Golden Age, March 10, 1937
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HIERARCHY WINS "PEACE AND SAFETY" IN GERMANY
THE REMEDY
TORTURED BY
REVIVED INQUISITION
OBEDIENCE GIVES
POWER WITH GOD
TO THE FAITHFUL
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Vol. XVIII - No. 456
March 10, 1937 CONTENTS
HIERARCHY WINS "PEACE AND SAFETY" IN GERMANY 355
Vice Trials Dropped 355
Tremendous Propaganda Machinery 356
Cardinal Faulhaber, Contact Man 356
Signs of Accord 357
Hitler's Biography 357
Where Hitler First Saw Swastika 358
Afraid of "The Terror" 358
The Insane Fever for War 359
Insane Treatment of Jews 360
Killing Them by Inches 361
The Cause of Hitler's Insanity 361
His Responsibility Seems Complete 361
Military Preparations 363
Courts a Mockery 364
Tortures in Prisons 364
Methods of Torturing Women 365
No Faintest Resemblance to Manhood 365
Government by Racketeers 367
Some Recent Blasphemies 368
Signs of Protestant Dissolution 368
Violence to Jehovah's witnesses 368
An Official Communication 370
The Inquisitional Spies 371
A Few of the Thousands Imprisoned 372
Petty, Unspeakable Meanness 372
Persecutions Traced to Priests 374
Mock Funeral Procession 374
Brief Reports from Germany 375
Drops Before the Shower 375
"Lord, Make Us Free" 375
THE REMEDY 369
TORTURED BY REVIVED INQUISITION 376
18,000 Sign Petition in Trinidad 376
CENTRAL AMERICA AND WEST INDIES 377
LETTERS RECEIVED AT PARIS OFFICE 378
OBEDIENCE GIVES POWER WITH GOD 379
TO THE FAITHFUL IN ALL THE EARTH 382
CARTOONS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
"They give gifts to all whores . . ." 355
Benito, Ambrose, Adolph, Frankie 358
Vaccinating the Younger Set Against Liberty, Equality and Christianity 359
"Mein Krampf" 362
Travel Folder Advertising Scenic Germany 366
Jehovah can put a man on earth who will maintain his integrity. 372
"Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God; and he shall go no more out." 373
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The Golden Age
Volume XVIII Brooklyn, N.Y., Wednesday, March 10, 1937 Number 456
Hierarchy Wins "Peace and Safety" in Germany
THE Roman Hierarchy has won such a complete victory in Germany that everybody in the country is virtually compelled to vote for Hitler or lose his means of making a livelihood. Not only is it generally true that "once a Catholic, always a Catholic", but the Hierarchy is more and more openly backing the German dictator and he is more and more yielding to the voice of Rome.
At the last election all industrial leaders in the country received orders from the Nazis (Hitler's party of Catholic Action) to discharge all who refused to go to the polls. In case they went and voted blank ballots, the blanks were counted as being for Hitler. At that election Catholic churches throughout Germany were ordered to have their congregations vote for Hitler.
The methods of dominating actual or ostensible republics is now so well understood by the Hierarchy that out of 44,954,937 ballots cast, 44,411,911 were for Hitler. That is 98.8 percent, and fairly represents the grip that the Roman Catholic Hierarchy has on Germany at this moment.
"They give gifts to all whores; but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom. And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee; therefore thou art contrary."—Ezekiel 16: 33, 34.
Immediately after the election there began to be hints that Hitler was no longer anxious to have it appear that there is discord between himself and the Roman curia at Vatican City. It will be recalled that before that time there had been numerous arrests of prelates and others for smuggling funds out of the country. Note now the following from the New York Times of December 1, 1936:
Dr. Wilhelm Soppa, Vicar General of the Diocese of Meissen, who was sent to the penitentiary last year charged with exchange violations for his diocese, has been released after serving only a quarter of his four-year term. The Bishop of Meissen's brother, Dr. Theodore Legge, sentenced to three years in the penitentiary, also was released. A number of Rhineland monks and nuns imprisoned on like charges were also released.
Vice Trials Dropped
As early as April 8, 1936, it was announced in Bremen that all lawsuits in the province of Baden, with the exception of criminal suits, had been dropped, and in the Weser-Zeitung the Minister of Education advanced the hope and expectation that the clergy would appreciate this friendly move.
To get the Hierarchy at a political disadvantage the German government instituted suits against 200 Franciscan friars from the Rhineland and Westphalia for immoral offenses against male minors entrusted to their care; 61 more fled to The Netherlands to escape trial. The cabled account stated that these unprintable offenses between the gowned and “Reverend” hypocrites and their pupils were maintained in every settlement maintained by the two orders in the Rhineland and Westphalia.
A dispatch from Vatican City, published in the New York Herald Tribune, stated that Mussolini had intervened with the Vatican and that the vice trials would be dropped. This was not unlikely. Mussolini, once referring to the pope as “the bloody old wolf of the Vatican”, is now, for policy’s sake, an apparently ardent Roman Catholic, wearing beads, crosses and other junk. He is also obligated to the Vatican for assistance financially in the Ethiopian campaign.
While Hitler’s announced plans against the sex perverts was under way the Hierarchy was on a hot spot. They tried to claim that to get their evidence against the Franciscans the Nazis had planted prostitutes in the monasteries; but that did not explain the flight of 61 of the accused friars to other lands, nor account for the plea of guilty, with a penalty of eight years in prison, for the very first friar placed on trial.
Some of the headlines, as published in the New York Times, give an idea of the conditions actually existing in these hellholes:
Priest Sentenced to 8 Years in Reich; Also Deprived of Civil Rights for Five Years on Charges of 45 Moral Offenses. Friar Gets a Long Term. Two Former Leaders of Young Catholic Organization Are Found Guilty by Court.
Reich Sentences More Catholics. Ratibor Priest Gets 15 Months on Charge Involving Girl, 15, Whose Confessor He Was. Coblenz Trial Continues. Ex-Franciscan Friar Jailed for 3 Years After Conviction in 16 Cases of Immorality.
