FASCIST GERMANY “EXPLAINS”

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 90, 10 January 1935, Page 2

FASCIST GERMANY “EXPLAINS”

> —= — Conflicting Statements QUOTATIONS COLLECTED ‘AND TRANSLATED “The German Government will never tolerate the persecution of a person just because lie is a Jew,” said General Goering, on March 26, 1933. _ “The Jew was born from a sin against the Holy Ghost, and had always shown himself the servant of decay,” said Herr Kube, Prussian Minister of Justice in a broadcast talk to law officers, on March 28, 1933. “So to-day I believe that I act according to the mind of the Almighty Creator: In beating off the Jew I fight for the Work of the Lord,” wrote Herr Hitler, in his book, “Mein Kampf.” The contrast contained in these quotations from official Nazi Germany is typical of many of those included in a collection of excerpts picked in the last few years from the German Press and other publications. The book is called “Fascist Germany Explains”; it has been prepared by Celia Strachey and John Gustav Werner, and has just arrived from the English publishers.* The authority is given in all si atements used . „ " “Not Human Beings.

A Press quotation states: “Frenchmen are not human beings, and must under no circumstances be dealt with as such.” And one of the new scientific authorities lays down the explanation: “The non-Nordic occupies an intermediate position between Nordic man and animal, he conies next to the man-apes.” “This must at least be made entirely clear: The inexorable deadly enemy of Germany is and always will be France,” wrote Herr Hitler, in “Mein Kampf,” 1933 edition. In the same year he is reported to have said: “I, as a Nation-al-Socialist, and all my, followers, absolutely refuse, however, by reason of our national principles, to acquire nt the cost of the life-blood of those who love and are dear to us, men and women of a foreign nation, who, in any ease, will never love us.” “The message which we conveyed to the German people bears a manly character, and the Socialism which wo preach is a Socialism of heroism, a military Socialism,” wrote Dr. Goebbels, in 1933. “In order to restore German soil and Germans to the lap of mother Germany they needed the whole German ration —an outbreak of the nation toward the East.”—Governor of Grenzmnrk, 1933. “It is a special feature of the German National Revolution that the absolute changing of the internal position. was achieved in a bloodless and peaceful way, merely by the ballot paper.”—“Political A B C of the New Reich.” “Without the Storm Troops, without their zeal and numerical strength, we would not be in power.”—Rudolf Hess, 103?. “No Complaints.” “Capital punishment will be henceforth inflicted by shooting or hanging and in Prussia by the axe. This is as a matter of fact the surest kind of execution, as it has never given rise to any complaints whatsoever.”—“Frankfurter Zeitung,” 1933. Concerning vegetarianism: “The antagonism of many foreigners against rhe well-tried mixed diet in Germany finds its solution in the wish to deprive Germany of its power of resistance against its neighbours.”—Dr. Finke, 1033 “The party stands for positive Christianity.”—The Programme.

“How high the Horst Wessel (Nazi hero) towers over that Jesus of Nazareth. That Jesus who pleaded that the bitter cup should be taken from him. How unattainably high all Horst Wessels stand above this Jesus.” —“Dor Brunnen Dusseldorf,” 1934 “It is because we have so high and holy an ideal of man’s relations toward his God that we hate to see religion besmirched with the dirt of political conflict.”—Nazi policy (Gottfried Feder).

"Complete liberty of creed and conscience.” —Cultural aim stated in Hitler’s programme. “We are not and we do not want to lie the land of Goethe and Einstein. Not on any account.” —“Berliner LokalAnzeiger,” 1933. “The publishing output in the first fllLQHer 0f.1933. was 30 per cent. Ipwei"

than in the same quarter of 1931."— Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, 1933.

“German land may not become an object of financial speculation, nor may it provide an unearned income for its owner.”—The Programme. “But even indebted big estates will not be touched. If they do not offer themselves voluntarily for peasant settlement they will be left alone, in full recognition of the principle of private enterprise.”—Herr Darre, Minister of Agriculture, 1933. “Hail, Hitler!”

"We have no intention whatsoever to terrorise those who are not yet on our side, but after wo have taken over power we are going to convert them, to National-Socialism by our deeds. Nobody will bo compelled to shout ‘Heil Hitler!’ if he is fiot convinced of our cause.” —“Hamburger Tagebhitt,” 1933. “The stage worker Walter Thomas, of Berlin, who was recently called as a witness in a court case, refused to greet the court with a Hitle r salute. He was thereupon'immediately arrested and sentenced to three days’ imprisonment for contempt of court.” —“Berliner Borsen Zeitung,” 1933. “We demand the abolition of incomes unearned by work.” —The Programme. “You may rest assured that this Government will make no experiments in the financial sphere.”—Dr. Schacht, president of the Reichsbank, 1934. “All citizens of the State shall be equal as regards rights and duties.” — The Programme.

“For those who are not going to join the Storm Troops there will bo no room in future at German Universities.” — ■iDr. Stabel, Leader of the German Students, 1934. "Yesterday eleven persons were transferred to the concentration camp Osthofen by the State police of Giessen. Among them were two men who had remarked during a journey that they would go to Russia as there were better conditions there.” —“Frankfurter Zeitung,” 1933. *London : Victor Gollaucz, Ltd.