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They are DESPERATE
Summed up perfectly I strongly recommend this video and it,s channel on You Tube
Men Have Forgotten God” – The Templeon Address Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
“Men Have Forgotten God” –
The Templeon Address Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
Since then I have spent well-nigh fifty years working on
the history of our Revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books,
collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight
volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that
upheaval. But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the
main cause of the ruinous Revolution that swallowed up some sixty million of our
people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: Men have forgotten
God; that's why all this has happened.
What is more, the events of the Russian Revolution can only
be understood now, at the end of the century, against the background of what has
since occurred in the rest of the world. What emerges here is a process of
universal significance. And if I were called upon to identify briefly the
principal trait of the entire twentieth century, here too, I would be
unable to find anything more precise and pithy than to repeat once again: Men
have forgotten God.
The
failings of human consciousness, deprived of its divine dimension, have been a
determining factor in all the major crimes of this century. The first of these
was World War I, and much of our present predicament can be traced back to it.
It was a war (the memory of which seems to be fading) when Europe, bursting with
health and abundance, fell into a rage of self-mutilation which could not but
sap its strength for a century or more, and perhaps forever. The only possible
explanation for this war is a mental eclipse among the leaders of Europe due to
their lost awareness of a Supreme Power above them. Only a godless embitterment
could have moved ostensibly Christian states to employ poison gas, a weapon so
obviously beyond the limits of humanity.
The
same kind of defect, the flaw of a consciousness lacking all divine dimension,
was manifested after World War II when the West yielded to the satanic
temptation of the "nuclear umbrella." It was equivalent to saying:
Let's cast off worries, let's free the younger generation from their duties and
obligations, let's make no effort to defend ourselves, to say nothing of
defending others-let's stop our ears to the groans emanating from the East, and
let us live instead in the pursuit of happiness. If danger should threaten us,
we shall be protected by the nuclear bomb; if not, then let the world burn in
Hell for all we care. The pitifully helpless state to which the contemporary
West has sunk is in large measure due to this fatal error: the belief that the
defense of peace depends not on stout hearts and steadfast men, but solely on
the nuclear bomb...
Today'
s world has reached a stage which, if it had been described to preceding
centuries, would have called forth the cry: "This is the Apocalypse!"
Yet
we have grown used to this kind of world; we even feel at home in it.
Dostoevsky
warned that "great events could come upon us and catch us intellectually
unprepared." This is precisely what has happened. And he predicted that
"the world will be saved only after it has been possessed by the demon of
evil." Whether it really will be saved we shall have to wait and see: this
will depend on our conscience, on our spiritual lucidity, on our individual and
combined efforts in the face of catastrophic circumstances. But it has already
come to pass that the demon of evil, like a whirlwind, triumphantly circles all
five continents of the earth...
In its past, Russia did know a time when the social ideal
was not fame, or riches, or material success, but a pious way of life. Russia
was then steeped in an Orthodox Christianity which remained true to the Church
of the first centuries. The Orthodoxy of that time knew how tosafeguard its
people under the yoke of a foreign occupation that lasted more than two
centuries, while at the same time fending off iniquitous blows from the swords
of Western crusaders. During those centuries the Orthodox faith in our country
became part of the very pattern of thought and the personality of our people,
the forms of daily life, the work calendar, the priorities in every undertaking,
the organization of the week and of the year. Faith was the shaping and unifying
force of the nation.
But
in the 17th century Russian Orthodoxy was gravely weakened by an internal
schism. In the 18th, the country was shaken by Peter's forcibly imposed
transformations, which favored the economy, the state, and the military at the
expense of the religious spirit and national life. And along with this lopsided
Petrine enlightenment, Russia felt the first whiff of secularism; its subtle
poisons permeated the educated classes in the course of the 19th century and
opened the path to Marxism. By the time of the Revolution, faith had virtually
disappeared in Russian educated circles; and amongst the uneducated, its health
was threatened.