The evidence in these cases showed that even when the conditions in the monastery were twice reported to the bishop of Trier he did nothing to correct them.
At the time the excitement was on the Nazi papers demanded the end of this imaginary celibacy between priests, monks and nuns, and some of the statisticians figured out how many more soldiers could be produced if all were married (and the quick-lime pits for infants abolished).
At length Hitler, as a “Practical Catholic”, ordered all prosecution of the monks and nuns for their disgraceful and immoral practices to cease. The German bishops then came out with a statement that the Franciscans who had been on trial for immoral conduct at Coblenz were laymen, and not priests. Had they desired to do so, they could have gone on to explain that the monks are merely so-called “brothers” of the “church”, and, as a matter of fact, none are members of the Catholic “Church” except the priests and bishops, archbishops, cardinals and popes. It is a thin excuse.
Tremendous Propaganda Machinery
The world has never before seen anything like the propaganda machinery now used by the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, and it is getting more and more efficient every day. The results of its studies are fully available for both Hitler and Mussolini. The great convention of the Nazis at Nuremberg was a case in point.
At intervals of five minutes more than 1,500 special trains from all parts of Germany bore 950,000 persons into Nuremberg to hear Herr Hitler make a bid for Papal support in his campaign to win over Czechoslovakia by lambasting the Russian republic.
Hitler’s speeches have often been broadcast in the United States, but no democratic spokesman’s remarks have ever been put on the German circuit. However, Mussolini’s speech of November 1, 1936, was broadcast over all German stations in Italian and afterwards translated. The full power of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy is behind both of these men, to make them as near gods on earth as is possible to do.
Cardinal Faulhaber, Contact Man
When the time came for the Hierarchy to let it be known that, under the guise of Nazism, they have seized the German republic, the contact man was Cardinal Faulhaber. The cardinal understood, all along, the part he was to play, and months before the trap was sprung he announced, speaking for himself as the archbishop of his archdiocese, “The archbishop is not aware that Der Fuehrer has ever withdrawn from the Catholic church.” He is listed as a Catholic in the German Who’s Who.
Under the title “Foe Who Calls on Hitler” the Associated Press has, in the New York Herald Tribune, a fine picture of Cardinal Faulhaber. Then follows about a column of the most perfect bunk ever put on the cables. In the midst of the story is the statement: The meeting was a preparatory step toward a reconciliation between Hitler and the Vatican, a move which General von Epp is known to favor.
Why be so silly about the propaganda? Everybody in the United States knows that Hitler is a Catholic, Cardinal Faulhaber is a Catholic, and von Epp (governor of Bavaria) is a Catholic, and all three of them do what the pope wants them to do. The column story and the pretty picture of Faulhaber are all a part of the propaganda to feed Catholic Action, Fascism, Nazism, to the American people and make them like it, and the newspapers pass it on to the people apparently convinced that there is no bottom to the well and they can go on fooling the bulk of the people to the end of time.
At length came the planned and expected and certain “reconciliation” between Hitler and Faulhaber. There was a 3 1/2-hour confab and love feast at which all was forgiven and forgotten, with opportunities for many a chuckle as to how the wool had been pulled over the people’s eyes, and then came the bishops’ pastoral letter glorifying the whole wicked conspiracy and advertising to all mankind that:
Der Fuehrer saw the onmarch of Bolshevism from afar and bent his mind and energies toward deflecting this terrible menace from our German people and the whole western world. The German bishops regard it as their duty to support with all means at their disposal the head of the German reich in this defensive struggle.
Signs of Accord
When Papal diplomats have agreed upon any set course, one of the first things they do is to contrive to publish or have something published to the effect that the contemplated thing has not been done and will not be done. Newspapermen recognize this as a set policy of the Hierarchy. Hence, just before the announcement that Hitler and the Hierarchy are in accord, came a dispatch from Berlin saying that Heinrich Himmler, chief of the Gestapo (Nazi secret police), has publicly renounced the religion of the Roman Catholic sect. This clumsy attempt to make it appear that there are any serious divergences between Hitler and the Roman cult only serves to make it clear that one of Hitler’s righthand men has been a Catholic all along. And without a doubt he is still one. The people in general are now wide awake to the Jesuitical methods of attracting sympathy and avoiding blame.
Crucifixes removed, as a bluff, from some of the schoolrooms in Oldenburg province, Germany, were replaced so that the Catholic peasants would come across better in giving up their grain to the government.
Hiding evidence of the Inquisition, the Hitler government is removing the spikes of the Nuremberg Iron Maiden, which spikes were once used to penetrate the eyes, heart and kidneys of those condemned to die within her shell.
The Associated Press in a dispatch from Berlin, dated January 2, 1937, made the self-evident admission:
The Nazi government of Germany and the Catholic Church gave signs today of a return to cordial relations, with communism as a common foe.
All the friction between the Nazi government and the Roman Hierarchy is pure camouflage, in which Hitler is an adept. At heart he is what is called a “Practical Catholic”, and can be depended upon to take orders from Rome on every important matter affecting the interests of the Roman Hierarchy. The Roman Hierarchy labels each and every enemy “Communist”, without discrimination, and for the same reason that it labels every independent thinker, speaker or writer a “Bigot”.
Hitler’s Biography
Adolf Hitler’s paternal grandmother, commonly called Maria Anna Schicklgruber, was a harlot, and it is not certainly known, therefore, who was his grandfather paternal. On his mother’s side he apparently came of decent parents and grandparents.
Till he was 19 he wasted his time in school, and when his mother died he knew little. For years he made a precarious living fictitiously aging water colors on a warm hearth, to which he appended forged signatures of well-known artists, to make them appear old.
After four years as a corporal in the World War he returned to Munich, Bavaria, to become an anti-Soviet spy. His first success as a speaker was as a Jew-baiter, and this has been a feature of every address since. When misstatements were called in question by a rabbi he and his friends advertised that henceforth no Jews would be admitted to hear him speak.
