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intelligence. By regulating my life according to the understanding
that is granted me, I may be mistaken, but I act in good faith. The
concrete image of the Beyond that religion forces on me does not
stand up to examination. Think of those who look down from on high
upon what happens on earth: what a martyrdom for them, to see human
beings indefatigably repeating the same gestures, and inevitably the
same errors!
In my view, H. S. Chamberlain was mistaken in regarding Christianity
as a reality upon the spiritual level.
Man judges everything in relation to himself. What is bigger than
himself is big, what is smaller is small. Only one thing is certain,
that one is part of the spectacle. Everyone finds his own role. Joy
exists for everybody. I dream of a state of affairs in which every
man would know that he lives and dies for the preservation of the
species. It's our duty to encourage that idea: let the man who
distinguishes himself in the service of the species be thought worthy
of the highest honours.
What a happy inspiration, to have kept the clergy out of the Party!
On the 2ist March 1933, at Potsdam, the question was raised: with the
Church, or without the Church? I conquered the State despite the
malediction pronounced on us by both creeds. On that day, we went
directly to the tomb of the kings whilst the others were visiting
religious services. Supposing that at that period I'd made a pact
with the Churches, I'd to-day be sharing the lot of the Duce. By
nature the Duce is a free- thinker, but he decided to choose the path
of concessions. For my part, in his place I'd have taken the path of
revolution. I'd have entered the Vatican and thrown everybody out—
reserving the right to apologise later: "Excuse me, it was a
mistake." But the result would have been, they'd have been outside!
When all is said, we have no reason to wish that the Italians and
Spaniards should free themselves from the drug of Christianity. Let's
be the only people who are immunised against the disease." [pages
143-145]
REDUCTIO AD HITLERUM AS IDEA #126 - 26 JANUARY 1942: "WOMEN IN
POLITICS—AMERICAN METHODS OF PRODUCTION— TOWARDS ANOTHER ECONOMIC CRASH.
I detest women who dabble in politics. And if their dabbling extends
to military matters, it becomes utterly unendurable.
In no local section of the Party has a woman ever had the right to
hold even the smallest post. It has therefore often been said that we
were a party of misogynists, who regarded a woman only as a machine
for making children, or else as a plaything. That's far from being
the case. I attached a lot of importance to women in the field of the
training of youth, and that of good works. In 1924 we had a sudden
upsurge of women who were attracted by politics: Frau von Treuenfels
and Matilde von Kemnitz. They wanted to join the Reichstag, in order
to raise the moral level of that body, so they said. I told them that
90 per cent of the matters dealt with by parliament were masculine
affairs, on which they could not have opinions of any value. They
rebelled against this point of view, but I shut their mouths by
saying: "You will not claim that you know men as I know women." A man
who shouts is not a handsome sight. But if it's a woman, it's
terribly shocking. The more she uses her lungs, the more strident her
voice becomes. There she is, ready to pull hair out, with all her
claws showing. In short, gallantry forbids one to give women an
opportunity of putting themselves in situations that do not suit
them. Everything that entails combat is exclusively men's business.
There are so many other fields in which one must rely upon women.
Organising a house, for example. Few men have Frau Troost's talent in
matters concerning interior decoration. There were four women whom I
give star roles: Frau Troost, Frau Wagner, Frau Scholtz-Klink and
Leni Riefenstahl.
The Americans are admirable at mass-production, when it's a question
of producing a single model repeated without variation in a great
number of copies. That's lucky for us, for their tanks are proving
unusable. We could wish them to build another sixty thousand this
year. I don't believe in miracles, and I'm convinced that when they
come along with their twenty-eight-tonners and sixty-tonners, the
smallest of our tanks will outclass them.
