Page 201 - The Track Of The Jew Through The Ages - Alfred Rosenberg

Alfred Rosenberg

emperors took control, did justified will to power become
untrammelled greed for power, and Rome lost its strength thereby.
Even in Bismarck and Napoleon there existed an enormous will to
power, but whereas in the first it was controlled and ennobled by a
high idea, in the other the will to power raced without limitation
throughout Europe. I can, in contrast to all pacifists, see no crime in
the will to power itself, the one and only thing that is decisive is the
character of the people or of the personality that stands behind it.
Sometimes a social, civilisatory, cultural idea can be realised thereby,
at other times plundered countries and peoples are the consequence
of a ramification of power. Now, everywhere that the Jewish
character has been at work, we see it, even in the highest development
of its power, marked by total sterility. Never has a people shown
such a greed for power as the Jewish, not striving for some
accomplishments but merely because it considered itself as "chosen",
but never has a people been able to do so little with the acquired
power as, again, the Jewish. The slave feeling which is indeed the
characteristic Jewish gospel with regard to god (not the feeling of a
child, as among the Indo-Europeans) penetrates the Jew deep into
his blood; but that the slave thereafter demands most greedily to
play the lord, that the slave who has become a knight however rides
his horse to death, are both easy to understand.
The power instinct of the Jews is therefore of a different
sort than that of the ancient Romans, Alexander, Bismarck,
Napoleon. He does not as a lord demand respect and obedience
naturally, the Jew as a personality does not stand openly before his
work, but he goes on his way through intrigue, lies, deceit and
assassination, he stands as a secret assistant feeling like a communist
behind all the corridors of destructive work. The entire Jewish history
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provides proofs thereof.
Thus have we precisely outlined the type and manner of
the Jewish character. Now it is self-evident that this character

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How and why Communism and Anarchism go together and are joined together
among the Jews is an interesting psychological question which I cannot go into
here and to which I shall return in another work.
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Deut 7:10.
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Isa 19:7.
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