His rise to power was due to connivance and consent of the Bavarian police, who violated their oaths. He did not hesitate to put to death those who elevated him to power. Count Reventlow and others formally accused him of being "a satellite of Rome". He confesses to guidance by an inner voice, which is demonism.
Like others on the inside, he knew, for years, that the guns Germany promised to destroy were stored for safe-keeping in the cellars and granaries of the Bavarian monasteries, and eventually he had them brought forth and used them and boasted of them publicly.
At the Putsch in Munich he was the first to desert his comrade, Ludendorff, and flee. When imprisoned he threatened to starve himself to death. His trial was a disgrace to justice. Thus, he is of reprobate ancestry, a forger, spy, Jew-baiter, liar, traitor, demoniac and coward, a Catholic, and the idol of millions.
Hitler does not smoke, swear or drink. This Catholic "statesman", and the Catholic "statesman" Mussolini, recognized the Catholic "statesman" General Franco on the same day. All are Fascists, i.e., representatives of Catholic Action.
Where Hitler First Saw the Swastika
Under this headline the German magazine Illustrierter Beobachter [Illustrated Observer] in 1933 says that Hitler saw it the first time in 1897 and 1898 when he was a pupil in the parochial school of Benedictine convent at Lambach an der Traun, Austria. There he saw the crooked cross, or swastika, carved in stone above the convent well in the courtyard and on an escutcheon below a Philistine Dagon idol or a bishop's fish-head miter above a praying-chair in the vestry of the convent. The swastika under the miter! What a significant pagan symbol of the fact that the modern Philistines, or the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, are the real rulers of Hitler's Nazi Germany!
Hitler claimed that only 74 men were executed in the murderfest, in July, 1935; but between 1,500 and 2,000 families have since applied to German insurance companies for payments of insurance policies on the lives of husbands or brothers lost at that time. How many uninsured were slain is unknown.
In one of his speeches to the Nazis at Nuremberg, Herr Hitler made the statement that all German children belong to him, and that their mothers would bind themselves to him for ever.
It is almost unbelievable, but every person in Germany is required by law to "Heil Hitler", and in order to keep within the law Hitler actually uses the salute himself.
German salutes around railroad stations have so upset engineers and other railway men, accustomed to using the arms in conveying signals, that it has been necessary to make a new law forbidding Nazi salutes in railway stations.
On his forty-seventh birthday Hitler received (so it is claimed) 34,000 pairs of socks, 1,012 cradles and cartloads of flowers, besides other gifts.
Afraid of "The Terror"
Were the Germans anxious to vote in the last elections? You bet they were. And why? Oh, the president of the Berlin police told all the 10,000 men under his command that one of their duties would be to see that every German man and every German woman in their districts must come to the polls.
In the last German "election" every registered voter was compelled to go to the polls, except Jews. Each was given the opportunity to vote
BENITO AMBROSE ADOLPH FRANKIE
--for Hitler. There was no opportunity to record a vote against him. How would you like that?
Hereafter there may be no criticism of works of art, drama, films, literature, painting or sculpture in Germany without the approval of the Nazi government.
On the theory that aviation dangers must be concealed on the eve of war, the German government has forbidden any newspaper to mention air crashes even if they occur in other countries.
At Stuttgart, Germany, Ludwig Schopp, a baker, was deprived of his tradesman’s license and placed under arrest, charged with sedition, because he turned off the radio in his restaurant during a speech by Adolf Hitler.
Knowing well that education of some sort is at the foundation of every state, the Nazi state has issued new textbooks for the German children, containing extracts from Hitler’s writings and biographical sketches of some of the worst politicians and cutthroats in the country.
All private grammar schools in Germany have been abolished, and thus the absolute control of the very thoughts of every person in that terrible land grows nearer and nearer. All the world may now view the ideal of the Devil, which is that of Roman Catholic Fascism.
At the Olympic Games, although a female from California distinguished herself by pressing her way to Hitler and kissing him on the cheek, almost without exception all the American athletes steadfastly refused to “Heil Hitler”, which most of the Germans had expected them to do.
Vaccinating the Younger Set Against Liberty, Equality and Christianity
The demand of Hans Johst, Germany’s literature dictator, whose official title is President of the Reich Chamber of Literature, in an address at Weimar, Germany, warning the bookdealers that they must not use books as a private source of income, but in the service of the Third Reich, said:
In the future I will eliminate the lukewarm among the bookdealers and I will not tolerate a dictatorship of the buying public. The buying public is our people, and our people want to be and shall be convinced and led; that is the essential principle of our age.
Germany is being scoured to persuade all children born in 1925 and 1926 to join the Young Folk or Hitler Girls organizations. No stone will be left unturned to Nazify every German boy and girl between the ages of 10 and 18 and to turn the entire nation into a vast military establishment.
The Insane Fever for War
The new toy soldiers, now pouring forth in a stream from Germany, are illustrated in the London News Chronicle, 35 of them, and they are enough to make the heart sick. Every phase of warfare is represented, even to the scarlet-stained wrappings and the corpses, and the statement is made that the toys are for the girls as well as the boys.
All German youths, no matter what they or their parents may believe, must join up with the Nazi youth organizations, at ten years of age.
It is significant that at the time this order was issued, affecting all Germany, word was also sent out that Catholic youth organizations may remain intact. The intent is that all German youth shall be under the firm control of the Devil, as represented by the compact between the Roman Catholic Hitler and the Papacy.
The German edition of The Golden Age reports Ernst Hauck, professor in a German boys’ school, as saying to his pupils:
The soldier in field gray throwing his last grenade; the dying sailor, falling through a murderer’s hand, and uttering as his last word the name of the Fuehrer [Hitler], these are to us far more godlike personalities than the crucified Jew [Christ Jesus, the Savior of men].
Something ‘new under the sun’ are the “Student Rulers” now being selected to rule Germany. Three thousand carefully picked men will be trained at Croessin Lake, Vogelsang and Sonthofen, to take up the Nazi rule when Hitler lays it down. These men, so the accounts state, must be men of “character”, i.e., they must not use alcohol, tobacco or other indulgences for a set period, they must be “pitiless and merciless” in the suppression of those who disagree with them, and they are assured that they will be “saved from all material worries for the rest of their lives” [which, thank God, will be short].
