Jewish tendency of Manchester liberalism

Adolf Hitler condemed the Jews for most of Nazi Germany's troubles

I had fought my way to this conclusion after two years attendance at the Vienna parliament.

  After that I never went back.

  The parliamentary regime shared the chief blame for the weakness, constantly increasing in the past few years, of the Habsburg state. The more its activities broke the predominance of the Germans, the more the country succumbed to a system of playing off the nationalities against one another. In the Reichsrat itself this was always done at the expense of the Germans and thereby, in the last analysis, at the expense of the Empire; for by the turn of the century it must have been apparent even to the simplest that the monarchy's force of attraction would no longer be able to withstand the separatist tendencies of the provinces.

  On the contrary.

  The more pathetic became the means which the state had to employ for its preservation, the more the general contempt for it increased. Not only in Hungary, but also in the separate Slavic provinces, people began to identify themselves so little with the common monarchy that they did not regard its weakness as their own disgrace. On the contrary, they rejoiced at such symptoms of old age; for they hoped more for the Empire's death than for its recovery.

  In parliament, for the moment, total collapse was averted by undignified submissiveness and acquiescence at every extortion, for which the German had to pay in the end; and in the country, by most skillfully playing off the different peoples against each other. But the general line of development was nevertheless directed against the Germans. Especially since Archduke Francis Ferdinand became heir apparent and began to enjoy a certain influence, there began to be some plan and order in the policy of Czechization from above. With all possible means, this future ruler of the dual monarchy tried to encourage a policy of deGermanization, to advance it himself or at least to sanction it. Purely German towns, indirectly through government official dom, were slowly but steadily pushed into the mixed-language danger zones. Even in Lower Austria this process began to make increasingly rapid progress, and many Czechs considered Vienna their largest city.

  The central idea of this new Habsburg, whose family had ceased to speak anything but Czech (the Archduke's wife, a former Czech countess, had been morganatically married to the Prince-she came from circles whose anti-German attitude was traditional), was gradually to establish a Slavic state in Central Europe which for defense against Orthodox Russia should be placed on a strictly Catholic basis. Thus, as the Habsburgs had so often done before, religion was once again put into the service of a purely political idea, and what was worse-at least from the German viewpoint-of a catastrophic idea.

  The result was more than dismal in many respects. Neither the House of Habsburg nor the Catholic Church received the expected reward.

  Habsburg lost the throne, Rome a great state.

  For by employing religious forces in the service of its political considerations, the crown aroused a spirit which at the outset it had not considered possible.

  In answer to the attempt to exterminate the Germans in the old monarchy by every possible means, there arose the PanGerman movement in Austria.

  By the eighties the basic Jewish tendency of Manchester liberalism had reached, if not passed, its high point in the monarchy. The reaction to it, however, as with everything in old Austria, arose primarily from a social, not from a national standpoint. The instinct of self-preservation forced the Germans to adopt the sharpest measures of defense. Only secondarily did economic considerations begin to assume a decisive influence. And so, two party formations grew out of the general political confusion, the one with the more national, the other with the more social, attitude, but both highly interesting and instructive for the future.

  After the depressing end of the War of 1866, the House of Habsburg harbored the idea of revenge on the battlefield. Only the death of Emperor Max of Mexico, whose unfortunate expedition was blamed primarily on Napoleon III and whose abandonment by the French aroused general indignation, prevented a closer collaboration with France. Habsburg nevertheless lurked in wait. If the War of 1870-71 had not been so unique a triumph, the Vienna Court would probably have risked a bloody venture to avenge Sadowa. But when the first amazing and scarcely credible, but none the less true, tales of heroism arrived from the battlefields, the 'wisest' of all monarchs recognized that the hour was not propitious and put the best possible face on a bad business.

  But the heroic struggle of these years had accomplished an even mightier miracle; for with the Habsburgs a change of position never arose from the urge of the innermost heart, but from the compulsion of circumstances. However, the German people of the old Ostmark were swept along by the Reich's frenzy of victory, and looked on with deep emotion as the dream of their fathers was resurrected to glorious reality.

  For make no mistake: the truly German-minded Austrian had, even at Koniggratz, and from this time on, recognized the tragic but necessary prerequisite for the resurrection of a Reich which would no longer be-and actually was not-afflicted with the foul morass of the old Union. Above all, he had come to understand thoroughly, by his own suffering, that the House of Habsburg had at last concluded its historical mission and that the new Reich could choose as Emperor only him whose heroic convictions made him worthy to bear the 'Crown of the Rhine.' But how much more was Fate to be praised for accomplishing this investiture in the scion of a house which in Frederick the Great had given the nation a gleaming and eternal symbol of its resurrection.

  But when after the great war the House of Habsburg began with desperate determination slowly but inexorably to exterminate the dangerous German element in the dual monarchy (the inner convictions of this element could not be held in doubt), for such would be the inevitable result of the Slavization policy- the doomed people rose to a resistance such as modern German history had never seen.

  For the first time, men of national and patriotic mind became rebels.

  Rebels, not against the nation and not against the state as such, but rebels against a kind of government which in their conviction would inevitably lead to the destruction of their own nationality.

  For the first time in modern German history, traditional dynastic patriotism parted ways with the national love of fatherland and people.

  The Pan-German movement in German-Austria in the nineties is to be praised for demonstrating in clear, unmistakable terms that a state authority is entitled to demand respect and protection only when it meets the interests of a people, or at least does not harm them.

  There can be no such thing as state authority as an end in itself, for, if there were, every tyranny in this world would be unassailable and sacred.

