Functionalism as "evil" ? Re: GR-context: How Popular Were the Nazis?

[S.R. Prozak]

> He also provides
> good insight
> into the origin and functioning of the Ministry for
> Popular
> Enlightenment and Propaganda, headed by Josef
> Goebbels, which had a
> powerful hand in the content of German media and art. 

http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/angrif03.htm

The Jew

by Joseph Goebbels

Everything is discussed openly in Germany, and every German claims the
right to have an opinion on any and all questions. One is Catholic, the
other
Protestant, one an employee, the other an employer, a capitalist, a
socialist,
a democrat, an aristocrat. There is nothing dishonorable about choosing
one
side or the other of a question. Discussions happen in public, and where
matters are unclear or confused one settles it by argument and counter
argument. But there is one problem that is not discussed publicly, one
that it
is delicate even to mention: the Jewish question. It is taboo in our
republic.

The Jew is immunized against all dangers: one may call him a scoundrel,
parasite, swindler, profiteer, it all runs off him like water off a
raincoat.
But call him a Jew and you will be astonished at how he recoils, how
injured
he is, how he suddenly shrinks back: "I've been found out."

One cannot defend himself against the Jew. He attacks with lightening
speed
from his position of safety and uses his abilities to crush any attempt at
defense.

Quickly he turns the attacker's charges back on him, and the attacker
becomes the liar, the troublemaker, the terrorist. Nothing could be more
mistaken than to defend oneself. That is just what the Jew wants. He can
invent a new lie every day for the enemy to respond to, and the result is
that
the enemy spends so much time defending himself that he has no time to do
what
the Jew really fears: to attack. The accused has become the accuser, and
loudly he shoves the accuser into the dock. So it always was in the past
when
a person or a movement fought the Jew. That is what would happen to us as
well
were we not fully aware of his nature, and if we lacked the courage to
draw
the following radical conclusions:

1. One cannot fight the Jew by positive means. He is a negative, and this
negative must be erased from the German system, or he will forever corrupt
it.

2. One cannot discuss the Jewish question with the Jews. One can hardly
prove to a person that one has the duty to render him harmless.

3. One cannot allow the Jew the same means one would give an honest
opponent, for he is no honorable opponent. He will use generosity and
nobility
only to trap his enemy.

4. The Jew has nothing to say about German questions. He is a foreigner,
an
alien, who only enjoys the rights of a guest, rights that he always
abuses.

5. The so-called religious morality of the Jews is no morality at all,
rather an encouragement to betrayal. Therefore, they have no claim to
protection from the state.

6. The Jew is not smarter than we are, rather only cleverer and craftier.
His system cannot be defeated economically—he follows entirely different
moral
principles than we do. It can only be broken through political means.

7. A Jew cannot insult a German. Jewish slanders are but badges of honor
for a German opponent of the Jews.

8. The more a German person or a German movement opposes the Jew, the more
valuable it is. If someone is attacked by the Jews, that is a sure sign of
his
virtue. He who is not persecuted by the Jews, or who is praised by them,
is
useless and dangerous.

9. The Jew evaluates German questions from the Jewish standpoint. As a
result, the opposite of what he says must be true.

10. One must either affirm or reject anti-Semitism. He who defends the
Jews
harms his own people. One can only be a Jewish lackey or a Jewish
opponent.
Opposing the Jews is a matter of personal hygiene.

These principles give the anti-Jewish movement a chance of success. Only
such a movement will be taken seriously by the Jews, only such a movement
will
be feared by them.

The fact that he shouts and complains about such a movement therefore is
only a sign that it is right. We are therefore delighted that we are
constantly attacked in the Jewish gazettes. They may shout about terror.
We
answer with Mussolini's familiar words: "Terror? Never! It is social
hygiene."
We take these individuals out of circulation just as a doctor does to a
bacterium.

"Instead of agitating for war, the Jewish groups in this country should be
opposing it in every possible way, for they will be among the first to
feel
its consequences. The greatest danger to this country lies in their large
ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and
our
government."

Charles Lindbergh delivered these words in a famous speech in Des Moines
Sept. 11, 1941.


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