Millions of Germans between the ages of 25 and 45 are today carrying in their pockets military orders which specify just what barracks the holders must report to, and the day of mobilization, and the hour of arrival. The orders specify the clothing that must be brought, and the cooking utensils, and that they are acceptable as railway tickets.
The Nazi party of Germany makes winter contributions to the poor and needy, and the German army, as one of its duties, is entrusted with the task of collecting the “contributions”. The people, when the soldiers are at the door, are glad to part with portions of their salaries, their not-needed clothing, extra potatoes and other foods.
People who know something about finance (there are but few who do) conclude that Germany may be able to borrow her way through the year 1937, but by that time her credit will be exhausted and she must get supplies in the old way, by taking them by force if she can get them. The present bluff is that Germany and Japan will pick Russia apart and divide the bones between them.
William E. Dodd, United States ambassador to Germany, remarked of so-called “Western civilization”:
With billions of debts unpaid, with billions of dollars spent yearly for bombing planes, great guns, scores of millions of small arms and all kinds of warships, the civilization which has borne the name of “Christian” for centuries is in a dilemma unsurpassed in 1,000 years.
Insane Treatment of Jews
Because the Jews were for centuries the typical people of God, it suits the Devil well to maltreat them, hoping thus to do something further to dishonor God’s name; nevertheless, they are human creatures, and those who treat them unjustly, as Hitler is now doing, must answer for it.
In the short space of three years, from 1933 to 1936, the number of Jews existing in Germany was decreased from 517,000 persons to 405,000, or about 21 percent.
A Jew in Duisburg was recently sentenced to one and one-half years’ imprisonment for writing to a friend in America a personal letter containing some uncomplimentary remarks about Hitler and the Nazi party.
At Darmstadt a kind-hearted Jew was fined £4 for giving a home to a Gentile girl who was without work and penniless. The girl shared a room with his two daughters.
Occasionally some Nazi has a gleam of intelligence and, realizing that the country was being injured by its fanaticism against the Jews, an offer was made that if 2,000 Jewish doctors exiled from Germany would return and serve in the German Army Medical Corps they would be accepted back. In other words, Germany contemplates war and thinks maybe it is not so bright chasing out all the capable Jewish surgeons, after all.
Some idea of the depths to which the German nation has descended under the Nazi régime may be found in facts cited by the American Jewish Committee, 461 Fourth Avenue, New York City, that in some districts Jews are prohibited from traveling by certain trains; in other places they cannot get a coffin made or hire a hearse; in other places they cannot get medical treatment without the official consent of the Nazi party; a landlady may rent a room to a Jew, but the moment she gives him a meal she becomes Jewish, subject to all the penalties; a Jewish widow must discharge her Christian help if the son of the widow takes his meals there, even though he rooms elsewhere; Jewish dealers in foods are denied the privilege of purchase, and are thus forced out of business; in the textile trades the employment of even one Jewish apprentice is sufficient to cancel the license of the firm; all Jews have been completely driven out of the newspaper trade: not a Jewish news agent is left to do business in the country, and Jewish booksellers, architects and cinema proprietors have all been eliminated. These are but a few of the restrictions imposed in this land which was once considered the center of a modern, decent civilization.
Killing Them by Inches
A Jewish widow in Germany earned a living by keeping a small shop. The Nazis came and plastered the shop with posters saying that no good German would buy from a Jew. She hung in the window the last photograph of her son, and beside it his Iron Cross and a letter from his commander that he had died fighting valiantly for his country. In the night her window was smashed and the photograph, letter and Iron Cross were gone.
The so-called "Aryans" are taking from the Jews the only means by which the latter may maintain themselves. The latest is a declaration that hereafter Aryans will handle the rag trade, on the ground that the present operators, the Jews, are not sufficiently reliable. This is merely a slow and cowardly method of robbery and murder.
All cattle dealers wear brown trousers when working, but the "court" at Nuremberg sentenced a Jewish cattle dealer to six weeks' imprisonment because, said the "court", Jews must not wear brown trousers, because they might be confused with the uniforms of the Nazi Storm Troops. Can you imagine such a "court"?
The German "government" confiscated 25 percent of the property of wealthy Jews, as "security" equal to the "escape tax" levied upon them if they leave the country. This 25 percent, however, has been levied upon their businesses while they are going concerns, and is therefore much more than the tax that is levied when estates are liquidated. The Jews are being crowded to the wall by the most nearly perfect system of gradually increased oppressions ever witnessed on earth.
Recently there have been several instances in which the German government has ordered Jews who were born in that country to leave within 24 hours. No reasons for these deportations were given. Most of the deportees, businessmen, were ruined by the order and could do nothing to help themselves.
The Cause of Hitler's Insanity
The scientific, truthful explanation of Hitler's insane conduct lies in the fact that he is possessed of devils, similar to the seven that the Lord cast out of Mary Magdalene, and others. It is claimed that, much like King Saul, his nerves are gone and he is suffering from fits of crying and inability to sleep. For hours at a time he sits doing nothing but listen to a musician playing Wagner and Beethoven symphonies and refuses to talk to anyone on even the most important international business. Without a doubt he is demonized and well on the road to insanity, and deserves his fate.
Incidentally, the whole German people, engaged in 'heiling Hitler', are in reality offering their praise and homage to the Devil, and hailing him as their god and their deliverer.
Luigi Sturzo writes in the French Journal des Nations:
Hitler is unfortunately not able to offer everlasting peace in the name of the German people. He has his 'voices' which talk to him in something like somnambulism. Today those voices tell him 'Peace for twenty-five years'; but what if the same voices say to him tomorrow, 'Peace only for five years'? And when they tell him 'Instant war', decreed in one night (because Hitler likes nightly conferences), regardless of the 'twenty-five years' peace pledge, confirmed by plebiscite? The German people have nothing to say, not today and not tomorrow. Their ballot is of no consequence, their vote is of no value, neither at home nor abroad. And that is the tragedy of Europe.
