The “Final” Solution Before WWII, P. 1

Most books about Hitler and the Nazi era to date, claim that the “Final solution” was a development that came in the “course” of WWII, is clearly a myth. A myth that will have been permanently undermined with the documentary evidence presented end June 2003. Designs for this “solution” by Hitler and his assistants clearly existed even before Hitler came to power in 1933. 

Already in 1921 Hitler clearly wrote in “The Voelkische Beobachter” newspaper, in an article titled Statesmen or National Criminals; “struggle against Bolshevism in Russia means the complete eradication (Ausrottung) of the Jews!" (1) 

We will particularly point out the background/beliefs involved here.

For example in an August 1921 Voelkischer Beobachter article, "The Progrom Against the German and the Russian Peoples." Rosenberg claimed as an excuse for the above “necessity” , that "a characteristic Jewish rule of terror was set up as world history had not yet seen....Over 30 million people have sunk away.” (2)

He revised his figures upwards in his 1923 Protocols work, asserting that "over 40 million Russians perished through the Jewish terror.” (3)

Interesting Hitler used the figure of 40 million Russian victims referred to in the Rosenberg book of 1923, already in his speech of August 1921. (4)

Hitler claimed that “Soviet Commissars of Jewish nationality" lived lives of abundance, whereas 30 million Russians were reduced to eating "roots and grass" in

order to prolong their lives for "a few weeks or days.(5)

More sinister Scheubner- Richter and Rosenberg charged the "Jewish" regime in the Soviet Union with the systematic and deliberate annihilation of the Russian intellectual leadership. (Which, as with the intellectual leadership in India was considered “Aryan.”)

In a June 1923 article in Aufbau-Korrespondenz , Scheubner-Richter wrote for example wrote; Efforts to establish the "rule of the international Jews," an undertaking that in Russia "began with the extermination (Ausrottung) of the Russian national intelligentsia."(6)

In his August 1921 article in the Voelkischer Beobachter, "The Progrom against the German and the Russian Peoples," Rosenberg claimed that -a systematic destruction of the Russian national intelligentsia by the Jewish government began immediately after the Bolsheviks had triumphed.(7)

He asserted that "the Jewish conspirator took the place of the expelled or murdered leadership." Further Rosenberg posited that "such a systematic eradication of the national Russian leadership would never ever have taken place if Russians had been at the head of the coup, ascribing terrible manifestations of violence in the Soviet Union to sinister Jewish elements.(8)

Rosenberg stressed in a March 1921 edition of the Voelkischer Beobachter that Jews also threatened to bring about the “slaughter of the national leadership" in Germany followed by “bloody Jewish terror enforced with foreign troops as in Russia.(9) 

Rosenberg further wrote of a particularly sadistic type of torture widely attributed to "Jewish and Chinese" (see the article about Ludendorff on SESN) agents of the Extraordinary Commission for the Struggle with Counter-revolution. usually referred to as the Cheka, a torment euphemistically referred to as "pulling off gloves." In this alleged gruesome process, Cheka agents dunked the victim's arms in boiling water. made a circular cut at the elbow, and stripped the skin off "(10)

Eckart wrote of this means of torture in an April 1920 article, "That Which Kapp Wanted to Protect Us From," attributing these cruelties to "Jewish Commissars" against-men, women, young girls, and even small children. Citing an English newspaper (these conspiracy type theories by no means remained confined to the White Russians), Eckart also wrote of a method of torture whereby these same "Jewish Commissars" bound stone jars filled with live rats over the genitals of their prisoners and used fire to force the vermin to gnaw their way through the flesh of their victims. Eckart wrote of the "Jewish Commissars" mission "to eradicate Christianity root and branch." (11) 

Eckart asserted in an October 1921 edition of the Voelischer Beobachter that the "true purpose of the Russian Revolution" represented the "murderous enslavement of an entire people by Jewry.”(12)

