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The Book that Hitler Fears
Germany Must Perish!
by Theodore N. Kaufman
Newark, N.J., Argyle press
Copyright 1941
Library of Congress Call No.: DD222.K3
Introductory Note
by Mark Weber
Theodore N. Kaufman, the author of Germany Must Perish, was a
Manhattan-born Jewish businessman who was also chairman of a group that
called itself the "American Federation for Peace." The first edition of
this slim volume was published in 1940 or early 1941. A second, 96-page
edition, which sold for 25 cents, was published in 1941 by Argyle Press
of Newark, New Jersey. Both editions were issued when the United States
was still officially neutral, that is, before the Pearl Harbor attack of
December 7, 1941, that brought the U.S. openly into World War II.
Kaufman's fervent proposal for the systematic sterilization of the
entire German population was given respectful attention in the American
press, including reviews in a number of newspapers. A review in the
weekly Time magazine, March 24, 1941, called Kaufman's plan a "sensational idea."
Germany's propaganda chief, Joseph Goebbels, seized with delight on
the book. "This Jew [Kaufman] has done a disservice to the enemy,"
Goebbels privately commented. "If he had composed the book at my behest
he couldn't have done a better job."
At his direction the German press played up Kaufman's call for
genocide. A front page article about the book in the Berlin daily Der Angriff,
July 23, 1941, appeared under headlines that called it a "Diabolical
Plan for the Extermination of the German People" and a work of "Old
Testament Hatred." Extracts also appeared, for example, in the
nationally-circulated weekly paper Das Reich, August 3, 1941.
A plan similar to Kaufman's was issued during the war years by a
prominent American anthropologist. In an article headlined "Breed War
Strain Out of Germans" in the New York daily newspaper P.M., January
4, 1943, Ernest Hooton laid out an "outbreeding" plan that would
"destroy German nationalism and aggressive ideology while retaining and
perpetuating desirable German biological and sociological capacities."
(See also: Benjamin Colby, ‘Twas a Famous Victory, 1974, p. 131.)
The Harvard University professor's proposal called for genetically
transforming the German nation by encouraging mating of German women
with non-German men, who would be brought into the country in large
numbers, and of German men, forcibly held outside of Germany, with
non-German women. Ten to twelve million German men would be assigned to
forced labor under Allied supervision in countries outside of Germany to
rebuild their economies. "The objects of this measure," wrote Dr.
Hooton, "include reduction of the birthrate of 'pure' Germans,
neutralization of German aggressiveness by outbreeding and
denationalization of indoctrinated individuals."
This plan, Hooton estimated, would require at least 20 years to be
implemented. "During this period," he went on, "encourage also the
immigration and settlement in the German states of non-German nationals,
especially males."
In the decades since the end of World War II, something of the spirit
of the genocidal Kaufman and Hooton plans seems manifest in Germany's
population and immigration policies. Since the nation's defeat in 1945,
the German birth rate has fallen to below the replacement level,
millions of racially and culturally alien migrants have been welcomed as
settlers in Germany, the number of children of mixed ethnicity has
sharply increased, and the ethnic-cultural character of much of the
country has been drastically altered, especially in the larger cities.
This dynamic volume outlines a comprehensive plan for the extinction
of the German nation and the total eradication from the earth, of all
her people. Also contained herein is a map illustrating the possible
territorial dissection of Germany and the apportionment of her lands.
To all those men and women who would rather die fighting for freedom, than remain alive as slaves;
To all those men and women who, unafraid, speak out the truth as they conceive it to be the truth;
To all those men and women who, inspired by the efforts, hopes and aspirations of mankind place its needs before their own;
This book is humbly dedicated.
Special Note to Reader
Germany Must Perish presents a plan for the structure of a permanent
and lasting peace among civilized nations. It bases its thesis on the
eventual defeat of Germany by the British Empire and its Allies, without
the assistance of the United States.
However, should circumstances decree that the American public cast
its ballot in favor of war as a measure of self-defense (and it is the
fervent prayer of the author that this may never happen) it would become
paramount that the lives of our native sons not be sacrificed in vain
as were their fathers' lives a generation ago.
If our soldiers must go forth to kill or die in battle, at least let
them be given not alone a Slogan but a Solemn Purpose and a Sacred
Promise.
Let that Purpose be an Enduring Peace!
And, this time, that Promise must be kept!
1. About This Book
Today's war is not a war against Adolf Hitler.
Nor is it a war against the Nazis.
It is a war of peoples against peoples; of civilized peoples
envisioning Light, against uncivilized barbarians who cherish Darkness.
Of the peoples of those nations who would surge forward hopefully
into a new and better phase of life, pitted against the peoples of a
nation who would travel backward enthusiastically into the dark ages. It
is a struggle between the German nation and humanity.
Hitler is no more to be blamed for this German war than was the
Kaiser for the last one. Nor Bismarck before the Kaiser. These men did
not originate or wage Germany's wars against the world. They were merely
the mirrors reflecting centuries-old inbred lust of the German nation
for conquest and mass murder.
This war is being waged by the German People. It is they who are
responsible. It is they who must be made to pay for the war. otherwise,
there will always be a German war against the world. And with such a
sword forever hanging overhead the civilized nations of the world, no
matter how great their hopes, how strenuous their efforts, will never
succeed in creating that firm and solid foun- dation of permanent peace
which they must first establish if ever they intend to start the
building of a better world.
For not only must their be no more German wars in fact; there must
not even remain the slightest possibility of one ever again occurring. A
final halt to German aggression, not a temporary cessation, must be the
goal of the present struggle.
This does not mean an armed mastery over Germany, or a peace with
political or territorial adjustments, or a hope based on a defeated and
repentant nation. Such settlements are not sufficiently conclusive
guarantees of no more German aggressions.
This time Germany has forced a TOTAL WAR upon the world.
As a result, she must be prepared to pay a TOTAL PENALTY.
And there is one, and only one, such Total Penalty: Germany must perish forever!
In fact -- not in fancy!
Daily the truth is being impressed upon us by observation, and upon
others less fortunate, by bombs, that the German doctrine of force is
not one based upon either political expediency or economic necessity.
The personal war-lust of those who lead the German people is but a
component part of the war-lust which exists as a whole in the German
masses. German leaders are not isolated from the will of the German
people because apart from this will they could not come into being or
exist at all. Their personal inspiration, the motivation, even the
acquiescence to their deeds are one and all drawn by German leaders from
the very depths of the German national soul.
Far too often the claim has been made that the present German drive
toward world-dominion is only street gangsterism practiced on an
organized national scale, deriving principally from the lowest classes,
the dregs of Germany. Such a claim is not sustained by facts, for the
same lust, the same brute force which the Germans display today under
the rule of the so-called "low class Nazis," they also displayed in
1914, at a time when the "highest classes" and the "noblest specimens"
capable of being produced by the German nation, the Junkers, ruled that
land. And a vast number of Germany's intellectuals, another German
"high-class," sat as members in the German Reichstag!
No! The problem of Germanism must not again be passed along to the
next generation. The world must never again be stretched and tortured on
the German rack. Ours is the problem; ours the solution. The world has
learned, with a knowledge born of tragedies too numerous, too horrible
to record, that regardless of what leader or class rules Germany, war
will be waged against it by that country, because the force which
compels it to action is an in- separable part of the mass-soul of that
nation. True, that soul, at one time, might have been otherwise fash-
ioned.
But that time was in the civilizing cycle of a thousand years ago. Now it is too late.
We know that. Our men of 1917 did not. They had no precedent on which
to base their experience. We have not that excuse today. Their futile
sacrifices and their empty efforts must today dictate our own actions
and decisions. We are paying today for the lack of experience of the
last generation in dealing with the peoples of the German nation. When
and if the time comes for us to take similar decision and action we must
not repeat their mistake. The cost is far too great; not alone for us,
but for all future generations.
We must bring ourselves to realize that no leader can govern Germany
at all unless, in some manner, he embodies the spirit and expresses the
war-soul existent in the majority of her peoples. "Majority" is used
advisedly for in speaking of the masses which compose a nation it must
be impartially conceded that some fraction of the mass must perforce
vary from it. Consequently no unfair contention is here being made that
everyone in Germany is guilty of its heinous offenses against the world.
In fact we shall, in pursuing our point, favor Germany by allowing that
as much as 20% of her population is entirely guiltless of complicity in
her crimes, as well as being foreign to any share of her war-soul. We
therefore grant, for argument's sake, that some 15,000,000 Germans are
absolutely innocent.
BUT -- shall Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Austrians, Norwegians, Dutch,
Belgians, Frenchmen, Greeks, Englishmen, Irishmen, Scotsmen, Canadians,
Australians and Americans -- for we too may ultimately feel the spike of
the German boot -- shall all these peoples, numbering some 300,000,000
of the most civilized, most enlightened on earth suffer constantly and
face unnatural death every generation so that some small part of
Germany's populace may continue to exist? Are those 15,000,000 Germans
so valuable, so indispensable to mankind that 300,000,000 guiltless men,
women and children shall fight a war with Germany every time she so
decrees? Shall perpetual struggle against the German be the only future
facing civilized peoples? Why breed children while Germany breeds war?
Are not the Dutch a sober and thrifty people? Are not the French
cultured? Are not the Czechs industrious? Are not the Poles deeply
attached to land, family and God? Are not the Scandinavians a decent
people? Are not the Greeks brave and fearless? Are not the English,
Irish, Scotch and American freedom-loving and progressive people? And in
very simple arithmetic are not these 300,000,000 more than 15,000,000
Germans?
If Democracy as Americans know it is majority rule in a national
sense, it must be so in an international sense as well. The greatest
good for the greatest number is Democracy's rule of thumb; to fight for
world Democracy is to secure the rights of the majority of democratic
peoples against the incursions made upon them by any autocratic
minority.
If this is not so, why conscript a vast army for Democracy's defense?
Why train American soldiers to murder a hypothetical enemy of
Democracy, when the Will which spawned this enemy waxes and grows with
each successive blood-bath?
In 1917 American soldiers, as those of every other major nation, were forced to murder by the millions. What for?
Suppose we are forced again to kill? For wars are won only by such
killing, not by dying. Again what for? Another sell-out? Is selling-out
our soldiers to become a national habit? For quite patently, to fight
once more in democratic defense against Germany with any goal in view
save that country's extinction constitutes, even though it loses the
war, a German victory. To fight, to win, and not this time to end
Germanism forever by exterminating completely those people who spread
its doctrine die to herald the outbreak of another German war within a
generation.
