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The Führer Supported a Jewish State, but Why?
Transcribed by Emma directly from Otto Wagener’s memoirs entitled Hitler: Memoirs of a Confidant (see Chps. 28, p. 165-174 & 30, p. 185-192).
“[N]owadays one cannot simply expel Jewry from a large nation. … Where should they go? Others are not eager to take them in, either.
The British idea of establishing a Jewish state seems to have a great deal to recommend it. But whether Palestine is the right country in the first place and whether, in the second place, it is large enough to absorb ten to fifteen million Jews—that is still a major question.
But there will not be ten to fifteen million all at once. The United States, for example, will not go along, that is certain. After all, the Jews in America have already seized almost all the key positions. They have achieved dominance and dominion. The promise has already been realized in the United States: All nations will be subject to you! All right, then, the American Jews will not leave America.
And actually, it is difficult for me to imagine that any Jews are serious about a Jewish state in the sense that you meant just now and the way it is discussed in the newspapers. Have you ever seen a forest that consists entirely of parasites? There is no such thing. A parasite must always have a victim off whom he can freeload. And parasites can always exist only as a certain maximum proportion of the victim population.
…Of course parasites always congregate where the sap flows and can be tapped. In Hungary, they settle in Budapest and in other cities from which the country’s products can be shipped—that is, at the Danube and the Theiss rivers. Budapest already has, I believe, more than sixty percent Jews. … The same is the case in North America. New York, for example, has about three million Jews already. There, they sit like tapeworms at the source.
…That is why the idea of a Jewish state there, in my estimation, has a quite different meaning. The Jew notoriously likes to remain anonymous so long as he is not in power. He takes off his mask only when he has gained domination—or at least when he believes he has. After the war [editor: WWI], it seemed as if, thanks to the war, Jewry had won the upper hand throughout the white world. So the time seemed ripe for the Jews to pose as the masters. In Germany, that was, as it is now, indisputably evident. Then, when he has succeeded in seizing the leadership in all the white nations, all that remains is the establishment of a headquarters to truly dominate the world. And that would correspond to the Jewish state. Any sooner, such a state would make no sense, have no significance—it would even be a mistake.
That is why no nation would take in the Jews as a whole if they were to be expelled from Germany, nor would the Jews agree to a Jewish state in the sense of a concentration of the entire Israelite tribe. For in so doing, they would be betraying their faith in the promise; they would be giving up the struggle at the very moment when they thought they had, in fact, won it.
…The Great War allowed Jewish power to increase quite incredibly. It takes money to conduct a war. And so, through the Great War, which in fact in some way united all the people of the world in shared suffering, the Jews got the greatest chance they ever had. All the financing of the war, whatever nation was involved, went almost exclusively through the hands of the Jews. Read the signatures on the issuances of war loans. Not only German loans, but also English, French, American, and whatever other countries. You will see the names of Jewish banking houses almost exclusively. They raised the money, and the good citizens scraped their last pennies, signing them over to the consortium of Jew banks in the form of war loans. To those people who happened to have no cash at the moment, the banks even extended credit on tangible property, so they could subscribe to war loans above their own real assets. Then this consortium of banks put the collected amounts at the disposal of the particular state, in exchange for a high agent’s commission. Hundreds of billions of the people’s assets flowed through the coffers and ledgers of the Jew banks in this way, and each time hundreds of millions got stuck there in the form of commissions. The whole deal held no risk whatever for the banks. The banks added nothing from their own assets. Rather, as I said, they only loaned them to others against securities, so that others might be the fools and take the risk; or they used their liquid assets to carry out the financing of the wartime economy, to which most of the loan fund flowed for war orders. This financial participation was at least as profitable and free of risk as the loan transaction.
By the end of the war, in any case, the nations and the economy had without exception become the major debtors of the Jew banks or were in their possession. Private citizens in large part held their war loans, which were either devalued or frozen. But the banks satisfied themselves with their securities. The financial power of the Jews was thus consolidated as never before. The promise of the Old Testament seemed to have reached fulfillment: ‘All nations shall be subject to you, their kings shall serve you,’ and so on. Jewish power in the world appeared to have become unassailable, absolute, perfect.
Now all that remained to be done was to prop up this power spiritually, politically, and, as much as possible, even religiously. But this required a visible concentration of the Jewish people. Where this center was situated was in itself of no consequence whatsoever. For it was not meant to be a proper political or economic power center. This power would have to continue to reside abroad, among other nations. But we can see from the propaganda—for example, for the idea of the chosen people of Israel—the goal that is being pursued. If one has seen the greasy, threadbare, scheming Polish or Galician Jews, as they come into Vienna and Berlin, wearing their vermin-ridden caftans and carrying bundles of soiled clothes, one can acquire a proper taste for God’s chosen people! But the chosen people must connect with its old tradition. It had to go to Jerusalem. No other place in the world was as well suited and as significant. At the same time, Christianity—which also has its roots in Jerusalem, the site where its great Creator performed His works—was drawn into the power circle of the newly discovered people of God.
Since the French Revolution, a new kind of struggle against the ‘superiors’ is under way. It is no longer centered in the clerical area. Rather, this time the insurrection began in the field of politics. But the inner incentive is always the same: liberty, equality, fraternity! True Christianity! Universal acceptance of man’s earthly lifework, each according to his ability and aptitude! Once again, the great idea perishes! It is buried by a Napoleon, whom the forces of reaction—which began by cloaking themselves in affirmation of the revolutionary idea—put in as their leader. And in the Congress of Vienna, the reactionaries celebrate the victory over the French Volk, who only wanted to free themselves from the unnatural ways of a despotic Sun King.
