What was NOT a lie
Harry Hope
From The New York Times, 11/27/05:
http://select.nytimes.com/2005/11/27/opinion/27rich.html?hp
Dishonest, Reprehensible, Corrupt ...
By FRANK RICH
GEORGE W. BUSH is so desperate for allies that his hapless Asian tour
took him to Ulan Bator, a first for an American president, so he could
mingle with the yaks and give personal thanks for Mongolia's
contribution of some 160 soldiers to "the coalition of the willing."
Dick Cheney, whose honest-and-ethical poll number hit 29 percent in
Newsweek's latest survey, is so radioactive that he vanished into his
bunker for weeks at a time during the storms Katrina and Scootergate.
The whole world can see that both men are on the run.
Just how much so became clear in the brace of nasty broadsides each
delivered this month about Iraq.
Neither man engaged the national debate ignited by John Murtha about
how our troops might be best redeployed in a recalibrated battle
against Islamic radicalism.
Neither offered a plan for "victory."
Instead, both impugned their critics' patriotism and retreated into
the past to defend the origins of the war.
In a seasonally appropriate impersonation of the misanthropic Mr.
Potter from "It's a Wonderful Life," the vice president went so far as
to label critics of the administration's prewar smoke screen both
"dishonest and reprehensible" and "corrupt and shameless."
He sounded but one epithet away from a defibrillator.
The Washington line has it that the motivation for the Bush-Cheney
rage is the need to push back against opponents who have bloodied the
White House in the polls.
But, Mr. Murtha notwithstanding, the Democrats are too feeble to merit
that strong a response.
There is more going on here than politics.
Much more:
each day brings slam-dunk evidence that the doomsday threats marshaled
by the administration to sell the war weren't, in Cheney-speak, just
dishonest and reprehensible but also corrupt and shameless.
The more the president and vice president tell us that their mistakes
were merely innocent byproducts of the same bad intelligence seen by
everyone else in the world, the more we learn that this was not so.
The web of half-truths and falsehoods used to sell the war did not
happen by accident; it was woven by design and then foisted on the
public by a P.R. operation built expressly for that purpose in the
White House.
The real point of the Bush-Cheney verbal fisticuffs this month, like
the earlier campaign to take down Joseph Wilson, is less to smite
Democrats than to cover up wrongdoing in the executive branch between
9/11 and shock and awe.
The cover-up is failing, however.
No matter how much the president and vice president raise their
decibel levels, the truth keeps roaring out.
A nearly 7,000-word investigation in last Sunday's Los Angeles Times
found that Mr. Bush and his aides had "issued increasingly dire
warnings" about Iraq's mobile biological weapons labs long after U.S.
intelligence authorities were told by Germany's Federal Intelligence
Service that the principal source for these warnings, an Iraqi
defector in German custody code-named Curveball, "never claimed to
produce germ weapons and never saw anyone else do so."
The five senior German intelligence officials who spoke to The Times
said they were aghast that such long-discredited misinformation from a
suspected fabricator turned up in Colin Powell's presentation to the
United Nations and in the president's 2003 State of the Union address
(where it shared billing with the equally bogus 16 words about
Saddam's fictitious African uranium).
Right after the L.A. Times scoop, Murray Waas filled in another piece
of the prewar propaganda puzzle.
He reported in the nonpartisan National Journal that 10 days after
9/11, "President Bush was told in a highly classified briefing that
the U.S. intelligence community had no evidence linking the Iraqi
regime of Saddam Hussein to the attacks and that there was scant
credible evidence that Iraq had any significant collaborative ties
with Al Qaeda."
The information was delivered in the President's Daily Brief, a C.I.A.
assessment also given to the vice president and other top
administration officials.
Nonetheless Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney repeatedly pounded in an implicit
(and at times specific) link between Saddam and Al Qaeda until
Americans even started to believe that the 9/11 attacks had been
carried out by Iraqis.
More damning still, Mr. Waas finds that the "few credible reports" of
Iraq-Al Qaeda contacts actually involved efforts by Saddam to monitor
or infiltrate Islamic terrorist groups, which he regarded as
adversaries of his secular regime.
Thus Saddam's antipathy to Islamic radicals was the same in 2001 as it
had been in 1983, when Donald Rumsfeld, then a Reagan administration
emissary, embraced the dictator as a secular fascist ally in the
American struggle against the theocratic fascist rulers in Iran.
What these revelations also tell us is that Mr. Bush was wrong when he
said in his Veterans Day speech that more than 100 Congressional
Democrats who voted for the Iraqi war resolution "had access to the
same intelligence" he did.
They didn't have access to the President's Daily Brief that Mr. Waas
uncovered.
They didn't have access to the information that German intelligence
officials spoke about to The Los Angeles Times.
Nor did they have access to material from a Defense Intelligence
Agency report, released by Senator Carl Levin of Michigan this month,
which as early as February 2002 demolished the reliability of another
major source that the administration had persistently used for its
false claims about Iraqi-Al Qaeda collaboration.
The more we learn about the road to Iraq, the more we realize that
it's a losing game to ask what lies the White House told along the
way.
A simpler question might be:
What was not a lie?
The situation recalls Mary McCarthy's explanation to Dick Cavett about
why she thought Lillian Hellman was a dishonest writer:
"Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the.' "
If Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney believe they were truthful in the run-up to
the war, it's easy for them to make their case.
Instead of falsely claiming that they've been exonerated by two
commissions that looked into prewar intelligence - neither of which
addressed possible White House misuse and mischaracterization of that
intelligence - they should just release the rest of the President's
Daily Briefs and other prewar documents that are now trickling out.
Instead, incriminatingly enough, they are fighting the release of any
such information, including unclassified documents found in
post-invasion Iraq requested from the Pentagon by the pro-war, neocon
Weekly Standard.
As Scott Shane reported in The New York Times last month, Vietnam
documents are now off limits, too:
the National Security Agency won't make public a 2001 historical
report on how American officials distorted intelligence in 1964 about
the Gulf of Tonkin incident for fear it might "prompt uncomfortable
comparisons" between the games White Houses played then and now to gin
up wars.
SOONER or later - probably sooner, given the accelerating pace of
recent revelations - this embarrassing information will leak out
anyway.
But the administration's deliberate efforts to suppress or ignore
intelligence that contradicted its Iraq crusade are only part of the
prewar story.
There were other shadowy stations on the disinformation assembly line.
Among them were the Policy Counterterrorism Evaluation Group, a
two-man Pentagon operation specifically created to cherry-pick
intelligence for Mr. Cheney's apocalyptic Iraqi scenarios, and the
White House Iraq Group (WHIG), in which Karl Rove, Karen Hughes and
the Cheney hands Lewis Libby and Mary Matalin, among others, plotted
to mainline this propaganda into the veins of the press and public.
These murky aspects of the narrative - like the role played by a
private P.R. contractor, the Rendon Group, examined by James Bamford
in the current Rolling Stone - have yet to be recounted in full.
No debate about the past, of course, can undo the mess that the
administration made in Iraq.
But the past remains important because it is a road map to both the
present and the future.
Leaders who dissembled then are still doing so. Indeed, they do so
even in the same speeches in which they vehemently deny having misled
us then - witness Mr. Bush's false claims about what prewar
intelligence was seen by Congress and Mr. Cheney's effort last Monday
to again conflate the terrorists of 9/11 with those "making a stand in
Iraq."
(Maj. Gen. Douglas Lute, director of operations for Centcom, says the
Iraqi insurgency is 90 percent homegrown.)
These days Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney routinely exaggerate the readiness
of Iraqi troops, much as they once inflated Saddam's W.M.D.'s.
"We're not going to sit by and let them rewrite history," the vice
president said of his critics.
"We're going to continue throwing their own words back at them."
But according to a Harris poll released by The Wall Street Journal
last Wednesday, 64 percent of Americans now believe that the Bush
administration "generally misleads the American public on current
issues to achieve its own ends."
That's why it's Mr. Cheney's and the president's own words that are
being thrown back now - not to rewrite history but to reveal it for
the first time to an angry country that has learned the hard way that
it can no longer afford to be without the truth.
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Main Entry: lie
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: untruth
Synonyms: aspersion, backbiting, calumniation, calumny, complete
distortion of the facts, corker, deceit, deception, defamation,
detraction, dishonesty, disinformation, distortion, evasion, fable,
fabrication, falsehood, falseness, falsification, falsity, fib,
fiction, fish story, forgery, fraudulence, guile, hyperbole,
inaccuracy, invention, libel, mendacity, misrepresentation,
misstatement, myth, obloquy, perjury, prevarication, revilement,
reviling, slander, subterfuge, tale, tall story, terminological
inexactitude, vilification, white lie, whopper
Harry
E.E.Bud Keith
"Harry Hope" <riv...@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
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The biggest whopper in this entire rant is that Bush has no plan for
victory. You really have got to be shitting Harry.
Anyone that can read or hear knows that the only party that is devoid of
idea is your Democratic party. Be so kind as to tell one time in the last
year that you and that pack of thieves you run with have made a positive
statement about the war. Also whne the last time that any democrat had a
tiny little plan to end the war outside of virtual surrender. Byut in case
you can not read or listen Bush has outlined his plan on a hundred fifferent
occasions.
It is just that you silly twerps have been much to busy telling the down
side of the problem and spewing your outeight hate at the president.
You and the writer of this tripe should do some self examination, it may
suprise you to learn that you never had a plan to end the war and do not
know other to cut and run.
Enough of your silly bullshit Harry if there are liars and traitors in this
country they are all members of your far left democratic/socialist party.
blazing laser
<bud...@comcast.net> wrote:
>The biggest whopper in this entire rant is that Bush has no plan for
>victory. You really have got to be shitting Harry.
Here again, E.E. you are doing what neo-cons do with language. By
'whopper' you mean 'something I can't refute but I don't want to be
true.' How clear does it have to get that Bush has no plan for
victory? It's clearer every day! Just as evidence is mounting, more
every day or two, that the war was based on lies.
>Anyone that can read or hear knows that the only party that is devoid of
>idea is your Democratic party. Be so kind as to tell one time in the last
>year that you and that pack of thieves you run with have made a positive
>statement about the war.
It isn't the Democrats' job to polish Bush's image by pretending the
war is going well. A few Democratic leaders were brave enough to
predict that it would become a quagmire, and history has vindicated
them. But even Republicans now are beginning to see that they can no
longer credibly pretend the war is going well.
>Also whne the last time that any democrat had a
>tiny little plan to end the war outside of virtual surrender. Byut in case
>you can not read or listen Bush has outlined his plan on a hundred fifferent
>occasions.
WHAT plan? Basically his plan is 'trust me, things are going well.'
The admin's plan was that the war would last 'six days, six weeks, I
doubt six months'. The plan was that our soldiers would be greeted
with flowers and chocolates. The plan was that the war and the
rebuilding of Iraq would both be paid for by the oil. That was the
plan!
When we caught Saddam we were told the war would soon be over. When
we turned the govt. of Iraq over to Iraqis, claiming we had given them
'sovereignty', the war was supposed to be over. Bush appeared on the
flight deck of an aircraft carrier to announce the war was over. When
Iraq had an election we were told the war would soon be over. When we
destroyed the city of Fallujah we were told the war would soon be
over. VP Cheney said the insurgency was in its last throes, and when
this was challenge as an obvious fabrication he said the 'last throes'
could last ten or twenty years.
Not once has Bush come before the American people and said "Okay, it
hasn't been working so far, so this is what we're going to do." From
the start he's been pathologically unable to admit that his original
strategy didn't work. He might try new things, but he'll pretend they
are only logical extensions of the original strategy.
So tell me why the Democrats and the press should continue to pretend
along with Bush?
>It is just that you silly twerps have been much to busy telling the down
>side of the problem and spewing your outeight hate at the president.
There are some of us who hated Bush all along. But there are also
many people, more people every day, who went along originally but now
see they were deceived and duped. Bush has nobody to blame for his
failure but himself.
>You and the writer of this tripe should do some self examination, it may
>suprise you to learn that you never had a plan to end the war and do not
>know other to cut and run.
>Enough of your silly bullshit Harry if there are liars and traitors in this
>country they are all members of your far left democratic/socialist party.
'Cut and run' is the neo-con phrase of the month. Your own constant
use of the phrase to describe anyone who thinks differently from
yourself, who rejects the neo-con orthodoxy, only serves to show the
serious problems you have in mounting a rational defense of the
president's 'plan' or even discussing the options intelligently.
Anyone who doesn't parrot the admin. line is a 'cut and run coward'.
The Bush admin itself is preparing plans to cut troop strength in Iraq
in time for next year's election. Will you say they are 'cutting and
running'? I bet not.
penny
wrote:
An excellent piece!
>
>Main Entry: lie
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition: untruth
>Synonyms: aspersion, backbiting, calumniation, calumny, complete
>distortion of the facts, corker, deceit, deception, defamation,
>detraction, dishonesty, disinformation, distortion, evasion, fable,
>fabrication, falsehood, falseness, falsification, falsity, fib,
>fiction, fish story, forgery, fraudulence, guile, hyperbole,
>inaccuracy, invention, libel, mendacity, misrepresentation,
>misstatement, myth, obloquy, perjury, prevarication, revilement,
>reviling, slander, subterfuge, tale, tall story, terminological
>inexactitude, vilification, white lie, whopper
>
>
>Harry
And Bushco has used them all to create their culture of lies !
penny
Harry Hope
Kevin Cunningham
"E.E.Bud Keith" <bud...@comcast.net> wrote in message
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Ok, whats the plan. I'm sure you know what this plan is so tell us, let
your voice be heard.
Joseph Welch
> The biggest whopper in this entire rant is that Bush has no plan for
> victory.
"Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the president to
explain to us what the exit strategy is."
-George W. Bush [Houston Chronicle, 4/9/99]
--
JW
***************
"You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have
you left no sense of decency?"
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/welch-mccarthy.html
Northern Storm
<bud...@comcast.net> wrote:
Share with us, please, this "plan for victory" of which you speak. You
can take your time and still be the first to share such a plan.
Right Wing Von Mises
Dishonest, Reprehensible, Corrupt ...
By FRANK RICH
Much more:
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Mani Deli
started with facism abroad and now we are making good progress in
quietly bringing it home. Doing this sort of stuff quietly is very
important, just like it was in Nazi Germany.
Pentagon Expanding Its Domestic Surveillance Activity
Posted by merkins
Added to homepage Sun Nov 27th 2005, 01:15 AM ET
The Defense Department has expanded its programs aimed at gathering
and analyzing intelligence within the United States, creating new
agencies, adding personnel and seeking additional legal authority for
domestic security activities in the post-9/11 world.
