Hitler's Diaries: The Mind & God & "Wisdom" & Philosophy of
Adolf Hitler (Edited, compiled, analyzed, etc., by edited by Rhawn Joseph, Ph.D. )
Chapter 1 Christianity, Religion & Divine Providence by Adolf Hitler Edited by R. Joseph, Ph.D.
It adds little to our knowledge of the Creator when some parson presents to us an indifferent copy of a man as his conception of the Deity. In this respect, at least, the Mohammedan is more enlightened, when he says: to form a conception of Allah is not vouchsafed to man.
Jesus was most certainly not a Jew. The Jews would never have handed one of their own people to the Roman courts; they would have condemned Him themselves. It is quite probable that a large number of the descendants of the Roman legionaries, mostly Gauls, were living in Galilee, and Jesus was probably one of them. His mother may well have been a Jewess.
Jesus fought against the materialism of His age, and, therefore, against the Jews.
Paul of Tarsus, who was originally on e of the most stubborn enemies of the Christians, suddenly realised the immense possibilities of using, intelligently and for other ends, and idea which was exercising such great powers of fascination. He realised that the judicious exploitation of this idea among non-Jews would give him far greater power in the world than would the promise of material profit to the Jews themselves. It was then that the future St. Paul distorted with diabolical cunning the Christian idea. Out of this idea, which was a declaration of war on the golden calf, on the egotism and the materialism of the Jews, he created a rallying pint for slaves of all kinds against the Èlite, the masters and those in dominant authority. The religion fabricated by Paul of Tarsus, which was later called Christianity, is nothing but the Communism of to-day.
But in actual fact, there is nothing new about this Weltanschauung. Whenever I read the New Testament Gospels and the revelations of various of the prophets and imagine myself back in the era of the Roman and late Hellenistic, as well as the Oriental, world, I am astonished at all that has been made of the teachings of these divinely inspired men, especially Jesus Christ, which are so clear and unique, heightened and religiosity. They were the ones who created this new worldview which we now call socialism, they established it, they taught it and they lived it! Or if they did, they denied Christ and betrayed him! For they transformed the holy idea of Christian socialism into its opposite! They killed it, just as, at the time, the Jews nailed Jesus to the cross; they buried it, just as the body of Christ was buried. But they allowed Christ to be resurrected, instigating the belief that his teachings, too, were reborn!
It is in this that the monstrous crime of these enemies of Christian socialism lies! With the basest hypocrisy they carry before them a crossóthe instrument of that murder which, in their thoughts, they commit over and overóas a new divine sign of Christian awareness, and allow mankind to kneel to it. They even pretend to be preaching the teachings of Christ. But their lives and deeds are a constant blow against these teachings and their Creator and a defamation of God!
We are the first to exhume these teachings! Through us alone, and not until not, do these teachings celebrate their resurrection! Mary and Magdalene stood at the empty tomb. For they were seeking the dead man! But we intend to raise the treasures of the living Christ!
Herein lies the essential element of our mission: we must bring back to the German Volk the recognition of those teachings! For what did the falsification of the original concept of Christian love, of the community of fate before God and of socialism lead to? By their fruits ye shall know them! The suppression of freedom of opinion, the persecution of the true Christians, the vile mass murders of the Inquisition and the burning of witches, the armed campaigns against the people of free and true Christian faith, the destruction of their towns and villages, the hauling away of their cattle and their goods, the destruction of their flourishing economies, and the condemnation of their leaders before tribunals, which, in their unrelenting hypocrisy, can only be described as blasphemous. That is the true face of those sanctimonious churches that have placed themselves between God and man, motivated by selfishness, personal greed for recognition and gain, and the ambition to maintain their high-handed willfulness against Christís deep understanding of the necessity of a socialist community of men and nations. We must turn all the sentiments of the Volk, all its thinking, acting, even its beliefs, away from the anti-Christian, smug individualism of the past, from the egotism and stupid Phariseeism of personal arrogance, and we must educate the youth in particular in the spirit of those of Christís words that we must interpret anew: love one another; be considerate of your fellow man; remember that each one of you is not alone a creature of God, but that you are all brothers! This youth will, with loathing and contempt, abandon those hypocrites who have Christ on their lips but the devil in their hearts, who give alms in order to remain undisturbed as they themselves throw their money around, who invoke the Fatherland as they fill their own purses by the toil of others, who preach peace and incite to war!
