Deploring the “definitely false picture of the racial fundamentals of National Socialism,” which he says has been spread abroad by “people skilled in the art of poisoning the wells,” Herr Walter Gross, head of the race political office of the Nazi Party, attempts to clear up with a sophism the Hitlerite view for popular consumption outside Germany’s borders.
In an article on “Race Price and Policy,” the pseudo-scientist Nazi, in typically heavy Prussian style, devotes himself to the thesis that Nazism stresses not the inferiority of races, but rather the differences between “Aryan” and other so-called races.
TREAT “GUESTS” WITH DUE
“We do not contemplate looking down upon those others,” the Herr Direktor of the race political office generously concedes. Without batting the proverbial eyelash, he adds, no doubt thinking of his Fatherland’s Jewish policy:
“We treat them with the same hospitality that is due to everyone that is the guest of our nation, and we respect what is distinctive in them just in the same way as we want them to respect what is distinctive in us. Thus the racial conception of National Socialism does not lead to hostility and mutual conflict, but to mutual respect, which alone is the basis of peaceful relations among peoples and nations.”
Herr Gross “explains” further:
MUST RETAIN DIFFERENCES
“We only emphasize the need of all races and nations of the earth retaining their distinctive blood quality in the way the Creator formed them, and we stress that it is impossible to go on overlooking this natural inequality of races and nations.
“National Socialism does not, therefore, speak of the inferiority of other groups of people, but only of their different quality, and it repudiates admixture as harmful for both.
“We Germans have after centuries of confusion recalled at last the distinctive value of our blood. We cannot imagine any longer that we should destroy this distinctiveness by senseless admixtures with members of foreign races. We are just as proud of our kind as the Mongolian or the Indian was of his when he dwelt among us as a guest. But that did not in the least, however, alter the political and human good relationship between our guests from all over the world and ourselves.”
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