A basic pillar of the National Socialist world-view is the race idea. So it is no wonder that it is attacked by all who have malicious intent toward National Socialist Germany. These are the emigrants. Also, there are those already affected by the race laws: the Jews. Finally, there are those who believe these race ideas undermine their dogmas and teachings and hence reduce their power. That is political Catholicism, various Protest zealots and scientific individuals.
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It seems somewhat comical when, amid this agitation from abroad, a publishing house in Prague calls itself „Publishing House for Truth“ and reports in its publications:
„The myth of blood is proclaimed from Germany. Blood should bind people and not, as we believe, humanity and solidarity. The smell of blood rises. As in the Middle Ages when people were sacrificed because of the belief in witches, now tens of thousands of the innocent are sacrificed because of the belief in race.” (Dr. Hugo Iltis: „Racism under the Cloak of Science“ in „Race in Science and Politics“, Publishing House for Truth, Prague)
A man from whose mouth one should really expect the truth, the Bishop of Debreczen, Desider Balthaser, writes in a Swiss emigrant publication:
„The events in Germany have shown the world what a dangerous poison racism is for any people that is infected with it. Racism must be viewed as an infectious disease at the present time of grave crisis, a time of struggle for the existence of individuals and peoples. It comes down to immunizing the peoples against it just like an infectious disease.“ (Dr. Desider Balthasar: „The Threat against Christianity from Race Delusion and Jewish Persecution“, Vita Nova Press, Lucerne, 1035, p. 8-9).
That there are unfortunately still several such strange representatives of truth in church-political circles is proven by the writings of the Jesuit friar Friedrich Muckermann in his essay „Why Denominations?“
„Can a reasonable man, if he has a mere notion of Christianity, imagine that a faithful Christian could trade faith in the living God in favor of a vague affirmation of the blood, that he would give up the birth right of his spirit in favor of biological heredity of blood, the heroic ideal of the saints in favor of the practical ideal of racial improvement, the splendor of the mother of God in favor of the earthly mother, who by herself alone will always fall to the most depressing, darkest manifestations of deeply sunken, erotically falsified pagan cults.“ (F. Muckermann: „Why Denominations?“, Akadem Press, Bonifatius Association, Paderborn, 1934, p. 910).
Imputations and distortions abound in the above quoted writings. But the greatest insolence lies in covering this political agitation with the cloak of objective science simply in order to thereby make this agitation more effective. In the mentioned publication „Race in Science and Politics“ it is written:
„But a wild wind from abroad comes to us, so it is the duty of native scientists to speak a clear and liberating word. This duty has indeed been fulfilled by Czechoslovakian science, and indeed in the most dignified and at the same time responsible form, in that the Czech academy itself had its second class produce a book representing the collective work of six experts that comes to the conclusion already clear from the title: ‘The Equality of the European Races and the Paths to their Perfection’.“ (p. 12-13)
„Racism is no science and has nothing to do with science. It is nothing but a malicious and dangerous weapon for political struggle. In today’s Germany one admits that. The manner in which racist politicians use this dangerous weapon, this „intellectual poison gas“, against all peoples and human groups they wish to kill economically or politically, should be explained on hand of the following quotations from both main works of German political racism.“ (ibidem, p. 41/42.)
This pitiful attempt is made against the Führer’s book and Alfred Rosenberg’s book „The Myth of the Twentieth Century“. It ends with the proclamation: „Let us defend ourselves against the intellectual poison gas of racism before it is too late“. (Dr. Wolf Bodansky: „Racism – Intellectual Poison Gas“ in „Race in Science and Politics“.)
We can be certain that even at home, decades of educational work, perhaps even generations, will be required before the idea of race thoroughly permeates the thinking of our intellectual sciences, our educational sciences, our historical thought and above all our practical action.
