Hitler's Table Talk

BRITAIN — ROME — CHRISTIANITY — BOLSHEVISM 253
127 2yth January 1942, midday
SPECIAL GUEST: HIMMLER
The blood of others—The British and the capitalist system
—History but for the advent of Christianity—Gonstantine
the Great and Julian the Apostate—Chamberlain's return
to Munich—Sir Samuel Hoare—The privileged position of
Mosley—Class prejudice in Germany and Britain—The process
of selectivity—The faith of the German people.
The soldiers whom England used for her wars were for the
most part men of German blood. The first great outpouring of
blood that could properly be described as English took place in
the first World War. And how one understands that that ordeal
left its mark on them !
So as not to suffer the after-effects of the present war on the
economic level, the English should have abandoned their
capitalistic system, or else shaken off the burden of a debt that
was reaching a billion four hundred thousands. They made a
timid attempt in that direction, by the classic method: by
reducing their armaments budget to a minimum, so as to be
able thus to pay the interest on their debt. Their situation
after the Napoleonic wars was somewhat similar to that after
1918. They passed through a long period of exhaustion, didn't
become themselves again until under Victoria's reign.
A people cannot lay claim to mastery of the world unless it's
ready to pay with its blood. The Roman Empire had recourse
to mercenaries only when its own blood was exhausted. In fact,
it was only after the Third Punic War that Rome had legions of
mercenaries.
But for the coming of Christianity, who knows how 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 Rome—not the Germans or the Huns.
What Bolshevism is achieving to-day on the materialist and
technical level, Christianity had achieved on the metaphysical
level. When the Crown sees the throne totter, it needs the
support of the masses.