They have some people there who scent an economic crisis far
surpassing that of 1929. When one has no substitute product for
materials like copper, for example, one is soon at the end of one's
tether." [pages 251-252]
REDUCTIO AD HITLERUM AS IDEA #153 - 20 FEBRUARY 1942: "THE SPIRIT IN
PERIL—THE OBSERVATORY AT LINZ—THE FIGHT AGAINST FALSEHOOD,
SUPERSTITION AND INTOLERANCE—SCIENCE IS NOT DOGMATIC—THE WORKS OF
HÖRBIGER—PAVE THE WAY FOR MEN OF TALENT.
The biretta!
The mere sight of one of these abortions in cassocks makes me wild!
Man has been given his brain to think with. But if he has the
misfortune to make use of it, he finds a swarm of black bugs on his
heels. The mind is doomed to the auto-da-fé.
The observatory I'll have built at Linz, on the Pöstlingberg, I can
see it in my mind. A façade of quite classical purity. I'll have the
pagan temple razed to the ground, and the observatory will take its
place. Thus, in future, thousands of excursionists will make a
pilgrimage there every Sunday. They'll thus have access to the
greatness of our universe. The pediment will bear this motto: "The
heavens proclaim the glory of the everlasting". It will be our way of
giving men a religious spirit, of teaching them humility—but without
the priests.
Man seizes hold, here and there, of a few scraps of truth, but he
couldn't rule nature. He must know that, on the contrary, he is
dependent on Creation. And this attitude leads further than the
superstitions maintained by the Church. Christianity is the worst of
the regressions that mankind can ever have undergone, and it's the
Jew who, thanks to this diabolic invention, has thrown him back
fifteen centuries. The only thing that would be still worse would be
victory for the Jew through Bolshevism. If Bolshevism triumphed,
mankind would lose the gift of laughter and joy. It would become
merely a shapeless mass, doomed to greyness and despair.
The priests of antiquity were closer to nature, and they sought
modestly for the meaning of things. Instead of that, Christianity
promulgates its inconsistent dogmas and imposes them by force. Such a
religion carries within it intolerance and persecution. It's the
bloodiest conceivable. The building of my observatory will cost about
twelve millions. The great planetarium by itself is worth two
millions. Ptolemy's one is less expensive.
For Ptolemy, the earth was the centre of the world. That changed with
Copernicus. To-day we know that our solar system is merely a solar
system amongst many others. What could we do better than allow the
greatest possible number of people like us to become aware of these
marvels?
In any case, we can be grateful to Providence, which causes us to
live to-day rather than three hundred years ago. At every
street-corner, in those days, there was a blazing stake. What a debt
we owe to the men who had the courage—the first to do so—to rebel
against lies and intolerance. The admirable thing is that amongst
them were Jesuit Fathers.
In their fight against the Church, the Russians are purely negative.
We, on the other hand, should practise the cult of the heroes who
enabled humanity to pull itself out of the rut of error. Kepler lived
at Linz, and that's why I chose Linz as the place for our
observatory. His mother was accused of witch- craft and was tortured
several times by the Inquisition.
To open the eyes of simple people, there's no better method of
instruction than the picture. Put a small telescope in a village, and
you destroy a world of superstitions. One must destroy the priest's
argument that science is changeable because faith does not change,
since, when presented in this form, the statement is dishonest.
Of course, poverty of spirit is a precious safeguard for the Church.
The initiation of the people must be performed slowly. Instruction
can simplify reality, but it has not the right deliberately to
falsify it. What one teaches the lower level must not be invalidated
by what is said a stage higher. In any case, science must not take on
a dogmatic air, and it must always avoid running away when faced with
difficulties. The contra- dictions are only apparent. When they
exist, this is not the fault of science, but because men have not yet
carried their enquiry
far enough.
It was a great step forward, in the days of Ptolemy, to say that the
earth was a sphere and that the stars gravitated around it. Since
then there has been continual progress along the same path.
Copernicus first. Copernicus, in his turn, has been largely left
behind, and things will always be so. In our time, Hörbiger has made
another step forward.
