by Joseph Goebbels
The historic responsibility of world Jewry for the
outbreak and widening of this war has been proven so clearly that it does not
need to be talked about any further. The Jews wanted war, and now they have it.
But the Führer’s prophecy of 30 January 1939 to the German Reichstag is also
being fulfilled: If international finance Jewry should succeed in plunging the
world into war once again, the result will be not the Bolshevization of the
world and thereby the victory of the Jews, but rather the destruction of the
Jewish race in Europe.
We are seeing
the fulfillment of the prophecy. The Jews are receiving a penalty that is
certainly hard, but more than deserved. World Jewry erred in adding up the
forces available to it for this war, and now is gradually experiencing the
destructon that it planned for us, and would have carried out without a second
thought if it had possessed the ability. It is perishing according its own law:
“An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.”
Every Jew is
our enemy in this historic struggle, regardless of whether he vegetates in a
Polish ghetto or carries on his parasitic existence in Berlin or Hamburg or
blows the trumpets of war in New York or Washington. All Jews by virtue of
their birth and their race are part of an international conspiracy against
National Socialist Germany. They want its defeat and annihilation, and do all
in their power to bring it about. That they can do nothing inside the Reich is
hardly a sign of their loyalty, but rather of the appropriate measures we took
against them.
One of these
measures is the institution of the yellow star that each Jew must wear. We
wanted to make them visible as Jews, particularly if they made even the least
attempt to harm the German community. It is a remarkably humane measure on our
part, a hygienic and prophylactic measure to be sure that the Jew cannot
infiltrate our ranks unseen to sow discord.
As the Jews
first appeared several weeks ago on the streets of Berlin graced with their
Jewish star, the initial reaction of the citizens of the Reich capital was
surprise. Only a few knew that there were still so many Jews in Berlin.
Everyone suddenly found someone in the neighborhood who seemed like a harmless
fellow citizen, who perhaps complained or criticized a bit more than normal, and
whom no one had thought to be a Jew. He had concealed himself, mimicked his
surroundings, adopting the color of the background, adjusted to the
environment, in order to wait for the proper moment. Who among us had any idea
that the enemy was beside him, that a silent or clever auditor was attending to
conversations on the street, in the subway, or in the lines outside cigarette
shops? There are Jews one cannot recognize by external signs. These are the
most dangerous. It always happens that when we take some measure against the
Jews, English or American newspapers report it the next day. Even today the
Jews still have secret connections to our enemies abroad and use these not only
in their own cause, but in all military matters of the Reich as well. The enemy
is in our midst. What makes more sense than to at least make this plainly
visible to our citizens?
In the first
days after the introduction of the Jewish star, newspaper sales in Berlin went
through the roof. Each Jew on the street bought a newspaper to conceal his mark
of Cain. As this was banned, one began to see Jews on the streets of the west
side of Berlin in the company of Gentile foreigners. These Jewish lackeys
actually should wear the Jewish star themselves. The excuse they give for their
provocative conduct is always the same: the Jews are after all human beings
too. We never denied that, just as we never denied the humanity of murders,
child rapists, thieves and pimps, though we never felt the need to parade down
the Kurfürstendamm with them! Every Jew is a decent Jew who has found a dumb
and ignorant goy who thinks him decent! As if that were a reason to give Jews a
kind of honorable escort. What nonsense.
The Jews
gradually are having to depend more and more on themselves, and have recently
found a new trick. They knew the good-natured German Michael in us, always
ready to shed sentimental tears for the injustice done to them. One suddenly
has the impression that the Berlin Jewish population consists only of little
babies whose childish helplessness might move us, or else fragile old ladies.
The Jews send out the pitiable. They may confuse some harmless souls for a
while, but not us. We know exactly what the situation is.
For their sake
alone we must win the war. If we lose it, these harmless-looking Jewish chaps
would suddenly become raging wolves. They would attack our women and children
to carry out revenge. There are enough examples in history. That is what they
did in Bessarabia and the Baltic states when Bolshevism marched in, even though
neither the people nor their governments had done anything to them. There is no
turning back in our battle against the Jews — even if we wanted to, which we do
not. The Jews must be removed from the German community, for they endanger our
national unity.