Until then proponents of old world-view positions will again and again assault the race idea. Liberalism, Marxism and Jewry were opponents of National Socialism. Just how low the opponents of the National Socialist race idea can sink in their methods is shown when they try to portray and belittle the National Socialist race idea as liberal, Marxist or even Jewish. The Franciscan friar Dr. Desiderius Breitenstein writes:
„Marxism based the collective on an economic basis (economic view of history). The absolutist race idea derives the collective from the „blood-determined basis of all cultural activity“ (biological world-view)… It is an irony of time that two intellectual foundations touch each other so closely despite the sharpest contradictions.“ (Dr. Breitenstein: „Intellect or Blood.“ Bonifatius Printers, Paderborn 1934. p. 8).
„Racial biology historically continues the materialistic view of history, except that the economic basis is replaced with the blood- determined foundation… The absolutist, racial-biological worldview ultimately does not escape from materialistic origins… In summary, it must be stated that liberalism lives on in the racial-biological world-view despite all utterances to the contrary… Those who again and again support their world-view foundation with Friedrich II, Friedrich Nietzsche, Paul de LaGarde and Houston Stewart Chamberlain prove themselves to be perpetuators of liberalism.“ (ebidem, p. 14-15)
The licentiate Kehnscherper even sinks to the following assertion:
„If one wants to know the results of the one-sidedly taught, believed and lived myth of the blood, based on the foundation of an appropriate, godless blood honor, then one should look at the history and lifeview of the Jewish people. Then one will be cured for all time.“ (Kehnscherper: „Myth of the Blood.” p. 25).
Those who find the accusation that the race idea is liberal, Marxist or Jewish too transparent, seek its rejection with other reasons. One says the race idea is an unrealistic construction, the other tries his luck with psychoanalysis and claims the race idea stems from an inferiority complex. Still another attempts to frighten the German folk away from the race idea by claiming that history proves rule on the basis of race leads to chaos and rebellion. Race and blood are said to be formless and drive-based, something that must be contained by intellect and religion. In Germanic life these chaotic forces had supposedly been alive and then purified by the missionaries.
Yes, the tactics go so far as to make the attempt to blame the great scandals of the church on the carriers of „noble blood. The cathedral provost Simon even had the audacity to write that „the low points in the church’s history were for the most part due to people whose noble blood was beyond doubt.“
So far we have dealt with enemies of the National Socialist race idea who were not interested in an objective debate, but who solely tried to achieve their intended objectives with agitation, distortion and falsification. Now we will deal with hostile forces who try to prove the National Socialist race idea untenable with a line of objections that appear objective. These are representatives of so-called „intellect“ in various camps. They believe in the name of „intellect“ that they must warn humanity against the race faith that supposedly rejects intellect and only recognizes blood and the biological, and through this rejection Of the intellect allows dumb drive to rule and hence thrust present Germany back into the biological materialism of Darwin and Haeckel of the 19th century.
Before these opponents speak, let us say one thing right off: all of them, whether they know it or not, have fallen victim to a fundamental error.
All of them continue to think within the philosophical systems or dogmatic convictions passed down for centuries. These systems tear man apart into body and soul, matter and mind, nature and supernatural. They think these opposites would attack each other precisely within man himself, so it is a moral duty to overcome body, matter and nature in order to help soul, intellect and the supernatural to victory.
The followers of these teachings do not understand that this opposition is overcome in the race idea and bridged over. For them, the race concept only encompasses one side of man, namely nature, the biological, the flesh, the body, the physical. So for them, the race concept necessarily stands in opposition to intellect, soul and the supernatural.
For them, the predominance of the race idea means „blood delusion“, „materialism“ and „biology“, resulting in the decline of intellect, barbarism and atheism. Because these opponents of the National Socialist race idea continue to think in terms of the above opposites, they do not understand or they do not wish to understand that in the „race of a man“ his intellect, his character and his moral values are very much included along with „mere drives, feelings and instincts“ as a united, living, whole personality.
The transforming, revolutionary force of the National Socialist race idea in occidental thought rests, aside from its numerous political population ramifications, essentially in overcoming these old teachings of the opposition between matter and intellect, body and soul.
