Wednesday 30 August 2023

Artworks by Fritz Klimsch - Part I

     

Vier Marmorfiguren für das Treppenhaus im Propagandaministerium

Four marble statues for the Ministry of Propaganda (Berlin) 

 

 

Die Schauende (Schwimmbad der Arbeiter und Angestellten des I. G.-Farbenwerkesin Leverkusen, Bronze)

The Look (Swimming pool for the workers and employees of I.G.-Farben, Leverkusen) 

 

Meine Tochter Margot

My daughter Margot 

 

 

Salome 

 

Ruhender Mann (Bronze)

Man at Rest (bronze)

Tuesday 22 August 2023

Die Deutsche Wochenschau – Newsreel No. 565 – 04 July 1941


 – German Troops Arrive in Finland;

 

– Fortress Kaunas Taken by German Troops;

 

– Swift Advance Toward Minsk;

 

– Two Soviet Armies Encircled near Bialystok;

 

– Soviet Citadel of Brest-Litovsk Captured;

 

– Bedraggled Soviet Prisoners shown.

Sunday 20 August 2023

SS Handbook for the Ideological Teaching of the Troops – Topic 3

 

We fight for the Eternity of our People

 

”Our National Socialist program uses the blood- related and ground-bound people in place of the liberalist concept of the individual and the Marxist concept of humanity. A very simple and succinct sentence, but of enormous impact. For the first time, perhaps, ever since there is a history of mankind, knowledge has been directed in this land to the fact that of all the tasks which are placed before us, the most honorable, and most sacred, to man is the preservation of the blood-blessed nature given by God.”

 

„Mein Kampf“

 

National Socialism brought Germany the rebirth after the decline in 1918. It rearranged German life according to our blood. The Fuhrer created the Reich and united in it all the tribes of German blood.

 

The racial science becomes the basis of the structure of people and the state out of the knowledge that all values and cultural achievements are bound to the genetic material. The doctrine of the equality of all people was opposed to racial doctrine.

 

The Volk

 

Our Volk has grown out of the forces of his blood, carried on through inheritance and read out by the conditions of the environment. For in the struggle for life prove only the most talented. They alone have the courage to pass on their life to many offspring, while the less affirmed fear the seriousness of the struggle for life, and hope that they are able to lighten their living conditions with a few children. As a result, their hereditary traits are gradually eliminated from the totality of the people. Thus, the existing genetic make-up of the natural stock of our Volk came about, which can be either maintained, improved or worsened by the continuation. We must always be aware of this God-given law of life and act accordingly, for our attitude is one of the determining factors in the form and character of our people.

 

We therefore demand respect for the hereditary values of our people.

 

We recognize the reservation of space as a necessary environment for this people.

 

We demand a Volkisch world view and knowledge of God, which we can understand from our national character. We demand a volkisch policy, a kind-appropriate law and economic order; an art that has grown and is supported by the family and the community; we want a language, our national character, and a history, which shows us the struggle for existence of the different tribes of our people.

 

The orientation of the people

 

Essential for the preservation or promotion of a certain racial shape is, in addition to the fundamental preservation of good genes, the creation of an environment favorable to this „race“. This can only be achieved if a conscious orientation of the national community is based on these laws (breeding goal) and the bearers of this community live accordingly.

 

The preservation of the people

 

„For the first time in this Reich it is possible for man to apply the gift of knowledge and insight given to him by the Almighty to those questions which are of greater importance for the preservation of his existence than any victorious wars or successful economic battles! The greatest revolution of National Socialism is to have opened the door to knowledge that all mistakes and errors of man are conditioned by time and thus can be improved, except for one thing: the error about the importance of preservation of his blood, of his kind and thus of the form given to him by God and of the being given to him by God.“

 

„Mein Kampf”

 

We know from the laws of life and history that peoples do not die out, but are born out, that is, only the people, who forget their task of passing on their lives to the generations to come, sink back into nothingness.

 

The People’s State

 

Neglect of the blood question is the cause of the downfall; Birth decline, dysgenics, race-mixing and birth defects are the pitfalls and causes for the change of an overall picture.

