SCHOLAR ISLAND

"If the German people loses the war, it Will have proved itself unworthy of me."

"It is not for nothing that you see so many women here in this hall. . .In the woman emotion dominates and rightly tells her that the future of our children is at stake. . .Our adversaries may talk as much as they like about our hysterical women. In former days woman brought Christianity to the countries. In the end she will also lead our movement to lasting victory. "

"Hitler is not a barbarian, would to heaven he were! There was always a limit to the harm done by the ravages of barbarians. "

"One day, when passing through the inner city, I suddenly came across an apparition in a long Caftan and wearing black side-locks. My first thought was: Is this a Jew?"

"Could we explain, say, the Nazi mythology as an outcome of using the right approach for the wrong ends?"

The secret of Fascism is the revival of archaic beliefs in an ultra modern setting-The Nazi edifice was a skyscraper fitted with hot water pipes which drew on underground springs

"Outside the theatre in the cold night air of the City he suddenly became aware of the cause of his disgust. He had been inwardly nauseated by the Christian vows and compassionate ideals of the Knights. 'I could find no cause for admiration,' he recounted later, 'for the piddling knights who had dishonored their 'Aryan Blood' to follow the superstitions of the Jew, " Jesus. My sympathy was entirely with Klingsor' ."

"You know-without exaggeration-I Always believe that the world has lost a great deal in that I could not attend the Academy and learn the technical end of the art of painting. Or has fate chosen me for something else,?"

(excerpt From a letter from Adolph Hitler from a controversial private collection of Dr. Johannes von Mullern-Schonhausen of Vienna)

"The mass, the people, to me is a woman. Someone who does not understand the intrinsically feminine character of the mass will never be an effective speaker. Ask yourself what does a woman expect from a man? Clearness, decision, power, action...If she is talked to properly she will be proud to sacrifice, because no woman will ever feel that her life's sacrifice have received their due fulfillment."

That he is the seat of Thrones, Dominions, and Power' , by which Saint Paul meant those hierarchical spirits which can descend into any ordinary mortal and occupy him like a garrison. . .Where do the superhuman powers he shows on these occasions come from? It is quite obvious that a force of this kind does not belong to the individual and indeed could not even manifest itself unless the individual were of no importance except as the vehicle of a force for which our psychology has no explanation. What I am saying would be the cheapest form of romantic nonsense were it not that what has been established by this man or rather-through him-is a reality that is one of the wonders of the century. " -

"Listen to Hitler and one suddenly has a vision of one who will lead mankind to glory,' Gregor Strasser, a defected Nazi, recounted twenty years later. "A light appears in a dark window. A gentleman with a comic moustache turns into an Archangel. Then the Archangel flies away and there is Hitler sitting down, bathed in sweat with glassy eyes." "A strange way  to explain the Nazi mystery by looking at it from the standpoint of conventional morality! And yet this is the only explanation put forward, as if there was a vast conspiracy in informed circles to reduce one of the most fantastic episodes of contemporary history to the level of an elementary history lesson on evil instincts. It would appear as if pressure were being brought to bear so as to scale history down to fit the extreme timidity of conventional rational thought. "

"A new age of magic interpretation of the world is coming, of interpretation in terms of the will and not of the intelligence. There is no such thing as truth, either in the moral or in the scientific sense."

"All of Hitler's biographers have assumed that the years from 1909 to 1913 were the most negative and inconsequential in his life, years in which he was only concerned in eking out a threadbare existence in a flophouse and selling water-colours on street corners. Yet Adolph Hitler himself claimed later in his autobiography, Mein Kampf, that these were the most vital formative years of his life in which he learned all that he needed to know to assume the leadership of the Nazi party.

"Vienna was and remained for me the hardest, though most thorough, school of my life. . . in this, period there took shape within me a world picture and a philosophy which became the granite foundation of all my acts, In addition to what I then :created, I have had to learn later; and I have had to alter nothing. "

'How little his biographers have understood the real significance of what Hitler was reading and what lay as motive behind his choice of subjects and the books he avidly consumed at this time."

"Adolph Hitler, who actively aspired towards Luciferic possession, was to experience the very reverse of 'Grace' , for the drug-induced awareness now channeled into his consciousness served to guide him towards his sinister and inhuman goals of personal power, tyranny and world conquest; a kind of guarantee of personal damnation as a recompense for his lonely hymn of hate and scorn and contempt for humanity. "

"In these ethereal realms where thoughts are yet more concrete than material objects on earth, Adolph Hitler found himself immersed in an unfurling tapestry which, for want of a better word, we can only describe as a mosaic of 'celestial mythology': yet, while he was transported within the flow of these universal currents of thought which pictured the search for the Holy Grail, he realized at the same time that this ribbon of ethereal symbolism actually mirrored historical events of the medieval centuries."

