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The University of Toledo The University of Toledo Digital Repository War Information Center Pamphlets University Archives July 2016 Hitler's Words and Hitler's Deeds Follow this and additional works at: http://utdr.utoledo.edu/ur-87-68 Recommended Citation "Hitler's Words and Hitler's Deeds" (2016). War Information Center Pamphlets. Book 443. http://utdr.utoledo.edu/ur-87-68/443 This Pamphlet is brought to you for free and open access by the University Archives at The University of Toledo Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in War Information Center Pamphlets by an authorized administrator of The University of Toledo Digital Repository. For more information, please see the repository's About page. 30. Communique issued in Berlin. November 15, 1933. (Documenla on International Affairs, 1933. Page 424.) 31. Speech of January 30, 1934. 1934. Page 3l!4.) 32. The Timea. (Documents on International Affaira, PAt"flPtiLEf OFflCE January 26, 1939. 33. The Tim es. October 7, 1939. 34. The '.l'i m es. June 1, 1939. October 7, 1939. 35. '.l'he T imes. 36. Documents on I n ternational Affa irs, 1937. 37. The T i m es. 38. N ieuwP, R otlerdamsche Gourant, September 21, 1939. 39. The T i m es. 40. Th e T i m es. Apri l 17, 1939. 41. Bulle tin of Internation al News, Vol. :i..-vi, .r o. 9. Page 12. 42. Daily T elegraph, The '.l'im es, September 6, 1939; Guardian, September 9, 1939. 43. Mein Kampf. Pages 251, 359, etc. 44. A History of the .Peace Conference of Paris (Editor: H. W V. Temperley). (RI.I.A.) Volume!. Page 122. 45. The first figure is an Allied estimate. German estimates lower. See C.R. M. F Cruttwell: A History of the Great (Clarendon Press, 1934.) Appendix on Casualties. second figure is given by Major-General Sir F Maurice: Last Four Months. (Cassell, 1919.) Pages 245-6. 46. Under the WE)imar Republic seats were allotted to the various parties in the German Reichstag on a basis of Proportional Representation. 47. See D. R eed: The Burning of the R eichstag. (Gollancz, 1934), as supplemented by the same aut hor 's P i re and Bomb (Cape, 1940). See also statement by Dr. H ei·mann Rauschning in '.l'he Sunday E xpress, November 26, 1939. 48. '.l'he T im ea. March 18, 1940. HITLER'S WORDS l'age 186. August 28, 1939. AND October 7, 1939. May 6, 1939. Manchestei· were War. The The 49. ManchestP.r Guardian. 50. 51. Published as a pamphlet by the P etit Parisien at the end of J 933. '.l'he Times. September 11, 1Q39. 52. Speech broadcast on November 26, 1939. September 7, 1934. (PliT.NTE D IN F.NOLA.ND) HITLER'S DEEDS THE NAZI THEORY OF PROPAGANDA The presen t rulers of Germany have deli b r ately practii:;ed dece it to win power , to keep p o1rnr, and to extend t heir powm· T hey ca.II it '· Pr paga.nda. a nd En lightenment." Mos(, peo pl e ll'Oul d eit ll it downri <rht ly ing. 1n t heir more honest morn.ents, t he Nazis thcm selvci:; are qu ite frank about it. Hitler ii:; a self- confessed liar and ra.tber proud of hi kill in th ii:; parti ular direction . " The very fir. t condi ion wh i ·h has to be fulfilled in every kind of propaganda ," he writes in jJf ein Kampf, " is a syst ematically subj ective and one-sided attitude towards every problem that has to be lealt wit h." <ll* H e lay · down on ly one conditi on- tha t the lying shall be on a big scale. Small lies, he ·ays, will not b believed, but real " whoppers " will find credence because people wi ll t hink n o one could be q uite su ch a big liar ' · I n the b ig li e there is always a certain for e of crecLibility , because the broad ma '. 'eB of a nation are ~t i way· more easily conuptecl in the deeper ·trata of their em otional nature than consciou sly or voluntaril y, and thus in the primitive impli city of t heir minds they more reaclily fall victims t o the bi g lie than the small lie, sin ce they them elves often tell lies in li ttle matter , but would be ashamed to r esort to large- ale fal. ·eho d . 1t would never come into their h eads to fabri a te co lo ·sal untruth s, and they would n ot believe t hat others l'o uld h a ve the .impuden ce to distort the truth so infamou: ly Ev en t h ough t he fa ts which prove thjs to be . o m ay be brought clearly to their minds, t hey will still doubt and waver, cmtl wi ll continue to think that there may he some oth r cxplamttion. For t he gro sly impudent lie always leaves t race behind it , even after it ha been nailed clown, a fact whi ch is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who ·omipi rc together in the art of Jying."( 2 l 3 • For rPferenrrs RPP 11uyes .11 a.ml 3Z . This passage shows that Hitler has a great contempt for the general mass of the people. " The receptive powers of the masses," he says elsewhere, "are very restrict~d and their understan~g feeble. Propaganda must appeal to the feelings of t;11e p~~lic rat~er than to their reasoning powers."<S> And By skilful and sustained use of propaganda the agam : people can be made to see even Heaven as Hell or the most wretched life as Paradise ."<4> ' , Goebbels is an equally great believer in the power of propaganda to make black appear white. He has described the German Press as merely " a piano on which the Government can play " <5 > On another occasion he said " A revolutionist must be able to do everything-to arouse outbreaks of fury, to get masses of men on the march, to organise hate and suspicion with ice-cold calculation."