The moves have taken place on several fronts. The White House is
considering expanding the power of a little-known Pentagon agency
called the Counterintelligence Field Activity, or CIFA, which was
created three years ago. The proposal, made by a presidential
commission, would transform CIFA from an office that coordinates
Pentagon security efforts -- including protecting military facilities
from attack -- to one that also has authority to investigate crimes
within the United States such as treason, foreign or terrorist
sabotage or even economic espionage.
The Pentagon has pushed legislation on Capitol Hill that would create
an intelligence exception to the Privacy Act, allowing the FBI and
others to share information gathered about U.S. citizens with the
Pentagon, CIA and other intelligence agencies, as long as the data is
deemed to be related to foreign intelligence. Backers say the measure
is needed to strengthen investigations into terrorism or weapons of
mass destruction.
Kate Martin, director of the Center for National Security Studies,
said the data-sharing amendment would still give the Pentagon much
greater access to the FBI's massive collection of data, including
information on citizens not connected to terrorism or espionage. The
measure, she said, "removes one of the few existing privacy
protections against the creation of secret dossiers on Americans by
government intelligence agencies." She said the Pentagon's
"intelligence agencies are quietly expanding their domestic presence
without any public debate."
Harry Hope
Amanda Williams
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Hmmmm... you haven't been around here much have you?
They are not QUIET at all ... rotfl....
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AW
<small but dangerous>
Well Done
>Are the people too stupid to notice?
<snip>
Hell, no, we notice assholes like you right away!
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): "I may make you feel, but I can't make you think" :(
(: Off the monitor, through the modem, nothing but net :)
ccr
The sad thing is so few pay attention.
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"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of
fighting a foreign enemy." James Madison
"Mani Deli" <ma...@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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Mani Deli
>Nothing quiet about it. Anyone who pays attention knows what is going on.
>The sad thing is so few pay attention.
The sad thing is that that its rarely reported and discussed. The news
is filled with non-news and the majority don't care..
Day Brown
> Nothing quiet about it. Anyone who pays attention knows what is going on.
> The sad thing is so few pay attention.
>
soda, exposed to chemicals the hominids are not adapted to, and this has
damaged their mental faculties. They evolved in tribes, not nuclear
families. The privacy permits abuse.
Monogamy has been a disaster. The honorable men who stayed faithful to
wives who bore them no son are out of the gene pool while philanderers
have sired bastards all over the county to be raised on welfare. And
now we see women complain that their choice of husband material is so
awful.
Nothing to do about it either.... other than move out of town, away from
rich target zones of WMD and the riots as things come apart from all the
internal corruption of the system.
Topaz
he opened a new military highway running the entire length of the
colon., He had himself declared protector of Islam and was presented
with a symbolic sword.
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Libya/History
the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini arranged for Muslim notables
from Italian-ruled Libya to gird him with the "sword of Islam" during
a visit to Tripoli. "Muslims may rest assured," Mussolini intoned on
that occasion, "that Italy will always be the friend and protector of
Islam throughout the world." His foreign minister declared Muslim
values perfectly compatible with fascism: "The Islamic world, in
accordance with its traditions, loves in the Duce the wisdom of the
statesman united to the action of the warrior."74
http://www.danielpipes.org/article/90
Mussolini vows to help the Palestinian cause against the Jews.
http://www.stern.de/community/forum/thread.jsp?forum=35&thread=57402&message=840948
http://www.nationalvanguard.org http://www.natvan.com
http://www.thebirdman.org http://www.RealNews247.com
Topaz
"The fight which Fascist Italy waged against Jewry's three
principal weapons, the profound reasons for which may not of been
consciously understood (though I do not believe this myself) furnishes
the best proof that the poison fangs of that Power which transcends
all State boundaries are being drawn, even though in an indirect way.
The prohibition of Freemasonry and secret societies, the supression of
the supernational Press and the definate abolition of Marxism,
together with the steadily increasing consolidation of the Fascist
concept of the State--all this will enable the Italian Government, in
the course of some years, to advance more and more the interests of
the Italian people without paying any attention to the hissing of the
Jewish world-hydra.
"The English situation is not so favourable. In that country
which has 'the freest democracy' the Jew dictates his will, almost
unrestrained but indirectly, through his influence on public opinion."
Day Brown
the internet?
penny
wrote:
> How do you run a fascist state without control of media and
>the internet?
You don't. The Internet might be difficult to control,, but the
media is already controlled by the corporate right - a power body of
only five corpocracies :
Time Warner, Disney, Murdoch's News Corporation, Bertelsmann of
Germany, and Viacom (formerly CBS) -- now control most of the media
industry in the U.S. General Electric's NBC is a close sixth. And
their policy is controlled by their corporate advertisers.
And Bush has his own propaganda outlets of Clear Channel Radio, Fox,
Fundamentalist radio, etc. He also pays journalists to produce what he
wants.
http://www.corporations.org/media/
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0217/p01s01-uspo.html
The Internet, the Independent Newspapers and magazines, and those few
and far between journalists like Krugman are the last bastions of US
democracy. Bush controls the senate, congress and judiciary.
It's slowly getting there.
Penny
Day Brown
of spinmeisters have worked. But at the same time, their incomes are in
real decline, their credit is maxed, and the bankruptcy rate is so high
that it could destabilize the entire economy no matter what the transnat
media try to do. Disaster tends to concentrate the mind of some while
others just come apart at the seams. highly unpredictable results.
I dont see anything in this that even draconian tyranny could deal with.
Mani Deli
"If Americans Were Truly Welcomed In Iraq As Liberators, We Wouldn't
Have To Doctor The News For The Iraqi People"
Topaz
wrote:
>So what? How do you run a fascist state without control of media and
>the internet?
We should control the media.
The internet should stay the way it is. Because it's not too
expensive to have web sites or post to usenet. It is not controlled by
big money now so there is no problem the way it is now.
Day Brown
>>So what? How do you run a fascist state without control of media and
>>the internet?
> We should control the media.
> The internet should stay the way it is. Because it's not too
> expensive to have web sites or post to usenet. It is not controlled by
> big money now so there is no problem the way it is now.
> http://www.nationalvanguard.org http://www.natvan.com
> http://www.thebirdman.org http://www.RealNews247.com
http://www.anzi.biz comports with some, challenges some. Either way,
there is an assumption of rational readership, which is increasingly
unsupportable. I see that most posters are not rational, but if you
engage in ad hominum too, then neither are you.
Jared Diamond mentions Tokugawa Japan and Trujillo's Dominican
Republic, as examples of tyrants who saw problems that the people
and their leadership could not, and did what was necessary for the
long term survival of the state. But the trick is to be sure that the
tyrant is *rational*. Of the 1930s European facscist leaders, only
Franco was rational enuf not to abuse power and seek greater glory
that was not actually attainble, and only he brought his nation more
stable government and moved its economy out of the 19th century.
Topaz
wrote:
>http://www.anzi.biz comports with some, challenges some. Either way,
>there is an assumption of rational readership, which is increasingly
>unsupportable. I see that most posters are not rational, but if you
>engage in ad hominum too, then neither are you.
>
>Jared Diamond mentions Tokugawa Japan and Trujillo's Dominican
>Republic, as examples of tyrants who saw problems that the people
>and their leadership could not, and did what was necessary for the
>long term survival of the state. But the trick is to be sure that the
>tyrant is *rational*. Of the 1930s European facscist leaders, only
>Franco was rational enuf not to abuse power and seek greater glory
>that was not actually attainble, and only he brought his nation more
>stable government and moved its economy out of the 19th century.
Leon Degrelle
"We have the power. Now our gigantic work begins."
Those were Hitler's words on the night of January 30, 1933, as
cheering crowds surged past him, for five long hours, beneath the
windows of the Chancellery in Berlin.
His political struggle had lasted 14 years. He himself was 43, that
is, physically and intellectually at the peak of his powers. He had
won over millions of Germans and organized them into Germany's largest
and most dynamic political party, a party girded by a human rampart of
hundreds of thousands of storm troopers, three fourths of them members
of the working class. He had been extremely shrewd. All but toying
with his adversaries, Hitler had, one after another, vanquished them
all.
Standing there at the window, his arm raised to the delirious throng,
he must have known a feeling of triumph. But he seemed almost torpid,
absorbed, as if lost in another world.
It was a world far removed from the delirium in the street, a world of
65 million citizens who loved him or hated him, but all of whom, from
that night on, had become his responsibility. And as he knew -- as
almost all Germans knew on January 1933 -- that this was a crushing,
an almost desperate responsibility.
Half a century later, few people understand the crisis Germany faced
at that time. Today, it's easy to assume that Germans have always been
well-fed and even plump. But the Germans Hitler inherited were virtual
skeletons.
During the preceding years, a score of "democratic" governments had
come and gone, often in utter confusion. Instead of alleviating the
people's misery, they had increased it, due to their own instability:
it was impossible for them to pursue any given plan for more than a
year or two. Germany had arrived at a dead end. In just a few years
there had been 224,000 suicides - a horrifying figure, bespeaking a
state of misery even more horrifying.
By the beginning of 1933, the misery of the German people was
virtually universal. At least six million unemployed and hungry
workers roamed aimlessly through the streets, receiving a pitiful
unemployment benefit of less than 42 marks per month. Many of those
out of work had families to feed, so that altogether some 20 million
Germans, a third of the country's population, were reduced to trying
to survive on about 40 pfennigs per person per day.
Unemployment benefits, moreover, were limited to a period of six
months. After that came only the meager misery allowance dispensed by
the welfare offices.
Notwithstanding the gross inadequacy of this assistance, by trying to
save the six million unemployed from total destruction, even for just
six months, both the state and local branches of the German government
saw themselves brought to ruin: in 1932 alone such aid had swallowed
up four billion marks, 57 percent of the total tax revenues of the
federal government and the regional states. A good many German
municipalities were bankrupt.
Those still lucky enough to have some kind of job were not much better
off. Workers and employees had taken a cut of 25 percent in their
wages and salaries. Twenty-one percent of them were earning between
100 and 250 marks per month; 69.2 percent of them, in January of 1933,
were being paid less than 1,200 marks annually. No more than about
100,000 Germans, it was estimated, were able to live without financial
worries.
During the three years before Hitler came to power, total earnings had
fallen by more than half, from 23 billion marks to 11 billion. The
average per capita income had dropped from 1,187 marks in 1929 to 627
marks, a scarcely tolerable level, in 1932. By January 1933, when
Hitler took office, 90 percent of the German people were destitute.
No one escaped the strangling effects of the unemployment. The
intellectuals were hit as hard as the working class. Of the 135,000
university graduates, 60 percent were without jobs. Only a tiny
minority was receiving unemployment benefits.
"The others," wrote one foreign observer, Marcel Laloire (in his book
New Germany), "are dependent on their parents or are sleeping in
flophouses. In the daytime they can be seen on the boulevards of
Berlin wearing signs on their backs to the effect that they will
accept any kind of work."
But there was no longer any kind of work.
The same drastic fall-off had hit Germany's cottage industry, which
comprised some four million workers. Its turnover had declined 55
percent, with total sales plunging from 22 billion to 10 billion
marks.
Hardest hit of all were construction workers; 90 percent of them were
unemployed.
Farmers, too, had been ruined, crushed by losses amounting to 12
billion marks. Many had been forced to mortgage their homes and their
land. In 1932 just the interest on the loans they had incurred due to
the crash was equivalent to 20 percent of the value of the
agricultural production of the entire country. Those who were no
longer able to meet the interest payments saw their farms auctioned
off in legal proceedings: in the years 1931-1932, 17,157 farms -- with
a combined total area of 462,485 hectares - were liquidated in this
way.
The "democracy" of Germany's "Weimar Republic" (1918 -1933) had proven
utterly ineffective in addressing such flagrant wrongs as this
impoverishment of millions of farm workers, even though they were the
nation's most stable and hardest working citizens. Plundered,
dispossessed, abandoned: small wonder they heeded Hitler's call.
Their situation on January 30, 1933, was tragic. Like the rest of
Germany's working class, they had been betrayed by their political
leaders, reduced to the alternatives of miserable wages, paltry and
uncertain benefit payments, or the outright humiliation of begging.
Germany's industries, once renowned everywhere in the world, were no
longer prosperous, despite the millions of marks in gratuities that
the financial magnates felt obliged to pour into the coffers of the
parties in power before each election in order to secure their
cooperation. For 14 years the well-blinkered conservatives and
Christian democrats of the political center had been feeding at the
trough just as greedily as their adversaries of the left…
One inevitable consequence of this ever-increasing misery and
uncertainty about the future was an abrupt decline in the birthrate.
When your household savings are wiped out, and when you fear even
greater calamities in the days ahead, you do not risk adding to the
number of your dependents.
In those days the birth rate was a reliable barometer of a country's
prosperity. A child is a joy, unless you have nothing but a crust of
bread to put in its little hand. And that's just the way it was with
hundreds of thousands of German families in 1932…
Hitler knew that he would be starting from zero. From less than zero.
But he was also confident of his strength of will to create Germany
anew -- politically, socially, financially, and economically. Now
legally and officially in power, he was sure that he could quickly
convert that cipher into a Germany more powerful than ever before.
What support did he have?
For one thing, he could count on the absolute support of millions of
fanatical disciples. And on that January evening, they joyfully shared
in the great thrill of victory. Some thirteen million Germans, many of
them former Socialists and Communists, had voted for his party.
But millions of Germans were still his adversaries, disconcerted
adversaries, to be sure, whom their own political parties had
betrayed, but who had still not been won over to National Socialism.
The two sides -- those for and those against Hitler -- were very
nearly equal in numbers. But whereas those on the left were divided
among themselves, Hitler's disciples were strongly united. And in one
thing above all, the National Socialists had an incomparable
advantage: in their convictions and in their total faith in a leader.
Their highly organized and well-disciplined party had contented with
the worst kind of obstacles, and had overcome them…
In the eyes of the capitalists, money was the sole active element in
the flourishing of a country's economy. To Hitler's way of thinking,
that conception was radically wrong: capital, on the contrary, was
only an instrument. Work was the essential element: man's endeavor,
man's honor, blood, muscles and soul.
Hitler wanted not just to put an to the class struggle, but to
reestablish the priority of the human being, in justice and respect,
as the principal factor in production…
For the worker's trust in the fatherland to be restored, he had to
feel that from now on he was to be (and to be treated) as an equal,
instead of remaining a social inferior. Under the governments of the
so-called democratic parties of both the left and the right, he had
remained an inferior; for none of them had understood that in the
hierarchy of national values, work is the very essence of life; …
The objective, then, was far greater than merely getting six million
unemployed back to work. It was to achieve a total revolution.
