Posted on 10/05/2002 9:30:41 PM PDT by gd124
Hamburg - In the midst of a general election campaign, major political parties in Germany were quick to send membership forms to a freelance writer who spiced up his application requests with quotes from Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, according to a published report.
According to the report in Stern magazine, due to hit newsstands on Thursday, Cologne-based writer Rainer Popp sent out the bogus applications to the Christian Democrats, Social Democrats, the centrist Free Democrats and the leftist Greens.
His letters of introduction were peppered with such Mein Kampf passages as: "He who is courageous and industrious is destined for mastery over the Earth. The congenital weakling is worthy only of contempt."
The responses were overwhelmingly positive, said the Stern article.
"I read your letter with equal portions of interest and enjoyment," wrote Cologne CDU head Max Motek. "Your views correspond precisely with mine, seeing as how they accurately reflect reality. I look forward to your joining the CDU."
The FDP Cologne office also sent back a speedy application form. And the Greens wrote back saying: "Great that you want to join us." - Sapa-DPA
LOL
Delicious.
Good quotes in what?
Sounds like Ayn Rand.
"... obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken."
"Does anyone believe that the progress of this world springs from the mind of majorities and not from the brains or individuals?"
"... anyone who is unwilling to take personal responsibility for his acts, but seeks a shield, is a cowardly scoundrel."
"Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be 'discovered' by an election."
"The world is not for cowardly peoples."
"Mankind has grown great in eternal struggle, and only in eternal peace does it perish."
"Altogether, care should be taken not to regard the masses as stupider than they are."
"A man who is prepared to stand up for a cause will never and never can be a sneak and a spineless lickspittle."
"... empty hands can judge only by externals and never have the faculty of penetrating the inner core ..."
"... only when the rays of the sun die can the moon shine."
"... the meaning and purpose of revolutions is not to tear down the whole building, but to remove what is bad or unsuitable and continue building on the sound spot that has been laid before."
"In order not to be considered lacking in artistic understanding, people stood for every mockery of art and ended up becoming really uncertain in the judgment of good and bad."
"For in the long run government systems are not maintained by the pressure of violence but by faith in their soundness and in the truthfullness with which they represent and advance the interest of a people."
"Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live."
"Everything on this earth is capable of improvement."
"The best weapon is dead, worthless material as long as the spirit is lacking which is ready, willing, and determined to use it."
"... the impetus to the mightiest upheavals on this earth has at all times consisted less in a scientific knowledge dominating the masses than in a fanaticism which inspired them and sometimes in a hysteria which drove them forward."
"... God does not make cowardly nations free ..."
"Whatever you do, do it completely."
"... he who swims with the stream is more easily overlooked than he who bucks the waves."
"People are not freed by doing nothing, but by sacrifices."
"For the greatest revolutionary changes on this earth would not have been thinkable if their motive force, instead of fanatical, yes, hysterical passion, had been merely the bourgeois virtues of law and order."
"We are not simple enough, either, to believe that it could ever be possible to bring about a perfect era. But this relieves no one of the obligations to combat recognized errors, to overcome weakness, and strive for the ideal."
"It must never be forgotten that nothing that is really great in this world has ever been achieved by coalitions, but that it has always been the success of a single victor."
"... in life it is sometimes better to let a thing lie for the present than to begin it badly or by halves for want of suitable forces."
"... nothing at all is impossible, everything can be done if you only want it."
"Terror is not broken by the mind, but by terror."
"... a healthy, forceful spirit will be found only in a healthy and forceful body."
"The progress and culture of humanity are not a product of the majority, but rest exclusively on the genius and energy of the personality."
"Care must be taken not to underestimate the force of an idea."
"... a man of little scientific education but physically healthy, with a good, firm character, imbued with the joy of determination and will-power, is more valuable for the national community than a clever weakling."
"We must always bear in mind that even the most beautiful idea of a sublime theory in most cases can be disseminated only through the small and smallest minds. The important thing is not what the genius who has created an idea has in mind, but what, in what form, and with what success the prophets of this idea transmit it to the broad masses."
Even Satan can spin Scripture. Hitler's slippery grasp on reality based phrases seems kinda funny to me.
I guess the one about "not storming into the Russian winter while wearing your Caribbean weather gear" must've breezed right by him.
~grin~
But I get your drift.
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When Hitler called politicians monstrosities of dung and fire, he was right on target.
One would hope that should an idiot such as he were to get get into power again, say in the US, that people would not be won over by slick advertising/propoganda. But I fear that history will repeat itself yet again - anti-semitism is on the rise (just look at articles on Berkeley I have posted recently) even among the supposed 'advanced liberal thinkers' in colleges. We have neo-nazis buying into anti-jewish propoganda, and now we have the cultural elites buying into it as well.
While I have problems with some things Israel does I consider myself a friend of Israel and am dismayed at the attacks in the last year on the jewish state from the american left. These people go and condemn hitler on the one hand and on the other defend the palestinian terrorists, arafat, and saddam - all who want to out do hitler.
One I remember, though the exact wording fails me, is repay terrorism with ten times greater terrorism. It is cold, raw, but one can see it being effective against such scum as saddam. Not saying it is the best way to do things, but when you see something like 9/11 I FELT like doing that to those responsible. Hitler knew his people felt a similar way, and he used that to his advantage. Guess that is why the liberals are so prone to such things, they feel first and on occassion get around to thinking for themselves.
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