by Dr . Joseph Goebbels
Speech delivered in Nurnberg on
September 10th 1936
At the Eighth National Socialist
Party Congress
„Lenin, the founder of the
Bolshevik Revolution, stated frankly that falsehoods are not only justified but
have proved to be the most effective tools in the Bolshevik struggle.“
Joseph Goebbels, Nürnberg,
September 1936
My Führer !
Your Excellencies!
My Honourable Guests!
Fellow Members of the National
Socialist Party !
The
fact that the phenomenon of Bolshevism as represented by the theory of Marx and
put into practice by the Russian Soviet State is still engaging the attention of
political circles in Western Europe, as a theoretical phenomenon and a political
reality which civilized people ought to take into account intellectually as well
as politically, shows that there is a fatal lack of insight into the nature and
essential structure of international Bolshevism. What is called Bolshevism has
nothing whatsoever to do with what we under stand by „ideas“ and an „outlook on
life“ (Weltanschauung) in general. It is nothing but a pathological and criminal
kind of madness, devised by Jews, as can well be proved, and led by Jews who aim
at destroying the civilized nations of Europe and at founding a
Jewish-international world regime that would subject all nations to their power.
Bolshevism could have had
its origin only in the Jewish brain and the sterile asphalt of the metropolis
alone made it possible for this thing to grow and spread. It could only be
accepted by a species of mankind that had been morally and economically
shattered by the war and the economic crisis which followed. On such people it
was let loose and was acceptable to them because its criminal and crazy doctrine
appealed to them.
Though superfluous, it may
here once again be emphasized that we National Socialists, in fighting this
world peril as mercilessly as we did from the very first hour of our political
activity up to the present have not defended anti-socialist or even
pro-capitalist interests. Our struggle against Bolshevism is no fight against
but in favour of Socialism. Our attitude grew out of a deep conviction that a
true and genuine Socialism can only be realised if its lowest and most ill-born
offspring, Jewish Bolshevism, would have been done away with. The fight against
Bolshevism can only be carried through to a successful issue by a people that
has found a new structure for its folk-life which is adequate to the dynamic
values and standards of the Twentieth Century: a socialist structure in a
national form.
The bourgeois
middle-classes of all nations have proved to be impotent in. dealing with
Bolshevism and are unfitted for the fight against it. They have not yet even
gained a clear insight into the principles which inspire and direct Bolshevism.
They lack the spiritual quality, the principled conscience, political faith and
moral strength of character that alone could enable them to face it. But not
only do they lack the necessary insight - they even attempt to compromise with
Bolshevism whenever an opportunity arises, so as to „prevent an even greater
evil“. But every pact which the bourgeois world contracts with radical
Bolshevism will finally lead to a victory of Bolshevism over the bourgeois world
because of the natural law according to which the stronger will always prevail
over the weaker.
Bolshevism has at least one
very definite advantage over all other groups that hold political
power-excepting those who face it with absolute and downright opposition. It
mobilises recklessly the lower grades of mankind which exist among the dregs of
every nation and are opposed to the State and the ideas which sustain it. It is
the organisation of the lowest instincts of a people aiming at the destruction
of all productive and valuable elements in a race. It usually seizes upon a
group that holds political power which is based upon a brutish minority and
which is deter mined to reach its final political aim with unscrupulous and
criminal tactics.
But the Bolshevik readiness
for tactical compromises must not be taken as a willingness to compromise as far
as their principles are concerned. At bottom, Bolshevism knows no compromise. If
it makes a compromise, that is only done for one reason, i.e. to use it as a
means to seize unlimited power. It does not hesitate to cut the throats of those
who have helped it to gain power after they have gained it. Not a very alluring
prospect for those bourgeois politicians of some of the West-European states who
still believe that the sting may be taken from Bolshevism by the tamer Front
Populaire.
Bolshevism is the
dictatorship of the inferior. It seizes power by means of falsehoods, it
maintains power by means of force. To be able to combat it, one must know it
thoroughly and one must have penetrated into its deepest secrets. The more
worthy forces of a nation have to be mobilized to ex terminate it, since it is
the organisation of everything that may be called the anti-racial forces of the
people.
There is one sphere in
particular wherein Bolshevism has shown its mastery, i. e. that of negative
propaganda. It gains a foothold among the nations by means of lies and
hypocrisy. It aims at presenting a garbled picture of the nature and inner form
of this political madness. Lenin, the Father of the Bolshevist Revolution,
stated frankly. that falsehoods are not only justified but have proved to be the
most effective tools in Bolshevist struggle. Schopenhauer has said that the Jews
are masters of lies and, therefore. it is no surprising fact that Bolshevism and
Jewry here meet in close kinship. Jewish Bolshevism is a past-master in the
manipulation of lies. Decent and truthful people are so stunned by this method
that they are incapable of offering inner resistance. That is just what the
Jewish Bolshevists have been aiming at. They speculate on the incapacity of the
average truthful person to imagine that’ it is even possible to lie with such
bold and brazen-faced nonchalance as they lie.
It is possible to lie like
that. Bolshevism has shown it to be possible and it has been successful in
surprising and winning over many unsuspicious people.
In accordance with the very
nature of Bolshevism, its propaganda is international and aggressive. It aims at
the radicalisation of all the nations of the world to bring about anarchy and
Bolshevism. It has got tremendous supplies of funds at its disposal which are
unlimited because the Bolshevik dictators unscrupulously starve the entire
Russian people in order to spend the money for this purpose. This kind of
propaganda is particularly insidious for outside countries because it is
supported by the Communist parties of those countries, i.e. by the respective
foreign sections of the Comintern. The communist parties outside of Russia are
nothing but foreign legions of the Comintern. With their support, Bolshevism
organises and lays out ingenious plans of international sedition which are very
difficult to attack because they have their roots in the political and national
life of the respective nations. It must be estimated as the most threatening
peril to a state to allow the existence of a domestic party which takes its
orders from the authorities of a foreign country. Experience shows that
countries where a strong Communist party exists are more or less subject to the
dictates of Stalin with regard to their Home- Social Economic- Military- and
Foreign Policy. When concluding a treaty, one of the Western European Great
Powers had, for example, to make the request first that the Communist party that
exists on its own soil should be ordered from Moscow to stop undermining the
army and vetoing the credits for military purposes.
The Communist sections in
the various countries are ordered to prepare and to carry through the Bolshevist
revolution. They are supplied with abundant funds, unequalled anywhere else, to
carry on this ingenious propaganda for which Moscow has laid out the model. This
propaganda has only one object and purpose. It aims at deceiving the other
nations as to the true nature of Bolshevism and either to prevent the leaking
out of facts from Soviet Russia or to falsify them, so that they lose their
value as reliable news. The reason for such a policy is that the Soviet Union
cannot allow the truth about its domestic’ conditions to be known, particularly
not in Western Europe, with its more civilized and intelligent citizens. The
poison of the Bolshevist theory may be alluring and enticing, but Bolshevism in
practice is terrible and horror ‘striking. Its way is marked by mountains of
skeletons. An ocean of blood and tears floods that unhappy tract. Human life has
lost all value. Terrorism, murder, bestiality - these are the traits that
characterize every Bolshevist revolution, whether it be successful, as in
Russia, or fail and be suppressed, as ill Hungary, Bavaria, the Ruhr district
and Berlin, or still fighting for power as is the case in Spain today.
