ‘Sagax’.
The former ambassador in Berlin, Andre-Francois Poneet believed, not incorrectly, that Goebbels was the most dangerous man in Hitler’s regime. He wrote that Goebbels was probably too intelligent to be under any illusion about the worth of his fellow party comrades. A propagandist who felt nothing for those to whom he was propagating propaganda… A cripple as the standard bearer for the hypothesis of the racial supremacy of the nation!
Vienna, 11 December 1937 Dear Reichsmarshall, Despite the events of recent times (I refer to the Bayreuth question), I have tried to fulfil my contractual obligations and have conducted Tannhaeuser with four reprises. However, as I see it, I can no longer summon up the satisfaction in my work I once had in a situation which is intolerable for me both as a person and as an artist. As my work with the Staatsoper under these circumstances offers no future, it is perhaps better to end it forthwith. Of course, should you wish, I shall continue to fulfil my contractual obligations, though I would be most appreciative if you would honour my request. It is a matter of five evening performances. Kind regards and Heil Hitler, Yours faithfully, Dr Wilhelm Fuertwaengler Goering’s answer: Dear Dr Fuertwaengler, […] I suspected you might have been preparing new difficulties for me. I cannot empathize with the situation you describe in your letter. Let me be frank: all of us, you included, have a duty, first and foremost, to Germany. […]
Germany borders on only one marginal sea, the North Sea. Great Britain has always controlled and threatened our shipping lanes. If the sea lanes are closed to us, then our routes to the outside world will have to be through the skies. For Germany, the skies are the gateway to the rest of the world, as the seas are to Albion! In the same way the British have become a seafaring folk, so we Germans must become an ‘airfaring’ folk. Hermann Goering put it succinctly thus: “Germany must become a nation of pilots!” The guiding principle behind the creation of the Luftwaffe was and always will be guaranteeing the security of the German nation. “The Luftwaffe will always be as strong as world affairs dictate, whether that means for or against peace!”
Werner Moelders (born 1913), awarded the Ritterkreuz. He was one of the most successful German pilots. Fritz von Forell wrote a book about him entitled ‘Moelders und seine Maenner’.
From ‘Fliegen – deutsches Schicksal’ “The creative vision of the Fuehrer and his Marshall [Goering], to whom the German people owe this mighty weapon, which is superior to those of enemy nations, has visibly answered this question of determination in our favour! Our task now is not just to gain peace through victory, but to make sure that it can be guaranteed for all time! That is Germany’s destiny!” “Goering promised so much, but ultimately disappointed. In the war he even failed in his specialist area!” (Von Krosigk)
“Should anything happen to me in the struggle then my first successor is Party Comrade Goering; should anything happen to Party Comrade Goering my next successor is Party Comrade Hess.”
“I have once more put on that coat that was the most sacred and dear to me. I will not take it off again until victory is secured, or I will not survive the outcome.”
“One day, Hitler came face-to-face with a grown lion, and it wasn’t behind bars. It was roaming free in the rooms of Reichstag President Goering’s palace. When he saw Hitler, he thought he ought to perform his piece de resistance; playfully offering his paw, he slashed a throw on the couch from top to bottom. “He’s lovely, isn’t he!” chuckled Goering, who had just arrived on cue, stroking the animal’s coat. “I hope the Lion knows that, too!” said Hitler, who demanded that the tame beast leave the palace and be donated to the zoo. But the lion was part of the trappings of pomposity that were part of Goering’s life. As a compromise, he exchanged his lion for two cubs that looked less frightening, at least. (Heinrich Hoffmann)
At the table, one of the themes which came up in conversation was hunting, which Hitler detested. As the Master of the Hunt, Goering, was present, Hitler addressed the subject with a large dose of irony. “Hunting seems to have become very fashionable in this country,” he said. “Any party official worth his salt seems to think it the thing to do to join the Guild of huntsmen, so that he can bump off the creatures of the forest on a whim.” “But Fuehrer,” pleaded Goering, “You are tarnishing the name of the German hunter. They are the nation’s gamekeepers, one and all.” Hitler laughed. “Yes, and what is their game, precisely? Lining up poor animals in their cross-hairs and pulling the trigger! Whistling a happy hunting tune, he makes his way back to the lodge with his booty; after all, the pot’s the best place for an animal!” Suddenly enraged, he continued: “That’s what I like about poachers. They know how to keep nature in check better than those ‘Sunday-best hunters’! I say to you, Master of the Hunt, poachers like that are bold and courageous; if only they had more money, they too could join the hunt!” “You seem to be making light of the situation,” retorted Goering. “There is no joke. When you speak of the hunt, you surely understand the implication that you are in open combat with your adversary? When you, the Master of the Hunt, skewer a boar, I am deeply moved. When fat old Ley chases after a hare and manages to catch it, is that not indicative of high sporting prowess?” Furious now, Hitler went on while the colour drained from Goering’s face. “I hereby forbid all leading party members, with immediate effect, from attending or organising a meet. I shall instruct the Minister of Justice to remove the offence of poaching from the statute book and release all poachers currently in detention!” (Hoffmann)
The boaster with so many official functions: Prussian Prime Minister, German Aviation Minister, Supreme Commander of the Luftwaffe, Master of Forestry and the Hunt, Plenipotentiary of the Four-Year Plan, Chairman of the Council of Ministers for Defence of the Realm and Field Marshall of the Luftwaffe.
Goering was the founder of the Gestapo, the state secret police, and the first organised concentration camp in Prussia. He is quoted as saying: “From now on, every bullet that comes out of the barrel of a policeman’s pistol is one of my bullets!” His second marriage was to the actress Emmy Sonnemann. The ceremony was performed by Bishop Mueller, who also baptized his daughter Edda (born 1938).
There were many more jokes about Herman Goering, called “Reichsorganisationsleiter Meyer” in the occupied areas, because the portly one was apparently unable to distinguish organising from stealing; Goering’s booty was available for all to see in museums and castles. His love of uniforms, for instance, was an inexhaustible source of hilarity. A rhyme that was doing the rounds at the time went “Ich hab’nen dicken Vetter mit goldenem Lametta. Du denkst vielleicht – so siehst du aus! Er ist Portier im Warenhaus!” [I have a fat relative draped in gold. Whatever you think, you’d be wrong – he’s a doorman at the department store!]. No name need be mentioned: everyone knew who was being lampooned. He was the laughing stock of the country. Nonetheless, any diatribes aimed at Goering were of a more conciliatory nature than those directed at Goebbels. People sneered: “Goering could have been the greatest box-office hit in German cinema history, because he could have played two characters at the same time: Laurel and Hardy!” when Goering announced solemnly: “You can call me Hermann Meyer if just one enemy aircraft is spotted in the German skies!” This led to him being given the nick name ‘Hermann Meyer’, a reference to a Berlin liqueur manufacturer, whose advertising slogan Keine Feier ohne Meyer! (It’s not a party without Meyer) could be seen on every street corner. (From: Als wir alle Nazis waren, by Harry Harden).
The vanity of fat Hermann was legendary. Most of all, he liked to be photographed as a statesman. A joke put Goering at the Pearly Gates, where he examined all the pomp and circumstance with great interest. All of a sudden, he found himself before God’s throne. The temptation was too much: he had to sit on it. Seeing this, St Peter rushed over to remove him. “What do you have to say for yourself?” asked St Peter. “All I wanted was a photograph of myself!” replied Goering.
“When the first sirens sounded, the air-raid wardens nearly fell over themselves, so eager were they to fulfil their duty; once in the shelter, they even tried to hand out ideological material; they did this in the time-honoured tradition, for example: “Who is responsible for the night fighters? Hermann Goering!” or “On whose command were the night fighters built? Hitler’s!” and then “And where would we all be now, if it weren’t for Hitler and Goering?”to which the answer, which always came loud and clear, was “Tucked up in bed!”
