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This is
an interview with Ludwig Ruckdeschel, former Gauleiter, member of the Reichstag,
Waffen-SS, company commander in the 12. SS Division Hitlerjugend and member of
the SA (Sturmabteilung).
What was your impression of the Third Reich, and living through the war?
Ruckdeschel: That question could take days to
answer. To sum it up for you, I grew up when Germany was ruled by a king. He was
a good ruler that helped grow Germany into a world power. WW1 brought much
hardship and misery to us, causing many to lose faith in what they were fighting
for. In came the communist agitators, led by jews, who helped cause the downfall
of this monarchy. The Weimar era was nothing but the jews in Germany having a
heyday, getting friends into very high places, and bringing more and more jews
from the east to take good jobs.
Ludwig Ruckdeschel
I saw
such immorality while I was a student; young girls were forced to use their
bodies in ways that brought shame to them. Sex was the watchword of the Weimar
era, foreigners were coming to Germany (many from non-European lands) to feed
upon our people for their perverse pleasure. I was even approached by several
homosexual men, I was so angry to see this I started looking for solutions.
Germany was in a state of decay that seemed to just keep getting worse. I grew
up a christian and knew this was not what God or nature intended.
I saw a
foreign people who settled in my country, now starting to take it over. There
were cases of Germans being thrown out of businesses just so the new jewish
owner could bring in more friends and family. Sadly, this was a common
occurrence, as during the war, most jews stayed on the home front combining
their money to buy businesses where the owners had gone to the front to fight.
German
business’s now became the instrument of jewish power and influence, most ill
gotten by preying on war widows and children who only saw the money and not the
future of their nation being bought up. So basically Germany was becoming a
country of slaves, who owed their existence to a foreign race, who was working
to make money off of us, while slowly destroying us.
The
average German was on their knees, humbling themselves and praying to the God of
our fathers to save them from this degeneracy. That prayer was answered in the
rise of one man, Adolf Hitler. Therefore, this started my career, as he took the
reins of German politics.
I always
knew things were not right with my nation, so I started to look for ways to help
awaken my people from the sleep or spell they had been in. I joined right wing
organizations, as they seemed to be along my same thinking. I saw for the first
time how powerful the jews were, and they had only been in Germany for a few
hundred years. Many organizations had jews in them, and while they pretended to
be nationalistic, they seemed to work against the very idea from the inside.
That is one small reason the Führer banned or incorporated many of the
organizations into the NSDAP. I went to hear Hitler speak in Bayreuth and was
immediately emboldened; now I knew what party to belong to.
Did you ever meet the Führer in person?
Ruckdeschel: Yes, many times. I spoke with him the
very first night I heard him speak. There was not the usual leftist
interruption’s that I had heard so much about. I thanked him for such an
insightful talk about how to stop the decay of our nation and bring it back to
God. He asked me what I did for a living. I told him I was a sales person, he
laughed and said the party could use more sales people to get the word out. I
accepted his offer and asked how I could help. I was introduced to some people
who put me to work. That was my first meeting with the Führer, but was not my
last, I saw him many times and I believe got to know him very well.
The Allies accused you and others of supporting a regime that murdered millions,
attempted to take over the world, kill jews, and terrorize everyone. How do you
respond to these claims?
Ruckdeschel: It’s rubbish, it is good to be the
victor, you can make any rule you want, and tell any story you would like, and
as long as you control what people learn, you control what people know. After
the war things were very convoluted, many people were forced to say things that
were not true, some people thought if they told the victors what they wanted to
hear, all would be good, they could just go back to the way it used to be. I
visited a few of our camps during the war, and can tell you with a good
conscience nothing bad was happening in them. We are hearing more and more how
jews and others were mistreated in the camps, that they were gassed, and burned
alive. None of this is the truth.
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SS Division Hitlerjugend receiving Iron Cross awards, 1944
The
truth is Germany needed every able-bodied person to help with the war effort,
even prisoners. I was present during meetings with Himmler, and if the plan were
to kill jews, he would have brought it up. All I ever heard him mention was that
the death tolls in the camps, due to dirty prisoners and sickness, had to be
brought down with better medical staff and conditions. Does that sound like he
was trying to kill people?