When Bolshevism has gained
control it stops worrying about contradictions between theory and practice:
carbines and machine guns then hold the field. But anywhere else, outside of its
home territory, it uses its ingeniously devised propaganda machinery to deceive
the world as to its own true nature. Bourgeois people in Europe have not the
slightest knowledge of how these facts are proceeding. They try to avoid [sic -
WRF] a decision by mouthing the same phrase over and over again, namely, that
nobody is allowed to interfere in the domestic affairs of a foreign country. But
what is a reality now in Russia, what is fought for and against in Spain and
what is fatally preparing its way in other European States - that is a matter of
concern for the whole world. It is no longer a problem that can be dealt with by
those who theorise about the various outlooks on life
(Weltanschauungstheoretiker), it is rather a matter of grave concern for
statesmen all over the world. They will have to tackle this problem unless they
wish to become responsible for the future development which - because of their
negligence - will push Europe into the most severe crisis and eventually into
ruin, The problem of Bolshevism as it faces Europe today is a question of to be
or not to be. Here and now the souls of men are ranged on the one side or the
other. A definite side will have to be taken either against or in favour ‘of
Bolshevism and all consequences resulting therefrom will have to be accepted.
Another problem must be
settled. The problem of the role which Jewry plays in relation to Bolshevism.
Only in Germany can it be openly discussed, since it would be dangerous in any
other country - as was also the case in Germany not so many years ago - even to
mention the Jewry by name. There can be 110 doubt that Jews are the founders of
Bolshevism and that it is they who represent it. The old leading class in Russia
has been so completely eliminated that no other leader ship group was left but
the Jews. Every conflict within Bolshevism is therefore more or less a family
conflict among Jews. The recent executions in Moscow, i.e. the shooting of Jews
by Jews, can only he understood on motives of thirst for power and determination
to destroy all opponents. The belief that Jews are always at perfect harmony
with one another is a widespread error. They live in unity only when they form a
minority that is kept in control and menaced by a large national majority. In
present-day Russia this is not the case anymore. If Jews have attained power -
as they exclusively have done in Russia - the old Jewish rivalries begin again,
which had been kept in abeyance by the danger threatening their race.
The idea underlying
Bolshevism, i.e. the idea of unscrupulous disintegration and destruction of
decency and culture for the diabolic purpose of destroying the nations could
have been born only in the Jewish brain, just as Bolshevik practice, with all
its horrifying cruelty, is only possible when manipulated by the Jews. In
accordance with their nature these Jews do not show their faces in the open.
They work underground and, in Western Europe they try to deny that they have
anything to do with Bolshevism. That is the way they have always behaved and
will behave in the future.
But we have found them out
and, what is more, we are the only people in the world who have the courage to
call the attention of mankind to these capital criminals. We are not afraid of
any consequences and call them by their right name. There was a time in Germany
when anyone who called a Jew a Jew was sent to prison. But in spite of that we
dared to do it. Even today the world very often objects, with noble restraint or
even with well-staged moral disapproval, when Jews are called Jews or
Bolshevists are called capital criminals. But we are convinced that we shall
eventually succeed in opening the eyes of the world so as to make them see the
true face of Jewry and Bolshevism just as well as we succeeded in convincing
Germany of the perilous parasitic character of that race. In the meantime we
shall not tire of pointing to this fatal danger and appealing to the attention
of all the people who are undergoing terrible .crises and upheavals,
proclaiming: „The Jews are to blame! The Jews are to blame!“
This charge will be like a
lash in the faces of the Jews, distorted as they are by hate. It won’t help
them either if they try to adopt the camouflage of democratic forms. That method
is just a bit too ingenious [sic - WRF] to impress intelligent people. It is
only a ruse to catch the intellectual philistines .. They welcome this slogan
because it enables them to fight shy of a decision. This so-called Bolshevist
Democracy. which some French and English papers have suggested [sic - WRF] as
the prototype and counter part of the so-called National Socialist
Dictatorship, is engulfed in terror, blood and murder. Every few years the
Bolshevist despots proclaim this moth - eaten slogan whenever they feel the
necessity of recommending themselves to Europe after a period of brutal
terrorism. Then suddenly canards are let loose by the Communist propaganda
bureaus, empty promises that a new constitution will be introduced, that the
universal ballot etc. will be granted to Russia. But all these promises are
falsehoods, speculating upon the short memories and proverbial mental inertness
of narrow-minded philistines. In reality Bolshevism is the crassest rule of
blood and terror that the world has ever experienced. The Jews have planned it
in order to make it impossible for power to be taken out of their hands, and it
is Jews who are exercising it. We National Socialists, to justify and
consolidate our national power honourably, have appealed to the country again
and again, almost year after year, through general elections in which the laws
of the secret ballot are observed. Bolshevism talks of People. and the Country
of Workers and Peasants; but on its face is imprinted the word Force.
Each person forms for
himself a certain idea of Bolshevism. For the most part this idea is the product
of his own brain. Then propaganda comes to his aid. Its means of working forms a
picture of Bolshevism according to the mentality of a person or a group of
persons or of a nation. It is all artificially managed. There is no real basis
of truth in it. It may easily happen that representatives of a great country
become enthusiastic about a new subway in Moscow, which would attract no
attention whatsoever in another large city. When the Bolsheviks welcome the
stranger with the strains of his own national anthem these strangers, without
any rational reason whatsoever, discard their former ideas about Bolshevism and
make friends with it. The Red Jews in Moscow know how to handle their dupes. It
is permissible to imagine how they mock and ridicule the attitude of the
bourgeois world that is thus created.
Therefore they are very
furious with us because we have recognised them and are bent on shattering to
its very foundations the picture of Bolshevism that is widely prevalent in
Europe. Their hate against us is illimitable. It is one of the best and most
honourable tributes to the character of our political struggle. We tear the mask
from their faces and show them to the world in their true appearance.
It has already been stated
that the concept which various people and nations form of Bolshevism is a
special outcome of Bolshevik propaganda. A great part of the art of deception
consists, for instance, in making people believe that the Moscow Government has
nothing at all to do with the Comintern. That is about the most barefaced and
brazen swindle that can be imagined; because there is only a division of
administration between the Soviet Government and the Comintern. But to think
that one is independent of the other would be like believing that the National
Socialist Movement has nothing to do with the National Socialist Government.
Bolshevistic propaganda
operates on a broad scale. Its purpose is to bring the world to destruction. In
foreign countries it is mistakenly interpreted. These naive people who accept it
are generally the most naive of the naive. But they exist and they have a
certain effect of their own.
Bolshevism in practice is
something different. There it is; and you cannot deny what it does. In blood it
has traced its fearful march. Its intention is to bring the whole world into its
chaotic mess. It signifies the great attempt of Judaism to bring the nations
under their own power. Therefore the fight against this danger is, in the truest
sense of the word, a world fight. It was begun in Germany and has been fought
out on German soil. Adolf Hitler is the historic leader in this campaign. We are
all his representatives and therewith we are the apostles of a great historical
mission. There can never be a compromise between the two extremes. Bolshevism
must be exterminated if Europe is to regain its normal state of health.