Fat Hermann.
In Hermann Goering and Robert Ley, Hitler found energetic and open personalities to master the great, complex tasks. Rathenau, the Jew, said: “The economy is the people’s fate!” Hitler, however, turned this round and claimed “Politics is the people’s fate!” That is how peace, security and order came to economic and working life. “Kraft durch Freude” (strength through joy), this unique and fantastic bastion of culture endows the worker with his share of the beautiful things life and the fatherland have to offer. Enjoy luxurious travel to faraway countries on board our own ships. Journeys into the mountains in summer or winter. Opera, theatre, concerts; in short everything that used to be the preserve of the well-off is accessible to even the worker, in the new Germany. (Emil Unger – Winkelried).
Dr Robert Ley – 1890-1945. Head of party organisation. Head of the German Labour Front and creator of the Kraft durch Freude movement. Served as a flight lieutenant in WWI, had a reputation as a drunkard. Committed suicide in prison in Nuremberg before the start of the War Crimes Trials.
In Hermann Goering and Robert Ley, Hitler found energetic and open personalities to master the great, complex tasks. Rathenau, the Jew, said: “The economy is the people’s fate!” Hitler, however, turned this round and claimed “Politics is the people’s fate!” That is how peace, security and order came to economic and working life. “Kraft durch Freude” (strength through joy), this unique and fantastic bastion of culture endows the worker with his share of the beautiful things life and the fatherland have to offer. Enjoy luxurious travel to faraway countries on board our own ships. Journeys into the mountains in summer or winter. Opera, theatre, concerts; in short everything that used to be the preserve of the well-off is accessible to even the worker, in the new Germany. (Emil Unger – Winkelried).
“If work marks us out, it is achievement alone which should mark out one man from another” – Dr Robert Ley
Ludwig Siebert, born 1874, died 1942. Was Prime Minister of Bavaria, and also served as President of the German Academy. His assets were seized on command of a de-nazification committee in Munich.
Bernhard Rust, born 1883. Became Gauleiter of Suedhannover-Braunschweig in 1925. In 1933, he was appointed as the Prussian Minister for Cultural Affairs, and in 1934 was made German Minister of Science, Education and National Culture. Goebbels said of him: “It is ludicrous that an idiot can be put in charge of the country’s education system and kept there for years.” He was viewed as a nobody. He was initially an adherent of Strasser and, in 1925, he said of Hitler: “National Socialists are free men and democrats. They do not acknowledge the Pope who believes himself to be infallible.” He committed suicide in May 1945.
Josef Buerckel, born 1895, Gauleiter of Saarpfalz from 1925, Imperial Commissioner for the Saarland from 1935. Served as Gauleiter in Vienna from 1939, becoming Governor there from 1940. Otherwise Defence Commissioner for Military District XVII.
Konstantin Hierl, born 1875, became head of the Arbeitsdienst (labour organisation) in 1933, and became a Major-General and Reichsleiter in 1936.
Henlein, born 6.5.1898, led the German Gymnastics Association in Czechoslovakia from 1931, and founded the German Sudetenland Home Front (SHF) in 1933. In autumn 1938, he became Gauleiter of the Nazi Party and governor of Sudetenland.
Breslau, administrative centre of the Province of Silesia, protestant diocese and a catholic arch-diocese. Became a diocese around 1000, ceded to Bohemia in 1335 and, in the 16th century, to the Habsburg Empire. Became part of Prussia in 1742 (Peace of Breslau).
Hans von Tschammer – Osten, born 1887, became German Commissioner for Sport in 1933, and President of the Reichsakademie fuer Leibesuebungen, ‘…the highest German teaching and research institute for the promotion of physical exercise in the spirit of National Socialism, on the site of the German national sport fields in Berlin’.
“Even the Fuehrer can be cheerful” (Journey to the Harz Mountains)
Hitler with Max Amann, born 24 November 1891, one of the longest-standing members of Hitler’s ‘old guard’, both having served in the same regiment. In April 1922, he was made head of the official Nazi Party publishing house. In 1923, he was imprisoned with Hitler in Landsberg. Following the Nazi seizure of power, he became Reichsleiter for the press, and President of the German Media Chamber. Kannenberg was in charge of supplies for Hitler at Berchtesgaden. He had previously been an innkeeper. He was sometimes invited to private gatherings. “Not even the Fuehrer is serious all the time!”
“If the German press is feared as an incisive weapon in the fight against lies and slander, part of the struggle to justify Germany’s right to be a world power; if it is successfully used as a vehicle for the Fuehrer’s imaginative policies, then that is entirely due to the work of Max Amann.” (Erich Gritzbach, 1941).
Rudolf Hess, born 1894 in Alexandria, Egypt. Hess was the son of a German importer/exporter. In WWI he had served in the same regiment as Hitler, similarly a volunteer, and later became a pilot with the Luftwaffe. He later developed a deep admiration for Hitler, becoming his secretary and a passionate supporter. A slim, tall man with bushy eyebrows and deep-set eyes, he was humourless and obtuse. He was plagued by physical suffering and put his faith in ‘alternative’ treatments. He was an adherent of natural medicine, and was open to the theory of earth radiation and hypnosis of various types. From 1933, he was officially ‘Hitler’s deputy’ for all party business and, following the outbreak of war, was designated second in command after Goering. Distressed that two ‘Germanic’ nations were tearing each other to pieces, he made his sensational flight to Britain under the impression that his intervention could bring peace with Great Britain, whereby both countries could concentrate on fighting the Red Army. He was sentenced to life imprisonment at Nuremberg.
RUDOLF HESS IN ACCIDENT – Berlin, 12 May 1941 The National Socialist Party of Germany announced today that Comrade Hess, who had been strictly forbidden from flying by the Fuehrer himself due to a progressive illness from which Hess has been suffering for several years, recently managed to commandeer an aeroplane, in direct contravention of the Fuehrer’s orders. On Saturday 10 May, around 18.00 hours, Comrade Hess set out on a flight from which, to date, he has not returned. A recent letter highlights his confused state and suggests a nervous breakdown, enough reason to suspect that Comrade Hess was delusional. The Fuehrer has ordered that Comrade Hess’s adjutants, who knew of these activities, be arrested at once. Unfortunately, the National Socialist Party must assume that Comrade Hess crash-landed or was otherwise injured.
Franz Xaver Schwarz, born 1874. Once nothing more than a tax official, he became one of the Reichsleiter (answerable only to Hitler or his deputy) and National Treasurer of the Nazi Party. Although Hitler described him as being ‘highly suitable’, he nonetheless expropriated substantial funds for ‘personal use’. Goebbels mentioned him in his diaries: the entry for 8 November 1943 says: “With Schwarz and Amann too, I can speak my mind. All men prepared to take their responsibility must now stand as one. Those in the party who remain judicious inspire feelings of comradeship and solidarity.”
Adolf Wagner, born 1890, died 1943. Gauleiter in Munich, Bavarian Minister of the Interior. Together with Major Buch, the leader of USCHLA (the Inquiry and Mediation Board), he formed an action committee during the Night of the Long Knives (30 June 1934). The committee included members such as Christian Weber, Emil Maurice and Josef Berchtold, all dubious figures from Hitler’s past. The committee apprehended local party leaders on the pretext that they had been organising strike action although, of course, the people in question knew nothing of this; it appeared to be a matter of settling personal scores.