Let us then beware, for it is not illogical to assume that some day
the soldier, if constantly martialed and regimented against his will,
may emerge from underneath the time-worn cloak of "duty" and come, like
labor, capital and civilian to demand his "rights." It must not be
unreasonable to conjecture that a soldier must have rights too, as well
as duties. Certainly, a man forced against his instinct to kill has
rights; perhaps not the rights of wages and hours, nor the rights of
profits, not the right of untrammeled speech against his superiors,
which in a military sense spells catastrophe. No, none of these; just a
few simple rights -- three of which would appear his in- contestable
duty to demand: one, that he be adequately supplied with the proper arms
in sufficient quantities so that there be a maximum of speed attached
to his "killing," -- secondly, that he be not betrayed by
fifth-columnists who must, in wartime, be summarily dispatched, by
imprisonment or execution, and lastly, of the primmest importance, that
he receive a definite avowal by his government guaranteeing him once and
for all time that this whole ghastly, horrible business of killing the
Germans is at an end; that his son may know peace without having to kill
for it.
If such a guarantee be not vouchsafed him before his struggle, or be
not upheld after his struggle, as it was not the last time, (though the
Generals knew, among them our own Peshing, that Germany at that time
should have been unalterably snuffed out) may he not then take such
action in his own hand? Granting labor has the right to strike when its
rights are violated, granting that capital withhold itself from
circulation when it feels its usage unprofitable, granting that the
civilian feels tyrannized when his civil liberties are jeopardized, what
course may the soldier not take once he realized he has been cheated,
once too often, out of that for which he killed?
When the day of reckoning with Germany comes, as come it will, there
will be only one obvious answer. No statesmen or politician or leader
responsible for post-war settlements will have the right to indulge in
the personal luxury of false sentiment and specious sanctimony and
declare that Germany, misled by her leaders, shall deserve the right of
resurrection! He will not be permitted this time to forget so easily the
bomb-blasted, earth-entombed millions of women and children who lived
through a hell on earth; the bullet-ridden, tank-crushed bodies of
soldiers; the many countries whose energies were sapped and resources
drained. And most of all, he will not be permitted to disregard the
unselfish sacrifices made by the common people so that the beast that is
Germany shall never roam on earth again!
It is a definite obligation which the world owes to those who
struggled and died against the German yesterday, and to those who are
fighting him again today, as it is the bounden duty of the present
generation to those yet unborn, to make certain that the vicious fangs
of the German serpent shall never strike again. And since the venom of
those fangs derives its fatal poison not from within the body, but from
the war-soul of the German, nothing else would assure humanity safety
and security but that that war-soul be forever expunged, and the
diseased carcass which harbors it forever removed from this world. There
is no longer any alternative:
Germany Must Perish!
This war, with its harrowing miseries, its indescribable German
devastations, its unutterable German atrocities, is born of the war-soul
of those barbarians of whom Machiavelli, writing over four hundred
years ago, observed:
German towns are at little or no expense in any thing, but in laying
up military stores and making good their fortifications ... on holidays
instead of other diversion, the Germans are taught the use of weapons.
History repeats itself.
We can remove a tiger from his natural environment, his lair in the
jungle, and with patience so tame him that eventually he will respond to
our caress, feed from our hand and perform at our command. The more
acquiescent he becomes in response to this outward conditioning, the
more deceived are we in believing that his jungle days have been
forgotten. This is a fatal deception. For in- evitably there comes a
time when the tiger-soul within the tiger drives him again to the use of
gang and claw. In that inexorable response to that irresistible
soul-force, the tiger reverts once again to jungle lore. He becomes,
again, a killer.
And so it is with the people of Germany. They may respond for a while
to civilizing forces; they may seemingly adopt the superficial
mannerisms and exterior behaviorism of civilized peoples but all the
while there remains ever present within them that war-soul which
eventually drives then, as it does the tiger, to kill. And no amount of
conditionism, or reasoning, or civilizing -- past, present or future --
will ever be able to change this basic nature. For if no impress has
been made upon this war-soul over a period of some two thousand years it
is to be expected that of a sudden, on the morrow, this miracle will
occur?
This analogous linking of the people of Germany with savage breast is
no vulgar comparison. I feel no more personal hatred for these people
than I might feel for a herd of wild animals or a cluster of poisonous
reptiles. One does not hate those whose soul can exude no spiritual
warmth; one pities then. If the German people wish to live by
themselves, in darkness, it would be strictly their own affair. But when
they make constant attempts to enshroud the souls of other people in
those fetid wrappings which cloak their own, it becomes time to remove
them from the realm of civilized mankind among which they can have no
place, or right to existence.
We need not condemn the Germans. They stand self- condemned. For it
suffices us to read and hear those words written and spoken only by
Germans; to endure sufferings and dislocations caused solely by the
German people in pursuit of their megalomaniacal ideals and demonic
aspirations to realize that it is the Germans themselves who decree,
almost demand, their ostracism from their follow-man. They have lost the
wish to be human beings. They are but beasts; they must be dealt with
as such.
This is an objective viewpoint, carefully considered and factually sustained. It is the view taken of them in this book.
Naturally there are men in the world, our own country included, who
think otherwise and who would deal differently with the German menace.
It is the custom of such men to take, what they term, a "sensible" view
of the problems and progress of humanity. These men would rely upon fate
to fashion the future. They would, in effect, permit the Germans to
conquer and enslave the world by explaining, in terms whose degree of
vociferousness is dependent upon the extent of their own personal motive
of gain, that German world-dominion cannot last forever; that at some
future date Germany would ultimately lose its iron grip upon the world
and then enslaved mankind would come to free itself again. Or, if
neither collusion nor surrender seems palatable to their listeners, they
would suggest a compromise with the Germans, the so-called "Negotiated
Peace."
These are soulless postulates. They can originate only in men whose
hearts and souls are still held captive by the marine life of their
origin; human species of spineless jellyfish floundering about in the
waters of yesteryear. These are men of the past forever living in that
past. Men who, being incapable of mastering their own intellectual and
spiritual primitivism, seek to drag others down with them to the murky
depths and stygian blackness which surround their own pitiful existence.
These are the men, indeed, who witnessing the actual enslavement of
such civilized and humane people as the Austrians, Czechs, Poles,
French, Dutch, Norwegian and Belgians would all too willingly close
their eyes and simulate disbelief in that which is stark and dread
reality. These are men who with fatalism as their creed come
intellectually to be anesthetized by it; who, proclaiming fate an ally,
have become its most pathetic servants. Fortunately, such men are not
yet in the majority nor will they be unless Germany can harness, employ
or bribe enough of them to spread the German netherworld doctrines
throughout the earth. But even as a minority the danger which these
"appeasers" represent in none the less real and they must be harshly
dealt with. For by such actions as they may take under the cloak of
"unquestioned patriotism" it is apparent that they would not do so
unless, within their own soul there existed some part complementary to
the war-soul of the German. Those other appeasers whose integrity is
doubtful and patriotism questionable -- those who advocate the
principles of Germanism -- are downright traitors to their country. And
when, as and if a government can not or refuses to treat them as such,
may it not come in time to depend upon the people, whose lives and
liberty are at stake, to do so!
I have no desire that this work be considered as a means of encouraging war for this or any other nation.
As a human being I deplore war; as a civilized member of a civilized nation I hate it.
I hate war not alone for the sufferings, misery, tragedy and
senseless waste which follows in its path, but even more because I
consider it to be the still-unsevered umbilical cord which binds the
moral and spiritual embryo of man to the physical womb of the
beast-instinct. And I know that so long as that cord remains uncut
social evolution and human progress must rest forever upon an
impermanent and insecure basis. And too, that so long as war persists
there will never come into being that world peace out of which, some
day, a world confederation of nations will be born. For it is such a
confederation which is the ultimate aim and absolute inevitability of
the human race.
Peace! Hardly a man, woman or child lives who has not heard the word!
Throughout the ages it has been a subject of more discussion and debate
than any other single problem of mankind. In the halls of government
great orators have loudly extolled its virtues. The great prophets of
every religion on earth have preached its gospel and catalogued its
benefits to world humanity. And in all the world we find that peace is
the common denominator which binds together the people of all nations,
of all color and races, in common thought and prayer.
Why then, after passing through thousands of years of such great
desire and yearning have we failed to find peace? Why is it that after
such a prolonged period of time not one single practical and enduring
step has been taken toward its absolute realization? Certainly no one
man or group of men shall be born tomorrow who shall exceed in knowledge
and excel in ability all those great men who have written, spoken and
preached about peace over the long past. What shall we do then? Throw up
our hands and give up? Shall we have done with peace by exclaiming that
it dose not exist because it cannot? That is an unobtainable abstract?
I do not believe that it is any such thing. I sincerely believe that
peace on earth can come to exist as a permanent condition of living. But
believing in it as I do, I would not expect it to arrive, on some fine
morning, knock on my door, and suddenly announce its presence! No, it
will never come of itself!
I believe that peace can be produced, not merely conceived. But never so long as war persists.
Then why does war still exist?
Simply because it has not been made impossible for it to be waged.
There is only one way to abolish war: impose a penalty of such dire
magnitude and frightful consequence upon aggressor peoples as to render
it virtually impossible for any nation to start a war.
War must be fought not with weapons of ever-increasing
destructiveness but with penalties infinitely more frightful and
hazardous than war itself.
This book sincerely believes that it has found such a penalty; and by
its imposition upon the people of Germany, this book believes that not
only would a great scourge be removed from the world, but a great good
born to it.
Note: The majority of authors dealing with Germanism have treated
that subject purely as a product of modern times -- born after the last
world war -- and since developed solely by Hitler and his Nazis. The
reader, in pursuing the subsequent chapters on Germanism, will find out
for himself just how mistaken these authors are in their viewpoints. And
since the German quotations and German writings are so
contemporaneously apropos -- though they were all written prior to the
last world war -- I have thought it advisable, lest they be considered
"fabricated," to append a bibliography to this volume.
2. Background of Germanism
Germans are an execrable people! They think and dream of nothing but
chicanery. Their great joy consists in fault-finding, shrieking and
threats. They brandish arms which are like barbed clubs; from their
mouths instead of ordinary human speech, issue the rumbling of artillery
and the clash of steel; their life is one of perpetual explosion. The
German does not live on the heights; he avoids light, and from his
hiding place he picks to pieces treaties, exercises his malign influence
on newspaper articles, pores over maps, measures angles, and traces
with gloating eagerness the lines of frontiers. To love their country is
for them to despise, flout and insult every other country. They are
capable of little else but cheating and lying, even to themselves. They
meddle in everyone else's affairs, poking their nose into matters that
do not concern them, criticizing everything, bossing everything,
lowering and distorting everything. What a pity that twenty-three
centuries after Socrates and Plato, two thousand years after Christ, the
voice of men like these should still be heard in the world, worse still
that they should be listened to, and worst of all that any one should
believe them! Country for them is an isolated organism and they admit it
is possible for them to live and breathe in an atmosphere of haughty
contempt for their neighbors. They conceive their country as a permanent
element of dissolution like a devouring and insatiable monster, a beast
of prey, whose one function is to plunder. All that it does not possess
it has been robbed of. The universe belongs to it by right. Whoever
attempts to escape from its tyranny is a rebel. This jingo country, this
bloodthirsty fetish of which they are the champions, they endow, with
the capriciousness of potentates, when it suits their purpose, with
every marvelous and charming attribute. Whoever does not at once agree
with their extravagances is a barbarism. You must love their country in
full armor, with dervish-like celebrations and howls, eyes shut and body
trembling with ecstasy; a deaf ear must be turned to the rest of the
world on its failings. Everything that is not It must be hated. Hate is
sacred. Love and hate are in connection with your country two terms
proceeding from one condition of mind. For them Industrial progress is
not a happy sign of national prosperity but a means of domination.