But the Jews know exactly
what is about to happen. In one of their last efforts they have striven to
mobilize all the forces of the world against Germany. They want to strengthen
their power by a feverish rush of armament. In National Socialist Germany they
see a constant danger to their own existence. In Russia Judaism has established
a home for itself which they never thought [sic - WRF] would be endangered. Up
to ninety-eight percent, it represents the new bourgeois class among the Soviets
- knaves, fatlings, dissemblers, intriguers and plotters, back-slappers and
frivolous people. These Jews who have now attained high positions are able to
exercise their petty swindles, over a large-scale area, on 160 million people.
They are ruthless tyrants, absolutely without principle. They inflict
themselves on the people like a universal scourge, the purpose of which is to
spread catastrophe.
I have already laid stress
on the fact that Bolshevist propaganda is sufficiently astute to adjust its
teaching to its hearers. It can be radical or moderate to suit the occasion.
When the terrorist, Dimitroff, speaks before the Comintern the attitude is
different from that which Litwinoff adopts before the League of Nations. The
Bolshevist propaganda may be religious or anti-religious to suit the
circumstances. It is utterly without conscience and all means are justified by
the ends they serve. All over the world this propaganda has at its disposal a
complex machinery which is made up of the Communist sections in the various
countries. It only needs to press a button in order to put this machinery into
operation. In every country it operates either secretly or in the open. Woe to
the nation that allows it to function. One day that nation will be undermined by
this seditious activity and will be disrupted, merely because this phenomenon
has not been seriously taken into account.
We National Socialists are
in the happy position that we have no need to mince our words when we speak of
Bolshevism. We do not speak the language of the secret cabinets We speak the
language of the people and, therefore, hope that the people of outside nations
will understand us. We are lucky enough to be able to call things by their
names; and we feel bound to do so. For the world must have its eyes opened. We
cannot and we must not be silent in face of the danger that menaces Europe. It
is incumbent on the nations and their Governments to make their own decisions;
but it is the right and the duty of every individual, whom nature has endowed
with the gift of insight and the power of self-expression, to proclaim his
opinions and convictions, to point the finger to forthcoming catastrophes and to
voice the needs of the time. To dally with Bolshevism spells ultimate ruin.
Therefore we take the
opportunity of this Party Congress to ring the alarm against this world danger.
I have taken this opportunity of pointing out what Bolshevism is in actual
practice, to unmask its teaching and therewith we are helping towards the
understanding of the history of our own times, which has to be learned and must
not be forgotten.
And now we come to the
point.
The West-European worker is
apt to consider the Soviet Union as a proletarian State, i.e. as his State. He
thinks that in Russia the working class succeeded [sic - WRF] in eliminating the
capitalistic exploiters and in establishing the dictatorship of the proletariat,
where the free workers are now building up a State of their own, the „Fatherland
of the Working People“.
But Jews, like David
Ricardo or Marx-Mardochay, have been the originators of the Marxist teaching;
and Jews, like Lassalle, Wolfssohn, Adler, Liebknecht, Luxemburg, Levi etc. have
organised all labour movements. From their safe editorial chairs, Jews have
urged the workers to the barricades. Jews, like Paul Singer, Schiff, Kahn etc.
were the financiers of Marxist Bolshevism.
The Soviet Government has
been and still is almost completely composed of Jews. Not one worker belongs to
the governing body. Almost all of the Bolshevist leaders who have been recently
shot in Moscow were Jews. There was not one worker ,among them. The Triumvirate,
which rose as the victorious group out of this inter-Jewish conflict and which
now holds dictatorship over the Soviet Union, is composed of: -
Herschel-Jehuda (Jagoda),
Head of the OGPU Lazarus Mosessohn Kaganowitsch, Father-in-law of Stalin and
Commissary for Transport Finkelstein-Litwinoff, Commissary for Foreign Affairs,
all of whom are Jews who came from the Ghetto.
The Government of the
Soviet Union is not the dictatorship of the proletariat but the dictatorship of
Jewry over all the rest of the population.
The political agitation of
Bolshevism is equalled by its demagogical propaganda in the economic sphere.
They proclaim that the worker leads a sort of paradisical [sic - WRF] life in
the Soviet Union. As late as April, 1932, the newspaper „Rote Fahne“ demanded in
its electoral campaign: „Put a stop to the increase of wages, wages have to be
decreased. We demand the seven-hour working day, the forty-hour week and
adjusted wages.“
But how is the situation in
Soviet Russia? The price of bread rose from 9 to 75 Kopeks per kilogram [sic -
WRF] within the years between 1928 and 1935. The monthly wage of a Soviet
worker, has fallen 78.5 percent measured by the quantity of bread which the
worker can buy. If the Russian worker wants to earn enough [sic - WRF] to live
he has to work according to the Stachanoff system which has raised the norm so
much above the average that the mass of workers can never reach it. The result
is that the average Russian worker gets lower wages.
In 1932 the „Rote Fahne“
published a report on the housing conditions, which had been sent in by a
comrade working in the Soviet Union. He wrote that he had two large rooms for
himself, with electricity and central heating.
And now a true picture of
reality: A working woman writes in „Leningradskaja Prawda“, a Communist paper,
„We, that is I myself and my little boy, who is a year-and-a-half old, my
brother and my sister who suffers from tuberculosis, live in one small and dark
room. Our complaints brought before the Communist municipal commission have been
fruitless. We are still living as before in these unbelievable conditions.“
The Russian worker has to
spend for his simple food which consists only of bread, cabbage soup and gruel,
not less than 75 percent of his total income. He would have to spend twice the
amount of the average wage to attain the standard of living which the German
worker has.
A well-known Bolshevist
slogan promises the establishment of the free right to work. On June 20, 1932
the „Rote Fahne“ wrote „Look towards Moscow, Leningrad, Baku, Nowosibirsk and
know: work, bread and liberty can only be attained if we fight and follow the
example of the Bolshiviki.“
The way in which the Soviet
workers are urged to work by the Stachanoff system may rightly be called
slavery. But the Soviet Union even re-introduced slavery in the verbal meaning
of the word. About six-and-a-half million people who work in the forced labour
camps of the Soviet Union are living in a state of hell-on-earth. In three
hundred giant forced-labour camps, Bolshevism is squeezing the lost ounce of
work and energy out of these workers. Some hundred thousands of people had to be
buried [sic - WRF] when the Stalin-Caspian Channel was built by forced-labour
gangs. The following Jewish leaders of the OGPU forced the Channel to be built
in such murderous speed: Herrschel Jagoda, Davidsohn, Kwasnitzki, Isaaksohn,
Rottenberg, Ginsburg, Brodski, Berensohn, Dorfmann, Kagner, Angert and others.
Judaism flourishes the whip over the „Fatherland of the Proletariat.“
Bolshevist propaganda
boasts of having freed the working class among the peasants from the claws of
capitalistic exploitation. To allure the innocent peasants and to get their
confidence, Bolshevism founded the „Peasants’ International“. In its programme
we find the following proclamation: „We demand that the burden of taxes be
lifted from the middle class of the peasants, that their taxes be decreased, we
demand the expropriation of the large estates, which shall be made available
free of charge for the sons of the peasants who till the soil.“
Let us have a look at the
situation as it exists in reality! The granaries of Soviet-Russia, which
formerly helped to supply Western Europe with the necessary cereals, are no
longer in a position to feed their own population. Millions of people are
starving. A bitter war is being waged between the terroristic apparatus of the
OGPU and the peasants. The Jews Kaganowitsch, Jadoga and Baumann, enforced a
radical collectivisation on the peasants [sic - WRF] which simply killed more
than 15 million peasants and members of peasant families.