The universities make me think of the direction of the Wehrmacht's
technical service. Our technicians pass by many discoveries, and when
by chance they again meet one they dis- regarded a few years before,
they take good care not to remind
anyone of their mistake.
At present, science claims that the moon is a projection into space
of a fragment of the earth, and that the earth is an emanation of the
sun. The real question is whether the earth came from the sun or
whether it has a tendency to approach it. For me there is no doubt
that the satellite planets are attracted by the planets, just as the
latter are themselves attracted by a fixed point, the sun. Since
there is no such thing as a vacuum, it is possible that the planets'
speed of rotation and movement may grow slower. Thus it is not
impossible, for example, that Mars may one day be a satellite of the
Earth.
Hörbiger considers a point of detail in all this. He declares that
the element which we call water is in reality merely melted ice
(instead of ice's being frozen water) : what is found in the universe
is ice, and not water. This theory amounted to a revolution, and
everybody rebelled against Hörbiger.
Science has a lot of difficulty in imposing its views, because it is
constantly grappling with the spirit of routine. The fact is, men do
not wish to know. In the last few years, the situation of science has
improved.
It's a piece of luck when men are found at the head of a State who
are inclined to favour bold researches—for these latter are rarely
supported and encouraged by official science.
There's no greater privilege, in my view, than to play the part of a
patron of the arts or the sciences. Men would certainly have regarded
it as a vast honour to be allowed to encourage the career of a man
like Richard Wagner. Well, it's already a great deal gained that
people like him are no longer burned alive! One sometimes hears it
regretted that our period does not provide geniuses of the same
stature as those of bygone times. That's a mistake. These geniuses
exist; it would be enough to encourage them. For my part, when I know
that a scientist wishes to devote himself to new researches, I help
him. I shall not cease to think that the most precious possession a
country can have is its great men. If I think of Bismarck, I realise
that only those who have lived through 1918 could fully appreciate
his worth. One sees by such examples how much it would mean if we
could make the road smooth for men of talent.
It's only in the realm of music that I can find no satisfaction. The
same thing is happening to music as is happening to beauty in a world
dominated by the shavelings—the Christian religion is an enemy to
beauty. The Jew has brought off the same trick upon music. He has
created a new inversion of values and replaced the loveliness of
music by noises. Surely the Athenian, when he entered the Parthenon
to contemplate the image of Zeus, must have had another impression
than the Christian who must resign himself to contemplating the
grimacing face of a man crucified.
Since my fourteenth year I have felt liberated from the superstition
that the priests used to teach. Apart from a few Holy Joes, I can say
that none of my comrades went on *BELIEVING* *IN* *THE* *MIRACLE*
*OF* *THE* *EUCHARIST*.
The only difference between then and now is that in those days I was
convinced one must blow up the whole show with dynamite." [Page 322-325] >>>
REDUCTIO AD HITLERUM AS IDEA #227 - 29? MAY 1942: "LOLA MONTEZ AND
LUDWIG I OF BAVARIA—HOSTILITY OF THE CHURCH—PERSONALITY OF LUDWIG
I—RESPECT FOR RACIAL CHARACTERISTICS.
On a proposal by Dr. Göbbels to produce a film of LOLA MONTEZ. I
welcome the idea, but you must take care that neither the fate of
this woman nor the personality of King Ludwig I of Bavaria is in any
way distorted.
Lola Montez had nothing in common with the dancers of our times,
strip-tease artists, but was a woman of exceptional intelligence with
wide experience of the world. She was, too, a woman of character, as
is shown by the way she resisted the Catholic Church and, in spite of
enormous pressure, refused to kow-tow to it.
As regards the personality of Ludwig I, you must be careful, too, not
to portray him as first and foremost a "skirt-chaser"
(Schürzenjäger). He was in every sense a great man, and was the
finest architect of his time in Europe. The idea and execution of the
Valhalla Building alone show him to have been a monarch whose vision
stretched far beyond the confines of his own petty State and embraced
the whole pan-German panorama. Apart from that, we have to thank him
for having given, in the city of Munich, a magnificent art centre to
the German
nation.
