"What the man gives in courage on the battlefield, the woman gives in eternal self-sacrifice, in eternal pain and suffering. Every child that a woman brings into the world is a battle, a battle waged for the existence of her people"
-- AH; from Speech to the NS Frauenschaft (September 8, 1934)
Friday, July 15, 2022
Romanticizing Self-Sacrifice
Germany First
"People complain of a shortage of this and that - for instance, of a shortage of cotton. I say that in the next four years we shall produce our own German cloth. Others raise the question of rubber. I tell you that factories will spring from the earth and that in four years we shall ride on our own German rubber tires. It may then be asked, 'With what motive power will you drive you cars?' I say that we shall take gasoline from our own oil and coal."
-- AH; from speech to Nuremburg Labor Front (Sept. 12, 1936)
Wednesday, August 11, 2021
Bad-faith pandering to individualism
"How can Communism be thought possible in the most individualistic country in the world? It is only possible where every man is a number, not in Italy where every man is an individual, and more, has individuality."
-- Benito Mussolini; from 'The Fascista'
Thursday, July 15, 2021
Spurious Pretext for Invasion
"Our cause in Ethiopia is a just one. In a few days it will be laid before the League's counsel. It will be laid before the whole world—proof that the Ethiopians are a barbaric people, sunk in the practice of slavery"
-- Benito Mussolini; from interview with London Daily Mail (Aug 26, 1935)
Attacking a Peaceful Neighbor
"My pact with the Poles was merely conceived of as a gaining of time."
-- Adolf Hitler; from The Obersalzberg Speech (Aug. 22, 1939)
Friday, October 16, 2020
Nationalism
"Why should we need to socialize the banks and factories? We are socializing the people."
-- Adolf Hitler; to Hermann Rauschning (1939)
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
Against Democracy
"After socialism, Fascism trains its guns on the whole block of democratic ideologies, and rejects both their premises and their practical applications and implements. Fascism denies that numbers, as such, can be the determining factor in human society; it denies the right of numbers to govern by means of periodical consultations; it asserts the irremediable and fertile and beneficent inequality of men who cannot be leveled by any such mechanical and extrinsic device as universal suffrage"
--Benito Mussolini; from 'The Doctrine of Fascism (1932)