Joachim von Ribbentrop was born in Wesel on 30 April 1893. As he put it in his book ‘Zwischen London und Moskau’, his father was a first lieutenant in an artillery regiment and his mother was the daughter of Saxon land owners. His family hailed from Hof Ribbentrup near Bad Salzuflen. He wrote his book during the Nuremberg Trials, in his cell. His father was posted first in Kassel and later in Metz. He was a great admirer of Bismarck and tendered his resignation on Bismarck’s discharge. He and his second wife, Olga Margarete von Prittwitz und Gaffron, went to Switzerland, where Joachim was given an excellent education. He even had a home tutor, who gave him English lessons. During the holiday period, he would visit London. In 1910 he went to Canada, where he worked in a bank as a clerk. Due to a severe renal illness he returned home, where, during WWI, he saw active service as an officer; in April 1918, he was posted as an Adjutant to the representatives of the Ministry of War to Turkey. After the war, he became a salesman. He became acquainted with Hitler shortly before the Nazi seizure of power and, although he was not one of the old guard, the ‘alte Kaempfer’, he was appointed German ambassador to London in 1936 and, in February 1938, shortly before the annexation of Austria, German Foreign Minister. In the latter post, he replaced the tired, old (and too conservative) von Neurath. Straight after WWI, as a travelling wine merchant, he had contacts with Henkell, noted as a producer of German sparkling wine. In 1920, he married the owner’s daughter, Anna. In 1935, he got the chance to bring himself to widespread attention by successfully negotiating the Anglo-German Naval Agreement. Using party funds, he set up the ‘Dienststelle Ribbentrop’ in the Wilhelmstrasse. He subsequently incurred the wrath of Goebbels, who took a dim view of his producing propaganda for use abroad. Although he was ambitious, the choice of the arrogant, vain, humourless, malicious Ribbentrop was one of the worst Hitler ever made for such a high office. He was found guilty of ‘charges 1 – 4’ at the Nuremberg Trials and hung. His reported last wish was that “…Germany remain unified,” but that was not fulfilled!
Dr Schmidt, the interpreter, writes: Just before two o’clock in the afternoon, I was sitting with the four great men: Hitler, Chamberlain, Mussolini and Daladier, plus Ribbentrop, Ciano, Wilson and Alexis Leger, the French Foreign Secretary, in a room furnished a la mode in the new Fuehrerbau on the Koenigsplatz in Munich. The historic Munich Conference was about to begin. Daladier was, as yet, not particularly well known within this circle. Small and stocky, he spent most of the time silently in his armchair. He seemed uneasy at the thought that the conference had been convened to discuss re-drawing the boundaries of one of France’s allies, Czechoslovakia, in that country’s absence. Although he reacted boldly on several occasions, it was noticeable that Hitler did not take offence; in fact, he seemed to find him affable. “I think Daladier and I understand each other,” I heard Hitler tell Mussolini once. “He fought on the front line, as we did, so it is possible to talk to him rationally.” (from ‘Statist auf diplomatischer Buehne 1923 – 45’, by Dr Paul Schmidt.)
Daladier signing
The Italian ambassador, Attolico, wanted to speak to Hitler “…on urgent business” immediately. “I have an urgent message from Il Duce for you,” he told Hitler, breaking all established rules of protocol. Apparently, the British government had just declared, through their ambassador in Rome, that they would accept Mussolini’s offer of mediation in the Sudetenland issue. The British government was not of the view that there were many sticking points. But then he immediately added “Whatever you decide, Fuehrer, Il Duce would like you to know that fascist Italy will back you up; however, his personal view is that it is in your best interests to accept this British proposal. He asks you to refrain from full mobilisation.” And with that, the decision was made in favour of peace. It was midday on 28 September, two hours before Hitler’s ultimatum. “Tell Il Duce that I accept his proposal,” was all that Hitler had to say in reply. That same afternoon, Hitler made a telephone call to Mussolini, the result of which was what the world viewed as the greatest sensation since the Great War, namely that Hitler, Chamberlain, Daladier and Mussolini would all be present at a conference to be convened the following day, 29 September, in Munich. That was where Mussolini’s proposal was formally adopted and signed with only slight alterations. Between two and three o’clock in the morning of 30 September, Hitler, Daladier, Chamberlain and Mussolini signed the famous Munich Agreement” (Dr Schmidt).
Pictured, from left to right, Chamberlain, Hitler and Diplomatic Service interpreter, Dr Schmidt. Chamberlain, the ‘envoy of peace’ as he was styled in Germany at the time, in conversation with Hitler: a conversation about war and peace. Hitler began by bringing up the list of complaints he continuously made against Germany’s neighbours. The Treaty of Versailles, the League of Nations, unemployment and so on were all discussed, as was the involvement of ‘Britain’ in Germany’s relations. Chamberlain listened attentively. Nothing in his typically British features, with those bushy eyebrows, pointed nose and energetic mouth under that small black moustache, gave any clue as to what was going on behind the high forehead and slightly greying head of hair. “It was Benes who mobilised his forces, not me! I won’t take this provocation any more; one way or another, I intend to sort this problem out at the earliest possible opportunity, on my own initiative!” Hitler shouted hotly. “If it were your intention to invade Czechoslovakia all along, why on earth did you invite me to Berchtesgaden?” Chamberlain replied indignantly.
The first visit of the British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, to the Berghof, on 15 September 1938.
Fritz Dreesen and the brother of his late father Georg were joint owners of the world-renowned ‘Rheinhotel Dreesen’ in Bad Godesburg. In January 1926, he received a telegram announcing “…Five single rooms booked from tomorrow.” Signed ‘Hess’. We cast our minds back: Hess had been a student at the Paedagogium in Godesberg. Hence we did not worry about who, precisely, would be in the company of this Mr Hess until the concierge came to us with one of the five men’s passports. It was the certificate of identity of a ‘stateless person’. We had never seen such a document. The man’s name was Adolf Hitler. “Are you the famous or perhaps infamous orator of Munich, then?” I asked. Simply, but nonetheless seriously, Hitler replied: “Yes, I am.”
25 March, 1935. British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon and the Lord Privy Seal, Anthony Eden, with Adolf Hitler in the Chancellor’s Office. On 18 March “…His Majesty’s Government felt compelled to lodge a complaint with the German government in respect of the reintroduction of conscription and the increase of the peace-time strength of the German armed forces to 36 divisions which, regardless of the constitutional implications, is seriously exacerbating unrest in Europe.” Hitler smiled particularly kindly as Eden and Sir John were led into the room. He had every reason to do so as well: the presence of the British guests represented a personal triumph. “Not more than a few days ago did I restore German military dignity; I did so because Germany is being subjected to acute danger from all sides. The most serious danger is from the east.” began Hitler. “It is my opinion that thanks to National Socialism, Germany, and perhaps all of Europe, has been able to stand firm in the face of what was, potentially, the most terrible catastrophe of all time. We have experienced bolshevism in our fatherland; only when we have the means to overawe the Bolsheviks will we be safe from them.” Eden and Sir John listened patiently to everything that was said, including the monotonous repetitions, but they achieved nothing. Hitler would not concede on any point. (Dr Paul Schmidt)
Dear Fuehrer and Chancellor of the Reich, On leaving Germany, the Duchess of Windsor and I would like to express our gratitude to you for the sincere hospitality you showed us, and for the many opportunities we had to see what is being done for the benefit of the creative German people. We were deeply moved by our journey through Germany, and will never forget either the thoughtfulness shown to us by your representatives or the reception we received at every turn. We would like to thank you in particular for the many pleasant hours we were able to spend with you at Obersalzberg. 23-X-37. Edward.