I
witnessed very healthy jews, happily working in our camps. They had been told
that they were being moved out of the Reich to the East, and they would be taken
care of and reimbursed for lost property and possession’s once the war was over.
Our goal was to get an alien people, who seemed to wage a secret war on our
values and culture, to go back from where they came.
In one
of our main camps, Auschwitz, there was a swimming pool, kindergarten, hospital,
brothel, soccer field, and store. If people were to be killed, why go to the
trouble to build all this? This camp was built around factories, and most all
inmates worked in these factories, for pay. Never was it our intention to kill
people, only to remove them from any position of influence over us. I will stand
before my creator with a clean conscience that we did nothing wrong to these
people. NS is a belief in peace, beauty, health, and honor; never would we have
embarked to harm others. It was only due to unfortunate circumstances, caused by
the Allies, that created the chaos at the very end that claimed so many lives in
these camps due to no food or medicine.
When the
war was over the allied interrogators, who were mostly jewish or German
communists who left to serve the allied cause, beat me and threatened me with
all sorts of torture. Being in the party leadership, I was expected to divulge
all sorts of supposed secrets and intrigue. They wanted to know who was sleeping
with who, who ordered what, and where could they find so and so. I had no
answers for them and it is a wonder I was not taken out and shot, or turned over
to the Russians. So in short, I do not believe that Germany committed any
crimes, we acted quite correctly, and any excesses that may have occurred were
only isolated and were not state policy.
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SS Division Hitlerjugend insignia
What was it like being in the SS?
Ruckdeschel: You have to think of the SS as being
a large, elite, bureaucratic organization. There was many branches, all with the
aim of helping its members. I am one of the few political leaders to have served
at the front and come under fire. I was a very early member of the SS, and
joined at the request of RF Himmler, being made an officer due to my level of
education. Being in the SS opened up many doors for me that took me to the
Reichstag, political leadership, then a GL.
When war
broke out, I was assigned to the Totenkopf div, then drafted into the Wehrmacht
to assist their propaganda company, then sent to the LSSAH where I was placed in
a front line combat unit, I was also able to help build the HJ Panzer div. I was
badly wounded, losing this arm in combat. Due to this, I was again back on the
home front; I was again made the GL of Bayreuth at the end of the war. Due to me
being in the SS, I was labeled a war criminal, which was quite ironic as the
Allies committed so many crimes against us, that if we would have won, we would
have had our London, Moscow, and Washington war crimes tribunals.
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I am
very proud of my service in the SS. I felt like this was a good way to find
balance between life. It was a religious order, with a back to the ancestor’s
idea, but with an eye toward a bright, hopeful future, full of life for our
people and service to our creator. When I try to explain this to others, I get a
blank stare that tells me our enemies have done well with their “re-education”
programs. Himmler was one of the warmest and compassionate leaders I have met.
The stories told about him today are far from the truth, and nothing but the
victors trying to justify their war of aggression against us. They need to make
it look like we were a threat to their people’s existence and actively working
to destroy them, all of our leaders have been made into monsters serving
absolute evil.
It is a
good tactic to scare people from searching for answers as to what this was all
about. We were the evil bad people, and the Allies were the brave saviors,
that’s all the sheep need to hear. I have attended a few veterans’ meetings and
am no longer appalled at the horror stories these men and their wives tell
regarding treatment by these victors.
Who would you say was worse, the Soviets or western allies?
Ruckdeschel: In my mind, they were equally evil.
The western allies, led by men like “bomber Harris” openly advocated, for the
first time in modern war, plans to kill civilians through aerial bombings.
Hundreds of thousands of civilians, all over Europe, were killed by allied
bombs. The Allies started the war, started bombing cities first, targeted
civilians first, and raped and looted their way through Western Europe
destroying treasures that will never been seen again.
