Der Fuehrer - Hitler's Rise to Power (1944) - Heiden

PROTOCOLS OF WISE MEN OF ZION 3and decision of the many, even, of those who share our thoughts; weshall not cast the gleaming thoughts of our leader before the swine, andeven in more intimate circles we shall not permit them to be carped at.'We shall paint the misdeeds of foreign governments in the mostgarish colors and create such an ill-feeling toward them that the peopleswould a thousand times rather bear a slavery which guarantees thempeace and order than enjoy their much-touted freedom. The peoples willtolerate any servitude we may impose on them, if only to avoid a returnto the horrors of wars and insurrection. Our principles and methods willtake on their full force when we present them in sharp contrast to theputrid old social order.'Outwardly, however, in our "official" utterances, we shall adopt anopposite procedure and always do our best to appear honorable and cooperative.A statesman's words do not have to agree with his acts. If wepursue these principles, the governments and peoples which we havethus prepared will take our IOU's for cash. One day they will accept usas the benefactors and saviors of the human race.'If any state dares to resist us; if its neighbors make common causewith it against us, we shall unleash a world war.'And then the demon spreads his wings, conceals the sky, darkens theworld:'By all these methods we shall so wear down the nations that they willbe forced to offer us world domination. We shall stretch out our armslike pincers in all directions, and introduce an order of such violencethat all peoples will bow to our domination.'Who is this 'we'? Who is it that brags so absurdly?To the student it is not absurd. It sounds fantastic, but it is not a meretissue of lies. He turns back the pages and discovers that all thisaccursed wisdom, all these diabolical plans, were hatched out by agroup of old Jews, who met together in a back room in Basel,Switzerland, in the year 1897. The demon aiming to devour the world isa Jewish club. It stands there in black and white, described at length,with place and date. Twenty years had passed before this knowledgefound the right man. And thus The Proto-