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Alfred Rosenberg

humanitarian tolerance in the face of aggressive hostility signifies
plain suicide.
It would do us good to note the pithy words of J.H. Voh:
"One demands audaciously that true tolerance should be tolerant
even towards intolerance. No way! Intolerance is always active and
effective, it can be controlled only through intolerant action and
effect."

Consequences

I am coming to the end. In order to evaluate the Jewish
danger we had to follow the track of the Jew, had to observe the
form of his feeling, thought, action and illustrate the essential and
the ever-recurring in it. Only from this knowledge and the conscious
care of our character is it possible to confront the danger of
judaisation. Earlier when one deprived the Jew of civil rights, one
deprived him also of human rights.
These two concepts should now remain separated. Fichte
says: "They must have human rights, even if these do not belong to
them as to us ... but to give them civil rights I see no means of
doing so, at least, other than cutting off one night all their heads and
placing on them others in which there is not a single Jewish idea. In
order to protect ourselves from them I see no other means than to
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conquer their extolled land for them and to send them all there".
What Fichte understood by human rights emerges from the
following words: "If you have bread only for today, give it to the
Jew who is hungry beside you". So must we also think. We must
practise protection of life with regard to the Jew as to any other
man, but we must protect our national culture legally, be able to
maintain and purify it in its specific character without a foreign
Jewish and necessarily hostile mind being able to achieve an
influence.
The goals are clear, now briefly the means. Economically
the Jew has acquired power through interest, usury, money. Earlier
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[These remarks are from Fichte's 1 793 pamphlet "Beitrag zur Berichtigung der
Urtheile des Publicums iiber die franzosische Revolution" (A contribution to the
correction of the public opinion on the French Revolution".]

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