By Dr. Joseph
Goebbels
Speech delivered in Nuremberg on September 13-th 1935
at the Seventh National-Socialist party congress
In the beginning of August, this year, one of the most
authoritative English newspapers published a leading article entitled “Two
Dictatorships”, in which a naive and misdirected attempt was made to place
before the readers of the paper certain alleged similarities between Russian
Bolshevism and German National-Socialism. This article gave rise to an
extraordinary amount of heated discussion in international centres, which was
only another proof of the fact that an astonishing misconception exists among
the most prominent West European circles as to the danger which communism
presents to the life of the individual and of the nation. Such people still
cling to their opinion in face of the terrible and devastating experiences of
the past eighteen years in Russia.
The
author of the article stated that the two symbols which are today opposed to
one another, namely that of Bolshevism and National-Socialism, stand for
regimes which “in essential structure are similar and in many of their
laws—their buttresses—are identical. The similarity is moreover increasing”. He
went on to say:
“In
both countries are the same censorships on art, literature, and of course the
Press, the same war on the intelligentsia, the attack on religion, and the
massed display of arms, whether in the Red Square or the Tempelhofer Feld.”
“The
strange and terrible thing is”, he declared, “that two nations, once so widely
different, should have been schooled and driven into patterns so drably
similar.”
One
sees here much verbiage and little understanding. The anonymous writer of this
article has obviously not studied the essential and fundamental principles
either of National-Socialism or Bolshevism. He considers merely certain
superficial phenomena and he has not taken cognisance of what serious
journalists have had to say on the matter in question or compared his views
with their objective statements. This entirely erroneous judgment of the case
might be passed over with a shrug of the shoulders and considered merely as
part of the daily order of things, were it not for the fact that the two
problems here discussed belong in their essentials to political phenomena which
are all important for the future of Europe. Moreover, this strikingly cursory
judgment on the problem is not merely a single case but has to be taken in
conjunction with a much wider and more influential section of West European
opinion.
In
contradistinction to this, I shall try here to analyse Bolshevism into its
basic elements and show these as' clearly as I can to the German and European
public. This is not an easy task, in view of the fact that the Propagandist
Institutions of the Communist International are undoubtedly well organised and
have not been unsuccessful in putting before the public of the world, outside
of the Russian frontiers, an entirely false picture of Bolshevism. This picture
is an extraordinarily dangerous one because of the tension which it can and
must naturally cause. Let us also note the profound hatred in liberal circles
throughout the world in regard to National-Socialism and its practical
constructive work in Germany. Hence the possibility here also of mistaken
judgments, such as these already mentioned. They pass by what is essential.
International communism would entirely do away with all national and racial
qualities which are founded in human nature itself; in property it sees the
most primary cause of the breakdown of world trade in the capitalist system. Accordingly,
it exploits this through an extensive and carefully organised and brutal system
of action, setting aside personal values and sacrificing the individual to a
hollow mass-idol that is only a travesty of actual life itself. At the same time,
it ignores and destroys all the idealistic and higher strivings*of men and
nations, through its own crass and empty materialist principles. On the other
hand, National-Socialism sees in all these things—in property, in personal
values and in nation and race and the principles of idealism—these forces which
carry on every human civilisation and fundamentally determine its worth.
Bolshevism
is explicitly determined on bringing about a revolution among all the nations.
In its own essence it has an aggressive and international tendency. But National-Socialism
confines itself to Germany and is not a product for export, either in its
abstract or practical characteristics. Bolshevism denies religion as a
principle, fundamentally and entirely. It recognises religion only as an “opium
for the people”. For the help and support of religious belief, however, National-Socialism
absolutely places in the foreground of its programme a belief in God and that
transcendental idealism which has been destined by Nature to bring to
expression the racial soul of a nation. National-Socialism would give the lead
in a new concept and shaping of European civilisation. But the Bolsheviks carry
on a campaign, directed by the Jews, with the international underworld, against
culture as such. Bolshevism is not merely antibourgeois; it is against human
civilisation itself.
In
its final consequences it signifies the destruction of all the commercial,
social, political and cultural achievements of Western Europe, in favour of a
deracinated and nomadic international cabal which has found its representation
in Judaism. This grandiose attempt to. overthrow the civilised world is so much
more dangerous in its effects because the Communist International, which is a
past master in the art of misrepresentation, has been able to find its
protectors and pioneers among a great part of these intellectual circles in
Europe whose physical and spiritual destruction must be the first result of a
Bolshevik world revolution.
Bolshevism,
which is in reality an attack on the world of the spirit, pretends to be
intellectual itself. Where circumstances demand, it comes as a wolf in sheep’s
clothing. But underneath the false mask which it here and there assumes there
are always the satanic forces of world destruction. And where it has had the
opportunity of practising its theories it has created “The Paradise of the
Workers and Peasants”, in the shape of a fearful desert of starving and
hungering people. If we are to take the word of its doctrine then we find a
terrible contradiction between its theory and its practice. Its theory is
glowing and grandiose but it carries poison in its attractive gloss. Over
against this, what we have from it in reality is terrible and forbidding. This
is shown in the millions of sacrifices which have been made in honour of it,
through executions with the sword, the axe or the hangman’s rope or hunger. Its
teaching promises “the fatherland of the workers and peasants”, which shall
know no frontiers, and a classless social order which will be protected against
exploitation through the state, and it preaches an economic principle in which
“everything belongs to everybody” and that thereby a real and universal world
peace will be ushered in.
