Seven Types of Atheism by John Gray

Author:John Gray [Gray, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780241199428
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2018-04-26T05:00:00+00:00

BOCKELSON, HITLER AND THE NAZIS

Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen is not someone whose name will be immediately recognized. For the few who know of him today, he was an aristocratic Prussian army officer and author of Diary of a Man in Despair, a ferocious denunciation of Hitler and Nazism, who was arrested on his estate in October 1944 and some months later died in the Dachau concentration camp. But Reck-Malleczewen was also the author of a lesser-known work, a study of Anabaptist Münster he called Bockelson: a tale of mass insanity. In the entry in the Diary for 11 August 1936, he wrote:

I have been working on my book about the Münster city-state set up by the Anabaptist heretics in the sixteenth century. I read accounts of this ‘Kingdom of Zion’ by contemporaries, and I am shaken. In every respect, down to the most ridiculous details, that was a forerunner of what we are now enduring … As in our case, a misbegotten failure conceived, so to speak, in the gutter, became the great prophet, and the opposition simply disintegrated, while the rest of the world looked on in astonishment and incomprehension … As with us, the masses were drugged; folk festivals, useless construction, anything and everything, to keep the man in the street from a moment’s pause to reflect …

The fact that the Münster propaganda chief, Dusentschnur (sic), limped like Goebbels is a joke which history spent four hundred years preparing … A few things have yet to happen to complete the parallel. In the besieged Münster of 1534, the people were driven to swallow their own excrement, to eat their own children. This could happen to us too, just as Hitler and his sycophants face the same inevitable end as Bockelson …14

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