{"id":74650,"date":"2015-09-16T15:03:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T23:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=74650"},"modified":"2015-09-16T15:03:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T23:03:00","slug":"hitler-the-jews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=74650","title":{"rendered":"Hitler & The Jews"},"content":{"rendered":"

Timothy Snyder writes<\/a>: For Hitler the bringer of the knowledge of good and evil on the earth, the destroyer of Eden, was the Jew. It was the Jew who told humans that they were above other animals, and had the capacity to decide their future for themselves. It was the Jew who introduced the false distinction between politics and nature, between humanity and struggle. Hitler\u2019s destiny, as he saw it, was to redeem the original sin of Jewish spirituality and restore the paradise of blood. Since Homo sapiens can survive only by unrestrained racial killing, a Jewish triumph of reason over impulse would mean the end of the species. What a race needed, thought Hitler, was a \u201cworldview\u201d that permitted it to triumph, which meant, in the final analysis, \u201cfaith\u201d in its own mindless mission.<\/p>\n

Hitler\u2019s presentation of the Jewish threat revealed his particular amalgamation of religious and zoological ideas. If the Jew triumphs, Hitler wrote, \u201cthen his crown of victory will be the funeral wreath of the human species.\u201d On the one hand, Hitler\u2019s image of a universe without human beings accepted science\u2019s verdict of an ancient planet on which humanity had evolved. After the Jewish victory, he wrote, \u201cearth will once again wing its way through the universe entirely without humans, as was the case millions of years ago.\u201d At the same time, as he made clear in the very same passage of My Struggle, this ancient earth of races and extermination was the Creation of God. \u201cTherefore I believe myself to be acting according to the wishes of the Creator. Insofar as I restrain the Jew, I am defending the work of the Lord.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hitler saw the species as divided into races, but denied that the Jews were one. Jews were not a lower or a higher race, but a nonrace, or a counterrace. Races followed nature and fought for land and food, whereas Jews followed the alien logic of \u201cun-nature.\u201d They resisted nature\u2019s basic imperative by refusing to be satisfied by the conquest of a certain habitat, and they persuaded others to behave similarly. They insisted on dominating the entire planet and its peoples, and for this purpose invented general ideas that draw the races away from the natural struggle. The planet had nothing to offer except blood and soil, and yet Jews uncannily generated concepts that allowed the world to be seen less as an ecological trap and more as a human order. Ideas of political reciprocity, practices in which humans recognize other humans as such, came from Jews.<\/p>\n

Hitler\u2019s basic critique was not the usual one that human beings were good but had been corrupted by an overly Jewish civilization. It was rather that humans were animals and that any exercise of ethical deliberation was in itself a sign of Jewish corruption. The very attempt to set a universal ideal and strain toward it was precisely what was hateful. Heinrich Himmler, Hitler\u2019s most important deputy, did not follow every twist of Hitler\u2019s thinking, but he grasped its conclusion: ethics as such was the error; the only morality was fidelity to race. Participation in mass murder, Himmler maintained, was a good act, since it brought to the race an internal harmony as well as unity with nature. The difficulty of seeing, for example, thousands of Jewish corpses marked the transcendence of conventional morality. The temporary strains of murder were a worthy sacrifice to the future of the race.<\/p>\n

Any nonracist attitude was Jewish, thought Hitler, and any universal idea a mechanism of Jewish dominion. Both capitalism and communism were Jewish. Their apparent embrace of struggle was simply cover for the Jewish desire for world domination. Any abstract idea of the state was also Jewish. \u201cThere is no such thing,\u201d wrote Hitler, \u201cas the state as an end in itself.\u201d As he clarified, \u201cthe highest goal of human beings\u201d was not \u201cthe preservation of any given state or government, but the preservation of their kind.\u201d The frontiers of existing states would be washed away by the forces of nature in the course of racial struggle: \u201cOne must not be diverted from the borders of Eternal Right by the existence of political borders.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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