Saturday, 7 May 2016
Friday, 6 May 2016
Wednesday, 4 May 2016
Money and Virtue
Money and Virtue
"But money demands of you the highest virtues, if you wish to make it or to keep it. Men who have no courage, pride, or self-esteem, men who have no moral sense of their right to their money and are not willing to defend it as they defend their life, men who apologize for being rich – will not remain rich for long. They are the natural bait for the swarms of looters that stay under rocks for centuries, but come crawling out at the first smell of a man who begs to be forgiven for the guilt of owning wealth. They will hasten to relieve him of the guilt – and of his life, as he deserves.
"Then you will see the rise of the double standard – the men who live by force, yet count on those who live by trade to create the value of their looted money – the men who are the hitchhikers of virtue. In a moral society, these are the criminals, and the statutes are written to protect you against them. But when a society establishes criminals-by-right and looters-by-law – men who use force to seize the wealth of disarmed victims – then money becomes its creators' avenger. Such looters believe it safe to rob defenseless men, once they've passed a law to disarm them. But their loot becomes the magnet for other looters, who get it from them as they got it. Then the race goes, not to the ablest at production, but to those most ruthless at brutality. When force is the standard, the murderer wins over the pickpocket. And then that society vanishes, in a spread of ruins and slaughter.
"Do you wish to know whether that day is coming? Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion – when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing – when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors – when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you – when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice – you may know that your society is doomed. Money is so noble a medium that it does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot.
"Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection and the base of a moral existence. Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of paper. This kills all objective standards and delivers men into the arbitrary power of an arbitrary setter of values. Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it. Paper is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which is not theirs: upon the virtue of the victims. Watch for the day when it becomes, marked: 'Account overdrawn.'
"When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, 'Who is destroying the world?' You are.
Fram Atlas Shrugg by a novel by Ayn Rand, first published in 1957
About the E.U. Just a few of the negatives
By Peter Mullins
I was recently asked why I am so exercised about the E.U. Just a few of the negatives that spring to mind........
We joined the EU (EEC) in 1972. After 44 years inside we now know:
The European Union’s six constitutional treaties build a three-tier politburo dictatorship.
The EU has the laws of a police state – which are being increasingly enforced.
The EU’s 120,000 regulations will eventually bring us a soviet style command economy and abject poverty.
Unelected EU dictators will some time soon control the nuclear weapons of the former independent nations of Britain and France.
The EU’s illegal six treaties will compel us to hand over all our armed forces to the EU.
Our armed forces and police have been told they will swear a new oath to the EU, or be fired.
The EU’s 120,000 regulations will rigidly control our personal lives – more than any nation in history.
EU regulations now cost us £100 billion a year. (Better Regulation Commission annual report 2015)
When enforced, those illegal regulations will destroy most of our 4.5 million small businesses.
Up to 13.5 million will be unemployed after EU regulations finally close small businesses.
The 120,000 regulations will make us subject to continual arrest (SOCPA 2005).
There are now 3,095 “Crimes against the EU state” on the British statute book.
The EU’s Constitutional treaties replaced the British Constitution on 1st January 2009. (Not many people know that.)
The independent nation of Britain was finally abolished by the Lisbon Treaty on 1st Jan 2009.
EU Bilderbergers control our parties: Ken Clarke, Maude, Cameron, Millibands, Mandelson, et al
The EU’s Road Pricing and then ID chips will keep the state informed of our exact position.
Huge taxes/fines by the EU’s Road Pricing, Congestion Charging and global warming policies.
The EU Regionalisation Plan will abolish England and our 48 counties in favour of 9 EU regions.
The 9 EU regions will report direct to Brussels, not to Westminster, which will be defunct.
The EU Regionalisation Plan will abolish our 19,579 councillors.
British common law was mainly replaced by EU corpus Juris by 1992. Government is now above the law.
Police have shot 30 innocent people dead since 1992 and have not been successfully prosecuted.
1,100 deaths in police custody since 1992 and no successful prosecutions.
Police Shoot to Kill policy now in force; illegal under British common law, OK under EU corpus juris.
EU conceived in Germany from 22nd June 1940 as the EEC – speech by Hermann Goering.
First EEC conference Berlin University 1942, 13 nation summit Berlin 1943 run by von Ribbentrop
After fall of Germany, the Germans switched the EU from a Nazi to a communist basis in 1946.