Geography is not the science of the earth, but a mere revelation of the
boundaries between which are elaborated strategical schemes of conquest.
Every neighbor is of necessity a jealous one, and the enemy who is
vigilant is jealous too. The world is populated by hyenas crouching on
the plots of earth from which they ought to be dislodged.
The German has decided that his race has been elected by God to order
the modern world. Anyone who resists him will be an arrogant usurper,
who ought to be crushed. The German professes to want peace, but it must
be his own sort of peace, after the pattern of the Persian satrap's
who, out of love for peace and concord, throws everyone to the lions who
dares dispute him. His voice is raucous and resounding; he does not
argue but makes sweeping assertions and lays down the law. As the first
sign of resistance he grows crimson in the face, and has resource to
thunder and lightning. He holds forth on the authority of a sacred
categorical imperative which stands in the stead of truth and order; he
respects nothing and no one. Should he find himself confronted by the
law, he says that it needs reforming. Ministers are mere clerks to be
used as pawns in his manoeuvering. He is exacting and cantankerous;
whoever undertakes to shout with him never shouts loud enough. To give
in to him means becoming enlisted as his civil agent. He is an agitator
and swashbuckler. He dips his pen in gall and he sets in motion with his
antics the marionettes which appeal to the nation and may come to
conquer it. The fundamental superiority of the German race, the
necessity of expanding German prestige in all quarters of the globe, of
protecting the German wherever he may be found, no matter what he may
be, because he bears within him a residuum of the race; that is what the
educators of youth coming down the years in disciplined array like
battalions crossing the manoeuver fields, have never ceased to drum into
the popular understanding and the flame of victory rising to the sky
will be the signal for it to boil over. (note 1)
A vivid portrait of a Nazi? Emphatically so, and yet, though thirty
years have past since it was first written, we can easily discern, in
the character of the German of that remote period, every single trait
which characterized the German madmen of today. Yesterday they may have
been called Pan-Germans; today Nazis; tomorrow perhaps Supergerman. Time
cannot change the infernal breed, whatever its label. Time merely
enlarges the field in which the German can, with ever-increasing
intensity and thoroughness, practice those monstrous acts which his
fevered, war-intoxicated brain dictates, and his vile instincts and
barbaric, savage soul prompts. If today the urge of his war-soul can
prompt the German to murder innocent hostages imagine, if you can, how
that same soul will express itself through the thousandfold-more-fanatic
German of tomorrow?
To most people the fantastic "progress" of the Nazi has seemed as
meteoric and unexpected as an unheralded bolt of lightning suddenly
discharged from the heavens. Others hold tenaciously, with dangerous
deception, to the opinion that the Nazi came into power only as a result
of the German-termed "inequities" of the Versailles treaty, and that
the beliefs and aims of the Nazi were, and are, merely the result of a
contemporary but transient political and economic upheaval in Germany.
Such opinions gave birth to the most outstanding criminal misconception
of the Nazi and his party; that after those so-called injustices to
Germany were remedied, the Nazi would vanish from the scene by his own
accord, or the German people would rise up in revolt against him.
Such misconceptions of his origin, structure and purpose were eagerly
fostered and disseminated by the Nazis themselves. We know how belief
in them has already led a dozen nations to their doom, and yet not so
long ago a prominent member of our congress arose and declared that the
German idea of world-dominion was a fantasy, and advised Americans to
dismiss the avowed aims of the Nazis a fabulous myths! (note 2) Such
utterances are not only born of incredible stupidity but, if not
downright traitorous, are extremely dangerous, for they tend to blind
people to those stark realities which they must face, firmly and
honestly, if they are ever to successfully combat them. Too, such
beliefs tend to diffuse among our people that same indifference,
lethargy and irresponsibility which permeated the peoples of those
nations which, one by one, fell victim to the German peril. These
nations found that the German peril was not a myth; the sufferings of
their people are the best description of the German character, methods,
and final aims.
By thus helping to create the impression of his transiency of
character and purpose, and by promoting propaganda proclaiming his
ever-imminent downfall, the Nazi knew full well that those nations would
incorrectly gauge the strength and deprecate the durability of his
party and, what was and is infinitely more important, would fail to
correctly interpret the growth and aims of the Nazi as being compatible
to, and not at variance with, the German character; a bud whose
nourishment is drawn not from an isolated branch but from the very roots
of the German soul.
For it must be patent by now that while all the Germans may not
approve of the means being employed by the Nazis in achieving
German-world-dominion, they are practically unanimous in agreeing that
that goal must, now or in the future, be definitely achieved by Germany.
Were the German nations to win this war, not one German would hesitate
laying claim to a share in the loot. But, losing the war, they intend to
be ready to disclaim, individually, the actions taken by then
collectively, under their "government." Thus they intend to escape, once
again, punishment for their crimes. Yet defeat will on no account erase
their desire to conquer and rule the world. There is only one way to
frustrate such a desire: the goal of world-dominion must be removed from
the reach of the German and the only way to accomplish that is to
remove the German from the world!
Therefore, it is most essential that we realize as an irreconcilable
fact the truth that the Nazis are not beings existing apart from the
German people. They are the German people! For to the German, Nazi or
not, the Mailed Fist is stimulating and meaningful as symbol of all the
aims and aspirations of his nation as the Statue of Liberty is to the
American. Make no mistake about it; world- dominion is not a mirage to
the German; it never was, and so long as Germany exists as a nation, it
never will be. A belief to the contrary, if too-long sustained, may well
result in the world's enslavement by the German.
As fantastic and as cyclonic as Nazi "accomplishments" might seem, it
is still more fantastic to note as a fact that in the entire annals of
history no doctrine ever existed which has all its major beliefs so
clearly defined, its methods so concisely detailed, and its aims so
vividly, comprehensively, and boldly stated beforehand. It is in every
respect a deliberate, ruthlessly calculated plot to rule the world or,
failing that, to annihilate it! And so long as the German nation exists
it intends, in one form or another, now or later, to bring about just
such a catastrophe.
The unfortunate neglect displayed by the various governments in
preparing for the cataclysmic events brought about by the German Nazis
becomes all the more startling and tragic when we examine records
existing by the thousands and emanating solely from unbiased German
sources, some written as far back as fifty years ago, clearly indicating
the precise course of procedure to be some day adopted by the German in
his march to world- conquest. These documents are not pedantic treaties
expressing theories or extravaganzas dealing in fables or fancies. They
are substantial, sober outpourings from the very soul of Germandom. And
as such they define lucidly its structure, and interpret frankly its
yearnings.
Moreover, these records are so exact in their theme and comprehensive
in their scope that the Nazis have adopted and embraced them almost ad
verbatim. In searching through these original papers one is struck by
the realization that Mein Kampf is nothing more than a clumsily-written
hodge-podge collection of the writings, opinions and teachings contained
in those records and ex- pounded by Germans years before Adolf
Schickelgruber war born! As we shall see later, even Hitler's
much-publicized mystic prophecies, and his time-tables of conquests are
merely reprints of those published, too, long before his time.
If Hitler was able to make such rapid strides in resurrecting again
the monstrosity that is Germanism, it was only because the German
people, long before his birth, had already become completely instilled
with each and every principle and precept, with every yearning and
desire which he himself, later, came merely to express and advocate. The
poisonous wine of destruction has long before been distilled; Hitler is
merely the agent decanting the poisonous fluid from its bottle, which
is the German war-soul, into the jug that is world humanity. In
detailing those ingredients which combine to constitute the toxic
formula of Germanism the author shall quote, wherever confirmation of
his statements may be deemed advisable, principally from German sources.
For after all no one can explain the German so well as he himself. He
has made no secret of his character, his ambitions and his intentions.
By his acts he has himself bared his heart and soul; by his words, by
his own hand he will someday come to dig his own grave.
It is not to be wondered at that the nations of the Western world
regard the avowed program of the German for world conquest and dominion
with a great deal of amazement and incredulity. For such an idea is
entirely alien to those basic principles and instincts of the western
civilization which, painfully and gradually, arose out of the chaos of
the past thousands of years. Such civilized nations regard individual
rights, the sacredness of human life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness as the virtues of mankind and itself, the individual States,
as guarantor of those rights. And though, at one time or another during
their existence nations may have sought political and economic
adjustments, even territorial aggrandizement through force of arms, it
must be noted that no Western nation has ever made such a religion of
war, such idolatry or armaments, and such a cult of mass murder and
destruction as has Germany and her peoples.
According to her own writers, teachers and statesmen Germany has but
one great reason for existing; that of achieving world-dominion! Since
that is its highest aim, therefore, Germany constantly claims that it
has every right to make free and liberal use of chicanery, deceit,
intolerance, lust, persecution and oppression, in order to achieve that
goal. Consequently such a perverted nation , such a State of human
negation, views its vice as being the only true virtue in life, whereas
to the Germans the virtues as they are known and may be practiced by the
rest of the world are merely vices due to the latter's decay and
degeneration! (note 3) As though there exists anywhere in the world a
nation which can boast of degeneration in the same degree as Germany!
The primary reason which stirs German lust for world- dominion was
best summarized by a German professor who declared that since Germany
will never be able to understand the world, the latter must be conquered
and reformed so that it will be able to conform to German thought!
(note 4)
It is just such mass megalomania, crass egoism intellectual aberrancy
which stirred the demented brain of the German of yesterday to foment
his wars; which animates the insane Nazi today in continuing those wars
and which will, if the schizophrenic Teutons continue to exist, direct
the policies and actions of any party in control of Germany in the
future. For, to reiterate, the German idea of world- dominion and
enslavement of its peoples is no political belief: it is a fierce and
burning gospel of hate and intolerance, of murder and destruction and
the unloosing of a sadistic blood lust. It is, in every literal sense, a
savage and pagan religion which incites its worshippers first to a
barbaric frenzy and then prompts them to vent their animal ferocity in
the practice of every horrible, ruthless and unmentionable atrocity upon
innocent men, women and children. Such are the true Germanic virtues!
And the world will feel their sting so long as they continue to tolerate
Germany and her peoples on the earth, for those Germanic traits are the
same as those which, emanating from the German soul, animated the
Germanic tribes of yore. We have but to examine the development of those
tribes to perceive just to what extent within the German soul, the
German ideal of world conquest and dominion really lies.
