Audiobook script Eckart Bolshevism part two

Chapter V

“And, you see,” he pounded on the table, “they alone [the wanderers] are to be thanked that at least part of our Christian heritage, as well as our other cultural legacy, has survived this “spiritual administration by the Jews.”

Where are they? Where were they? Among high and low, among the kings and the soldiers, among the popes and the mendicant friars, among the learned and the illiterate, everywhere.

But not among the only-rich; but not among the only-clever; but not among the greedy and the insatiable; but not among the rabble. There the Jew is at home. Whatever appears there in the way of spiritual possessions he matter-of-factly administers; it is his own. Just as everything was transformed into gold for King Midas, every deep and meaningful word is turned into filth at his touch. But for the others, for the “wanderers of the spirit,” I threw to him.

“Everything remains as of old,” he nodded. “There have been popes of Jewish blood. (61) (61) Anacletus II (1130-1138), Innocent II (1130-1143), Calixtus III (1168-1178), Clement Vlll (1424-1428), Alexander VI (1492-1503), and even Pius XI (1922-1939).

Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti, Pope Pius XI

In addition, Gregory VI (1045-1046) and others may have been Jews or part- Jews. Anacletus II, Calixtus III, and Clement VIII are generally classified as antipopes. [Translator]

Also there has seldom or never been a shortage of other dignitaries of the same descent in the Church. Was that which they stood for Catholicism? No, it was Judaism. Let’s take just one thing: the selling of indulgences — the very essence of the Jewish spirit.

[NN: An indulgence was basically a document offering forgiveness for sins by him or her paying money to the Catholic Church, or, earlier, by going as a warrior on a Crusade to free Jerusalem from the muslims. The Protestant Reformation broke out under Martin Luther over the highly abusive selling of these indulgence documents, partly done to finance the construction of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican in Rome. So while the Church got the funds needed for this one truly magnificent church, it thereby also lost the northern half of Europe, which angrily went Protestant out of protest against the selling of the forgiveness of sins for money.]

A pope selling indulgences (for the forgiveness of sins) in 1517 for cash in order to build St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome

We are both Catholics, but dare we not say that? Are we really supposed to believe that there has never been anything in the Church with which one can find fault? Just because we are Catholics, we say it. That has nothing to do with Catholicism. We know that Catholicism would have remained intact even if half the hierarchy had consisted of Jews. A number of sincere men always held it high, though often only secretly, many times even against the pope. Sometimes there were many such men, sometimes few.

“The investigation of the Jew and his activities should have been the alpha and the omega of our historians.

“Karl the Great [Charlemagne] favored the Jews at every turn. It seems to me that his slaughter of the 4,500 Saxons at Verden  “the best German blood,” and his having key Jewish advisers had something to do with one another.

“The notorious insanity of the Crusades bled the German people of so many men. Finally the Hohenstaufen, Frederick II, succeeded through mere negotiation, without striking a blow, in securing the so-called “Holy Land” for Christendom.

What did the Curia do? Full of hatred, they hurled the ban of excommunication on Frederick and refused to recognize his treaty with the sultan, thus neutralizing his great success. It seems that, to those pulling the strings, the incidental bloodletting was more important than the avowed objective of the Crusades.

“At last came the Children’s Crusade. Tens of thousands of children sent against the victorious Turkish army, all to be destroyed. I can’t believe that the idea for that  absurdity originated in a non- Jewish mind. I am always reminded of the murder of the children of Bethlehem and the slaughter of the Egyptian firstborn. I would give anything for a photograph of the priest who preached that Crusade, and his flunkeys.

“Giordano Bruno called the Jews  “such a pestilential, leprous, and publicly dangerous
race that they deserved to be rooted out and destroyed even before their birth.” (62)

This genial philosopher was burned at the stake. For his heresy? Opponents of the Church were swarming in Italy during his time, yet he, the most impartial of them, was the one that was seized.”

“Well, how about now?” I interrupted him. “In Soviet Russia one Catholic priest after another is tortured to death by the Jewish beast; hundreds have already been liquidated; the Church is taking its last gasp; but Rome cannot bring herself to call the child by its real
name.

Many times she has made a small start in that direction — but only to be
immediately squelched. Catholicism wants to speak; Jewry paralyzes its tongue. ”

“Rome,” he replied, “will pull herself together, but only if we pull ourselves together
first. And one day it can be said that the Church is whole again.”

“Since those who are responsible for the trouble will have been discovered!” I cried.
“Since the disguised Hebrew, together with his cuckoo eggs, will have been thrown out
of the Christian community! He has set not only the Egyptians but also the Christians
against one another so that

“they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbor,”

and he is still at this game.