"The people," Hitler declared, "were not put here on earth for the
sake of the economy, and the economy doesn't exist for the sake of
capital. On the contrary, capital is meant to serve the economy, and
the economy in turn to serve the people."
It would not be enough merely to reopen the thousands of closed
factories and fill them with workers. If the old concepts still ruled,
the workers would once again be nothing more than living machines,
faceless and interchangeable…
Nowhere in twentieth-century Europe had the authority of a head of
state ever been based on such overwhelming and freely given national
consent. Prior to Hitler, from 1919 to 1932, those governments piously
styling themselves democratic had usually come to power by meager
majorities, sometimes as low as 51 or 52 percent.
"I am not a dictator," Hitler had often affirmed, "and I never will
be. Democracy will be rigorously enforced by National Socialism."
Authority does not mean tyranny. A tyrant is someone who puts himself
in power without the will of the people or against the will of the
people. A democrat is placed in power by the people. But democracy is
not limited to a single formula. It may be partisan or parliamentary.
Or it may be authoritarian. The important thing is that the people
have wished it, chosen it, established it in its given form.
That was the case with Hitler. He came to power in an essentially
democratic way. Whether one likes it or not, this fact is undeniable.
And after coming to power, his popular support measurably increased
from year to year. The more intelligent and honest of his enemies have
been obliged to admit this, men such as the declared anti-Nazi
historian and professor Joachim Fest, who wrote:
For Hitler was never interested in establishing a mere tyranny. Sheer
greed for power will not suffice as explanation for his personality
and energy -- He was not born to be a mere tyrant. He was fixated upon
his mission of defending Europe and the Aryan race ... Never had he
felt so dependent upon the masses as he did at this time, and he
watched their reactions with anxious concern.
These lines weren't written by Dr. Goebbels, but by a stern critic of
Hitler and his career…
When it came time to vote, Hitler was granted plenary powers with a
sweeping majority of 441 votes to 94: he had won not just two thirds,
but 82.44 percent of the assembly's votes. This "Enabling Act" granted
Hitler for four years virtually absolute authority over the
legislative as well as the executive affairs of the government…
After 1945 the explanation that was routinely offered for all this was
that the Germans had lost their heads. Whatever the case, it is a
historical fact that they acted of their own free will. Far from being
resigned, they were enthusiastic. "For the first time since the last
days of the monarchy," historian Joachim Fest has conceded, "the
majority of the Germans now had the feeling that they could identify
with the state."…
"You talk about persecution!" he thundered in an impromptu response to
an address by the Social Democratic speaker. "I think that there are
only a few of us [in our party] here who did not have to suffer
persecutions in prison from your side ... You seem to have totally
forgotten that for years our shirts were ripped off our backs because
you did not like the color . . . We have outgrown your persecutions!"
"In those days," he scathingly continued, "our newspapers were banned
and banned and again banned, our meetings were forbidden, and we were
forbidden to speak, I was forbidden to speak, for years on. And now
you say that criticism is salutary!"…
Hitler's millions of followers had rediscovered the primal strength of
rough, uncitified man, of a time when men still had backbone…
Gustav Noske, the lumberjack who became defense minister - and the
most valiant defender of the embattled republic in the tumultuous
months immediately following the collapse of 1918 - acknowledged
honestly in 1944, when the Third Reich was already rapidly breaking
down, that the great majority of the German people still remained true
to Hitler because of the social renewal he had brought to the working
class…
Here again, well before the collapse of party-ridden Weimar Republic,
disillusion with the unions had become widespread among the working
masses. They were starving. The hundreds of Socialist and Communist
deputies stood idly by, impotent to provide any meaningful help to the
desperate proletariat.
Their leaders had no proposals to remedy, even partially, the great
distress of the people; no plans for large-scale public works, no
industrial restructuring, no search for markets abroad.
Moreover, they offered no energetic resistance to the pillaging by
foreign countries of the Reich's last financial resources: this a
consequence of the Treaty of Versailles that the German Socialists had
voted to ratify in June of 1919, and which they had never since had
the courage effectively to oppose…
In 1930, 1931 and 1932, German workers had watched the disaster grow:
the number of unemployed rose from two million to three, to four, to
five, then to six million. At the same time, unemployment benefits
fell lower and lower, finally to disappear completely. Everywhere one
saw dejection and privation: emaciated mothers, children wasting away
in sordid lodgings, and thousands of beggars in long sad lines.
The failure, or incapacity, of the leftist leaders to act, not to
mention their insensitivity, had stupefied the working class. Of what
use were such leaders with their empty heads and empty hearts -- and,
often enough, full pockets?
Well before January 30, thousands of workers had already joined up
with Hitler's dynamic formations, which were always hard at it where
they were most needed. Many joined the National Socialists when they
went on strike. Hitler, himself a former worker and a plain man like
themselves, was determined to eliminate unemployment root and branch.
He wanted not merely to defend the laborer's right to work, but to
make his calling one of honor, to insure him respect and to integrate
him fully into a living community of all the Germans, who had been
divided class against class.
In January 1933, Hitler's victorious troops were already largely
proletarian in character, including numerous hardfisted street
brawlers, many unemployed, who no longer counted economically or
socially.
Meanwhile, membership in the Marxist labor unions had fallen off
enormously: among thirteen million socialist and Communist voters in
1932, no more than five million were union members. Indifference and
discouragement had reached such levels that many members no longer
paid their union dues. Many increasingly dispirited Marxist leaders
began to wonder if perhaps the millions of deserters were the ones who
saw things clearly. Soon they wouldn't wonder any longer.
Even before Hitler won Reichstag backing for his "Enabling Act,"
Germany's giant labor union federation, the ADGB, had begun to rally
to the National Socialist cause. As historian Joachim Fest
acknowledged: "On March 20, the labor federation's executive committee
addressed a kind of declaration of loyalty to Hitler." (J. Fest,
Hitler, p. 413.)
Hitler than took a bold and clever step. The unions had always
clamored to have the First of May recognized as a worker's holiday,
but the Weimar Republic had never acceded to their request. Hitler,
never missing an opportunity, grasped this one with both hands. He did
more than grant this reasonable demand: he proclaimed the First of May
a national holiday…
I myself attended the memorable meeting at the Tempelhof field in
1933. By nine o'clock that morning, giant columns, some of workers,
others of youth groups, marching in cadence down the pavement of
Berlin's great avenues, had started off towards the airfield to which
Hitler had called together all Germans. All Germany would follow the
rally as it was transmitted nationwide by radio…
In the dark, a group of determined opponents could easily have heckled
Hitler or otherwise sabotaged the meeting. Perhaps a third of the
onlookers had been Socialists or Communists only three months
previously. But not a single hostile voice was raised during the
entire ceremony. There was only universal acclamation.
Ceremony is the right word for it. It was an almost magical rite.
Hitler and Goebbels had no equals in the arranging of dedicatory
ceremonies of this sort. First there were popular songs, then great
Wagnerian hymns to grip the audience. Germany has a passion for
orchestral music, and Wagner taps the deepest and most secret vein of
the German soul, its romanticism, its inborn sense of the powerful and
the grand.
Meanwhile the hundreds of flags floated above the rostrum, redeemed
from the darkness by arrows of light.
Now Hitler strode to the rostrum. For those standing at the of the
field, his face must have appeared vanishingly small, but his words
flooded instantaneously across the acres of people in his audience.
A Latin audience would have preferred a voice less harsh, more
delicately expressive. But there was no doubt that Hitler spoke to the
psyche of the German people.
Germans have rarely had the good fortune to experience the enchantment
of the spoken word. In Germany, the tone has always been set by
ponderous speakers, more fond of elephantine pedantry than oratorical
passion. Hitler, as a speaker, was a prodigy, the greatest orator of
his century. He possessed, above all, what the ordinary speaker lacks:
a mysterious ability to project power.
A bit like a medium or sorcerer, he was seized, even transfixed, as he
addressed a crowd. It responded to Hitler's projection of power,
radiating it back, establishing, in the course of myriad exchanges, a
current that both orator and audience gave to and drew from equally.
One had to personally experience him speaking to understand this
phenomenon.
This special gift is what lay at the basis of Hitler's ability to win
over the masses. His high-voltage, lightning-like projection
transported and transformed all who experienced it. Tens of millions
were enlightened, riveted and inflamed by the fire of his anger,
irony, and passion.
By the time the cheering died away that May first evening, hundreds of
thousands of previously indifferent or even hostile workers who had
come to Tempelhof at the urging of their labor federation leaders were
now won over. They had become followers, like the SA stormtroopers
whom so many there that evening had brawled with in recent years.
The great human sea surged back from Tempelhof to Berlin. A million
and a half people had arrived in perfect order, and their departure
was just as orderly. No bottlenecks halted the cars and busses. For
those of us who witnessed it, this rigorous, yet joyful, discipline of
a contented people was in itself a source of wonder. Everything about
the May Day mass meeting had come off as smoothly clockwork.
The memory of that fabulous crowd thronging back to the center of
Berlin will never leave me. A great many were on foot. Their faces
were now different faces, as though they had been imbued with a
strange and totally new spirit. The non-Germans in the crowd were as
if stunned, and no less impressed than Hitler's fellow countrymen.
The French ambassador, André François-Poncet, noted:
The foreigners on the speaker's platform as guests of honor were not
alone in carrying away the impression of a truly beautiful and
wonderful public festival, an impression that was created by the
regime's genius for organization, by the night time display of
uniforms, by the play of lights, the rhythm of the music, by the flags
and the colorful fireworks; and they were not alone in thinking that a
breath of reconciliation and unity was passing over the Third Reich.
"It is our wish," Hitler had exclaimed, as though taking heaven as his
witness, "to get along together and to struggle together as brothers,
so that at the hour when we shall come before God, we might say to
him: 'See, Lord, we have changed. The German people are no longer a
people ashamed, a people mean and cowardly and divided. No, Lord! The
German people have become strong in their spirit, in their will, in
their perseverance, in their acceptance of any sacrifice. Lord, we
remain faithful to Thee! Bless our struggle!" (A. François-Poncet,
Souvenirs d'une ambassade à Berlin, p. 128.)
Who else could have made such an incantatory appeal without making
himself look ridiculous?
No politician had ever spoken of the rights of workers with such faith
and such force, or had laid out in such clear terms the social plan he
pledged to carry out on behalf of the common people.
The next day, the newspaper of the proletarian left, the "Union
Journal," reported on this mass meeting at which at least two thirds
-- a million -- of those attending were workers. "This May First was
victory day," the paper summed up.
With the workers thus won over, what further need was there for the
thousands of labor union locals that for so long had poisoned the
social life of the Reich and which, in any case, had accomplished
nothing of a lasting, positive nature?
Within hours of the conclusion of that "victory" meeting at the
Tempelhof field, the National Socialists were able to peacefully take
complete control of Germany's entire labor union organization,
including all its buildings, enterprises and banks. An era of Marxist
obstruction abruptly came to an end : from now on, a single national
organization would embody the collective will and interests of all of
Germany's workers.
Although he was now well on his way to creating what he pledged would
be a true "government of the people," Hitler also realized that great
obstacles remained. For one thing, the Communist rulers in Moscow had
not dropped their guard -- or their guns. Restoring the nation would
take more than words and promises, it would take solid achievements.
Only then would the enthusiasm shown by the working class at the May
First mass meeting be an expression of lasting victory.
How could Hitler solve the great problem that had defied solution by
everyone else (both in Germany and abroad): putting millions of
unemployed back to work?
What would Hitler do about wages? Working hours? Leisure time?
Housing? How would he succeed in winning, at long last, respect for
the rights and dignity of the worker?
How could men's lives be improved -- materially, morally, and, one
might even say, spiritually? How would he proceed to build a new
society fit for human beings, free of the inertia, injustices and
prejudices of the past?
"National Socialism," Hitler had declared at the outset, "has its
mission and its hour; it is not just a passing movement but a phase of
history."
The instruments of real power now in his hands -- an authoritarian
state, its provinces subordinate but nonetheless organic parts of the
national whole -- Hitler had acted quickly to shake himself free of
the last constraints of the impotent sectarian political parties.
Moreover, he was now able to direct a cohesive labor force that was no
longer split into a thousand rivulets but flowed as a single, mighty
current.
Hitler was self-confident, sure of the power of his own conviction. He
had no intention, or need, to resort to the use of physical force.
Instead, he intended to win over, one by one, the millions of Germans
who were still his adversaries, and even those who still hated him.
His conquest of Germany had taken years of careful planning and hard
work. Similarly, he would now realize his carefully worked out plans
for transforming the state and society. This meant not merely changes
in administrative or governmental structures, but far-reaching social
programs.
He had once vowed: "The hour will come when the 15 million people who
now hate us will be solidly behind us and will acclaim with us the new
revival we shall create together." Eventually he would succeed in
winning over even many of his most refractory skeptics and
adversaries.
His army of converts was already forming ranks. In a remarkable
tribute, historian Joachim Fest felt obliged to acknowledge
unequivocally:
Hitler had moved rapidly from the status of a demagogue to that of a
respected statesman. The craving to join the ranks of the victors was
spreading like an epidemic, and the shrunken minority of those who
resisted the urge were being visibly pushed into isolation -- The past
was dead. The future, it seemed, belonged to the regime, which had
more and more followers, which was being hailed everywhere and
suddenly had sound reasons on its side.
And even the prominent leftist writer Kurt Tucholsky, sensing the
direction of the inexorable tide that was sweeping Germany, vividly
commented: "You don't go railing against the ocean." (J. Fest, Hitler,
pp. 415 f.)
"Our power," Hitler was now able to declare, "no longer belongs to any
territorial fraction of the Reich, nor to any single class of the
nation, but to the people in its totality."
Much still remained to be done, however. So far, Hitler had succeeded
in clearing the way of obstacles to his program. Now the time to build
had arrived.
So many others had failed to tackle the many daunting problems that
were now his responsibility. Above all, the nation demanded a solution
to the great problem of unemployment. Could Hitler now succeed where
others had so dismally failed?…
Unemployment could be combated and eliminated only by giving industry
the financial means to start up anew, to modernize, thus creating
millions of new jobs.
The normal rate of consumption would not be restored, let alone
increased, unless one first raised the starvation-level allowances
that were making purchases of any kind a virtual impossibility. On the
contrary, production and sales would have to be restored before the
six million unemployed could once again become purchasers.