The motorised military hospital of the German Red Cross was first used for the treatment of returning Volynian Germans in Litzmannstadt [the present-day Lodz in Poland]. In the long-term the possibilities of the makeshift accommodation proved to be insufficient and so a new solution was sought, which was found in a motorised military hospital. Above all the objective had to be fulfilled to accommodate the maximum number of ill/injured persons amidst a minimum of transported space. In addition the configuration of barracks had to be completed in the shortest possible timeframe. By using light-weight metals a savings in weight of up to 50% and in barracks actually up to 75% was reached in the spaces to be configured. By manufacturing the beds and bedside tables it is possible to load a high number into a very small space. Therefore, for the transport of 100 beds, a loading space of only three cubic metres was necessary. A fully disassembled bedside table filled the size and thickness of a medium sized book. Water was supplied by a tanker lorry and for sustenance a large kitchen lorry plus two goulash units. There were four generators available for heating that could be used to provide heat of up to 27 degrees higher than the ambient temperature. To transport the 32 barracks 8 motor tractors and 16 trailers were available whose roof covering consisted of 16 large and 8 small tents. The erection of a barrack can be completed by 7 men in 1½ hours. German technique and organisational ability were not only solved by this additional task, but were also fulfilled to the letter by this exemplary execution. (R. Wildhirt.) (in ‘The good Comrade’ annual diary for young boys)
The German Red Cross nursing assistant supports the doctor in treating the ill/injured The first motorised military hospital of the German Red Cross
Help to help in the German Red Cross “All donations for the war support work of the German Red Cross!”
The motorised military hospital of the German Red Cross was first used for the treatment of returning Volynian Germans in Litzmannstadt [the present-day Lodz in Poland]. In the long-term the possibilities of the makeshift accommodation proved to be insufficient and so a new solution was sought, which was found in a motorised military hospital. Above all the objective had to be fulfilled to accommodate the maximum number of ill/injured persons amidst a minimum of transported space. In addition the configuration of barracks had to be completed in the shortest possible timeframe. By using light-weight metals a savings in weight of up to 50% and in barracks actually up to 75% was reached in the spaces to be configured. By manufacturing the beds and bedside tables it is possible to load a high number into a very small space. Therefore, for the transport of 100 beds, a loading space of only three cubic metres was necessary. A fully disassembled bedside table filled the size and thickness of a medium sized book. Water was supplied by a tanker lorry and for sustenance a large kitchen lorry plus two goulash units. There were four generators available for heating that could be used to provide heat of up to 27 degrees higher than the ambient temperature. To transport the 32 barracks 8 motor tractors and 16 trailers were available whose roof covering consisted of 16 large and 8 small tents. The erection of a barrack can be completed by 7 men in 1½ hours. German technique and organisational ability were not only solved by this additional task, but were also fulfilled to the letter by this exemplary execution. (R. Wildhirt.) (in ‘The good Comrade’ annual diary for young boys)
Black lists for the black dishonour Allied pamphlet
I feel so fresh. Spring is on its way. Adolf Hitler, 24 February 1941 To the soldiers of the German Wehrmacht
At the window is a Dutch ‘meisje’ – it is the blonde Rie The small, fine cottage – with Rie the blonde ‘meisje’ Known by all the panzer company (“Song” by Herms Diels)
National Socialist German Labour Party District Administration of Weser-Ems / Office for National Welfare Leader of the District Administration Oldenburg, 25 July 1939 Dear Mr Edel The return of the Sudeten Germans and of the national Germans from the protectorate areas of Bohemia and Moravia to the greater German Reich placed and still places the welfare work for some considerable time under enormous stress. In terms of an order by the Fuhrer the deployment of all resources is directed with all energy to alleviating the abovementioned needs. I am directing to you the request to support this assistance by the national community through a donation. For your renewed demonstrated willingness to act I would like to thank you very much indeed in advance. Heil Hitler! Leader of the District Office Attached: 1 Voucher to be signed
Come Adolf Hitler, be our guest and bring us what you have promised, but not potato in the skin and herrings but what you and Hermann Goring are gorging!
[Printed on post card] Sacrifice for a hungry compatriot Value 1 Mark Day of the one course meal.
[Printed on post card] Sacrifice for a hungry compatriot Value 1 Mark Day of the one course meal.
“Today we really need no glorification of the conquering politicians, such as Frederick the Great and Bismarck, who served as examples for their brown imitators. Apart from this Frederick the Great is certainly no example of how the German language should be taught in order to cover him so thoroughly in the new German hand book for public schools. (1946). His disdain for the German language is generally known and he spoke German like a coachman! (Writer Fritz Erb in ‘Die Welt’ on 6 August 1946).
In the first paragraph of the Prussian cantonal regulations was written: “Every Prussian subject is born to be armed!” When during the battle of Leuthen his Grenadiers were wavering, Frederick the Great said: “Chaps, do you then want to live for ever?”
FREDERICK THE GREAT The nation that I love, is the only god that I serve. Born 24 January 1712, died 17 August 1786 Established the Prussian empire Frederick II, the Great (1712 – 1786) liked later on to be called “the old Fritz”. He had a father who was as hard as a soldier and he spent generally sad years in his youth. He had a fondness for the French literature and could only write his mother tongue incompletely.
[Left of top post card] VON BISMARCK Cowardly politics have always only brought on misfortune. Born 1 April 1815, died 30 July 1898 The Iron Emperor Von Bulow Jr wrote: “When the parliamentary envoy of Bismarck had a difference of opinion with my father that Prussia somehow or other had to restore the nexus between its eastern and its western provinces, my father declared on the basis of legitimacy and on a moral and legal basis that he was against an illegal annexation. Bismarck retorted by shrugging off this argument: “Frederick the Great stole Silesia and nevertheless he is one of the greatest men of all times!”
Blood and Iron
[Left of post card at the bottom of the page] ULRICH VON HUTTEN I can die, but I cannot be a farm hand. Neither can I see Germany being a vassal. Born 21 April 1488, died 29 August 1523 He struggled for German spiritual freedom. Ulrich von Hutten was a fearless knight, but far more with the pen than with the sword. He was initially destined to enter the clergy, but he then became interested in early humanistic studies. He first wrote poems in Latin, then in German, and scourged the grievances against the spiritual and secular royal courts with sharp ridicule and ravishing revolutionary pathos. He always stood up for the suppressed and the weak, he eschewed Luther and he allied himself with Franz von Sickingen, one of the mightiest knights. He wanted to introduce a central German state in a national empire under an emperor in opposition to the power of the clergy and secular royal houses and the Roman Catholic Pope. After Sickingen’s downthrow Von Hutten had to seek refuge in Switzerland.
“Homage to the past” [Left of top post card] HEINRICH I He left behind a large and comprehensive empire that he did not inherit from his fathers; but that he achieved though his own power. After Bidulind von Corven 967 Born 876, died 936 in Memleben Founder of the medieval German empire King Heinrich I was a duke from Saxony from the house of Liudolfing and was chosen in the year 919 as the successor of King Konrad I. He was the founder of the first German Empire, brought the Duchy of Lorraine under his control, subjected Bohemia and the Slavs to the east of the Elbe. Through his victory at Riade near the Unstrut River, he brought the robber gangs of the Magyars to an end. His grave is in Quedlinburg [in the district of Harz in the west of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany].
[Written text on envelopes:] BOOK OF DEDICATION of the winter support service Styria, 1939/1949 ‘An iron will has now shaped this Reich And steel and iron will defend us against anyone’ Adolf Hitler To the Lord Mayor of the City of Litzmannstadt *. [* Note: this is the present day city of Lodz in Poland] 16 January 1943 “… the clothing that you supplied, which were stored in Kulmhof [now Chelmno] for use by the ghetto’s administration, are bad and unusable for giving sustenance, since they are partly drenched in dirt and blood stains. Since the packages were sent unopened further to various district authorities in the area, it was only later on spotted that of the 200 dresses 51 dresses had not even had their Jewish stars removed! Since Polish labourers have to be used in the camps, there is a danger that the returnees who are supposed to be taken care of by the winter support programme will take notice of the origin of the materials, with the result that the winter support programme may be discredited.” Heil Hitler! The District Manager of the Winter Support Programme Dokumenty i Materialy. I Obocy.