Enemies who do not even understand the National Socialist race idea and who misconstrue it as something materialistic, simply blame National Socialism for their own distortion in that they claim that National Socialism, Rosenberg, Günther and the other race researches worship „blood delusion“ and a „flat materialism“. In essence, this agitation is nothing but a painful self-incrimination, for these opponents only attack their own distortions.
How fitting our observations for many proponents of religious dogma are, is shown by the words of the Franciscan friar Breitenstein in his pamphlet „Intellect or Blood?“ (p. 32):
„How do soul and body, blood and spirit stand toward each other? Christianity does not recognize any predominance by blood, much less its absoluteness. In Christianity the spirit has uncontested superiority, absolute priority. Body and blood belong to the earthly realm, soul and spirit to the beyond. God has created man in his own image and God is spirit. Therefore, blood can never put spirit in its service… Two worlds stand opposed here: the blood and race world-view which gives priority to the biological values of race, and the spiritual-metaphysical which considers moral values… as the highest… For Christianity race can never be a concept of moral value….“
Individual German scientists who have still not embraced the race idea are people who stand firm to those old, passed down teachings of opposition and to a one-sided concept of spirit stemming from the German idealism of the previous century.
When objective struggle does not lead to success, then the church always tries to carry on the struggle with the special weapons of the church. In accordance with the old recipe of religious dogma the slogan „Dogma says!“ is hurled against a new, world-historical idea.
Amble use of this method has already been made against the race idea. A publication of the Czech academy says this about the race issue:
„Hence the Holy Father in his last proclamation denounces a legal system based on the privileges of race“. Supposedly it represents either a false teaching or – proclaimed in conscious rebellion against the church – heresy.(Prof. J. Belehradel: „The Czech Academy on the Race Issue“ in „Race in Science and Politics“. Prague, Publishing House of „Truth“, p. 35.)
Christianity has supposedly gathered together all races, whether negro or White, into a single, big family of God. Hence the Catholic church also rejects anti-Semitism. This opens the door for a union of two international forces: Jewry and political Catholicism. In December 1934 the Viennese Franciscan friar Zyrill Fischer delivered a lecture in the circle of the Old-Gentlemen’s-Club of the Zionist Association in Vienna. He explained that National Socialism is not merely a heresy as the Pope says, rather a whip and a scourge created by the peoples themselves, and that Jewry suffers great pain in this purgatory fire. Then he called out to his Jewish listeners:
„We are not mutual lepers whose touch brings death. Actually, in many affairs of daily life, economics and politics we are forced to work together.“ (Zyrill Fischer: „How does the Catholic church stand toward the Jewish people?“ 1935, p. 31.)
Even more clear is the slogan spread by the Russian Solowjow under the guise of common Christianity in a publication from Switzerland which says:
„We must be one with the Jews without renouncing Christianity… And the Jews must be one with us, not against Jewry, rather in the name and in the strength of genuine Jewry.“ (Wladimir Solojow: „Jewry and Christianity“ from Solowjow’s publication „Jewry and the Christian Issue“ in „The Threat against Christianity from Race Delusion and Jewish Persecution“, Vita Nova-Press, Lucerne, 1935, p. 3.)
Among those who attack or misconstrue the race idea, a further group can be distinguished by the similarity of their arguments. Their thesis is: race is indeed important for a folk, a state and its history, but in the final analysis the important thing is the land or the language or the self-imposed discipline or the tradition etc..
Aside from those who either categorically deny the importance of race and those who limit its importance, there is a third group that no less harms the National Socialist race idea, although they have adopted the race concept. These are the conjuncture knights who make a profit from the race idea for their own purposes and interests. Among them are authors who wish to curry favor with National Socialism, lunatics and hermits who believe they can make their own whimsical projects more effective, if they, present them under the cloak of the race idea. It is also political Catholicism itself, which uses the race concept to make politics for its own cause. Here are just two short examples: The Jesuit B. Horstmann wrote an essay entitled „The Fine Youth“ in his magazine „The Youth Group“:
„Our natural youth has „race“ and our young Catholic kind has „race“. Both together shape our lads… Just as there are, for example, breeds among horses…, so will the Catholic youth stand out among others through his bearing and kind… Loyal, truthful, honest, industrious, brave and determined, but also deeply faithful, reverent… that is our race.“ (Horstmann, issues 11 and 12 of the Catholic young men’s magazine „The Youth Group“, Youth Leadership Press Düsseldorf. 1934, p. 5.)