Millions
of workers on hunger-wages such as are not thought of in western Europe,
millions of afflicted and sorrowing peasants who have been robbed of their
land, which is being completely ruined by the stupid experiment of a paralysing
collectivism, famine which claims millions of victims year after year in a
country of such vast extent that it might serve as a granary for the whole of
Europe, the formation and equipping of an army which, according to the claims
of all leading Bolshevists, is to be used for carrying out the world
revolution, the brutal and merciless domination of this madly-led apparatus of
State and Party at the hands of a small terrorist minority which is mostly
Jewish—all this speaks another language, a language which the world cannot
listen to permanently because it rings with the story of nameless suffering and
indescribable hardships borne by a nation of a hundred-and-sixty million
people.
The
fact that, in order to carry out its aims, Bolshevism uses propagandist methods
which are perceptible only by those which have experience in such things and
are entirely accepted in good faith by the average citizen makes this Terror
International extraordinarily dangerous for other states and peoples. This
propaganda starts out from the principle that the end sanctifies the means,
that lies and slander, the terrorising of the individual and of the mass,
robbery and burnings and strikes and insurrection, espionage and sabotage of
armies can and ought to-be made use of, and therewith that the aim of
revolutionising the whole world must be specially and solely kept in view. This
extraordinarily pernicious method of influencing the masses of the people does
not stop before anything or anybody. Those alone are competent to deal with it
who see into its secret driving forces and are capable of adopting the
necessary contrary measures. This propaganda understands how to adopt every
instrument to its purpose. It takes on an intellectual shape in intellectual
circles. It is bourgeois with the bourgeoisie and proletarian with the
proletariat. It is mild and passive where that attitude suits and it is
pugnacious wherever it meets opposition that needs to be suppressed.
Bolshevism
carries on its International propaganda through the Comintern.
A few
weeks ago, this apparatus for world destruction made public to the whole of
Europe its plan of campaign for the annihilation of the nations and the states,
all arranged and set forth in its tactical and strategic elements. Yet the
bourgeois world, whose extirpation was announced openly and without any reserve
whatsoever, failed to make any public protest of indignation and unite all the
forces at its command as a definite counter-defence.
The
cry of warning was raised only by those states in which Bolshevism has been
finally overcome through the restoration of national principles. But this cry
of warning was laughed at by the threatened bourgeois world and set aside as an
exaggerated alarm.
Swept
clear of internal enemies and united under the National-Socialist standard,
Germany placed herself at the head of the groups marshalled in the fight
against the international bolshevisation of the world. Herein she is quite
aware that she is fulfilling a world mission which reaches out beyond all
national frontiers. On the successful issue of this mission depends the fate of
our civilised nations. As National Socialists, we have seen Bolshevism through
and through. We recognise it beneath all its masks and camouflages. It stands
before us derobed of its trappings, bare and naked in its whole miserable
imposture. We know what its teachings are, but we know also what it is in
practice.
Here
I shall give an unvarnished picture, which is backed up in all particulars by
incontestable facts. If there is a spark of reason left in the world, and the
faculty for clear thinking, then the states and peoples must be shocked at the
prospect and induced to come together for their common defence against this
acute danger.
I leave
the methods and practices of the Communist Propaganda and theory within and
without Russia to speak through examples which appear to me to be symptomatic.
These examples could be replaced and supplemented by thousands of others, all
of which when taken together show up the terrible aspect of this world disease.
Murder
of individuals, murder of hostages and mass murder are the favourite means
applied by Bolshevism to get rid of all opposition to its propaganda.
In
Germany three hundred National Socialists fell victims to the Communist terror
practised on individuals. On the 14th January 1930, Horst Wessel was shot
through the half opened door of his house by the Communist, Albrecht Höhler—called
Ali—his accessories being the Jews, Salli Eppstein and Else Cohn. On the 9th of
August 1931, the police captains, Anlauf and Lenck, were shot down on the Bülowplatz
in Berlin. The Communist leaders, Heinz Neumann and Kippenberger, were accused
as instigators of the murder. Shortly afterwards Heinz Neumann was arrested in
Switzerland because of a passport which was invalid and a request for
extradition made by Germany was not granted, on the plea that it was a “political
crime”. These are only some single examples of the communist terror wreaked on
individuals. As further instances of the blood lust and cruelty to which they
bear evidence we may turn to the hostage murders which took place in previous
years.
On
April 30th 1919, in the Courtyard of the Luitpold Gymnasium, in Münich, ten
hostages, among them one woman, were shot through the backs, their bodies
rendered unrecognisable and taken away. This act was done at the order of the
Communist Terrorist, Eglhofer, and under the responsibility of the Jewish
Soviet Commissaries, Levien, Levine-Nissen and Axelrod. In 1919, during the Bolshevik
regime of the Jew, Bela Kun, whose real name was Aron Cohn, in Budapest twenty
hostages were murdered. During“ the October Revolution in Spain eight prisoners
were shot at Oviedo, seventeen in Turon; and in the barracks at Peláno, to protect a communist
attack, thirty-eight prisoners were placed at the head of the insurgents and
some of them shot. At the Comintern Congress, on July 31st, 1935, the communist
leader, Carcio, expressly declared that this revolution was carried through
‘’under the leadership of the communists”.