He works from the outside, carefully building his pitfalls and making his destructive influence felt in the press. But he also works from the inside, where he is even more dangerous, in the mask of the Christian minister. The Christian confessions swarm with Jewish and half- Jewish clergymen, the Protestant denominations even more so than the Catholic. They already feel so sure of victory in the Protestant churches that in Dresden a certain Pastor Wallfisch had the impudence to announce publicly: ˜I am a Jew and will remain one; yes, now that I have learned the Christian beliefs I have become more than ever a true Israelite.’ (63)

And in Hamburg a preacher named Schwalb said: ˜I consider myself a genuine Jew and have always considered myself thus.” (64) Where that sort of thing is possible, Christianity might as well let itself be buried.

“Luther’s spirit seems to be completely played out among our Protestants. On the question of all questions, the Jewish question, they either hush him completely or try to tone him down. One of the most well-meaning among their theologians, Professor Walther, calls Luther’s attitude toward the Jews “so offensive that it must arouse not only confused astonishment among Christians but also great indignation among the Jews.”

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“On the Jews and their Lies” (1543) (in English: luther-martin-on-the-jews-and-their-lies ) 

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Wittenberg castle, where Luther translates the Bible into German

Those Christians with a “confused astonishment” wouldn’t have found themselves in that state if they had not previously let themselves be confused by the Jews.

And as for the great indignation of the Hebrews, we are not grieved a bit. Where, by the way, has that indignation been apparent? So far, Israel has been quiet as a mouse about it. They have always praised Luther greatly as the enemy of Rome. Heine began a ceremonious hymn of joy to the Reformer with the words, “Luther, you dear man.'”

“He had good reason,” he jeered. “All Jews have good reason to celebrate Luther and
to ignore his anti-Semitism. Without intending to do so, he paved the way for them,
and how! The more they extol his authority, the less the world notices his error. That
he later cursed them as a pestilence is indeed bitter to them, but how many people
are even aware of his final condemnation of the Jews”?

“The Jew Goldmann,” I put in, “stated their reason plainly enough. Luther has again
brought the Old Testament to honor.'” (65)

“Instead of to dishonor,” was the reply. “His translation to the German language might
have been of some use; as it is, it has grievously damaged the German power of
discernment. Lord in heaven, what a halo now surrounds Satan’s “Bible”! Luther’s
poetry sparkles so that even the incest of Lot’s daughters has been given a religious
shimmer. Yahweh’s command to be fruitful and multiply had to be obeyed by these two pious maidens — apparently at any price!”

NN: Again for the sake of those of our generation who are unfamiliar with most Bible stories, here is the actual text. By the way, this Lot is the same one who was the nephew of Abraham, the original forefather of all the Jews, and the one willing to human-sacrifice his own son, Isaac, in order to get his god Yahweh’s blessing so that his descendants would become numerous, and one day rule the world.

Now Lot, the nephew of Abraham, was the same one who had fled with his wife and daughters from Sodom and Gomorrah before it was incinerated by angels of God for the crime of homosexuality.

Disobeying God, the wife of Lot had turned and watched the cities burn, and was punished by being turned into a pillar of salt. So she was obviously dead. 

And now to another charming little Bible story, or rather a disgusting and sordid tale, one of father-daughter incest, from the first book of the “Holy” Bible, Genesis, chapter 19, verses 30-38:

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Lot and His Daughters

³⁰ Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave. ³¹ One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man around here to give us children—as is the custom all over the earth. ³² Let’s get our father to drink wine and then sleep with him and preserve our family line through our father.”

³³ That night they got their father to drink wine, and the older daughter went in and slept with him. He was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.

³⁴ The next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Last night I slept with my father. Let’s get him to drink wine again tonight, and you go in and sleep with him so we can preserve our family line through our father.” ³⁵ So they got their father to drink wine that night also, and the younger daughter went in and slept with him. Again he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.

³⁶ So both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father. ³⁷ The older daughter had a son, and she named him Moab^[a]; he is the father of the Moabites of today. ³⁸ The younger daughter also had a son, and she named him Ben-Ammi^[b]; he is the father of the Ammonites^[c] of today.

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Schopenhauer expressed a similar opinion,” I confirmed. “He said that if one wants to
understand the Old Testament one must read it in the Greek version. There it has an
entirely different tone, an entirely different color, with no presentiment of Christianity!
Contrasted with the Greek, Luther’s translation seems “pious”; also often erroneous,
indeed, sometimes intentionally, and delivered throughout in a churchly, edifying tone.” Luther has permitted himself to make changes “which one actually could call forgeries” and so on.” (66)

“Not Luther,” he raised his finger. “The rabbis who helped him with the entire
translation — they introduced the changes and the forgeries!”

We must remember that Hebrew is a difficult and also vague language.

Luther translated a certain word, for example, as “ethnic kinsman.” But then the rabbi came in and said that the word means “neighbor.”

And so we have Luther’s nice-sounding translation: “Love thy neighbor as thyself,” rather than, as it should be: “Love your ethnic kinsman as yourself.”

