by Joseph Goebbels
9 May 1943
The source: “Der Krieg und die Juden,” Der steile Aufstieg (Munich:
Zentralverlag der NSDAP., 1944), pp. 263-270.
The naïveté, not to mention ignorance, with which certain European circles
see the Jewish Question in the fourth year of this gigantic struggle is
astonishing. They cannot or will not see that this war is a war of the Jewish
race and its subject people against Western culture and civilization.
Everything that we Germans and Europeans, defenders of the principle of a moral
world order, hold dear is at risk. The above-mentioned circles are too inclined
to see the Jewish Question as a humanitarian issue. They make their judgments
on the feelings of the moment rather than on the knowledge and insight
resulting from clear and calm reason. It is clear that if during this war we
show the least weakening of our determination to resolve the Jewish Question,
the result will be the gravest danger to our people and Reich and all of
Europe.
Jewry wanted this war. Whether one looks to the plutocratic or the
bolshevist side of the enemy camp, one sees Jews standing in the foreground as
instigators, rabble-rousers and slave drivers. They organize the enemy’s war
economy and encourage plans to exterminate and destroy the Axis powers. England
and the USA recruit from among them bloodthirsty and vengeful agitators and
political lunatics, and they are the source of the terror commissars of the
GPU. They are the mortar that holds the enemy coalition together. In the
National Socialist Reich, they see a power that resists their drive for world
domination both militarily and intellectually. That explains their rage and
deep hatred. Do not think that the Old Testament tirades of their newspapers
and radio are merely political propaganda. They would carry it all out to the
letter, should they have the opportunity.
Our state’s security requires that we take whatever measures seem necessary
to protect the German community from their threat. That leads to some difficult
decisions, but they are unavoidable if we are to deal with the threat. This war
is a racial war. The Jews started it and they direct it. Their goal to destroy
and exterminate our people. We are the only force standing between Jewry and
world domination. If the Axis powers lose the war in Europe, no power on earth
could save Europe from the Jewish-Bolshevist flood. It may seem surprising that
such a small minority possesses such great power and is such a deadly danger.
But it is so. International Jewry uses certain criminal methods to gain world
domination that are not evident to uneducated nations. The same is true in
private life. The Jews do not enjoy economic success because they are more
intelligent than Gentiles, but rather because they follow a different moral
code. They attempt to conceal their methods for as long as possible, until it
is too late for the affected nation to defend itself. Then it takes a
revolution to dislodge them. We know how difficult and tiresome that is.
We constantly hear news that anti-Semitism is increasing in enemy nations.
The charges being made against the Jews are the same ones that were made here.
Anti-Semitism in enemy nations is not the result of anti-Semitic propaganda,
since Jewry fights that strongly. In the Soviet Union, it receives the death penalty.
Jewry does all it can to oppose anti-Semitism. The word Jew itself, for
example, is hardly to be found in the otherwise so talkative English and USA
newspapers, not to mention the Bolshevist press. Still, anti-Jewish attitudes
are growing among the enemy public. This is an entirely natural reaction to the
Jewish danger on the part of the affected peoples. In the long run, it does the
Jews no good to plead in parliament and the newspapers for tougher laws against
anti-Semitism, or to haul out the highest secular and spiritual dignitaries,
among them naturally the Archbishop of Canterbury, to say a good word for the
poor innocent persecuted Jews. They did that in Germany before 1933 too, but
the National Socialist revolution took place nonetheless.
None of the Führer’s prophetic words has come so inevitably true as his
prediction that if Jewry succeeded in provoking a second world war, the result
would be not the destruction of the Aryan race, but rather the wiping out of
the Jewish race. This process is of vast importance, and will have
unforeseeable consequences that will require time. But it can no longer be
halted. It must only be guided in the right direction. One must also be sure to
strike the weapon of public deception from Jewry’s hands, which it is
desperately using to save its skin. One can already see that in the face of
approaching catastrophe the Jews are shrinking into the background. They send
their pet Goy to the fore. It will not be long before they will not want to do
it any longer, and wash their hands in innocence.
As one has to grant, we have some experience in these matters, and are
taking action to be sure they do not succeed. The Jews will have to answer for
their countless crimes against the happiness and peace of mankind, and one day
the whole world will give them the penalty that they are suffering today in
Germany. We speak without resentment. The time is too grave to spin naive plans
of revenge. This is a world problem of the first order that can be solved by
the present generation, and must be solved by them. Sentimental considerations
have no part here. We see Jewry as the embodiment of a general world decline.