Eckart used the infamous piece of White Russian anti-Semitic propaganda, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, to support his assertions. In a November 1920 Auf gut deutsch article, "Jewry Uber Alles," he quoted sections of the Protocols and offered his version of the supposed Jewish drive for world domination, beginning with the Jews inciting the peoples of the world to wage war through the "Jewish-contaminated press." The ensuing military conflagration, Eckart continued, had led to the destruction of Imperial Russia so that "Jewish Bolshevism" could take root there. He also warned that there would arise "from the Neva to the Rhine, on the bloody ruins of the previous national traditions, a single Jewish empire. (13) 

 

Introduction: A Russian Connection

In this series of lectures I will discuss a number of early influences on the rise of Hitler and the early Nazi party.

Hitler's Secret "Protocols" P.1
The Protocols of the Wise Elders of Zion,  were not fabricated in Paris, but within Imperial Russia between April 1902 and August 1903. The earliest versions of the Protocols contain pronounced Ukrainian features, whereas later ones were given French overtones in order to lend them the appearance of credible accounts from abroad.

Hitler's Secret "Protocols" P.2
General Vladimir Biskupskil, who went on to collaborate closely with Hitler in the context of the Aufbau Vereinigung in postwar Munich, played a leading role in the Ukrainian Volunteer Army. "Conservative revolutionaries" in Imperial Germany and Russia established detailed anti-Western, anti-Semitic ideologies in the months leading up to the Bolshevik Revolution. The largely internally-orientated voelkisch model focused on alleged Germanic racial and spiritual superiority through a heightened capacity to negate the will heroically, whereas the more externally- fixated Russian version offered apocalyptic visions of concrete political struggle between Russians at the head of all Slavs and perceived Jewish world-conspirators.

Hitler’s Source P.1
The Protocols did provide anti-Semitic arguments that strongly influenced the ideology of the National Socialist movement, going through 33 editions by the time Hitler came to power and becoming the most widely-distributed work in the world after the Bible. The National Socialist regime did not reprint the Protocols after the outbreak of World War II, though, perhaps precisely due to the Protocols' parallels with both brutal National Socialist occupation policies in Eastern Europe and public pacification efforts domestically.

Hitler’s Source P.2
Anticipating Tsarist pretender Kirill's arrival in Germany, General Ludendorff worked to establish an intelligence service for Kirill in early April 1922. He asked Walther Nicolai, who had served him as the head of the German Army High Command Intelligence Service during World War one, to use his considerable experience and connections to establish a reliable pro-Kirill intelligence service for the struggle against Bolshevism.

The German Kaiser's Confident P.1
By 1937 the NSDAP, the Wehrmacht, and, to a lesser extent, German society accepted Ludendorffs ideology. In the regime and the Wehrmacht he had tacit allies who helped to legitimize and propagate Deutsche Gotterkenntnis. Those who sympathized with him and his ideology existed at all levels of the Nazi hierarchy. Although today he may be forgotten, and although his memorial shrine in Tutzing may be neglected, Erich Ludendorff was one of the most important Germans of the twentieth century.

The German Kaiser's Confident P.2
The Ludendorffs (now Hohe Warte) advocated a return to traditional rural German culture since they believed that the demands of modem capitalist society had tom the German people from the soil, causing them to forget their heritage and ensuring their submission to finance and industrial capital. The Ludendorffs' ideology paralleled similar intellectual developments among Conservative Revolutionaries.

The Ideologists and First Financiers of Hitler P.1
Before the establishment of the “Aufbau” Vereinigung in late 1920, the collaboration between Eckart and Rosenberg in the context of Eckhart’s Newspaper In Plain German.” Formed the crux of the fusion between voelkisch-redemptive German and White Russian world conspiratonial-apocalyptic anti-Semitic thought, where "positive" notions of Germanic spiritual and racial superiority fused with more negative visions of impending "Jewish Bolshevik" destruction supported by Jewish finance capitalists.