The great economic depression could be overcome only by restimulating
industry, by bringing industry into step with the times, and by
promoting the development of new products…
Nearly ten years earlier, while in his prison cell, Hitler had already
envisioned a formidable system of national highways. He had also
conceived of a small, easily affordable automobile (later known as the
"Volkswagen"), and had even suggested its outline. It should have the
shape of a June bug, he proposed. Nature itself suggested the car's
aerodynamic line.
Until Hitler came to power, a car was the privilege of the rich. It
was not financially within the reach of the middle class, much less of
the worker. The "Volkswagen," costing one-tenth as much as the
standard automobile of earlier years, would eventually become a
popular work vehicle and a source of pleasure after work: a way to
unwind and get some fresh air, and of discovering, thanks to the new
Autobahn highway network, a magnificent country that then, in its
totality, was virtually unknown to the German worker.
From the beginning, Hitler wanted this economical new car to be built
for the millions. The production works would also become one of
Germany's most important industrial centers and employers.
During his imprisonment, Hitler had also drawn up plans for the
construction of popular housing developments and majestic public
buildings.
Some of Hitler's rough sketches still survive. They include groups of
individual worker's houses with their own gardens (which were to be
built in the hundreds of thousands), a plan for a covered stadium in
Berlin, and a vast congress hall, unlike any other in the world, that
would symbolize the grandeur of the National Socialist revolution.
"A building with a monumental dome," historian Werner Maser has
explained, "the plan of which he drew while he was writing Mein Kampf,
would have a span of 46 meters, a height of 220 meters, a diameter of
250 meters, and a capacity of 150 to 190 thousand people standing. The
interior of the building would have been 17 times larger than Saint
Peter's Cathedral in Rome." (W. Maser, Hitler, Adolf, p. 100.)
"That hall," architect Albert Speer has pointed out, "was not just an
idle dream impossible of achievement."
Hitler's imagination, therefore, had long been teeming with a number
of ambitious projects, many of which would eventually be realized.
Fortunately, the needed entrepreneurs, managers and technicians were
on hand. Hitler would not have to improvise.
Historian Werner Maser, although quite anti-Hitler -- like nearly all
of his colleagues (how else would they have found publishers?) - has
acknowledged: "From the beginning of his political career, he [Hitler]
took great pains systematically to arrange for whatever he was going
to need in order to carry out his plans."
"Hitler was distinguished," Maser has also noted, "by an exceptional
intelligence in technical matters." Hitler had acquired his knowledge
by devoting many thousands of hours to technical studies from the time
of his youth.
"Hitler read an endless number of books," explained Dr. Schacht. "He
acquired a very considerable amount of knowledge and made masterful
use of it in discussions and speeches. In certain respects he was a
man endowed with genius. He had ideas that no one else would ever have
thought of, ideas that resulted in the ending of great difficulties,
sometimes by measures of an astonishing simplicity or brutality."
Many billions of marks would be needed to begin the great
socioeconomic revolution that was destined, as Hitler had always
intended, to make Germany once again the European leader in industry
and commerce and, most urgently, to rapidly wipe out unemployment in
Germany. Where would the money be found? And, once obtained, how would
these funds be allotted to ensure maximum effectiveness in their
investment?
Hitler was by no means a dictator in matters of the economy. He was,
rather, a stimulator. His government would undertake to do only that
which private initiative could not.
Hitler believed in the importance of individual creative imagination
and dynamism, in the need for every person of superior ability and
skill to assume responsibility.
He also recognized the importance of the profit motive. Deprived of
the prospect of having his efforts rewarded, the person of ability
often refrains from running risks. The economic failure of Communism
has demonstrated this. In the absence of personal incentives and the
opportunity for real individual initiative, the Soviet "command
economy" lagged in all but a few fields, its industry years behind its
competitors.
State monopoly tolls the death of all initiative, and hence of all
progress.
For all men selflessly to pool their wealth might be marvelous, but it
is also contrary to human nature. Nearly every man desires that his
labor shall improve his own condition and that of his family, and
feels that his brain, creative imagination, and persistence well
deserve their reward.
Because it disregarded these basic psychological truths, Soviet
Communism, right to the end, wallowed in economic mediocrity, in spite
of its immense reservoir of manpower, its technical expertise, and its
abundant natural resources, all of which ought to have made it an
industrial and technological giant.
Hitler was always adverse to the idea of state management of the
economy. He believed in elites. "A single idea of genius," he used to
say, "has more value than a lifetime of conscientious labor in an
office."
Just as there are political or intellectual elites, so also is there
an industrial elite. A manufacturer of great ability should not be
restrained, hunted down by the internal revenue services like a
criminal, or be unappreciated by the public. On the contrary, it is
important for economic development that the industrialist be
encouraged morally and materially, as much as possible.
The most fruitful initiatives Hitler would take from 1933 on would be
on behalf of private enterprise. He would keep an eye on the quality
of their directors, to be sure, and would shunt aside incompetents,
quite a few of them at times, but he also supported the best ones,
those with the keenest minds, the most imaginative and bold, even if
their political opinions did not always agree with his own.
"There is no question," he stated very firmly, "of dismissing a
factory owner or director under the pretext that he is not a National
Socialist."
Hitler would exercise the same moderation, the same pragmatism, in the
administrative as well as in the industrial sphere.
What he demanded of his co-workers, above all, was competence and
effectiveness. The great majority of Third Reich functionaries - some
80 percent -- were never enrolled in the National Socialist party.
Several of Hitler's ministers, like Konstantin von Neurath and
Schwerin von Krosigk, and ambassadors to such key posts as Prague,
Vienna and Ankara, were not members of the party. But they were
capable…
"Herr Schacht," he said, "we are assuredly in agreement on one point:
no other single task facing the government at the moment can be so
truly urgent as conquering unemployment. That will take a lot of
money. Do you see any possibility of finding it apart from the
Reichsbank?" And after a moment, he added: "How much would it take? Do
you have any idea?"
Wishing to win Schacht over by appealing to his ambition, Hitler
smiled and then asked: "Would you be willing to once again assume
presidency of the Reichsbank?" Schacht let on that he had a
sentimental concern for Dr. Luther, and did not want to hurt the
incumbent's feelings. Playing along, Hitler reassured Schacht that he
would find an appropriate new job elsewhere for Luther.
Schacht then pricked up his ears, drew himself up, and focused his big
round eyes on Hitler: "Well, if that's the way it is," he said, "then
I am ready to assume the presidency of the Reichsbank again."
His great dream was being realized. Schacht had been president of the
Reichsbank between 1923 and 1930, but had been dismissed. Now he would
return in triumph. He felt vindicated. Within weeks, the ingenious
solution to Germany's pressing financial woes would burst forth from
his inventive brain.
"It was necessary," Schacht later explained, "to discover a method
that would avoid inflating the investment holdings of the Reichsbank
immoderately and consequently increasing the circulation of money
excessively."
"Therefore," he went on, "I had to find some means of getting the sums
that were lying idle in pockets and banks, without meaning for it to
be long term and without having it undergo the risk of depreciation.
That was the reasoning behind the Mefo bonds."
What were these "Mefo" bonds? Mefo was a contraction of the
Metallurgische Forschungs-GmbH (Metallurgic Research Company). With a
startup capitalization of one billion marks - which Hitler and Schacht
arranged to be provided by the four giant firms of Krupp, Siemens,
Deutsche Werke and Rheinmetall -- this company would eventually
promote many billions of marks worth of investment.
Enterprises, old and new, that filled government orders had only to
draw drafts on Mefo for the amounts due. These drafts, when presented
to the Reichsbank, were immediately convertible into cash. The success
of the Mefo program depended entirely on public acceptance of the Mefo
bonds. But the wily Schacht had planned well. Since Mefo bonds were
short-term bonds that could be cashed in at any time, there was no
real risk in buying, accepting or holding them. They bore an interest
of four percent -- a quite acceptable figure in those days -- whereas
banknotes hidden under the mattress earned nothing. The public quickly
took all this into consideration and eagerly accepted the bonds.
While the Reichsbank was able to offer from its own treasury a
relatively insignificant 150 million marks for Hitler's war on
unemployment, in just four years the German public subscribed more
than 12 billion marks worth of Mefo bonds!
These billions, the fruit of the combined imagination, ingenuity and
astuteness of Hitler and Schacht, swept away the temporizing and
fearful conservatism of the bankers. Over the next four years, this
enormous credit reserve would make miracles possible.
Soon after the initial billion-mark credit, Schacht added another
credit of 600 million in order to finance the start of Hitler's grand
program for highway construction. This Autobahn program provided
immediate work for 100,000 of the unemployed, and eventually assured
wages for some 500,000 workers.
As large as this outlay was, it was immediately offset by a
corresponding cutback in government unemployment benefits, and by the
additional tax revenue generated as a result of the increase in living
standard (sping) of the newly employed.
Within a few months, thanks to the credit created by the Mefo bonds,
private industry once again dared to assume risks and expand. Germans
returned to work by the hundreds of thousands.
Was Schacht solely responsible for this extraordinary turnaround?
After the war, he answered for himself as a Nuremberg Tribunal
defendant, where he was charged with having made possible the Reich's
economic revival:
I don't think Hitler was reduced to begging for my help. If I had not
served him, he would have found other methods, other means. He was not
a man to give up. It's easy enough for you to say, Mr. Prosecutor,
that I should have watched Hitler die and not lifted a finger. But the
entire working class would have died with him!
Even Marxists recognized Hitler's success, and their own failure. In
the June 1934 issue of the Zeitschrift für Sozialismus, the journal of
the German Social Democrats in exile, this acknowledgement appears:
Faced with the despair of proletarians reduced to joblessness, of
young people with diplomas and no future, of the middle classes of
merchants and artisans condemned to bankruptcy, and of farmers
terribly threatened by the collapse in agricultural prices, we all
failed. We weren't capable of offering the masses anything but
speeches about the glory of socialism.
VI. The Social Revolution
Hitler's tremendous social achievement in putting Germany's six
million unemployed back to work is seldom acknowledged today. Although
it was much more than a transitory achievement, "democratic"
historians routinely dismiss it in just a few lines. Since 1945, not a
single objective scholarly study has been devoted to this highly
significant, indeed unprecedented, historical phenomenon.
Similarly neglected is the body of sweeping reforms that dramatically
changed the condition of the worker in Germany. Factories were
transformed from gloomy caverns to spacious and healthy work centers,
with natural lighting, surrounded by gardens and playing fields.
Hundreds of thousands of attractive houses were built for working
class families. A policy of several weeks of paid vacation was
introduced, along with week and holiday trips by land and sea. A
wide-ranging program of physical and cultural education for young
workers was established, with the world's best system of technical
training. The Third Reich's social security and workers' health
insurance system was the world's most modern and complete.
This remarkable record of social achievement is routinely hushed up
today because it is embarrasses those who uphold the orthodox view of
the Third Reich. Otherwise, readers might begin to think that perhaps
Hitler was the greatest social builder of the twentieth century…
Nevertheless, restoring work and bread to millions of unemployed who
had been living in misery for years; restructuring industrial life;
conceiving and establishing an organization for the effective defense
and betterment of the nation's millions of wage earners; creating a
new bureaucracy and judicial system that guaranteed the civic rights
of each member of the national community, while simultaneously holding
each person to his or her responsibilities as a German citizen: this
organic body of reforms was part of a single, comprehensive plan,
which Hitler had conceived and worked out years earlier.
Without this plan, the nation would have collapsed into anarchy.
All-encompassing, this program included broad industrial recovery as
well as detailed attention to even construction of comfortable inns
along the new highway network.
It took several years for a stable social structure to emerge from the
French Revolution. The Soviets needed even more time: five years after
the Bolshevik revolution of 1917, hundreds of thousands of Russians
were still dying of hunger and disease. In Germany, by contrast, the
great machinery was in motion within months, with organization and
accomplishment quickly meshing together…
Hitler personally dug the first spadeful of earth for the first
Autobahn highway, linking Frankfurt-am-Main with Darmstadt. For the
occasion, he brought along Dr. Schacht, the man whose visionary credit
wizardry had made the project possible. The official procession moved
ahead, three cars abreast in front, then six across, spanning the
entire width of the autobahn…
Hitler's plan to build thousands of low-cost homes also demanded a
vast mobilization of manpower. He had envisioned housing that would be
attractive, cozy, and affordable for millions of ordinary German
working-class families. He had no intention of continuing to tolerate,
as his predecessors had, cramped, ugly "rabbit warren" housing for the
German people. The great barracks-like housing projects on the
outskirts of factory towns, packed with cramped families, disgusted
him.
The greater part of the houses he would build were single story,
detached dwellings, with small yards where children could romp, wives
could grow vegetable and flower gardens, while the bread-winners could
read their newspapers in peace after the day's work. These
single-family homes were built to conform to the architectural styles
of the various German regions, retaining as much as possible the
charming local variants.
Wherever there was no practical alternative to building large
apartment complexes, Hitler saw to it that the individual apartments
were spacious, airy and enhanced by surrounding lawns and gardens
where the children could play safely.
The new housing was, of course, built in conformity with the highest
standards of public health, a consideration notoriously neglected in
previous working-class projects.
Generous loans, amortizable in ten years, were granted to newly
married couples so they could buy their own homes. At the birth of
each child, a fourth of the debt was cancelled. Four children, at the
normal rate of a new arrival every two and a half years, sufficed to
cancel the entire loan debt.
Once, during a conversation with Hitler, I expressed my astonishment
at this policy. "But then, you never get back the total amount of your
loans?," I asked. "How so?" he replied, smiling. "Over a period of ten
years, a family with four children brings in much more than our loans,
through the taxes levied on a hundred different items of consumption."
As it happened, tax revenues increased every year, in proportion to
the rise in expenditures for Hitler's social programs. In just a few
years, revenue from taxes tripled. Hitler's Germany never experienced
a financial crisis.
To stimulate the moribund economy demanded the nerve, which Hitler
had, to invest money that the government didn't yet have, rather than
passively waiting -- in accordance with "sound" financial principles
-- for the economy to revive by itself.
Today, our whole era is dying economically because we have succumbed
to fearful hesitation. Enrichment follows investment, not the other
way around…
Even before the year 1933 had ended, Hitler had succeeded in building
202,119 housing units. Within four years he would provide the German
people with nearly a million and a half (1,458,128) new dwellings!
Moreover, workers would no longer be exploited as they had been. A
month's rent for a worker could not exceed 26 marks, or about an
eighth of the average wage then. Employees with more substantial
salaries paid monthly rents of up to 45 marks maximum.