Either we will break this danger, or the peoples of the world will break under
it.
No one should say that winners are boastful. At present, we are the victors
only in our own nation. Our victory at home, however, drew upon us the diabolic
hatred of World Jewry, whose advance members the Jews still with us see
themselves as. They want to see the Axis powers defeated, for that is the only
way for them to regain their old privileges. It makes sense for us to secure
our rear so that we can continue the battle before us with full energy and
enthusiasm. When dealing with the Jews there are only two choices: to surrender
to them or to fight them. We have chosen the latter. As our enemy attacks
without mercy, so do we. The future will prove who is right. Developments to
far, however, seem to be more in our favor than the enemy’s. Opposition to the
Jews, not friendship with them, is growing around the world. We are convinced
that at the end of the war, Jewry will face a humanity that fully understands
the Jewish Question.
Recently a leading London newspaper, which is wholly under Jewish control,
printed an article that wondered at the alarming increase in anti-Semitism. It
received many letters in response, and had to admit that only a tiny percentage
took the Jewish side. The pro-Semitic letters, though the newspaper did not say
this, probably were written by the Jews themselves. The others made the
strongest attacks on Jewry, and the readership forced the paper to print some
of them. They included all the insults one could hope for. This anti-Semitism
is not racially grounded, and its roots are not at all clear, but one may still
establish with some satisfaction that healthy popular instincts are beginning
to manifest themselves even in enemy nations, Things are not much different in
the United States. One of the letters encouraged the newspaper to send
reporters to streetcars and trains. There they would hear numerous opinions
about the Jews that deserved more than ironic dismissal.
That is the way it normally begins. The Jews in England are reacting in the
usual ways. First they look injured and unjustly persecuted. In the synagogues,
the rabbis encourage people to be more careful in public, and to avoid
provocative behavior. Then they rent a few respected, but buyable leaders from
society, business or religious life to make their case. Their well-paid job is
to condemn anti-Semitism as a cultural disgrace that is the result of enemy
propaganda. They call for stronger laws against it. The poor Jews whine in
public about everything they have done for the country, what wonderful and
patriotic citizens they have always been and will continue to be, the important
offices they hold, etc. The innocent citizen is persuaded by a flood of words
that he must have been mistaken in always seeing Jews behind all major
political or economic crimes. Soon they find some high church leader who is
ready to condemn anti-Semitism as anti-Christian. By the end, not the Jews, but
their enemies are responsible for every national misfortune. Then the game
starts all over again.
One has to grant that extraordinarily clever tactics are being used, and that
it takes some intelligence or sound instincts to see behind the Jewish facade.
But here, too, the jug carries water until it breaks. International Jewry’s
attack on the culture and moral order of the world is cleverly concealed, but
not cleverly enough so that it cannot be seen through. One must keep at their
heels, and give them no rest when they begin to tire. They are virtuosos at the
art of transformation. They can appear in a thousand forms, yet are always the
same. If one has caught them, they claim injured innocence and send their guard
of pity on ahead to beg for mercy. But if one extends them even a finger of
pity, they chop the whole hand off. They must therefore be kept in the fear of
the Lord.
We know that they hate us from the depths of their souls. We take pleasure
in their hatred. There is nothing that they would not do to us if they had the
power. We cannot therefore give them even the slightest bit of power. More than
that, it is our duty to tell the world of their nature and their depravity. We
must again and again prove their sick role in beginning and carry on this war.
We must attack them incessantly, accuse them without pity of the crimes of
which they are guilty, until the nations begin to wake up. That may take a long
time, but it is worth it. We are dealing with the most dangerous enemy that
ever threatened the life, freedom, and dignity of humanity. There can be no
mercy. We have pity only for the countless millions of our own people and those
of other European nations who will be given over to the hate and destructive
will of this devilish race if we become weak and give up the battle. Those
Philistines who today are so eager to protect the Jews would be their first
victims.
We must all keep alert. We must be on guard against the insidious
cleverness of the international world enemy. In the depths of his soul, he
realizes that this war that he so frivolously began, expecting it to be the
last step to world domination, has instead become a war for his racial
existence. He desperately seeks to stop the inevitable march of events. It will
do him no good. We will keep at him. In the end, the Führer’s prophecy about
World Jewry in 1939, which they laughed at then, will come true.
The Jews laughed in Germany too when they first saw us. They are not
laughing any longer. They chose to wage war against us. But that war is turning
against them. When they planned a war to totally destroy the German nation,
they signed their own death warrant.
Here, too, world history will be the world court.
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