The Ideologists and First Financiers of Hitler P.2
By 1923, Hitler had thoroughly internalized Aufbau’s and the people around it, assertions, of the nature of socialism and its most aggressive variant Bolshevism as mere tools of Jewish finance capitalism to enslave European peoples…

Dietrich Eckart, Rosenberg, and the White Russian Influence on Nazi Ideology, P.1
The ensuing military conflagration, Eckart continued, had led to the destruction of Imperial Russia so that "Jewish Bolshevism" could take root there. He also warned that there would arise "from the Neva to the Rhine, on the bloody ruins of the previous national traditions, a single Jewish empire.

Dietrich Eckart, Rosenberg, and the White Russian Influence on Nazi Ideology, P.2
Hitler in his unpublished 1928 sequel to Mein Kampf, further expounded upon the Aufbau/Eckartian theme of the "Jewish Bolshevik" annihilation of the leading elements of Russian society as a precedent for further Jewish atrocities. He argued that "Jewry exterminated the previous foreign upper strata with the help of Slavic racial instincts."

The "Final" Solution Before WWII, P.1
Hitler continued to express a view of history whereby Jews pitted Germans and Russians against each other after 1923. As witnessed in his unpublished 1928 sequel to Mein Kampf. He argued of "the Jew's" drive to dominate the European peoples that he -methodically agitates for world war" with the aim of "the destruction of inwardly anti-Semitic Russia as well as the destruction of the German Reich. which in administration and the army still offered resistance to the Jew."

The "Final" Solution Before WWII, P.2
That which Jewry once planned against Germany and all peoples of Europe. this must (Jewry) itself suffer today, and responsibility before the history of European culture demands that we do not carry out this fateful separation (Schicksalstrennung) with sentimentality and weakness, but with clear, rational awareness and firm determination.” (Rosenberg 1941 press release dealing with his public assumption of the position of  State Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories.)

Early Nazis and the Mystical Connection P.1
Like the mystical inclined author Sergei Nilus, who had played a crucial role in popularizing The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Vinberg viewed Jews as a satanic force.

Early Nazis and the Mystical Connection P.2
Hitler asserted that "liberalism, our press, the stock market, and Freemasonry" together represented nothing but "Instrument[s] of the Jews."

Early Nazis and the Mystical Connection P.3
By the time of Ludendorfrs death, Deutsche Gotterkenninis had become for Nazis a legitimate Weltanschauung. Ludendorff's vision of a totalitarian society unified in the face of external and internal threats was nearly identical to the Weltanschauung of Nazism.

1) Hitler “Staatsmaenner oder Nationalverbrecher." ;Voelkischer Beobachter, March 15. 1921. 2.

2) Scheubner- Richter, Aufbau-Korrespondenz. October 25. 1922 2.

3) Rosenberg. Die Protokolle der Weisen von Zion und die Judische Weltpolitik. 81.

4)Hitler. Speech on August 19. 1921. Saemtliche Aufzeichnungen, 458.

5) Hitler, Die Hetzer der Warheit: Rede Adolf Hitler in der Versammlung vom 12. April 1922; Voelkischer Beobachter, April 22. 1922. 7.

6) Scheubner-Richter. "Die dritte Internationale an der Arbeit," Aufbau-Korrespondenz. June 7. 1923. 1.

7) Rosenberg, "Der Progrom am deutschen und am russischen Volke”, Voellkischer Beobachter. August 4. 1921,3.

8) Rosenberg. “Pest in Russland.” 23. 25.

9) Rosenberg. "Schicksalswende in London! “Voelkischer Beobachter. March 6, 1921. 3.

10) Rosenberg. Pest in Russlandl, 78.

11) Eckart. "Wovor uns Kapp behueten wollte," Auf gut deutsch. April 16. 1920.

12) Eckart. "Das 'siegrelche' Proletariat unter Standrecht." Vilkischer Beobachter. October 26. 1921. 1.

13) Eckart. “Jewry ueber alles, " Auf gut deutsch Nov. 2,6. 1920. 2.

 

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