  If, by the instrument of governmental power, a nationality is led toward its destruction, then rebellion is not only the right of every member of such a people-it is his duty.

  And the question-when is this the case?-is decided not by theoretical dissertations, but by force and-results.

  Since, as a matter of course, all governmental power claims the duty of preserving state authority-regardless how vicious it is, betraying the interests of a people a thousandfold-the national instinct of self-preservation, in overthrowing such a power and achieving freedom or independence, will have to employ the same weapons by means of which the enemy tries to maintain his power. Consequently, the struggle will be carried on with 'legal' means as long as the power to be overthrown employs such means; but it will not shun illegal means if the oppressor uses them.

  In general it should not be forgotten that the highest aim of human existence is not the preservation of a state, let alone a government, but the preservation of the species.

  And if the species itself is in danger of being oppressed or utterly eliminated, the question of legality is reduced to a subordinate role. Then, even if the methods of the ruling power are alleged to be legal a thousand times over, nonetheless the oppressed people's instinct of self-preservation remains the loftiest justification of their struggle with every weapon.

  Only through recognition of this principle have wars of liberation against internal and external enslavement of nations on this Earth come down to us in such majestic historical examples.

  Human law cancels out state law.

  And if a people is defeated in its struggle for human rights, this merely means that it has been found too light in the scale of destiny for the happiness of survival on this Earth . For when a people is not willing or able to fight for its existence- Providence in its eternal justice has decreed that people's end.

  The world is not for cowardly peoples.

  How easy it is for a tyranny to cover itself with the cloak of so-called 'legality' is shown most clearly and penetratingly by the example of Austria.

  The legal state power in those days was rooted in the antiGerman soil of parliament with its non-German majorities- and in the equally anti-German ruling house. In these two factors the entire state authority was embodied. Any attempt to change the destinies of the German-Austrian people from this position was absurd. Hence, in the opinions of our friends the worshipers of state authority as such and of the 'legal' way, all resistance would have had to be shunned, as incompatible with legal methods. But this, with compelling necessity, would have meant the end of the German people in the monarchy-and in a very short time. And, as a matter of fact, the Germans were saved from this fate only by the collapse of this state.

  The bespectacled theoretician, it is true, would still prefer to die for his doctrine than for his people.

  Since it is men who make the laws, he believes that they live for the sake of these laws.

  The Pan-German movement in Austria had the merit of completely doing away with this nonsense, to the horror of all theoretical pedants and other fetish-worshiping isolationists in the government.

  Since the Habsburgs attempted to attack Germanism with all possible means, this party attacked the 'exalted' ruling house itself, and without mercy. For the first time it probed into this rotten state and opened the eyes of hundreds of thousands. To its credit be it said that it released the glorious concept of love of fatherland from the embrace of this sorry dynasty.

Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler: Chapters Below.

•   German-Austria must return to the great German mother Vol 1: Ch 1.
•   The Mother of Adolf Hitler Vol 1: Ch 2.
•   Matter of livelihood for Adolf Hitler - Mein Kampf Vol 1: Ch 2 Con 1.
•   My struggle for existence in Vienna - Mein Kampf Vol 1: Ch 2 Con 2.
•   Social question was aroused for Adolf Hitler Vol 1: Ch 2 Con 3.
•   Social Democracy in my youth Vol 1: Ch 2 Con 4.
•   Fools obtain no peace says Adolf Hitler Vol 1: Ch 2 Con 5.
•   defending myself against the Jews Vol 1: Ch 2 Con 6.
•   Political leadership of the general public Vol 1: Ch 3.
•   German nation Vol 1: Ch 3 Con 1.
•   Adolf Hitler; The consequence of all this Vol 1: Ch 3 Con 2.
•   the geniusVol 1: Ch 3 Con 3.
•   early days Vol 1: Ch 3 Con 5.
•   in the newspapers Vol 1: Ch 3 Con 6.
•   German nation gain a victory Vol 1: Ch 3 Con 7.
•   dream of saving Austria Vol 1: Ch 3 Con 8.
•   before the War Vol 1: Ch 4.
•   the existence of mankind Vol 1: Ch 4 Con 1
•   standpoint of racial policy Vol 1: Ch 4 Con 2.
•   strength of the state Vol 1: Ch 4 Con 3.
•   my wild years Vol 1: Ch 5.
•   political events Vol 1: Ch 6.
•   enemy propaganda began in our country Vol 1: Ch 7
•   continuation of the revolution Vol 1: Ch 8.
•   German Workers' Party Vol 1: Ch 9.
•   true of nations and states Vol 1: Ch 10
•   disregards the racial laws Vol 1: Ch 11.
•   backbone of the German army Vol 1: Ch 12.
• -----------------------------Volume 2.-------------------------------
•   What God Himself could not do Vol 2: Ch 1.
•   principal duty of the National socialist People's State Vol 2: Ch 2.
•   the Jews will one day devour the other nations Vol 2: Ch 3.
•   Responsibility for the War Vol 2: Ch 4.
•   German people Vol 2: Ch 5.
•   The average citizen Vol 2: Ch 6.
•   Authority of the State Vol 2: Ch 7.
•   Germans and Germany Vol 2: Ch 8.
•   Propaganda Vol 2: Ch 9.
•   Rapid growth of the Nazi movement Vol 2: Ch 10.
•   German national economy and German Labour Vol 2: Ch 11.
•   Young National socialist movements Vol 2: Ch 12.
•   THE ARMISTICE of November, 1918 Vol 2: Ch 13.

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