The German slave-holding tribes were noted for their unnaturally
passionate love of war and destruction. Seeck, a noted German historian,
writes with pride that the Germans of ancient days were notorious for
their villainy and treachery and "their faithlessness became almost
proverbial with the Romans," (note 5) who found that the Germans were
adept at breaking a pact or a peace whenever it best suited them to so
do.
Lamprecht, another German historian, recounts that even among
themselves the Germans held no pledge valid! (note 6) Is it so much to
be wondered at then that a nation whose people distrust one another,
would hesitate at double-crossing any of its fellow nations?
Those ancient Germanic tribes, like the peoples of modern Germany,
were unable to assimilate and accept the humane ideals, civilized aims
and social aspirations of their neighbors as constituting the desirable,
natural goal of life. "Warlike, as then, have the Germans ever
remained!" (note 7)
We can understand, therefore, why to a German peace is not an
objective but merely an interlude to be used by him to prepare for a war
in which he can assuage the thirst for mass murder which burns in his
soul. The German has absolutely no regard for life; there is no such
expression in his language as "sacredness of human life."
It would be impossible, even between the covers of a thousand
volumes, to list and describe the demonic brutalities practiced by the
Germans upon innocent peoples, and though records of the last war are
replete with numerous actual incidents illustrating the innate cruelty
and viciousness of the Germans we have but to refer to one recent
occurrence, the sinking of the British vessel "Lancastria" to realize
just how and why the German earns his reputation for such cruelty and
viciousness.
For assuredly, after sinking a vessel, the aviators of no other
Western nation would have deliberately and coldbloodedly dropped
incendiary bombs on the oil-covered waters which surrounded the ship in
order to roast alive the desperate women and children struggling below.
But the German aviators did not hesitate to do so; it must have been
with a perverted gleam in their mad eye that they boiled those women and
children alive in oil! This from a "modern" and self-styled "cultured"
nation! A nation whose press heralded such cannibalism as an illustrious
example of German courage and heroism!
Such is the "Master-Race" of the world!
3. Organized Germanism
Germanism -- the theory of a master race of Germans destined to
enslave a weak world by force and brutality -- had been an unvoiced
doctrine of German belief since tribal days until the latter part of the
last century when it reached its maturity by becoming fashioned into a
vast and well-organized movement. Its astounding and ambitious program
amalgamated all the major doctrines and beliefs of such German teachers,
writers, statesmen and philosophers as Kant, Nietzsche, Hegel, von
Bernhardi, Rohrbach, Treitschke and Spengler. And because the doctrine
which it preached touched upon the very roots of the German soul, and
embraced the fundamental tenets of the German intellect, the movement
met with immediate and tremendously popular response. In fact its
program was so popular with the Germans that within ten years after its
inception its malignant dogma was already spread throughout the entire
world.
In 1886 a Dr. Karl Peters convened a General German Congress in
Berlin during the course of which all German national associations
therein represented were merged into one group, a so-called German
League. (note 13) Its program at first was vague and indefinite, and so
much strife grew to exist among the various groups composing the League,
that its dissolution seemed imminent until 1891 when Professor Ernst
Hasse, a deputy in the Reichstag from Leipzig, became its president and
took its management into his own hands.
The first step of Professor Hasse was to broadcast a widespread plea
for help, appealing, as he said, "to the traditions of the German soul."
His appeal met with such a favorable response that the League grew by
leaps and bounds until it was not long before it was able to publish and
maintain its own newspaper. In 1894 it changed its name to the
Pan-German League (note 8) and proceeded to lay down an entire program
of action relative to world-conquest and domination by Germany. This
program of action for achieving such a goal was so replete with details,
and its plan of procedure so comprehensive that it was adopted, almost
unchanged, by the Nazis. For its motto the League used the words of the
Great Elector: "Remember you are a German!"
During the interval in which the Pan-German League was organized, a
German professor, Heinrich von Treitschke was being hailed throughout
Germany as a new prophet. For years he had been spreading the fiery
message of Germanism; it was a rabid admixture of war, hate,
anti-Christism and destruction. It was the preaching of such doctrines
which today has earned for Treitschke the great "honor" of being
recognized by the Germans as the apostle of their ideology.
Heinrich von Treitschke was born in Dresden in 1834. After graduating
from various German universities and spending some time in aimless
drifting, he suddenly became consumed with the tortuous idea of a German
unity founded by the sword. Feeling that the best method, in his day,
of spreading such a belief was through teaching, he turned eagerly to
that profession. His continual in- sistence on spreading Prussianism and
its doctrine of the "mailed-fist rule" finally enabled him to settle in
Berlin where he became established as a popular historian and
publicist.
Treitschke was a war-monger and a "might makes right" advocate of the
first rank. Possessing a natural gift of eloquence he held his students
spellbound during his lectures on "conquer at all costs" for, according
to his interpretation of Germany's development and history, it had to
pursue such a course in order to spread itself beyond its boundaries. At
first he set Europe as the area of Germany's "Lebenstraum" but, after
the success of the German army in 1870 he enlarged and expanded upon his
original declaration by stating that the world was Germany's to conquer
and dominate; that through foisting war upon the world the German
nation was destined to become the "super-state" of the universe, and to
hold its people in thraldom. These teachings so appealed to the German
character that Treitschke, like Hitler, soon captured the intellectuals
as well as the masses of his day. His doctrines were spread throughout
Germany by his many pupils until, eventually, practically every educated
German of that day fell under his influence. Conceivably, he could not
have inspired such a profound belief in such monstrous doctrines unless,
in substance, they embraced aims and ideas already very definitely
existing as inherent in the German character and innate in his soul.
Many of those beliefs explain much of Germany's present actions.
According to Treitschke (note 9) the individual has no right of his
own, but exists only for the State which has the exclusive right to use
him as it wills. There is no other force except the will of the State,
and war is the only and best way in which that will might be employed by
it. A Germany so constituted can recognize no earthly power and "might
makes right" only when a German wields the sword! There is no such thing
to the German as "sacredness of human life" and war is sublime to him
because in it he can "murder without passion." War is the best way in
which Germany can enforce its will upon its neighbors, as well as being
"the only cure for diseased nations."
Treitschke then treats with various methods to be employed by Germany in order to conquer and dominate the world.
"Germany," he writes, "must make it a duty to employ traitors in the
enemy state for its own interest," even though, he adds, "every good
German subject is a latent, and when opportunity arises, an active spy."
Lying and deceit are encouraged as being a foundation stone for
German policy and as for treaties and the like Treitschke advises that
they are mere scraps of paper and urges that "they can and must be
denounced by Germany whenever the promise they hold become unprofitable
to her." In such a case a treaty becomes automatically obsolete and
"German honor" demands that it be broken! There is, he continues, no
such thing as international law and order, no covenants between nations.
As for justice, there is no such thing except at the point of a German
sword.
All of Treitschke's teachings as well as the most pointed and precise
interpretation ever made of the German ego is best summarized in a
declaration in which he maintained that Germany could never have peace
with the world because to the German mode of thought it "is a foreign
world, which cannot be reformed, but can only be overthrown." Thus the
ideal of Germany becomes allied to the "rule of evil" in a common German
effort to annihilate civilization!
The Pan-German League combined Treitschke's various doctrines into a
program of action and issued, among its statutes, four main principles
which lay down broadly its chief objectives. (note 10) They were:
1. To watch over and support all German national movements in all
countries where Germans have to sustain a struggle in support of
Germanism with the object of embracing and uniting all Germans on the
globe.
2. To promote an active German policy in interests in Europe and
across the seas and especially to further all colonial movements for
practical purposes.
3. To treat and solve all questions bearing upon the bringing up of children and higher education in the Germanic sense.
4. To quicken patriotic self-consciousness of Germans, and to offer
opposition to all movements antagonistic to national development.
In further explanation of the above statutes the League issued a
manifesto declaring that "the fate of the Germans in Austria cannot be a
matter of indifference to Germany; it cannot be a matter of
indifference whether the Saxons or Swabians in Hungary are Magyarized,
or the Germans in Switzerland or the Flemish in Belgium are Gallicized.
Germans must actively support all movements in those countries in
support of Germanism. Germanism across the seas must be preserved and
fostered by every possible means." (note 12)
We already know how well the German has heeded and obeyed such advice.
By 1900 there were some fifty various associations in existence all
subservient to the Pan-German League. Ramified in character but
identical in aim these groups, which ranged from military and naval
cliques to sports leagues and banking institutions, were all fervidly
pledged to preserve and foster Germanism in foreign lands. Politically
too, the League gained considerable prestige. In 1903 no less than
forty-three members of the Reichstag had already been initiated as
members.
Branches of the League sprang up in major cities of the world. Of the
two in the United States one was located in New York, the other in
Texas. With the spread of its propaganda, the League scattered a large
number of secret agents throughout the world for the purpose of
supplying it with confidential reports relating to the gospel of
Germanism. These agents were the forerunners of the present day
fifth-columnists; it was their work which started to compilation of the
notorious German "scrap-book" in which that government listed all its
enemies, and enemies to the idea of a German-dominated world. To a
nation such as Germany blackmail pales in insignificance to its other
crimes. And so, with every pass- ing hour, the members of the German
League continued with their nefarious work which, teaching and enforcing
the great common German ideal of world-enslavement, quickly became an
integral part of the average German life and dreams. By 1905, the tenets
of the Pangerman were already known to all. The initial work had been
done. The vicious virus of Germanism had been injected into the life
stream of the public, and the Germans awaited the epidemic which they
felt must sooner or later infest the world.
As a matter of fact, the work and program as well as the propaganda
which they spread had reached such a pitch that as far back as 1895
various German writers were already busy prophesying how and when the
ideologic goal of German world-dominion would be attained! These
prophets were by no means few in number; there exists a large number of
serious works by German authors in which the destiny of their country is
elaborately worked out in full detail and the deification of Germanism
as a world religion depicted.
From one such prophecy, written in 1900, we learn that "things about
the year 1950 have begun to cause great uneasiness. All Germans have
been united, Holland enters the German union; in Belgium the Flemings
grow in power and because the French element causes increasing trouble,
Germany is obliged to intervene. If France objects to a total absorption
(of Belgium by Germany) then the French Walloon territory falls to
France the Flemish portion to Germany. Maybe the French fight, in which
case all Belgium will be annexed and incorporated in the German World
Empire." The author then goes on to discuss, rather vaguely, the case of
Rance, Switzerland, and the Balkans, after which he cautions the
Germans "by all means avoid a war with Russia, if possible." He
completed the prophesy by stating that "in the year 1950 Great World
Germany will possess a population of two hundred millions. Everybody is
happy because all the Germans are now united and are ruling the world!"
