Page 158 - The Track Of The Jew Through The Ages - Alfred Rosenberg

The Track of the Jew through the Ages

Thus far had the German Empire and German honour come
and the worst was that many apparently quite honest people did not
feel all that to be frightening. But slowly in other heads the awareness
that Martin Luther powerfully expressed is beginning to dawn:
"Know and do not doubt that, next to the Devil, you have no more
bitter and poisonous enemy than the Jew". (And in 1930 the Arabs
rose against the Jews streaming into Palestine under England's
protection. For their protection ten thousand British soldiers had to
be mobilised!)

The Jewish-Russian Revolution!

"Does not the evident thought strike you that, if you give
the Jews, who are, regardless of you, citizens ofa state that is stronger
and more powerful than all yours, also citizenship in your states,
your other citizens will be fully under their feet?" With these warning
words, based on deep historical insight, Fichte addressed the German
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nation 100 years ago. They were spoken to the wind without an
idea ofthe power that a race closed within itselfrepresents; disguised
in phrases about the equality ofmen, the dogma of limitless tolerance
triumphed in all parliaments.
Tolerance towards the foreigner, the enemy, was considered
as an accomplishment of higher mankind and was however, as the
history of the 19th century and the present teaches us, only an
increasingly great surrender of ourselves.
The credulous European had listened to these temptations,
which emerged cloaked in the seductive words of freedom, equality,
fraternity, and the fruits of the subversion lie exposed today. And
indeed so nakedly exposed that it must occur to even the most
backward man who does not have any idea ofthe necessary historical
connections that he granted his trust to cunning and eloquent leaders
who had in view not his well-being but the destruction of all his

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Fichte's Reden an die deutsche Nation (1 808) was based on talks given by him
from 1 807 in Berlin that encouraged the development of German national feeling
and hoped for a German national state that would continue in the tradition of the
Holy Roman Empire and free Germans from the French occupation.]

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