These are the Christians whom it is important to unmask, whom our youth must learn to recognize in order to grow strong for all time against the foreign lie and against the perfidy that conceals the poisoned dagger under a cloak studded with the emblems of the Christian churches.
The application of this realization is a further great task of the future. Here lie the roots of true religion, the link to divinity! There are those poor creatures, bending their knees and wringing their praying hands before carved wooden figure, and those great hypocrites hoodwink them into believing that, thanks to this behavior, their souls will sizzle a few days less in the fires of hell. But the true link to God, the elevated consciousness of being a divine creatureóthat is driven out of them and forbidden them! Here is where I see the [???] of St. John, which Luther unfortunately translated as ìword.î Goethe tried to rectify the error with the critical lines: ìI cannot possibly place such a high value on the word, I must translate it differently,î and he said: ìIn the beginning was the deed.î But I say: ìIn the beginning was the urge! And the urge existed from eternity! And the urge was a creation of God, and God himself was this urge.î And the urge was the spark of life, which resides in us as well. And though it rose to consciousness in man, we pass it by, as Christ already bemoaned. The peace on earth Christ wanted to bring is the very same socialism of nations! It is the new great religion, and it will come because it is divine! It awaits the Messiah!
None of the religions of antiquity, no Negroid idolatry, not even the most primitve sects of the Mohammedan, Indian, or Chinese religions has created so many gods and auxiliary deities as the Roman Church. And yet, their choirs join in singing from the Book of Moses: ìThou shalt have no other gods before me.î But letís drop it; itís too stupid.
I had a particular liking for the delicate subjects in the Bible, and I took a naughty pleasure in asking embarrassing questions. Father Schwarz, our teacher, was clever at giving me evasive answers. So I kept on insisting until he lost his patience. One dayóIíve forgotten with reference to whatóhe asked me if I said my prayers in the morning, at midday and at night. ìNo, sir, I donít say prayers. Besides, I donít see how God could be interested in the prayers of a secondary schoolboy.î ìSit down, then!î
I'm going to become a religious figure. Soon, Iíll be the great chief of the Tartars. Already, Arabs and Moroccans are mingling my name with their prayers. Amongst the Tartars, I shall become Khan. The only thing of which I shall be incapable is to share the sheiksí mutton with them. Iím a vegetarian, and they must spare me from their meat. If they donít wait too long, Iíll fall back on their harems!
A people cannot lay claim to mastery of the world unless itís ready to pay with its blood. The Roman Empire had recourse to mercenaries only when its own blood was exhausted.
But for the coming of Christianity, who knows who the history of Europe would have developed? Rome would have conquered all Europe, and the onrush of the Huns would have been broken on the legions. It was Christianity that brought about the fall of Romeónot the Germans or the Huns.
What Bolshevism is achieving to-day on the materialist and technical level, Christianity had achieved on the metaphysical level.
Near W¸rzburg, there are villages where literally all the women were burned. We know of judges of the court of the Inquisition who gloried in having had twenty to thirty thousand ìwitchesî burned. Long experience of such horrors cannot but leave indelible traces upon a population.
The evil thatís gnawing our vitals is our priests, of both creeds. I canít at present give them the answer theyíve been asking for, but it will cost them nothing to wait.
It's all written down in my big book.
If God cared about such trifles, heíd have created man already dressed! The idea of nakedness torments only the priests, for the education they undergo makes them perverts.