The main achievement of the
peasant policy carried out by the Bolshevists is the terroristic law of August
7, 1932, which, for any kind of „wrong“ committed by a peasant enacts the death
penalty, ten years of hard labour or forced labour sentences. Judeo-Bolshevism
even abuses the relation of child to parent in applying this law. „Iswestia“
reports, on May 28, 1934, how a girl denounced her father, who had kept back
grain that had been commissioned by the, collective. Under the terror law her
father was subject to the death penalty. The child received official
congratulation for her act.
In pre-National Socialist
Germany the Communist Party put forward the following demands in their programme
for the soldiers: Point 12: Abolition of all undesirable persons in command,
Point 20: Annulment of the order to live in bar racks. „Emancipation from blind
Obedience“ and the „Democratisation of the Army“ were the slogans.
Compulsory mobilization of
the workpeople was introduced forthwith after the Bolshevist dictatorship had
been set up. Those who did not obey the order were shot or sent to the blood
dungeons of the Tscheka. Instead of the ‘Voluntary people’s militia, there was
central authoritarian command, iron proletarian discipline, the forced
conscripts were interned in barracks and the strictest laws, courts-martial were
set up. From the „Comrade Commandants“ the whole army aristocracy was chosen,
including lieutenants, captains etc. up to the red marshals. The Soviet Jew,
Rabinowitsch, cynically admitted that the simulated „democratisation“ of the
army was „only a ruse to gain control of the army“.
Another Bolshevist slogan,
which is widely believed, is the „Emancipation of Woman“. The pretension is that
the woman must be freed from the domestic yoke and placed on an equal footing
with the man. In the year 1924 the Comintern Congress explicitly stated: „The
revolution is powerless as long as the family and family conditions remain.“ But
in the practical administration of the Soviet Union the actual way of this
highly vaunted „Emancipation of Woman“ shows itself in the fact that, without
having the right to appeal for protection, women are forced to submit and
surrender themselves to the arbitrary demands of the men and they have to earn
their livelihood by heavy manual labour. Even in the labour-camps, which have
the worst reputation, there are more than one million women.
Furthermore Bolshevist
propaganda asserts that the woman is released from the burden of having to look
after her children. This task is taken over by the Soviet State itself. At the
same time the official party press is forced to acknowledge that the army of
waifs and youthful criminals is steadily on the increase. A special and
influential appeal in the system of Bolshevist propaganda is the demand for the
abrogation of the legal veto against abortion. The practice of abortion, which
went on without hindrance for eighteen years, has become so prevalent that the
Soviets would now like to forbid this practice of abortion.
Bolshevist propaganda in
regard to the position of women in the social order reaches the peak of mental
aberration when it declares that in the bourgeois social order prostitution is
a necessary evil, but that this will finally disappear with the establishment of
Communism. There is no country in the world where the spectacle of prostitution
is so universal as in the Soviet Union. Even in order to hold their jobs,
working women have to submit to the desires of their bosses. In the truest sense
of the term, women in this „Paradise of Women“ ate the open prey of the Jewish
Soviet bullies.
The „study-trip“ made by
the French statistician, Herriot, during the famine period of 1933, offers a
specially crass example of how the bemused politicians of Western liberalism may
be allured by Soviet propaganda. On this point the Jewish New York paper
„Forward“, which certainly cannot be suspected of pro-Nazi leanings, declared as
follows:
„On the day preceding [sic
- WRF] the arrival of the delegation the whole population of Kiew was mobilized
at two o’clock in the night, to clean the main streets. Ten thousand hands
worked feverishly to give an European aspect to the neglected and filthy town.
All relief centres, cooperative stores were closed. Queues were forbidden. The
imposing army of waifs, beggars and starvelings were all removed. Militiamen on
highly groomed horses strutted at the street crossings, manes of their horses
entwined with white ribbons - a picture which Kiew saw never before, or after“
(this is a retranslation).
One of the great parade
pieces from the arsenal of Bolshevist propaganda is the claim for the abolition
of the army, the demand for „allround and complete“ disarmament. The K.P.D.
(German Communist Party), under the slogan „No more War“ „Forward with the fight
against armament“ , for instance, demanded a plebiscite on the following
proposition:
„The construction of
dreadnoughts and cruisers of all kinds is forbidden.“ And in February, 1932,’
the Jew, Finkelstein-Litwinoff, took occasion, at one of the innumerable Geneva
Conferences, to champion before the world the principle of „complete
disarmament“. Up to the present no change has taken place in these methods of
deception. This statement is corroborated by the declaration which the same
Litwinoff made last July, when he said that the „complete disarmament“ was a
„maximal guarantee“ of peace.
That’s Bolshevist
propaganda.
And what is the reality?
The peace strength of the Red Army amounts to two millions, by reason of the
lowering of the age limit of those liable for military service. But to this we
must add the trained reserves, which number from nine to ten millions. In case
of war therefore they could mobilize eleven millions; and, within a practical
period of time, even fourteen millions.
Should war break out, the
Red Army would be able to issue marching orders to Red soldiers of between 160
and 180 infantry divisions and 25 cavalry [sic - WRF] divisions. Recently the
increase in the tank forces was declared by the Red Marshal Tuchatschewski, as
2475 percent.
The strength of the Red Air
Force amounts to 6000 planes. The planes of the First Line are divided into 3100
heavy and light bombers and scout planes and 1500 chasseurs. The bombing weapon
prevails over all others and proves that the Red Air Force is pre-eminently a
weapon of attack. The idea is that in case of war the bombing planes should be
able to make a surprise attack before the attacked country will have had time to
organise its defence. The view of the Soviet strategists is that the next war
will be begun without any introductory declaration of war. And it is not
generally known that the Soviets possess the greatest submarine force in the
world.
The aggressive character of
the Red Army is testified by the aggressive strategy of its leaders. One of the
great paragons of efficiency in the Soviet regime is that of the „obvious
justice“ of the victorious Bolshevik revolution on a world extension, according
to Tuchatschewski, who said: „Bolshevism will strive with elementary force to
embrace the whole world by direct influence. Its most important means will be
its military power.“
And now the most incredible
thing of all: lnspite [sic - WRF] of this very obvious imperialistic kind of
armament, Bolshevik propaganda insists even today that Moscow adheres to a
„policy of peace“. „The Soviet Union does not wish to expand its territory. It
is always there when peace is to be defended and maintained“ - that is the kind
of lies that Mr. Litwinoff casts into the face of the world. And the French
Communist leader, Thorez, declares in „Humanité“: „We have shown that the aim of
peace is inseparable from the policy of the Soviet Union.“
In glaring contrast to this
systematic campaign of falsehoods we have the political offensive of the
military pacts. Under the slogan of „collective security“ these were established
between Moscow and Paris on May 2, 1935 and between Moscow and Prague on May 16,
1935.
A little while ago the
Mayor of St. Denis, Jacques Doriot, formerly a Communist and now a leader of the
„Parti Populaire Français“ described the purpose of the Franco-Bolshevik
military pact in the following words: „And when they have formulated it in true
earnest, when Cachin is President of the Republic and Thorez is Prime Minister
and Péri is Foreign Minister, under orders from Moscow they will unleash the
dogs of war against Germany and thus secure freedom for the Soviet Union on
their Western front ... „
And the case is not
otherwise with the military pact between Moscow and Prague. On December 15,
1935, a Soviet airman and member of the Communist Party made the following
declarations on that point to a representative of the French paper „Gringoire“.