(note 14)
This prophesy did not, by any means, appear fantastic to the German
of that day. Actually it was considered as altogether too conservative
because more radical leaders had set the establishment of the "German
World" at a much earlier date than 1950. Writing in 1895 one ambitious
German predicted that Der Tag would arrive sometime in 1915. Here is a
summary of his augury:
Around about 1915 the whole world starts trembling. Two great States
take action in self-defense, America and Russia. America proclaims aloud
the doctrine of "Pan-America." Russia concludes customs treaties with
Turkey, Persia and China. Great Britain, Pan-America and the
Pan-Slavonic Russian Colossus threaten to overwhelm the sixteen states
of Europe. At this juncture Germany intervenes and rising to the
occasion, sets to work to prepare army and navy for the coming struggle.
Then follows a description of the war and a few miscellaneous vagaries after which the writer continues:
The Junkers roll in money. Meanwhile Pan-America has become a source
of great uneasiness to Germany for Germanism is threatened in South
America. The United States, declining to give way, the German, Italian
and French navies mobilize and set sail for America. The American navy
is destroyed. On land the German troops made short work of the American
mercenaries. Under the brilliant leadership of the German Leader, the
Germans were everywhere victorious. On sea the German ships, guns and
men showed their great superiority over the English who were regularly
defeated. German discipline, courage and skill made the German navy
invincible. The British navy was destroyed. Invaded, the English offered
but a half-hearted resistance. The German and Italian soldiers seized
London. England and America were defeated. Peace was concluded. (note
15)
Concerning the terms of such a peace, the writer declared that:
...Germany took Mexico, Guatemala, British Honduras, all Brazil south
of the Amazon, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru and northern Chile.
France took Brazil north of the Amazon, British Guiana, Venezuela,
Columbia and Ecuador. Italy took what was left of South America,
including the Argentine. The West Indies were divided between Germany
and France. Gibraltar was restored to Spain, Malta given to Italy,
Cyprus to Turkey. The English had to pay an enormous war indemnity.
There was great discontent in England because the entire British navy
was held by the Germans as a guarantee of payment. All England's Suez
Canal shares were confiscated and distributed among the victorious
powers. The Kimberley diamond mines were seized by Germany and all
English and American capital invested in Brazil and South America was
transferred to German hands. The Cable lines were taken by Germany and
all English and American colonists were ordered to leave South America
within a year, never to be permitted to settle in any country on that
continent again.
Thus England and America are humbled and the rule of the German
Mailed-Fist secured! Maps, circulated soon after this prophesy was made
public, illustrate the division of South America; the northern half and
Central America being portrayed thereon as German colonies.
Still another writer, predicting a war somewhat similar to the one
mentioned above finished his prophesy by stating that "after completely
humbling England, the time had arrived for Germany to settle with the
United States, but upon German mobilization United States yielded to all
her demands without striking a blow!" (note 16)
Though many of these "prophecies" vary in detail the reader is aware
of the one outstanding fact which pervades them all; that the
deification of Germanism cannot be accomplished without the fall and
humiliation of both England and the United States. This was declared to
be a fact by Dr. Paul Semassa, a German Professor who, in 1902, stated
that Germany must be prepared to combat the Britons and Americans; after
defeating these last of the free peoples, Germany could then rule the
world in any way she pleased!
In 1904 one observer, taking serious note of all such German
prophecies and desires wrote an envisioned analysis in which he
forewarned that "the doctrine of Germanism may quite well become a
national ideal and kindle a very dangerous spirit. For Anglo-Saxondom
the lesson it teaches is obvious. Readiness is all. Let England and the
United States be prepared at all times successfully to meet the Teutonic
onrush if ever it should come." (note 17)
4. Germanism Abroad
I. United States
The task of spreading the heathenish cult of Germanism in foreign
lands was delegated to the General School Association, an organization
maintained by the Pan-German League. Beginning its operations in 1881
that association, existing today as the notorious German Ausland
Organization (AO), was the first to prepare the ground and develop and
test the tactics which are being used today by all German
fifth-columnists.
Of all the countries in which he spread his evil doctrine, it was
only in the United States that the German had any doubts about the
successful retention and development of Germanism. So much so, in fact,
that Professor Hasse, in one of his speeches before the German Reichstag
declared that the "grave of Germanism lies in America" and the spade
which will dig that grave is the Monroe Doctrine. But not all exponents
of Germanism, however, felt so forlornly about their chances of
successfully propagating Germanism in this country, and they made many
early attempts to reorganize and strengthen their movements here.
In effect, the Germans did not achieve any notable success in their
work. The Americans of German origin or descent either had no interest
in preserving his German identity in contradistinction to his pride in
being labeled an "American" or else, because he had fled his native land
precisely on account of such malignant beliefs and persecutions, he
retained no desire or inclination to see those evils flourish in a land
of freedom which he had come to adopt as his own.
German fury, stirred to fever-pitch heights by the apoplectic
rantings of German leaders expressed itself against the United States
many times. The first of these crises occurred at the time of the
Spanish-American war when Germany tried to raise a coalition of nations
to oppose our stand. Next it was Germany's plan to effect a European
Customs Union against the United States, a step which was immediately
followed by attempts first to annex Samoa and then to break the force of
the Monroe Doctrine by testing it in Venezuela. All these attempts
failed principally because of England's refusal to act in collusion with
Germany against an independent United States, as well as England's firm
acceptance and advocacy of the Monroe Doctrine as a major and permanent
policy of our country.
Chagrined at her failures to impress her will upon the United States
Germany decided to try new tactics. She adopted a policy of "taking it
easy"; a policy which she hated because it was one antagonistic to her
natural ideals of arrogance, brute force and aggression, and contrary to
the spirit of her war-soul. Such inherent hatred of Germany to adhere
to a sane course of international procedure which takes into account
human rights and decencies, was well summarized by one of her most able
and popular political writers, Dr. Paul Rohrbach who exclaimed:
Does any one think that Germany likes saying nice things to the
United States, or that they are the outpourings of a loving heart? She
only says them because Germany must eradicate the suspicions with which
Americans regard her policy. (note 18)
Because of their common language and their humanistic philosophies
the Germans regarded both England and the United States as dire enemies
of his Super-state and, therefore, his main function as a trouble-maker
in the latter country expressed itself in attempts to drive a wedge
between it and England. Part of his hatred for England was directed
toward it for its "not feeling ashamed" to openly recognize the Monroe
Doctrine. Again and again reference to the Doctrine creeps up in
connection with the origin and development of Germanism in the United
States.
In 1903 Johannes Volert declared that "the Monroe Doctrine is
indefensible. It is direct impertinence, and all the more so as America
is lacking the means to enforce its application." (note 19)
This perpetual opposition of Germany to the Monroe Doctrine as well
as its continual defiance of it was best delineated in an article
printed at the beginning of this century by the Journal of Commerce in
answer to the German claim that the Monroe Doctrine was "an empty
pretension." The purport of that message is so fraught with vigor and
truth, its every word so fresh and alive and currently apropos, that it
deserves quotation here in full.
The last German professor (Mommsen) to fall foul of the Monroe
Doctrine seems to show the usual Teutonic incapacity to understand what
it means. He assumes that this "empty pretension" on the part of the
United States is to control the destiny of the South American nations,
and to keep Europeans out of them. He cannot see that the United States
seeks no predominance, but only objects to European predominance. The
German mind fails to see that our policy is to leave South American
countries independent, to develop on their own lines; and all we ask of
Europe is that it shall leave them independent, and not undertake to
appropriate their territory or suppress their sovereignty. The United
States wishes South America to do its own controlling.
Failing constantly in their attempts to drive a wedge between the two
English-speaking countries Germans were instructed by their
headquarters to try to create a force of their own with which to combat
Americans. In reviewing this angle of attack, Professor Hasse stated
that the only way in which he could envision a future for Germanism in
the United States was for the Germans to "so organize and educate the
German element in that country that political power will finally fall
into its lap." And in order to do so, the professor advises that
"Germans must abandon all attempts to take sides on Democratic and
Republican matters, and form themselves into a national political
party." Another professor, Muensterberg, agreed with Hasse by adding
that the Germans should build a State within a State, in the United
States. Still another German writer added that the best way for the
Germans to form a political party of their own was to infect the
American, especially those of Irish extraction, with the German virus of
Anglophobia. The recommendation was also made that the Germans appoint a
confidential agent in Washington who might keep in touch with the
(American) government and influence it!(note 20)
All these wild notions of Germanism produced a great deal of
agitation in this country but the German was not able to maintain that
any real progress had been made by his movement in the United States. It
is only since the rise of present Germany and its "exported agitators"
as well as hired spies and bribed sycophants that the nightmare of
Germanism has been forced through coercion and terror down the throats
of a slight handful of Americans of German descent.
II. South America
German designs in South America, particularly towards Brazil, as well
as the underhanded methods they employed in trying to further her
interests there have never been kept entirely secret. Long before the
advent of the present German government, Germans had always covetously
regarded South America as a land which someday would belong to them.
That to pursue such a course might bring them face to face with the
power of the United States was an eventuality they foresaw and for which
they prepared. They felt no uncertainty as to their ultimate success
against the United States; in scores of books prominent German authors
have time and again made the forecast that the United States would,
through fear, yield to the Germans without striking a blow or else,
would capitulate in a short war. In any event the Germans were
instructed to be prepared for that day, for that day must come for the
German.
Such warnings, persistently expressed by German writers, teachers,
and statesmen were fully clarified in the statement of Professor
Schulz-Gaevernitz to the effect that:
The more Germany is condemned to an attitude of passive resistance
towards the United States, the more emphatically must she defend her
interests in Central and South America. For this purpose we need a fleet
capable not only of coping with the miserable forces of the South
American states, but powerful enough to cause Americans to think twice
before making any at- tempt to apply the Monroe Doctrine in South
America. (note 21)
German colonists to South America were encouraged to preserve their
nationality, their language, their German ways of life, and their
interest in their "mother country." Thus there came to exist, especially
in Brazil, states within states. The methods the Germans used in Brazil
were those applied in strict accordance with the principles expounded
by Dr. Kapff in his brochure on the "German Schools." In that work is
found the cautionary advice that "Germans in South Brazil had better
become Brazilian citizens as that is the quickest and surest way to
obtain political power." Dr. Kapff also forewarns his countrymen that:
...the danger of Germanism in South America comes from North America,
and it is not only a question of commercial interest. Is Germany to
stand idly by if America sets about the task of Americanizing that
continent? Germany cannot; she must proclaim, urbi et orbi, that she is
determined to maintain her rights in South America. And Brazil holds out
the most buoyant hope for the German and the spread of Germanism.
Dr. Kapff's declarations were amplified by Professor Gustav Schmoller
who emphatically asserted that "at all costs a German country must grow
up in the twentieth century in Brazil," (note 22) for in South America
Germans will found a new Germany, "which shall prove a blessing to the
old country, and stand as a model to the whole world!" (note 23)
Dr. Paul Rohrbach's explanation of German intentions in Brazil were even more arrogantly expressed. He stated that:
... although the United States may possibly prevent the acquirement
of South American territory by Germany it cannot prevent the creation of
a state within a state, and that when the Germans have finally
accomplished that deed, they would rule the roost in Brazil and rule
over the inferior peoples of that country.