Premier General Field Marshal Goring Plenipotentiary for the Four Year Plan The General Inspector for Special Projects Munich Office Prof Todt [ address ] Leader of the Head Office for Technical Matters of the NSDAP To the Proprietor of the Firm Wilhelm Edel Margarine Factory Schuttorf /Hann Dear Mr Edel The Plenipotentiary for the Four Year Plan, Premier General Field Marshall Goring, has appealed to the German nation for a wartime birthday gift for the Fuhrer. The appeal of the General Field Marshall is equally valid for the millions of German households as for the hundreds of thousands of German companies. Germany’s engineers and chemists have stated years ago that the conditions need to be created whereby important metals for the war could be created through new materials. In terms of the birthday gift for the Fuhrer the possibility now exists that unallocated amounts of metal, in as much as they are not already requisitioned, be given to the Fuhrer as a gift. With the permission of the Reich Plenipotentiary for Metals and the President of the Reich Chamber of Commerce I am accordingly appealing to the relevant leaders of German companies by means of your personal involvement and by giving a corresponding appeal to all your employees to undertake a conscientious check of all the possibilities to participate in the gift, so that this action by the German nation will have an impact ranging from the technical and economic area to an encompassing community effort. The guideline is that only such objects may be donated of which the disposal does not negatively influence the possibility of the company to perform. Of course the supplies for finished materials and their waste materials are not part of this collection. Because this disposal by companies relates in part to material that will only become available in the course of exchange programmes that have been initiated, the companies may contribute during the collection days apart from 26 March to 6 April, also on a second disposal date towards 1 July and a third disposal date towards 1 October. With a view to reporting to the Fuhrer it is necessary to obtain at this stage already an overview of the total donation in terms of districts and of the total industry. The attached form should be filled in and returned to your relevant local technical office before 10 April. I know that through your personal interest the men in the technical and economic field will contribute fully to the success of the collection. Heil Hitler! (signed)
This was the SA! HB Gisevius: To the bitter end The chronicles of this private army are eventful and chequered. It bristles with brawls in halls, street riots, knifings, shootings and internal beatings. The drop-outs from all classes found refuge with them. The down and outs, the disinherited, the desperados streamed there on the trot! For years they sang themselves into their blood thirsty hate-ridden songs! During all the Sturm nights they were led to believe that the dream of their revolutionary belligerence, the so-called night of the long knives, would be described in glowing terms…! After the murderous night on 30 June 1934 Hitler spoke on 13 July 1934: “While the brave old SA man stayed hungry for a decade at the behest of the movement, paid troops were trained here whose internal character and their objectives were characterised by nothing better than the terrible list of criminal elements who streamed to it! I repeatedly uttered my most serious protests against the frequent impossible excesses and demanded the current complete eradication of these elements from the SA… In May numerous indictments were instituted during some party and state institutions regarding offences by senior and middle ranking leaders of the SA that were documented and could not be denied… Mistakes and errors may occur in a few cases, but accosting peaceful and decent people are unworthy towards a Führer, just as drunkenness and bad behaviour… A sect began to emerge in the SA, the core of which was a conspiracy, not against die moral convictions of a healthy nation, but against the state’s security..
Ernst Rohm: Chief of Staff of the SA: The SA remains Germany’s destiny! From: The SA shapes the SS
The SA organises: large scale raids Does house searches The SA “confiscates’, “locks up in bunkers”, The SA “fetches”, “clobbers”, “murders”, “ignites”, “plunders”, “tortures”…! Woe betide anyone who falls in their clutches!…
The “official” camp punishment Each of the “orders” written down in the bright red official form began with the words: “The Reichsfuhrer has ordered…” About the kinds of punishment one can report the following: 1. The rack: The detainee would be strapped across a rack so that his buttocks would be stretched tightly. Two SS men would hit the naked buttocks in turn from left and from right, and each blow is preceded by a short run-up. This lasted until the blood ran and the person being hit became unconscious. Then he would be resuscitated by means of water thrown over his head from a bucket and then hit further. 2. The tree: In the middle of the camp was a pole that was some 3 metres high, suspended from which was a solid hook. The detainee who was sentenced to “the tree” climbed on a ladder and his hands were bound together over his head with a steel chain. The chain was affixed to the hook and then the ladder would be kicked out from the feet of the “convicted”. The feet of the person thus hanging down could not reach the ground and then hung from “the tree” from his stretched out arms, which was a real pole of torture. This was a popular punishment during hot sunshine. This punishment mostly lasted two to three hours. This was also introduced in 1935 to all concentration camps after the Jewish pogroms. 3. Dark arrest: A completely dark single cell, bare walls, cement floor, one or no wooden platform, in any vent without a sack with straw, a single slice of bread and a mug of water per day, then two days without any food or water whatsoever, then every third day a strongly salted herring without bread. The camp doctor made sure that the detainee “was not ready to kick the bucket”. The shortest time in a dark cell was a week. 4. The light cell: Exactly the same as the dark cell, but instead of darkness an uninterrupted and insufferable spot light that emitted heat and in the absence of fresh air this led lungs and heart to explode. 5. The spider: To increase the punishment a detainee would be handcuffed and chained to the wooden platform with his legs forced wide apart. The spot light would thus be directed for at least 24 hours onto the person lying down, being incapable of moving. It was a “popular” punishment to break such a person’s nasal bone or to jump so hard on his stomach that he would try to lift up his knees from the pain. This had the consequence of tying foot-cuffs so tightly that they cut into the flesh or that the bones in the foot were fractured. The spider was virtually always a torture-to-death because after a few days the tortured person would become crazy and would attack his torturer when he was untied during the morning. The torturer would be prepared for this and would then shoot him up. 6. The feigned execution: The detainee would be told that he would be executed at such and such an hour. He was allowed to write one farewell letter and was then handcuffed and put against a wall. The execution platoon marched in, and the detainee’s eyes were blindfolded. “Attention! Aim! Fire!” A salvo of blanks would follow, upon which the blindfold would be yanked off, accompanied by mock and derision. (Orb, 13 years of power intoxication)
“Every detainee got a bucket without a lid so that he could not sit down on it. There was no water in the bucket. The bucket was emptied out every morning by a ‘shit house Fritz’ during the so-called morning inspection. When the cell is opened up every morning the detainee (in a dark cell) had to stand up straight in front of the SS man and say out loud: I am announcing in obedient fashion: the dark cell is occupied by detainee number such and the other. If the attitude and the announcement did not comply with the orders because of fatigue, he could be given a more severe punishment or his sentence could be extended. If the weakened detainee stumbled or fell in his attempt to assume a ‘correct stance’ then he was simply shot!”
“With an even consistency animals and inhuman beasts are created from the likeness of God, just as the fallen angels from God become devils.” “The SS camp doctor often painted iodine on a battered person’s buttocks that caused howls. When a detainee was lowered after being chastised on the rack then he had to return to stand in line immediately and despite his bleeding and pains he had to launch himself back into his work. Every hesitation or squirm because of the pain would be a reason for additional, far more severe punishment. For ‘slight cases’ the normal punishment would be 25 blows with the rod!”