Equally effective social measures were taken in behalf of farmers, who
had the lowest incomes. In 1933 alone 17,611 new farm houses were
built, each of them surrounded by a parcel of land one thousand square
meters in size. Within three years, Hitler would build 91,000 such
farmhouses…
Everywhere industry was hiring again, with some firms -- like Krupp,
IG Farben and the large automobile manufacturers -- taking on new
workers on a very large scale. As the country became more prosperous,
car sales increased by more than 80,000 units in 1933 alone.
Employment in the auto industry doubled. Germany was gearing up for
full production, with private industry leading the way.
The new government lavished every assistance on the private sector,
the chief factor in employment as well as production. Hitler almost
immediately made available 500 million marks in credits to private
business.
This start-up assistance given to German industry would repay itself
many times over. Soon enough, another two billion marks would be
loaned to the most enterprising companies. Nearly half would go into
new wages and salaries, saving the treasury an estimated three hundred
million marks in unemployment benefits. Added to the hundreds of
millions in tax receipts spurred by the business recovery, the state
quickly recovered its investment, and more.
Hitler's entire economic policy would be based on the following
equation: risk large sums to undertake great public works and to spur
the renewal and modernization of industry, then later recover the
billions invested through invisible and painless tax revenues. It
didn't take long for Germany to see the results of Hitler's recovery
formula.
Economic recovery, as important as it was, nevertheless wasn't
Hitler's only objective. As he strived to restore full employment,
Hitler never lost sight of his goal of creating a organization
powerful enough to stand up to capitalist owners and managers, who had
shown little concern for the health and welfare of the entire national
community.
Hitler would impose on everyone -- powerful boss and lowly wage earner
alike -- his own concept of the organic social community. Only the
loyal collaboration of everyone could assure the prosperity of all
classes and social groups.
Consistent with their doctrine, Germany's Marxist leaders had set
class against class, helping to bring the country to the brink of
economic collapse. Deserting their Marxist unions and political
parties in droves, most workers had come to realize that strikes and
grievances their leaders incited only crippled production, and thus
the workers as well.
By the of 1932, in any case, the discredited labor unions were
drowning in massive debt that realistically could never be repaid.
Some of the less scrupulous union officials, sensing the oncoming
catastrophe, had begun stealing hundreds of thousands of marks from
the workers they represented. The Marxist leaders had failed:
socially, financially and morally.
Every joint human activity requires a leader. The head of a factory or
business is also the person naturally responsible for it. He oversees
every aspect of production and work. In Hitler's Germany, the head of
a business had to be both a capable director and a person concerned
for the social justice and welfare of his employees. Under Hitler,
many owners and managers who had proven to be unjust, incompetent or
recalcitrant lost their jobs, or their businesses.
A considerable number of legal guarantees protected the worker against
any abuse of authority at the workplace. Their purpose was to insure
that the rights of workers were respected, and that workers were
treated as worthy collaborators, not just as animated tools. Each
industrialist was legally obliged to collaborate with worker delegates
in drafting shop regulations that were not imposed from above but
instead adapted to each business enterprise and its particular working
conditions. These regulations had to specify "the length of the
working day, the time and method of paying wages, and the safety
rules, and to be posted throughout the factory," within easy access of
both the worker whose interests might be angered and the owner or
manager whose orders might be subverted.
The thousands of different, individual versions of such regulations
served to create a healthy rivalry, with every factory group vying to
outdo the others in efficiency and justice.
One of the first reforms to benefit German workers was the
establishment of paid vacations. In France, the leftist Popular Front
government would noisily claim, in 1936, to have originated legally
mandated paid vacations -- and stingy ones at that, only one week per
year. But it was actually Hitler who first established them, in 1933
-- and they were two or three times more generous.
Under Hitler, every factory employee had the legal right to paid
vacation. Previously, paid vacations had not normally exceed four or
five days, and nearly half of the younger workers had no vacation time
at all. If anything, Hitler favored younger workers; the youngest
workers received more generous vacations. This was humane and made
sense: a young person has more need of rest and fresh air to develop
his maturing strength and vigor. Thus, they enjoyed a full 18 days of
paid vacation per year.
Today, more than half a century later, these figures have been
surpassed, but in 1933 they far exceeded European norms.
The standard vacation was twelve days. Then, from the age of 25 on, it
went up to 18 days. After ten years with the company, workers got a
still longer vacation: 21 days, or three times what the French
socialists would grant the workers of their country in 1936.
Hitler introduced the standard forty-hour work week in Europe. As for
overtime work, it was now compensated, as nowhere else in the
continent at the time, at an increased pay rate. And with the
eight-hour work day now the norm, overtime work became more readily
available.
In another innovation, work breaks were made longer: two hours each
day, allowing greater opportunity for workers to relax, and to make
use of the playing fields that large industries were now required to
provide.
Whereas a worker's right to job security had been virtually
non-existent, now an employee could no longer be dismissed at the sole
discretion of the employer. Hitler saw to it that workers' rights were
spelled out and enforced. Henceforth, an employer had to give four
weeks notice before firing an employee, who then had up to two months
to appeal the dismissal. Dismissals could also be annulled by the
"Courts of Social Honor" (Ehrengerichte).
This Court was one of three great institutions that were established
to protect German workers. The others were the "Labor Commissions" and
the "Council of Trust."
The "Council of Trust" (Vertrauensrat) was responsible for
establishing and developing a real spirit of community between
management and labor. "In every business enterprise," the 1934 "Labor
Charter" law stipulated, "the employer and head of the enterprise
(Führer), the employees and workers, personnel of the enterprise,
shall work jointly toward the goal of the enterprise and the common
good of the nation."
No longer would either be exploited by the other -- neither the worker
by arbitrary whim of the employer, nor the employer through the
blackmail of strikes for political ends.
Article 35 of the "Labor Charter" law stated: "Every member of an
enterprise community shall assume the responsibility required by his
position in said common enterprise." In short, each enterprise would
be headed by a dynamic executive, charged with a sense of the greater
community -- no longer a selfish capitalist with unconditional,
arbitrary power.
"The interest of the community may require that an incapable or
unworthy employer be relieved of his duties," the "Labor Charter"
stipulated. The employer was no longer unassailable, an all-powerful
boss with the last word on hiring and firing his staff. He, too, would
be subject to the workplace regulations, which he was now obliged to
respect no less than the least of his employees. The law conferred the
honor and responsibility of authority on the employer only insofar as
he merited it…
In the Third Reich, the worker knew that "exploitation of his physical
strength in bad faith or in violation of his honor" was no longer
tolerated. He had obligations to the community, but he shared these
obligations with every other member of the enterprise, from the chief
executive to the messenger boy. Finally, the German worker had clearly
defined social rights, which were arbitrated and enforced by
independent agencies. And while all this had been achieved in an
atmosphere of justice and moderation, it nevertheless constituted a
genuine social revolution…
Factories and shops, large and small, were altered or transformed to
conform to the strictest standards of cleanliness and hygiene:
interiors, so often dark and stifling, were opened up to light;
playing fields were constructed; rest areas where workers could unbend
during break, were set aside; employee cafeterias and respectable
locker rooms were opened. The larger industrial establishments, in
addition to providing the normally required conventional sports
facilities, were obliged to put in swimming pools!
In just three years, these achievements would reach unimagined
heights: more than two thousand factories refitted and beautified;
23,000 work premises modernized; 800 buildings designed exclusively
for meetings; 1,200 playing fields; 13,000 sanitary facilities; 17,000
cafeterias.
To assure the healthy development of the working class, physical
education courses were instituted for younger workers. Some 8,000 were
eventually organized. Technical training was equally emphasized.
Hundreds of work schools, and thousands of technical courses were
created. There were examinations for professional competence, and
competitions in which generous prizes were awarded to outstanding
masters of their craft.
Eight hundred departmental inspectors and 17,300 local inspectors were
employed to conscientiously monitor and promote these improvements.
To provide affordable vacations for German workers on a hitherto
unprecedented scale, Hitler established the "Strength through Joy"
program. As a result, hundreds of thousands of workers were now able
to make relaxing vacation trips on land and sea each summer.
Magnificent cruise ships were built, and special trains brought
vacationers to the mountains and the seashore. In just a few years,
Germany's working-class tourists would log a distance equivalent to 54
times the circumference of the earth! And thanks to generous state
subsidies, the cost to workers of these popular vacation excursions
was nearly insignificant…
Was Hitler's transformation of the lot of the working class
authoritarian? Without a doubt. And yet, for a people that had grown
sick and tired of anarchy, this new authoritarianism wasn't regarded
as an imposition. In fact, people have always accepted a strong man's
leadership.
In any case, there is no doubt that the attitude of the German working
class, which was still two-thirds non-Nazi at the start of 1933, soon
changed completely. As Belgian author Marcel Laloire noted at the
time:
When you make your way through the cities of Germany and go into the
working-class districts, go through the factories, the construction
yards, you are astonished to find so many workers on the job sporting
the Hitler insignia, to see so many flags with the swastika, black on
a bright red background, in the most densely populated districts.
Hitler's "German Labor Front" (Deutsche Arbeitsfront), which
incorporated all workers and employers, was for the most part eagerly
accepted. The steel spades of the sturdy young lads of the "National
Labor Service" (Reichsarbeitsdienst) could also be seen gleaming along
the highways.
Hitler created the National Labor Service not only to alleviate
unemployment, but to bring together, in absolute equality, and in the
same uniform, both the sons of millionaires and the sons of the
poorest families for several months' common labor and living.
All performed the same work, all were subject to the same discipline;
they enjoyed the same pleasures and benefited from the same physical
and moral development. At the same construction sites and in the same
barracks, Germans became conscious of what they had in common, grew to
understand one another, and discarded their old prejudices of class
and caste.
After a hitch in the National Labor Service, a young worker knew that
the rich man's son was not a pampered monster, while the young lad of
wealthy family knew that the worker's son had no less honor than a
nobleman or an heir to riches; they had lived and worked together as
comrades. Social hatred was vanishing, and a socially united people
was being born.
Hitler could go into factories -- something few men of the so-called
Right would have risked in the past -- and hold forth to crowds of
workers, at times in the thousands, as at the huge Siemens works. "In
contrast to the von Papens and other country gentlemen," he might tell
them, "in my youth I was a worker like you. And in my heart of hearts,
I have remained what I was then."
During his twelve years in power, no untoward incident ever occurred
at any factory he visited. Hitler was at home when he went among the
people, and he was received like a member of the family returning home
after making a success of himself.
But the Chancellor of the Third Reich wanted more than popular
approval. He wanted that approval to be freely, widely, and repeatedly
expressed by popular vote. No people was ever be more frequently asked
for their electoral opinion than the German people of that era -- five
times in five years.
For Hitler, it was not enough that the people voted from time to time,
as in the previous democratic system. In those days, voters were
rarely appealed to, and when they expressed an opinion, they were
often ill-informed and apathetic. After an election, years might go
by, during which the politicians were heedless and inaccessible, the
electorate powerless to vote on their actions.
To enable the German public to express its opinion on the occasion of
important events of social, national, or international significance,
Hitler provided the people a new means of approving or rejecting his
own actions as Chancellor: the plebiscite.
Hitler recognized the right of all the people, men and women alike, to
vote by secret ballot: to voice their opinion of his policies, or to
make a well-grounded judgment on this or that great decision in
domestic or foreign affairs. Rather than a formalistic routine,
democracy became a vital, active program of supervision that was
renewed annually.
The articles of the "Plebiscite Law" were brief and clear:
1. The Reich government may ask the people whether or not it
approves of a measure planned by or taken by the government. This may
also apply to a law.
2. A measure submitted to plebiscite will be considered as
established when it receives a simple majority of the votes. This will
apply as well to a law modifying the Constitution.
3. If the people approves the measure in question, it will be
applied in conformity with article III of the Law for Overcoming the
Distress of the People and the Reich.
The Reich Interior Ministry is authorized to take all legal and
administrative measures necessary to carry out this law.
Berlin, July 14, 1933.
Hitler, Frick…
From the first months of 1933, his accomplishments were public fact,
for all to see. Before end of the year, unemployment in Germany had
fallen from more than 6,000,000 to 3,374,000. Thus, 2,627,000 jobs had
been created since the previous February, when Hitler began his
"gigantic task!" A simple question: Who in Europe ever achieved
similar results in so short a time?…
In his detailed and critical biography of Hitler, Joachim Fest limited
his treatment of Hitler's extraordinary social achievements in 1933 to
a few paragraphs. All the same, Fest did not refrain from
acknowledging:
The regime insisted that it was not the rule of one social class above
all others, and by granting everyone opportunities to rise, it in fact
demonstrated class neutrality -- These measures did indeed break
through the old, petrified social structures. They tangibly improved
the material condition of much of the population. (J. Fest, Hitler,
pp. 434-435.)
Not without reason were the swastika banners waving proudly throughout
the working-class districts where, just a year ago, they had been
unceremoniously torn down.
National Alliance Terrorism
most dangerous domestic terrorist
organization in the United States. With dozens of cells and ranks of
1000+ members,
hundreds have been charged and convicted of crimes ranging from rape,
arson, robbery, assualt and murder over the past decade. In fact the
National Alliance itself is the subject of 52 FBI investigations
related to domestic terrorism and ties with foreign terrorists.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/WNT/Investigation/story?id=681288&page=1
William Pierce the founder of the National Alliance advocated for
herding Jews, homosexuals and "racemixers" into cattle cars and sending
them to abandoned coal mines and Timothy Mcveigh admitted his bombing
of the Murrah federal building was inspired by William Pierces' book
the Turner Diaries (which incites the overthrow of the government and
the genocide of non-aryans and jews). National Alliance also owns
Resistance Records which sells music titles such as "6 million more"
and "Kremator - A Replay of the Final Solution" advocating the
extermination of Jews and southern europeans.
The National Alliance praised the 9/11 attacks and has since forged
and strengthened its financial and political ties with Al Qaeda and
other Islamic Fascist terrorist groups, as they are both determined to
destroy America and committed to the genocide of Jews.
"Neo-Nazi websites, including the largest umbrella organisation, the
National Alliance, show support for al-Qaeda. Billy Roper, the
alliance's membership coordinator posted a message within hours of the
11 September attacks, reading: 'Anyone who is willing to drive a plane
into a building to kill Jews is all right by me. I wish our members
had half as much testicular fortitude.'
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,582222,00.html
Day Brown
begin early enough in history. Like most posters, you get an insight,
and then run with it. Maybe you noticed nobody is catching the ball.