A small piece of cunning, but it served its purpose – giving the heartless Jews the aspect of real humanitarians.”

“Yes, even Luther was taken in by the ˜chosen people,'” I replied. “He looked upon the
Old Testament as divine revelation. He approached the book with infatuation,
convinced that it could contain nothing but sheer preciousness.

But then he began wading into the vile thing. After a few steps he blinked his eyes, bewildered. He was stunned. That just couldn’t be so! It must have some other meaning!

And so, with perfectly honest intentions, he read between the lines what simply wasn’t there. Everywhere he managed to see allusions to Christ, although nothing could be farther from the Jews’ actual thoughts on the matter. Their Messiah is no “lamb’s tail,” Heine jeered at Christ,
no scorner of earthly existence. (67)  Heinrich Heine, in his poem “Disputation.”

On the contrary,

their Messiah is a brutal dog who will conquer the earth for his Jews; he is the ˜prince of this world.’

Page after page the Old Testament says things along the lines of Isaiah 61:6:

You will feed on the wealth of nations, and in their riches you will boast.

or, in Psalm 2:8

Ask me, and I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth your possession.

One of these is a statement of a  “divinely inspired” prophet, the other a “deeply spiritual” psalm. (68)

“Credulously, being a good German, Luther viewed everything in a rosy light. This became even easier for him when, in the middle of the great morass, he came to passages like Deuteronomy 28:65: “Among those nations you will find no repose, no resting place for the sole of your foot. There Yahweh will give you an anxious mind, eyes weary with longing, and a despairing heart.”

And he read passages such as Deuteronomy chapter 28, where Yahweh threatens every possible catastrophe — disease, starvation, defeat, massacre and enslavement —  upon his Jews if they disobey and worship other deities.

Compassion of course seized our good Luther.

“The Jews,” he thought to himself, “have become untrue to their godly doctrine, but they will again find their way home to it.” It never occurred to him that these direly threatening sermons served only the purpose of holding the Jews to their course.

“On the other hand, many passages of apparently lofty stamp have quite a different purpose: namely, they serve as a protective cover. He later recognized this Jewish tactic, but only in the living Hebrews, not in their Bible.

“The Jews desire to make all their affairs ambiguous, so that nothing about them is really certain,” he said. If one belabors them for an especially low-minded passage, they can indignantly point at one
which is dripping with loving kindness.

Heine, for example, writes an utterly vulgar poem about Germany; five minutes later he is praising “the dear homeland” to the skies.

A matter of changing mood? Oh, dear God I suppose that we are to believe that an old street whore often finds herself in the mood to sing the ‘Ave Maria,’ or that a basically honest fellow is often in the mood to steal. What nonsense!”

“No, you are right, Dietrich. The Jew often plays the role of a benefactor only in order to accomplish his destructive aims without notice. It’s always been that way.”

“This ambiguity,” I completed, “one finds even in Spinoza. (69)

[NN:  Baruch Spinoza, a Dutch Jew who lived 1632-1677, was the greatest Jewish philosopher.]

One can hardly imagine a bolder, more outspoken world view than his; but his ethics would horrify a pig. “In all things seek that which is advantageous” is the quintessence of his moral philosophy –and the genuine Jewish viewpoint. ”

“It is the most terrible tragedy,” Hitler said sadly, “that Luther bears the responsibility for such a dire development — the consequence of deeds committed in perfect innocence that today cause all civilization to be in danger of running aground.

The greatest German as the unsuspecting cause of the German collapse; Luther, the mighty opponent of the Jews, the one who most disastrously paved the way for them —  incomprehensible, I tell you, incomprehensible.

To happen too late by a paltry ten or twenty years! To first become awake to the Jews shortly before his death, when everything had already been determined! (70)

[NN: Dr. Pierce: Martin Luther died in 1546. His two principal anti-Semitic writings, Von den Juden und ihren Lügen and Vom Schem Hamphoras, appeared in 1543. A philo-Semitic tract by him had previously been written 20 years earlier, in 1523.]

Luther’s grave inside Wittenberg Cathedral 

Yes, the early Luther  had been body and soul for the traitors!

Then the Hebrews had still been ˜cousins and brothers of our Lord’ to him, while we Christians were only ˜brothers-in-law and strangers.’ Wringing his hands, he entreated the populace to associate with them in a “decent and proper” manner. To him they were exalted above the Apostles!

