Everything is discussed openly in Germany, and every German claims the
right to have an opinion on any and all questions. One is Catholic, the
other Protestant, one an employee, the other an employer, a capitalist,
a socialist, a democrat, an aristocrat.
There is nothing dishonorable
about choosing one side or the other of a question. Discussions happen
in public, and where matters are unclear or confused one settles it by
argument and counter argument. But there is one problem that is not discussed
publicly, one that it is delicate even to mention: the Jewish question.
It is taboo in our republic.
The Jew is immunized against all dangers: one may call him a scoundrel,
parasite, swindler, profiteer, it all runs off him like water off a raincoat.
But call him a Jew and you will be astonished at how he recoils, how injured
he is, how he suddenly shrinks back: “I’ve been found out.”
One cannot defend himself against the Jew. He attacks with lightning
speed from his position of safety and uses his abilities to crush any
attempt at defense.
Quickly he turns the attacker’s charges back on him, and the attacker
becomes the liar, the troublemaker, the terrorist. Nothing could be more
mistaken than to defend oneself. That is just what the Jew wants. He can
invent a new lie every day for the enemy to respond to, and the result
is that the enemy spends so much time defending himself that he has no
time to do what the Jew really fears: to attack.
The accused has become
the accuser, and loudly he shoves the accuser into the dock. So it always
was in the past when a person or a movement fought the Jew. That is what
would happen to us as well were we not fully aware of his nature, and
if we lacked the courage to draw the following radical conclusions:
1. One cannot fight the Jew by positive means. He is a negative,
and this negative must be erased from the German system, or he will
forever corrupt it.
2. One cannot discuss the Jewish question with the Jews. One can hardly
prove to a person that one has the duty to render him harmless.
3. One cannot allow the Jew the same means one would give an honest
opponent, for he is no honorable opponent. He will use generosity and
nobility only to trap his enemy.
4. The Jew has nothing to say about German questions. He is a foreigner,
an alien, who only enjoys the rights of a guest, rights that he always
abuses.
5. The so-called religious morality of the Jews is no morality at
all, rather an encouragement to betrayal. Therefore, they have no claim
to protection from the state.
6. The Jew is not smarter than we are, rather only cleverer and craftier.
His system cannot be defeated economically — he follows entirely
different moral principles than we do. It can only be broken through
political means.
7. A Jew cannot insult a German. Jewish slanders are but badges of
honor for a German opponent of the Jews.
8. The more a German person or a German movement opposes the Jew,
the more valuable it is. If someone is attacked by the Jews, that is
a sure sign of his virtue. He who is not persecuted by the Jews, or
who is praised by them, is useless and dangerous.
9. The Jew evaluates German questions from the Jewish standpoint.
As a result, the opposite of what he says must be true.
10. One must either affirm or reject anti-Semitism. He who defends
the Jews harms his own people. One can only be a Jewish lackey or a
Jewish opponent. Opposing the Jews is a matter of personal hygiene.
These principles give the anti-Jewish movement a chance of success. Only
such a movement will be taken seriously by the Jews, only such a movement
will be feared by them.
The fact that he shouts and complains about such a movement therefore
is only a sign that it is right. We are therefore delighted that we are
constantly attacked in the Jewish gazettes. They may shout about terror.
We answer with Mussolini’s familiar words: “Terror? Never! It is
social hygiene. We take these individuals out of circulation just as a
doctor does to a bacterium.
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