<6> This technique of deliberate deception has been systematically used bY. the Nazi leaders both in their home and in their for~ign propaganda. The record of their dealings both with therr own people and with foreign countries is full of instances of bad faith and broken promises, of intentional hiding or twisting of the facts. NAZI BAD FAITH: AT HOME Fro~ their e_arli~st days the Nazi leaders were always ready to give proIDlSes m order to win toleration or support for their cause and then to go back on them the moment their fulfilment hacl ceased to be in the interests of the movement. THE BEER-HALL PUTSCH Thus in the autumn of 1922, in an attempt to discredit a rumour that the Nazis were planning a Putsch in Munich, Hitler asked for an interview with the then Minister of the Interior for Bavaria. "I give you my word of honour," he said to him, "that I will never in my life make 11. Pufsch."< 7 > 4 A year later, on November 9, 1923, Hitler and General Ludendorff were the chief ringleaders in the attempt to overthrow tbe Bavarian Government by force which came to be known as the Beer-Hall Putsch. The Putsch failed, the ringleaders were arrested, and in the course of the trial which followed a witness named Seisser revealed that he had reproached Hitler at the time for breaking his promise, and that Hitler had answered "Yes, I have done that. Forgive me. I did it in the interests of the Fatherland."<8> SUPPRESSION OF THE WORKERS' MOVEMENT The Nazis were equally unscrupulous in overcoming sections of the population hostile to the Nazi cause. Thus on May Day, 1933, Hitler said "You will see how untrue and unjust is the statement that the Revolution is directed against the German workers. On the contrary its deepest meaning and clearest aim is to unite our millions of German workers in the German Folk-community " <9> The next day the headquarters of the German Trade Unions were seized throughout Germany, their leaders arrested, their funds confiscated, their newspapers suppressed. Within the following week the Social-Democratic Party, representing over seven million German workers, was also suppressed and its funds confiscated; and the German working-classes were regimented in the " 'German Labour Front" uncler the direct control of the Nazi Government. On the very day on which the Trade Unions were suppressed, Dr. Ley, Leader of the German Labour Front, assured the German workers that "We have never destroyed anything which had any kind of value for our nation, nor shall we in the future. This is a fundamental principle of National-Socialism. This holds good particularly of the Trade Unions, which have been built up out of the pennies which the workers have earned with such bitter toil and starved themselves to give. No, workers, your institutions are sacred and inviolable to us National-Socialists. "no> 5 THE "PURGE" OF JUNE 30, 1934. Hitler ha. betrayed his own friend s in the Nazi movement just a· reacliJy as he betrayed the workers. One of tb e most notoriou · example · of treachery among friends is provided by the events of June 30, 1934, when Rohm, Ernst and other leading Nazis were shot by tho orders of Hitler As ln.te a,s January, 1934, Hitler had written to Rohm. " On the fiT t anniver ·ary of the Nn.tional-Sociali t revolution I am moved to thank you, Ernst Rohm, for the imperishable ·ervices which you have rendered to the National-Socialist movement and to the German people, and to assure you how thankfitl I am to Providence that I may describe such a man as my friend ancl comrade. "llll Exactly five months after the writing of this letter, Hitler drove out to Rohm's villa in the early hours of the morning, roughly awakened him and had him shot there and then without the least pretence of trial. More than sixty' 12' of the oldest and most trusted leaders of the National-Socialist movement shared his fate. Amongst them was the young Karl Ernst who, on the occasion of his wedding a few weeks earlier, had received a wedding-present from Hitler bearing the inscription " For ever united ! " The " purge" of June 30 was, of course, no isolated incident in the history of National-Socialism. The ruthless and brutal methods which were used to dispose of Rohm and his associates had been consistently used by the Nazis in eliminating their opponents both before and after their advent to power The horrors of the Nazi concentration camps, U3J the innumerable reports of kidnappings, " disappearances " and " suicides " are too fresh in the public memory to need recall. Yet in spite of all this we find Hitler declaring in February, 1936 " I most solemnly here state that on the road followed by our movement there lies not one single adversary murdered nor one single attempted murder We have rejected this from the very fast day We have never fought with these weapons. "U4J G HITLER WI'l'l:[ ROHM AND GOEBBELS TH E NAZ I - S 0 V IE T PACT. The utter hypocri y of the Nazi propaganda. is well shown by the complete reversal, almost overnight, of their attitude to Communism. Opposition to Communism within Germany was of the very essence of the Nazi movement, and had contributed as much as any of their slogans to their triumph in 1933. It was the invariabl e, though unfounded, boast of Nazi leaders a,fter 1933 that their triumph aved Germany from a Communist Revolution. Having