Discussion on Anti-Semitism in Germany

Everything is discussed openly in Germany, and very German claims

the right to have an opinion on any and all questions.

One is Catholic, the other Protestant, one an employee, the other an

employer, a capitalist, a socialist, a Democrat, an aristocrat.

There is nothing dishonorable about choosing one side or the other of a

question. Discussions happen in public, and where matters are

unclear or confused, one settles it by argument and

counter-argument. But there is one problem that

is not discussed publicly,

one that it is delicate even to mention the Jewish question.

It is taboo in our republic. The Jew is immunized against all

dangers. One may call him a scoundrel, parasite, swindler,

profiteer. It all runs off him like water off a

raincoat.

But call him a Jew, and you will be astonished at how he

recoils, how injured he is, how he suddenly shrinks back.

I've been found out. One cannot defend himself against the Jew.

He attacks with lightning speed from his position of safety and

uses his abilities to crush any attempt at defense.

Quickly, he turns the attacker's charges back on

him, and the attacker

becomes the liar, the troublemaker, the terrorist.

Nothing could be more mistaken than to defend oneself.

That is just what the Jew wants. He can invent a new lie every day

for the enemy to respond to, and the result is

that the enemy spends so much

time defending himself that he has no time to do what the Jew

really fears to attack. The accused has become the accuser,

and loudly he shoves the accuser into the dark.

So it always was in the past when a person or a movement fought the

Jew. That is what would happen to us as well,

were we not fully aware

of his nature, and if we lacked the courage to draw the

following radical

conclusion, one cannot fight the Jew by positive

means.

He is a negative, and this negative must be erased from the

German

system, or he will forever corrupt it.

One cannot discuss the Jewish question with the Jews.

One can hardly prove to a person that one has the duty to render

him harmless. One cannot allow the Jew the same means

one would give an honest opponent, for he is no honorable

opponent. He will use generosity and nobility

only to trap his enemy. The Jew has nothing to say about German

questions. He is a foreigner, an alien who only

enjoys the rights of a guest, rights that he always abuses.

The so-called religious morality of the Jews is no morality

at all, rather an encouragement to betrayal.

Therefore, they have no claim to protection from the

state.

The Jew is not smarter than we are, rather only cleverer and

craftier. His system cannot be defeated

economically.

He follows entirely different moral principles than we do.

It can only be broken through political means.

A Jew cannot insult a German. Jewish slanders are but

badges of honor for a German opponent of the Jews.

The more a German person or a German movement opposes the Jew,

the more valuable it is. If someone is attacked by the Jews,

that is a sure sign of his virtue. He who is not persecuted by the

Jews or who is praised by them is useless and

dangerous. The Jew evaluates German questions from

the Jewish

standpoint. As a result, the opposite of what he says must be

true. One must either affirm or reject anti-Semitism.

He who defends the Jews harms his own people.

One can only be a Jewish lackey or a Jewish opponent.

Opposing the Jews is a matter of personal hygiene.

These principles give the anti-Jewish movement a chance of success.

Only such a movement will be taken seriously by the Jews.

Only such a movement will be feared by them.

The fact that he shouts and complains about such a movement,

therefore, is

only a sign that it is right. We are therefore delighted that we are

constantly attacked in the Jewish gazettes. They may shout about terror.

We answer with Mussolini's familiar words, "Terror? Never.

It is social hygiene." We take these individuals out of circulation,

just as a doctor does to a bacterium.