 

The eternal people

 

We fight for our wives and children and thus for the eternal life of our people, not only in the present great struggle, but always and everywhere. Therefore, we must work for a life order of our people, which ensures its eternal life also internally. This, however, can only be an order that preserves and promotes the good and precious blood, but oppresses and exalts the inferior and alien, an order that allows the clans of the people to grow in the soil of the home.

 

Fight against the inferior

 

Legal measures can lead to the elimination of unwanted, diseased genetic material. „Law on the Prevention of Diseased offspring.“ Furthermore, it is possible to keep them away from reproduction through preventive detention of habitual criminals. The „Nuremberg Laws” for the protection of German blood and honor are the guarantor that foreign blood interference does not shift the overall character of the people’s hereditary traits.

 

„The demand that defective people be made impossible for the generation of other equally defective people is a demand of the clearest reason and in its planned implementation means the most human act of humanity.

 

It will spare millions of unfortunate undeserved suffering, but subsequently lead to a rising recovery.“

 

„Mein Kampf”

 

To promote good genetic material

 

In addition to measures to eliminate unwanted inherited genetic laws for the promotion of good genetic material of the direct propagation of good genes are used. The „marriage health law“ for the protection of the hereditary health of the German people prevents the mixing of good hereditary dispositions with unwanted ones. The „betrothal and marriage order” not only allows the timely education for the examination of the spouse, but in the same way prevents the spread of unwanted genetic material. The „Maternity Protection Act“ serves to secure the expectant mother and the undisturbed care of the infant. What does the term breed mean? The breeding thought was something natural for our ancestors. Family or clan chiefs ensured the preservation of the best and most capable of both sexes. The legal measures promoting or preventing them alone are not enough to sustain a people in the same way forever.

 

Spouse choice

 

Each marriage of a family member means taking up a new genetic material in the clan association. Therefore, the choice of a spouse is not only of decisive importance for the immediate participants, but also for their descendants.

 

The choice of a woman gives the husband the only possibility in life to improve or spoil the genotype of the future race. Health or illness, aptitude or incompetence of offspring are decided by the choice of spouses. In this decisive step, not position and wealth, but only mental and physical efficiency, must prevail. It is clear that the one who has the certainty that he is the bearer of ominous heredity must renounce it.

 

The choice of spouses is the most important step in the life course and for the passing on of life. Therefore, it is necessary that all questions in this decision be taken with all sharpness possible.

 

Summary of our demands

 

Keep your health good and, as long as you are in the developmental stages, be abstemious in terms of pleasure poisons (alcohol, nicotine) and sexual activity. (The Nordic man in general generally does not reach maturity until late.)

 

Wedding as early as possible. Only then will you fully enjoy the family happiness.

 

Do not marry a stranger. You are responsible to your people and your descendants for the purity of the blood.

 

Do not marry a wife with genetic conditions. Otherwise you are to blame for the suffering of your own children and grandchildren. Choose only a perfectly healthy woman. The true picture of your future wife’s condition and health will be shown by her clan.

 

Your wife should be at least as full of zeal as you are. Make your and your children’s environment as natural as possible.

 

Avoid kinship because unfavorable genetic traits are almost always hidden from you and then develop twice in your children. Only the largest possible number of children guarantees the development of your genome. Especially the most famous men often come from large families.

 

Biological work must be performed to fulfill the duties of a professional. Only both together make the life achievement. Remember that nature demands the struggle for the precious. It is not easy to satisfy the conditions of selection. Only what you get in a hard fight makes you truly happy. First and foremost is the preservation and promotion of our people and their people. This task is our life and struggle.

 

„National Socialism has no starting point for its reflections, statements and decisions, either in the individual or in humanity. It consciously puts into the center of his whole thinking the people.“

 

„The great cultural achievements of men were at all times the highest achievements of the community life of the people, the race; they are therefore in their creation and in their image the expression of the communal soul and ideals.“

 

„Mein Kampf“

 

The Higher Development of our People

 

Life-law thinking recognizes the development in nature. This obliges us to strive for a higher development of our people. But the most important fundamental law for the order of life of our people is that what is ethical is the preservation of the German people’s preservation of their species. It is immoral what is worthy of the preservation of the German people.