His Responsibility Seems Complete
Hitler's responsibility for accepting the toadyism of hypocrites, and rewarding those that refuse to bow to him with prison sentences and even torture in the prisons themselves, seems to be complete, as will readily be gathered from the following extracts from his book, Mein Kampf [My Struggle]:
The form demanded once: Never contradict, but whatsoever His Majesty is pleased with, that approve! Just at this place free manhood was needed most; some day the monarchic institution would have perished anyhow because of this toadyism, and it was toadyism and nothing else. A man, willing and ready to stand up for a cause, cannot and will never be a spineless toady or a knave. He who has the welfare and progress of an institution at heart will hang on to it with his last heartbeat and will not stand for any wrong he may notice within it. Disregarding that he may endanger his own person, he will strongly warn the crown-bearer and will try to influence him. . . . With very rare exceptions monarchs are not examples of wisdom or intelligence or even of character, as some would ---
“Mein Krampf?”
(1) By the time I became chancellor (followed by a boom in the lickspittle business) I was aware of a peculiar quality in myself, that, I trust, will follow my every triumph.
(3) and news of it spread to other countries via reports of our new laws and Jew policy.
(6) HEIL
This rare quality is only a healthy aroma generated by the stinking carcasses of the tortured and murdered and the blood of the innocent. Ach, I am up to my ears in it.
(2) I think the German people became aware of it by the time I had cemented my party's position,
BLOOD-PURGES
(4) It increased in intensity with the insistence of my inner voice,
(5) while whole nations and governments acknowledge my rare individuality.
NAZI PROPAGANDA
(7) HITLER IS A GREATER CHRIST
At first I was alarmed, but since being deified I rejoice, as Cardinal Fullbellyhabe assures me it is the Holy Odor of Roman Catholic Sanctity.
--like to picture them. Only the professional toadies and sycophants believe they are; but to all other upright people—and such are the most valuable in the state—the toady presentation of monarchs as supermen can be only repugnant. For them history is history, and truth is truth, even if it involves monarchs. No, indeed! the luck to have a great man as monarch is so scarce among nations that they must be satisfied if the malice of fate will at least spare them its worst mistake.
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If you believe that you are destined by fate to preach the truth in respect to religion, then do it; but have also the courage not to go about it through a political party, but preach instead of the evil things of the present time the better things of the future. [Pages 126, 127] To the political leader the religious teachings and institutions of his people will always be inviolable; otherwise he must not be a politician, but should be a reformer, if he has the necessary qualifications. Any other view will lead to a great catastrophe in Germany.
On pages 187 ff. Hitler arrives at the basic knowledge,
that an ideal or world-outlook (Weltanschauung) can be destroyed only by hunting down and killing the last bearer of it and by the destruction of the last tradition of the same . . . But such a bloody sacrifice, as experience shows, usually hits the best of the population . . . Thus all real valuable blood will in the end be drawn out of that nation and the nation will have to suffer for it.
Military Preparations
The German people do not yet know it, probably, but a huge part of all their savings has gone into munitions. Winston Churchill, former chancellor of the British Government Exchequer, estimates that in 1935 alone the German government invested $4,000,000,000 in war preparations.
The Krupp Gun Works, so busy making plows, etc., according to the peace talkers of fifteen years ago, is now making more guns than ever since the blood-curdling days of old Kaiser Wilhelm, and there is alleged to be a shortage of skilled labor for that purpose.
Britons are nervous over the discovery that Germany now has 20,000 airplanes; also that the Hindenburg has gone out of its way to fly over most British airports and shipyards and even the Manchester ship canal. All the military men claim that if war breaks out in Europe the first 24 hours will decide the issue. So many non-combatants will be slain that the morale of the losing side will be broken.
On seven of the Frisian islands, off the coast of Holland, Germany is building underground airdromes large enough to house 5,000 bombing planes. The planes that can be housed in these airdromes could carry loads sufficient to wipe out the inhabitants of all the principal cities in the British Isles.
The London News Chronicle, referring to Germany’s preparation for war, lists 12 airdromes, 6 underground in one village; another with 20 sheds each 250 feet long, for 200 airplanes and 300 pilots; a third with 250 planes and 1,000 personnel; a fourth with 200 planes; a fifth with underground accommodations for 800 men; a sixth with a gas-proof underground hangar, etc. If these planes are not intended to be used against England, the nearest neighbor across the North sea, against whom are they intended? They are strung out along the line between Hamburg and Bremen.
There are forty aviation factories in Germany. In 1934 the annual budget for military aviation was 211,000,000 marks; in 1935 it was 500,000,000 marks; in 1936 it was 980,000,000 marks. In four years the aviation personnel grew from 12,000 to 60,000 men.
The new Air Ministry Building in Berlin has more than two thousand offices. Two of the German aircraft factories have more employees and occupy more floor space than all the aircraft plants in the United States. The Tempelhof commercial airport is being trebled in size, and aims to be, when completed, the largest, most complete airport in the world.
By the airship Hindenburg Germany is now only two nights away from the United States; and with such a government as they have there, that is close enough.
The new military highways of Germany are the finest in the world. Four lanes wide, and the center is landscaped. All crossings of every kind are eliminated. Villages are skirted. Yellow glass reflectors mark the edge of the paving. The shoulders are of pebble and asphalt mixture and may be felt at once by the driver. The cost averages $320,000 a mile; and 4,400 miles are projected, over a period of seven years.
Dr. A. Salter, M.P., speaking at Canterbury, Kent, England, of the crushing of German militarism in 1918, said, reflectively: We crushed her under our heels and she was absolutely powerless and impotent. We blockaded her coasts for eighteen months after the Armistice, in order to make her sign terms of peace which she would not have done voluntarily. Her navy was at the bottom of Scapa Flow, she was not allowed to have a fleet or an army, except one hundred thousand men for internal police purposes. She was not allowed to have any conscription or heavy artillery, and all munition factories were blown up. She was not allowed to have an armed man within thirty miles of her frontiers, and in some places a hundred miles, or to have an air force, and we loaded her with a reparations debt of £240,000,000,000, a fantastic figure, to crush her economically for generations. Today our statesmen are calling out that German militarism is a menace to the world.