Spinoza:"Further, they assert that we or our soul have such freedom,
that we can constrain ourselves, or our soul, or even our soul's freedom.
For, after it has formed a fictitious idea, and has given its assent
thereto, it cannot think or feign it in any other manner, but is
constrained by the first fictitious idea to keep all other thoughts in
harmony therewith. Our opponents are thus driven to admit, in support
of their fiction, the absurdities which I have just enumerated; and
which are not worthy of rational refutation."
Course, Spinoza's a Jew, so you dont read him, nor it seems Sun Tzu,
who recommended that you should know your enemy. I see you report on
the distress of the German people, but not on the underlying economic
repercussions of the Versaisse treaty, nor even consider what other way
Germany may have had besides Hitler to deal with it. Machiavelli would
have been useful. Or even Nietzsche, who sarcastically warned of German
innovation in stimulants. With a people as talented as the Germans, all
that would have been required, was a repudiation of the reparations, and
the German economy would have flowered far more than what you admire the
National Socialists had done.
Many sagacious Germans knew this, and supported Hitler on that account-
alone. They expected to get rid of him after he did it for them. They,
however, were unaware of Hitler's use of amphetamine, which he used to
run 24/7 for days at a time, and therefore appear to be the superman he
claimed to be. But we all know what crank will do now, dont we?
You are certainly correct to be worried about race mixing; but I must
point out that the most outstanding hybrid yet developed is seen in the
long, and still growing list, of Jewish/Aryan geniuses. Which is one of
the reasons the calls for antisemitism are not going anywhere. Those
sons of Jewish bitches are smarter than you are. Trying to rely on the
stupid rednecks to get up off the couch and help you do something before
it is too late, is hopeless. ITS TOO LATE already.
Jung (wasnt he a jew too?) was right, there are instinctive behavior
patterns in the hominids the same as any other animal. And some of those
patterns are not very adaptable to what passes for modern civilization.
I know the cities are fulla guys who just cant wait to get out in the
woods; they just dont feel a home anywhere else. And there's white girls
who live to ride horses, as their Amazon ancestresses had done for 6,000
years in Hungary and Ukraine. Then too, there's guys who'd only feel at
home in the jungle, but there aint no jungle anywhere they can get to.
And when these different bloodlines mix, the kids are instinctively very
confused, and dont feel at home anywhere. Some are lucky, more adaptable
and intelligent, can cope and compete. But all kids, of any line, pure
or mixed, need more careful assessment of who they really are, and what
course socialization should take for each individual kid.
But I dont see that happenin any time soon. What is more likely, is some
kind of total meltdown that reorganizes people; you are right Topaz, the
world is a fucking mess, but national socialism is way too far behind
the curve to fix it. Just look at the DNA data for crysake.
Topaz
wrote:
>Topaz, your scholarship is remarkable. Unfortunately, it does not
>begin early enough in history. Like most posters, you get an insight,
>and then run with it. Maybe you noticed nobody is catching the ball.
>Spinoza:"Further, they assert that we or our soul have such freedom,
>that we can constrain ourselves, or our soul, or even our soul's freedom.
>For, after it has formed a fictitious idea, and has given its assent
>thereto, it cannot think or feign it in any other manner, but is
>constrained by the first fictitious idea to keep all other thoughts in
>harmony therewith. Our opponents are thus driven to admit, in support
>of their fiction, the absurdities which I have just enumerated; and
>which are not worthy of rational refutation."
>
>Course, Spinoza's a Jew, so you dont read him, nor it seems Sun Tzu,
>who recommended that you should know your enemy. I see you report on
>the distress of the German people, but not on the underlying economic
>repercussions of the Versaisse treaty,
Here is part of Hitler's speech of April 12, 1921:
"thus we were the first to declare that this peace treaty was a crime.
Then folk abused us as 'agitators.' We were the first to protest
against the failure to present this treaty to the people before it was
signed. Again we called on the masses of the people not to surrender
their arms, for the surrender of one's arms would be nothing less than
the beginning of enslavement. We were called, no, we were cried down
as, 'agitators.' "
> nor even consider what other way
>Germany may have had besides Hitler to deal with it.
Nothing could be better.
>Machiavelli would
>have been useful. Or even Nietzsche, who sarcastically warned of German
>innovation in stimulants. With a people as talented as the Germans, all
>that would have been required, was a repudiation of the reparations, and
>the German economy would have flowered far more than what you admire the
>National Socialists had done.
>
>Many sagacious Germans knew this, and supported Hitler on that account-
>alone. They expected to get rid of him after he did it for them. They,
>however, were unaware of Hitler's use of amphetamine, which he used to
>run 24/7 for days at a time, and therefore appear to be the superman he
>claimed to be. But we all know what crank will do now, dont we?
What you think you know is lies originating from Jews probably.
Here are some quotes from Mein Kampf:
"The man who is not opposed and vilified and slandered in the
Jewish Press is not a staunch German and not a true National
Socialist. The best rule whereby the sincerity of his convictions, his
character and strength of will, can be measured is by the hostility
which his name arouses among the mortal enemies of our people.
"The followers of the movement, and indeed the whole nation,
must be reminded again and again of the fact that, through the medium
of his newspapers, the Jew is always spreading falsehood and that if
he tells the truth on some occasions it is only for the purpose of
masking some greater deceit, which turns the apparent truth into a
deliberate falsehood. The Jew is the Great Master of Lies. Falsehood
and duplicity are the weapons with which he fights.
"Every calumny and falsehood published by the Jews are tokens of
honor which can be worn by our comrades. He whom they decry most is
nearest to our hearts and he whom they mortally hate is our best
friend.
"If a comrade of ours opens a Jewish newspaper in the morning
and does not find himself vilified there, then he has spent yesterday
to no account. For if he had achieved something he would be
persecuted, slandered, derided and abused. Those who effectively
combat this mortal enemy of our people, who is at the same time the
enemy of all Aryan peoples and all culture, can only expect to arouse
opposition on the part of this race and become the object of its
slanderous attacks.
"When these truths become part of the flesh and blood, as it
were, of our members, then the movement will be impregnable and
invincible."
" Then I began to examine my favorite 'World Press', with that fact
before my mind. "The deeper my soundings went the lesser grew my
respect for that Press which I formerly admired. Its style became
still more repellant and I was forced to reject its ideas as entirely
shallow and superficial. To claim that in the presentation of facts
and views its attitude was impartial seemed to me to contain more
falsehood than truth. The writers were- Jews.
"Thousands of details that I had scarcely noticed before seemed
to me now to deserve attention. I began to grasp and understand
things which I had formerly looked at in a different light."
"Thus another weapon beside that of freemasonry would have to be
secured. This was the Press. The Jew exercised all his skill and
tenacity in getting hold of it. By means of the Press he began
gradually to control public life in its entirety."
>
>You are certainly correct to be worried about race mixing; but I must
>point out that the most outstanding hybrid yet developed is seen in the
>long, and still growing list, of Jewish/Aryan geniuses. Which is one of
>the reasons the calls for antisemitism are not going anywhere. Those
>sons of Jewish bitches are smarter than you are. Trying to rely on the
>stupid rednecks to get up off the couch and help you do something before
>it is too late, is hopeless. ITS TOO LATE already.
>
>Jung (wasnt he a jew too?)
I don't think so.
>was right, there are instinctive behavior
>patterns in the hominids the same as any other animal. And some of those
>patterns are not very adaptable to what passes for modern civilization.
>I know the cities are fulla guys who just cant wait to get out in the
>woods; they just dont feel a home anywhere else. And there's white girls
>who live to ride horses, as their Amazon ancestresses had done for 6,000
>years in Hungary and Ukraine. Then too, there's guys who'd only feel at
>home in the jungle, but there aint no jungle anywhere they can get to.
>
>And when these different bloodlines mix, the kids are instinctively very
>confused, and dont feel at home anywhere. Some are lucky, more adaptable
>and intelligent, can cope and compete. But all kids, of any line, pure
>or mixed, need more careful assessment of who they really are, and what
>course socialization should take for each individual kid.
>
>But I dont see that happenin any time soon. What is more likely, is some
>kind of total meltdown that reorganizes people; you are right Topaz, the
>world is a fucking mess, but national socialism is way too far behind
>the curve to fix it. Just look at the DNA data for crysake.
National Socialism is right about everything and the answer to
everything. I don't argue whether or not it is too far behind the
curve. It doesn't matter to me. National Socialism is right and
everything else is wrong.
Topaz
On January 26, 1972, a JDL team firebombed the New York City offices
of a US-Soviet cultural exchange agency. Killed in the fire was a
27-year-old secretary (who happened to be Jewish). Thirteen others
were injured. One participant, Sheldon Siegel, confessed to police
that he had made the bomb, and provided the names of the others
involved in the crime. Several years later Kahane acknowledged JDL
responsibility for the crime. However, the case against the JDL
members who were charged in the incident was eventually dismissed on a
technicality. (note 36)
In May 1972, ten JDL thugs broke into the Austrian consulate in
Washington, DC, and beat Austria's ambassador to the US, Karl Gruber,
as well as the building's janitor. (note 37)
In May 1974, JDL members attacked Arab-American community activist Dr.
Mohammed Mehdi with a lead pipe, sending him to the hospital with a
broken back. It took nearly a year for the police to make an arrest,
even though a perpetrator had appeared on television to boast of the
deed. A short time later, Mehdi's offices in Manhattan were almost
totally destroyed in an apparent arson attack. (note 38)
On February 21, 1975, a US federal court found Kahane guilty of
violating terms of a probation stemming from his 1971 felony
conviction for manufacturing firebombs. He had been forbidden from
having anything to do with bombs, dynamite or other weapons, or
encouraging violence. Citing incriminating letters written by Kahane
in which he had urged followers to assassinate Russian and Arab
diplomats, the judge sentenced the rabbi to one year imprisonment.
Kahane served eight months of this term in a Manhattan halfway house,
which he was allowed to leave every day to eat in kosher restaurants.
Kahane used this period of "imprisonment" to conduct JDL business.
(note 39)
In 1975, 21-year-old JDL member David Kamaiko hijacked an executive
helicopter in New York City, demanding $2 million ransom to buy guns
for the JDL. Kamaiko shot the pilot before he was himself subdued.
(note 40)
In 1978, Canadian JDL leader Joseph Schachter bombed the home of
right-wing activist Donald Andrews. (note 41)
On April 11, 1982, JDL member Allan Goodman opened fire with a machine
gun at a Muslim house of worship in Jerusalem, killing two Palestinian
Arabs: an elderly man and a 20-year-old youth. After entering the
mosque, he continued firing, critically wounding several people.
Goodman, from Baltimore, Maryland, had received paramilitary training
at the JDL's Camp Jedel in New York state. In an interview, Kahane
said of the crime, "There was nothing wrong with what he did...the act
was perfectly correct." (note 42)
In 1987, three members of the Jewish Defense League were arrested for
their involvement in at least six bombing attacks carried out the New
York area between 1984 and 1987. The accused were Jay Cohen, Sharon
Katz and Victor Vancier, head of the JDL in the New York area. After
admitting his role in the terror bombings, Vancier was sentenced in
October 1987 to ten years imprisonment. Another JDL member, Murray
Young, was sentenced to five years in prison. (note 43)
FBI officials believe that the JDL was behind the bomb blast in
mid-August 1985 that killed Tscherim Soobzokov in Paterson, New
Jersey, and a similar (although non-fatal) bombing attack in early
September 1985 directed against Elmars Sprogis in Brentwood, New York.
Soobzokov and Sprogis were falsely alleged to have been "Nazi war
criminals." (note 44)
In January 1991, Kurt Haber-identified in newspaper reports as a
"Jewish Holocaust survivor"-was charged with making criminal threats
against the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee. (note 45)
Alex Odeh Murder
Perhaps the most widely-publicized crime in which the JDL has been
implicated is the murder on October 11, 1985, of Alex Odeh, West Coast
regional director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.
Odeh was killed in a bomb blast when he entered his group's office in
Santa Ana, southern California. (note 46)
An FBI official announced in 1985 that the Jewish Defense League was
believed responsible for the murder of Odeh and at least two other
terrorist incidents on the East Coast. "We are attributing the three
bombings to the JDL," said FBI official Lane Bonner. (note 47)
Similarly, an FBI report released in July 1986 cited "elements" of the
Jewish Defense League as responsible for the murder of Odeh. (note 48)
Three JDL members were identified by US federal investigators in 1988
as the perpetrators of the bombing that took Odeh's life. The accused
assassins, who were born in the USA but fled to Israel to avoid
punishment, are Keith Fuchs, Andy Green and Robert Manning. (note 49)
Law enforcement officials in Los Angeles and New York have named
Robert Manning-an important Jewish Defense League activist-as a
suspect in at least four political bombings in 1985, including the one
that killed Odeh. Manning, authorities said, had a two-decade history
of violent activities that also included threats against producers of
a television show. (note 50)
After joining the southern California chapter of the Jewish Defense
League as a charter member in 1971, Manning quickly earned a
reputation as a particularly tough street fighter. JDL chief Irv Rubin
praised him as a "pretty strong boy. I've seen him fight. We tangled
with Nazis in the streets, Arabs in the streets. He was a real active
guy." (note 51) In a 1988 court document, a federal prosecutor wrote:
"It became known that [Manning], while purporting to act on behalf of
the Jewish cause, on several occasions placed or threw explosive
devices at locations of Arab antagonists." (note 52)
The Israeli government sought to obstruct the FBI's investigation of
the Odeh slaying, the federal agency charged in November 1987. (note
53) Manning himself tried to evade extradition by claiming heart
trouble, by taking 20 sleeping pills, and by charging that he was
being wrongfully persecuted simply because he is a pious, orthodox
Jew. In spite of all this, Manning was finally extradited to the
United States in July 1993. (note 54)
Official Confirmation of JDL Terrorism
The US Justice Department's Federal Bureau of Investigation has
repeatedly characterized the JDL as a terrorist and criminal
organization. A report issued in 1985 by the FBI's Terrorist Research
and Analytical Center confirmed: (note 55)
In FBI terrorism analyses published since 1981, responsibility for 18
terrorist incidents has been attributed to groups seeking to publicize
past and present injustices suffered by the Jewish people. While
claims for some of these acts have been made in the names of the
"Jewish Defenders,' "United Jewish Underground," and "Jewish Direct
Action," 15 of the incidents were attributed to the Jewish Defense
League (JDL), by far the most well known of these groups.