 

Publisher: The Reichsfuhrer-SS, SS-Hauptamt. N / 0921

Thursday 17 August 2023

To the German Motor-Vehicle Drivers – Speech by Reichsminister Rudolf Hess


Speech to the entire leadership of the National Socialist Motor-Vehicle Driver Corps (NSKK) on the occasion of the general roll-call of the Motor Brigade Berlin on January 16,1936 in the Deutschlandhalle.

 

NSKK-men! German motor-vehicle drivers!

 

At the start of the new year, you have assembled for rollcall! At the start of a year, which will certainly again bring effort and cares like the previous one. But also - this is our well-founded hope - again new successes.

 

How happy can we be that Germany, unlike once before the rise to power, does not have to look at the coming year with the conviction that all work and all effort will be in vain, that the downslide continues apparently unstoppable, more and more to the bitter end!

 

What everyone who loves his folk suffered back then, only we know ourselves.

 

We cannot, therefore, reproach foreigners, if they do not comprehend what has happened with us and continues to happen - if even the well-meaning people get their view blurred by the dust, which the great cleansing process in Germany has stirred up, if they allow themselves to be influenced by the shouting of people who have felt the broom!

 

We do not reproach them, rather we call to them: If you had gone through, what we have gone through - if you had to look on as in your land Jewish Bolsheviks dragged through the mud everything, which is sacred to you - if you had to look on as one allowed your nation to be disarmed and it was surrendered to the despotism of your enemies - if you had to experience how the folk’s property was sold off by international swindlers, the decent folk comrade dispossessed through inflation, how hunger spread - if you had stood at the graves of those who had committed suicide out of desperation, stood at the coffins of those who were killed by communists, only because they loved their nation and this did not suit the Jewish-Bolshevik agitators: you would understand us!

 

If foreigners claim the individual’s freedom has been restricted by us, we can only reply: By us nobody complains about too little freedom except for those who want to misuse freedom.

 

For this is correct: the freedom to betray the land unpunished, deceive the folk unpunished, agitate folk comrade against folk comrade unpunished, preach murder unpunished, drive Germany into the arms of Bolshevism unpunished - this freedom has finally stopped!

 

Perhaps understanding for this “limitation of freedom” will grow after the illustrated instruction, which Bolshevism has recently given to the world in South America.

 

But if foreign countries, despite everything, do not want to show us any understanding, we cannot change it: Foreign countries may become happy in their own way; we take the freedom to be happy in our way!

 

That our folk is happier than previously, that the manner to lead it corresponds to the will of the folk, has been proven by the great plebiscites, whose overwhelming results the defenders of the so-called democratic freedoms want so much to be forgotten.

 

No democracy in the world can support itself on such a unified will of the folk as Adolf Hitler 's Reich. And nobody can claim that the results of the plebiscites were achieved by pressure. That, too, we thank to the German Saarlanders, that a year ago they produced the proof to the world that, even under international supervision, a plebiscite ends with the same result as the rest of the plebiscites in Germany. This fact has not failed to make an impression on the decent people in other nations.

 

We see with you that the agreement between the decent people continues - despite all interests for agitation of the folks. Representatives of the front-fighters of England and France have exchanged visits with those of Germany.

 

Full of pride we can point out to visitors to our land what mighty achievements our folk has accomplished in three years of the National Socialist regime by its methods! Never would it have been possible under the liberal- democratic or even the Marxist-communist system to in such a short time make our folk free again and independent from the rest of the folks of the world - based on its own strength, based on weapons and on men who are able to use these weapons.

 

Never would have under the previous system in the same period millions again gained work and bread.

 

Previously, it would have been unthinkable that our folk could in addition to the greatest work effort in its history: the total armament, complete mighty works of peace, make the Führer’s globally unprecedented Autobahnen a reality, construct monumental buildings - huge halls like this Deutschlandhalle, which surrounds us -, and that the greatest sports field in the world would emerge.

 

Never could have under the old system in the area closest to you - the area of motorized vehicles - in a few years the previously considered impossible rise take place: Germany’s motorization in the grand style with simultaneous blossoming of previously heavily depressed industries.

