Lies being taught;
Mein Kampf is unintelligible ravings of a
maniac.
Now the Truth; CHAPTER Xe – The German army
stood tall.
“A man who
is serious about the maintenance and welfare of an institution will not allow
himself to be discouraged when the representatives of that institution show
certain faults and failings. And he certainly will not run around to tell the
world about it, as certain false democratic 'friends' of the monarchy have
done; but he will approach His Majesty, the bearer of the Crown himself, to
warn him of the seriousness of a situation and persuade the monarch to act.
Furthermore, he will not take up the standpoint that it must be left to His
Majesty to act as the latter thinks fit, even though the course which he would
take must plainly lead to disaster. But the man I am thinking of will deem it
his duty to protect the monarchy against the monarch himself, no matter what
personal risk he may run in doing so. If the worth of the monarchical
institution be dependent on the person of the monarch himself, then it would be
the worst institution imaginable; for only in rare cases are kings found to be
models of wisdom and understanding, and integrity of character, though we might
like to think otherwise. But this fact is unpalatable to the professional
knaves and lackeys. Yet all upright men, and they are the backbone of the
nation, repudiate the nonsensical fiction that all monarchs are wise, etc. For
such men history is history and truth is truth, even where monarchs are
concerned. But if a nation should have the good luck to possess a great king or
a great man it ought to consider itself as specially favoured above all the
other nations, and these may be thankful if an adverse fortune has not allotted
the worst to them.
One visible result of wrong educational
system was the fear of shouldering responsibility and the resultant weakness in
dealing with obvious vital problems of existence.
The starting point of this epidemic, however,
was in our parliamentary institution where the shirking of responsibility is
particularly fostered. Unfortunately the disease slowly spread to all branches
of everyday life but particularly affected the sphere of public affairs.
Responsibility was being shirked everywhere and this led to insufficient or
half-hearted measures being taken, personal responsibility for each act being
reduced to a minimum.”
As I have already emphasized, the military
authorities did not allow themselves to be led astray by such fundamentally
erroneous ideas. Ludendorff, who was then a Colonel in the General Staff, led a
desperate struggle against the criminal vacillations with which the Reichstag
treated the most vital problems of the nation and in most cases voted against
them. If the fight which this officer then waged remained unsuccessful this
must be debited to the Parliament and partly also to the wretched and weak
attitude of the Chancellor, Bethmann-Hollweg.
Yet those who are responsible for Germany's
collapse do not hesitate now to lay all the blame on the shoulders of the one
man who took a firm stand against the neglectful manner in which the interests
of the nation were managed. But one falsehood more or less makes no difference
to these congenital tricksters.
Anybody who thinks of all the sacrifices
which this nation has had to bear, as a result of the criminal neglect of those
irresponsible individuals; anybody who thinks of the number of those who died
or were maimed unnecessarily; anybody who thinks of the deplorable shame and
dishonour which has been heaped upon us and of the illimitable distress into
which our people are now plunged--anybody who realizes that in order to prepare
the way to a few seats in Parliament for some unscrupulous place-hunters and
arrivists will understand that such hirelings can be called by no other name
than that of rascal and criminal; for otherwise those words could have no
meaning. In comparison with traitors who betrayed the nation's trust every
other kind of twister may be looked upon as an honourable man.
It was a peculiar feature of the situation
that all the real faults of the old Germany were exposed to the public gaze
only when the inner solidarity of the nation could be injured by doing so.
Then, indeed, unpleasant truths were openly proclaimed in the ears of the broad
masses, while many other things were at other times shamefully hushed up or
their existence simply denied, especially at times when an open discussion of
such problems might have led to an improvement in their regard. The higher
government authorities knew little or nothing of the nature and use of
propaganda in such matters. Only the Jew knew that by an able and persistent
use of propaganda heaven itself can be presented to the people as if it were
hell and, vice versa, the most miserable kind of life can be presented as if it
were paradise. The Jew knew this and acted accordingly. But the German, or
rather his Government, did not have the slightest suspicion of it. During the
War the heaviest of penalties had to be paid for that ignorance.
But against these and other defects there
were certain qualities which undoubtedly had a positive effect.
First of all the monarchical form of
government guarantees stability in the direction of public affairs and
safeguards public offices from the speculative turmoil of ambitious
politicians. Furthermore, the venerable tradition which this institution
possesses arouses a feeling which gives weight to the monarchical authority.
Beyond this there is the fact that the whole corps of officials, and the army
in particular, are raised above the level of political party obligations. And
still another positive feature was that the supreme rulership of the State was
embodied in the monarch, as an individual person, who could serve as the symbol
of responsibility, which a monarch has to bear more seriously than any
anonymous parliamentary majority. Indeed, the proverbial honesty and integrity
of the German administration must be attributed chiefly to this fact. Finally,
the monarchy fulfilled a high cultural function among the German people, which
made amends for many of its defects. The German residential cities have
remained, even to our time, centers of that artistic spirit which now threatens
to disappear and is becoming more and more materialistic. The German princes
gave a great deal of excellent and practical encouragement to art and science,
especially during the nineteenth century. Our present age certainly has nothing
of equal worth.
During that process of disintegration which
was slowly extending throughout the social order the most positive force of
resistance was that offered by the army. This was the strongest source of
education which the German people possessed. For that reason all the hatred of
our enemies was directed against the paladin of our national self-preservation
and our liberty. The strongest testimony in favour of this unique institution
is the fact that it was derided, hated and fought against, but also feared, by
worthless elements all round. The fact that the international profiteers who
gathered at Versailles, further to exploit and plunder the nations directed
their enmity specially against the old German army proved once again that it
deserved to be regarded as the institution which protected the liberties of our
people against the forces of the international stock-exchange. If the army had
not been there to sound the alarm and stand on guard, the purposes of the
Versailles representatives would have been carried out much sooner. There is
only one word to express what the German people owe to this army--Everything!
Adolf Hitler"
Kaps
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