The late Erzberger couldn’t have carried on more absurdly. (71)

[NN: Matthias Erzberger (1875-1921) was a left-wing member of the Catholic Center Party. A collaborator with the Jews and Social Democrats during World War I, he publicly revealed secret German military reports, severely demoralizing the home front. He then signed the German surrender in 1918 for Germany; he favored the disastrous Versailles Treaty; and he became German vice chancellor in 1919 in the Weimar Republic. He was executed for his treasonable activities by German officers in 1921. [Translator]

Erzberger is in the foreground with hat in hand

“Only not for an instant as sincerely,” I stopped him. “If Luther had been a
contemporary of Erzberger, he wouldn’t have had to find out about the purpose of the Jewish hush-money first, in order to see through Judaism. As early as his student days he would have promptly leaped with both feet into the battle against the devil’s brood.”

“My God,” he immediately resumed, “one cannot blame him. A lot has happened in the last four hundred years.

But there is one thing to remember: popular instinct was more alert then than nowadays. All along the line mistrust of the Jews was quite firm.

Luther was a man of the people, the son of simple folk. His predilection of many years toward the Jews is a bit misleading; one must take into account a certain naivete, a lack
of worldliness, the result of his stay in the cloister. The same rule seems to have
applied here as elsewhere: too much studying ruined his vision.

Nevertheless, Luther was a great man, a giant. With a shock which pierced the twilight he saw the Jews as we have only begun to see them today. But, unfortunately, too late, and even then not there, where he had done the most damage — in his supposed reform of Christianity. Oh, had he only seen them in there; had he only seen them in his youth!

Then he would not have attacked Catholicism, but, rather, the Jews behind it! Instead of a wholesale condemnation of the Church, he would have let his whole, passionate impetus fall on the true villains.

Instead of glorifying the Old Testament, [Luther] would have branded it as the arsenal of the Antichrist.

And of the Jew! The Jew would have stood there in his abominable nakedness, as an eternal warning. He would have been obliged to get out of the Church, out of society, out of the halls of the princes, out of the castles of the knights and the houses of the citizens. For Luther had the strength, the courage, and the overpowering will. It would never have come to the splitting of the Church or to the war which, in accordance with the wishes of the Hebrews, spilled Aryan blood in torrents for thirty long years.” [NN: This is a reference to the horrendous Thirty Years War of 1618-48, which killed off at least 1/5th of the German people.]

 

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Hitler ground out.

“And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother and every one against his neighbor,'”

“What hatred, Dietrich! What demonic hatred! That’s not human; what is it?”

“That, my friend,” I joked, “is the ˜genius of the heart’ of which the Jew Fritz Kahn has spoken, through which “Israel has become the ethical mother of mankind.”

These fellows are really quaint in their impudence. Kahn has called Moses”an almost unique phenomenon in the history of civilized peoples: a national hero without weapons.”

At the same time this Kahn reproves us with the remark that “on stormy nights the distressed wail of widows may be heard around the bronze heroes of our market places,” that is, around the statues of Prince Eugene, Marshal Blücher and so on.

I wonder what he thinks Moses used to massacre the Egyptian firstborn, if not weapons. Gumdrops, perhaps?

Or were they smothered to death from sheer love?

Apparently, we are to believe that the rabble consisted entirely of baby sitters and wet nurses.

“Well, all these fellows operate the same way at least. They don’t even bother to deny anything; instead they flatly maintain exactly the opposite.”

“That tactic seems to work quite well with our men of learning. The Jews just say whatever they please; it is all gospel truth to our scholars. They wouldn’t think of trying to verify anything; the fact that it appears in print is enough for them.

A certain Jewess called the Talmud “a grandiose, monumental work of the spirit,” a “heroic monument of ideas, to which the millennia have given the breath of their experience.” (72)

[NN: This quote is from Doris Wittner, and the magazine Ostjüdische Antlitze, No. 252, 1920.]

Immediately upon encountering such a gem, the German professor whips out his notebook — and the next day his students have devoured and digested the new tidbit.

That’s the way it goes in our gymnasia [high schools for gifted kids]. They are all designed, so they say, to turn out nothing but geniuses; instead, one mental lackey after another is graduated.”

“A few hours spent browsing in the Talmud, ” I proceeded, “is quite sufficient to remove any doubt about the Jews.

It is understandable that they have only the most inordinate praise for the book. When they peep into it their own peculiar nature peers back out at them. And that, of course, is the greatest source of joy for them. Thus, in essence, every Jew is a Talmudist, even if he has never looked at the Talmud. It makes no difference when it was written; in fact, it needn’t have been written at all. The first Jew comprised all its essential ingredients.

The Jewish leaders fully understand that, but they only say it metaphorically. “The Talmud is an unimpeachable authority,” trumpeted the rabbi Dr. Grönemann, before a Hanover tribunal in 1894. “The legal doctrines of the Talmud have precedence,” a Professor Cohen imperiously told a criminal court in Marburg in 1888.

And he added “Now pay attention to this!” that it applied also to non-believing Jews who, however, were nonetheless still a part of the Jewish community, “since they acknowledge the moral doctrines of the Talmud.”

A masterpiece! From time to time the fellows blurt out a real secret in their babbling, but we just don’t pay attention.