But propaganda must be made in Germany to popularize the idea, and
every good German must assist in the work because a promising future for
Germany lies in her South American colonies, and to attain those ends
Germans must work quietly, jointly and firmly -- underground.
Professor Wolf, coinciding with that view expressed his opinion that
"South America for the German, is the land of the future, for that land
holds greater promise for the Germans than Europe or Africa."
Hence, we find that hand in hand with her march toward world-dominion
Germany has always deemed it her mission to establish, by force or by
trickery, great South American colonies. As she does today, Germany has
always laughed at any actual resistance from the Untied States,
consistently declaring our country to be nothing more than, to use the
words of a German, "a heterogeneous melange of crass egoistic Jingoists
having no pure racial blood to build upon" and therefore a land and a
people to be easily vanquished, at any time, by the great German
supermen.
Germany tried often to suit her words with action. Prince
Solms-Braunfels made a real effort to found a German colony in Texas as
an American outpost of Germanism and, though he failed, the idea which
prompted his action always persisted in the German mind as a possibility
fraught with great promise of eventual fulfillment.
The Pan-German League heeded the advice of its leaders to labor in
partial silence in South America and so kept unusual secrecy about their
work on that continent. Little by little they sought to honeycomb those
parts of South America which seemed favorable to Germanism by
establishing branch leagues and to reticulate those regions with
confidential agents who carried on their work disguised as travelers,
teachers or diplomatic agents. From time to time they reported their
progress to the Central Association in Germany. The startling disclosure
was only recently made that the German consulates too, had given their
aid, serving as hypodermics through which the malignant bacilli of
Germanism was being syringed into the blood stream of the South American
peoples.
In his work on Chile, Dr. Unfold advised German settlers in South
America "to send their children to Germany to be educated in a fitting
German spirit" and that then they should be sent back to propagate and
disseminate the animus of the German war-soul. "The time will assuredly
come," he encouraged, "when Germany, during the confusion caused by some
international conflagration, will have the opportunity to acquire
colonial territory in South America." (note 11)
Records and facts, whose truths are every minuet being sustained by
current events, make it obvious that German policies in South America,
her aims and methods too, have all been, for a long time, clearly,
persistently and publicly pronounced by her leaders. To the German his
aims in South America are merely some additional "must items" on a long
list of German-planned depredations against humanity and civilization.
Here, quoted ad verbatim, are the words of one observer of German
ambitions in South America who, writing his analysis almost two score
years ago, declared:
Whether Germany's aim in South America is obtainable without friction
is something which the future alone can decide. The future of South
America must depend largely upon the Monroe Doctrine and the navy which
is behind it. There will come a time, not so remote in the future, when
the economic penetration of Brazil and other South American states by
the Germans may lead to political supremacy which, if questioned, must
be abandoned or contended for. Con- ceivably, the issue may be a
fighting one. Though Germans rave against the Monroe Doctrine as an
empty pretention, that doctrine nevertheless is destined to bar
Germany's way. Already there are unmistakable signs that Americans have
become cognizant of such German aims and ambitions in South America. On
the creation of a great American fleet, as on the solidarity of England
and the United States, the fate of South America depends. If America is
to cry "Hands off!" they must have the power to support the words. (note
17)
III. Europe
Austria:
True Germanism, being as it is a purely primitive paganism with some
modern "refinements" finds that it can express itself best by committing
truly barbaric and bestial acts of violence against innocent civilized
peoples. Thus, if Germanism were ever to prevail upon this earth, we can
be sure that every step would be taken -- though few indeed are these
steps which the Germans have not already taken! -- to reawaken every
dormant animal instinct and vicious trait in man.
Thus it has been a chief aim of the German to eradicate each and
every one of the three principal religions from the earth. However, the
German was practical enough to realize that he could not successfully
combat all these religions at one time with any hope of emerging
supreme. But since their extinction was absolutely necessary to the
propagation of the German dogma of hate and destruction, the Germans
conceived their now infamous and oft-tried trick of pitting first the
believers in one religion against those of another until, at a single
coup, they could deliver the final knock-out blow against the single
remaining adversary. It was in Austria that they first tested the
efficiency of their scheme, a test which, at that time, actually
constituted organized high treason against that country.
Germanism had its birth in Austria as an organized movement founded
and headed by an Austrian statesman, one Schoenerer, in 1878. Its
activity was rather limited in scope until 1898 when Schoenerer joined
with Hasse; from that time on the Pan-German League in Berlin became the
head of the movement in Austria, and it proceeded at once to establish
permanent bases of operation in that country.
First a plan of attack was decided upon. Hasse and Schoenerer agreed
that if Germany was ever to rule over Austria the latter country must
first be forced to break with Rome (Roman Catholicism). In order to
achieve this objective the leaders decided upon a roundabout course of
action. They therefore first created an artificially stimulated
pseudo-religious revivalist movement having anti-Semitism as its primary
and immediate purpose.
The German Hasse found some renegade, so-called Catholics (though
such men were no more Catholics in spirit than those men of any religion
who, hiding behind a pulpit of a church, rail against God and preach
hatred and intolerance) members of the leading Catholic Party, who agree
to act as leaders of such a movement. It was not long thereafter that a
frightful wave of anti-Semitic persecution began to sweep over Austria,
continuing unabated in intensity, until Schoenerer and Hasse felt that a
sufficiently high degree of agitation and terrorism had been reached.
Thereupon they turned their efforts against the Catholic Party and in
turn, started a rabid anti-Catholic, "free-from-Rome" movement of their
own, Schoenerer declaring that "the chains which tie us to a Church
hostile to Germanism must be broken!" The "No Popery" and anti-Catholic
agitation was stimulated by Hasse and Schoenerer through their
introduction into Austria of numerous pseudo-evangelical, free-booter
German clergymen who were liberally paid, with money and liquor, to rail
against the Catholics.
Though the complete success of this plan was not achieved, it did
have a salutary effect; that of establishing and proving the audacity
and ruthless aggressiveness of the German.
Czecho-Slovakia:
Notwithstanding the fierce resistance which met them and their ideas
in Bohemia, the Germans were able to organize various ancillary
associations of their League, as well as to maintain their own press in
that country. They were further aided in their work by the importation
of German clergymen, agitators and school-masters all of whom played
leading roles in the struggle to spread Germanism throughout that brave
land of free thought.
The vile work of the Germans was not easy; they were met with a bold
and determined resistance. The Czechs fought the demented Germans with
that fierce and patriotic intensity characteristic of their old hero,
Hus, whose famous motto, "Nothing German!" became their rallying call
and slogan. In fact so strong was the Czech resistance to Germanism that
by 1900 leading Germans were ready to declare that the fate of their
movement lay in Bohemia, and depended on the outcome of their strug- gle
in that country.
Besides attempting to spread their doctrines, the Germans did
everything possible to interfere with the establishment of the Czech
language in Bohemia.
It is to the redounding credit of Czecho-Slovakia, that even before
it had became a nation it had already fought alone against German
dominion; left to its own devices, it would have never have suffered
surrender.
Holland:
A decade before the last world war it was noted as a fact that the
one State which Germany dreaded was Russia; the two States which she
would have liked to see at odds with each other were Britain and the
United States, and the one State she would really have liked to absorb
was Holland, a free and democratic country which hated Germanism and all
its narrow spiritual and political principles. Nevertheless, the German
pursued his work in that country with that fanatic stubbornness so
imbedded in his character.
In 1898 a General Dutch League was formed in Holland primarily for
the purpose of spreading the Dutch language in South Africa. Not meeting
success they appealed to the Pan-German League for aid and found
themselves, shortly thereafter, to be entirely supported by that German
organization. With their aptitude for "pro- tecting" and "adopting"
countries, the members of the League early regarded Holland as an
essential and integral part of Germany and declared that if they were
not able to secure Holland by "peaceful persuasion," they must do so by
force.
In 1901 a German writer stated that in case of war "Germany could not
be expected to regard the Dutch ports as neutral and refrain from
making use of them." (note 25) Writing in the Deutsche Zeitschrift in
1901, Kurt von Strautz declared that "It is impossible that outposts of
Germanism like the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, and Austria remain
permanently outside the boundaries of Germany."
At the same time another German asserted that Germany would do well
to secure possession of the Dutch colonies so as to acquire naval bases
and additional overseas trade routes, while another suggested that the
Dutch colonies were threatened by England, the United States and Japan,
and therefore must be "protected" by Germany!
Though the League did manage to succeed in stirring up a great deal
of mischief and agitation in Holland, Germanism was unable to achieve
any marked success in that land so noted for its great intellectual
freedom, a freedom which did not exist even among the highest class of
Germans who, at the time, were labeling the Dutch, "Low Germans." (note
26)
The Dutch wished to remain Dutch. They felt too strong and
independent in their own freedom to need or desire the gangster-like
protection of the brutish, uncivilized German.
Belgium:
Belgium has never been considered as anything but a negligible factor
in German plans for world-dominion. The German felt that because of its
size Belgium could easily, and at any time, be forced to bow to the
German will. However, he did not neglect Belgium entirely and, as a
matter of fact, he even adopted somewhat different tactics from those
which he employed in other lands.
Instead of trying his utmost to sponsor the use of the German
language in Belgium, the German believed that his success in that
country would depend upon his ability to popularize Flemish language in
contradistinction to French. By thus creating a sense of Flemish
nationality in Belgium the German hoped to prevent the spread of French
influence and so drive a wedge between France and Belgium.
However, the German was regarded with great suspicion by the Belgian
populace and therefore he was forced to carry on most of his work
through underground channels. He failed to make much headway. But this
failure did not dim his hopes for future realization. In fact he was so
certain that the seeds being planted would some day result in fruition
that, back in 1901 he had already, with habitual high-and-mighty German
arrogance, renamed Belgium German "West Mark."
Denmark:
As with Belgium, the German felt his task in Denmark to be such an
easy one that he did not even bother to use any "finesse" in his
attempts to saturate the Danish people with his Germanism, and so,
instead of trying to at least render the idea "palatable" to the Danes,
he aimed at ramming it down their throats.
Nothing came of such attempts. The Danes might be invaded by German
arms; they would never fall victim to what the German calls "Ideals."
For the Danes are an independent, civilized people with no inclination
to be dragged back a thousand years to savage barbarism.
Switzerland:
The work of the German League in Switzerland was impeded by its own
tactless and stupid blunders. The propagators of Germanism, past and
present, have always failed in estimating the local or national
patriotism of any peoples by completely undervaluing it.
When, therefore, the German early and loudly proclaimed that
Switzerland was merely an annex of Germany; that it had no culture and
could maintain no freedom of its own, he was met with the most intense
antagonism on the part of the majority of Swiss.