Pastor Worlitschek pours it on even thicker in his pamphlet „Divinity and Nationality“, where he tires to make propaganda for the Catholic saints:
„The saints are above all not just specimens or stereotypes of men, outside and beyond the specific influence of their blood, soil, climate and race. All of these things necessarily influence every creature born of dust… Each saint is, here more and there less, flesh of flesh, blood of blood, kind of kind and race of race of his countrymen and folk comrades. The race of the dry and knotty, reflective and thorough German is embodied in a long gallery of saints… They are all genuine and thoroughly German figures. Members of the Aryan-Nordic race who have without restraint developed and manifested their racial characteristics. They were genuine German men in whom every fan of the German name and tribe must take great delight from a strictly racial standpoint.“ (A. Wortlitschek: „Divinity and Nationality“, A. Huber Press, Munich, p. 4)
In closing, let us summarize:
The following methods are used to combat the National Socialist race idea:
1. It is openly rejected, above all by hostile circles abroad with emigrants at their head. Even at home, some individuals try to portray it as liberal, Marxist, materialistic and Jewish.
2. It is claimed that race and spirit stand in irreconcilable opposition and that supreme values like spirit and soul make the race concept impossible.
3. It is claimed that the National Socialist race idea is heresy, abandonment of God and leads to self-deification.
4. The race idea is just good enough to make politics for one’s own cause.
It is superfluous to theoretically debate each of these opinions any further. Here as on so many other battlefields of the National Socialist revolution, the matter will not be settled by theoretical talk, rather by practical deed and the effect of this deed. History will judge what it means for a folk, when it does not allow inferior genes to be passed along… when it recognizes that „the holiest and most valuable person among our folk is the mother of our blood and the most precious possession is the German child“… when the state protects the family as its most valuable folk cell… when the world-view of a folk unholy opposites are replaced by a new, unified view of man..
By Dieter Schwarz: Translated from the SS Original: Angriff auf die nationalsozialistische Weltanschauung
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It seems somewhat comical when, amid this agitation from abroad, a publishing house in Prague calls itself „Publishing House for Truth“ and reports in its publications:„The myth of blood is proclaimed from Germany. Blood should bind people and not, as we believe, humanity and solidarity. The smell of blood rises. As in the Middle Ages when people were sacrificed because of the belief in witches, now tens of thousands of the innocent are sacrificed because of the belief in race.” (Dr. Hugo Iltis: „Racism under the Cloak of Science“ in „Race in Science and Politics“, Publishing House for Truth, Prague)
A man from whose mouth one should really expect the truth, the Bishop of Debreczen, Desider Balthaser, writes in a Swiss emigrant publication:
„The events in Germany have shown the world what a dangerous poison racism is for any people that is infected with it. Racism must be viewed as an infectious disease at the present time of grave crisis, a time of struggle for the existence of individuals and peoples. It comes down to immunizing the peoples against it just like an infectious disease.“ (Dr. Desider Balthasar: „The Threat against Christianity from Race Delusion and Jewish Persecution“, Vita Nova Press, Lucerne, 1035, p. 8-9).
That there are unfortunately still several such strange representatives of truth in church-political circles is proven by the writings of the Jesuit friar Friedrich Muckermann in his essay „Why Denominations?“
„Can a reasonable man, if he has a mere notion of Christianity, imagine that a faithful Christian could trade faith in the living God in favor of a vague affirmation of the blood, that he would give up the birth right of his spirit in favor of biological heredity of blood, the heroic ideal of the saints in favor of the practical ideal of racial improvement, the splendor of the mother of God in favor of the earthly mother, who by herself alone will always fall to the most depressing, darkest manifestations of deeply sunken, erotically falsified pagan cults.“ (F. Muckermann: „Why Denominations?“, Akadem Press, Bonifatius Association, Paderborn, 1934, p. 910).
