Lies
being taught;
Mein
Kampf is unintelligible ravings of a maniac.
Now
the Truth; CHAPTER Xd – The Marxist Press!
“In journalistic circles it is a pleasing
custom to speak of the Press as a 'Great Power' within the State. As a matter
of fact its importance is immense. One cannot easily overestimate it, for the
Press continues the work of education even in adult life. Generally, readers of
the Press can be classified into three groups:
First,
those who believe everything they read;
Second,
those who no longer believe anything;
Third,
those who critically examine what they read and form their judgments
accordingly.
Numerically, the first group is by far the
strongest, being composed of the broad masses of the people. Intellectually, it
forms the simplest portion of the nation. It cannot be classified according to
occupation but only into grades of intelligence. Under this category come all
those who have not been born to think for themselves or who have not learnt to
do so and who, partly through incompetence and partly through ignorance,
believe everything that is set before them in print. To these we must add that
type of lazy individual who, although capable of thinking for himself out of
sheer laziness gratefully absorbs everything that others had thought over,
modestly believing this to have been thoroughly done. The influence which the
Press has on all these people is therefore enormous; for after all they
constitute the broad masses of a nation. But, somehow they are not in a
position or are not willing personally to sift what is being served up to them;
so that their whole attitude towards daily problems is almost solely the result
of extraneous influence. All this can be advantageous where public
enlightenment is of a serious and truthful character, but great harm is done
when scoundrels and liars take a hand at this work.
The second group is numerically smaller,
being partly composed of those who were formerly in the first group and after a
series of bitter disappointments are now prepared to believe nothing of what
they see in print. They hate all newspapers. Either they do not read them at all
or they become exceptionally annoyed at their contents, which they hold to be
nothing but a congeries of lies and misstatements. These people are difficult
to handle; for they will always be sceptical of the truth. Consequently, they
are useless for any form of positive work.
The third group is easily the smallest,
being composed of real intellectuals whom natural aptitude and education have
taught to think for themselves and who in all things try to form their own
judgments, while at the same time carefully sifting what they read. They will
not read any newspaper without using their own intelligence to collaborate with
that of the writer and naturally this does not set writers an easy task.
Journalists appreciate this type of reader only with a certain amount of
reservation.
Hence the trash that newspapers are capable
of serving up is of little danger--much less of importance--to the members of
the third group of readers. In the majority of cases these readers have learnt
to regard every journalist as fundamentally a rogue who sometimes speaks the
truth. Most unfortunately, the value of these readers lies in their
intelligence and not in their numerical strength, an unhappy state of affairs
in a period where wisdom counts for nothing and majorities for everything.
Nowadays when the voting papers of the masses are the deciding factor; the
decision lies in the hands of the numerically strongest group; that is to say
the first group, the crowd of simpletons and the credulous.
It is an all-important interest of the
State and a national duty to prevent these people from falling into the hands
of false, ignorant or even evil-minded teachers. Therefore it is the duty of
the State to supervise their education and prevent every form of offence in
this respect. Particular attention should be paid to the Press; for its
influence on these people is by far the strongest and most penetrating of all;
since its effect is not transitory but continual. Its immense significance lies
in the uniform and persistent repetition of its teaching. Here, if anywhere,
the State should never forget that all means should converge towards the same
end. It must not be led astray by the will-o'-the-wisp of so-called 'freedom of
the Press', or be talked into neglecting its duty, and withholding from the
nation that which is good and which does good.
By means of the Marxist and democratic
Press, the Jews spread the colossal falsehood about 'German Militarism'
throughout the world and tried to inculpate Germany by every possible means,
while at the same time the Marxist and democratic parties refused to assent to
the measures that were necessary for the adequate training of our national defence
forces. The appalling crime thus committed by these people ought to have been
obvious to everybody who foresaw that in case of war the whole nation would
have to be called to arms and that, because of the mean huckstering of these
noble 'representatives of the people', as they called themselves, millions of
Germans would have to face the enemy ill-equipped and insufficiently trained.
But even apart from the consequences of the crude and brutal lack of conscience
which these parliamentarian rascals displayed, it was quite clear that the lack
of properly trained soldiers at the beginning of a war would most probably lead
to the loss of such a war; and this probability was confirmed in a most
terrible way during the course of the world war.
Therefore the German people lost the
struggle for the freedom and independence of their country because of the
half-hearted and defective policy employed during times of peace in the
organization and training of the defensive strength of the nation. Adolf
Hitler"
Kaps
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