The Lightning and the Sun by Savitri Devi

Author:Savitri Devi [Savitri Devi]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Genghis Khan, Adolf Hitler, Akhenaton, World War II, National Socialism, Traditionalism, Hinduism
ISBN: 9781935965558
Publisher: Counter-Currents Publishing
Published: 2015-02-18T08:00:00+00:00

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Adolf Hitler’s second and even more shattering experience of the horror of the present Age began on the 10th of November 1918, as he stood, half-blind from the effects of poisonous gas, among his wounded comrades in a hospital hall at Pasewalk in Pomerania, and heard from the clergyman the latest news: the “November Revolution” and Germany’s capitulation, the tragic end of the First World War.

More than four years before, he had joined the war with enthusiasm, as a volunteer in a Bavarian regiment, not in an Austrian one, clearly showing thereby that he was prepared to die anytime for the German people and “for the Reich that embodied them,”330 though not for “the state of the Habsburgs”—that artificial state of many nationalities. For he considered the war in no way as an Austrian concern, but as a struggle of the German people (including, naturally, those of Austria) “for their existence”331—as a just war. And, he had done his duty thoroughly, faithfully. And although he had, for months already (especially since the general strike of 1917), been fearing—feeling—that some diabolical traitors’ intrigues were being carried on to rob the German front-soldier of a victory which he well deserved, yet he had not expected such an end, and so suddenly . . .

The grief, the indignation and temporary despair that took him over as he abruptly acquired “the most horrible certitude in his life”332 are so eloquently described in Mein Kampf that nothing can throw more light upon the future Führer’s state of mind than an extensive quotation of his own words:

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