The observatory Iíll have built at Linz, on the Postlingberg, I can see it in my mind. A faÁade of quite classical purity. Iíll have the pagan temple razed to the ground and the observatory will take its place. Thus, in future, thousands of excursionists will make pilgrimage there every Sunday. Theyíll thus have access to the greatness of our universe. The pediment will bear this motto: ìThe heavens proclaim the glory of the everlastingî. It will be our way of giving me a religious spirit, of teaching them humilityóbut without the priests.
Instead of that, Christianity promulgates its inconsistent dogmas and imposes them by force. Such religion carries within it intolerance and persecution. Itís the bloodiest conceivable.
Since my fourteenth year, I have felt liberated from the superstition that the priests used to teach.
I believe that Providence gives the victory to the man who knows how to use the brains nature has given him. The notions of law invented by the jurists have little to do with natural laws.
He's astonished, too, that Providence, which has willed all that, can allow so many religions, all true from the point of view of those who practise them, to pompete for the faith of the faithful. He knows, too, thanks to the view in depth that history enables him to take, that the Christian religion interests only those living in a tiny period of the life of mankind.
God made men. But thanks to original sin we are men in the image of our world, earning our bread in the sweat of our brow.
Those who donít believe should, it seems, have faith imposed on them by force. If God is truly interested in men being enlightened, one wonders why He resorts to torture for that purpose.
But that intelligent men should make themselves accomplices to such superstitions, and that itís because of these superstitions, and in the name of love, that hundreds of thousands of human beings have been exterminated in the course of historyóthat is something I cannot admit.
I shall never believe that what is founded on lies can endure for ever. I believe in truth. Iím sure that, in the long run, truth must be victorious.
It's probable that, as regards religion, we are about to enter an era of tolerance. Everybody will be allowed to seek his own salvation in the way that suits him best. The ancient world knew this climate of tolerance. Nobody took to proselytizing.
If I enter a church, itís not with the idea of overturning idols. Itís to look for, and perhaps to find, beauties in which Iím interested.
It's a great satisfaction for me to feel myself totally foreign to that world. But I shall feel Iím in my proper place if, after my death, I find myself, together with people like me, on some sort of Olympus. I shall be in the company of the most enlightened spirits of all times.
I adopted a definite attitude on the 21st March 1933 when I refused to take part in the religious services, organised at Potsdam by the two Churches, for the inauguration of the new Reichstag.
I've never concerned myself, in the Party, with learning to which Church the men around me belonged, or did not belong. But if I were to die to-day, it would shock me to know that thereís a single ìsky-pilotî within a radius of ten kilometers around me.
I don't prevent anyone from praying silently, but I rebel against all blasphemy. So let nobody waste prayers on me that I shall not have asked for.
If my presence on earth is providential, I owe it to a superior will. But I owe nothing to the Church that trafficks in the salvation of souls, and I find it really too cruel. I admit that one cannot impose oneís will by force, but I have a horror of people who enjoy inflicting sufferings on othersí bodies and tyranny upon othersí souls.
Our epoch will certainly see the end of the disease of Christianity. It will las another hundred years, two hundred years perhaps. We are entering into a conception of the world that will be a sunny era, an era of tolerance. Man must be put in a position to develop freely the talents that God has given him.
Unless I'm mistaken, our Churches are still at present receiving nine hundred million marks a year.
Instead of squandering all these millions on the Church, I wonder seriously wheterh we couldnít be doing better to devote the greater part of the money to building farms for our soldier-peasants. Himmler has told me that each of these farms works out at approximately twenty-three thousand marks, including the necessary fittings. Thus, there are more than three-thousand farms that we could offer every year, clear of all debt, to those of our soldiers who wished, after twelve yearsí service, to devote themselves to agriculture. It would be necessary, of course, to urge these men not to marry anyone but country girls. It would be necessary, too, to send them off, during their twelfth year of service, to a school of agriculture in the region where theyíre about to settle, so as to give them a suitable training. It will be essential, in the service of this project, to create a large number of these schools. In view of the variety of working conditions in the future Reich, these schools, in order to be really useful, will have to take account of the peculiarities of the region in which theyíll be installed.