“Whatever it is in the Talmud, we acknowledge it to have absolute precedence over the whole law of Moses,” a group of so-called reformed Jews testified in Paris in 1860, with the concurrence of the Alliance Israelite.

And a rabbi, Dr. Rahmer, has written in Pierer’s Encyclopaedia that the Schulchan Aruch, a kind of brief Talmud for home use, has been “taken on by the Israelitisch community as an authoritative guide for religious practice.” Taken on? Such a wag! Pretty soon I’ll be “taking on” the features of Dietrich Eckart.”

“Lord,” Hitler said, “whoever doesn’t become sickened and nauseated upon making a closer acquaintance with the Talmud can put himself on display in a circus side show.”

“The local side show,” I remarked, “has certain limits on the degree of abnormality it will exhibit. The young student from Tübingen who could gulp down half-a-dozen toads with gusto has been its greatest attraction till now.

No one, though, has a stomach capable of digesting even this one passage from the Talmud:

“Rabbi Johanan said the penis of Rabbi Ishmael was as large as a six-kab (73) wineskin; according to others, three kabs. The penis of Rabbi Papa was as large as one of the baskets of the inhabitants of Harpania.’ (74) The high-minded competitive zeal of the three old rabbis could knock an unprepared person off his chair.”

[NN: (73) The kab is an ancient Hebrew unit of measure equivalent to about two quarts. [Translator] — (74) Talmud, Baba Mecia, 84a. It is interesting to note that recent editions of the Talmud replace the word “penis” (männliches Glied in German) with “waist” (Körperumfang in German). The 1933 Berlin edition translated by Lazarus Goldschmidt, for example, claims in a footnote to this passage that the appearance of
männliches Glied in earlier editions was due to a “mistake” in translation. One only needs, however, to read the material adjacent to this passage, with its distinctly smutty character, to see that the original translation was no “mistake.” [Translator]

Hitler said disgustedly: “One finds a whole series of such pleasantries in this magnificent example of a religious book. The real clincher, however, is that non- Jewish girls “who are less than three years and one day old” are considered “suitable” for rabbis,
since Moses had written: “But all the women children that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves,” namely, for the rabbis. (75)

[NN: This is found in the Talmud, section Jabmuth, 60b.

The exact words of Goldschmidt’s 1931 Berlin Edition of Jabmuth are: Es wird gelehrt: R. Simon bar Jochaj sagte: Eine Proselytin unter drei Jahren und einem Tage ist für Priester tauglich, denn es heisst: und alle Kinder unter den Weibern, die die Beiwohnung eines Mannes nicht erkannt haben, lass fur euch leben ¦ [Translator]

It is taught: Rabbi Simon bar Jochai said: “A proselyte under the age of three years and one day is fit for priests, because it says in Scripture: “And all the children among the females who have not yet known  cohabitation with a man, let them live for you.”

What is noteworthy here is that it was this same Rabbi Simon bar Yochai who was a key founder of the Talmud!

And it was this very rabbi who uttered the most imfamous statement in the whole Talmud about the Gentiles:

[in Hebrew] “Tob Shebbe Goyim Harog“,

namely, “Even the best Gentiles should be killed.”]

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Hitler remarked:

“The most abominable perversity and the most tedious syllable-thrashing in the same breath. What goes on within Jewish heads must really be frightful.”

“On that,” I rejoined, “they are of a contrary opinion. Otherwise their mirror image, the Talmud, wouldn’t inform us that

˜the Israelites are more pleasing before God than the angels,’

(76) or that

˜the world was created on behalf of the Israelites alone,’

or that

˜whoever slaps a Jew in the face has struck God Himself,’

or that

˜the sun illuminates the earth and the rain makes it fertile only because Israelites live on it,’

and more of the same sort of modesty.”

Hitler said:”I really doubt that there is any sort of medical encyclopaedia which contains terms suitable for describing the Jewish megalomania,”  “But what an incredible talent they have for disguising it! ”

I completed his thoughts: “Their book Sirach howls:

˜Terrify all peoples; lift your hand up against strangers, that they may see your power. The fire of wrath must burn them. Crush the heads of the princes, who are our enemies!’ (77)

And the Schulchan Aruch rages:

˜Pour out, oh Lord, your fury over the goyim, who do not know you, and over the kingdoms which do not invoke your name. Pursue them in wrath and extinguish them beneath God’s heaven!’ (78)

They say the same dire things against the Gentiles in both places, with the distinction that the Schulchan Aruch emphasizes that all must be exterminated who do not swear on Yahweh.”

Hitler began to boil. “And with such an abominable moral doctrine on his conscience,“, “that marvel of modern Jewry, Moses Mendelssohn, (79) had the impudence to assert that “dominion over the earth belongs by right to Jewry.”

