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.The greatness of Christianity did not arise from attempts to make compromises with those philosophicalopinions of the ancient world which had some resemblance to its own doctrine, but in the unrelenting andfanatical proclamation and defence of its own teaching.The apparent advance that a movement makes by associating itself with other movements will be easilyreached and surpassed by the steady increase of strength which a doctrine and its organization acquires if itremains independent and fights its own cause alone.191 Mein Kampf(13) The movement ought to educate its adherents to the principle that struggle must not be considered anecessary evil but as something to be desired in itself.Therefore they must not be afraid of the hostility whichtheir adversaries manifest towards them but they must take it as a necessary condition on which their wholeright to existence is based.They must not try to avoid being hated by those who are the enemies of our peopleand our philosophy of life, but must welcome such hatred.Lies and calumnies are part of the method whichthe enemy employs to express his chagrin.The man who is not opposed and vilified and slandered in the Jewish Press is not a staunch German and not atrue National Socialist.The best rule whereby the sincerity of his convictions, his character and strength ofwill, can be measured is the hostility which his name arouses among the mortal enemies of our people.The followers of the movement, and indeed the whole nation, must be reminded again and again of the factthat, through the medium of his newspapers, the Jew is always spreading falsehood and that if he tells thetruth on some occasions it is only for the purpose of masking some greater deceit, which turns the apparenttruth into a deliberate falsehood.The Jew is the Great Master of Lies.Falsehood and duplicity are theweapons with which he fights.Every calumny and falsehood published by the Jews are tokens of honour which can be worn by ourcomrades.He whom they decry most is nearest to our hearts and he whom they mortally hate is our bestfriend.If a comrade of ours opens a Jewish newspaper in the morning and does not find himself vilified there, thenhe has spent yesterday to no account.For if he had achieved something he would be persecuted, slandered,derided and abused.Those who effectively combat this mortal enemy of our people, who is at the same timethe enemy of all Aryan peoples and all culture, can only expect to arouse opposition on the part of this raceand become the object of its slanderous attacks.When these truths become part of the flesh and blood, as it were, of our members, then the movement will beimpregnable and invincible.(14) The movement must use all possible means to cultivate respect for the individual personality.It mustnever forget that all human values are based on personal values, and that every idea and achievement is thefruit of the creative power of one man.We must never forget that admiration for everything that is great is notonly a tribute to one creative personality but that all those who feel such admiration become thereby unitedunder one covenant.Nothing can take the place of the individual, especially if the individual embodies in himself not themechanical element but the element of cultural creativeness.No pupil can take the place of the master incompleting a great picture which he has left unfinished; and just in the same way no substitute can take theplace of the great poet or thinker, or the great statesman or military general.For the source of their power isin the realm of artistic creativeness.It can never be mechanically acquired, because it is an innate product ofdivine grace.The greatest revolutions and the greatest achievements of this world, its greatest cultural works and theimmortal creations of great statesmen, are inseparably bound up with one name which stands as a symbol forthem in each respective case.The failure to pay tribute to one of those great spirits signifies a neglect of thatenormous source of power which lies in the remembrance of all great men and women.The Jew himself knows this best.He, whose great men have always been great only in their efforts to destroymankind and its civilization, takes good care that they are worshipped as idols.But the Jew tries to degradethe honour in which nations hold their great men and women.He stigmatizes this honour as the cult ofpersonality.As soon as a nation has so far lost its courage as to submit to this impudent defamation on the part of the192 Mein KampfJews it renounces the most important source of its own inner strength.This inner force cannot arise from apolicy of pandering to the masses but only from the worship of men of genius, whose lives have uplifted andennobled the nation itself.When men s hearts are breaking and their souls are plunged into the depths of despair, their great forebearsturn their eyes towards them from the dim shadows of the past those forebears who knew how to triumphover anxiety and affliction, mental servitude and physical bondage and extend their eternal hands in agesture of encouragement to despairing souls.Woe to the nation that is ashamed to clasp those hands.During the initial phase of our movement our greatest handicap was the fact that none of us were known andour names meant nothing, a fact which then seemed to some of us to make the chances of final successproblematical.Our most difficult task then was to make our members firmly believe that there was atremendous future in store for the movement and to maintain this belief as a living faith; for at that time onlysix, seven or eight persons came to hear one of our speakers.Consider that only six or seven poor devils who were entirely unknown came together to found a movementwhich should succeed in doing what the great mass-parties had failed to do: namely, to reconstruct theGerman Reich, even in greater power and glory than before.We should have been very pleased if we wereattacked or even ridiculed.But the most depressing fact was that nobody paid any attention to us whatever.This utter lack of interest in us caused me great mental pain at that time.When I entered the circle of those men there was not yet any question of a party or a movement.I havealready described the impression which was made on me when I first came into contact with that smallorganization.Subsequently I had time, and also the occasion, to study the form of this so-called party whichat first had made such a woeful impression.The picture was indeed quite depressing and discouraging.Therewas nothing, absolutely nothing at all.There was only the name of a party.And the committee consisted ofall the party members.Somehow or other it seemed just the kind of thing we were about to fight against aminiature parliament.The voting system was employed.When the great parliament cried until they werehoarse at least they shouted over problems of importance here this small circle engaged in interminablediscussions as to the form in which they might answer the letters which they were delighted to have received.Needless to say, the public knew nothing of all this [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]