„The erection of air stations in the neighbourhood of Prague and in the
hinterland would be an ideal move for us. From these points only half the
aeroplanes are necessary and only half the fuel is needed. Hence it would be
possible for us to carry an extra three tons of explosives.“ Meanwhile great
numbers of these red air stations have been erected in Czechoslovakian
territory. Recently they were increased to thirty-six. „Slovensky Dennik“ -
which is a newspaper [sic - WRF] published at Pressburg and controlled by the
Prime Minister - made the astonishing admission: „If the air stations are
intended for the defence of the State, then assuredly no geese will be found
grazing on them. They will be a refuge for those friends of ours wile may find
them adapted for use and protection.“ In other words, these thirty six air
stations are meant to be the starting points from which the Red bombers will
attack Europe. This is an acute danger. That is proved by the fact that the Red
bombers could thus reach the most important strategic points in Western Europe
within less than an hour and could destroy these. From the air bases of the Red
Army within Czechoslovakian territory, Dresden, for example, could be reached
within twenty minutes, Chemnitz within eleven minutes, the Silesian industrial
district within nine minutes, Berlin within forty-two minutes, Vienna within
nine minutes, the munition works in Steier within seventeen minutes and the
manufacturing district of the Steiermark within twenty-seven minutes. The Red
planes could reach Budapest within about six minutes and make it a heap of dust
and ashes.
That is the story of the
Bolshevist „peace policy“. On this spot last year I gave an exact account of how
many clergymen had been murdered in Russia and pointed to the danger of such a
procedure being repeated in other countries. But even ecclesiastical circles in
outside countries poo-poohed this warning. They expressed the naive view that
Bolshevism had changed and that in future it would guarantee freedom of worship
to religious denominations. Meanwhile events in Spain have shown only too
clearly that I was right. „In all districts in which the Madrid Government
rules there is no longer a church that is open.“ So write the „Diario de la
marina“. And the Catholic Church has even officially announced that in Barcelona
alone 250 priests have been murdered and several churches demolished. That is
the kind of religious freedom which one enjoys under Bolshevist rule.
In order to appear harmless
and bourgeois in the eyes of Western Democracy, the Bolshevist „diplomats“ have
even copied habits and behaviour of respectable persons, al though the change
must cost them an effort. But to us who know the Bolshevist tactics it causes
only amusement to see how so many statesmen in Western Europe, who otherwise
seem so intelligent, believe that Bolshevism has’ abandoned its plan of World
Revolution because its diplomatic representatives now appear in tail coats and
white collars.
And yet this varnishing
does not seem adequate for the Jewish Rulers in the Soviet Union. In order to
give a final proof of its impeccability [sic - WRF], Bolshevism has furnished
itself with a „Constitution“. In this Constitution the „right of education“ is
laid down, having regard to the 40% of the population which cannot read or
write. And in the same Constitution „freedom of speech and of the press“ is
mentioned, in a country where everything that departs from the line of opinion
laid down by the Jewish dictators is punished by death, as we have just
experienced in the trial of the Trotzkyists, This system speaks of the
„inviolability of the person and his home and the right of unopened postal
correspondence“ although day after day the Tscheka gathers in thousands of
distracted persons’ and shoots them or deports them.
The „Popular Front“, which
was founded by the Communists in France struggles „for the defence of democratic
liberty, its maintenance and extension“. These are the words of Mr. Thorez, the
leader of the party. The „Popular Front“ has come to power in Spain. This
„democratic liberty“ is displayed in filling the prisons of Madrid and
Barcelona, in arresting and shooting all non-Communists. In this way 7,000 have
already been murdered in Madrid alone.
The phrase „Liberty and
Rights of Man“ is a favourite slogan of the Communists. It figures prominently
in their revolutionary hymn. The following paragraphs of a letter from the
Soviet Union give an idea of how Liberty and the Rights of Man are treated
there:
The letter, dated August
10, 1935 states:
„Then some hundreds of the
outlawed are shoved into empty and unheated freight-waggons [sic - WRF], like
animals. They were ordered to be brought to the Caspian Sea or to Sibiria [sic -
WRF] .... One of the leading Communists said to us: ‘Die on the roadside and in
the fields. We cannot kill you all; but you will have to die in the gutters!’”
A letter dated June 7,
1935, states: „It seems as if the crisis were at the beginning once again but it
is to be hoped that the events of the year 1932/1933 will not be repeated when
almost 80% of the deported died within the one year.“
On November 16, 1917, Lenin
promised in the „Declaration of the Rights of the Nationalities“ that the
peoples of the former Czarist regime would be granted autonomy. But how did this
promise work out in reality for these nationalities? On April 27, 1920, the Red
Army overran Aserbeidshan, in November of the same year they overran the
Ukraine, on December 3, Armenia, and on February 25, 1921 the young re public
of Georgia, after Moscow had by treaty acknowledged their territorial integrity
the previous year.“
In Ingria the Finnish
population is being systematically slam ped out. From 1929 to 1931 18,000 Finns
were banished to Siberia and in the spring of 1935 9,000 were forced to undergo
the same fate. Only two month ago the government of the Soviet Union decided to
drive out another 28,000 from their native land.
In the Polish-Soviet
frontier district 18,000 peasants of German stock „ had their settlement
transferred“ during the spring of this year. From 80 to 90 persons were packed
into cattle trucks and sent to Siberia.
Last year 4,000 Carelians
were sent in banishment to Central Asia and 3,000 to the Ural, where more than
fifty percent of them succumbed to the inhuman conditions of life and work.
In August 1927 the
Communist propaganda apparatus drummed into the ears of the world proclamations
against the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti. In millions of leaflets and
newspapers the Communists carried on their campaign in foreign countries for the
revocation of the death sentence. Yet, what happens in the Soviet Union itself?
In Paragraph 58 alone of the Criminal Code, fourteen different kinds of acts are
laid down which are punishable with death. By the law of April 7, 1935, the
death penalty was introduced even for children.
Starving children in an
educational institution have often told how good the conditions were that
prevailed there in former times. This fact alone was enough to bring them within
the terms of paragraph 58. Ten children were shot by the OGPU in the presence of
their comrades. In a newspaper article the Soviet Prosecuting Attorney,
Wischinsky, recalls „with content and pleasure“ the first anniversary of the day
on which the death penalty for children was established by law.
All these are facts which
are vouched for exclusively by unquestionable and demonstrable documents
originating mostly from Soviet sources. Last year, at the Nürnberg Party
Congress, when I uttered words of warning on what I presumed would be the
consequences of the Seventh Comintern Congress. held from July 25 to August 21,
1935, the world at large was silent and showed that it did not understand the
import of what I had said. The safe stay-at-homes took our prophecies as
exaggerated and believed that they could just throw them to the winds.
Therefore I may permit
myself to repeat here some of the proposals that were made at the Comintern
Congress and the plans that were decided upon and bring before you the events
which meanwhile have resulted therefrom in various countries.