"In short, Adolph Hitler saw the so-called Grail Romance as a prophetic document for the events to take place a thousand years later. And he believed that all the ninth-century German personalities Could reappear in physical embodiment in the twentieth century. It was against this background knowledge of the contemporary significance of the Grail wisdom, and the anticipated rebirth of his previous incarnation. He now recognized himself as the rebirth of the historical figure behind Richard Wagner’s Klingsor, Landulf of Capua and ninth-century Lord of Terra de Labur,that vast territory which stretched from Naples to Calabria, including Capir, and reached across the waters to Sicily. Instead of some resplendent Germanic hero he had discovered himself to be the physical re-embodiment of the most dreaded personality in the whole of Christendom. The chalice for the Spirit of the Anti-Christ." :

"We barely reached the door before we were overtaken by the swelling crowd. We sat over coffee and cake while the big square outside filled. Hitler waited until police reinforcements had been brought up "before he entered the open car, which had been driven there to meet us. The front seat was folded back, and he stood beside the drive, left hand resting on the windshield, so that even those standing at a distance could see him. Eight men of the escort sat in front of the car, three more on either side, while the car moved at a snails pace through the throng. I sat as usual in the jump seat close  behind Hitler and could observe that curlew of rejoicing, the ecstasy reflected in so many faces. Wherever Hitler went during those first years of his rule, wherever his car stopped for a short time, such scenes were repeated. The mass exultation was not called forth by rhetoric or suggestion, but solely by the effect of Hitler's presence. Whereas individuals in the crowd were subject to this influence only for a few seconds at a time, Hitler himself was eternally exposed to the worship of the masses. At the time I admired him for never the less retaining his informal habits in private."

"Meanwhile thousands of people were gathering outside chanting calls for Hitler. 'If only we were out of this,' he commented when we emerged from the inn . Slowly, under a rain of flowers, we reached the medieval gate. Juveniles closed it before our eyes; children climbed on the running boards of the car. Hitler had to give autographs. Only, when would they open the gate. They laughed, and Hitler laughed with them. Everywhere in the countryside farmers left their implements, women waved. It was a triumphal procession. As the car rolled along, Hitler leaned back to me and exclaimed: Heretofore only Luther and Wagner were hailed like this later when he rode through the country, people gathered from far and wide to cheer them . As they do for me today! ' "

"In earlier years Hitler had made a habit of showing himself at the window of his special train whenever it stopped. Now these encounters with the outside world seemed undesirable to him; instead, the shades on the station side of the train would be lowered. Late in the evening we sat with Hitler in his rosewood-paneled dining car. The table was elegantly set with silver flatware, cut glass, good china, and flower arrangements. As we began our ample meal, none of us first saw that a freight train was stopped on the adjacent track. From the cattle car bedraggled, starved, and in some cases wounded German soldiers, most returning from the east, stared at the diners. With a start, Hitler noticed the somber scene two yards from his window. Without as much 'as a gesture of greeting in their direction, he peremptorily ordered his servant to draw the shades. This, then, in the second half of the war, was how Hitler handled a meeting with ordinary front-line soldiers such as he himself had once been."

"One of the great fallacies of :our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true-They were successful because they imposed chaos on order. They tore up the commandments, they denied the superego, what you will. They said, you may persecute the minority, you may kill, you may torture, you may couple and breed without love. They offered humanity all its great temptations. ."Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

"This wicked man Hitler, the repository and embodiment of many forms of soul-destroying hatred, this monstrous product of former wrongs and shames. "

Churchill (Radio broadcast 1940)

"Hitler is a monster of wickedness, insatiable in his lust for blood and plunder. Not content with having all Europe under his heel, or else terrorized into various forms of abject submission, he must now carry his work of butchery and desolation among the vast multitudes of Russia and of Asia. The terrible military machine, when we and the rest of the civilized world so foolishly, so supinely, so insensately allowed the Nazi gangsters to build up year by year from almost nothing, cannot stand idle lest it rust or fall to pieces."

"We will have no truce or parley with you ( Hitler) , or the grisly gang who work you wicked will. You do your worst- and we will do our best."

"The inclination to regard Hitler as a latter-day aberration with little or not roots in the past or connection with the present is still widespread, and thus the problem is not faced".

"Hitler taught the world not to attach too much importance to public opinion in general and to Jewish public opinion in particular. "

"It is quite correct that I have changed my opinion concerning the methods of fighting Jewry. I have come to the realization that I have been far too soft up to now! While worrying on my book, I have finally come to realize that the harshest methods of fighting must be employed in the future if we are to win. I am convinced that this is not only a matter of life and death for our people but for all peoples. The Jew is a world pest."

"At the same time, according to Mullern-SchoRhausen, Hitler once more sought help from Hanussen. The famous seer cast a spell that was favorable for the near future, there were still a few hindrances to his rise to power. Only one thing, Hanussen reportedly told Hitler, would remove these hindrances-a mandrake  root in the shape  of a man) found in a butchers yard in the town of Hitler's birthplace by the light of the full moon. The way to the goal is still blocked, But in three days-from three countries, Through the bank everything will change! And then on the day before the end of the month, You stand at your goal and a turning point! An  eagle could carry you on your path, . The termites had to gnaw your way! To the ground falls what was rotten and withered. It already creaks in the beams,"

"Frau Wagner had lost none of her faith in Hitler. 'Believe me,' she reportedly told the audience, 'Hitler is the coming man in spite of everything, and for all that he will pull the sword out of the German oak' ."

