Hitler's Table Talk

146 ANTI-SEMITISM IN AUSTRIA
theless more sympathetic to me than the Protestant minister
who drinks from the poisoned spring.
Pure Christianity—the Christianity of the catacombs—is
concerned with translating the Christian doctrine into facts. It
leads quite simply to the annihilation of mankind. It is merely
whole-hearted Bolshevism, under a tinsel of metaphysics.
77 i yth December 1941, evening
SPECIAL GUESTS: DR. GOEBBELS AND HIMMLER
Pan-Germanic supporters and the Austrian Christian
Socialists—Schönerer and Lueger—A great mayor—
Anti-Semitism in Vienna—Opposition to the Habsburg—
Richard Wagner and the mayor of Leipzig—Other mayors.
There was a man in Vienna, before the first World War, who
was always in favour of an understanding with anti-Semitic
Rumania—and he saw in it the best way of preventing Hungary
from acquiring too much importance. That was Lueger.
Lueger was also of the opinion that it was possible to maintain
the Austrian State, but on condition that Vienna regained
all its supremacy. Schönerer, on the other hand, took as his
point of departure the idea that the Austrian State ought to
disappear. His attitude towards the house of Hapsburg was
brutally radical. From that time dates the first attempt to
oppose the Germanic racial community to the monarchy. On
that point, Lueger and Schönerer parted company.
Lueger, whp had belonged to the Pan-Germanist movement,
went over to the Christian-Social party, for he thought that
anti-Semitism was the only means of saving the State. Now, in
Vienna, anti-Semitism could never have any foundation but a
religious one. From the point of view of race, about 50 per cent
of the population of Vienna was not German. The number of
Jews, amongst a million eight hundred thousand inhabitants,
was close on three hundred thousand. But the Czechs of Vienna
were anti-Semitic. Lueger succeeded in filling thirty-six of the
hundred and forty-eight seats of the Vienna Municipal Council
with anti-Semites.
When I arrived in Vienna, I was a fanatical opponent of
Lueger. As a Pan-German, and as a supporter of Schönerer, I