Courts a Mockery
For expressing the self-evident truth that “war brings terror and despair to mankind, and there is nothing heroic about it”, Carl von Ossietzky, German editor, has been in prison during the entire time of Hitler’s reign, and is now dying of heart disease—virtually murdered for loving peace.
In a recent trial at Berlin a trade unionist by the name of Markwitz asked the Nazi court, “Must I tell the truth?” Receiving an affirmative answer, he opened his shirt and showed his torn and broken body and solemnly declared that his confession given to his torturers was false. Yet, in the face of all that, he was “found guilty”. The Nazi courts have become objects of bitter contempt by decent people everywhere.
At Magdeburg 150 men and women accused of expressing dissatisfaction with the German government went on trial before the dreaded People’s Tribunal—corresponding to the Revolutionary Tribunal of the French Revolution. All the defendants were held a year in prison before trial, with death as the probable result in many instances. There were 18 women among the 150. It is not known if any of Jehovah’s witnesses are in this group of sufferers; but probably so.
At Bremerhaven the Hansa Provincial Court sentenced five persons (none of them Jehovah’s witnesses) to imprisonment for fifteen months to two years for merely listening to a radio program from Moscow. When it comes to Jehovah’s witnesses, the only activity permitted them is the sale of Bibles. As late as April, and since the alleged amnesty, one of Jehovah’s witnesses from Pivitsheide, near Detmold, was given ten months’ imprisonment for giving out some literature explaining the Bible. The Lord’s statement that His true and faithful followers would be “as sheep in the midst of wolves” is exactly correct.
The Melbourne Workers’ Weekly contains a special report from its Berlin correspondent on the night trials which have been conducted at Dresden:
In order to exclude the public, the proceedings were held in the night, from twelve o’clock till three in the morning. In the courtroom three Storm Troopers stood beside the judge’s bench. If a defendant failed to reply to a question in the manner desired, he was taken away at once by the Storm Troopers, through a passage from the court into a cellar, where he was frightfully maltreated and then dragged back before the judges. If he still refused to give the desired answers, he was taken away again and subjected to worse tortures.
The same account refers to the conditions at Sachsenburg, where there are between 300 and 400 of Jehovah’s witnesses. In this hellhole 1,327 prisoners are crowded into two dormitories, and there are only four privies for all. Several victims have been beaten to death. Women are beaten, as well as men.
Tortures in Prisons
In the first year of Hitler 280,308 persons were imprisoned, 184 were shot “trying to escape”, 212 men and women were beheaded, and 49,000 were sent to concentration camps. Upon his release from fourteen months’ imprisonment at Frankfurt, Dr. Robert Rohme, an Austrian, made the statement, on his arrival in England:
If you want to find a gentleman in Germany today you have to go to the prisons, because all the gentlemen are there.
Madame Soermus, Russian concert artist, touring Great Britain, declares that in Czechoslovakia she saw a prisoner, just escaped from Germany, who had the Swastika branded upon his head. The members of the group of four, of whom he was one, told of seeing one man killed in a concentration camp by tying a string to his tongue. A brick was tied to the other end of the string, and when it was dropped the poor man’s tongue was pulled out by the roots. He died shortly, in exquisite agony, as a matter of course. It was an illustration of Catholic Action in practice.
“A German major attached to the secret division of the Reichswehr ministry recently boasted quite openly that Germany has at her disposal methods of making obstinate prisoners amenable by injection. The fact that the methods employed completely destroy the victim mentally and physically is no deterrent, of course, to the gentle Nazi nature. This Reichswehr officer told of methods of the Middle Ages, when the inner organs of victims were slowly destroyed by mixing minced hair with their food. (Powdered diamond dust was also used.) Today more humane methods are used. Why minced hair, when the effects of thorn-apple juice are known? This drug destroys the brain ganglia and brings about a terrible state of exhaustion. Memory is destroyed, and Nazi accusers obtain all the ‘confessions’ they desire. The Middle Ages are out-done.”—The Prague Neue Weltbuehne.
“At Dachau Camp official punishment for prisoners’ misdeeds included whipping, beating on the soles of the feet with iron rods (the bastinado), branding with lighted cigars, and beating prisoners with rubber hosepipes until the victims became unconscious. At Kuhberg (an underground camp) prisoners were kept in damp cellars continually in the dark. . . . At Sachsenburg, a worker named Knauch was forced by men with whips to stand with arms extended until he fainted. At Heuberg a man named Leipowitsch was made to work until he collapsed and, as he sweated, ice-cold water was poured over him. He died the next day.”—London News Chronicle.
The Prague Neue Weltbuehne reports that the German Gestapo no longer beat prisoners with lead-tipped dog whips. They have found that they can produce the same results by beating with sandbags and no marks are left.
Improvements are promised—that the lash will be abolished, heads will no longer be shaved, and the standard punishments will be bread and water, plank beds and dungeons.
Methods of Torturing Women
The following is the statement of Frau Berg-Andre of her treatment in a German prison while she was undergoing examination, as published in the Manchester Guardian:
I was generally questioned from 9 a.m. to 7 or 8 p.m. each day. For this I sat bound on a chair, in such a way that my hands were tied down to my feet underneath the chair. For four days running a worker was beaten in my presence, in the hope that he would make a statement against Edgar [her husband, subsequently slain by the Nazis, after being brutally mistreated]. While I sat there for hours on end bent double this man was severely beaten four or five times a day. As I made no statement I was shut up for six weeks in an underground cell for “confinement in the dark”. There I got warm food only once every four days; for the rest I had nothing but dry bread and water. Meanwhile there were more questionings while I sat bent in the chair, and I was knocked about so that I still have marks of this mishandling on my body. As a result of this treatment I fell ill. After repeated requests a doctor arrived, but he did not examine me at all, but only told the wardress that I might lie on the bed when I wished and have pills to relieve the pain whenever I wanted.