But the revolution kept expanding. In 1830 and 1848, it broke out anew. And since, in the intervening years, the first stirrings of industrialization had moved the unnatural disproportion between the ruling classes and the mass of the working people into a new, still more glaring light, a new movement was born. In its deepest essence, this, in turn, called only for the establishment of equality of rights for all; it was eager to take up the true doctrine of Christ and, consciously or unconsciously, to establish the natural condition that corresponds to the Logos, the urge, that has its source in the life of our earth and its powers.
Once again, we see the Jew assuming control—Karl Marx. He realized that industry, strongly developing from the trades, was rushing to seize the reins of economic power in England—as, I have no doubt, in other countries as well. In this way the dominion of Jewry over finance and international economic life, uncontested until that time, was placed in serious jeopardy. The capitalist measures of the lords of industry made the economy largely independent of the Jewish money market. If Jewry tolerated such a situation, it had reached the end of its power.
That is why Marx, in sage understanding and acting on his racial instincts, placed himself at the head of the movement against the superiors! He assumed the leadership of the working masses against parasitic capital and called into being a movement that is all around us at the present time.
That is the moment in which we live. The National Socialist movement is the harbinger of the return to the will and mission of nature and the upholder of the socialist idea, as it corresponds to the Christian doctrine and the true religion, and it rejects all Jewish leadership. The reactionaries and the Jews are the enemies of the movement, and thus of the Volk. They think only of winning back—that is, salvaging—their power, of securing their control over capital, and the suppression of the broad masses, keeping them poor and at forced labor. And both enjoy the complacent protection and support of the Christian churches, who see the ultimate success of their mass murders after Christ’s crucifixion and at the time of the Inquisition and the Thirty Years’ War threatened by the definitive victory of socialism, which calls for freedom of conscience!
Woe if the forces of reaction should succeed in becoming our masters. The atrocities and destructive urge of the victors will wreak havoc worse than anything meted out by the special judges in Palestine, as well as by Nero and the Grand Inquisitor in Spain." ...
[Hess's reply]: "It is quite certain...that we will have the entirely Jew-dominated world against us if we simply throw the Jews out of Germany. This they cannot accept because of the consequences. For in such a case, another nation will do the same, and others will follow in their turn."
"...We had already reached that point...when we established the party program. And to this day, I have been unable to find a better solution than the one we foresaw at the time.
We must be very clear about the fact that we cannot remove the Jew as such. Rather, we must make it impossible for parasites to exist; we must prevent them from continuing to gain a foothold on the body of our Volk, from infusing poison into that body or attempting to gain power over it [editor: as the Jews had already done in America, Britain, and Russia.] At that point, the Jews will leave Germany of their own accord. For when it becomes impossible for a parasite to live its parasitic existence in a certain place, it wanders off elsewhere, where conditions are more favorable to it, or it perishes. … It is hard for me to believe the Jew so purposeful and intellectually superior that he actually submitted these considerations so systematically in the councils of the Elders of Zion; that from the first he thought them through in the way I just elaborated—that would be uncanny. But his sixth sense guides him instinctively and unconsciously along the correct path, where, admittedly, consciousness has long since come to him.
...Which is the more dangerous enemy—I mean, the one that threatens us most immediately? Without a doubt it is Bolshevism—we can safely call it Jewish Bolshevism. For if it were not Jewish it could be given a different format. In that case, we might even be able to come to terms with it at some later date [editor: had it been Slavic or Russian Communism]. But we will never be able to come to terms with Jewish Bolshevism without signing our own death warrant. … That is why we may not expel the Jews who live in Germany, we may not expropriate their goods, we may not harm a hair on their heads; and that is why we may not go public with our social economy and with other problems and plans, with which we would rouse liberalistic world Jewry and the entire liberalistic world against us. Rather, we must live peacefully with them! We can keep liberalism in check—indeed, we must do so—but it must be done very cautiously, sensibly, with economic expediency. And when we arrive at systematic economic control through the state, which is the problem everyone else is fiddling with, we must manage it in such a way that private property also survives for economic transactions and that private initiative is harnessed for our program.
But first, there will have to be National Socialism. Otherwise the peoples and their governments are not ready for the socialism of the nations. It is not possible to be liberal in one’s own country and demand socialism among nations. Education about the firm belief in National Socialism must precede that change. But if we do not succeed in taking this road, we will either be given a world empire headed by a single state—the strongest, the most powerful, which will, in the end, have to resort to military methods to secure and maintain its power—or end up with international Bolshevism, which can equally be nothing but despotism. The first goal is obviously being striven for at present by North America, while Russia aims at the latter. Perhaps neither of them yet realizes what is happening. But, as I said: If we do not succeed in paving the way for the socialism of nations, then one or another of these two must set in!
…The establishment of the Jewish state of Palestine is thus not the reunification of the Jewish people in one state, but the attempt to create a worldwide Jewish headquarters, intended—in time, using international financial power—to seize absolute control of the destinies of all the peoples of the world. In order, furthermore, to eliminate any possibility of a military display of power by any state, all that is required is the expansion of the League of Nations [editor: now the United Nations] into a kind of world state. Then, if this world state might even be allowed to wield military might more or less as a world police—then Judah will finally have stabilized its financial power in the world, guaranteed and secured by the universal international military force [editor: US/UN], into which the oppressed are conscripted to serve their oppressors. That is the meaning of Palestine.
The financial power of Jewry can be broken only by the creation of a large Jewish state to which all the Jews are deported. But since such a project cannot be undertaken unless the people of the world, without exception, form into a solid, closed union, there is no need to hurry.”
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