Imputations and distortions abound in the above quoted writings. But the greatest insolence lies in covering this political agitation with the cloak of objective science simply in order to thereby make this agitation more effective. In the mentioned publication „Race in Science and Politics“ it is written:
„But a wild wind from abroad comes to us, so it is the duty of native scientists to speak a clear and liberating word. This duty has indeed been fulfilled by Czechoslovakian science, and indeed in the most dignified and at the same time responsible form, in that the Czech academy itself had its second class produce a book representing the collective work of six experts that comes to the conclusion already clear from the title: ‘The Equality of the European Races and the Paths to their Perfection’.“ (p. 12-13)
„Racism is no science and has nothing to do with science. It is nothing but a malicious and dangerous weapon for political struggle. In today’s Germany one admits that. The manner in which racist politicians use this dangerous weapon, this „intellectual poison gas“, against all peoples and human groups they wish to kill economically or politically, should be explained on hand of the following quotations from both main works of German political racism.“ (ibidem, p. 41/42.)
This pitiful attempt is made against the Führer’s book and Alfred Rosenberg’s book „The Myth of the Twentieth Century“. It ends with the proclamation: „Let us defend ourselves against the intellectual poison gas of racism before it is too late“. (Dr. Wolf Bodansky: „Racism – Intellectual Poison Gas“ in „Race in Science and Politics“.)
We can be certain that even at home, decades of educational work, perhaps even generations, will be required before the idea of race thoroughly permeates the thinking of our intellectual sciences, our educational sciences, our historical thought and above all our practical action.
Until then proponents of old world-view positions will again and again assault the race idea. Liberalism, Marxism and Jewry were opponents of National Socialism. Just how low the opponents of the National Socialist race idea can sink in their methods is shown when they try to portray and belittle the National Socialist race idea as liberal, Marxist or even Jewish. The Franciscan friar Dr. Desiderius Breitenstein writes:
„Marxism based the collective on an economic basis (economic view of history). The absolutist race idea derives the collective from the „blood-determined basis of all cultural activity“ (biological world-view)… It is an irony of time that two intellectual foundations touch each other so closely despite the sharpest contradictions.“ (Dr. Breitenstein: „Intellect or Blood.“ Bonifatius Printers, Paderborn 1934. p. 8).
„Racial biology historically continues the materialistic view of history, except that the economic basis is replaced with the blood- determined foundation… The absolutist, racial-biological worldview ultimately does not escape from materialistic origins… In summary, it must be stated that liberalism lives on in the racial-biological world-view despite all utterances to the contrary… Those who again and again support their world-view foundation with Friedrich II, Friedrich Nietzsche, Paul de LaGarde and Houston Stewart Chamberlain prove themselves to be perpetuators of liberalism.“ (ebidem, p. 14-15)
The licentiate Kehnscherper even sinks to the following assertion:
„If one wants to know the results of the one-sidedly taught, believed and lived myth of the blood, based on the foundation of an appropriate, godless blood honor, then one should look at the history and lifeview of the Jewish people. Then one will be cured for all time.“ (Kehnscherper: „Myth of the Blood.” p. 25).
Those who find the accusation that the race idea is liberal, Marxist or Jewish too transparent, seek its rejection with other reasons. One says the race idea is an unrealistic construction, the other tries his luck with psychoanalysis and claims the race idea stems from an inferiority complex. Still another attempts to frighten the German folk away from the race idea by claiming that history proves rule on the basis of race leads to chaos and rebellion. Race and blood are said to be formless and drive-based, something that must be contained by intellect and religion. In Germanic life these chaotic forces had supposedly been alive and then purified by the missionaries.