This
list of bloodshed becomes all the more fearful and horrible when we add to it
the apparently incredible number of mass murders carried out by the Communists.
As a classical prototype of this, we have the Paris Commune of the year 1871,
which was passionately celebrated by Karl Marx and is approved today by modern
Soviets as the model of the Bolshevik World Revolution. The number of victims
who fell in that terrible year 1871 can no longer be ascertained. The Jewish
Tschekist, Bela Kun, made an experiment which rivalled the Paris Commune in
bloodshed when he ordered the execution of 60,000 to 70,000 people in the
Crimea. For the most part, these executions were carried out with machineguns.
At the MunicipaWHospital in Alupka, 272 sick and wounded were brought out on
stretchers in front of the gate of the Institution and there shot. The truth of
this has been officially confirmed in the report made to the Geneva Red Cross.
During the 133 days of his Terror Rule in Hungary the Jew, Bela Kun, had
innumerable men murdered. The names of 570 of those have been given in official
documents. In November 1934, the Chinese Marshal, Tschiangkaischek, made public
the information that in the province of Kiangsi one million people were
murdered by the communists and six million robbed of all their possessions. All
these blood-stained and horror-raising events have reached a climax in the mass
murders committed throughout Soviet Russia.
According
to returns given by the Soviets themselves and taking reliable sources into
account, the number of persons executed within the first 5 years of Soviet rule
must be placed at about 1,860,000, in round numbers. Of these, 6,000 were
teachers and professors, 8,800 were doctors of medicine, 54,000 were army
officers, 260,000 soldiers, 105,000 police officials, 49,000 gendarmes, 12,800
civil servants, 355,000 persons of the upper classes, 192,000 workers, 815,000
peasants.
The
Soviet statistician, Oganowsky, estimates the number of persons who died of
hunger in the years 1921/1922 at 5,200,000. The Austrian Cardinal-Archbishop,
Monsignor Innitzer, said in his appeal of July 1934, that millions of people
were dying of hunger throughout the Soviet Union. During his speech delivered
before the House of Lords on the 25th July, 1934, the Archbishop of Canterbury,
speaking of reports relative to the famine victims in Soviet Russia in 1933,
said that the number was nearer to six than to three million.
We
have thus before our eyes a full picture of this fearful and harrowing mass
terrorisation which is only approximately paralleled by even the most blood-curdling
examples of war or revolution that are recorded in the history of the world.
This is the actual system of bloodshed and terror and death which is carried
out by hysterical and criminal political maniacs who would have it copied in
every country and among every people with the same terrorising practises, in so
far as they might find the possibility of doing so.
In
view of all this, it would be idle to bring forward proofs of the spirit of
discipline and generous consideration which the National Socialists showed in
carrying through their revolutionary aims.
Such
is “the strange and terrible” resemblance between the methods followed by the
two regimes which the writer» of the article in the English newspaper alleges
to be similar in “essential structure”. But the facts to which I have referred
do not fill out the picture. Revolutions cost money. Propaganda campaigns
throughout the world must be financed. Bolshevism procures the means of doing
so after its own fashion.
In
the summer of 1907 Stalin led the notorious bomb attack at Tiflis on a money
transport from the State Bank. Thirty persons fell victims to the attack. The
250,000 roubles which were robbed from the transport, were sent to Lenin, who
was then in Switzerland. They were to be at his disposal for revolutionary
purposes. On the 17th January 1908 the Jew, Wallack-Meer, who now goes by the
name of Litwinow and has been Chairman of the Council of the League of Nations,
was arrested in Paris in connection with the bombing and robbing of the
transport at Tiflis.
The
Communist Party in Germany organised and led the plunder expeditions there and
also the robbery of explosives from official depots. The list of such cases
brought before the Courts of the Reich is very long. In this list are thirty
crimes described as major and extreme cases. To them must be added the burnings
and bombings organised and perpetrated without any consideration whatsoever for
the lives of innocent persons.
On
the 16th April 1925, there was an explosion in the Cathedral of Sophia, which
had been organised and carried out by the Bolsheviks. In July 1927 the
Communists set the Palais de Justice at Vienna on fire. To celebrate the Lenin
Feast, on 22nd January 1930, the Simonoff Monastery at Moscow, a building
dating from the 14th century, was blown up. On the night of 27th/28th February
1933 the Reichstag in Berlin was set on fire as a signal for the armed
communist rising. Through the medium of strikes, street fights and armed
risings, the first preparatory stage of the Bolshevik revolution is meant to be
affected. The methods used are the same in all countries. A long series of
revolutionary acts which might be added on all sides furnish a striking witness
of this. In one of its propagandist publications, the Comintern boasted that it
had organised nearly all the strikes which have taken place during recent
years. These strikes find their violent sequel in street fights. From the
street fight to the armed rising is but one step. In this sequence, the
following risings took place: October 1917 in Russia, January 1919 the
Spartacus rising in Germany, 1920 the Max Hoelz revolt in Vogtland, and the Red
. Army in the Ruhr district, 1921 in Central Germany, September 1923 at
Hamburg, December 1924 at Reval, on the 23rd October 1926, 22nd February 1927
and 21st March 1927 at Shanghai. December 1927 in Canton, October 1934 in
Spain, April 1935 in Cuba and May 1935 in the Philippines.
