Tuesday, February 26, 2013

o'Big Lie's textbook?

o'Big Lie's textbook?
Those Damned Nazis (by Joseph Goebbels)
     This widely distributed Nazi pamphlet first appeared in 1929.  I am working from a 1932 copy, and have not compared it with the first version, but it does not look as if significant changes were made as it was reissued.  The title, loosely translated, is "Those Damned Nazis."  Literally, it translates as something like "those cursed swastika lads," but that does not really work in English.  At least several hundred thousand copies were printed.  It is a good summary of the basic lines of Nazi propaganda just before Hitler's takeover in 1933.  The booklet included five cartoons by Mjölnir, Goebbels' cartoonist, three of which I include here.  Mjölnir also produced some of the most familiar Nazi posters.

      "Horrible … fascinating …" reads this newspaper ad for the newly released Goebbels Diaries.  A reviewer for the New York Times hailed the book as a vivid portrait of "Dr. Joseph Goebbels, the little, limping, ratfaced high priest of nazism … one of the most completely evil men of the twentieth century."  The book was serialized in newspapers and magazines, was picked for the Book-of-the-Month Club, and became an instant bestseller.

 The quotes below are reposted from: http://rationalrevolution.net/special/library/goebbels_diaries.htm

"...the greater the number of Jews liquidated, the more consolidated will the situation in Europe be after this war."
"The procedure is a pretty barbaric one and not to be described here more definitely. Not much will remain of the Jews. On the whole it can be said that about 60 per cent of them will have to be liquidated whereas only about 40 per cent can be used  for forced labor."
"Short shrift is made of the Jews in all eastern occupied areas. Tens of thousands of them are liquidated."
"There is no explicit reference ... to liquidation of Jews."
"Revisionist" David Irving, April 22, 1988, as quoted* on the web site of the "revisionist" Ernst Zündel
The following are excerpts from Lochner, Louis, Ed., trans., The Goebbels Diaries, Doubleday & Company, New York, 1948.
Jan 21 - May 23, 1942(excepting Mar 22-25, Apr 10)
February 5
The Jewish question is again giving us a headache; this time, however, not because we have gone too far, but because we are not going far enough.
February 14
The Jews have deserved the catastrophe that has now overtaken them. Their destruction will go hand in hand with the destruction of our enemies. We must hasten this process with cold ruthlessness.
February 18
...we must show them no mercy and no indulgence. This riffraff must be eliminated and destroyed.
March 6
...I am of the opinion that the greater the number of Jews liquidated, the more consolidated will the situation in Europe be after this war.
March 16
It has therefore proven necessary once again to shoot more Jews.
March 20
...the Fuehrer is as uncompromising as ever. The Jews must be got out of Europe, if necessary by applying most brutal methods.
March 27
On the whole it can be said that about 60 per cent of them will have to be liquidated... A judgment is being visited upon the Jews that, while barbaric, is fully deserved by them.
April 29
Tens of thousands of them are liquidated.
May 15
As far as I am concerned, it would be best if we either evacuated or liquidated all eastern Jews still remaining in Paris.
Dec 7 - Dec 20
December 13
At bottom, however, I believe both the English and the Americans are happy that we are exterminating the Jewish riff-raff.
December 14
Jewry must pay for its crime just as our Fuehrer prophesied in his speech in the Reichstag; namely, by the wiping out of the Jewish race in Europe and possibly in the entire world.
Mar 1 - Mar 20, 1943
March 2
We are now definitely pushing the Jews out of Berlin. ... On the Jewish question, especially, we have taken a position from which there is no escape.
March 9
...[Hitler] approved of my measures and specifically ordered me to make Berlin entirely free of Jews.
March 15
...[Hitler] ordered me not to cease or pause until no Jew is left anywhere in Germany.
Apr 9 - May 28
April 25
It is high time that we evacuate the Jews just as quickly as possible from the General Government.
May 8
You just cannot talk humanitarianism when dealing with Jews. Jews must be defeated.
May 13
There is therefore no other recourse left for modern nations except to exterminate the Jew....
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