The Manchester Guardian has published a number of stories similar to the above, and these have been denied by German officials, with the result that other and yet other women tell of their experiences in this land of demoniacs. A later letter from another woman, published in the Guardian of September 7, tells how at the police examination her head was jerked up with a pencil thrust into her nose; she was compelled to kneel, and while in this position was beaten with a rubber truncheon; was pulled to and fro by the hair; had a revolver pressed against her temple; was then thrown into a cellar, and, although arms and legs were black-and-blue from beatings, was compelled to go through a great variety of exercises and postures until finally she fainted from pain and weakness. This torture was repeated at intervals, accompanied by jeering on the part of the “men” acting as custodians.
No Faintest Resemblance to Manhood
At the end of 1935 there were three times as many persons in German prisons as there were before the Nazis came into power. A British lawyer tells of a case where a young anti-Nazi girl was put in a cell with a prostitute and questioned once an hour for sixty hours until her will was broken.
At Hohenstein a 22-year-old girl prisoner was kept six days in the Bunker Camp, a dark hole in which she had to stand upright without being able to move.
The Manchester Guardian of August 14, 1936, contains a story over three columns in length from a woman who had just escaped after more than two years’ imprisonment in Germany. She was beaten into insensibility several times by ---
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Nazi police in Danzig descended to the level of torturing children. When a little boy of eight refused to testify against his father he was beaten with rubber cudgels and his sister was dragged by the hair.
G. W., writing in the Manchester Guardian, tells a pathetic story of the fate of his faithful wife. When Hitler first came into power he was arrested and imprisoned for 2 1/2 years. During all that time his wife contrived to keep herself and two children alive. When his term expired the Nazis kept him several weeks over time, and told his wife he had been released. Ten weeks later the Nazis told her the truth, that he was still being held. At length her courage gave way, and when in despair she committed suicide, they then gave him his liberty.
A contemporary setting forth the development of Nazi culture gives some interesting details:
In a place called Bocum, a Nazi department store manager named Unversaght used his superior position to seduce twenty-eight girl employees under the age of sixteen. Eight of these girls became pregnant, and the manager arranged for his friend, Dr. Badenhauer, to perform illegal operations. Protests by the parents ultimately led to the arrest of the two men, but, as they are active officials of the Nazi party, they were released twenty-four hours after arrest. Today Unversaght is head of a big textile business in Giessen, with power over forty-three young girl sellers.
Government by Racketeers
New Masses contains a copyrighted article by John L. Spivak in which the information is brought to light that all Germany is dictaphoned, the dictaphones being attached to the telephone in such a manner that everything said in the office (whether the telephone is in use or not) is recorded at police headquarters. The Nazi chieftains are racketeers pure and simple, living in greatest luxury while their underlings shake down businessmen for a percentage of their receipts. One of the diplomats interviewed by Mr. Spivak said to him: "It is not a government. Here gangsters have got control of a great country and have become a world power to be reckoned with."
Winston Churchill, in an address in Paris, denounced German rule as that of the gag and muzzle; of spies, eavesdroppers and delators; of private conversations caught up and delivered to the Secret Police; of arrests and internments without trial; of trials by party courts for crimes hitherto unknown to the civil law; of the treatment of grown men like schoolboys; of forced parades and cheering for this or that slogan; and of the bullying to death of teachers and authors in the concentration camps.
Westbrook Pegler tells of a case of "sedition" at Cuxhaven, Germany. Nazi agents boarded an American ship and in the private locker of Lawrence Simpson, a native American sailor, discovered a letter which said, in part, "Our American democracy is much superior to the Nazi theory, and Hitler is, to my mind, a madman." Simpson was thereupon arrested for sedition, and was in prison fifteen months awaiting trial. He has since been released.
A German housewife entertaining some friends was annoyed by radio reception of a Nazi speech and said to one of her children, "Turn off that nonsense." One of the guests reported the matter to the police, and now the housewife must report to the police station every day for six weeks and listen to the Nazi programs. Imagine a country where a guest would do such a thing, and fear not to do it; and imagine a country where the tyranny is so unspeakably small-souled.
On the night of June 13, 1936, in the city of Danzig, sixteen Storm Troopers attacked the dwelling of three unarmed workers, and in their frenzy shot dead two of their own number. Thereupon the Danzig police arrested the men who had been attacked (often duplicated elsewhere), and at the funeral of the two men slain by their own comrades Herr Hitler sent wreaths, and Himmler, chief of the German secret police, attended in person.
Germany made improvements on the inquisitions of the Dark Ages. Everybody had to vote for Hitler, to show they were for the Nazi state; and then on the German "Labor Day", May 1, all Germany took a day off from work and were given free beer and sausage, while the wages went on as usual. The bribe worked well. Jehovah's witnesses, women, were flogged at the concentration camps at Mohringen and Jauer. The Gestapo, secret police, Papal inquisitors, arrest perfectly innocent persons, torture them until they “confess”, and sometimes extend the torture until physical and mental ruin result. Many prisoners have been beaten to death and others have died a lingering death after the Gestapo of Ratti and Hitler get through with them. The theory is to keep the people contented with occasional free beer and free sausages.
Some Recent Blasphemies
Some of the recent blasphemies in Nazidom are: “Hitler is a new, a greater and a more powerful Jesus Christ”; “Adolf Hitler is the real Holy Ghost”; and, “The creator of mankind appeared 2,000 years ago in the form of Christ. Today God reveals himself to the German people again in the form of Hitler.” The first of these statements was by Alois Spaniol, leader of the Nazis in the Saar; the second was by Dr. Kerrl, chairman of the Prussian Diet; and the third was a statement in Welt des Kaufmanns, a trade paper.