Also in 1985, the FBI named the Jewish Defense League as the second
most active terrorist group in the United States. (Only Puerto Rican
terrorists were more active during this period.) The FBI linked the
JDL to 37 terrorist attacks carried out from 1977 to 1984. (note 56)
Two years later, the FBI announced that Jewish extremist groups had
carried out 24 terrorist acts from 1981 through 1986, 17 of which were
the work of the Jewish Defense League. (note 57)
Another US federal government agency, the Department of Energy,
similarly characterized the JDL in a report issued in 1986: (note 58)
For more than a decade, the Jewish Defense League (JDL) has been one
of the most active terrorist groups in the United States. Although the
JDL maintains that it is a political action group concerned with
dramatizing the plight of Soviet Jewry and, in more general terms,
protecting Jews and Jewish interests worldwide, the FBI has long
classified it as a terrorist organization.
...The underlying purpose of the JDL is to reverse the mythical image
of the Jews as victims. This militancy also fuels the anti-Soviet
campaign designed to create and foment new sources of tension in
Soviet-American relations ...
The JDL, however, has also attacked Arab, Iranian, Iraqi, Egyptian,
Palestinian, Lebanese, French, and German targets in the United States
... In 1978 [for example], Egyptian diplomats were targeted...Attacks
have also been staged by League chapters in France, Britain, Italy and
Israel.
In more recent years, the official report went on,
The JDL has pursued a dual-track strategy of acts of civil
disobedience and generally peaceful protest, along with acts of
outright terrorism...Bombing is the JDL's favorite tactic, accounting
for 78 percent of all JDL incidents. Shootings are next, accounting
for 16 percent, followed by arson, vandalism, and kidnaping,
accounting for one percent each ...
Since 1968, JDL operations have killed seven persons and wounded at
least 22...Sixty-two percent of all JDL attacks are directed against
property; 30 percent against businesses; four percent against
academics and academic institutions; and two percent against religious
targets.
Typically, an anonymous caller will claim responsibility for a
specific terrorist act for either the JDL or one of its alleged
subgroups, only to have an official spokesman for the JDL deny the
group's involvement the following day.
In the past, although the JDL was among the most active terrorist
organizations in the United States, the threat it posed appeared to be
primarily symbolic...Recent events, however, suggest that this view
requires revision. The increase of militant Jewish terrorism
represents not only an escalation of violence, but a significant
change in targeting patterns, as well as a dramatic shift in tactics.
...The group appears to be concentrating its efforts on persons and
institutions it considers to be enemies of Judaism and Israel. The
targets now [1986] include alleged former Nazis and war criminals;
Palestinian and Arab individuals and institutions; and persons and
so-called research centers promoting views about the Holocaust that
minimize the dimensions of Jewish suffering.
Perhaps the most far-reaching change, however, is the increasing use
of assassination, both to draw attention to the terrorists' causes and
to eliminate perceived enemies of the Jewish people and Israel.
Mordechai Levy and the Jewish Defense Organization
Besides Kahane, two of the most prominent JDL activists have been Irv
Rubin and Mordechai Levy. Each has been repeatedly arrested for
criminal activities.
Until 1982 or 1983, Mordechai (Mark) Levy was one of the most active
of Jewish Defense League activists. (note 59) Among his numerous
arrests was one in 1981 as a suspect in a car bombing. (note 60) On
one occasion he dressed up in a full regalia Nazi uniform to apply for
a parade permit to march at Independence Hall in Philadelphia,
apparently in an effort to alert the local Jewish community to the
"dangers of neo-Nazism." (note 61)
After leaving the JDL (supposedly because it was not "militant
enough") he founded the Jewish Defense Organization. He claimed that
his group, based in New York City, had more than 3,000 members. (The
real figure was probably no more than a few dozen.) In the years that
followed, Levy and rival Zionist militant Irv Rubin engaged in
increasingly bitter feuding.
In August 1989, Levy was arrested following a dramatic night-time
confrontation with Rubin and other JDL members. Fearing that Rubin was
trying to kill him, Levy went to the roof of the building where he
lived and began spraying the lower Manhattan street with semiautomatic
rifle fire, wounding an air-conditioning repairman as he sat in his
parked van. (note 62) Levy was later sentenced to four and a half
years imprisonment for injuring the 69-year-old repairman. (note 63)
On April 22, 1993, Jewish Defense Organization members attacked
demonstrators who had gathered in Washington, DC, to protest the US
Holocaust Memorial Museum. At least one person was seriously injured.
A JDO spokesman told reporters that several members of his group had
attacked and beat "four or five" of the 150 or so persons who had
rallied to express their opposition to the Museum. (note 64)
One of the victims was David Willcox, a 52-year-old employee of the
Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission. He was standing on a street
corner when three men wearing black "paramilitary" uniforms and skull
caps with the Star of David attacked, beating him on the head and legs
with metal pipes. Willcox required hospitalization and 12 stitches in
his head.
Two JDO members later confirmed the attack against Willcox. JDO
spokesman Michael Schneider told a reporter that his group would
continue to do "whatever is necessary " to "defend" Jews, including
attacking "enemies" in the street. The FBI said that it is
investigating the attack against Willcox as a possible act of
"domestic terrorism," while city police announced that they were
looking into the incident as a possible "hate crime." (As we go to
press, though, no arrests have been made.)
Irv Rubin
Since the early 1970s, Irv Rubin has been perhaps the most prominent
Jewish Defense League activist and spokesman. After a time as leader
of the group's JDL's West coast operations, he emerged as "national
chairman" of the post-Kahane JDL. By 1979, Rubin had managed to get
arrested 39 times in connection with JDL activities. (note 65)
In March 1992, Irv Rubin was arrested on suspicion of conspiring to
commit murder. He was released a few days later after the Los Angeles
district attorney's office determined that police lacked sufficient
evidence to hold him. (note 66)
In August 1992, Rubin's JDL succeeded in forcing a Los Angeles
restaurant and nightclub, the Largo, to cancel a concert on behalf of
the Palestine Aid Society, to raise money for humanitarian assistance.
Rubin warned Largo proprietor Mark Flanagan that he could "expect
trouble" and an "angry protest" unless he cancelled the event. Soon
after, Flanagan discovered that his business' door locks had been
destroyed by still-dripping fast-acting molecular glue. Then, just
hours before the event was to begin, Flanagan canceled the concert out
of fear that patrons might be victims of a possible JDL attack. (note
67)
Violence Against Holocaust Revisionists
Among the most persistent targets of Jewish terrorists in recent years
have been those who reject the generally accepted Holocaust story that
six million Jews were systematically murdered in Europe during the
Second World War.
In recent decades, a growing number of scholars have been citing an
impressive body of evidence that raises serious doubts about many
supposedly well-documented aspects of the Holocaust story. These
"Holocaust revisionists" include acclaimed best-selling British
historian David Irving, French professor Dr. Robert Faurisson and Dr.
Arthur Butz of Northwestern University. (For more about Holocaust
revisionism and the arguments of revisionist historians, write for a
catalog of books, tapes and other material from the Institute for
Historical Review.)
Incidents of violence against revisionist "thought criminals" have
included:
George Ashley, a high school history teacher and supporter of the IHR,
has been the target of several terrorist attacks because of his
revisionist views. In April 1982, two bricks were hurled through the
front window of his suburban Los Angeles home. One month later, two
gasoline fire bombs were thrown against the front of his house, and in
December of 1982, JDL criminals ransacked Ashley's home, causing an
estimated $26,000 in damage. (note 68) Mordechai Levy later boasted:
"We warned him [Ashley] that if he continued his activity, he would
pay a consequence...We warned that if the school board does not stop
Ashley, we would stop him." (note 69) In July 1984, Ashley received
repeated telephone calls from someone who threatened to bomb his home.
A JDL member identified by police from tape-recordings of the threats
was later arrested. (note 70) In August 1984, JDL member Michael S.
Canale was arrested on suspicion of making a bomb threat against
George Ashley. (note 71)
In May 1985, Ashley's home was the target of a another bomb attack, in
which no one was hurt. The letters "JDL" were spray-painted on the
walkway leading to Ashley's front door. (note 72) This attack was
cited in a January 1986 federal government report: (note 73) The
following month [May 1985], the JDL claimed credit for bombing the
house of George Ashley, Los Angeles-area high school teacher who had
told students that the number of Jews killed by the Nazis during World
War II was considerably less than the commonly accepted figure of six
million, and that not more than a million Jews perished during the
war. Dr. Charles Weber, a contributor to the IHR's Journal of
Historical Review, had his car vandalized in two separate incidents
during the month of April 1985. A note from the JDL, which threatened
to escalate the attacks into a bombing, was left behind in the second
incident. (note 74) Dr. Reinhard K. Buchner, a professor of physics at
California State University, Long Beach, and a member of the IHR
Editorial Advisory Committee (1980-1983), was the victim of repeated
JDL harassment in 1981, 1982 and early 1983. He was spat upon,
physically attacked, threatened by phone, and harassed at his office
and home. (note 75) German-Canadian publisher Ernst Zündel, a
prominent revisionist activist, has been repeatedly attacked by the
Jewish Defense League. In December 1983, JDL thugs beat him on the
steps of Toronto's Old City Hall. The JDL carried out another attack
against him on February 6, 1984. In September 1984, Zündel's home in
Toronto was damaged in a pipe-bomb attack. A group calling itself "The
People's Liberation Army of the Jewish Defense League" claimed
responsibility in a phone call to a local television station. In
January 1985, a JDL mob attacked Zündel, his attorney Doug Christie
and Christie's female legal secretary at the entrance to a Toronto
courthouse.
The office of a German-American group was set on fire in 1985,
apparently because of the organization's skepticism about Holocaust
claims. According to a report on terrorism issued in January 1986 by
the federal Department of Energy, in June 1985 (note 76), an anonymous
caller stated that the JDL had intentionally set fire to the offices
of the German-American Political Action Committee in Santa Monica,
California. The German-American group probably incurred the JDL's
wrath by its advocacy of the view that "Jews were not gassed by the
Nazis...[and that] numbers and reports of predetermined extermination
are greatly exaggerated by professional liars."
Target: Institute for Historical Review
Since its founding in 1978, the Institute for Historical Review has
been the leading American publisher of books and other materials
questioning the Holocaust extermination story. For this reason, its
office in southern California, as well as individual IHR employees,
soon became targets of a systematic campaign that included a drive-by
shooting, three firebombings, vandalization of IHR employee-owned
automobiles, slashings of 22 tires of employee automobiles,
JDL-organized demonstrations outside the IHR office, and numerous
telephone threats during office hours and at night to IHR employees at
home. So intense did the harassment become that the family of one IHR
employee was forced to move. (note 77)
During the course of a JDL demonstration in front of the IHR office on
March 19, 1981, Mordechai Levy and other JDL protesters attacked the
car of the landlord's agent, who had arrived to ensure security. While
shouting threats, Levy smashed the right front passenger window of the
man's car as he drove off. (note 78)
A few weeks later, on April 5, 1981, JDL hoodlums staged another
violent demonstration outside the IHR office, during which an IHR
employee was thrown to the ground and beaten.
In the early morning hours of June 25, 1981, came the first
firebombing attack against the IHR office. Fortunately, the arson
device-similar to a "Molotov cocktail"-caused only minor damage. A man
claiming to represent the "Jewish Defenders" announced responsibility
for the attack in phone calls to news agencies. (note 79)
The second arson attack against the IHR office came on April 25, 1982,
in which a copy machine, a few pieces of furniture and some records
were damaged. In a telephone message to a local news agency, a group
calling itself "the Jewish Defenders" claimed responsibility. (note
80)
In an attack on September 5, 1982, the IHR office was riddled with
gunfire, demolishing two windows and damaging the front door.
Additionally, a small arson device caused some slight damage to the
front of the office. Later that day, as throughout the week, came a
barrage of murder-threatening telephone calls. Although the caller's
voice was identified as that of Mordechai Levy, typically, no one was
arrested in the case. (note 81)
Fire-Bombing Arson Attack
This terror campaign culminated in a devastating arson attack on the
Institute's offices and warehouse in Torrance on July 4, 1984 -- the
209th anniversary of American independence. Damage in the attack,
carried out in the early morning hours of the 4th, was estimated at
$400,000. (note 82)
In a special edition of the IHR Newsletter (August 1984), IHR Director
J.
Marcellus summed up:
As a physical entity, the Institute for Historical Review has
virtually ceased to exist. Ninety percent of our book and tape
inventory-the largest collection of revisionist historical literature
to be found anywhere-has been wiped out. Every last piece of office
equipment and machinery-including desks, chairs, files and shelves-lay
in charred heaps of useless, twisted scrap. Manuscripts, documents,
artwork, galleys and film negatives-products of more than six long
years of a tough, dedicated effort to bring suppressed historical data
to people the world over-no longer exist. Tens of thousands of
books...estimated at over $300,000 in value, are gone...More than
2,500 square feet of space that was once the world's most
controversial publisher lies blackened in chaos and total ruin.
Two days later, JDL leader Irv Rubin showed up at the site of the
gutted IHR offices to publicly praise the arson attack. The JDL, he
declared, "wholeheartedly applauds the recent devastation of the
offices of the Institute for Historical Review." Denying any personal
responsibility himself, Rubin said that the criminal attack had been
carried out by a former JDL activist named Larry Winston (Joel Cohen).
"I believe, with all my heart, that he [Winston/Cohen] had something
to do with this" arson, Rubin declared. (note 83)
Although no one was ever arrested in connection with the 1984
firebombing, the sophisticated nature of the attack suggests that it
could have been the work of trained operatives of a foreign
governmental agency.
Apart from local news coverage, American newspapers and television
reported almost nothing about this act of criminal "book burning."
This skewed media treatment moved noted journalist Alexander Cockburn
to observe (in the pages of the liberal weekly The Nation): (note 84)
The outfit in the United States that does publish material belittling
generally accepted accounts of the Nazi extermination of the Jews is
called the Institute for Historical Review. I don't recall much fuss
when its offices in Torrance, California, were firebombed in July
1984. Perhaps this is what Mailer meant by "sophistication" in
handling such heterodox opinion.
At the same time, though, a few prominent voices courageously spoke
out against the attack. American historian John Toland-who received
the Pulitzer prize for general non-fiction in 1971 for his book The
Rising Sun -- wrote to the IHR: (note 85)
When I learned of the torching of the office-warehouse of the
Institute for Historical Review, I was shocked. And when I heard no
condemnation of this act of terrorism on television and read no
protests in the editorial pages of our leading newspapers or from the
halls of Academe, I was dismayed and incensed...I call on all true
believers in democracy to join me in public denunciation of the recent
burning of books in Torrance, California.
