Hitler's Table Talk

314 PEACE AND THE NATURAL ORDER
what difficult to know whether they had any exact idea of the
Beyond. For them, eternal life was personified in living beings,
and it consisted in a perpetual renewal. Those were conceptions
fairly close to those which were current amongst the Japanese
and Chinese at the time when the Swastika made its appearance
amongst them.
It was necessary for the Jew to appear on the scene and
introduce that mad conception of a life that continues into an
alleged Beyond! It enables one to regard life as a thing that is
negligible here below—since it will flourish later, when it no
longer exists. Under cover of a religion, the Jew has introduced
intolerance in a sphere in which tolerance formerly prevailed.
Amongst the Romans, the cult of the sovereign intelligence was
associated with the modesty of a humanity that knew its limits,
to the point of consecrating altars to the unknown god.
The Jew who fraudulently introduced Christianity into the
ancient world—in order to ruin it—re-opened the same breach
in modern times, this time taking as his pretext the social
question. It's the same sleight-of-hand as before. Just as Saul
was changed into St. Paul, Mardochai became Karl Marx.
Peace can result only from a natural order. The condition of
this order is that there is a hierarchy amongst nations. The most
capable nations must necessarily take the lead. In this order,
the subordinate nations get the greater profit, being protected
by the more capable nations.
It is Jewry that always destroys this order. It constantly provokes
the revolt of the weak against the strong, of bestiality
against intelligence, of quantity against quality. It took fourteen
centuries for Christianity to reach the peak of savagery and
stupidity. We would therefore be wrong to sin by excess of
confidence and proclaim our definite victory over Bolshevism.
The more we render the Jew incapable of harming us, the more
we shall protect ourselves from this danger. The Jew plays in
nature the rôle of a catalysing element. A people that is rid of
its Jews returns spontaneously to the natural order.
In 1925 I wrote in Mein Kampf (and also in an unpublished
work) that world Jewry saw in Japan an opponent beyond its
reach. The racial instinct is so developed amongst the Japanese