Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler, in an address to the Nazi Congress on German culture, last night attacked the Jews as having conducted “a veritable reign of terror” over german cultural life until it was “liberated” by the Nazis, who “saved humanity from madness and decadence.”
He declared that foreign countries were beginning to realize that the Third Reich enjoyed greater home support than did the “plutocratic democracies,” adding that the only domestic or outside opposition still encountered by the Nazi Reich now came above all from “international Jewish circles.”
“The Jew-democrats,” he declared, “can seek to distort our exploits, but the monuments which are being reared in the third Reich today speak for themselves and will remain the inalienable possession of western culture.”
Furthermore, Hitler asserted, “our Germano-Aryan culture” is utterly indifferent to the criticisms of “international Jewry.” He said: “The great mass of Jews is absolutely unproductive, and consequently feels itself attracted more to the primitive Negro tribes.”
The Jews carried on a long struggle to destroy the “Aryan” states and to appropriate German cultural life to themselves, Hitler said, and “if National Socialism had not triumphed in Germany and hurled to the ground the world’s enemy, the Jew, German art would also have been destroyed.”
Another speaker at the cultural session was Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi specialist in cultural questions, who made a vitriolic attack on “the idiot Jew-bastards and mulattoes.” The person of Jesus Christ, he said, was represented by the artists of all countries according to their own ideals, in conformity with their sense of racial beauty, and “not with the features of a Mulatto or even a Jew.”
In another speech today, Rosenberg asserted that England was undergoing a Jewish invasion. Judaism in England, he asserted “constitutes a second invasion of Britain after the Norman invasion.”
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