The
Soviets perhaps were worse, where a jewish leader, Illya Ehrenburg,
openly called for the rape and murder of German women, something many of his
soldiers were happy to do. The Soviets were clearly ready to attack us in 1941
to wipe us out, we hit them before they could carry this out. From the outset,
the Soviet soldier was cruel and devious. Killing wounded prisoners and even
their own civilians.
Many of
their commissar’s were jews, as communism owes its roots to jews like Marx,
Lenin, and Trotsky. It was not uncommon for our soldiers to capture these
monsters and shoot them out right after interrogation. They were pure evil, and
a curse upon God’s earth. I should like to say, the Soviets claim that we killed
30 plus millions of their population, making it into another “holocaust” if you
will.
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I was on
the Russian front, fought the soviet soldier, and interacted with the Russian
people. I can tell you with a clean conscience that we treated the population
well. They did the same to us. Many a time did German doctor’s care for the
needs of the Russian population. In addition, they hated the partisans, who were
fanatical communists or jews more times than not, and preyed upon the civilian
population as much as they did us.
Sadly, I
believe, and have heard from people who escaped after the war, that the Soviets
purged the civilian population of anyone who was even accused of being nice to
Germans. They then blame these missing people on us as having been murdered or
made slaves. As proof of our interaction with the Russians just look at a German
soldier’s private photo album, you will no doubt see photos of happy, smiling,
and friendly people being nice to our soldiers and vis versa.
Speaking of crimes, do you believe Germany did anything wrong? The vast majority
of people believe Germany waged wars of aggression, killed innocents, committed
all sorts of war crimes, and then brushed it off as if it never happened or was
no big deal. Sorry to keep asking but this is why National Socialism has such a
bad reputation.
Ruckdeschel: I really do hate when I have been
asked this. Again, this question could take days to explain. I will try to be
brief, as I need to eat and rest. I was placed in positions to where I was a
witness to the war on most every front. I was a leader with ties to the
military, armament’s, the home front, and close to the Führer himself. If
Germany were guilty of any of these, I would have seen it, and heard about it.
There were rumors passed by some, due to enemy radio propaganda that cast us as
criminals, some in our General staff even believed this non-sense, and were too
stupid to see it was part of the enemies’ grand strategy to justify a war that
we did not want to fight. Stories were spread that we were killing jews,
gypsies, homosexuals, priests, and prisoners.
I can’t
say it enough, there was no policy to kill these people. We had to be firm, move
them away from us, and punish them for crimes. The Allies had to make it seem
like we were a threat to the world, so they have to fight us as hard as
necessary no matter what the casualties. They claim we shot prisoners. On very
few occasions, there might have been angry, battle shocked soldiers who did,
however it was not policy. Civilians’ were sometimes hung due to sabotage or
some other crimes, every nation has had to deal with these issues, and the
outcome is the same. When we did it, it was a “crime”. We bombed cities, only
because they were made front line fortresses and heavily defended.
In
Warsaw our LW dropped warnings for the people to leave to avoid civilian
casualties, which the Polish leadership refused to let people leave saying they
needed them to help defend the capital. The French bombed our cites and invaded
parts of our western border, destroying what they could in 1939. The English
started the terror bombing well before we hit London in ’40 or any of their
cities for that matter.
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Everything Germany did that seems “wrong” was in response to something our
enemies did first. I was in the TK div and heard about the shooting of prisoners
at Le Paradise, the details were sketchy, as the RF did not want to be bothered
about British claims when they were clearly committing war crime after war crime
against us.
British
soldiers were accused of using the same tricks their fathers did in the first
war, using bullets reversed so they caused more traumatic injuries in our
soldiers. They shot and killed soldiers who were under a white flag of truce,
and French civilians claimed to have been roughed up by allied soldiers as they
waited for our arrival, a few being shot and killed. This is just one of
hundreds of examples German soldiers found themselves in, which then caused a
reaction. Our government got to the point of no longer lodging protests as they
went nowhere, but let the British accuse us and we had to be front and center,
often not believed. Such is the power of influence.