Dimitroff, the accredited
agent of the Soviet dictatorship for bringing about the world revolution, has
verbally declared: „With Stalin at the head, our political army of millions of
men can and must overcome all difficulties, completely surmount all obstacles,
raze the fortress of Capitalism to the ground and achieve the victory of
Socialism, throughout the whole world.“
He said further:
„The proletariat is the
real master of the world, the master who will rule tomorrow, It must be granted
its historical right and in every land throughout the world it must take the
sceptre of power in its own hands.“
„It is vain to think of
turning the wheel of history back wards. No! The wheel of history is turning
and will turn further in the direction of the World Union of the Soviet
Socialist Republics, unto the final conquest of the whole world by Socialism.“
Such is the programme set
forth by this Bulgarian terrorist for the revolutionising of the world. As to
how it is carried out, let the plain facts speak.
Since this congress, much
more than a hundred Communist revolts have occurred in different countries
through out the world, among them the revolts in Brest and Toulon, in August,
1935, with many dead, in Lemberg on April 18, 1936, with 10 dead, and in
Saloniki on May 10, 1936, with more than 100 dead. Three armed uprisings,
planned long in advance, shook whole countries for weeks on end: in November
1935, in Pernambuco, in January, 1936, in Buenos Aires, and in March, 1936, in
Spain.
Six attempted revolutions
were frustrated in advance, among them those in December, 1935, in Uruguay, in
February, 1936, in Paraguay and in the same month in Chile.
Sixty-two large fires were
caused, among them that in Lanchou in China, which claimed 1,000 victims.
Fifty-four armed raids were carried out and 78 stores of explosives plundered.
Altogether 3,041 lives were sacrificed by these Bolshevist criminals.
To select a few examples.
At the meeting of the Communist World Congress on July 30, 1935, Comrade
Dsordsos appeared as the representative of Greece, and outlined a plan of action
for the future. Almost exactly one year after his appearance in Moscow, on
August 5, 1936, Greece was shaken by a general strike, which developed directly
into an armed revolution. Only through the energetic intervention of General
Metaxas was Greece saved from being reduced to a state of Bolshevist chaos, and
the plan of Comrades Dimitroff and Dsordsos frustrated.
With regard to the stirring
up of revolution in colonies , Dimitroff said that the peoples of the colonial
and semi colonial countries no longer regarded their liberation as a hopeless
cause, but tended more and more towards a determined struggle against their
imperialist oppressors.
Scarcely one year later a
dangerous revolt broke out in Syria, which cost many lives. The new friendship
with France by no means prevented Moscow from carrying out its premeditated plan
in a territory under the mandate of its ally. A few months later the
disturbances in Palestine broke out, during which [sic - WRF] the English police
confiscated masses of Communist leaflets and dispersed secret meetings of
Communist agents.
Marques, the representative
of Brazil , declared at the Seventh World Congress in July, 1935, that the
country was hastening towards the decisive struggle for the fall of the
government ... and for the establishment of a national revolutionary
government.
Three months later a
Communist revolution broke out in Natal and Recife, which claimed 150 dead and
400 wounded. Luis Carlos Prestes, the Jew Ewert and the „Ambassador“ of Soviet
Russia in Montevideo, the Jewish former furrier Minkin, were revealed as the
agents of the „Alliance“.
To come to France.
Dimitroff said that the French Communist Party provided an example for all
sections of the Communist International of how the tactics of a Front Populaire
should be carried out.
Thorez, the leader of the
French Communist Party, added that a revolution does not occur automatically,
but must be organized. We are determined, he said, to follow the example of the
Russian Bolshevists. We are ... in favour of the Soviets.
The French Communist Party
has proved itself worthy of the praise which Dimitroff accorded it. Its
membership increased from 87,000 in January to 100,000 in March, to 187,000 in
June and to over’ 225,000 in August, 1936. During the same period the number of
military youth organizations was quadrupled. The number of votes increased from
790,000 to 1,500,000, a third of which were recorded in greater Paris alone.
The number of Communist members in the French Chamber increased from 10 to 73.
The circulation of the newspaper „Humanité“ rose from 154,000 in 1933 to 750,000
for a time in 1936. During the electoral campaign for membership in the Chamber,
in 1936, 27 million pamphlets were distributed by the Communist propaganda
headquarters. After their affiliation with the Communist Front Populaire, the
trade unions increased in membership from 800,000 in May of this year to
4,300,000 in August.
France is also proceeding
to follow the example of the Spanish Front Populaire. Dimitroff’s „Trojan horse“
stands within the walls of Paris.
But nothing provides us
with a better object lesson, nothing could convince us more thoroughly of the
seriousness of the decisions of the Seventh World Congress, than the sanguinary
and appalling events in Spain. They represent the literal carrying out of the
directions given at that time. They are practically the realization of the
„Front Populaire“ plan, which has attained only its preliminary stage in
France, but has reached its highest point of development in Spain. Dimitroff had
announced the plan of action under a Front Populaire government when he said
that the exercise of the powers of a government of this kind was to be utilized
to prepare the masses for the revolution, and that they should arm themselves
for the Socialist revolution, because Soviet power alone could provide
salvation.
The Spanish delegate,
Ventura, announced that the exact programme was as follows: „The Spanish
proletariat and our party. .. will overthrow Fascism and the power of the
bourgeois and the owners of the large estates once and for all, and bring about
the triumph of the workers’ - and peasants’ revolution ... Under the banner of
Lenin and Stalin, we are proudly marching towards victory.“
Before the murder of the
monarchist leader Calvo Sotelo, which took place on July 13, 269 lives had
already been sacrificed to the murderous Communist pest. The French journalist
Arminjon reported, for example, that in Murcia the mob seized upon two young men
who had been said to be Fascists. They were maltreated on the street, and
finally a woman seized a butcher’s hatchet and beheaded them both. This occurred
on March 16, and the names of the two men were Pedro Cutillas and Antonio
Martinez.
The Press throughout the
world had finally to. print reports of the inhuman horrors perpetrated by the
Spanish Marxists at the command of their foreign instigators. It is impossible
to give even approximate figures approaching the actual facts. On August 19, the
following facts were made public, derived from an official source: in the city
of Madrid and in its suburbs, up to the present more than 6,000 people were
murdered by the Reds, 1,400 alone in the famous park Casa del Campo. In the
largest prison, the Carcel Modelo, there were at that time 3,000 prisoners, and
1,146 in San Antonio, the total for Madrid being 6,000. I have in front of me a
report by an eye-witness, the German Heinrichs, whose house overlooked the Casa
del Campo, and here quite different figures are given. This eye-witness reports
that up till August 30, he himself had seen about 6,000 people shot. He also
reports that on other squares in the city, in the streets and in the houses,
20,000 more were murdered.
Other eye-witnesses, some
of whom were forced to witness the Bolshevist murders from within the prisons,
give reports of hundreds of murders daily. A young foreigner saw with his own
eyes how in the night of August 20, about 200 prison officials in the Carcel
Modelo were murdered, and how, on the next day, 250 members of the Fascist
organizations were shot in the courtyard of the barracks. On August 15 he saw a
convoy of 250 prisoners arriving in Madrid from Almeria handed over to the Red
militia by the police escort. The latter lined up 240 of them and shot them on
the spot then and there. They escorted only 10 of them to the prison, so as to
have carried out their „duty“. A little later the Fascist leaders, Ruiz de Alda,
Fernando Primo de Rivera, Cuesta and Valdes, were murdered.