Bolshevik
propaganda aims its chief blows against the armed forces of a country; because
the Bolsheviks know that if they were to adopt the principle of trying to
secure support from the majority of the people they could never carry out their
plans. Force, therefore, is the only means left to them; but in every well-ordered
state this meets with the opposition of the army. The Bolsheviks accordingly
feel bound to introduce their disintegrating propaganda within the ranks of the
army itself. Their idea is to corrupt it from within and thus render it
ineffective as a bulwark against anarchy.
Before
the advent of National-Socialism to power in Germany there was the closest
cooperation between the Soviet espionage and the Communist organisations here.
A foreign department of the O.G.P.U. operated officially in our country. It was
the special representative and directive agent of the Communist espionage. The
aim of this espionage was not only to obtain military secrets in a traitorous
way, but also to carry on a system of sabotage among the police and the army.
Part of the programme was to introduce a mutinous spirit into the Reichswehr and
by an increasing work of revolutionary instruction to bring about a revolt of
the soldiers and sailors in the German defence forces. From July 1931 to
December 1932 one-hundred-and-eleven cases of high treason were dealt with
before the German Courts. These cases originated with the activities of the
Communist Party. Furthermore, there was an extraordinary number of cases of
espionage of a treasonable character in the industrial factories. The most
boorish example of the interference erf “Soviet Diplomats” for the purpose of
creating domestic political trouble in another country is afforded by the
Jewish Soviet Ambassador, Joffe, who had to leave Berlin on the 6th November
1918, because he had utilized the diplomatic Courier to transport sabotage
material which was to be used to undermine the German army and make the
revolution possible. What were called “Revolution Funds” were used in great
part by Liebknecht for the purchase of weapons for the German Communists, and
partly also for the production of propaganda material to be used among the
army. On the 26th Decemberl918, one of the Socialist members of the Reichstag,
the Jew, Dr. Oskar Cohn, declared that on the 5th of the previous month, he had
received 4 million roubles from Joffe for the purpose of the German Revolution.
We
can now see that all these activities were meant for the purpose of bringing
about the downfall of the German Reich through the undermining and corruption
of the German Army.
Amid
all these single acts of terror, of hostage murders and mass murders, plunder
and arson, strikes and armed risings, espionage and sabotage of armies, we see
the Communist World Propaganda showing its forbidding and grimacing
countenance. An idea and a movement which has used such dastardly and revolting
means to secure power and to hold it can maintain itself only by chicanery,
slander and falsehood. These are the typical methods used by Bolshevism in its
propaganda; and they are applied in different ways according to the suitability
of the occasion. Thus, for example, we can understand how it is that crises,
catastrophes etc. which happen in other countries outside the Soviet Union are
exploited by the Bolshevik Propaganda, whereas we are told that within the
Soviet frontiers a work of social construction is in progress that has banished
economic distress and created a State in which there is no unemployment. The
real truth is that a condition of commercial disorder exists throughout the
country and an industrial collapse which baffles description. The “Land without
Unemployment” contains hundreds of thousands and even millions of beggars and
homeless children who throng the streets of the big cities, and hundreds of thousands
who are condemned to banishment and forced labour.
While
in all the other countries alleged Capitalist and Fascist dictatorships are in
power, Russia affords an example of freedom and democratic order. So we are
told.
In
reality this land is wilting under the Jewish-Marxist rule of force, which will
stop at no means to maintain itself in power. The pretended freedom and right
of self-determination among the nationalities constituting the Soviet Union
turns out in fact to be a process of enslavement and extirpation of those
nationalities themselves. The pretended liberation of colonial and semi-colonial
peoples through the international proletariat is, when looked at in its true
light, a blood-stained and ruthless example of Soviet Imperialism of the worst
kind.
In
Germany itself, before our advent to power, the pronouncements of the Communist
Party varied unscrupulously according to the condition of the times. At first
Germany was “a semi-colonial sacrifice to the Versailles Powers and was held
down through the League of Nations”. But when the National Socialist movement
began to make headway among the German public, the Communist Party put forward
a programme of “social and national liberation”. Then they proclaimed a|
proletariat confederacy between Berlin and Moscow and against Versailles and
the League of Nations. Today a military pact has been made with Paris and
Prague and the Soviets have] entered the hitherto defamed League of Nations,
which used] to be known as “The Robber League”.
The
so-called peace policy of the Soviet Union practically shows itself in world-revolutionary
intrigues among the other countries, in unscrupulous stirring-up of conflicts
between the various states, while at the same time it is arming at a fantastic
rate in preparation for a war of aggression. People in West- European countries
talk of a social order without class distinction; but in Russia itself, there
is a violent differentiation between the privileged and dispossessed castes.
The Soviet propaganda speaks of “a Paradise of children that contains the
happiest youth in the world”.
The
real state of the case however shows us millions of unsupported children, the
existence of child labour and even the death penalty for children. Bolshevik
propaganda deceitfully talks of the “emancipation of woman through communism”.
The truth is that the institution of marriage has been completely set aside,
that there is a terrible disintegration and abolition of family life, that
there is an absence of employment for women and a state of prostitution that is
alarmingly on the increase.
Such
a regime, in which theory and practice are in glaring contradiction, cannot
possibly maintain its position except by the propagation of falsehood and
unscrupulous hypocrisy.
