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Alfred Rosenberg

How right was Lagarde 203 when he answered the question
wherein one should look for the Jew thus: "Always on the side of
those among whom is found the least understanding of German
history". That is why we can, even in our times, see again that an
Isidore Witkowsky (Maximilian Harden), 204 the supposed admirer
of Bismarck, held "educational lectures" just after the outbreak of
the revolution in which he dared to suspect the great man of our
times, Hindenburg, and at the same time to discern in Germany's
collapse the beginning of a "great age".
This insurmountable opposition of the national souls is the
main cause of the Jewish hatred; the operation of which comes into
view only secondarily. The Jews in Russia should have not hated
the Russian people but only Tsarism, for the Russian himself did
not suffer less, indeed more than the Jew, under the earlier regime,
and he reached out a brotherly hand to the latter too immediately
after the Revolution. But the Jewish government in Moscow that
had gained power through complete unscrupulousness persecuted
everything Russian and tried to eliminate it root and branch. Their
hatred triumphed without limit; but it will be destroyed in its
insatiability - that is the course of historical necessity based on
national character.
In Germany, the Jews had from a long time ago been able
to make themselves at home, acquired for themselves and their
comrades with the help of all means the best places, which however
did not prevent the fact that hardly one day passed when, thanks to
the freedom of the press, the German or Christian did not receive
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[Paul de Lagarde (ne Botticher) (1 827-1 891 ) was a biblical scholar and orientalist
whose German nationalist work, Deutsche Schriften (1878-1881), influenced
Rosenberg in his anti-Semitism. For readings from this work see A. Jacob, Europa:
German Conservative Foreign Policy 1870-1940, Lanham, MD: University Press
ofAmerica, 2002.]
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[Maximilian Harden was the pseudonym of Felix Ernst Witkowski (1 861 -1 927),
a German Jewish journalist who pretended to be a monarchist and then went on to
attack Kaiser Wilhelm II for alleged homosexuality, just as he also at first applauded
the German invasion of Belgium in 1914 and then supported the Treaty ofVersailles
of 1 91 9. Shortly afterthe assassination ofWalther Rathenau in 1 922, he was attacked
by members of the Freikorps and so he moved in 1923 to Switzerland, where he
died.]

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