After this war, Iíll take the necessary steps to make the recruiting of priests extraordinarily difficult. In particular, Iíll no longer allow children, from the age of ten and upwards, to devote their lives to the Church, when theyíve absolutely no notion what theyíre undertakingóin accepting celibacy, for example. Only the man who has passed his twenty-fourth year, and has finished his Labour Service and his military service, will be able to embrace an ecclesiastical career. At that age, then, if anyone is ready to vow himself to celibacyówell, let him become a priest, with Godís help!
For example, at the moment when the struggle about the dismissal of the Bishop of the Reich ha been joined, Marshall Gˆring was able to record a telemphone call from Pastor Niemoeller to somebody else. Niemoeller, referring to a conversation with Hindenburg, was boasting as follows: ìWe gave the old man an Extreme Unction, and we pulled his leg so hard that heís ready definitely to sack that whoremaster of a bishop!î That same day, Niemoeller was pleading this case in front of me, in the most unctuous style interspersed with biblical quotations, to persuade me to take action against the Bishop of the Reich. I, thereupon, asked Gˆring to read out the monitoring note of the telephone conversation. If youíd seen the fright of Niemoeller and the delegates of the Evangelical Church! They literally collapsed, to the point of becoming dumb and invisible. Some time later, I told Hindenburg of the incident. He dismissed the whole affair, merely remarking: ìThe fact is, the most insignificant of these intriguers seems to take himself for a Pope!î
The Christians, on the other hand, prefer to honour the Saints, that is to say, a man who succeeds in standing on one leg for years at a time, or one who prefers to lie on a bed of thorns rather than to respond to the smiles of inviting maidens. There is something very unhealthy about Christianity.
A man possessed of a minimum of intelligence who takes the trouble to poinder over these questions has no difficulty in realising how nonsensical these doctrines of the Church are. For how, he must ask himself, can a man possibly be put on a spit, be roasted and tortured in a hundred other ways when, in the nature of things, his body has no part in the resurrection? And what nonsense it is to aspire to a Heaven to which, according to the Churchís own teaching, only those have entry who have made a complete failure of life on earth! It wonít be much fun, surely, to have to meet again there all those whose stupidity, in spite of the biblical tag ìblessed are the humble of heartî, has already infuriated one beyond endurance on this earth! Imagine, too, how tremendously attractive a Heaven will be to a man, which contains only women of indifferent appearance and faded intellect! Only those, we are told, with the minimum of sin shall enter through the gates of Heaven; now, in spite of the fact that the burden of sin must inevitably grow heavier with each successive year, I have yet to meet a priest anxious to leave this life as quickly, and therefore, with as light a burden, as possible! But I could name many a Cardinal of sixty and over who clings most tenaciously to life on this sinful earth. When one examines the Catholic religion closely, one cannot fail to realise that it is an almost incredibly cunning mixture of hypocrisy and business acumen, which trades with consummate skill on the deeply engrained affection of mankind for the beliefs and superstitions he holds.
The pity is that people who reason in this manner appear to forget that the Church does not strive to propagate its teaching by reason and gentle persuasion, but by force and threat. This is certainly not my idea of education. It is moreover obvious that, had the Church followed solely the laws of Love and had she preached Love alone as the means of instilling her moral precepts, she would not have survived for very long. She has, therefore, always remained faithful to the ancient maxim that the right hand must not know what the left hand does, and has bowed to the necessity of imposing her moral principles by means of the utmost brutality, not hesitating even to burn in their thousands men and women of merit and virtue.
We obey the Commandment: ìThou shalt not killî, by catching and executing a murderer; but the Church, when the executive power lay in her hands, crucified, quartered and did him to death with indescribable torture.
Fundamentally in everyone there is the feeling for this all mighty, which we call God (that is to say, the dominion of natural laws throughout the whole universe). The priests, who have always succeeded in exploiting this feeling.
In the long run, National Socialism and religion will no longer be able to exist together.
No, it does not mean a war. The ideal solution would be to leave the religions to devour themselves, without persecutions. But in that case we must not replace the Church by something equivalent. That would be terrifying!