Hitler’s Deutsche Verteiderungs Dienst Intelligence Department (DVD) still controls EU development.
Edward Heath, Geoffrey Rippon, Roy Jenkins recruited by the DVD in 1958 as saboteurs.
DVD has arranged finance to put pro-EU ownerships into British newspaper groups.
EU has been sabotaging Britain with German Frankfurt School techniques since the 1950’s.
The EU’s main subversive organisations in Britain are senior Freemasonry and Common Purpose. Google Brian Gerish for a full exposition of Common Purpose.
The EU’s Common Purpose (CP) has trained 40,000 local leaders for “the post democratic era”
CP controls the NHS, and is wrecking it with Frankfurt subversion techniques (eg continual change).
Common Purpose has 400 staff inside the BBC censoring out anti-EU news and and current affairs.
Common Purpose has staff in hundreds of local newspapers censoring out anti-EU news
Common Purpose is transferring power from councillors to the unelected council executives.
Common Purpose has built the EU gravy trains inside local and national government.
CP snatch 4,500 children a year from good parents for forced adoption.
CP has built most of Britain’s 8,500 quangos costing us £167 billion pa (Cabinet Office 2007 figs)
These quangos bribe compliant, pro EU local officials and businessmen with £150,000+ salaries.
The EU is corrupt and cannot account for 95% of its expenditure (yes, ninety five % lost)
The EU has over 200,000 offshore bank accounts from which it pays bribes.
We now lose £65 billion a year trading with the EU. Outside, we had an even balance of payments.
EU Constitution is similar to the Soviet. And EU Commissioners similar to Soviet Politburo members.
The EU parliament is a sham with no power – just like the old Soviet parliament.
The leadership of the Conservative Party has been controlled by EU Bilderbergers since the 1960’s.
The Labour and Lib Dem leaderships have been EU controlled for 20 years – that’s why your vote doesn’t count.
The Amsterdam Treaty 1997 gave the EU control of our immigration, now running at 330,000 NET pa.
Our infrastructure can’t cope with the 10 million immigrants the EU has let in since 1997.
380,000 highly qualified British Subjects emigrate annually to escape from the EU and its over regulation..
The EU and their Bilderbergers have moved 50,000 pro-EU people, and CP up into all positions of power over 40 years. You don’t progress in British government unless you are pro-EU.
Is that enough to be going on with?
We joined the EU (EEC) in 1972. After 44 years inside we now know:
The European Union’s six constitutional treaties build a three-tier politburo dictatorship.
The EU has the laws of a police state – which are being increasingly enforced.
The EU’s 120,000 regulations will eventually bring us a soviet style command economy and abject poverty.
Unelected EU dictators will some time soon control the nuclear weapons of the former independent nations of Britain and France.
The EU’s illegal six treaties will compel us to hand over all our armed forces to the EU.
Our armed forces and police have been told they will swear a new oath to the EU, or be fired.
The EU’s 120,000 regulations will rigidly control our personal lives – more than any nation in history.
EU regulations now cost us £100 billion a year. (Better Regulation Commission annual report 2015)
When enforced, those illegal regulations will destroy most of our 4.5 million small businesses.
Up to 13.5 million will be unemployed after EU regulations finally close small businesses.
The 120,000 regulations will make us subject to continual arrest (SOCPA 2005).
There are now 3,095 “Crimes against the EU state” on the British statute book.
The EU’s Constitutional treaties replaced the British Constitution on 1st January 2009. (Not many people know that.)
The independent nation of Britain was finally abolished by the Lisbon Treaty on 1st Jan 2009.
EU Bilderbergers control our parties: Ken Clarke, Maude, Cameron, Millibands, Mandelson, et al
The EU’s Road Pricing and then ID chips will keep the state informed of our exact position.
Huge taxes/fines by the EU’s Road Pricing, Congestion Charging and global warming policies.
The EU Regionalisation Plan will abolish England and our 48 counties in favour of 9 EU regions.
The 9 EU regions will report direct to Brussels, not to Westminster, which will be defunct.