That is an
elementary principle of racial, national, and social hygiene. They will never
give us rest. If they could, they would drive one nation after another into war
against us. Who cares about their difficulties, they who only want to force the
world to accept their bloody financial domination? The Jews are a parasitic
race that feeds like a foul fungus on the cultures of healthy but ignorant
peoples. There is only one effective measure: cut them out.
How stupid and
thoughtless are the arguments of the backward friends of the Jews in the face
of a problem that has occupied mankind for millennia! How they would gape if
they could ever see their dear Jews in power! But that would be too late.That
is why it is the duty of a national leadership to take all necessary measures
to keep such a thing from happening. There are differences between people just
as there are differences between animals. Some people are good, others bad. The
same is true of animals. The fact that the Jew still lives among us is no proof
that he belongs among us, just as a flea is not a household pet simply because
it lives in a house. When Mr. Bramsig or Mrs. Knöterich feel pity for an old
woman wearing the Jewish star, they should also remember that a distant nephew
of this old woman by the name of Nathan Kaufmann sits in New York and has
prepared a plan by which all Germans under the age of 60 will be sterilized.
They should recall that a son of her distant uncle is a warmonger named Baruch
or Morgenthau or Untermayer who stands behind Mr. Roosevelt, driving him to
war, and that if they succeed, a fine but ignorant U.S. soldier may one day
shoot dead the only son of Mr. Bramsig or Mrs. Knöterich. It will all be for
the benefit of Jewry, to which this old woman also belongs, no matter how
fragile and pitiable she may seem.
If we Germans
have a fateful flaw in our national character, it is forgetfulness. This
failing speaks well of our human decency and generosity, but not always for our
political wisdom or intelligence. We think everyone else as is good natured as
we are. The French threatened to dismember the Reich during the winter of
1939/40, saying that we and our families would have to stand in lines before
their field kitchens to get something warm to eat. Our army defeated France in
six weeks, after which we saw German soldiers giving bread and sausages to
hungry French women and children, and gasoline to refugees from Paris to enable
them to return home as soon as possible, there to spread at least some of their
hatred against the Reich.
That’s how we
Germans are. Our national virtue is our national weakness. We do not want to
change all that much, and as long as our world-famed good nature does no great
harm, why should we? Klopstock gave us some good advice, however: don’t be too
good natured, since our enemies are not noble enough to overlook our mistakes.
If this advice
applies anywhere, it apples to our relations with the Jews. Carelessness here
is not only a weakness, it is disregard of duty and a crime against the
security of the state. The Jews long for one thing: to reward our foolishness
with bloodshed and terror. It must never come to that. One of the most
effective defenses is an unforgiving, cold hardness against the destroyers of
our people, against the instigators of the war, against those who would benefit
if we lose, and therefore also against the victims, if we win.
Therefore, we
must say again and yet again:
1. The Jews are
our destruction. They started this war and direct it. They want to destroy the
German Reich and our people. This plan must be blocked.
2. There are no
distinctions between Jews. Each Jew is a sworn enemy of the German people. If
he does not make his hostility plain, it is only from cowardice and slyness,
not because he loves us.
3. The Jews are
to blame for each German soldier who falls in this war. They have him on their
conscience, and must also pay for it.
4. If someone
wears the Jewish star, he is an enemy of the people. Anyone who deals with him
is the same as a Jew and must be treated accordingly. He earns the contempt of
the entire people, for he is a craven coward who leaves them in the lurch to
stand by the enemy.
5. The Jews
enjoy the protection of our enemies. That is all the proof we need to show how
harmful they are for our people.
6. The Jews are
the enemy’s agents among us. He who stands by them aids the enemy.
7. The Jews
have no right to claim equality with us. If they wish to speak on the streets,
in lines outside shops or in public transportation, they should be ignored, not
only because they are are simply wrong, but because they are Jews who have no
right to a voice in the community.
8. If the Jews
appeal to your sentimentality, realize that they are hoping for your
forgetfulness, and let them know that you see through them and hold them in
contempt.
9. A decent
enemy will deserve our generosity after we have won. The Jew however is not a
decent enemy, though he tries to seem so.
10. The Jews
are responsible for the war. The treatment they receive from us is hardly
unjust. They have deserved it all.
It is the job
of the government to deal with them. No one has the right to act on his own,
but each has the duty to support the state’s measures against the Jews, to
defend them with others, and to avoid being misled by any Jewish tricks.
The security of the state requires that of us all.
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