Christianity was the first creed in the world to exterminate its adversaries in the name of love.
The Roman Empire, under Germanic influence, would have developed in the direction of world-dominations, and humanity would not have extinguished fifteen centuries of civilisation at a single stroke.
The result of the collapse of the Roman Empire was a night that lasted for centuries.
The Church has been able to profit by this conception of life. It proclaims that the poor in spirit;and the other poor, too;will go to heaven, whilst the rich will pay with eternal sufferings for the blessings of earthly existence. The Church is moved to say this by the tacit contract between the priests and the possessors, who joyfully leave the Church a little money so that it may go on encouraging the poor to grovel.
The whole span of Christian civilisation had been a mere interruption of human development, which ;is now about to resume its former character;.
The best thing is to let Christianity die a natural death. A slow death has something comforting about it The dogma of Christianity gets worn away before the advances of science. Religion will have to make more and more concessions. Gradually the myths crumble. All that;s left is to prove that in nature there is no frontier between the organic and the inorganic.
When understanding of the universe has become widespread, when the majority of men know that the stars are not sources of light but worlds, perhaps inhabited worlds like ours, then the Christian doctrine will be convicted of absurdity.
It seems to me that nothing would be more foolish than to re-establish the worship of Wotan. Our old mythology had ceased to be viable when Christianity implanted itself. Nothing dies unless it is moribund.
And the only way of getting rid of Christianity is to allow it to die little by little.
A movement like ours mustn't let itself be drawn into metaphysical digressions. It must stick to the spirit of exact science. It;s not the Party;s function to be a counterfeit for religion.
Science cannot lie, for it;s always striving, according to the momentary state of knowledge, to deduce what is true. When it makes a mistake, it does so in good faith. It;s Christianity that;s the liar. It;s in perpetual conflict with itself.
One may ask whether the disappearance of Christianity would entail the disappearance of belief in God. That;s not to be desired. The notion of divinity gives most men the opportunity to concretize the feeling they have of supernatural realities. Why should we destroy this wonderful power they have of incarnating the feeling for the divine that is within them?
The man who lives in communion with nature necessarily finds himself in opposition to the Churches. And that;s why they;re heading for ruin;for science is bound to win.
I especially wouldn;t want our movement to acquire a religions character and institute a form of worship. It would be appalling for me, and I would wish I;d never lived, if I were to end up in the skin of Buddha!
The precept that it's men's duty to love one another is theory;and the Christians are the last to practise it! A Negro baby who has the misfortune to die before a missionary gets his clutches on him, goes to Hell! If that were true, one might well lament that sorrowful destiny: to have lived only three years, and to burn for all eternity with Lucifer!
Originally, Christianity was merely an incarnation of Bolshevism the destroyer. Nevertheless, the Galilean, who later was called the Christ, intended something quite different. He must be regarded as a popular leader who took up His position against Jewry. Galilee was a colony where the Romans had probably installed Gallic legionaries, and it;s certain that Jesus was not a Jew. The Jews, by the way, regarded Him as the son of a whore;of a whore and a Roman soldier.
The decisive falsification of Jesus;s doctrine was the work of St. Paul. He gave himself to this work with subtlety and for purposes of personal exploitation For the Galilean;s object was to liberate His country from Jewish oppression. He set Himself against Jewish capitalism, and that;s why the Jews liquidated Him.
Paul of Tarsus (his name was Saul, before the road to Damascus) was one of those who persecuted Jesus most savagely. When he learnt that Jesus;s supporters let their throats be cut for His ideas, he realized that, by making intelligent use of the Galilean;s teaching, it would be possible to overthrow this Roman State which the Jews hated.
At that times, as now, money was their god.
If, into the bargain, one succeeded in imposing one man as the representative on earth of the only God, that man would possess boundless power.
St. Paul knew how to exploit this state of affairs in order to conduct his struggle against the Roman State. Nothing has changed; the method has remained sound Under cover of a pretended religions instruction, the priests continue to incite the faithful against the State.