The EU Regionalisation Plan will abolish our 19,579 councillors.
British common law was mainly replaced by EU corpus Juris by 1992. Government is now above the law.
Police have shot 30 innocent people dead since 1992 and have not been successfully prosecuted.
1,100 deaths in police custody since 1992 and no successful prosecutions.
Police Shoot to Kill policy now in force; illegal under British common law, OK under EU corpus juris.
EU conceived in Germany from 22nd June 1940 as the EEC – speech by Hermann Goering.
First EEC conference Berlin University 1942, 13 nation summit Berlin 1943 run by von Ribbentrop
After fall of Germany, the Germans switched the EU from a Nazi to a communist basis in 1946.
Hitler’s Deutsche Verteiderungs Dienst Intelligence Department (DVD) still controls EU development.
Edward Heath, Geoffrey Rippon, Roy Jenkins recruited by the DVD in 1958 as saboteurs.
DVD has arranged finance to put pro-EU ownerships into British newspaper groups.
EU has been sabotaging Britain with German Frankfurt School techniques since the 1950’s.
The EU’s main subversive organisations in Britain are senior Freemasonry and Common Purpose. Google Brian Gerish for a full exposition of Common Purpose.
The EU’s Common Purpose (CP) has trained 40,000 local leaders for “the post democratic era”
CP controls the NHS, and is wrecking it with Frankfurt subversion techniques (eg continual change).
Common Purpose has 400 staff inside the BBC censoring out anti-EU news and and current affairs.
Common Purpose has staff in hundreds of local newspapers censoring out anti-EU news
Common Purpose is transferring power from councillors to the unelected council executives.
Common Purpose has built the EU gravy trains inside local and national government.
CP snatch 4,500 children a year from good parents for forced adoption.
CP has built most of Britain’s 8,500 quangos costing us £167 billion pa (Cabinet Office 2007 figs)
These quangos bribe compliant, pro EU local officials and businessmen with £150,000+ salaries.
The EU is corrupt and cannot account for 95% of its expenditure (yes, ninety five % lost)
The EU has over 200,000 offshore bank accounts from which it pays bribes.
We now lose £65 billion a year trading with the EU. Outside, we had an even balance of payments.
EU Constitution is similar to the Soviet. And EU Commissioners similar to Soviet Politburo members.
The EU parliament is a sham with no power – just like the old Soviet parliament.
The leadership of the Conservative Party has been controlled by EU Bilderbergers since the 1960’s.
The Labour and Lib Dem leaderships have been EU controlled for 20 years – that’s why your vote doesn’t count.
The Amsterdam Treaty 1997 gave the EU control of our immigration, now running at 330,000 NET pa.
Our infrastructure can’t cope with the 10 million immigrants the EU has let in since 1997.
380,000 highly qualified British Subjects emigrate annually to escape from the EU and its over regulation..
The EU and their Bilderbergers have moved 50,000 pro-EU people, and CP up into all positions of power over 40 years. You don’t progress in British government unless you are pro-EU.
Is that enough to be going on with?
Monday, 2 May 2016
Concerning Nicola Sturgeon of The SNP....By Peter Mullins
Concerning Nicola Sturgeon....By Peter Mullins
I watched and listened to Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon on the Andrew Marr Show and was confirmed more solidly in my opinion that she is a thoroughly nasty, self-seeking, perfidious, political weasel. Basically, her position and therefore her party's position is this. If the majority of the United (sic) Kingdom vote for Brexit she will arrange for another Independence Referendum if a majority of the Scots have voted with the Remainians. What would this mean in geo-political terms, though?
First point. If the majority of us, the British, vote for Brexit we will leave the E.U.. Fact. That means ALL of us, including the Scots. Our membership card of this club reads "The United Kingdom and Northern Island."
If Sturgeon and her bunch wish to pursue their independence cause they must first get this approved by both their own parliament in Edinburgh and then the U.K. parliament at Westminster. Two years or longer?
If the Scots vote for independence it will be another couple of years minimum to sort out the divorce settlement. During these years Scotland would have been a non-member of the E.U.as would England, Wales and Norther Ireland. Scotland, during this period, will be in a limboland, separate from the rest of us and certainly not part of any trade deals that we, the majority, will be conducting around the world.
