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Jews and the rest of us |
Why Hitler was so obsessed with the Jews? In his prologue for Naziism, Mein Kampf, as personal as it could be, he dedicated more text to his hatred of Jews than to groundwork for his own political party. The English translation by R. Manheim, which has 686 pages of text, has Jews mentioned on 139 pages, several times on the most of the pages. Additionally, Jews are invoked on many pages by the meaning in phrases like ‘racial poisoning’. Why? Maybe Hitler’s paranoid hatred of Jews has a simple source: in his drive to show Aryan racial supremacy of the German people he might feel vindicated for peoples like French and Russians but not so for the Jews. Hitler was a logical man, after all. The translator Manheim states that, contrary to the general opinion, the German text contains only one or two sentences that make no sense at first reading. It’s not the text which is hard to understand. The text by which Hitler announced a program of blood and terror was written long before he came to power. It’s hard to understand, very hard, why the German people put him to power. |
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from Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler (1924) translated by Ralph Manheim (1943) |
The mightiest counterpart to the Aryan is represented by the Jew. ... In judging the Jewish people’s attitude on the question of human culture, the most essential characteristic we must always bear in mind is that there has never been a Jewish art and accordingly there is none today either; that above all the two queens of all the arts, architecture and music, owe nothing original to the Jews. What they do accomplish in the field of art is either patchwork or intellectual theft. Thus the Jew lacks those qualities which distinguish the races that are creative and hence culturally blessed. Peoples who can sneak their way into the rest of mankind like drones, to make other men work for them under all sorts of pretexts, can form states even without any definitely delimited living space of their own. This applies first and foremost to a people under whose parasitism the whole of honest humanity is suffering, today more than ever: the Jews. |
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from Civilization by Niall Ferguson (2011) |
The Jewish role in Western intellectual life in twentieth century - especially in the United States - was indeed disproportionate, suggesting a genetic as much as a cultural advantage. Accounting for around 0.2 per cent of the world’s population and 2 per cent of the American population, Jews won 22 per cent of all Nobel Prizes, 20 per cent of all Fields Medals for mathematics and 67 per cent of the John Clarke Bates Medals for economics under the age of forty. Jews also won 18 per cent of the Oscars for Best Director, 20 per cent of the Pulitzer Prizes for non-fiction and 13 per cent of Grammy Lifetime Achievement Awards. |
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