Yes, the tactics go so far as to make the attempt to blame the great scandals of the church on the carriers of „noble blood. The cathedral provost Simon even had the audacity to write that „the low points in the church’s history were for the most part due to people whose noble blood was beyond doubt.“
So far we have dealt with enemies of the National Socialist race idea who were not interested in an objective debate, but who solely tried to achieve their intended objectives with agitation, distortion and falsification. Now we will deal with hostile forces who try to prove the National Socialist race idea untenable with a line of objections that appear objective. These are representatives of so-called „intellect“ in various camps. They believe in the name of „intellect“ that they must warn humanity against the race faith that supposedly rejects intellect and only recognizes blood and the biological, and through this rejection Of the intellect allows dumb drive to rule and hence thrust present Germany back into the biological materialism of Darwin and Haeckel of the 19th century.
Before these opponents speak, let us say one thing right off: all of them, whether they know it or not, have fallen victim to a fundamental error.
All of them continue to think within the philosophical systems or dogmatic convictions passed down for centuries. These systems tear man apart into body and soul, matter and mind, nature and supernatural. They think these opposites would attack each other precisely within man himself, so it is a moral duty to overcome body, matter and nature in order to help soul, intellect and the supernatural to victory.
The followers of these teachings do not understand that this opposition is overcome in the race idea and bridged over. For them, the race concept only encompasses one side of man, namely nature, the biological, the flesh, the body, the physical. So for them, the race concept necessarily stands in opposition to intellect, soul and the supernatural.
For them, the predominance of the race idea means „blood delusion“, „materialism“ and „biology“, resulting in the decline of intellect, barbarism and atheism. Because these opponents of the National Socialist race idea continue to think in terms of the above opposites, they do not understand or they do not wish to understand that in the „race of a man“ his intellect, his character and his moral values are very much included along with „mere drives, feelings and instincts“ as a united, living, whole personality.
The transforming, revolutionary force of the National Socialist race idea in occidental thought rests, aside from its numerous political population ramifications, essentially in overcoming these old teachings of the opposition between matter and intellect, body and soul.
Enemies who do not even understand the National Socialist race idea and who misconstrue it as something materialistic, simply blame National Socialism for their own distortion in that they claim that National Socialism, Rosenberg, Günther and the other race researches worship „blood delusion“ and a „flat materialism“. In essence, this agitation is nothing but a painful self-incrimination, for these opponents only attack their own distortions.
How fitting our observations for many proponents of religious dogma are, is shown by the words of the Franciscan friar Breitenstein in his pamphlet „Intellect or Blood?“ (p. 32):
„How do soul and body, blood and spirit stand toward each other? Christianity does not recognize any predominance by blood, much less its absoluteness. In Christianity the spirit has uncontested superiority, absolute priority. Body and blood belong to the earthly realm, soul and spirit to the beyond. God has created man in his own image and God is spirit. Therefore, blood can never put spirit in its service… Two worlds stand opposed here: the blood and race world-view which gives priority to the biological values of race, and the spiritual-metaphysical which considers moral values… as the highest… For Christianity race can never be a concept of moral value….“
Individual German scientists who have still not embraced the race idea are people who stand firm to those old, passed down teachings of opposition and to a one-sided concept of spirit stemming from the German idealism of the previous century.
When objective struggle does not lead to success, then the church always tries to carry on the struggle with the special weapons of the church. In accordance with the old recipe of religious dogma the slogan „Dogma says!“ is hurled against a new, world-historical idea.
Amble use of this method has already been made against the race idea. A publication of the Czech academy says this about the race issue:
„Hence the Holy Father in his last proclamation denounces a legal system based on the privileges of race“. Supposedly it represents either a false teaching or – proclaimed in conscious rebellion against the church – heresy.(Prof. J. Belehradel: „The Czech Academy on the Race Issue“ in „Race in Science and Politics“. Prague, Publishing House of „Truth“, p. 35.)
Christianity has supposedly gathered together all races, whether negro or White, into a single, big family of God. Hence the Catholic church also rejects anti-Semitism. This opens the door for a union of two international forces: Jewry and political Catholicism. In December 1934 the Viennese Franciscan friar Zyrill Fischer delivered a lecture in the circle of the Old-Gentlemen’s-Club of the Zionist Association in Vienna. He explained that National Socialism is not merely a heresy as the Pope says, rather a whip and a scourge created by the peoples themselves, and that Jewry suffers great pain in this purgatory fire. Then he called out to his Jewish listeners:
„We are not mutual lepers whose touch brings death. Actually, in many affairs of daily life, economics and politics we are forced to work together.“ (Zyrill Fischer: „How does the Catholic church stand toward the Jewish people?“ 1935, p. 31.)