At the end of this settlement, all military contracts with Scotland, i.e. ship building for the Royal Navy, would have been cancelled and re-allocated to English shipyards together with military installations and all other commercial and trade links. The 15 billion pounds deficit which Scotland's economy is running at the moment would be dumped, whatever the figure may be then, on Holyrood's doorstep.
With their shiny, new independence, the Scots would then have to start from scratch to negotiate with the E.U. on their acceptance to "The Club." This could take years.
If and when Scotland is allowed to join the E.U. that organisation, without the steadying hand of the U.K. on some of the levers of power, could be a VERY different organisation or, possibly, it may, as every other empire in history has done,have totally collapsed.
Do the "Canny Scots" really want to ditch an arrangement that has served them well for hundreds of years and join, some years in the future, some quasi-imperial dictatorship as a vassal of thirty or so completely alien states ruled over by Germany? My guess in they are far too sharp to even consider this.
Foot note by the Horwich Nationalist,
As some one who also has Scottish blood in the veins , I strongly urge our Scottish Brothers ans Sisters to wake up the the danger of the closet international marxist posing as faux nationalist. The are indeed as truely nationalist as Lipstick on a pig makes it attracctive.
Also the Famous quote of the Repulican Roman Cicero from 2000 yrs ago sums the up exactly.
PLEASE SCOTLAND AWAKE TO THE DANGER YOU ARE IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cicero's Traitor at the gate ,
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague."
Saturday, 30 April 2016
Red Ken Vindicated Jew where in Cahoots with Nazis
It turns out all those who clamoured for Ken Livingstone to be
suspended from the Labour Party – on the basis that Nazi Germany and
Zionist Jews never had an agreement – were completely wrong.
Perhaps John Mann needs to reconsider his actions of earlier today (April 28) – along with all those who accused Livingstone of “rewriting history” when he really was simply quoting it. It shows that in order to find out who controls your nation , learn whom one dare not critisise
From Wikeopeada
Zionism and the Third Reich
by Mark Weber
Early in 1935, a passenger ship bound for Haifa in Palestine left the German port of Bremerhaven. Its stern bore the Hebrew letters for its name, "Tel Aviv," while a swastika banner fluttered from the mast. And although the ship was Zionist-owned, its captain was a National Socialist Party member. Many years later a traveler aboard the ship recalled this symbolic combination as a "metaphysical absurdity."/1 Absurd or not, this is but one vignette from a little-known chapter of history: The wide-ranging collaboration between Zionism and Hitler's Third Reich.
Common Aims
Over the years, people in many different countries have wrestled with the "Jewish question": that is, what is the proper role of Jews in non-Jewish society? During the 1930s, Jewish Zionists and German National Socialists shared similar views on how to deal with this perplexing issue. They agreed that Jews and Germans were distinctly different nationalities, and that Jews did not belong in Germany. Jews living in the Reich were therefore to be regarded not as "Germans of the Jewish faith," but rather as members of a separate national community. Zionism (Jewish nationalism) also implied an obligation by Zionist Jews to resettle in Palestine, the "Jewish homeland." They could hardly regard themselves as sincere Zionists and simultaneously claim equal rights in Germany or any other "foreign" country.
Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), the founder of modern Zionism, maintained that anti-Semitism is not an aberration, but a natural and completely understandable response by non-Jews to alien Jewish behavior and attitudes. The only solution, he argued, is for Jews to recognize reality and live in a separate state of their own. "The Jewish question exists wherever Jews live in noticeable numbers," he wrote in his most influential work, The Jewish State. "Where it does not exist, it is brought in by arriving Jews ... I believe I understand anti-Semitism, which is a very complex phenomenon. I consider this development as a Jew, without hate or fear." The Jewish question, he maintained, is not social or religious. "It is a national question. To solve it we must, above all, make it an international political issue ..." Regardless of their citizenship, Herzl insisted, Jews constitute not merely a religious community, but a nationality, a people, a Volk. /2 Zionism, wrote Herzl, offered the world a welcome "final solution of the Jewish question."/3
Six months after Hitler came to power, the Zionist Federation of Germany (by far the largest Zionist group in the country) submitted a detailed memorandum to the new government that reviewed German-Jewish relations and formally offered Zionist support in "solving" the vexing "Jewish question." The first step, it suggested, had to be a frank recognition of fundamental national differences: /4
Active Collaboration
On this basis of their similar ideologies about ethnicity and nationhood, National Socialists and Zionists worked together for what each group believed was in its own national interest. As a result, the Hitler government vigorously supported Zionism and Jewish emigration to Palestine from 1933 until 1940-1941, when the Second World War prevented extensive collaboration.
