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"HITLER SPEAKS”

HITLER THE

me.

By Dr. Rauschning

ANTI-CHRIST

The conversation took a quieter

I remember in every detail the con- versation to be recorded in this chapter. turn. Goebbels sat down at our table, It made an indelible impression on From it dates my inner revulsion against National Socialism. For now I began to understand its true nature and aims.

"The religions are all alike," said Hitler, "no matter what they call them- selves. They have no future-certainly none for the Germans. Fascism, if it likes, may come to terms with the Church. So shall I. Why not? That will not prevent me from tearing up Christianity root and branch, and an- nihilating it in Germany. The Italians are naive; they're quite capable of being heathens and Christians at the same time. The Italians and the French are essentially heathens. Their Christianity is only skin-deep. But the German is different. He is serious in everything he undertakes. He wants to be either a Christian or a heathen. He cannot be both. Besides, Mussolini will never make heroes of his Fascists. It doesn't matter there whether they're Christians or heathens. Leave the hair- splitting to others. Whether it's the Old Testament or the New, or simply the sayings of Jesus-it's all the same old Jewish swindle. It will not make us free. A German Church, a Ger- man. Christianity, is distortion. One is either a German or a Christian. You cannot be both."

Streicher or Goebbels, who were both in the room, made some remark which I did not catch-a question per- haps.

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came from the and Hanfstaengel

Bavarian The two room to join us. leaders related a few cases of uncom- .

resistance from the promising Bavarian Catholic Church.

"Yes," Hitler agreed, "the Catholle Church is a really big thing. Why, what an organisation! It's something to have lasted nearly two thousand years! We must learn from it. Astute- ness and knowledge of human nature are behind it. Catholic priests know where the shoe pinches. But their day is done, and they know it. They are far too intelligent not to see that, and to enter upon a hopeless battle. But if they do, I shall certainly not make martyrs of them. We shall brand them as ordinary criminals. I shall tear the mask of honesty from their faces. And if that is not enough, I shall make them appear ridiculous and contemp- tible. I shall order films to be made about them. We shall show the his- tory of the monks on the cinema. Let the whole mass of nonsense, selfish- ness, repression and deceit be reveal- ed: how they drained the money out of the country, how they haggled with the Jews for the world, how they committed incest. We shall make it so thrilling that everyone will want to see it. There will be queues outside the cinemas. And if the pious bur- ghers find the hair rising on their heads in horror, so much the better... The young people will accept it~ the young people and the masses. I can do without the others."

"What's to be done?" Hitler replied. "I will tell you: we must prevent the "I promise you," he concluded, "that churches from doing anything but if I wished to, I could destroy the what they are doing now, that is, los- Church in a few years; it is hollow and ing ground day by day. Do you really rotten and false through and through. believe the masses will ever be Chris- One push and the whole structure tían again? Nonsense! Never again. would collapse. We should trap the That tale is finished. No one will lis- priests by their notorious greed and ten to it again. But we can husten self-indulgence. We shall thus be matters. The parsons will be made to able to settle everything with them in I shall dig their own graves. They will be perfect peace and harmony. tray their God to US. They give them a few years' reprieve. Why will betray anything for the sake thould we quarrel? They will swal- of their miserable little jobs and in-low anything in order to keep their

comes.

"Why should we have a uniform re- ligion, a German Church independent of Rome? Don't you see that that's all obsolete? German Christians, German Church, Christians freed from Rome -old stuff: I know perfectly well what is coming, and we shall take care of It all in good time. Without a religion of its own, the German people has no permanence. What this religion will be we do not yet know.. We feel it, but that is not enough.”

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Matters advantages. never come to a head. They will re- cognise a firm will, and we need only show them once or twice who is the master. Then they will know which way the wind blows. They are no fools. The Church was something really big. Now we're its heirs. We, too, are a Church. Its day has gone. it will not fight. I'm quite satisfied. As long as youth follows me, I don't mind if the old people limp to the confessional. But young ones--they will be different. I guarantee that".

"No," he replied to a question, "these professors and mystery-men who want

At the time, I regarded this whole to found Nordic religions merely get speech as sheer braggadoccio, and as in my way. Why do I tolerate them?

a concession to the pornographic Because they help to disintegrate, Streicher.. Nevertheless, it shook me which is all we can do at the moment, to the depths. Later I was to remem- They cause unrest. And all ber it many times. unrest is creative. It has no I heard little more after this. The value in itself, but let it run its course. only thing that interested me further They do their share, and the priests do was the Fuehrer's ostentatious con- theirs. We shall compel them to des- tempt for the Protestant Church. "Hit- troy their religions from within by set-ler by no means shared the hopes, and ting aside all authority and reducing | desires of many militant, anti-Rome everything to pale, meaningless talk. Protestants, who thought to shatter Shall we succeed? Certainly and ir- the Roman Church with the aid of resistibly."

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