 

In Germany mighty new factory works are under construction, which are supposed to enable it that as many folk comrades as possible participate in the cultural advances, and that hence likewise National Socialist work again will become effective in the equalization of the material needs of life. And additional new factory works are supposed to make us independent from the extortive attempts by the rest of the world to bring us to our knees through blockage of raw material import and to again deliver Germany to the blessings of overcome systems.

 

The preparation of these coming things and all previous successes would not have been possible without the joyful assistance of the entire folk and the subordination of the individual to higher interests,

 

And you, men of the NSKK, have - for a large part already before National Socialism became state principle - voluntarily integrated yourselves into an organization, which from the start only wanted to serve greater common interests and today serves the whole!

 

You are motor-vehicle driers, who by your own decision have subordinated yourselves to the compulsion of this organization amid renunciation of much personal freedom. The mass of NSKK-men takes up itself the often not easy service, in addition to its regular work, to always be ready for action to the last, if the interests of the whole demand it, for example help after major accidents.

In addition to the free time, which the NSKK-man sacrifices, he makes a material sacrifice, he wears out his vehicle. It is demanded of him that he be a good example, that he is more sacrificing, more courageous, that he maintains driver discipline better than any other German motor-vehicle driver. From him is expected that he nonetheless is not arrogant in bearing toward others, that he does not demand a privilege for himself at road checks and other occasions, when he comes into contact with state organs - in short, that he is a National Socialist through and through.

 

As a National Socialist he is even supposed to make a special sacrifice, a sacrifice, which precisely the good motorist senses: I have issued a decree that the motor-vehicle driving party comrade in general should reduce his speed so that tires and material are conserved as long as until we again have them in surplus. You can believe me that the issuance of this decree was not exactly easy for me; for I myself far prefer to drive 120 km/h than 80 to 90! Furthermore, the Führer here as everywhere sets a good example. - It is certain than just a 10% reduction in speed in the overall German motorization means millions in saved currency annually. It is National Socialistic, in realization of this, to make the sacrifice of a pleasure. For speeds over 100 km/h are primarily a pleasure and not so much a time saving, as each old driver among you knows, who has seen how little it affects the total travel time, if one pushes the vehicle to the extreme.

 

You should be a knighthood of the country road, but not bandit knights! A knighthood, which has exchanged the horse for the motor, but who should love your gas-burner no less than the knight his oats motor - who have an eye for the beautify of a modem mechanical construction like they earlier had an eye for the beauty of a noble animal. You should be grown together with it like the good rider is grown together with his steed.

 

The good driver proves that not the machine is master of the man, as often claimed, and as it easily has the appearance in the poor driver - rather that the machine is the willing servant of the man. It is the friend of man and, note well, of animal. One should remember just the suffering of man and animal, who in the past in winter had to make their way with a small wagon through frost and snow, for many hours exposed to the bad weather, and then put a motorized vehicle next to them, which covers the same stretch in a few minutes without a living being having to suffer!

 

No animal protection club has brought such a blessing to the horses as technology and the invention of the automobile.

 

You, German motor-vehicle drivers, who are united in the corps and in the club and National Socialist led, administer and care for this technological blessing for Germany. You are co-responsible for its development and its effect for the use of all folk comrades.

After me, the Corps Leader - party comrade Hühnlein - will present the special tasks of the NSKK. He will agree with me when I emphasize that the National Socialist motor-vehicle corps joyfully marches in the comradely community of National Socialist formation at the position, where the Führer has commanded it. Likewise, the corps stands in close comradeship with the armed forces. The presence of Senior General von Blomberg at this roll-call here expresses on the other side the same attitude of the armed forces to the NSKK as well to all the other branches of the movement. The diverse tasks, which the motorization places on the German motor-vehicle driver on both the military as well as the traffic-technical side, have as their basis and prerequisite the comradeship of the leadership and of the individuals. With joy we can ascertain the successes of the common work on this basis.

 

In terms of world-view united in National Socialism, the German motor-vehicle drivers stand united in the coming year before tasks, for whose fulfilment I, from this office, wish you strength and energy and the successes resulting from them!

 

I know, and this fills all of us with proud consciousness, that the National Socialist motor-vehicle drivers, too, together with the Führer’s whole following, at the end of the year 1936 will again be able to report to the Führer: Führer! We have done our duty!