Before
the 30th January, 1933, each time that a workman was murdered by order of the
Communists the crime was imputed to the National Socialists. There were
constant false reports of mutinies among the Storm Troops and honest German
workmen were branded as strike-breakers. When Horst Wessel was assassinated the
public horror became so great that the communists had to bow before it; and, to
clear themselves, they put forward the story that this dastardly political
misdeed arose from an altercation between rival claimants to a mistress. When
Norkus, who was a member of the Hitler Youth, was stabbed by some communist
brutes the “Rote Fahne“ barefacedly declared that Norkus was killed by a Nazi
spy; so that the Nazis were alleged to have murdered a fifteen-years-old member
of their own party in order to procure material to have the German Communist
Party forbidden by law. The same: happened when Maikowski and Gatschke were
assassinated.
When
National-Socialism showed up the work of the Communist Party in Germany the
Communist International started the propagandist atrocity stories against National-Socialism.
'The London mock trial was meant to acquit the Communist Party of any guilt
connected with the Reichstag fire. The burning of the Reichstag was barefacedly
and brazenly stated to be a provocative act on the part of National-Socialism,
conceived by myself and put into effect by my party comrade, General Goering.
After the death of the German National Party Member of the Reichstag, Herr
Oberfohren, the Communists who had fled from Germany to Paris forged what
pretended to be a memorandum by Oberfohren in which proof was supposed to be
given that the burning of the Reichstag had been supported and approved by
leading National Socialists. The dead member of the Reichstag could not deny
what had been falsely attributed to him. Later on, however, avowals were made
by people who had formerly been communist leaders, that not a single word of
the truth was contained in the memorandum. The whole thing was avowed by them to
have been falsified in all its details for the purpose of bringing National-Socialism
into discredit before the world. Jurists and journalists of repute, and even an
English Lord, descended to the level of making marionettes of themselves at
this London mock trial.
Since
that time the communists have been carrying on a world-wide systematic work of
propaganda against Germany, because they recognise and realise that the
National Socialists are their most dangerous enemies. Among the eternally
recurring themes of this communist agitation are the stories of war
preparations in the interests of German imperialism, preparations for a
revanche against France, annexations in] Denmark and Holland and Switzerland,
in the Baltic States and the Ukraine etc. and a German crusade against the
Soviet Union, dissensions in the Party and the Government, especially between
the Party and the Army, growing discontent among the masses, assassinations of
leading men in Germany or attempts on their lives, preparations for an inflation
and the I coming of a complete economic collapse, the murder and torturing of
prisoners, religious persecutions and cultural vandalisms of all kinds.
These
propagandist falsehoods are sent out through thousands of channels and in
thousands of ways, bourgeois intellectualism— sometimes unconsciously,
sometimes consciously—is pressed into the service of this campaign of
defamation. In all European capitals there are large offices for the spread of
this poison throughout the world and large subsidies are furnished by the Comintern
to prepare and carry out the work. These organisations are constant centres of
unrest among the nations. They never tire of stirring up trouble every way they
possibly can.
That
is Bolshevik propaganda. That is the form in which it clothes itself and lives,
using falsehood and slander and chicanery, so as to make the nations suspicious
of one another and hate one another, thus spreading a general spirit of unrest;
because the Bolsheviks know so well that they can never bring the Communist
idea to triumph except in an age that is distracted and sceptical.
In
Germany we have religious controversies which arise from profound questions of
conscience but have nothing whatsoever to do with a denial of religion. These
controversies are exploited sometimes by harmless and sometimes malicious
critics and a parallel is drawn between them and the absolutely dogmatic
atheism of the Bolshevik International. To realise the grotesqueness of the
parallel it is only necessary to point to a few examples in the theory and
practice of Communism.
In
the programme of the Communist International it is openly and freely declared
that the struggle against every kind of religion must be carried on ruthlessly
and systematically. Lenin declared that “religion is the opium of the people
and it is a species of fusel oil”. These statements are published in the fourth
volume of his ‘"Works”.
At
the second Congress of Atheists, Bucharin declared that religion must be
“destroyed with the bayonet”. The Jew, Gubermann, who, under the name of
Jaroslawski, is the leader of the Association of Militant Atheists in the
Soviet Union, has made the following declaration: “It is our duty to destroy
every religious world-concept... If the destruction of ten million human beings,
as happened in the last war, should be necessary for the triumph of one
definite class, then that must be done and it will be done.”
In
its issue of 6th November 1930 The
Atheist, the monthly periodical which is the central organ of the
Association of Militant Atheists, wrote the following: “We shall burn down all
the churches of the world and raze all the prisons to the ground.” In all
educational establishments throughout the Soviet Union religious instruction is
forbidden and in its place there has been introduced a systematic instructional
course in Marxist atheism. Children under the age of 18 are forbidden to take
part in religious services and prayers. The Church Law of the 8th April 1929
has established a situation in which spiritual and religious communities are
deprived of all rights. All the clergy and their families belong to the
dispossessed class of Soviet citizens, thus automatically losing their right to
work or earn their livelihood, and they are liable to be removed from their domicile
at any time whatsoever.
Such
is the theory and world concept of the juridical principles underlying Bolshevik
atheism, and such principles are accordingly carried out in practice.