Even as the Third Reich became more entrenched, many German Jews, probably a majority, continued to regard themselves, often with considerable pride, as Germans first. Few were enthusiastic about pulling up roots to begin a new life in far-away Palestine. Nevertheless, more and more German Jews turned to Zionism during this period. Until late 1938, the Zionist movement flourished in Germany under Hitler. The circulation of the Zionist Federation's bi-weekly Jüdische Rundschau grew enormously. Numerous Zionist books were published. "Zionist work was in full swing" in Germany during those years, the Encyclopaedia Judaica notes. A Zionist convention held in Berlin in 1936 reflected "in its composition the vigorous party life of German Zionists."/7
The SS was particularly enthusiastic in its support for Zionism. An internal June 1934 SS position paper urged active and wide-ranging support for Zionism by the government and the Party as the best way to encourage emigration of Germany's Jews to Palestine. This would require increased Jewish self-awareness. Jewish schools, Jewish sports leagues, Jewish cultural organizations -- in short, everything that would encourage this new consciousness and self-awareness - should be promoted, the paper recommended. /8
SS officer Leopold von Mildenstein and Zionist Federation official Kurt Tuchler toured Palestine together for six months to assess Zionist development there. Based on his firsthand observations, von Mildenstein wrote a series of twelve illustrated articles for the important Berlin daily Der Angriff that appeared in late 1934 under the heading "A Nazi Travels to Palestine." The series expressed great admiration for the pioneering spirit and achievements of the Jewish settlers. Zionist self-development, von Mildenstein wrote, had produced a new kind of Jew. He praised Zionism as a great benefit for both the Jewish people and the entire world. A Jewish homeland in Palestine, he wrote in his concluding article, "pointed the way to curing a centuries-long wound on the body of the world: the Jewish question." Der Angriff issued a special medal, with a Swastika on one side and a Star of David on the other, to commemorate the joint SS-Zionist visit. A few months after the articles appeared, von Mildenstein was promoted to head the Jewish affairs department of the SS security service in order to support Zionist migration and development more effectively. /9
The official SS newspaper, Das Schwarze Korps, proclaimed its support for Zionism in a May 1935 front-page editorial: "The time may not be too far off when Palestine will again be able to receive its sons who have been lost to it for more than a thousand years. Our good wishes, together with official goodwill, go with them."/10 Four months later, a similar article appeared in the SS paper: /11
With official backing, Zionists worked tirelessly to "reeducate" Germany's Jews. As American historian Francis Nicosia put it in his 1985 survey, The Third Reich and the Palestine Question: "Zionists were encouraged to take their message to the Jewish community, to collect money, to show films on Palestine and generally to educate German Jews about Palestine. There was considerable pressure to teach Jews in Germany to cease identifying themselves as Germans and to awaken a new Jewish national identity in them." /13
In an interview after the war, the former head of the Zionist Federation of Germany, Dr. Hans Friedenthal, summed up the situation: "The Gestapo did everything in those days to promote emigration, particularly to Palestine. We often received their help when we required anything from other authorities regarding preparations for emigration." /14
At the September 1935 National Socialist Party Congress, the Reichstag adopted the so-called "Nuremberg laws" that prohibited marriages and sexual relations between Jews and Germans and, in effect, proclaimed the Jews an alien minority nationality. A few days later the Zionist Jüdische Rundschau editorially welcomed the new measures: /15
The Interior Ministry's Jewish affairs specialist, Dr. Bernhard Lösener, expressed support for Zionism in an article that appeared in a November 1935 issue of the official Reichsverwaltungsblatt: /18
Himmler's security service cooperated with the Haganah, the Zionist underground military organization in Palestine. The SS agency paid Haganah official Feivel Polkes for information about the situation in Palestine and for help in directing Jewish emigration to that country. Meanwhile, the Haganah was kept well informed about German plans by a spy it managed to plant in the Berlin headquarters of the SS. /20 Haganah-SS collaboration even included secret deliveries of German weapons to Jewish settlers for use in clashes with Palestinian Arabs. /21