“Brown Shirts” “We want to conquer the nation with our spirit, but with our fists we will repress those who dare to assault our spirit through terror. This was the foundation of the SA, the main power house of the Party.” (Adolf Hitler, 26 February 1934) The SA learned through continuous sports training to use the body and to hone the power to resist. The SA learned to foster comradeship and to strengthen respect and honourableness for oneself. The Fuhrer wants to see all of this! (Von Schenkendorf)
“The SA was composed of the yeast of the nation…” (Curt Riess) What we need are not a hundred or two hundred keen conspirers, but hundred thousands upon hundred thousands of fanatical fighters for our world view. (Mein Kampf, p.608) 7 Nov. 1938. In Paris Herschel Grynspan shot Legation Counsellor Ernst von Rath: Command to the SA. Destruction of Jewish firms. The Jews were beaten, robbed, dragged to concentration camps, synagogues were burnt down… Spengler in his book: The New Construction of the Reich, 1924: The golden youth appears with fists and sticks… A decayed body cannot in the least be made more athletic by a shining spirit and so sport does not only exist to make the individual strong, skilful and hardy, but he should also toughen up and learn to endure inconvenience. (Mein Kampf, p. 455)
The “Germanic national assembly” The national assembly kicked off the first day by the young people performing all kinds of war games. The morning of the second day saw the appearance of the whole tribe’s priests. The high priest was at the forefront”… (Felix Dahn) The joke amongst the SA and SS was that when a young SS man felt bored, he would unlock a cell and drag a detainee out as an amusement. Then the normal “jokes” would begin, with lots of roars and swearing on the part of the SS man. In addition a storm of punches would follow, slaps in the face that rain down on the weary person. Then, “purely for the sake of fun”, the detainee would be treated to kicks and hits with gun butts. Then the detainee would have to go and fetch his cot from his cell. He would be placed against a wall, he has to “stand to attention” with his “hands on the trouser’s seam”. Then the SS man lets him lean with his nose pressed against the upper side of his cot that had been set up straight. The detainee may not move and has to count out aloud. Should he manage to reach a hundred – that is what he is told – he may return to his cell. It would of course be impossible not to move because of the impossible pain by leaning against his nose. If the detainee would move his hand from his trousers’ seam to raise himself from the acute angle and from leaning on his nose on the sharp edge of the wooden cot, this releases a flurry of flogging, which gives rise to a new series of “jokes” to “amuse” the SS man. So it may be expected of a detainee that he should empty his straw mattress and to bounce in the sack at the tempo of a quick march. Of course this would lead to repeated falling to the ground, upon which the SS man would trample of the detainee, until he struggles to his feet again. The detainee would then have to appear the next morning on parade, with the accompanying extreme punishment. In the meantime, during which the detainee “exercises” for the “amusement”, overwrought detainees, rudely awoken from their sleep, wait in their cells in the most abject fear, because they may be hauled from their cells to “be relieved”. (Orb)
Until 1935 there were no foreigners in the German concentration camps and until then the Jews constituted a very small percentage of the prisoners. Those who were languishing in the concentration camps were the German opposition! Germans were tortured and murdered by the Nazis!
Otto Dietrich: “Why did tens of thousands amongst the brutal opponents collapse and hundreds met their death with a last ‘heil Hitler’ on their clueless lips? There is always the answer again that this was because Adolf Hitler was the leader of this movement. Freedom has become the most wonderful gift of the German nation to its Fuhrer”.
“In their thousands old and young German compatriots stream together under the flag of Adolf Hitler and proudly wear the honourable brown clothes in which they are ready to fight and die at any time!”
Reich labour service for the young females – the daily saluting of the flag.
“Dieter spoke about the subject of extramarital children that he personally read in a town in Palatinate where the mayor announced that there was a fund at his disposal from which young women could draw. Those who would like to dedicate a child to the Fuhrer could be supported. She and the father need to provide their names beforehand!” “Restoration of the family as the moral foundation of the nation!” (Diary of Ulrich von Hassell.)
“The whole of the German nation must be eternally thankful to this man that he has devoted his whole life, all his strength and all of his health solely and exclusively to the service of the fatherland and does not recoil from any sacrifice when he knows only that he is doing this for Germany”. “You will one day be Germany’s future, you are the coming nation. As young boys and girls you have taken sides with the new Germany. You have stayed true to your Germany and the memory of your old age will be worthwhile that no one can give you as best he might!” (Ad. Hitler speaks to the youth of Germany).
There were German girls (from the BDM) who enthusiastically had themselves made pregnant by these noblemen in order to bring to life a noble German man!
Schools for noblemen
Heinrich Orb: How did you want to enthuse the youth, if not for the actions of love, for an active love of God and fellow human beings? Did Christianity fail? No! Christianity never failed in two thousand years. Only those failed who had falsely called themselves Christians.
Whoever was outstanding in the Hitler Jugend, could become part of an SS formation of “great distinction” and obtain a place in an ‘order’ college subsequent to one’s service in the German Wehrmacht or military service in an SS formation. Before then he should serve in any event at least three years in a Party formation in a leadership position, in other words taking a leading role (something similar to an SS non-commissioned officer or, in the Hitler Jugend, at least a junior banner leader) with distinction. There were only three orders: These were the training colleges for the young leading members of the Nationalist Socialist movement that each had 1.000 scholars. So, in the whole of the Reich there were only 3.000 young men who were found worthy to receive a special training at these Party colleges to become future “leaders of the German nation”! Whoever studied at these colleges became noblemen! Upon entrance the age of such a nobleman had to be at least 25 and no older than 30 years of age! The curriculum was drawn up by the “authorised representative of the Fuhrer for monitoring the complete spiritual and worldview education of the NSDAP and its allied associations” that Reichsleiter Alfred Rosenberg established. (From H Orb: 13 years of the abuse of power.)
The Putsch (coup d’etat) [Curt Riess] “Hitler took a further step forward on 9 November 1923. He executed a coup d’etat. It was destined to fail – the means he had available were not sufficient, the time was not yet ready. It collapsed. Hitler fled, was persecuted, arrested and placed before the court. The court became a platform on which only Hitler stood and millions of people who had never heard of him, now saw and heard him!” Before the court he said inter alia: Not you, My Lord Justice, are bringing judgment in our case, the judgement is pronounced by the eternal judge of history! Even if you found us a thousand times guilty, the goddess of eternal justice will be smiling as she rejects the application by the State prosecutor, because she declares us to be not guilty!
The millions of bloody sacrifices in Europe during Hitler’s dictatorship remain unforgotten. Murdered! And how?! “The goddess of eternal justice” proclaims: Guilty! A thousand times guilty!
9 Nov. 1933 “If our dead comrades should today be resurrected, they would cry in happiness… The blood sacrifice of our movement will remain unforgettable for those whose catafalque is being erected in these days… The eternal watch is standing on the Royal Square in Munich. In two temples of honour rest 16 sarcophaguses with the blood witnesses of 9 November. The victims of the Red mobs.” (Ad Hitler)
Horst Wessel. Horst Wessel became a member of the Party in Nov/Dec 1926. At that time the Party was still small, the Gauleiter knew each member personally and Horst Wessel, born in 1907 as the son of a pastor, strong and attractive, was a leading personality. Goebbels gave him the leadership of the ‘Sturm S’. He soon became notorious for street fights against Social Democrats and Communists. Horst Wessel soon lost his interest for the Sturm and the Party; he was only interested in Miss Jaenicke, a prostitute, with whom he was living in a furnished room in 62 Frankfurter Strasse. Neither had any money and Erna Jaenicke delivered her earnings to her lover. This disappointed a certain Ali Hochler who had developed Miss Jaenicke’s talents and was up to that stage her pimp. For some reason the arrangement did not suit Mrs Salm, who rented the room to Jaenicke, and approached Hochler so that he could do something about it. Hochler returned with Mrs Salm, opened the door to Jaenicke’s room with a pass key, shot Wessel straight through his mouth and abducted the girl. Wessel was rushed to hospital in a critical state and eventually died on 23 February in considerable agony. Death came as a salvation. The funeral became a Nazi demonstration to an extraordinary extent. Goebbels directed the show! Goebbels delivered the eulogy and then everyone sang the Horst Wessel song. This is a small poem that Wessel had written five months before; a suitable and effective mixture of Nazi slogans and phrases that others had already used and which irritated the Marxists. Someone discovered that one could sing these lines on the melody of an old German folk song. This song was sung the first time at Horst Wessel’s funeral and from that day on it was the official hymn of the Party. Ali Hochler was sentenced to six years imprisonment for culpable homicide. Although a large part of the German press reported on the unappetising details of this dirty story, Goebbels was nevertheless able to build up the legend of Horst Wessel, the pure martyr. After the Horst Wessel song Goebbels cried out: ‘Horst Wessel!’ And from all sides the SA men replied, as if they were reporting to duty at a parade: ‘Here!’ As from the date Horst Wessel died this symbolic ritual would become a part of many Nazi demonstrations! (Curt Riess)
15 January 1930: Article in “Angriff”: “Horst Wessel wounded! Shuddering before the inner horror comes the fearful question: Dead? No, but it is quite hopeless! Now the walls and the ceilings are about to come tumbling down. But then it all depends on the unthinkable: It cannot be!” (Of course no word about Miss Jaenicke or Ali Hochler!)
