Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Hewlett Johnson: Term "National Socialism" A Farce

"Herr Hitler, in his directions as to education in 'My Struggle" says for what purpose the NAZI is there: "Education in a general way is to be the preparation for the later army service" (Hitler's 'Mein Kampf', German edition p. 459)
Hitler, on coming to power, an in order to come to power, made a bargain with the armament capitalists. ... The armament capitalists are the Dominant partners. It was they who financed  the Hitler movement. It is they who support the Hitler Government, which they put into power because it is the expression of their own policy and because it is able to keep the masses down with the help of the State
machinery.
Hitler and every other individual member of the Nationals Socialist Party is lost without the backing from the armament industry. The armament industry itself, on the other hand, can maintain itself without the individual called Hitler whose death would not in itself overthrow Fascism. ...

Armament capitalism has been rendered secure and holds the Socialist menace at bay. Feder, Hitler's oldest comrade and the builder of official programs, definitely condemns  the re-distribution of great estates, and  the necessity of any part-ownership by the workers in the factories. He dismissed Nationalization. The adoption of the name National Socialism was a farce, though a clever one.
Capitalism, in its final and most terrible form, has been rendered secure. ...
 Hence the frantic military preparations. Hence the popular infatuation.
'In eternal war,' says Hitler, in 'My Struggle', mankind has become great. In eternal peace mankind would be ruined.'
...
Youth taught to glory in war must be protected against the 'corrupting ideas of Judaism and Christianity'. The teaching by these religions of right and wrong conflicts with duty to the German state.
The brotherhood they teach is utterly incompatible with ideas of dominant class and dominant race."
Hewlett Johnson, the dean of  Canterbury, 1939, "Act Now..." p. 36ff)


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