HITLER’S GERMANY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 256, 30 October 1939, Page 3

HITLER’S GERMANY

PEARLS OF NAZI CULTURE AMAZING PRONOUNCEMENTS There Ls nothing very .subtle about Clara Leiser’s annotations of the Nazi cultured pearls which .she has strung together in "Nazi Nuggets,” but then there is nothing very subtle about the excerpts themselves. They are the pronouncements, more typical than .selective, despite their lantastic quality uf prominent public men in present-day Germany, and of an obedient press, upon a variety ol subjects, from peace to lipstick, on which the Nazi State has felt called upon to pontificate. Such is their cumulative effect that the reader may leel he is being conducted down the main p.sychopatnic ward in a hospital catering to sick minds. It becomes ever more incredible, as one scans the brief paragraphs that they represent the serious utterance of men who are the present leaders of a great State, and responsible for the conditioning of the political and social intelligence of 80.000,000 people. A few ciark gems from this spurious diadem will best suggest lhe text of the book, and the mentality of those who are its unconscious contributors. Of the New Germany: Even in lhe German streets the I new spirit is visible. . . . The ashcans are lined up as if standing at attention. (German newspaper). Of Herr Hitler: Hiller is lonely. So is God. Hitler I is like God. (Dr. Frank, Minister of | Justice). The Grace of God attends our Fuehrer and our glorious move- ■ ment because our Fuehrer, and we with him, took up and conducted a struggle Lor our people from wholly clean, pure motives, (Julius Streicher). The Fuehrer belongs to those who fulfil the will of God and realise the . life of Christ in this life to an ex- ! traordinary degree. (Dr. Fabriens, | German theologians). What he docs is righi; whatever ' he does is necessary, and whatever , he does is successful. . . . Thus ■ manifestly the Fuehrer has the I divine blessing. (Rudolf Hess). Of Christianity: Christ is a false prophet. He was I a Jew and thus the source of every [ ill. (Frau Ludendorff). Christ cannot possibly have been a i Jew. 1 don’t have to prove that scientifically. It is a fact. (Dr. Plul Goebbels). The truly great Bolshevists of I human culture were the Christoloi gists. (Dr. Bergmann, in The Ger- ' man National Church.). The pre-requisite of al) German j ('ducation is the acknowledgment ■ that it is not Christendon which has brought us civilisation, but that Christianity owes its lasting values to the Germanic character. (Rosenberg). When lhe Fuehrer addressed his last to the people on March 28 (1926) it was as if a profound agitation went through lhe whole na- ; tion; one felt that Germany was | transformed into one single House ; of God, in which its intercessor stood before the throne of the Al- ; mighty to bear witness. II seemed to us that this cry io j heaven for freedom and peace I could not die away unheard. That I was religion in its profoundest and most mystical sense. A nation then acknowledged through its spokesman. and laid its destiny and its fife ! I with full confidence in his hand, i (Goebbels*. On Eating: Eat National Socialist! (Nazi i | Health Bureau slogan). Thorough mastication avoids need- I less waste and payment of unnecessary expense to foreign countries, i i Dor Heilgarten). We don’t ask anything of you that we, the leaders, are unwilling to bear ourselves. Too much fat creates big bellies. 1 have been eating less butter and have reduced 201 b. (General Goering). Of Women: Thank God, we reject women in Parliament, on the platform, and in State administration. (Nazi slogan). In the education of women emphasis must be laid primarily on physical development. Only afterwards must consideration be given I to lhe spiritual values, and lastly ! to mental development. (Hitler). Woman - her place is in the home. ' her duty the recreation of the tired i warrior. (Goering). Other Themes: The subject of animal husbandry < has some enlightening paragraphs, including the definition of what constitutes an Aryan hen. and a dissertation upon the important racial differences which may be found between ordinary pigs and the “German noble white hog.’ Attacks on the Roman Catholic faith, some naive and some extremely vicious, occupy a chapter Io themselves, and race, of course, produces a few revolutionary scientific theories. Other subjects into which Hie in- ; dustrious editor of “Nazi Nuggets’ i has delved with success are press censorship, the Jews, the child and education. It is an amazing and in some sense a sickening contribution to the humour of nations which she has made, and is appropriately introduced in the words of General Goering: "If what wo have done here is lunacy, then lunacy becomes us.”