That he is nevertheless one of the most controversial figures among
the Kings of Bavaria is attributable to the fact that the Church
never ceased to harry him. The attacks of the latter on Lola Montez
were only a pretext, and it was in reality the strong liberal
tendencies of the King at which the attacks were aimed.
You must not, therefore, represent Ludwig I as a King of the Viennese
charm school, something after the style of Paul Hörbiger, but rather
as a worthy monarch, and I think Kayssler is the best man for the role.
While respecting their racial characteristics, I have, in the
interests of the Reich, divided my Austrian homeland into a series of
Alpine and Danubian provinces. I have decided to act in the same way
as regards other portions of the Reich. I shall not, for example,
permit that West Friesland continue to form part of Holland, for
these West Frieslanders are of exactly the same race as the people of
East Friesland and must, therefore, be united with them within a
single Province.” [pages 505-506]
REDUCTIO AD HITLERUM AS IDEA #277 - 4 AUGUST 1942: "MEMORIES OF THE
FIRST WAR—THE LACE WORKERS OF BELGIUM— YPRES AND LÜBECK.
When we went into the line in 1916, to the south of Bapaume, the heat
was intolerable. As we marched through the streets, there was not a
house, not a tree to be seen; everything had been destroyed, and even
the grass had been burnt. It was a veritable wilderness.
In the present campaign I got my greatest surprise when I revisited
Arras. In the old days it was just a mound of earth. And now— —!
Fields filled with blossom and waving corn, while on Vimy Ridge the
scars are much as they were, shell- holes and all. I believe it is
much the same in the Champagne.
The soldier has a boundless affection for the ground on which he has
shed his blood. If we could arrange the transport, we should have a
million people pouring into France to revisit the scenes of their
former struggle.
Marching along the roads was a misery for us poor old infantrymen;
again and again we were driven off the road by the bloody gunners,
and again and again we had to dive into the swamps to save our skins!
All the thanks we got was a torrent of curses—"Bloody So-and-Sos" was
the mildest expression hurled at us.
My first impression of Ypres was—towers, so near that I could all but
touch them. But the little infantryman in his hole in the ground has
a very small field of vision.
I shall send our people who have been given the task of rebuilding
Lübeck to Ypres before they start work. Fifty different shades of
tiles, from salmon-pink, through gold to deep violet! The new Ypres
is a city out of fairyland!
In those days the girls making lace always sat working out- side the
houses, surrounded, of course, by a horde of soldiery. But at least
they were able to buy and send home genuine Flemish lace and the
embroidery of Brabant.
If a soldier in France buys chocolate or a pair of stockings for his
wife, I agree absolutely with the Reichsmarshall; we did not start
the war, and if the French population have got nothing, what the
blazes does it matter to us!
I wish to goodness we could buy something here. But here there is
nothing but mud.” [pages 609-610]
REDUCTIO AD HITLERUM AS IDEA #303 - 28 AUGUST 1942:
"SKY-SCRAPERS—THEIR VULNERABILITY TO AIR ATTACK—ANTI- AIRCRAFT
DEFENCE—NEW ARTILLERY WEAPONS—LEARNING WHILE FACING THE ENEMY.
Some German towns must be protected at all costs—Weimar, Nuremberg,
Stuttgart. Factories can always be rebuilt, but works of art are
irreplaceable.
Multi-storeyed houses are reasonably safe against a direct hit from a
bomb, but not against the subsequent blast. A small breeze is enough
to make a sky-scraper sway as much as from forty to eighty
centimetres. The depth of the foundations of some sky-scrapers in New
York is as much as seventy metres, and the driving of the cement
foundation demands a pressure of six or eight thousand
hundredweights. An air raid, such as those against London, would have
a devastating effect on New York. It would be physically impossible
to clear the débris, and it is not possible to build air-raid shelters. >>>
In America, the capitalist conception, based on the gold standard,
leads to many absurdities.