“Horst Wessel at the vanguard of his platoon” (Nurnberg, 1929) “When you were still our platoon leader, you let the drums ruffle – but today you have to command the army of the dead before the throne of God!” (In other words: The SA marches before God’s throne with drums and whistles!)
These children will be grown up by now and can, therefore, sing the well-known hit song, “Oh, my Papa, it was a wonderful clown!” And they will further say that he never belonged to the party. This is what papa will also say if he is still alive!
“Here too brawls in halls took place with fisticuffs flying with the Marxist parties! This is also a birth place of the movement!
A holy spring has broken. A bond of trust and confidence in one another! Thunderous is the salvation in heaven!
Under the spell of the Fuhrer!
“The last few years before 1933 were difficult for the Sturmabteilungen [SA]. Not only did its political opponents counter it man-to-man, but mostly in a backhand and an overwhelming force and with revolvers, daggers and knuckledusters. But they also tried to enforce an organised persecution of the system. Their brown shirts were ripped off and so they marched in white shirts. The white shirts were prohibited and so they demonstrated without shirts at all. Their working places, housing settlements and camps were confiscated and they were thrown in prison. And there in the dungeons they sang (no, they roared) the song of German freedom!” (From Germany awakes).
These children will be grown up by now and can, therefore, sing the well-known hit song, “Oh, my Papa, it was a wonderful clown!” And they will further say that he never belonged to the party. This is what papa will also say if he is still alive!
The Victory of Belief, June 1941. Germany knows that its armed forces under the brilliant leadership of Adolf Hitler will also bring about a total victory on this front within record time and this will create the final conditions for solving all unresolved political and military clashes! (Red Book of the Comintern).
Poor innocent SA!
National socialists! … For more than 20 years already the Jewish-Bolshevist power holders from Moscow have been trying to ignite the whole of Europe and endeavoured to impose their dominance on our and other European nations, not only by spiritual means, but also by military power! The consequences of the activities of this regime in all countries were chaos, calamity and famine. Moscow not only broke the provisions of our friendship agreement, but also betrayed it in the worst possible way! Hitler’s speech 22 June 1941
Mein Kampf, page 711: “As little as a hyena can be removed from bait, so little can a Marxist be kept away from treason against the fatherland”
“We are helping the comrades in erecting housing developments” Painting by Eduard Frauendorfer.
“One thing is certain: In the national socialist state every German, also the poorest in his country, will receive the honour, the right and the high regard that he deserves!” (From Struggle for the Third Reich, 1934).
Himmler was clever enough in 1933 to lay the foundation immediately for his real guard, the SS Totenkopf (skull) associations. He was not able to offer his plenipotentiary, Eicke, any material assistance, neither money, nor uniforms, nor arms, nor any other kind of equipment. Eicke had to organise all this as if it was his own cause! He succeeded in his task! All kinds of socially declassed men were recruited, especially national socialist refugees from Austria and the Balkan countries, also baton and pistol activists who had lost all stability under their feet. Young men wandering around, managers who were drop-outs, foresters, prison warders, army and police officers who were not promoted, troopers with some military knowledge and experience. They drilled and were drilled à la Fridericus Rex [Fredrick the Great]. And where was this? In distant camps that would soon be amalgamated with the concentration camps taken over by the SA. Since the reckless organising in the country was undertaken on the basis of scrounging off, eliminating, stealing and blackmailing as the basis for material self-reliance, Eicke made the concentration camps with their system of slavery the financial basis for this SS.
Letters from Guernsey and Jersey with German stamps.
The ambition of the Generals of the German army, the addiction to militarism and ‘glorious victories on fields of honour’ had long been decisive influences on the German lust for power, and had a controlling influence on German foreign policy! (Heinrich Orb, 13 Years of Power Intoxication)
Stamps from Germany and Jersey, side-by-side on the same postcard.
“The Eagle” writes (7 March 1944): “Outpost of the Atlantic Front”. The German defensive front in the West and in the Atlantic in particular, are today, more than ever, at the centre of public opinion throughout the world. The two largest Channel Islands are on this front line; they were occupied during the French Campaign. Those two islands, and the many rocky outcrops in the vicinity, are the outposts of the Atlantic front.
“Mir wolle bleiwe wat mir sin”(1939), the motto of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, “We want to stay what we are”.
“Mir sin wieder was mir wolle!” (1945), “Once more, we are what we want to be!”
Oh Strasbourg, Oh Strasbourg, City oh so great, In your minster lie so many soldiers, Each a hero of the state. Men of arms so numerous, Bold and noble, too, Left their fathers and mothers Their souls fore’er to rue. Forsaken, forsaken, Words for this, there are none They lie forever in Strasbourg: A soldier’s work is never done.
There remains but one enemy: Britain. Between 5 and 25 June 1940, 16,822 officers, NCOs and foot soldiers died a hero’s death for the Fuehrer, people and fatherland. 9921 were registered as “missing in action”. A number of them no doubt also died a hero’s death. 68,511 officers, NCOs and foot soldiers were wounded.
“If there is anything that can explain to the German people how their armed forces managed to conquer France so quickly, it is the almost implausibly small number of losses incurred.”
The large-scale lightning advance across the Rhine also determined the fate of Strasbourg. No battles were fought in the city itself. The brave and victorious German troops took the unharmed city. On 18 June, as the German divisions stood at the foot of the Vosges, an advance party of two motorcyclists entered Strasbourg. They advanced to the minster, where the doors to the tower were open. They climbed the tower to its highest point and unfurled the German flag! Alsace was German once more! (Otto Dietrich, Chief Press Spokesman)
Over lunch (7 June 1942), Hitler made two “small requests” to Hungary’s new Prime Minister, Kallay, namely that a) the Lord our God and b) the Fuehrer could watch from the sidelines while Hungary “settled its territorial issues” with Romania. After all, the Tisza had the same emotional value for the Hungarians as the Rhine for the Germans. Von Horthy’s son allegedly boasted to Kallay that he had fought alongside the Hungarian divisions on the Eastern Front, performing heroic acts by the dozen
“Hitler believed that Horthy had taken a risk and won. Were his son to enlist in the German army and prove his worth, Germany might install Horthy the younger as nominal head of state.”
“Hitler even allowed him to remain regent, while Horthy’s opponents could hardly complain, when his son was prepared to lay down his life in the fight against communism.”
Of course the SA brass bands play the prettiest Prussian marches, the drums reverberate and the whistles resound.
Of course the SA marches, of course it pitches its tents there in the woods and fields and then all the campers sing old Prussian soldiers’ songs…
“Security, strength and readiness for the nation and fatherland”. Painting by Prof. Elk Eber
“The SA are no troops with whom the Fuhrer would like to wage war, but an organisation whose aim is to bind together Germany’s male young people and to educate them by iron order and discipline as well as the spirit of old Prussian comradeship towards endurance and loyalty! Marxism and the international Jewry of course do not place any value on this because the word, ‘fatherland’, does not exist for them! The SA exists to encourage and preserve the good and the noble. There has been a sporting spirit since the beginning in the ranks of the brown battalions and the greatest value is placed on the body’s fitness and health!” (Schenkendorf. 1934).
One can only counter the terror from the left by even stronger terror.