British historian David Irving, author of numerous acclaimed,
best-selling works of history, declared: "I was deeply shocked to hear
of the fire-bomb attack on your premises."
JDL Harassment of IHR Conference
In mid-February 1989, Jewish Defense League intimidation brought on
the cancellation of a three-day Institute for Historical Review
conference at two hotel sites in southern California.
Arrangements had been made months in advance to hold the Ninth IHR
Conference at the Red Lion Inn hotel in Costa Mesa. Several days
before it was to begin, the hotel received the first of a barrage of
telephone threats warning that if it permitted the IHR gathering to
take place as scheduled, there would be large, disruptive
demonstrations in front of the hotel. It didn't take many such threats
to persuade general manager Russell Cox to cave in to the Zionist
group, and to cancel the hotel's contract with the IHR. Cox then added
insult to injury by permitting JDL chief Rubin to hold a "news
conference" in the hotel lobby.
Arrangements were then hastily made to relocate the IHR gathering to a
nearby Holiday Inn hotel. However, just hours before it was to
commence- and as attendees were arriving-the Holiday Inn likewise
cancelled out, bowing to JDL threats similar to those made against the
Red Lion Inn.
At this point, and with help from former US Congressman John Schmitz,
IHR Director J. Marcellus made emergency arrangements with Joe
Bischof, proprietor of the "Old World Village" shopping center in
Huntington Beach, to hold the IHR Conference there. Bischof refused to
bow to JDL intimidation, including a demonstration at the site by a
handful of sorry-looking placard-waving JDLers led by Rubin, who
shouted insults at passersby. In spite of the disruption, and some
inconvenience for attendees, the Ninth IHR Conference proved one of
the most successful and high-spirited ever. (note 86)
JDL Thugs Attack Young Jewish Revisionist
On January 22, 1992, revisionist activist David Cole was attacked by
JDL thugs at a meeting held at the University of California at Los
Angeles. Before the meeting began, JDL leader Rubin first tried to
push the youthful Cole down a flight of stairs. JDL hoodlums also
harassed and pushed around meeting organizer Robert Morrissey. After
the meeting commenced, JDL punks tried to shout down the speakers, and
then threw food at Cole. Finally, a JDL thug assaulted Cole-who is
Jewish-hitting him in the face and bloodying his nose. (note 87)
The tumult was recorded on videotape by a camera crew of the CBS
television news program "48 Hours," as well as by news crews of two
local Los Angeles television stations. Neither of the two local
stations mentioned a word of the incident in their nightly news
broadcasts. Similarly, CBS officials decided not to air even a second
of this outburst, not even in a segment about Holocaust revisionism
that was part of the CBS television network's hour-long
magazine-format program "48 Hours" broadcast of February 26, 1992.
Network officials apparently decided that scenes of Zionist hoodlums
beating a young Jewish revisionist would not "fit" with the image of
revisionism that CBS wanted to project to its many viewers. (note 88)
Violence in Europe
The Murder of François Duprat
In France, François Duprat-a gifted young historian, educator, and
prolific writer-was murdered in 1978, thereby becoming the first
person to be killed because of his support for Holocaust revisionism.
Duprat had publicized the writings of former concentration camp inmate
Paul Rassinier, distributed a booklet, Did Six Million Really Die?,
and had published a revisionist article of his own, "The Mystery of
the Gas Chambers." (note 89)
As a result of such activism, the 38-year-old teacher was assassinated
on March 18, 1978, when the car he was driving was blown up in a bomb
blast. His wife, who was with him, lost the use of her legs in the
attack. A Jewish "Remembrance Commando" and a "Jewish Revolutionary
Group" promptly claimed responsibility for the murder. (note 90) So
sophisticated was the attack that it is difficult to believe that no
government agency was involved.
The Israel Connection
It is no secret that Israel provides training and weapons for local
"Jewish
defense groups" in the United States and many other countries. Victor
Ostrovsky, a former intelligence case officer of the Mossad, Israel's
spy
and secret service agency, confirms this connection in his
much-discussed
book, By Way of Deception. (note 91) One department of the Mossad,
writes
Ostrovsky, is the Tsafririm, which is
responsible for setting up Jewish defense groups, called "frames," or
misgerot, all over the world, now including some parts of the United
States, where anti-Semitism is regarded as a threat ... The main job
is to help the leaders of Jewish communities outside Israel plan for
their own security. Part of this is done through the hets va-keshet,
or "bow and arrow," Israel's paramilitary youth brigades.
... Often youths from other countries are brought over [to Israel] to
spend the summer learning about security, picking up such skills as
completing obstacle courses, pitching tents, and learning how to use a
sniper rifle and Uzi assault rifle. Still others learn upgraded
security skills, such as how to build a slick, for hiding weapons or
documents, when and how to do security checks, as well as fundamentals
of investigation and intelligence gathering.
Israel provides weapons for the many "Jewish defense groups," confirms
Ostrovsky, indirectly through known arms dealers.
Tagar/Betar
In Europe the most important Zionist terrorist group is Tagar, the
youth (or "student") branch of the radical Zionist movement Betar. The
Tagar/Betar group has carried out numerous criminal attacks against
"enemies," including Holocaust revisionists. Headquartered in Paris,
Tagar/Betar has close ties with the Israeli government, and
particularly with the political party of Begin and Shamir. Tagar is
reportedly controlled by Israel's covert operations agency, the
Mossad. (note 92)
Tagar activists have often boasted of their determination to "strike"
against anyone who "denies the Holocaust." Tagar admitted
responsibility for a physical assault against French revisionist
historian Olivier Mathieu during a television interview in February
1990. Three months later, Tagar thugs sacked the "Ogmios" bookstore in
Paris (which carried revisionist titles).
Tagar/Betar activists receive combat training along military lines
from Israeli army officers. Tagar members wear paramilitary blue
uniforms with white ties (the Zionist colors). Tagar/Betar has
operated in Europe with the knowledge and approval of high French
officials such as Prime Minister Laurent Fabius (who is Jewish). In
more than one Tagar/Betar attack against opponents, French police have
passively stood by. (note 93)
Tagar activists have operated in France under other names, including
"Jewish Defense Organization" and "Jewish Combat Organization."
Private para-military groups are strictly forbidden in France, except
Jewish ones. Between June 1976 and April 1991, such Jewish "militias"
have carried out 50 attacks. In effect, Jewish terrorists in Europe
can attack their "enemies" with impunity. (note 94)
Tagar has also been active in the United States. In February 1992, the
"Tagar Student Zionist Organization at the Ohio State University" in
Columbus organized a protest meeting against Holocaust revisionism.
The group distributed a leaflet-which, typically, contained factual
falsehoods-specifically attacking revisionist activist Bradley Smith.
(note 95)
Robert Faurisson
Dr. Robert Faurisson-Europe's most prominent Holocaust revisionist
(and a member of the Editorial Advisory Committee of the IHR's Journal
of Historical Review) -- was severely injured in a nearly fatal attack
on September 16, 1989. (note 96)
After spraying a stinging gas into his face, temporarily blinding him,
three assailants punched him to the ground and then repeatedly kicked
him in the face and chest. The 60-year-old scholar, who had been out
walking his poodle in a park in his home town of Vichy, suffered a
broken jaw and severe head injuries. Physicians operated for four and
a half hours to repair his jaw and treat a broken rib and badly
swollen face.
A group calling itself "The Sons of the Memory of the Jews" claimed
responsibility for the savage attack. In a statement, the group
threatened:
"Professor Faurisson is the first, but will not be the last. Let those
who deny the Shoah [Holocaust] beware." (note 97) While French police
officially would acknowledge only that "three young Jewish activists
from Paris" had carried out the assault, the attackers are strongly
suspected to have been with the Tagar/Betar organization. (note 98)
Prominent individuals and organizations in France, along with the
country's most influential daily newspaper, Le Monde, condemned the
attack. However, French-Jewish "Nazi hunter" Serge Klarsfeld sought to
excuse or justify the crime. "Someone who has provoked the Jewish
community for years should expect this sort of thing," he said. "One
cannot insult the memory of the victims without inviting the
consequences." (note 99)
While the September 1989 attack against Faurisson was the most
vicious, it was neither the first nor the last. Between November 1978
and May 1993, he was attacked on ten separate occasions. (note 100)
Other Terrorist Incidents in Europe
On November 5, 1980, an arson attack destroyed the office, warehouse
and printing plant in Sussex, southern England, of the firm that
prints Did Six Million Really Die? and other revisionist publications
of the Historical Review Press. Damage was estimated at 50,000 pounds.
A leftist journalist, Manny Carpel, was found guilty of the crime, and
sentenced to two and a half years imprisonment. (He served only a
little more than a year.) In January 1984, in Cologne, Germany,
Professor Hermann Greive, a non-Jewish authority on Jewish religious
writings, was shot to death by a member of Kahane's Kach group. The
murder was reportedly carried out in keeping with a Jewish scriptural
injunction that demands death for non-Jews who "pry" into Jewish
religious writings. (note 101)
On February 10, 1988, terrorists set fire to the automobile of German
historian Ernst Nolte while it was parked at the Free University in
Berlin, where he was a professor. An anonymous letter, signed with a
five-pointed star, declared: "We attack Nolte because he is one of
those who personally represents the continuity of fascism" and as
co-founder of a "reactionary" group called the "Academic Freedom
League." Nolte had been widely criticized for his moderately
revisionist views of Second World War history. (note 102)
On April 20, 1991, Betar/Tagar thugs carried out a violent attack
against several persons who were to attend a conference in Paris on
the French writer Marc Augier. (Under the pen name of Saint-Loup,
Augier wrote a series of books on the French "Legion of Volunteers,"
which fought on the eastern front during the Second World War.) Three
or four of the victims were hospitalized. One, a 67-year-old woman,
was in a coma for two months. Two Tagar members were arrested in
connection with the attack, but two and a half years later they had
still not been brought to trial. (note 103) A bookstore in Paris had
to be shut down for good in 1992 after repeated violent attacks by
Jewish militants. The bookstore was targeted because it sold
revisionist titles and was operated by revisionist publisher Pierre
Guillaume.
On October 19, 1992, a team of about 30 Betar activists shoved and
insulted pedestrians, smashed automobiles, and threw tear gas at
police in the central plaza of the German city of Rostock. The group
was led by the "Nazi-hunting" (and anti-revisionist) husband-wife team
of Serge and Beate Klarsfeld. The Betar activists, some of them
carrying Israeli flags, insulted passersby with shouts of "Dirty
Germans! Dirty Nazis!". (note 104) In December 1992, the chief of the
Jewish Defense League in Israel announced that he was sending teams of
killers to Germany to murder "neo-Nazis." Every German who cries "Heil
Hitler," or otherwise identifies himself as a Nazi, declared
33-year-old Rabbi Baruch Ben-Joseph (Baruch Green), is a target for
death. (note 105) Prominent German far-right political figures are not
the only persons on the Israel JDL's hit list, confided one JDL
member: "Persons behind the scenes are often more important, such as
the professor who denies or whitewashes the Holocaust in a book."
(note 106)
Conclusion
As this report shows, non-governmental Zionist terrorism has been a
problem for more than twenty years. It remains a serious problem
today.
Espousing Jewish supremacy, the Zionist terrornetwork operates
internationally, linking Israel, Europe and the United States. In
addition to the suffering and destruction resulting directly from its
many crimes, the network's campaign of bigotry fosters a dangerous
climate of hate and intolerance. Through intimidation, threat and
violence, Jewish-Zionist terrorists have succeeded in silencing
numerous voices. Many others have never spoken up out of fear that
they might likewise become victims.
Particularly alarming is the important support provided to these
criminal groups by the government of Israel. This official
collaboration poses a threat not only to the freedom and security of
individuals in many countries, but to the very freedom and sovereignty
of nations.
At the same time, though, the danger should not be exaggerated.
Zionist power is formidable but not limitless.
For one thing, Jewish militants are often so inept and mutually
suspicious that they squander much of their energy on attacks against
each other. (note 107)
Moreover, the number of individuals and organizations that Zionist
militants perceive as "anti-Semitic enemies" has increased so
dramatically in recent years that any one person or group is less
likely to be singled out for attack. (Even the much-feared
"anti-Semite" epithet has lost much of its impact. In 1991, an Israeli
government cabinet minister denounced President George Bush as
"anti-Semitic" because he wasn't acting quickly enough in approving a
$10 billion loan guarantee to Israel.)"
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Oh My
charles
Congratualtions! "Science" comes in handy this way. If you cheat on
your girlfriend, you can just say you post in Alt-sociology and that
monogamy is a failure!
Personally, I look back and see that monogamy goes back some 5,000
years and, amazingly, that is how far civilization goes back. Before
that, people lived in disorganized communes. Also, I read a little
world history and discover that every time "sexual freedom" hit a
civilization" and monogamy began to break down, the civilization
declined and the barbarians invaded. That is the real benefit of
scientific education. We learn.
What troubles you is that we are not a monogamous species. So, you are
not alone in your wish for "the natural way." However, monogamy has
been the most successful religious system adaptation of our instinctive
nature that the human race has ever experienced. The whole ediface of
government depends upon it. Otherwise, the alpha males would take
over, dominate society, and take all the women for themselves. That
would leave you and the rest to live celibate lives. Celebate serfs
form a discontented rabble that is ready to tear down society at the
first excuse.
Monogamy works because it is a system of rationing. Each man is
entitled to a one-woman "harem."
His "success" is measured not in how many women he has but in the
stature and attractiveness of the one which he does have. It means a
man knows who is children are and has an influence on their development
and lives. It is a good system when it is observed.
I ought to know. I divorced a woman ten-years my junior after 13yrs of
marriage and two children, outlived my second wife, a top executive,
after 37 years of marriage, and am looking forward to my third wife, a
real nockout who appears to be in her 40s. Monogamy is where you are
faithful to a single wife, and I have always been that, one at a time.
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Topaz
"The fight which Fascist Italy waged against Jewry's three
principal weapons, the profound reasons for which may not of been
consciously understood (though I do not believe this myself) furnishes
the best proof that the poison fangs of that Power which transcends
all State boundaries are being drawn, even though in an indirect way.
The prohibition of Freemasonry and secret societies, the suppression
of the supranational Press and the definite abolition of Marxism,
together with the steadily increasing consolidation of the Fascist
concept of the State--all this will enable the Italian Government, in
the course of some years, to advance more and more the interests of
the Italian people without paying any attention to the hissing of the
Jewish world-hydra.
"The English situation is not so favorable. In that country
which has 'the freest democracy' the Jew dictates his will, almost
unrestrained but indirectly, through his influence on public opinion."