"Deprived of heaven, Adolf Hitler chose hell-if, indeed, he knew the difference between the two. To the end, obsessed by the Hakenkreuz, a warped archangel, a hybrid of Prometheus Lucifer. "

"I often on bitter nights go To

"You cannot believe how silent it becomes it as soon as this man speaks," one ardent follower wrote her family that October. It was as if the entire audience was no longer able to breathe. Sometimes it almost seems to me as if Hitler possessed a magic charm in order to win the unconditional confidence of old and young alike." another fascinated listener got so close he could see the spit fly under his mustache. "For this man was a whirling dervish. But he knew how to fire up the people, not with arguments, which are never possible in hate speeches but with the fanaticism of his whole manner, screaming and yelling, and above all by his deafening repetition, and a certain contagious rhythm. This he has learned to do and it has a fearfully exciting primitive and barbaric effect."

"With fanfares blaring. Hitler entered the high central section of the grandstand, and at a command a torrent of more than 3O,000 flags poured from the stand opposite into the arena. The silver tips and fingers of the flags sparkled in the beams of the search lights. As always, Hitler himself was the first victim of this orchestration of masses, light, symmetry, and the tragic sense of life."

"When 'Barbarossa' starts, the world will hold its breath and keep still."

"Not until today is the world prepared to accept the truth: that Hitler and his movement are the apocalyptic riders of world annihilation. "

"People set us down as enemies of the intelligence. We are. But in a much deeper sense than these conceited dolts of 'bourgeois' scientists ever dream or."

"To the Christian doctrine of the infinite significance of the individual human soul and of personal responsibility, I oppose with icy clarity the saving doctrine of the nothingness and in-existence in the visible immortality of the nation."

"The success of Hitler can be ascribed to his determination to see the planet whole. Besides, a man can always discuss a thing more intelligently and honestly if he knows he is not being taken seriously. The most  honest book that was ever written was 'Mein Kampf, ' and nobody gave it a second thought. "

"It is no accident that Hitler believed firmly in the unforgivable ness of sin. This is indeed fundamental to the whole mentality of Nazism, with its avidity for final solutions and its concern that all uncertainties be eliminated."

"Despite his bluster and violent talk, he was a master in the game of waiting. He never made a frontal attack on a prepared position--at least until his judgment had been corrupted by easy victories."

"It was part of Hitler’s nature to avoid putting things in a concrete form; to him differences of opinions were questions of power and tests of one's nerve and strength. "

"Yes, we are barbarians! We shall rejuvenate the world! This world is nearing its end. It is our mission to cause unrest. The important thing is the overwhelming shock of the fear of death." "

"Hitler was able to enslave his own people because he seemed to give them something that even the traditional religions could no longer provide; the belief in a meaning to existence beyond the narrowest self-interest. The real degradation began when people realized that they were in league with the Devil, but felt that even the Devil was preferable to the emptiness of an existence which lacked a larger significance. The problem today is to give that larger significance and dignity to a life that has been dwarfed by the world of material things. Until that problem is solved, the annihilation of Nazism will be no more than the removal of one symptom of the world's unrest."

"I saw the first opera of my life,'Lohengrin . I was captivated at once. My youthful enthusiasm for the master of Bayreuth knew no bounds. " .

"This was the time in which the greatest change I was ever to experience took place in me. From a feeble cosmopolite I had turned into a fanatical anti-Semite. "

"If, with the help of the Marxian creed, the Jew conquers the nations of this world, his crown will become the funeral wreath of humanity, and once again this planet, empty of mankind, will move through the ether as it did thousands of years ago. Eternal Nature inexorably revenges the transgressors of her laws. Therefore, I believe today that I am acting in the sense of the Almighty Creator: "By warding off the Jews I am fighting for the Lord's work. " , .:

"For myself, I have the most intimate familiarity with Wagner' s mental processes. At every stage in my life I come back to him. Only a new nobility can introduce the new civilization for us, If we strip "Parsifal" of every poetic element, we learn from it that selection and renewal are possible only amid the continuous tension of a lasting struggle. A world-wide process of segregation is going on before our eyes. Those who see in struggle the meaning of life, gradually mount the steps of a new nobility. Those who are in search of peace and order through dependence, sink, whatever their origin, to the inert masses. The masses, however, are doomed to decay and self-destruction. In our world-revolutionary turning- point the masses are the sum total of the sinking civilization and its dying representatives. We must allow them to die with their kings, like Amfortas."

"The more I found out about it, the more I was convinced that my mission was to refute it wherever possible. I ran great risks and became identified with a subversive war against a malignant type of human nature which, by whatever name you call it, was international in scope, emerging more as a focus of something in the human heart than constrained to one region and one people. True, it found a focus in NAZI doctrine in Germany, but its roots were deeper than that . "