The following are the Ten Commandments of the German anti-Semites as published here in the Hitelerist organ “Der Angriff.” by Deputy Goebbels, the Berlin leader of the Hitlerist Party. Here they are:
“1. There can be no positive fighting against the Jews. The Jews are a negative, and this negative must be wiped out from the German calculation, or else it will put the calculation out for all time.
“2. It is impossible to argue with Jews on the Jewish question, because it is impossible to prove to anyone that it is one’s right and duty to put him out of harm’s way.
“3. In fighting the Jews, one must not allow them to use the methods which are permitted to any honest opponent, for the Jew is not an honest opponent. He will exploit your honorableness and your chivalry to trip you over.
“4. The Jew has no right to any say in German affairs. He is an alien, an outsider who merely enjoys our hospitality, and always abuses it.
“5. The co-called religious morality of the Jews is not moral, but an introduction to deceit. That is why it is not entitled to State protection.
“6. The Jew is not more clever than we are; he is only more cunning. His system cannot be destroyed economically, for economically he fights under an entirely different moral law to ours. It can be destroyed only by political methods.
“7. A Jew can never insult a German. To be libelled by Jews is only an honor for a German who fights the Jews.
“8. The value of any German or of any German movement is increased in proportion to the opposition from the Jews. If anyone is fought by the Jews it is all in his favor. Anyone who is not persecuted by the Jews, anyone who is praised by the Jews, is useless and harmful.
“9. The Jew always regards German questions from the Jewish point of view. That is why the truth is always the opposite to what the Jew says.
“10. Your answer to anti-Semitism must be yes or no. He who shields the Jews commits a crime against his own people. One can only be a slave of the Jews or an enemy of the Jews.”
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