In the aftermath of the November 1938 "Kristallnacht" outburst of violence and destruction, the SS quickly helped the Zionist organization to get back on its feet and continue its work in Germany, although now under more restricted supervision. /22
Official Reservations
German support for Zionism was not unlimited. Government and Party officials were very mindful of the continuing campaign by powerful Jewish communities in the United States, Britain and other countries to mobilize "their" governments and fellow citizens against Germany. As long as world Jewry remained implacably hostile toward National Socialist Germany, and as long as the great majority of Jews around the world showed little eagerness to resettle in the Zionist "promised land," a sovereign Jewish state in Palestine would not really "solve" the international Jewish question. Instead, German officials reasoned, it would immeasurably strengthen this dangerous anti-German campaign. German backing for Zionism was therefore limited to support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine under British control, not a sovereign Jewish state. /23
A Jewish state in Palestine, the Foreign Minister informed diplomats in June 1937, would not be in Germany's interest because it would not be able to absorb all Jews around the world, but would only serve as an additional power base for international Jewry, in much the same way as Moscow served as a base for international Communism. /24 Reflecting something of a shift in official policy, the German press expressed much greater sympathy in 1937 for Palestinian Arab resistance to Zionist ambitions, at a time when tension and conflict between Jews and Arabs in Palestine was sharply increasing. /25
A Foreign Office circular bulletin of June 22, 1937, cautioned that in spite of support for Jewish settlement in Palestine, "it would nevertheless be a mistake to assume that Germany supports the formation of a state structure in Palestine under some form of Jewish control. In view of the anti-German agitation of international Jewry, Germany cannot agree that the formation of a Palestine Jewish state would help the peaceful development of the nations of the world."/26 "The proclamation of a Jewish state or a Jewish-administrated Palestine," warned an internal memorandum by the Jewish affairs section of the SS, "would create for Germany a new enemy, one that would have a deep influence on developments in the Near East." Another SS agency predicted that a Jewish state "would work to bring special minority protection to Jews in every country, therefore giving legal protection to the exploitation activity of world Jewry."/27 In January 1939, Hitler's new Foreign Minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop, likewise warned in another circular bulletin that "Germany must regard the formation of a Jewish state as dangerous" because it "would bring an international increase in power to world Jewry." /28
Hitler himself personally reviewed this entire issue in early 1938 and, in spite of his long-standing skepticism of Zionist ambitions and misgivings that his policies might contribute to the formation of a Jewish state, decided to support Jewish migration to Palestine even more vigorously. The prospect of ridding Germany of its Jews, he concluded, outweighed the possible dangers. /29
Meanwhile, the British government imposed ever more drastic restrictions on Jewish immigration into Palestine in 1937, 1938 and 1939. In response, the SS security service concluded a secret alliance with the clandestine Zionist agency Mossad le-Aliya Bet to smuggle Jews illegally into Palestine. As a result of this intensive collaboration, several convoys of ships succeeded in reaching Palestine past British gunboats. Jewish migration, both legal and illegal, from Germany (including Austria) to Palestine increased dramatically in 1938 and 1939. Another 10,000 Jews were scheduled to depart in October 1939, but the outbreak of war in September brought the effort to an end. All the same, German authorities continued to promote indirect Jewish emigration to Palestine during 1940 and 1941. /30 Even as late as March 1942, at least one officially authorized Zionist "kibbutz" training camp for potential emigrants continued to operate in Hitler's Germany. /31
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Perhaps John Mann needs to reconsider his actions of earlier today (April 28) – along with all those who accused Livingstone of “rewriting history” when he really was simply quoting it. It shows that in order to find out who controls your nation , learn whom one dare not critisise
From Wikeopeada
The Haavara Agreement was an agreement between Nazi Germany and Zionist German Jews signed on 25 August 1933.Also from with more objective information
The agreement was finalized after three months of talks by the Zionist Federation of Germany, the Anglo-Palestine Bank (under the directive of the Jewish Agency) and the economic authorities of Nazi Germany.