What was your impression of the Führer?
Ruckdeschel: I am proud to be called a National
Socialist because of him. This movement he helped found will one day be the
greatest blessing to this earth and all of its people. The world just does not
know it yet. I may sound like an old, overzealous, and eccentric person, but I
saw something in this belief that works. Hitler was one of the most kind,
intelligent, and caring men I have ever met. On the outside, he always seemed
focused and ready to face the fight, “historians” have called this an example of
his evilness.
I saw
his inside too; he always cared about us, our families, and made sure we had
everything we needed. He cared for the poor, not just in Germany, but also in
all of Europe. After the fall of Poland, one of his first acts was to set aside
funds to start rebuilding Warsaw and other cities damaged. The same thing in
France, a first act was to move in the Red Cross to help shelter and feed the
French people. He authorized the release of some POWs to help their families,
and asked for volunteers to go into these nations to help our brothers and
sisters rebuild from a war forced on them by their ignorant leaders.
National
Socialism started as a German movement, but in no way were we elitist about it;
we wanted all of Europe to unite to help us secure a bright future for our whole
continent. The anger from the nations we occupied is quite surprising to me. I
know no one wants to have their country invaded, but we were fighting a war we
didn’t ask for. We treated them very well, and I can only think that it was the
Allies who drummed up all the anti-German sentiment, and human nature is to be
glad an occupier is gone, even if he was good to you. Communists and others
opposed to us politically really whipped up the civilians after the war to make
it seem like we oppressed them all. They built up such hatred, that what was
done to those young girls who’s only “crime” was having a German boyfriend is a
stain on the honor of their nation. I saw on TV where some were even killed. All
because of blind hate.
I am
sorry I get carried away while talking about this, not too many people ask these
questions where I am free to give an honest response. In today’s “democracies”
telling the truth will get you in trouble with the government, with all the
freedom they are trying to protect.
Even at
the very end, Hitler was concerned with his people. The deaths were very hard on
him; he could not bring himself to see the devastation. He lamented once he felt
responsible for all this since it was our attack on Poland that started things
in motion. He was second guessing himself, but I think he knew the Allies wanted
war and they used Poland as the means to that end. Poland was refusing to do
anything about the border incursions, attacks on Germans, and made it clear they
wanted to fight us to take more land. Our attack against them, which the whole
Reichstag supported after being presented with the evidence, was more to protect
Germany and our borders more than anything else. Even reclaiming our land stolen
by Versailles was a secondary reason.
Hitler
loved all of nature, he wouldn’t hurt a fly. He loved all animals and often
liked to send us on zoo trips and to wildlife parks. He wanted to reverse some
of the ravages left from the first war to our forests and set the HJ and BDM to
work planting trees all over the Reich. Swamps were cleaned up, waterways made
safer for wildlife and man. Health was put at the forefront of everyone’s goals.
A healthy people are a happy people he always said.
Women
were encouraged to not smoke, drinking heavily was frowned upon. Sex was turned
back into something healthy that men and women in love engaged in. A woman’s
body was a holy temple to be given to her mate, not a tool of jewish degeneracy.
Women, for the first time were encouraged to be anything they wanted to be, with
the most honorable choice being a mother to the future of our people. The Führer
was loved because of this wholesomeness he brought. He was one of us, and never
let us forget we are servants of our people, not lords over them.
What was it like being a Gauleiter?
Ruckdeschel: It was hard work, really. Being a GL
is like being a governor in the states. I was responsible for my gau, or state.
I had to deal with things like infrastructure, business, education, and anything
internal with my subordinates. Laws had to be enforced, and sometimes I had to
step in to act as judge. There were very many personalities to deal with, some
good, some bad, but we had to make it work for the benefit of our people.
The war
brought many hardships and derailed many of the plans we had, I saw people
helping each other like never before, that helped Germany rebuild even after all
we had been through. With that, my friend, I must end this, as I am tired. I
hope I have given you some insight into life back then that you will take this
knowledge and help make a brighter future for this world.
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