If this war continues for ten years, aircraft will all be flying at a
height of forty thousand feet, and ocean-going traffic will all be
submarine, and the world at large will be free to lead a pleasant
existence. Fights will take place, but they will not be visible;
Britain will lie in ruins; in Germany every man and every woman will
belong to an anti-aircraft crew. With an annual production of six
thousand anti-aircraft guns, every little village in Germany will
soon have its own battery and its own searchlight section, and the
whole Reich will be one single, integrated defence unit. Blinded by
the reflection of mirrors, the enemy pilots will be able to see
nothing; if a mirror is placed at each corner of a five-hundred-metre
square, the desired effect will be obtained. I wonder what people
would have thought if I had spoken of figures of this kind before the
war!
The Navy has the most efficient anti-aircraft defences. I have seen
them, and the shooting was magnificent. Thirteen hits for every
hundred shots! This is attributable principally to the fact that the
Navy is taught to shoot accurately from continuously moving
platforms. As a result, their total of 'planes shot down is colossal.
The best A.A. gun is the 8'8. The 10*5 has the disadvantage that it
consumes too much ammunition, and the life of the barrel is very
short. Reichsmarschall Goring is most anxious to continue producing
the 12*8. This double- barrelled i2'8 has a fantastic appearance.
When one examines the 8'8 with the eye of a technician, one realises
that it is the most beautiful weapon yet fashioned, with the
exception of the
12-8.
With a new type of weapon, much often depends on the hands into which
it is first delivered. If it comes first into clumsy, incapable
hands, we are very liable to write it off. We had that experience,
nearly, with the '34 machine gun. One must never condemn a weapon
because one has not got the hang of how to use it. The '34 machine
gun fired consistently, even in the greatest cold, as soon as we
found the right lubricating oil for it.
The grenade-throwers issued to the Engineers, which were completely
noiseless, were rejected time after time for one reason after
another; and I must say that, every time I poked my nose into a
report on the subject, the reasons given for rejection seemed to me
to be, to say the least of it, very thin.
If one restricts instruction to the essentials, one can teach a
soldier all he requires to know for all practical purposes in three
months. The rest he will learn gradually, with experience. Under war
conditions, a soldier learns more in three months than he learns in a
year in peace-time. Instruction acquired in the face of the enemy
cannot be bettered." [pages 669-670]
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION SEE: "APPENDIX #369 - TRANSCRIPT OF VCAT 500
/ 2000 HEARING DATED 7 DECEMBER 2001 CONVEYING MISREPRESENTED
TELEPHONE CALLS AS SERIOUS MATTER REPORTED TO POLICE"
<http://www.grapple369.com/Groundwork/Appendix%20369%20-%20VCAT%20Extraordinary%20Directions%20Hearing%20Transcript.pdf>
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION SEE: "APPENDIX #425 - COGITO ARRAY / TEMPORAL
/ INFUSED IDEA ASSOCIATIONS FOR MISREPRESENTED TELEPHONE CALLS BY
INSURER'S CHIEF LEGAL COUNSEL AT VCAT 500 / 2000 HEARING DATED 7
DECEMBER 2001"
<http://www.grapple369.com/Groundwork/Appendix%20425%20-%20Telephone%20Cognito%20Ideas.pdf>
FOR COMPARATIVE APPROACH SEE: "APPENDIX #911 - TEMPORAL HEURISTIC /
INFUSED IDEAS IN DISTRESSED TELEPHONE CALL @ 0947 HRS ON 11 SEPTEMBER
2001 FROM HIJACKED AIRPLANE PRIOR TO WORLD TRADE CENTRE CRASH"
<http://www.grapple369.com/Groundwork/Appendix%20911%20-%20Telephone%20On%20Hijacked%20Plane.pdf>
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