Up
to 1930, 31 bishops, 1,600 clergy and 7,000 monks were murdered under the
Soviet regime. According to statistics available for 1930, there were then
confined in prisons, under starvation conditions, 48 bishops, 3,700 clergy and
8,000 monks and nuns. The “International League against the Third
International” at Geneva issued statistics on August 6th 1935, showing that in
Russia 40,000 priests had been arrested, banished or murdered. Nearly all the
Orthodox churches and chapels have been either destroyed or else closed to
religious worship and converted into clubs, cinemas, barns etc. Prior to our
advent to power, the atheist propaganda carried out by the Marxists in Germany,
whose forces we have overthrown, took its stand in favour of the dreadful state
of things which I have described. The Social-Democratic “League of German
Freethinkers” alone had a membership of 600,000. The Communist “League of
Proletarian Freethinkers” had close on 160,000 members. Almost without
exception, the intellectual leaders of Marxist atheism in Germany were Jews,
among them being Erich Weinert, Felix Abraham, Dr. Levy-Lenz and others. At
regular meetings, held in the presence of a notary public, members were
requested to register their declaration of withdrawal from their church for a
fee of 2 Marks. And thus, the fight for atheism was carried on. Between 1918
and 1933 the withdrawals from the German Evangelical Churches alone amounted to
two-and-a-half million persons in Germany. The programme which these atheistic
societies laid down in regard to sexual matters is "amply characterised in
the following demands publicly expressed at meetings and distributed in leaflet
form:
(1)
The complete abrogation of those paragraphs of the law dealing with the crime
of abortion, and the right to have abortion procured free of charge in State
Hospitals.
(2)
Non-interference with prostitution.
(3)
The abrogation of all bourgeois-capitalistic regulations in regard to marriage
and divorce.
(4)
Official registration to be optional and the children to be educated by the
community.
(5)
Abrogation of all penalties for sexual perversities and amnesty to be granted
to all persons condemned as “sexual criminals”.
Truly
a case of methodical insanity, which has for its aim the wilful destruction of
the nations and their civilization and the substitution of barbarism as a
fundamental principle of public life.
Where
are the men behind the scenes of this virulent world movement? Who are the
inventors of all this madness? Who transplanted this ensemble into Russia and
is today making the attempt to have it prevail in other countries? The answer
to these questions discloses the actual secret of our anti-Jewish policy and
our uncompromising fight against Jewry; for the Bolshevik International is in
reality nothing less than a Jewish International.
It
was the Jew who discovered Marxism. It is the Jew who for decades past has
endeavoured to stir up world revolutions through the medium of Marxism. It is
the Jew who is today at the head of Marxism in all the countries of the world.
Only in the brain of a nomad who is without nation, race and country could this
Satanism have been hatched. And only one possessed of a satanic malevolence
could launch this revolutionary attack. For Bolshevism is nothing less than
brutal materialism speculating on the baser instincts of mankind. And in its
fight against West European civilisation it makes use of the lowest human
passions in the interests of International Jewry.
The
theory underlying this political and economic fanaticism was excogitated by a
Jew named Karl Mordechai, alias Marx, the son of a Rabbi in Treves. A variant
of the same theory sprang from the brain of another Jew called Ferdinand
Lassalle. He was the son of the Jewish Ghaim Wolfsohn from Loslau, who changed his
name first to Losslauer and then to Lasel and finally to Lassalle. The Labour
Minister of the Paris Commune was the Jew, Leo Fraenkel. The Jewish terrorist,
Karl Cohen, was the friend of Marx. On the 7th May 1866, in Unter den Linden,
Berlin, this Cohen made two attempts to murder Bismarck by shooting at him.
In
pre-war days the editorial staff of the “Vorwaerts”, the German Socialist
organ, already employed 15 Jews, the majority of whom subsequently became
leaders of Communism in Germany. Among these were Kurt Eisner, Rudolf
Hilferding, and Rosa Luxemburg. During the Great War the Polish Jews, Leo
Joggisches and Rosa Luxemburg, were at the head of the driving forces intent on
bringing about Germany’s military downfall and the subsequent world revolution.
Another Jew — Hugo Haase—subsequently chairman of the U.S.P.D. (Independent
German Socialist Party) demanded the refusal of war credits on August 4th 1914.
On
the 10th November 1918, there was formed the “Council of Six Representatives of
the People” which included the Jews Haase and Landsberg. On the 16th December
1918, was held the first meeting of the “General Congress of the Workers’ and
Soldiers’ Soviets of Germany”. In this congress the Jews, Cohen^Reuss and
Hilferding, were the principal speakers. The armed forces of Germany were
represented by the Jew Hodenberg, for the VIII Army, the Jew Levinsohn, for the
IV, the Jew Siegfried Marck for the Army Dept. A, Nathan Moses for Dept. B.
Jacob Riesenfeld represented the Army Group of Kiew and Otto Rosenberg
represented the Army Group of Kassel.
The
first Communist Party Congress was held in Berlin on the 31st December 1918, at
which the Jewess Rosa Luxemburg was elected leader. The Reich Conference of the
Spartacus movement, held on the 29th December 1918, was formally opened by the
official representative of the Soviet Union, a Jew named Karl Radek Sobelsohn,
whilst Rosa Luxemburg appeared as one of the official speakers.
On
the night between the 6th and 7th April 1919, after the removal of the Jew
Eisner in Munich, the Soviet Republic was proclaimed there. The leading part in
this was taken by the Jews Landauer, Toller, Lipp, Erich Muehsam and Wadler. On
the 14th April 1919, a second Soviet Government was formed in Munich, with the
Jews Levine-Nissen, Levien and Toller at its head. The Press of the German
Communist Party in Berlin was controlled by the Jews ' Meyer, Thalheimer,
Scholem, Friedlaender etc. The lawyers who functioned on behalf of the German
Communist Party were the Jews Litten, Rosenfeld, Joachim, Apfelr Landsbbrg etc.