The religions ideas of the Romans are common to all Aryan peoples. The Jew, on the other hand, worshipped and continues to worship, then and now, nothing but the golden calf. The Jewish religion is devoid of all metaphysics and has no foundation but the most repulsive materialism.
St. Paul was the first man to take account of the possible advantages of using a religion as a means of propaganda. If the Jew has succeeded in destroying the Roman Empire, that;s because St. Paul transformed a local movement of Aryan opposition to Jewry into a supra-temporal religion, which postulates the equality of all men amongst themselves, and their obedience to an only god. This is what caused the death of the Roman Empire.
Whoever sees God only in an oak or in a tabernacle, instead of seeing Him everywhere, is not truly pious.
The Ten Commandments are a code of living to which there;s no refutation. These precepts correspond to irrefragable needs of the human soul; they;re inspired by the best religious spirit, and the Churches here support themselves on a solid foundation.
The younger one is, the less one cares about such matters. But old people cling madly to life. So it;s amongst them that the Church recruits her best customers. She entices them with the prospect that death interrupts nothings, that beyond our human term everything continues, in much more agreeable conditions.
When incarnated in the Churches, religion always finds itself in opposition to life.
For a world population of two thousand two hundred and fifty millions, one can count on the earth a hundred and seventy religions of a certain importance;each of them claiming, of course, to be the repository of the truth. At least a hundred and sixty-nine of them, therefore, are mistaken! Amongst the religions practised to-day, there is none that goes back further than two thousand five hundred years. But there have been human beings, in the baboon category, for at least three hundred thousand years. There is less distance between the man-ape and the ordinary modern man that there is hauer. In comparison with this millenary past, what does a period of two thousand years signify?
Greco-Roman thought was made to seem like the teachings of the Devil.
Christianity set itself systematically to destroy ancient culture. What came to us was passed down by chance, or else it was a product of Roman liberal writers. Perhaps we are entirely ignorant of humanity;s most precious spiritual treasures.
I'd have entered the Vatican and thrown everybody out;reserving the right to apologise later: ;Excuse me, it was a mistake.; But the result would have been, they;d have been outside!;
When all is said, we have no reason to wish that the Italians and Spaniards should free themselves from the drug of Christianity. Let;s be the only people who are immunised against the disease.
Catholicism has this much good about it, that it ignores the moral strictness of the Evangelicals. In Catholic regions life is more endurable, for the priest himself succumbs more easily to human weaknesses.
How would the Church earn here living, if not by the sins of the faithful?
It is a fact that in Catholic parts of the world there are many more illegitimate births than in Protestant parts.
The law of life is: God helps him who helps himself!;
I've always defended the point of view that the Party should hold itself aloof from religion. We never organised religious services for our supporters. I preferred to run the risk of being put under the ban of the Church or excommunicated. The Church;s friendship costs too dear. In case of success, I can hear myself being told that it;s thanks to her I;d rather she had nothing to do with it, and that I shouldn;t be presented with the bill!
The essential thing, really, is that man should know that salvation consists in the effort that each person makes to understand Providence and accept the laws of nature.
What we must do, then, is to extract from religions the poison they contain.
Christ was an Aryan, and St. Paul used his doctrine to mobilize the criminal underworld and thus organise a proto-Bolshevism. This intrusion upon the world marks the end of a long reign, that of the clear Greco-Latin genius.
The soul and the mind migrate, just as the body returns to nature. Thus life is eternally reborn from life.
It is a great pity that this tendency towards religious thought can find no better outlet than the Jewish pettifoggery of the Old Testament. For religious people who, in the solitude of winter, continually seek ultimate light on their religious problems with the assistance of the Bible, must eventually become spiritually deformed. The wretched people strive to extract truths from these Jewish chicaneries, where in fact no truths exist. As a result, they become embedded in some rut of thought or other and, unless they possess an exceptionally commonsense mind, degenerate into religious maniacs.
