The following is clipped from an English newspaper. The clipping came to the office without identification of the newspaper it was taken from. With apologies for its anonymity, but not for its humor, the Jewish Daily Bulletin presents it as is:
You do not need to catch the Nazi off his verbal guard to gather flowers of absurdity; any speech of any of his leaders is brilliant with them.
In “Hail Hitler,” a little book published this week, excerpts from official ebullitions of Nazi genius have been collected.
Coming from many writers and speakers, including the Fuehrer himself, they are universally comic and self-contradictory.
The book is published by Christophers, at 2s. 6d. net. The sketches are by Mendoza.
For example:
“As we National-Socialists are convinced that we are right, we cannot bear with any one who maintains that he is right. For either if he is right, he must be a National-Socialist, or if he is not a National-Socialist, then he is not right.” . . .
(Dr. Goebbels, Minister for National Enlightenment, in a speech at the Sportpalast, Berlin, on March 21, 1934. Das Neue Tagebuch, March 31, 1934).
FRAMED TO KISS
“The Nordic mouth has further superiorities. Just as the red color has a stirring effect, the bright red mouth of the Nordics attracts and provokes kisses and courtship. The Nordic mouth is kiss-capable.”
(Professor Hermann Gauch, quoted in the New Republic, New York, April 25, 1934).
NAZI ARITHMETIC
“There still exist good-natured Germans who have not yet woken from their sleep and still say: ‘Yes, but there are some decent Jews, too.’ If every Nazi knew even one decent Jew, then, as there are 12,000,000 Nazis, there would be 12,000,000 decent Jews in Germany. But here we see how illogical these wiseacres are, for there are at most 600,000 Jews in Germany.”
(Cut Rosten, Das ABC des National-Socialismus.)
THE ARYAN MATE
“We demand that every true-blooded man, every heroic Aryan, shall marry only a blonde Aryan girl with blue eyes, open gaze, long oval face, pink-white skin, narrow nose, small mouth, and above all . . . with unimpeachable past.” . . .
(From Das Wissen der Nation, a scientific weekly, quoted in Nebelspalter, September 8, 1933).
THE WHOLE DUTY OF WOMAN
“We don’t want women with brains. We want Aryan babies.”
(A. prominent Nazi leader, quoted by Mrs. Cecil Chesterton. Evening Standard, August 28, 1933).
PEACE
“Any one who really and sincerely desires the victory of the pacifist idea must strive by every means after the conquest of the world by the Germans.”
(Adolf Hitler, “Mein Kampf,” 1933 edition, page 315).
NATURE’S COMPENSATIONS
“The Jew is built abnormally and contrary to nature. . . . His legs and feet are short and crooked and flat, his arms are unnaturally long. The Jew finds it difficult to walk, and he therefore waddles and rows himself along with his hands.”
(Leading article in Der Stuermer, edited by Julius Streicher, government commissioner for Franconia. No. 10 of 1934, March).
WHAT NATIONAL-SOCIALISM MEANS
“Ours is not a Socialism of theory but of practice. It is the heroic, manly Socialism that our Prussian kings once practiced. It is the soldierly Socialism of the Prussian Grenadiers.”
(Dr. Goebbels, Minister for National Enlightenment. Manchester Guardian, August 30, 1933).
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