The whole German nation
mourns for the seven Germans who died a horrible death as victims of the
murderous Red crew. On their way to the Recreation Congress in Hamburg, four
Germans, named Caetje, Dato, Hofmeister and Treiz, who were also members of the
National Socialist Party, were murdered by a group of Bolshevists. After a long
„trial“, two of them were led behind a factory, and the other two were placed
against a wall a little way off and the four of them were shot. It was
afterwards ascertained that the criminals had performed their bloody work with
small shot. Hofmeister and Treiz were so disfigured that they could only be
recognized with difficulty by the shape of their faces. Many other Germans were
injured or suffered damage to their property. The National Socialist, Hans
Hahner, was murdered on the way to his work at the Red Cross station. His house
was plundered and his wife left destitute.
Not only in Madrid, but
throughout the whole country, there were constant further reports of the
horrible doings of the Reds. According to the „Diario de Noticias“ of Lisbon,
187 people were murdered in Llora del Rio, and 250 in Constantina.
According to the German
paper „Germania“, in Cartagena 600 officers and soldiers were thrown into the
sea with stones tied round their necks. According to the „Seculo“, in the
monastery of Baena 180 persons were executed by the Communists with choppers and
razors, among them the priest of Santa Maria Mayor, and also women and children.
The women’s bodies were ripped open. The „Seculo“ also referred to a report by
two peasants from Malaga of the murder of more than 400 persons, who were thrown
into the wells with weights tied to their feet, or bound to the tails of horses
and dragged through the streets. According to „Die Front“ of Zurich, the Italian
consular agent Solaverani reported that a girl of 16 fired the first shot at a
prisoner. The „Journal de Genève“ reported that in Rosal de la Frontera the
Communists locked 40 people in the church and set fire to it, so that they were
burnt to death. According to „The Times“, 400 inhabitants were murdered in
Runda, about 200 of them being thrown into the Tagus. According to the „Evening
Standard“, 51 hostages were shot in San Sebastian on August 14. Again according
to the „Seculo“, in Almendralago General Franco’s troups [sic - WRF] found the
corpses of prisoners, crucified head downwards on the prison walls. The „Seculo“
reported further that 80 persons were burnt alive. According to the „Daily
Mail“, in Cartagena 50 members of the civil guard were bound neck to neck, and
beaten with iron bars and thrown into the sea from the Red prison ship „Sil“,
The same paper stated that the special correspondent of „Le Journal“, Emile
Condroyer, had reported from EI Arahal that the Reds shut up 30 men, women and
children in prison, poured petroleum in through the window and threw’ in lighted
matches.
The details which reach us
of the murdering of priests and violating of nuns are inconceivable. The
following are a few examples. The „Journal de Genève“ reported that the Arch
bishop of Tarragona and the Bishop of Lerida were murdered. According to the
„Matin“, the American, Henry Harris, reported that he himself witnessed in
prison the murder of 150 members of religious orders. According to the „Journal
de Genève“, the Catholic workers’ leader, Don Dimas Madariaga, was murdered in
Piedralvez. The German Hein Hausmann reported that in Tarragona eight priests
were shot, and a monk trampled on and finally shot. Cases are constantly being
reported of priests being beheaded and their heads being dragged through the
streets. The „Germania“ reported that in Valencia whole rows of nuns were shot,
and their bodies burnt. The priests of Adrero, Las Casas and Torres were killed
in the most horrible fashion. The list could be continued indefinitely. Children
often took part in the shootings. Thus, according to the „Diario de la Marina“,
Raffael Oriol of La Habana reported that in Barcelona he had seen many groups of
boys under 15 among the murderers.
Irreplaceable works of art
were destroyed and the intellectual elite of the country was exterminated.
According to the London „Daily Mail“, the Nobel prize-winner Bonavente, the
well-known dramatist Alvares Quintero and the painter Zuloaga have been
executed. Professor Walter W. S. Cook reports that in Barcelona alone St. Anne’s
Cathedral and all other churches, with one exception, have been burned down. The
famous altar wings by Vermejo dating from the 15th century have been destroyed
and the 15th century Church of Santa Maria del Mar reduced to a heap of ruins.
All that remains of the 9th century Church of San Pedro de las Puellas is the
walls. The famous monasteries in Barcelona and the Palace of the Archbishop have
been completely destroyed.
That is the real face of
Bolshevist atheism which has the effrontery to state its readiness to co-operate
with the Churches in other countries. The fact. that the bodies of nuns were
torn from their coffins in Barcelona is a symbol of the desecration of all that
is holy by Bolshevism. When Andres 1 in, one of the principal agitators in Spain
and formerly secretary to the Bolshevist Tomsky, states, that they have solved
the church problem by leaving not a single church standing, we must state that
this is the incarnation of godlessness. That is the real face of Bolshevism!
In Spain, as in Russia of
1917, and in all other countries, it is the unpatriotic and Jewish wire-pullers
who cause and lead Bolshevist revolts. If they are non-Jews, they have
completely lost their feeling of patriotism.
Now who is to blame,
theoretically and practically, for everything that is happening in Spain? All
these events represent nothing else than the execution of the resolutions
adopted in Moscow. The Bolshevist Jew, Bela Kun , the „Murderer of Hungary“,
Neumann, who in Spain, calls himself Enrique Fischer Neumann, Kolzow-Ginsburg,
posing as the correspondent of the Moscow „Prawda“, and, finally, the red
League of Nations diplomat and Jew, Rosenberg, were sent to Spain to carry them
out.
They ‘are the leaders of
all Soviet Russian terrorists who carry out their sanguinary work in Spain
provided with forged passports which, strange to say, are mostly of French
origin.
Nothing is more
characteristic of Moscow’s responsibility than the well-laid plan to make the
civil war started by Bolshevism in Spain develop into an international conflict.
The Jew Schwernik, the president of the Soviet Russian trade unions, frankly
admitted the intention to intervene when he said, according to the „Iswestia“,
that the Central Committee... summons all workers and the masses in the Soviet
Union to provide material assistance for the Spanish fighters who are defending
the democratic republic by force of arms.
The „Iswestia“ itself
states that the First Secretary of the Central Council of the Soviet Russian
trade union associations has remitted the sum of 12 million roubles, which is
equal to 36 million francs, to the Spanish Bolshevists. According to the Berlin
„B6rsenzeitung“, the President of the Spanish State, Azana, thanked the Soviet
Jew Kolzow-Ginsburg in the following words: „Please convey to the Soviet people
that we have been profoundly touched by their sympathy and stirring assistance.
It was always clear to me that there must always be a community of interests
between the great Soviet Democracy and the Spanish Democracy.’)
Moscow attempts [sic - WRF]
by means of its Comintern sections to induce even foreign governments to
intervene on behalf of the Reds in Spain. The French Right press constantly
reports the delivery of French aircraft and French war material to Madrid.
Money is collected by the
Moscow Red Aid in every country without any disguise in order to help the
Bolshevists in Spain. Jouhaux , the Secretary General of the French Front
Populaire trade union, the agent André Malraux and others maintain connection
between the French and Spanish Marxists. According to the „Prawda“, the Spanish
Premier Giral thanked Kolzow-Ginsburg for the „brilliant initiative of French
organizations and persons who are energetically supporting the Spanish
Government in its struggle“. making special mention of Jouhaux, Malraux and the
Jew J. B. Bloch , and concluding with renewed thanks to the „fraternal Soviet
people“. How does the Front Populaire government in Spain come to thank a Soviet
.Jew for the support of French Communists? It proves that the ringleaders of the
French Communist party, like those of the same party in Spain, live in Moscow.
