Early Nazis and the Mystical Connection
P1.
As early
as March 1921 Hitler asserted: struggle against Bolshevism in Russia
means the eradication (Ausrottung) of the Jews!
Since he considered Jews
the archenemies of Aryans, often describing them as disease-causing bacillus,
they were the special targets of his wrath. His irrational fixation on Jews and
their alleged conspiracy to dominate the world conjured up the most bizarre
associations. Not only were Jewish communists masterminding the Bolshevik
takeover of Europe, but Jewish capitalists were the driving force behind
Churchill and Roosevelt.
As we have seen so
far in this end June 2003 article series on SESN, the "Final
Solution" developed as a postwar mixture of voelkisch-redemptive
German and radical White Russian conspiratorial-apocalyptic thought, combining
notions of Germanic racial and spiritual superiority.
Earlier studies about
Hitler already argued that Hitler had a consistent world-view:
A) strengthening the
Aryan race through eugenics measures; and B) winning the struggle against the
non-Aryan races, necessitating a strong military. (1)
White Russian
ideologues in Aufbau and some of their voelkisch
colleagues like Dietrich Eckart also exhibited a tendency to cast the
crusade against threatened "Jewish Bolshevik" chaos in
religiously-inspired apocalyptic and mystical terms.
Vinberg, regarded the National Socialists as upholders of
true Christianity. And cast his support of Grand Duke Kirril
Romanov in openly religious terms. He wrote in the Bulletin of the Russian
Monarchical Union in Bavaria that he edited: "we are still in Satanic
darkness. surrounded by anti-Christian forces," exhorting White
Russians to further the "great cause of Russia's salvation."
(2)
Like the mystical
inclined author Sergei Nilus, who had played a
crucial role in popularizing The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Vinberg viewed Jews as a satanic force. He had the
"Zionist wise men" declare in his Der Kreuzweg
Russlands (Russia s Via Dolorosa) that "you
should finally recognize that our way is that of evil, the way of ruthless
Satanism." In another passage, he asserted of "the Jews" that
"the entire world is now in the clutches of these Antichrists."
While Scheubner- Richter's colleague Rosenberg demonstrated an
increasing hostility towards the Christian Churches as institutions, he
nonetheless exhibited a more positive view of certain self-sacrificing elements
of Christianity. He ended his “Spur des Juden im Wandel der Zeiten
(The Trail of the Jew, through the Ages) by calling for the dawning of the
"day of Christian-Germanic thinking." He also demanded: -the
Christian spirit and the filthy Jewish spirit must be separated; the Bible is
to be split up with a sharp cut as Christ and Anti –Christ. (3)
In the 1919 article
in which Eckart first dealt with The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Eckart
cited Revelation 20: 2. 3, where Satan is chained for a thousand years. after
which he is released for a "little season." Eckart argued that this
"little season" had come, noting that Jewry must have remained in the
ghettos for approximately 1,000 years, but now "the Jewish spirit is
loose.” (4)
As Eckart had made
clear in an earlier article in Auf gut deutsch.
"if the Jew were to overgrow/infiltrate (ueberwucherte)
us pernanently, we would never be in the position to
fulfill our purpose, which consists in the redemption of the world. but would
rather descend into insanity." (5)
Hitler internalized
Eckart's teachings of the ultimately pernicious nature of Jewish
world-affirmation, viewing conditions in the Soviet Union as the primary
example of the alleged Jewish "blind will to destruction. (6)
According to
Eckart's 1924 pamphlet, Der Bolschewismus von
Moses bis Lenin: Zwiegespraech zwischen
Adolf Hitler und mir, the very title of which demonstrates how Eckart cast
"Bolshevism" as a meta-historical emanation of the Jewish nature,
Hitler referred to Eckarl's idea of the insanely
destructive Jewish essence as most chillingly manifested in the Soviet Union,
asserting:
it is surely so, as
you once wrote: one can only understand the Jew when one knows where he feels
the urge to go to in the end. Beyond world domination to the destruction of the
world. He thinks that he has to bring all of humanity down in order, as he
talks himself into believing, to be able to give it paradise on earth ....
While he pretends to bring humanity up, he torments it into despair, madness,
and downfall (Untergang). If he is not stopped. he
will destroy it. ...even though he dimly suspects that he will destroy himself
with it thereby. He cannot escape, he must do it....To have to destroy
something for all one is worth. yet at the same time to suspect that this
irredeemably leads to one's own ruin, that is the thing. If you like, the
tragedy of Lucifer. (7)
This booklet has been
translated by the OSS in English, indicating more mystical and possible Ariosophic influences. As an unlikely canditate
it can be seen on : http://www.ety.com/HRP/booksonline/mosestolenin/mostolentoc.htm
P.1 Hitler's Secret "Protocols" P.1
P.2 Hitler's Secret "Protocols" P.2
P.3 Hitler’s Source P.1
P.4 Hitler’s Source P.2
P.5 The German Kaiser's Confident P.1
P.6 The German Kaiser's Confident P.2
P.7 The Ideologists and First Financiers of Hitler P.1
P.8 The Ideologists and First Financiers of Hitler P.2
P.9 Dietrich Eckart, Rosenberg, and White Russian Creators of Nazi
Ideology, P.1
P.10 Dietrich Eckart, Rosenberg, and White Russian Creators of Nazi
Ideology, P.2
P.11
The "Final" Solution Before WWII, P.1
P.12
The "Final" Solution Before WWII, P.2
P.13 Early Nazis and the Mystical Connection P.1
P.14 Early Nazis and the Mystical Connection P.2
P.15 Early Nazis and the Mystical Connection P.3
1) See: Hitler:
1889-1936, by Ian Kershaw, 1999.
Kershaw reminds
us that Hitler was being acted upon just as much or more than he was acting.
Defeat and revolutionary turbulence in Germany (especially Munich) between
November 1918 and May 1919 were decisive in preparing the ground for Hitler. To
offset leftist influence in German politics and society, the German army set up
propaganda units to indoctrinate the troops. Hitler became a star performer in
one of these units and thus found his niche as a political speaker. Kershaw
probably minimizes Hitler's role in the planning and direction of the Holocaust
too much. Also many assisted Hitler, in carrying out his
atrocities.
2) Vinberg. editorial. Vestnik russkago monarkhicheskago obedineniia v Bavarii April 7. 1923, 2,
3. GARF
3) Vinberg. Der Kreuzweg Russlands. 2.
18, 25, 116.
4) Hitler, notes for
speech on November 2, 1922. Saemtliche
Aufzeichnungen. 716.
5) Rosenberg. Die Spur des Juden im Wandel der Zeiten. 162.
163.
6) Eckart. "Die Midgardschlange." Auf gut deutsch. December 30. 1919.
7) Eckart. "Das Judentum in und ausser
uns: V.." Auf gut deutsch Feb. 7, 1919.
15.
8) Der Bolschewismus von Moses bis Lenin: Zwiegespraech
zwischen Adolf Hitler und mir, p. 49, 50.
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