*** the translator, Dr. Pierce, wrote this footnote:

Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) was a troll-like, hunchbacked little Jew, originally a Talmudic scholar, who eventually displayed a vastly greater affinity for a fast buck than for the peculiar “wisdom” of the Talmud. Starting as a tutor in the house of a rich, Jewish silk merchant in Berlin, he soon became a partner in the business and amassed an enormous fortune. He was celebrated by his fellow Jews, as well as by a circle of Gentile admirers, however, as an extraordinarily pious and clever philosopher. [Translator]

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Hitler continued to rage: “The Goyim are to be exterminated because of their religion! As a trained Talmudist, Mendelssohn certainly knew his way around in the whole, vile thing.  Those extracts we have just quoted are only a tiny fraction. This utterly mendacious pack of liars, spewing the very essence of the lie!”

pause

I said, “Oh, yes, all Berlin buzzed with praise for the “wise,” for the “noble” Moses.

But Goethe wasn’t deceived: “Jewish trivia!“was his comment on the pious trickery.

It struck no one as odd that the incomparable Moses philosophized himself in the twinkling of an eye from a simple, private tutor to the powerfully wealthy founder of the banking house of Mendelssohn, thus avoiding by a wide detour the eye of the needle.

[NN: This is a reference to a famous observation by Jesus. In Matthew 19:24 Jesus says that many of the rich have a bad standing with God.

Quote: “… it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.” What Eckart is saying that this Jewish tutor who suddenly, somehow became a rich man, Moses Mendelssohn, whose wealth probably arose from murky activities,  surely succeeded in avoiding heaven — a camel passing through the tiny hole at the end of a needle — despite his supposedly saintly wisdom and philosophy. The French, by the way, have a saying: “Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.”]

This great benefactor of mankind, Moses Mendelssohn, slyly promoted the idea that the Jewish people constitute a religious community only.

Today this still constitutes a favorite nostrum of the Jews. A certain Dr. Ruppin has revealed why. [NN: Eckart is here quoting some pure nonsense by this Ruppin that is also self-contradictory.]

˜Special laws against the Jews,’ he tells us as he chuckles and rubs his hands together, ˜have always been directed against the religious aspects of Jewry, since this sphere of activity provided the only easily conceivable target for legislation. Anti-Semitism, has never really been inimicable to the Jewish religion, but has been indifferent to it.’ (80)

NN: footnote: Arthur Ruppin, Die Juden der Gegenwart (Berlin, 1904), p. 203 ff. Of course every word in this statement is a lie. Both the horrendous religious teachings of Judaism and the actions of Jewry have enraged the Gentiles since the time of the Pharaoh.]

[Eckart continues:]

So! We now have an admission that their ˜religion’ serves a very useful diversionary purpose. Anyone, however, who has become acquainted with it has found out that what the Jews call their religion coincides exactly with their character. ”

Hitler said: “That’s what they themselves say, and they are incessantly boasting, too, that their religion is such a masterful creation that it stands alone in the world.

Then bring the Talmud forward! It contains the Jewish religion in its purest form ” theology, dogmatics, morality, everything together in the same place. Why do they hold back the magnificent book so nervously, if indeed “the millennia have given the breath of its existence” to it?

As born benefactors of mankind they should have long since made it accessible to the general populace. Instead, it still hasn’t been completely translated, even today. And who in the devil has read what there is of it? One would think they are afraid some medieval church is still waiting to burn it for heresy.

“Some religion! This wallowing in filth, this hate, this malice, this arrogance, this hypocrisy, this pettifogging, this incitement to deceit and murder — is that a religion? Then there has never been anyone more religious than the Devil himself. It is the Jewish essence, the Jewish character, period!”

I interjected:”Luther expressed his opinion of it plainly enough. He urges us to burn the synagogues and Jewish schools and to heap earth on the remains “so that no man would ever again see one stone or cinder of them.” God would forgive us for what we formerly had tolerated through our ignorance ” ˜I hadn’t known it myself,’ he wrote ” but now that we were aware of what went on, we dared not, at any price, protect these buildings ˜wherein they slander, curse, spit on, and revile both Christ and us.’ (81)

[NN: This is a quote from Luther’s Von den Juden und ihren Lügen.]

We could hardly speak more strongly ourselves. He also urged the destruction of their houses, for they carried on there the same way as in their schools. ˜Some may feel,’ he complained, ˜that my judgment is too harsh. It is, if anything, too lenient, for I have seen their writings.’ (82)

“Our school inspectors apparently haven’t seen them, nor have our charmers or wizards.”

He shrugged:”Burning their synagogues, I am afraid, would have been of little avail. Even if there had never been a synagogue, a Jewish school, an Old Testament, or a Talmud, the Jewish spirit would still have been there and had its effect. It has always been there.