The well-known Bolshevik Jew Raffes, writes: “The hatred of Czarism against the
Jews was justified; because from the ’sixties onwards in all the revolutionary
parties the Government had to deal with the Jews as the most active members.”
At
the second Congress of the Social Democratic Labour Party of Russia, in 1903,
the split occurred which divided the party into Bolsheviks and Mensheviks. In
the one as well as in the other of these parties the authoritative positions
were held by Jews. These were as follows:
In
the Mensheviks: Martor (Zederbaum), Trotzki (Bronstein), Dan (Gurwitsch), Marty
now, Liber (Goldmann), Abrarnowitsch (Rein), Goreff (Goldmann) etc.
In
the Bolsheviks: Borodin (Grusenberg)—subsequently Leader of the Bolshevik Revolutionary
movement in China, at present Bolshevik Commissary in Mongolia. Frumkin,
Hanecki (Fuerstenberg), Jaroslawski (Gubelmann)—Leader of the atheist movement
in the Soviet Union and throughout the world, Kamenew (Rosenfeld),
Laschewitsch, Litwinow (Wallach), —at 'present Foreign Soviet Commissary and
formerly Chairman of the League of Nations, Ljadow (Mandelstamm), Radek
(Sobelsohn), Sinowjew — 1919 to 1926 leader of the Communist International,
Sokolnikow (Brilliant), Swerdlow— close friend and co-worker of Lenin.
In
the beginning of August 1917, the Sixth Congress of the Bolshevik Party was
opened. The presiding committee was made up of 3 Russians, 6 Jews and 1
Georgian. On the 23rd October 1917 the historic session of Z.K. (Central
Committee) was held. Here the armed revolt was decided upon. For the purpose of
taking over the leadership of the revolt a “Political Bureau” and a “War Revolutionary
Centre” were established. These political and military centres the Bolshevik
Revolution were made up of 2 Russians, 6 Jews, 1 Georgian and 1 Pole.
In
the English “Collection of Reports on Bolshevism in Russia”, which was
presented to Parliament in April 1919, by Command of His Majesty, Report No. 6
contains the following: A telegram from Sir M. Findlay to Mr Balfour (received
on 18th September 1918):
“Following
is report by Netherlands Minister at Petrograd, 6th September, received here
today, on the situation in Russia, in particular as affecting British subjects
and British interests under Minister’s protection: . . .
“At
Moscow I had repeated interviews with Chicherin and Karahan. Whole Soviet
Government has sunk to the level of a criminal organisation. Bolsheviks realize
that their game is up, and have entered upon a career of criminal madness . . .
“The
danger is now so great that I feel it my duty to call the attention of the
British and all other Governments to the fact that if an end is not put to
Bolshevism in Russia at once the civilisation of the whole world will be
threatened I consider that the immediate suppression of Bolshevism is the
greatest issue now before the world, not even excluding the War, which is still
raging and unless, as above stated Bolshevism is nipped in the bud immediately,
it is bound to spread in one form or another over Europe and the whole world as
it is organised and worked by Jews who have no nationality and whose one object
is to destroy for their own ends the existing order of things. The only manner
in which this danger could be averted would be a collective action on the part
of all Powers.”
On
the 13th November 1934 the newspaper The
Moment, which is brought out at Warsaw and is one of the East European
leading Jewish journals, published an article (In No. 260 B) which was entitled
“Laser Moissejewitsch Kaganowitsch” (Stalin’s deputy and right-hand man). The
article states: “He is a great man, this Laser Moissejewitsch—he will one day
rule over the country of the Czars... His daughter, who will soon be 21, is now
Stalin’s wife ... and he is good to the Jews — Laser Moissejewitsch. You see,
it is good to have a man in one of the key positions”.
Of
the so most authoritative functionaries from the Party and State in the highest
councils of the U.S.S.R. we find that more than 20 are Jews and only 17
Russians, whereas the percentage of Jews to the whole population of the
U.S.S.R. is only 1,8.
The
People’s Commissary for the Interior (formerly Tscheka or O.G.P.U.) is the Jew
Jagoda. In the Communist International (the “General Staff of the World
Revolution”)—the Jew Pjatnitzki plays the most important role.
The
leadership of the Bolshevik revolutionary movement in all countries lay and
still lies in Jewish hands. In some countries, such as Poland and Hungary, they
are in exclusive control of this movement.
In
the trial against the Jewish communist Schmelz in March 1935, the Polish Police
Commissioner Landebzrski declared as witness that 98% of those arrested in
Poland on charges of communistic intrigues were Jews.
The
actual leader in the movement for the Bolshevisation of China is the Jew
Borodin-Grusenberg.
Therewith
we may close the account.