In an address at Nuremberg, Germany, Schutzstaffel Leader Schulz, of Pomerania, said:
I ask you, Who was greater, Christ or Hitler? Christ at the time of his death had twelve disciples who weren’t even completely faithful to him. Hitler today has a people of seventy millions behind him. National Socialism claims in all earnestness: “I am the Lord thy God: thou shalt have no other gods besides me.”
On a previous occasion Streicher, anti-Semitic governor of Franconia, made the following statement:
After the salvation of the German people, there will come the salvation, through Adolf Hitler, of other sick peoples who cannot save themselves.
Protestant pastors circulated pamphlets showing that the Hitler Youth worship Hitler instead of Christ, and thank him before and after meals in the following language:
“Leader, my Leader, whom God has given to me, protect and preserve me through my life. Thou hast saved Germany from the deepest distress, and I have to thank thee for my daily bread. Stay with me and never leave me, Leader, my Leader, my faith and my light.”
Driven to desperation by what they see going on around them the German Evangelical church, in a 4,000-word protest to the Government, said, in part: Honor is being accorded to Herr Hitler which is due only to God. His judgment is used as the basis for all decisions, political, moral and legal, and he himself is haloed with the religious authority of a national priest and even made an intermediary between God and the nation.
Signs of Protestant Dissolution
Signs of Protestant dissolution are that fewer persons are going to church at all, and there is less bitterness between the Rome-controlled state and the Protestant sects.
In Brandenburg 422 out of 1,753 Protestant pulpits are vacant, in Pomerania 229 out of 802 pulpits are vacant, and in Saxony, where Protestantism had its origin, 574 are vacant out of a total of 1,680.
For 231 years a wall divided the Protestant from the Catholic half of the Church of St. Esprit, in Heidelberg, but, now that the Protestant church has ceased to exist, having been merged with the Catholic everywhere, the intervening wall has appropriately been torn down.
For not ringing the church bells the pastor of a Protestant church at Immerkath, Saxony, at the time of Adolf Hitler’s election, was forced to march through the village with someone who had voted “No” at the election. Manure was repeatedly thrown in his face. He was taken to Nazi headquarters, where he was beaten with wooden and rubber clubs bristling with rusty nails.
Violence to Jehovah's witnesses
Jehovah’s witnesses do not vote to uphold present murderous governments, and are therefore special objects of the Devil’s wrath and of those who have his spirit. The following are some of their experiences at the last election. Names of places are omitted because their persecutions are still going on.
At A—— 15 men dragged a man out of his garden, took him to the polls, and threatened to kill him if he did not vote. He refused, and 48 hours later was still in the prison to which he was cast for his refusal. Another witness was spat upon by about 20 S.A. men while he was at the station house: he was detained overnight. At B—— one of the witnesses was so abused as he left his boat that he was obliged to put himself under a doctor’s care, after spending a night in prison.
(Continued on page 370) The Remedy
A five-minute talk by Judge Rutherford
ALL the nations of the earth are in great distress and perplexity. Conditions continue to grow worse. What, if anything, is the remedy? All reasonable people can now see that man’s efforts to remedy the evils have failed. Men are imperfect and very selfish, and if a few men put forth their very best endeavors to bring about good, other selfish men interfere and prevent the people from receiving the benefits of such efforts. Those who believe the Bible know the reason for these conditions. We are now in the last days and perilous times have come, and God’s expressed determination is to destroy selfishness and wicked rule. Therefore Jehovah says to the people of earth who will hear (Matthew 12:18, 21): “Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased; I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the [nations]. And in his name shall the [nations] trust.” The kingdom of God under Christ is the only remedy and hope for humankind.
The masses of the people are today in darkness concerning the truth of God’s kingdom and know not which way to turn. Speaking of the Lord Jesus Christ and for the people Jehovah says (Isaiah 42:6, 7): ‘I will give thee for a guarantee to the people, for a light unto the nations, to open their blind eyes.’ At Isaiah 55:4 God says to the people concerning the right way: “Behold, I have given him [Christ Jesus] for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people.” No imperfect and selfish men can safely lead the people. They must be guided by the great Prophet of Jehovah God, Christ Jesus, who leads them in the right way.
The only way for the people of good will to now know the right way to go is to obtain a knowledge of God’s word as set forth in the Bible. For a long while there have been some men and women faithfully serving God and Christ, and now the time has come for Christ, the Light of the world, to destroy all wickedness and put in operation His righteous government. And therefore He says to His faithful witnesses: “Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.” (Isaiah 60:1) What is the purpose of having these witnesses testify to the truth? The Lord answers (Isaiah 60:2): ‘For, behold, the darkness covers the earth, and gross darkness the people.’ His purpose is that the people shall now have an opportunity to learn the truth and come out of darkness.
Foolish people will look to some earthly or human leader who rants and harangues them about what he can and will do. Such are blind to the truth and follow blind guides, and therefore blindly and foolishly shout: “Salvation is of Hitler,” or some other creature. Those who continue in this foolish way shall perish. The Scriptures truly show that all who will receive everlasting life and blessings ascribe all salvation to God and His kingdom under Christ and these will not compromise by bowing down to Satan and his organization. Upon earth today there are millions of people of good will, and these are now forming into a great multitude, all serving God. They are shown as having their faces and hearts turned to God and His kingdom and saying, “Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb [Christ Jesus, the King of the world].” (Revelation 7:10) Those people who thus put their trust in God and His kingdom are commanded by the Lord to say to others who will hear (Revelation 22:17): ‘Come and learn the truth and partake of life freely.’ The Lord is putting those words into the mouth of His people that they may inform others of the only remedy for human suffering.
This message does not mean that God is trying to induce people to serve Him. It is merely a warning to the people that those who desire to get life and attending blessings must give heed to that warning. After having heard the message of warning every person will make his own choice and take the full responsibility. By His prophet Jehovah says that when the people are warned and refuse to give heed to that warning they shall die in their iniquity, but if they give heed to the warning they shall live. (Ezek. 3:17-21) God lays the obligation upon His witnesses to give this message of warning to the people, and they are joyfully doing so in obedience to His commandment.
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