Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust by Beth A. Griech-Polelle;

Author:Beth A. Griech-Polelle;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781350158641
Publisher: Bloomsbury UK (Minor Textbooks)
Published: 2022-12-07T00:00:00+00:00

For Your Consideration

Below is an excerpt from Hitler’s Secret Conversations of November 29–30, 1944. Hitler was accustomed to lecturing his dinner guests late into the night on whatever topics suited him. The talks were noted by a secretary seated discretely out of the way and were later transcribed and saved for posterity. On this particular evening, Hitler expostulates on Jesus, Christianity, and its relationship with Communism. His conversation is interrupted by Martin Bormann, whose comments are also provided. As you read this excerpt, what does Hitler believe about Jesus’s ancestry? What does he think of Paul of Tarsus? How does he connect Christianity with Communism? What does Bormann have to say regarding the relationship of Jews-Communism-Christianity?

“Jesus was most certainly not a Jew. The Jews would never have handed one of their own people to the Roman courts; they would have condemned him themselves. It is quite probable that a large number of the descendants of Roman legionaries, mostly Gauls, were living in Galilee, and Jesus was probably one of them. His mother may well have been a Jewess.

Jesus fought against the materialism of his age, and, therefore, against the Jews.

Paul of Tarsus, who was originally one of the most stubborn enemies of the Christians, suddenly realized the immense possibilities of using, intelligently and for other ends, an idea which was exercising such great powers of fascination. He realized that the judicious exploitation of this idea among non-Jews would give him far greater power in the world than would the promise of material profit to the Jews themselves. It was then that the future St. Paul distorted with diabolical cunning the Christian idea. Out of this idea, which was a declaration of war on the golden calf, on the egotism and materialism of the Jews, he created a rallying point for slaves of all kinds against the elite, the masters and those in dominant authority. The religion fabricated by Paul of Tarsus, which was later called Christianity, is nothing but the Communism of today.

Bormann intervened. Jewish methods, he said, have never varied in their essentials. Everywhere they have stirred up the plebs against the ruling classes. Everywhere they have fostered discontent against the established power. For these are the seeds which produce the crop they hope later to gather. Everywhere they fan the flames of hatred between peoples of the same blood. It is they who invented class-warfare, and the repudiation of this theory must therefore always be an anti-Jewish measure. In the same way, any doctrine which is anti-Communist, any doctrine which is anti-Christian must, ipso facto, be anti-Jewish as well. The National Socialist doctrine is therefore anti-Jewish in excelsis, for it is both anti-Communist and anti-Christian. National Socialism is solid to the core, and the whole of its strength is concentrated against the Jews, even in matters which appear to have a purely social aspect and are designed for the furtherance of the social amenities of our own people. The Führer concluded:

Burgdorff has just given me a paper which deals with the relationship between Communism and Christianity.

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