That
is Communism with the mask off. That is its theory, its practice and its
propaganda. I have given a bald and staid account of facts which have been
gathered mostly from official sources; but this account points to a state of
affairs which is so terrible and revolting in all its effects that it must shock
the average civilised human being. This gospel of “the emancipation of the
proletariat from the yoke of capitalism” is the worst and most brutal kind of
capitalism that can be imagined. It has been thought out, set afoot and led
under the inspiration of the Mammon worship and materialist thought which is
incarnated in international Jewry, scattered throughout every country of the
globe. It is no social experiment. It is nothing else than a mammoth system for
the expropriation and despoiling of the Aryan directive classes in all the
nations, and the substitution of the Jewish underworld in their place. Those
people who put themselves forward here as the apostles of a new teaching and
the liberators of mankind are in reality figures that herald anarchy and chaos
for the civilised world.
There
is no longer any political question at issue here. This thing cannot be judged
or estimated by political rules or principles. It is iniquity under a political
mask. It is not something to be brought before the bar of world history but
rather something that has to be dealt with by the judicial administration of
each country. It must be met with the same ruthless, and even brutal means with
which it strives to usurp power or hold power in its hands. Here there can be no
bargaining; because the danger that threatens Europe is acute. Overnight it
might break in among the civilised nations of. the world and spread universal
catastrophe. Those States that make peace with it will soon learn from
experience that it is not they who will tame Bolshevism but that Bolshevism
will bring them under its heel. It cannot be said that the Comintern has
changed its practices. It is and remains what it always was—the propagandist
and revolutionary machinery which is avowedly intended to bring about the
downfall of the West.
Bolshevism
is the declared enemy of all nations and of all religions and of all human
civilisation. The World Revolution is now, as always, its acknowledged and
proclaimed goal. Stalin himself has said, as the organ of the War Commissariat,
“The Red Star”, in January 1935, triumphantly announced : “Under Lenin’s
banner, in the proletarian revolution, we shall triumph over the whole world.”
And the communist emigrant, Pieck, said at the Seventh World Congress of the Comintern,
held on the 28th July this year: “The triumph of Socialism in Soviet Russia
proves at the same time that the triumph of Socialism throughout the whole,
world is inevitable.” On the day before the Congress was held, “L’Humanite”
(the organ of the French Communists) greeted it with the outburst: “Long live
the Comintern, the General Staff of the World Revolution.”
Traffic
with Bolshevism is not possible either on a political basis or on the basis of
general principles in life. The acknowledgement of the Soviet Union on the part
of the United States has given rise to an increase in communist propaganda,
innumerable strikes and general unrest throughout America. The military pact
between France and the Soviet Union led shortly afterwards to an increase of
communist votes at the municipal elections, in which they won 43 mandates and
thus doubled the number of mandates formerly held by them, while all the other
parties lost accordingly. The military alliance between Czecho-Slovakia and the
Soviet Union led to sabotaging in the army and to an unexpected increase of
communist votes at the elections which followed.
Whoever
has makes pacts with Bolshevism will have reason to rue his act.
Nothing
could be farther from our minds than the wish to prescribe for other nations
and their governments or even to counsel them. We do not mix up in their
domestic affairs. We only see the dangers that threaten Europe and we raise our
voices in warning, so that the magnitude of those dangers may be recognised.
As
far as we ourselves are concerned, we have completely overcome this menace.
Indeed perhaps, outside of his work in Germany, the greatest service which our
Führer has rendered the world is that here in Germany he has set up a barrier
against world Bolshevism against which the waves of this vile Asiatic-Je wish
flood break in vain. He has taught us not only to recognise Bolshevism as the
world’s greatest enemy but also to meet it face to face and crush it. Instead
of this teaching he has supplied a new and better and nobler ideal for the
liberation of a whole nation. In the Sign of this Idea we have fought our
battles and brought our banners to victory. This ideal has enabled us to free
Germany from the menace of Bolshevism and banish it once and for all from the
German nation. Today we know how to cope with these insidious forces.
The
nation has been rendered immune against the poison of the red anarchy. It has
repudiated the false and hollow catchwords of the communistic world propaganda.
Seriously and industriously and with patience and discipline it has given
itself to the solution of problems which arise out of its own destiny. History
will one day give due credit to the Führer for having saved Germany from the
most acute and deadly peril by overthrowing Bolshevism and thereby saving the
whole civilisation of the West from the abyss that yawned before it.
I
hope that it will not be left to posterity to recognise the greatness of this
historic mission, but that it will be acknowledged by our contemporaries and
that they will decide to act upon the truth of its teachings. As the true and
loyal Old Guard of the Führer and the Party, we rejoice that we are standing
under his banners in this most decisive struggle that the history of the world
has experienced.
Notes:
“In
the famine spring that is now coming in, shall similar events recur as those
which took place in the year 1933, when numberless innocent people in the
Ukraine, the Volga district, in the Northern Caucasus and other areas perished
of hunger?
“The
undersigned organisations have until now taken up the position that questions
of humanity and provision for relief ought to be considered independently of
political and social interests. They consider it a duty of the most elementary
human and purely charitable nature not to remain silent about these conditions
but to allow the voice of conscience speak again. For the sake of the starving
and dying people, and to avoid a catastrophe such as that of 1933, they demand
that the situation should be made entirely clear and that the necessary
provision for relief should be assured.”
The
signatory organisations are: —
The
Interdenominational and International Relief Committee for the Hunger Areas in
the Soviet Union, The Interdenominational and International Russian Relief Work
of the European Headquarters for Church Relief Action, and The Jewish Russian
Relief.
Such
are the authorities to which Dr. Goebbels refers in speaking of the famine
conditions which exist in Russia under the Bolshevik regime.