suppressed Communism within Germany, the Nazi rulers from 1934 onwards turned to denouncing Bolshevism wherever they saw it abroad, and above all in the home of the Communist International, Soviet Russia. The Nuremberg Party Congress of 1936 '.Vas specifically devoted to the crusade against Bolshevism. "This Congress," declared Hess at its opening, " will develop the great thesis ancl antithesis of the century- Bolshevism ancl National-Socialism." The Nazis were continually at pains to win over the support of antiCommunist opinion in Great Britain and elsewhere by proclaiming National-Socialism as the last bulwark in Europe against the spread of the Bolshevist peril. " It is to thfl 7 lasting credit of the Fiihrer," declared Goebbels at Nuremberg on September 10, 1936, "that the whole world has already acknowledged that he has set up on the frontier of Germany a barrier against the assaults of Bolshevism in the East, and has thereby- become the spiritual pioneer of Europe in his crusade against the subversive forces of destruction and anarchy "< 16> From the summer of 1936 onwards the Nazi leaders sent troops and materials to Spain, in violation of the Non-Intervention Agreements, with the sole purpose, so they afterwards avowed, of crushing Communism in Spain, and in the November of that year they signed with the Government of Japan the agreement known as the Anti-Comintern Pact. " Germany and Japan," said Ribbentrop at the time of its signature, " being unwilling to tolerate any longer the machinations of the Communist agitators, have now taken active steps. The conclusion of the agreement signed by Germany and Japan against the Communist International is an epoch-making event." Hitler himself had repeatedly announced, in the most abusive terms, his loathing for the Soviet regime and his abhorrence of any idea of obtaining Soviet co-operation. The Bolshevist rulers of Russia, he says in Mein Kampf, are " common blood,stained criminals," "the scum of humanity," who "have no idea offorming an honourable alliance or of remaining true to it, if they did.,, Again " THE FORMATION OF AN ALLIANCE WITH RUSSIA WOULD BE THE SIGNAL FOR A NEW WAR. AND THE RESULT OF THAT WAR WOULD BE THE END OF GERMANY. "(l6l This view Hitler has again and again reaffirmed. "We see in Bolshevism a bestial, mad doctrine which is a threat to us," he declared at Nuremberg on September 14, 1936.<l 7 > "We must regard Bolshevism abroad as our enemy I cannot make a pact with a regi,me whose first act is the liberation, not of the workers, hut of the inmates of gaols. ." And again, in the Reichstag on February 20, 1938 "With one single country alone we have refused to enter into relations. That State is Soviet Russia. We see in Bolshevism now more than ever before the incarnation of the forces of human destruction." Yet this was the Power with which, without the least warning, 8 and as the result of negotiations carried on in the most complete secrecy, the Nazis made a pact on August 23, 1939. The Pact itself was a complete reversal of the very principles which Hitler had put before the German people as the foundation of his movement from its earliest beginnings. Its conclusion made a complete mockery of the policy which underlay Nazi intervention in Spain and the signature of the Anti-Comintern Pact with Japan, and it removed the last shadow of foundation for Hitler's claim that NationalSocialism is the great bulwark against the spread of Communism in Europe. It is still quite possible, of course, that Hitler's real feelings about Bolshevism are expressed in Mein Kampf and that, if he succeeded in crushing the western democracies, he would then turn his foll forces eastward as laid down in his book. This possibility will not have escaped the astute master of the Kremlin. But one trouble with habitual liars is that they can never be believed even when they speak the truth because no one knows when they are speaking the truth. HITLER'S DEEDS THE BEER-BAI " I give you my word of honour that I will never in my life make a Putsch." PUTSCH l\' ovember. 1! Hitler to the Bavarian Mini ster of the Interior, November l!l22. (See page 4) '' You will see how untrue and unjust is the statement that the Revolution is directed against the German workers." Hitler wit! Ludendorf Hitler on May Day, 1933. (See page 5) '' How thankful I am to Providence that I may describe such a man as my friend ." Hitler to R ohm, January 30, 1934. ( 'ee page 6) HEADLINl :' We see in Bolshevism a bestial, mad doctrine I cannot make a pact with a regime whose first act is the liberation, not of the workers, but of the inmates of gaols." Hitler, September 14, 1936. (Seepage 8 ) " The formation of an alliance with Russia would be the signal for a new war And the result of that war would be the end of Germany ,, Hitler in Mein J(ampj. (See page 8 ) li'ROM "DAILY HERALD" Ma.y 5, 1933 HEADLJN"l FROM "DAILY THE RHINELAND " The German Government is prepared to accept not only the letter but the spirit of Locarno." Hitler, January 30, 1934 TELEGRAI July 2, 1934 " The German Government will uphold and fulfil all obligations ·arising out of the Locarno Treaty " Hitler, May 21, l!l3 5. (See page 16) A US TRI A RTBBENTB "The assertion that the German Reich intends to violate the Austrian State is absurd and cannot be substantiated.'' IN MOSCO Hitler, January 30, 1934 A uo11st. 1939 WITH STA