Even more clear is the slogan spread by the Russian Solowjow under the guise of common Christianity in a publication from Switzerland which says:
„We must be one with the Jews without renouncing Christianity… And the Jews must be one with us, not against Jewry, rather in the name and in the strength of genuine Jewry.“ (Wladimir Solojow: „Jewry and Christianity“ from Solowjow’s publication „Jewry and the Christian Issue“ in „The Threat against Christianity from Race Delusion and Jewish Persecution“, Vita Nova-Press, Lucerne, 1935, p. 3.)
Among those who attack or misconstrue the race idea, a further group can be distinguished by the similarity of their arguments. Their thesis is: race is indeed important for a folk, a state and its history, but in the final analysis the important thing is the land or the language or the self-imposed discipline or the tradition etc..
Aside from those who either categorically deny the importance of race and those who limit its importance, there is a third group that no less harms the National Socialist race idea, although they have adopted the race concept. These are the conjuncture knights who make a profit from the race idea for their own purposes and interests. Among them are authors who wish to curry favor with National Socialism, lunatics and hermits who believe they can make their own whimsical projects more effective, if they, present them under the cloak of the race idea. It is also political Catholicism itself, which uses the race concept to make politics for its own cause. Here are just two short examples: The Jesuit B. Horstmann wrote an essay entitled „The Fine Youth“ in his magazine „The Youth Group“:
„Our natural youth has „race“ and our young Catholic kind has „race“. Both together shape our lads… Just as there are, for example, breeds among horses…, so will the Catholic youth stand out among others through his bearing and kind… Loyal, truthful, honest, industrious, brave and determined, but also deeply faithful, reverent… that is our race.“ (Horstmann, issues 11 and 12 of the Catholic young men’s magazine „The Youth Group“, Youth Leadership Press Düsseldorf. 1934, p. 5.)
Pastor Worlitschek pours it on even thicker in his pamphlet „Divinity and Nationality“, where he tires to make propaganda for the Catholic saints:
„The saints are above all not just specimens or stereotypes of men, outside and beyond the specific influence of their blood, soil, climate and race. All of these things necessarily influence every creature born of dust… Each saint is, here more and there less, flesh of flesh, blood of blood, kind of kind and race of race of his countrymen and folk comrades. The race of the dry and knotty, reflective and thorough German is embodied in a long gallery of saints… They are all genuine and thoroughly German figures. Members of the Aryan-Nordic race who have without restraint developed and manifested their racial characteristics. They were genuine German men in whom every fan of the German name and tribe must take great delight from a strictly racial standpoint.“ (A. Wortlitschek: „Divinity and Nationality“, A. Huber Press, Munich, p. 4)
In closing, let us summarize:
The following methods are used to combat the National Socialist race idea:
1. It is openly rejected, above all by hostile circles abroad with emigrants at their head. Even at home, some individuals try to portray it as liberal, Marxist, materialistic and Jewish.
2. It is claimed that race and spirit stand in irreconcilable opposition and that supreme values like spirit and soul make the race concept impossible.
3. It is claimed that the National Socialist race idea is heresy, abandonment of God and leads to self-deification.
4. The race idea is just good enough to make politics for one’s own cause.
It is superfluous to theoretically debate each of these opinions any further. Here as on so many other battlefields of the National Socialist revolution, the matter will not be settled by theoretical talk, rather by practical deed and the effect of this deed. History will judge what it means for a folk, when it does not allow inferior genes to be passed along… when it recognizes that „the holiest and most valuable person among our folk is the mother of our blood and the most precious possession is the German child“… when the state protects the family as its most valuable folk cell… when the world-view of a folk unholy opposites are replaced by a new, unified view of man..
By Dieter Schwarz: Translated from the SS Original: Angriff auf die nationalsozialistische Weltanschauung