The Swiss have always burned with the desire to remain forever free,
neutral and independent and everywhere the German was met with the firm
declaration that "We Swiss are no Germans!"
And what more vivid testimony to that fact can be offered than the
moral to be gleaned from the story of William Tell, and admitted German
Classic written by a German author!
Scandinavia:
Of all countries in continental Europe, the German has always been
the least liked in Norway and Sweden, and though from time to time
pro-German voices were raised, the German League enjoyed little success
there.
Instead of Germans it was Norwegians and Swedes of a "German
character" who paid allegiance to the German ideal and in tracing the
work of such traitors it is not to be wondered at, now, that the Germans
were able to find a Quisling in Norway.
Professor Samassa, stating that the future struggle for existence
would be between Germans on the one side and Britons and Americans on
the other remarked that "Sweden will converge towards Germany the more
Germany grows in power, and it is therefore a German interest to
preserve the independence of Sweden. In such a way this outland will
eventually be absorbed by Germany." (note 27)
5. 'Blessed Are the War Makers'
The German Soul
"Ye Have Heard how in old times it was said, Blessed are the meek,
for they shall inherit the earth; but I say unto you, blessed are the
valiant, for they shall make the earth their throne. And ye have heard
man say, blessed are the poor in spirit; but I say unto you, blessed are
the great in soul and the free in spirit, for they shall enter into
Valhalla. And ye have heard men say, Blessed are the peacemakers; but I
say unto you, Blessed are the warmakers, for they shall be called, if
not the children of Jahve, the children of Odin, who is greater than
Jahve."
Thus out of the Bible of Germanism cometh the German Sermon on the
Mount, as interpreted by Friedrich Nietzsche, prophet of the Superior
Soul, by whose Apostolic sword millions of people in the past year have
been cut down, bleeding to earth.
But the world even then was blind. It looked on saber-rattling
Prussianism not a continuance of the German war-soul developed
throughout the ages, but simply as a transient period of political
history. For had not the spirit of Christ, in the image of Love and
Brotherhood, walked the earth for nineteen centuries, softening men's
hearts and tempering men's souls? Could civilized man fall heir to such a
spirit and not pay heed? In Germany great cathedrals housed the Cross,
but though others did not, German thinkers knew they housed but a great
emptiness of soul. For they well knew that the German gods of pagan days
were not dead; that they but slept; that even in their slumber they
were still charged with a fire inflaming the barbaric instincts of those
people.
Heinrich Heine, in 1834, had this to say of Christ in Germany:
Christianity -- and this is its fairest merit -- subdued to a certain
extent the brutal warrior ardor of the Germans, but it could not
entirely quench it; and when the Cross, that restraining talisman, falls
to pieces, then will break forth again the ferocity of the old combat-
ants, the frantic Berserker rage whereof Northern poets have said and
sung so much. The talisman has become rotten, and the day will come when
it will pitifully crumble to dust. The old stone gods will then arise
from the forgotten rains, and wipe from their eyes the dust of
centuries, and Thor with his giant hammer will arise again, and he will
shatter the Gothic cathedrals...when ye hear the tramping of feet and
the clashing of arms, ye neighbors children, be on your guard...it might
fare ill with you... Smile not at the fantasy of one who foresees in
the region of reality the same outburst of revolution that has taken
place in the region of the intellect. The thought precedes the deed as
the lightning with thunder. German thunder is of true German character:
it is not very nimble, but rumbles along somewhat slowly. But come it
will, and when ye hear a crashing such as never before has been heard in
the world's history, then know that at last the German thunderbolt has
fallen. At this commotion the eagles will drop dead from the skies and
the lions in the farthest wastes of Africa will bite their tails and
creep into their royal lairs. There will be played in Germany a drama
compared to which the French Revolution will seem but an innocent idyll.
At present everything is quiet; and though here and there some few men
create a little stir, do not imagine these are to be the real actors in
the piece. They are only little curs chasing one another round the
arena...till the appointed hour when the troop of gladiators appear to
fight for life and death. And the hour will come.
German intellect, German culture, German emotion, industry,
economics, politics, in fact all things German, are each but a tiny
rivulet feeding with its water the mighty rushing stream which is the
German war-soul. The war-soul itself is thus become a mighty torrent
against which no dike can be built sufficiently high or sufficiently
strong to stem its onrush. Our problem then is not the course-altering
or damming up of any of the rivulets but in contending with and in
subduing that power which they have produced, the power of the German
war-soul.
Let us hold in abeyance for the moment the question of the all too
obvious sufferings which the German war-soul has inflicted upon the
world, and examine it objectively from the standpoint of its
justification as regards world benefits. In short, is the war-soul of
Germany and its spread of Germanism worth more to civilization than its
cost in human life and freedom? Will the world derive more from its
perpetuation than from its extinction?
The answer requires no guesswork on our part. Once again Nietzsche in
is role of spiritual Baedeker of Germanism leaves no vestige of doubt
concerning German blessings. Following are random excerpts from his Ecce
Homo:
Where Germany spreads the corrupts culture ... Every great crime
against culture committed during the last four hundred years lies on the
German conscience ... The Germans incurred the responsibility for
everything that exists today -- the sickliness and stupidity that
opposes culture, the neurosis called Nationalism, from which Europe
suffers...the Germans have robbed Europe itself of meaning and
intelligence and have led it into a blind ally ... In the history of
knowledge Germans are represented only by doubtful names, they have
produced only "unconscious swindlers." "German intellect" is bad air, a
psychological uncleanliness that has now become instinctive -- an
uncleanliness which in every word and gesture betrays the German. And if
a man is not clean how can he be deep? You can never fathom their (the
German) depths, they have none; and that ends it ... The German soul is
small and base.
There is nothing to add to these words. The myth of German intellect
and culture explodes under the hand of their outstanding product.
German-proclaimed culture is not worth its, or any, cost.
However, is there yet some fine point about the Germans that we do
not understand? Over a generation ago, the late American historian,
Charles Francis Adams, disturbed by this very question, undertook to
examine it:
Suspecting in my own case (that I did not think like a German) I have
of late confined my reading on this topic almost exclusively to German
sources. I have been taking a course on Nietzsche and Treitschke, as
also in the German "Denkschrift," illumined by excerpts from the German
papers in this country and the official utterances of Chancellor von
Bethmann-Hollweg. The result has been most disastrous. It has utterly
destroyed my capacity for judicial consideration. I can only say that if
what I find in those sources is a capacity to think Germanically, I
would rather cease thinking at all. It is the absolute negation of
everything which in the past tended to the elevation of mankind, and the
installation in place thereof of a system of thorough dishonesty,
emphasized by brutal stupidity. There is a low cunning about it, too,
which is to me in the last degree repulsive.
Germanism was born ages ago, its growth has been proceeding for
centuries, and it has now reached an advanced stage of flowering. Hitler
is but a bud indicative of what kind of "flower" when it comes to full
bloom, the world may expect to see!
Because she made no effort thousands of years ago, to become
civilized as did her neighbors, Germany today is an outsider among all
civilized nations. The processes which it has taken other nations
thousands of years to absorb, cannot be suddenly absorbed by Germany
overnight. Consequently, the continued existence of Germany among them
becomes increasingly inimical to the best interests of civilized
nations.
The deliberate and perverse distortions of what should have been a
sane and normal course of development -- as in other nations -- now
gives to Germany and her people a capacity unexcelled by any other
peoples on earth, for fostering and propagating every indecent and
inhuman precept of life. And as she seeks to distribute her own
poisonous brew she has herself become so intoxicated by its ingredients
that she can no longer escape the ever- constant desire, the urgent
compulsion and the burning lust which it incites in her to extinguish
any and all signs of good which she sees developed or practiced in other
lands. Thus in self-justification Germany would excuse her own
unnatural and perverse life by polluting others with her malignant
infection. Germany is now well beyond all saving. The world had best
look to its own preservation and welfare, lest some of those German
poisons run through her system also and come to destroy it!
With each succeeding world war which she plans, plots and starts
Germany comes ever closer and closer to her goal of world-dominion. At
the present time Hitler, who has merely striven to remedy mistakes which
previous German leaders made in attempts at world-subjection, may bring
the German people very close to realizing their goal. And Hitler is not
the last of the Führers!
How much misery, suffering, death and destruction are needed before
it becomes apparent to the world that any compromise with Germanism
will, of itself, be a certain guarantee that soon thereafter, Germany
must again embark upon her unholy crusade to dominate it. How many more
chances will be vouchsafed it to beat back Germany? Suppose there comes a
time when Germany can not be halted? Dare we risk waiting? One never
knows the exact hour one is scheduled to die; can we, with any more
certitude and assurance tell which opportunity shall be our last? It may
well be that this is our last chance. Suppose we pass it by; look
ahead. Next time, the so-called elder generation of Germany will be the
Hitler-trained youth of today, and this elder generation, now mothers
and fathers, will already have instilled and encouraged their children
with the idea of world-dominion. Thus the next Fuhrer may come to lead a
nation of born fanatics! As a consequence of this there may come to be
welded a machine so gigantic in proportions, so overwhelming in
destructive power, that it may well overcome every possible obstacle in
its path. For assuredly the German youth of the next generation -- today
schooled in Fuhrer schools -- will find a leader, as past generations
of German youth have always found a leader, to incarnate and personify
the body and soul of that nation and dominate its collective Will.
A leader who will feed that German body and soul the only food upon which it can subsist: War!
6. A Middle Road?
With Germanism shown thus to be the very soul of conquest and
world-dominion, may we not then pose this question: Is it possible for
the world, in any manner, to find some compromise that will allow both
it and Germany to exist side by side in peace and justice? In concrete
terms, were peace declared tomorrow to Germany's apparent satisfaction,
could this nation born and bred on blood, be expected to be appeased for
more than the immediate future?
We should like to hope so; but the history of that nation cuts the hope out of our heart.
The majority of people claim that Hitler alone stands between war and
peace. But is it Hitler alone who smashed Austria, Czecho-Slovakia,
Holland, Poland, Norway, Belgium and France and the Balkan countries? Is
it Hitler alone who tortures and oppresses these people?
But for argument's sake, let us assume that Hitler is no more and the
world is seeking a just basis for peace with Germany. We quickly
discover that the Germany of our dreams is not the Germany of dread
reality.
For, in the first place, there is no longer living in Germany that
so-called "older generation" with whom reasonable talk might be made.
This woeful handful is gone and forgotten and in its stead stands that
brown-shirted legion singing that glorious Horst-Wessel paean: Today
Europe, tomorrow all the World! Enlightened reason with perverted
chanters of a world-dirge composed by a drunkard, written in a brothel
and dedicated to a pimp?
What then of a democratic Germany?
Democracy for a nation that has destroyed a mighty people of some
thirty million Poles with the epithet "such a servant race has no
existence"? Democracy for a people who believe only in superiority, not
equality?
Well then, break Germany up into small autonomous states?