There is proof that the
unheard-of acts of cruelty in Spain were instigated and committed by agents of
the Comintern. There is proof that Soviet Russia provides the Spanish
Bolshevists with financial. political and practical assistance. There is proof
that the last Comintern Congress in Moscow intended to introduce Bolshevism in
theory and practice into Spain and that Moscow is now endeavouring to carry out
this plan. Moscow’s undiminished and even in creased determination to bring
about a world revolution is illustrated by the example of Spain. Anyone who does
not realize this now cannot complain about the consequences.
That is Bolshevism in
theory and practice, an infernal world pestilence which must be eradicated and
which it is the duty of everyone, conscious of his responsibilities, to assist
in removing. It is not merely oratory when we Germans appeal to all the nations
of the world to combine in order to meet this menace if they do not wish to be
drawn into the whirlpool of a terrible and incalculable fate.
Germany has given the
signal for this world struggle. W Po National Socialists, as the originators of
this struggle, have for fourteen years been the opponents who fought against
Bolshevism of every variety and hue; we did that under governments which were
typically middle-class in character and had no idea of the effects of Bolshevism
and who, therefore, hindered us every time we wished to strike a decisive blow.
It seems almost like a miracle to-day that we succeeded, nevertheless, in
defeating Bolshevism in Germany. It is also perhaps a miracle to be attributed
to a supernatural power which did not wish to allow nations and civilizations,
thousands of years old, to be destroyed by the nihilistic will of inter
national Bolshevistic Jewry.
We were able to overcome
Bolshevism because we were able to counter it with a better ideal and a stronger
faith, because the nation rose with us against Jewry and the racially inferior
underworld connected with it, because we advocated a „Weltanschauung“ which, in
contrast to that of Bolshevism, is fine, noble and idealistic, because in our
struggle we were supported by the people themselves, and not, like the
middle-class parties, by those with possessions and culture, because we combined
the attractive force of our ideas with the strong faith and political fervour of
a newly awakened nation, and because we had a Führer who pointed out the way
from the darkest hour of our national life to the clear, bright, pure light of a
better future.
It is the historical [sic -
WRF] service rendered by the Führer, which the whole world already recognizes,
that he barred the way to the onset of Bolshevism on Germany’s eastern
frontiers, and thus assumed the role of Europe’s spiritual pioneer in its
struggle with the subversive forces of destruction and anarchy. A true knight,
without fear or reproach, he seized the banner of culture, humanity and
civilization in his strong hands and carried it proudly against the menace and
onset of the world revolution. He has taught us to despise fear and love the
things that are worthy of veneration, and thus restored our respect for our old
national ideals and virtues.
That ought to be a signal
for the whole world. We have proved under the most unfavourable circumstances
that Bolshevism can be overcome if one wishes to do so, if one uses the proper
means and if one is determined to oppose the powers of destruction with all
one’s strength and all one’s manly courage. The German People have thereby
become happier, and this will happen to all nations who will have the good
fortune to produce men who dare to take up this challenge. The scales would fall
from their eyes and they would see the whole evil cunning of Jewry and. thus
realize that once it has been recognized and seen through, it is neither clever
nor dangerous.
May the world follow
Germany’s example. Of course National Socialism is not suitable for export, and
other nations shall not be persuaded or even forced to adopt its methods. Yet it
may prove instructive, and its methods of procedure may stimulate other nations
to adopt the same course and thus evade a terrible crisis. May they do so before
it is too late, for the danger is approaching everywhere.
But we German National
Socialists are proud that we have already solved this problem not only for
Germany but also for the rest of Europe. Adolph Hitler, as the leader of this
German struggle, has at the same time become the best European. He has shown
this tortured continent how to overcome the worst crisis that has ever
threatened it, and thus given the nations of Europe an opportunity of learning
from Germany and acting accordingly. For the Red enemy of civilization is at
work in every country. The whole world is in danger. Therefore there must be no
more vacillation. We must be ready to meet the danger at the decisive hour. The
Red Menace threatens us from the East, but the Führer is on the watch. Germany,
as the outpost of European civilization, is ready and determined to ward off
this danger from her frontiers with all the means at her disposal.
We have burned out the
Bolshevist pest in Germany, and there is not a trace of it left in the country.
It will also no longer find any opportunity of raising its head again in any way
or at any time. The last sparks of this smouldering fire have been trampled
upon. The former leaders and initiators of this pest in Germany have either left
the country or been taken into safe custody; but most of their former followers
and adherents have long. been absorbed in the new great German national
community. Regardless of how Moscow might attempt to set Bolshevism going again
in Germany, such an attempt would be opposed with a ruthlessness that would
astonish even Moscow. There is no one and nothing that could restrain us in such
a case. The German nation wishes and demands that we should act thus. The people
are happy in the enjoyment of their new internal peace, and by no means inclined
to allow it to be disturbed anywhere, at any time or by anyone. The Party, as
the agency for combating Bolshevism, watches over the safety of the State and
protects the people and the nation within the country, while the Army, as the
incorporation of our national determination to resist and defend ourselves,
protects the frontiers of Germany. These are the bulwarks of our safety, the
supports of the people and the State. The nation can feel secure under their
powerful protection.
Meanwhile the Red
anarchists in Moscow are arming in feverish haste. Their armaments are meant for
aggressive purposes, for every Red regiment is imbued with the idea of world
revolution. Every Red aeroplane and every Red gun is constructed for the purpose
of spreading chaos throughout Europe.
We are unable to influence
or affect what other peoples are doing to ward off this danger. We cannot force
them to make sensible and suitable preparations. But what we do is not
determined by paying futile and careless regard to the League of Nations nor to
the more or less short-sighted sympathy with the Soviet idea in other countries,
nor yet by vague and unsubstantial attempts to promote collective security,
attempts which entangle Europe in a network of incalculable responsibilities.
What we do is determined by our duty and our conscience and the feeling of
responsibility towards Germany and Europe. The Red Kremlin, by extending the
period of military service, has considerably increased the effective strength of
the Bolshevist army. The Führer has not left this challenge unanswered. By
introducing a period of two years’ military service he has again provided
Germany with the security necessary to protect us from Red anarchy.
Even if other States and
governments may thoughtlessly attempt to make little of the danger by which we
are all menaced from Moscow, we do not allow ourselves to be misled; we pay
little attention to what the Moscow Jews are saying - the important thing for us
is what they do. We have seen through them, and counter every move they make
with absolute precision and logicality.
But the
German People can now once more carryon their work reassured and in peace. The
Reich is safeguarded and protected; the Red onset from the East will be checked
by the bulwarks of National Socialism. But above the nation stands the Führer as
the faithful Paladin of his people, well tried in need and danger, and inspired
solely by the fanatical determination to make Germany once more proud, rich and
happy. The Party watches over our safety at home and the Army over our safety on
the frontiers. But both obey with joy and determination the orders of the one
man who stands before us as the outpost of his own people and the pioneer of a
better, sincerer, nobler and happier Europe.