Comrade, the Hour of Destiny has arrived Marching Song of the Waffen SS Kurt Eggers, who fell in the East on 12 August as an SS non-commissioned officer wrote this song. Hans Gansser, who also composed the battle song, “Germany awakens”, wrote the melody. Comrade, the hour of destiny has arrived. The war calls us to deeds. The olden times are swept away. Happy we are; we are soldiers. The world takes notice when we march, they know where we came from. Refrain: We bring about justice and freedom. SS in the Fuhrer’s name. We bring about justice and freedom. SS in the Fuhrer’s name. Comrade, the Fuhrer has said it: The Reich has to come about now. No man who does not risk his life to see the new world. Refrain. Comrade, the beautiful world is far to the south and the north. The Reich has been conquered by us for eternity. Refrain. Comrade, when the Fuhrer speaks, The SS is always ready. The Fuhrer’s word is our duty, we don’t care about death or hell. Refrain. Comrade, the mortal wound is burning, we warmly love life. For the fatherland that knows loyalty we would like to give our all. Refrain.
There is no other gratitude than to pledge that we want to continue to fight for Germany, for what you have died.
Hitler and the Hungarian Head of State von Horthy.
Hitler was not entirely convinced that Horthy was “the right man for the job”, and decided to annex Hungary in 1944. In October of that year Horthy made attempts to liberate his country, though they were unsuccessful. He was arrested and deported to Bavaria, where the Russians (?Americans) liberated him. He died in Portugal (9.2.1957).
Miklos Horthy de Nagybanya (1868 – 1957) Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary, “…a kingdom without a king, ruled by an admiral without a fleet.” He was born in Kenderes in 1868. In the aftermath of the First World War, he suppressed a coup led by communist forces under Bela Kun and was subsequently elected (in 1920) regent. During WWI, he was Captain of the Habsburg, an Austro-Hungarian battleship, and later of the cruiser Novara. Kaiser Karl I promoted him to Commander-in-Chief of the Austro-Hungarian fleet. His documents were conveniently stamped “Travel abroad, etc.” when Hitler invited him to Obersalzberg to receive a dressing down, due to his alleged pro-Jewish policy. Later, he even went to the lengths of negotiating with the enemy! May 1943: Hitler said that Horthy wasn’t keeping his side of the bargain, although he claimed to be completely on our side. Sept. 1943: Horty wants to leave us high and dry, but he won’t get away with it! (Extracts from Goebbels’ diary).
“Welczek told me recently that he was with Horthy, who made it evidently clear that he found Hitler and his methods abhorrent. From other sources, however, I learnt that Hitler had tried to treat Horty in the same manner as Schuschnigg and Hache, but had been given short shrift.” (v. Hassell)
Admiral Horthy: “The Germans are a courageous nation in general, but there are one or two among them who are unbearable, tactless peasants.”
…on earth, all is heavenly happiness. Patience: happy Hungarian new year! The Arrow Cross Happy New Year! The Soviets: Is that a guiding star I see disappearing, or Hungarian freedom? Publications by the Hungarian Nazis – the Arrow Cross Party.
1942 – This Christmas belongs to our men fighting at the front and their families back home.
Bulgaria The Bulgarian Government Gazette, no. 263, 21 October 1942, announced an order ordering Jews to sell their shareholdings in listed companies and private limited companies etc. from 1 December 1942. (Bulgarian Government Gazette).
28 Feb. 1944 – commemorative stamps for Tsar Boris. Tsar Boris was married to Giovanna, daughter of King Victor Emmanuel; Hitler disliked him. When Boris died unexpectedly, Hitler arrested Princess Mafalda, the second daughter of the King Victor Emmanuel, who had travelled to Sofia at the request of her sister due to the Tsar’s rapidly deteriorating health, on suspicion of murder. She was interned in Buchenwald concentration camp, where she died after an air raid. Her husband, Prince Philip of Hessen, was Governor of Hesse-Nassau and a general in the SA. He also happened to be a nephew of Kaiser Wilhelm II. He too was arrested and transferred to Dachau. He survived the war.
During the summer of 1939, ties with other states in the German sphere of influence were strengthened with a view to isolating the Poles. State visits were made to Berlin by Horthy and Prince-Regent Paul of Yugoslavia, and by Bulgarian Prime Minister Kyoseivanov.
A few days after the First Vienna Award (Sept. 1940), King Carol abdicated in favour of his son Michael; meanwhile, Gen. Antonescu, an admirer of Hitler, was appointed Prime Minister. I
In the aftermath of the war, Bucharest and Budapest were the only cities to the west of Moscow with a Jewish population exceeding 100,000. The inhabitants of Bucharest had nothing left. As late as November 1945, the American Joint Distribution Committee had to provide rations for half the population.
Those who had signed the accession to the agreement were arrested immediately after their return from Vienna, and Prince Regent Paul was deposed in a coup; power was seized by King Peter II.
Von Ribbentrop remarked in his book Zwischen London und Moskau (Between London and Moscow), “For years we had pursued a policy of friendship and collaboration with Yugoslavia. After the collapse of the pro-German Stojadinovic government, relations with his successor, Cvetkovic, who had strong links with France, appeared to be on equally good terms. This also found expression in the state visit of Prince Regent Paul to Berlin in the early summer of 1939. On 24 March 1941, long-winded arbitration in Vienna finally ended in Yugoslavia’s accession to the Three-Power Alliance. The Fuehrer told me that looking at the body language of the Yugoslav ministers, their accession to the agreement seemed less like a reason to celebrate; more like a funeral!”
On 4-5 March 1941, Prince Paul had a secret meeting with the Fuehrer. As compensation, Hitler offered him Saloniki. Paul accepted the offer: Yugoslavia became part of the Axis. However, on 27 March there was a rebellion of young Yugoslav officers against the agreement. They put forward King Peter II as head of state in Belgrade. Hitler was furious and decided to punish Yugoslavia. On 6 April, German bombers destroyed defenceless Belgrade. “Operation Vengeance” killed 17,000. The country offered its capitulation on 17 April.
Dr. Ante Pavelic, born 1896 (?1889) Self-styled Poglavnik, or dictator of Croatia, an Axis puppet state. Spent many years in exile in Italy and was supported by Mussolini. When he seized power, he surrounded himself with a praetorian guard in the same way as Hitler, in his case known as the Ustashi. They were Pavelic’s SA and SS. His policies were pro-Italian. The Croats in general hated the Italians, though they could tolerate the Germans. Germans were regular visitors to Croatia, and brought valuable money into the country. Goebbels’ diary entry for 27 January 1941 notes, “In Croatia the attitude towards us is worsening constantly. Pavelic’s Italian-oriented policies do not find any resonance with the populace at large, which is the main problem. They were first well-disposed to us, but the fact that they cannot expect help from us against the Italians has transposed itself into a dislike for Germany. The Italians have lost us many a sympathizer abroad!” The entry for 29 March 1943 reads: “Pavelic has been to see the Fuehrer: a visit like that can only serve to boost his considerable prestige. After all, the Balkans is the powder keg of Europe!”
“The independent state of Croatia; a country whose natural empathy towards Germany will not easily be forgotten. Why was Croatia such an interesting proposition for others? The former Yugoslav state had rich seams of lead, zinc, chrome and copper, though Croatia has plentiful iron ore and, in particular, aluminium ore, bauxite. In 1938, Yugoslavia’s (read Croatia) bauxite production, 404,600 tonnes, was third only to France and Hungary.” (Herm. Harrasowitz)
Sept. 1942. The German troops have advanced to the banks of the Volga. “We are on the verge of taking Stalingrad, and we will be successful!” declares Hitler. On 17 October, Stalingrad is in German hands, with the exception of the steel works.
First day cover for the benefit of postal workers, 1945.
First day cover for those injured in the war, 1944.