It is deplorable that the Bible should have been translated into German, and that the whole of the German people should have thus become exposed to the whole of this Jewish mumbo-jumbo. So long as the wisdom, particularly of the Old Testament, remained exclusively in the Latin of the Church, there was a little danger that sensible people would become the victims of illusions as the result of studying the Bible. But since the Bible became common property, a whole heap of peole have found opened to them lines of religious thought whichóparticularly in conjunction with the German characteristic of persistent and somewhat melancholy meditationóas often as not turned them into religious maniacs. When one recollects further that the Catholic Church has elevated to the status of Saints a whole number of madmen, one realises why movements such as that of the Flagellants came inevitably into existence in the Middle Ages in Germany.
As a sane German, one is flabbergasted to think that German human beings could have let themselves be brought to such a pass by Jewish filth and priestly twaddle, that they were little different from the howling dervish of the Turks and the negroes, at whom we laugh so scornfully. It angers on to think that, while in other parts of the globe religious teaching like that of Confucius, Buddha and Mohammed offers an undeniably broad basis for the religious-minded, Germans should have been duped by a theological exposition devoid of all honest depth.
Once more, Providence prevented me from committing a mistake I was on the point of making.
The Russians were entitled to attack their priests, but they had no right to assail the idea of a supreme force. It;s a fact that we;re feeble creatures, and that a creative force exists.
We ourselves had slowed down to a speed of about twenty kilometers. Our driver at first stepped on the accelerator, and if he had only driven on, nothing at all would have happened. Butóthe devil knows whyóhe braked abruptly in an effort to let the truck pass. Its driver, howeverówe subsequently learned that he did no even have a license, while the man who was the nominal operator sat next to himóthough he braked as well, at the same time stepped on the gas and, while the real driver grabbed the wheel to rectify the situation, turned leftóthat is, straight at us, assuming that we would simply drive on. And so this monster of a vehicle came rushing at our almost immobile car. I can still see the large letters ìMagirusî over me as the powerful radiator pushed its way over our car body, pressing Hitler, Hess, and myself to the left inside the car. Then, the truckís frame and springs must have taken hold of our Mercedes and shoved it diagonally across the open triangle, a distance of about twenty meters, as far as the street corner, only to come to a stop at last at the instant when our left wheels were already touching the curb. Only a short stretch more, and the left wheels would have broken, and the monster would have run over and crushed car passengers.
In fact, nothing could have happened to us. We have not yet completed our task. Hoffmann whispered to me, "Just the same, by a hair, it would have been the end of us."
At bottom, destiny is indulgent and benevolent rather than the contrary; it dooms to decrepitude only what is already rotten.
Because it had to. Fate works its own way with us. We are only its tools. Granted, not from lack of will power. There is that kind, also. But we are not among them. It is precisely with our will that we are the tools of fate. But when we do want something that may not suit fateóor, to put in more precisely, Providenceówe run into resistance and do not attain our goal. It is a great talent to recognize such resistance and to come to the proper decision: either to overcome it by attack or to obey fateís sign and step aside in order to search for another path.
Fate has made it easy for us to realize the mistake we intended making. But why was it a mistake?
But what is interesting is that fate made us of a Jewess to sound its ëQuo vadis?í to usóor rather, to call our attention to it by tapping its spoon against its saucer.
Nature spontaneously eliminates all that has no gift for life. Man, alone amongst the living creatures, tries to deny the laws of nature.
And that's what leads men to conceive of the existence of a superior power. If I have an observatory built at Linz, Iíll have the following words carved on its front: ìThe heavens proclaim the glory of the eternal.î
Everything in nature happens in conformity with what ought to happen.
One thing is quite certain. People speak of an intervention from Heaven which decided the civil war in favour of Franco; perhaps soóbut it was not an intervention on the part of the madam styled the Mother of God, who has recently been honoured with a Field Marshalís baton, but the intervention of the German General von Richthofen and the bombs his squadrons rained from the heavens that decided the issue.
Chapter 2: The New World Order, by Adolf Hitler
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