Nonsense!
That Pan-Germanism which has received blind allegiance in Berlin of
every German irrespective of his remoteness or his nationality could not
overnight endure such an arbitrary and weak barrier to its dreams.
Let us carve up the world and give Germany a share which the world and she will agree is her just due?
Germany already has given us her answer:
"Germany does not want a share of anything. She wants, she demands, all or nothing."
Re-educate the younger generation?
Even were such a vast program put into operation it is highly
doubtful whether it would be worth the effort, or achieve its objective.
The soul is a greater and infinitely more powerful force than the
brain. And the martial characteristics of the German are linked
indelibly with his spirit and have become an integral part of his soul.
Some day that war-soul would again come to dominate his brain.
A final solution: Let Germany be policed forever by an international armed force?
Even is such a huge undertaking were feasible life itself would not
have it so. As war begets war, suppression begets rebellion. Undreamed
horrors would unfold.
Thus we find that there is no middle course; no act of mediation, no
compromise to be compounded, no political or economic sharing to be
considered. There is, in fine, no other solution except one: That
Germany must perish forever from this earth!
And, fortunately, as we shall now come to see, that is no longer impossible of accomplishment.
7. Death to Germany
When an Individual commits premeditated murder, he must be prepared
to forfeit his own life in consequence. When a nation commits
premeditated murder upon its fellow nations, it must be prepared to
forfeit its own national life.
On that point the laws of man and God are explicit:
"An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and a life for a life."
But what is the law of man or God to Germany? Nothing.
She recognizes only German law; so be it.
It must then be German law, if such a law there be, which decrees her penalty -- the penalty of death.
And there is such a German law which decrees that death to her:
As in all human affairs, there must also be in every system of
punishment a last limit, a ne plus ultra that no punishment can
overstep. Thus even from the point of view of pure theory the necessity
of the depth-penalty is postulated; it is, as the ultimate punishment on
earth, the indispensable keystone of every ordered system of criminal
law. No apparent reasons which are alleged against it can withstand any
serious criticism. The State, which has the right to sacrifice for its
own protection the flower of its youth, is to feel so nice a regard for
the life of a murderer? We much rather allow to the State the right to
make away with men who are undoubtedly injurious to the common weal.
That the powers that be must bear the sword is an expression which runs
deep in the blood of the honest man; if this truth is to be banished out
of the world, great wrong is done to the simple moral feeling of the
people. The ultimate problems of the moral life are to be solved in the
domain of the practical, not of the theoretical, reason. The conscience
of every earnest man demands that blood be atoned by blood, and the
common man must simply grow doubtful of the existence of justice on
earth, of this last and highest punishment is not inflicted. The State
makes itself ridiculous and contemptible if it cannot finally dispose of
a criminal. There must be a limit for mercy and indulgence, as for the
law, a last limit at which the State says: "This is the end, humanity is
not longer possible here." It must be possible to inflict at last a
punishment beyond which there is nothing, and that is the punishment of
death. (Heinrich von Treitschke.)
Let German Will be done!
There remains now but to determine the best way, the most practical
and expeditious manner in which the ultimate penalty must be levied upon
the German nation. Quite naturally, massacre and wholesale execution
must be ruled out. In addition to being impractical when applied to a
population of some seventy million, such methods are inconsistent with
the moral obligations and ethical practices of civilization. There
remains then but one mode of ridding the world forces of Germanism --
and that is to stem the source from which issue those war-lusted souls,
by preventing the people of Germany from ever again reproducing their
kind. This modern method, known to science as Eugenic Sterilization, is
at once practical, humane and thorough. Sterilization has become a
byword of science, as the best means of ridding the human race of its
misfits: the degenerate, the insane, the hereditary criminal.
Sterilization is not to be confused with castration. It is a safe and
simple operation, quite harmless and painless, neither mutilating nor
unsexing the patient. Its effects are most often less distressing than
vaccination and not more serious than a tooth extraction. Too, the
operation is extremely rapid requiring no more than ten minutes to
complete. The patient may resume his work immediately afterwards. Even
in the case of the female the operation, though taking longer to
perform, is as safe and simple. Performed thousands of times, no records
indicate cases of complication or death. When one realizes that such
health measures as vaccination and serum treatments are considered as
direct benefits to the community, certainly sterilization of the German
people cannot but be considered a great health measure promoted by
humanity to immunize itself forever against the virus of Germanism.
The population of Germany, excluding conquered and annexed
territories, is about 70,000,000, almost equally divided between male
and female. To achieve the purpose of German extinction it would be
necessary to only sterilize some 48,000,000 -- a figure which excludes,
because of their limited power to procreate, males over 60 years of age,
and females over 45.
Concerning the males subject to sterilization the army groups, as
organized units, would be the easiest and quickest to deal with. Taking
20,000 surgeons as an arbitrary number and on the assumption that each
will perform a minimum of 25 operations daily, it would take no more
than one month, at the maximum, to complete their sterilization.
Naturally the more doctors available, and many more than the 20,000 we
mention would be available considering all the nations to be drawn upon,
the less time would be required. The balance of the male civilian
population of Germany could be treated within three months. Inasmuch as
sterilization of women needs somewhat more time, it may be computed that
the entire female population of Germany could be sterilized within a
period of three years or less. Complete sterilization of both sexes, and
not only one, is to be considered necessary in view of the present
German doctrine that so much as one drop of true German blood
constitutes a German.
Of course, after complete sterilization, there will cease to be a
birth rate in Germany. At the normal death rate of 2 per cent per annum,
German life will diminish at the rate of 1,500,000 yearly. Accordingly
in the span of two generations that which cost millions of lives and
centuries of useless effort, namely, the elimination of Germanism and
its carriers, will have been an accomplished fact. By virtue of its loss
of self-perpetuation German Will will have atrophied and German power
reduced to negligible importance.
Reviewing the foregoing case of sterilization we find that several factors resulting from it firmly establish its advocacy.
Firstly, no physical pain will be imposed upon the inhabitants of
Germany through its application, a decidedly more humane treatment than
they will have deserved. As a matter of fact it is not inconceivable
that after Germany's defeat, the long-suffering peoples of Europe may
demand a far less humane revenge than that of mere sterilization.
Secondly, execution of the plan would in no way disorganize the
present population nor would it cause any sudden mass upheavals and
dislocations. The consequent gradual disappearance of the Germans from
Europe will leave no more negative effect upon that continent than did
the gradual disappearance of the Indians upon this.
Here again, a German attests to this point, Spengler's famous: "A nation or an individual may die and leave no gap!"
A detailed program of the manner in which the outraged victims of
Germanic onslaught might make certain that Germany leave no gap might be
put hypothetically:
Germany has lost its war. She sues for peace. The imperative demands
of the victor people that Germany must perish forever makes it
obligatory for the leaders to select mass sterilization of the Germans
as the best means of wiping them out permanently. They proceed to:
- Immediately and completely disarm the German army and have all armaments removed from German territory.
- Place all German utility and heavy industrial plants under
heavy guard, and replace German workers by those of Allied nationality.
- Segregate the German army into groups, concentrate them in severely restricted areas, and summarily sterilize them.
- Organize the civilian population, both male and female, within territorial sectors, and effect their sterilization.
- Divide the German army (after its sterilization has been
completed) into labor battalions, and allocate their services toward the
rebuilding of those cities which they ruined.
- Partition Germany and apportion its lands. The accompanying map
gives some idea of possible land adjustments which might be made in
connection with Germany's extinction.
- Restrict all German civilian travel beyond established borders until all sterilization has been completed.
- Compel the German population of the apportioned territories to
learn the language of its area, and within one year to cease the
publication of all books, newspapers and notices in the German language,
as well as to restrict German-language broadcasts and discontinue the
maintenance of German-language schools.
- Make one exception to an otherwise severely strict enforcement
of total sterilization, by exempting from such treatment only those
Germans whose relatives, being citizens of various victor nations,
assume financial responsibility for their actions.
Thus, into an oblivion which she would have visited upon the world, exists Germany.
8. 'Lest We Forget ...'
Perhaps in the Future ...
United States has entered the war. The struggle is long and bitter
but at last the Allies forge ahead. Their armies surround Germany.
Germany realizes that she has lost again. She dose not want
invasions. She fears the vengeance long overdue her. So she sues for
peace. Comes the Armistice!
And immediately thereafter, as once before, Germany finds that the
words "Humanity" -- which she has debased; "Justice" -- which she has
distorted; and "God" whom she has profaned, have an irresistible sales
appeal to Allied Statesmen.
Germany puts her propaganda machine to work.
Soon men in the victor nations are urging:
"Peace with Honor!" -- "Justice without Rancor!" -- "God and Mercy!",
and all those other weak, sticky phrases which befuddle the weary minds
and exhausted emotions of the long-suffering people of the
war-decimated democracies.
Forgotten in the sudden lush of a peace that is no peace, are all the
brave sons who were sacrificed to the monster Germany: forgotten is the
plight of the countries whose resources were drained, and whose
energies were sapped in stemming the Teutonic onslaught. Forgotten, too,
is the duty owed to generations yet to be born. Forgotten, as in 1918,
is the day of the coming of the next German leader.
Yes: all forgotten because the Allies cannot resist such an appeal.
And so, even though a hundred years and a hundred instances have shown
the hypocrisy of a German promise, the Allies fall once again its
victim.
They forget that the struggle they waged was not a sport's contest:
that their adversary was a beast, not a human being! And so, filled to
overflowing with the infectious germ of sentiment, they stretch out
their hand to their fallen opponent and help him arise.
They pat him on the back with a hearty "No hard feelings, old man!"
and, happy that the war is now over and done with, return to their
homes.
Believing, sincerely, that German war will not come again.
Believing that somehow, in some inexplicable manner, Germany has accepted Christ.
A decade passes. A decade of hard work and many sacrifices.
A decade of much sweat and little pleasure.
But the democratic peoples do not mind. They are building a better world for their children.
So they think.
Meanwhile Germany grows strong and robust.
Her army is larger and more powerful than ever before; she has
developed new weapons whose frightfulness surpass all imagination. She
had found a new leader. And her war-souled people are bent once again
upon conquering the world.
Once more the earth trembles beneath the march of the German boot.
Like a cobra Germany is poised:
She strikes!
The people of the civilized nations are stunned.
They exclaim, "But it cannot be again!"
But it is.
And this time it is Too Late!
For Germany wins. She is mistress of the world.
...and so a thousand years of peace was sold to the Devil for a
moment's respite! And only because men tried to placate the body,
instead of expunging forever the bestial war-soul, of the German!
The sun now shivers as it rises upon a Dark world.
For slaves to the German are children once free.
Civilization is no more. Perversity is raged rampant.
Even the moon shudders as it wanes in a frightening chill.
This is, finally, "Deutschland Ueber Alles."
Shall it be so?
Our choice lies still before us:
False sentiment or courageous decision --
Which shall it be?
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