 

Every Jew ever born has embodied it. And that is even more pronounced with the so-called enlightened Jews. Heine belonged, certainly, among the most enlightened, but he had just as much insane arrogance as the greasiest Galician kike.

Moses Mendelssohn passed for a downright wonder of wisdom. Yet, lo and behold, he found it actually shocking that the Jews still didn’t have the dominion over the earth which was due them! ”

“From long years of experience,” I brought out, “Dostoyevsky depicted the hair-raising conceit of the Russian Jew. (83)

[NN:  Feodor Dostoyevsky, An Author’s Diary, (1876-1880) Dostoyevsky was probably the greatest Russian novelist, and spent five years in Siberia, 1849-54, for criticizing the tsar.]

For a long time he lived with all kinds of convicts, including several Jews, sleeping on the same wooden bunks with them. Everyone treated these Jews in a friendly manner, he reported, not even taking offense at their raving-mad manner of praying. Probably their own religion had once been like that, thought the Russians to themselves, and they quietly let the Jews do as they pleased.

But, on the other hand, the Jews haughtily rejected the Russians, didn’t want to eat with them, and looked down on them. And where was this? In a Siberian prison! (84) All over Russia Dostoyevsky found this antipathy and loathing by the Jews for the natives.

Nowhere, however, did the Russian people resent their behavior, indulgently believing it to be a part of the Jewish religion.”

Hitler said scornfully: “Yes, indeed, and what a religion! It is the character of a people which determines the nature of their religion, not the other way around.”

I continued “Dostoyevsky was compassion itself but, like Christ, he took exception to the Jews.

With foreboding, he asked what would happen in Russia if ever the Jews should get the upper hand there? Would they even approximately give the natives the same rights they themselves enjoyed? Would they likewise allow them to pray in the manner they wished or would they not simply make slaves of them?

Still worse, “wouldn’t they skin and fleece them? Wouldn’t they even exterminate them, as they had so often done with other peoples in their history?”

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Hitler cried: “Ah, could our workers but share his forebodings, particularly those who hope for salvation from the Soviets! Famine, mass graves, slavery, Jewish whips. Whoever goes on strike is hanged.

“Come hither, all ye who are weary and heavy laden.” How they whistle, the dogs! And how fine that sounds, in front of the curtain! Behind it, however, lurk the pampered  rabble, the Red Army, the dregs of non-Jewish humanity. ”

I answered: “The toll of Russians sacrificed since the beginning of Bolshevik domination is estimated by the authorities at about thirty million,”

“Those who weren’t summarily executed fell to famine and disease. Were they all bourgeois? Only an imbecile could believe that. Who among us then has the most to suffer? The thousands who every day stand for long hours at their various occupations. Capitalists are hardly a majority among them. But that hasn’t dawned on our workers. In their eagerness to be the masters, they let themselves be led about by the nose like children.

“[Friedrich] Ebert (85) has thundered against capitalism his whole life. Now he is president. And? At every street corner banks sprout from the ground like mushrooms. That is certainly a fact. Everyone sees it. Anyone can reach out and touch it. But does that lead anyone to smell a rat? Not on your life!

“The first thing the Jew [Kurt] Eisner (86) did after the revolution was have the banks guarded by the army.

[NN: Kurt Eisner (1867-1919) was a Jewish journalist politician and Marxist leader in Bavaria. A principal organizer of the 1918 revolution (Dolchstoss), he became first president of the Bavarian republic. He was executed by a German patriot in 1919. [Translator]]

Capitalists smuggled their enormous hordes of money out of the country for months, and he didn’t raise a finger to stop them. He felt it was more important to travel to the Socialist Congress in Switzerland and there place the entire guilt for the World War on Germany. Do penance, he said, and the French will forgivingly clasp you to their hearts. Quite likely! Experience has gloriously confirmed it.”

Hitler nodded: “The same Eisner who, at the beginning of the war, sent a flood of telegrams to the other Social Democrat leaders, entreating them to remain true to the Kaiser. A disgraceful stab in the back must be avoided at all costs, said he. It went like that until the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. (87)

[NN:  The treaty of March 3, 1918 ended hostilities between Germany and Russia, and was signed at Brest-Litovsk. [Translator]]

Up till then all German Jews were inspired monarchists. But then came the about-face. “The Moor had done his duty” [NN: a quote from Schiller’s translation of Shakespeare’s Othello] and crushed Czarist Russia; now for him to crush himself. “The rest is silence.” [JdN: “The Rest Is Silence” is quoting the last words of Prince Hamlet in Shakespeare’s (Edward de Vere’s) play “Hamlet.”] .

Visible to all eyes, the Jew also made his bid in Germany.

Oh, workers! To let yourselves be thus deceived! Things are very different from what the innocents let themselves dream. The Communist Party in Germany still has fewer than a quarter of a million members; yet it owns over fifty newspapers. What that costs is simply incalculable. Millions. Who pays these enormous sums?

We National Socialists have our hands full just keeping our one [Völkischer] Beobachter (88) going.

If we too had an arrangement with the Jews, we would have a prodigious number of party newspapers in an instant. Are there comrades who doubt that? I’d like to meet just one.

And, look here, this is the incredible thing: they know that the Jews are secretly behind things, but they act as if it weren’t so at all. Is that honest? How can that lead to a happy outcome? To rush to destruction unsuspectingly is one thing, but to do it knowingly and to single out one’s grimmest enemy as an accomplice is another.”

I remarked: “I’d like to know what the comrades would say if one proved to them in black and white that the Junkers or the big industrialists have had a secret moral philosophy of the most abominable sort since the year “x.” Their rage would be unimaginable.

‘Aha!’ everyone would roar. With principles like that it is no wonder the devils torment us so! Imagine that! How can anyone be that mean and vile? The whole bunch of them should be exterminated!’

They would carry on like that, as if possessed, and rightly so.

But, on the other hand, when one shows them that the Jews have, in their official religious books, the most hair-raising statements about the plundering and murder of all Gentiles, it makes no difference at all to them.

 

The Talmud

They either dispute it or, when that seems hopeless, say that most Jews haven’t been that religious for a long time and don’t concern themselves with that stuff anymore. It never occurs to them that it is the Jewish character itself that is the source of their vile literature.”

Hilter replied: “But this tops it all: all — and I mean all social injustices of any significance in the world today can be traced back to the subterranean influence of the Jews. The workers seek, therefore, to eliminate — with the help of the Jews — those evils which none other than the Jews themselves have consciously and deliberately established. One can imagine what kind of help they will receive.”

I rejoined: “Behold the modest Joseph! The influence of this Jew on the Pharaoh caused the Egyptians dreadful distress — [NN: let us recall how the Genesis story describes Finance Minister Joseph inflicting on them starvation, famine, debt and slavery] — from all of which they later thought they would free themselves — with the help of [another Jew], Moses.

I must admit that the episode does not lack a certain grim humor. ”

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Chapter VIII

Hitler said: “The truth is, indeed, as you once wrote:

one can only understand the Jew when one knows what his ultimate goal is. And that goal is, beyond world domination, the annihilation of the world.

Murals at Denver International Airport

He must wear down all the rest of mankind, he persuades himself, in order to prepare a paradise on earth. He has made himself believe that only he is capable of this great task, and, considering his ideas of paradise, that is certainly so.

But one sees, if only in the means which he employs, that he is secretly driven to something else. While he pretends to himself to be elevating mankind, he torments men to despair, to madness, to ruin. If a halt is not ordered, he will destroy all men.

His nature compels him to that goal, even though he dimly realizes that he must thereby destroy himself. There is no other way for him; he must act thus. This realization of the unconditional dependence of his own existence upon that of his victims appears to me to be the main cause for his hatred. To be obliged to try and annihilate us with all his might, but at the same time to suspect that that must lead inevitably to his own ruin, therein it lies. If you will: the tragedy of Lucifer.”

Here the notes of Dietrich Eckart break off.

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…..Closing remarks by John de Nugent

What struck me over and over was the frustration that Hitler and Eckart felt for the zombie-like gullibility of the masses.  “How can they not see what the Jews are doing?” seems a frequent refrain.

We know that Eckart was separately very frustrated by this. and outraged at the lack of popular support for the Beer Hall Putsch of 9 November 1923 in Munich, and the treachery of Bavarian conservative politicians such as Gustav von Kahr.

The fact is that 1923 had been the perfect year for an uprising: 1) the incredible inflation that forced Germans to pay for a loaf of bread with literally wheelbarrows of money, all of which utterly annihilated the savings made over decades by millions of hard-working German families.

2) Then had come the French occupation of the Ruhr industrial area, with arrogant black French colonial troops shooting down white German men and raping white German women.

3) The economy was tanking, and

4) next door to Germany the horrific Soviet Union was consolidating power under Joseph Stalin.

So the German people had every reason under the sun — extreme misery, anger, poverty and justified fear — to support selfless revolutionaries such as Adolf Hitler and his key partner, General Erich Ludendorff, who was famous for having brilliantly run the German war effort in World War One.

But no.  The masses did nothing and the fake conservatives ordered the police to open fire on Hitler and his men, with sixteen killed.

Dietrich Eckart fell into a deep depression.

He had already written a beautiful poem about the quiet beauty and purity of the moon, contrasting it with earthly existence which he called “Life’s burden and lies” — in German “des Lebens Last und Lüge”.

After the failure of the Beer Hall Putsch, as far as Eckart knew Hitler was facing execution for treason. Eckart died the day after Christmas in 1923 with this final, bitter fear in his breast.

He had previously written a poem releasing his anger and disgust at the failure of the Germans to support their rescuer.