The agreement was designed to help facilitate the emigration of German Jews to Palestine.
While it helped Jews emigrate, it forced them to temporarily give up possessions to Germany before departing. Those possessions could later be re-obtained by transferring them to Palestine as German export goods.
The agreement was controversial at the time, and was criticised by many Jewish leaders both within the Zionist movement and outside it.
Hitler’s own support of the Haavara Agreement was unclear and varied throughout the 1930s.
Initially, Hitler criticized the agreement, but reversed his opinion and supported it in the period 1937-1939.
Zionism and the Third Reich
by Mark Weber
Early in 1935, a passenger ship bound for Haifa in Palestine left the German port of Bremerhaven. Its stern bore the Hebrew letters for its name, "Tel Aviv," while a swastika banner fluttered from the mast. And although the ship was Zionist-owned, its captain was a National Socialist Party member. Many years later a traveler aboard the ship recalled this symbolic combination as a "metaphysical absurdity."/1 Absurd or not, this is but one vignette from a little-known chapter of history: The wide-ranging collaboration between Zionism and Hitler's Third Reich.
Common Aims
Over the years, people in many different countries have wrestled with the "Jewish question": that is, what is the proper role of Jews in non-Jewish society? During the 1930s, Jewish Zionists and German National Socialists shared similar views on how to deal with this perplexing issue. They agreed that Jews and Germans were distinctly different nationalities, and that Jews did not belong in Germany. Jews living in the Reich were therefore to be regarded not as "Germans of the Jewish faith," but rather as members of a separate national community. Zionism (Jewish nationalism) also implied an obligation by Zionist Jews to resettle in Palestine, the "Jewish homeland." They could hardly regard themselves as sincere Zionists and simultaneously claim equal rights in Germany or any other "foreign" country.
Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), the founder of modern Zionism, maintained that anti-Semitism is not an aberration, but a natural and completely understandable response by non-Jews to alien Jewish behavior and attitudes. The only solution, he argued, is for Jews to recognize reality and live in a separate state of their own. "The Jewish question exists wherever Jews live in noticeable numbers," he wrote in his most influential work, The Jewish State. "Where it does not exist, it is brought in by arriving Jews ... I believe I understand anti-Semitism, which is a very complex phenomenon. I consider this development as a Jew, without hate or fear." The Jewish question, he maintained, is not social or religious. "It is a national question. To solve it we must, above all, make it an international political issue ..." Regardless of their citizenship, Herzl insisted, Jews constitute not merely a religious community, but a nationality, a people, a Volk. /2 Zionism, wrote Herzl, offered the world a welcome "final solution of the Jewish question."/3
Six months after Hitler came to power, the Zionist Federation of Germany (by far the largest Zionist group in the country) submitted a detailed memorandum to the new government that reviewed German-Jewish relations and formally offered Zionist support in "solving" the vexing "Jewish question." The first step, it suggested, had to be a frank recognition of fundamental national differences: /4
Zionism has no illusions about the difficulty of the Jewish condition, which consists above all in an abnormal occupational pattern and in the fault of an intellectual and moral posture not rooted in one's own tradition. Zionism recognized decades ago that as a result of the assimilationist trend, symptoms of deterioration were bound to appear ...The Federation's paper, the Jüdische Rundschau ("Jewish Review"), proclaimed the same message: "Zionism recognizes the existence of a Jewish problem and desires a far-reaching and constructive solution. For this purpose Zionism wishes to obtain the assistance of all peoples, whether pro- or anti-Jewish, because, in its view, we are dealing here with a concrete rather than a sentimental problem, the solution of which all peoples are interested."/5 A young Berlin rabbi, Joachim Prinz, who later settled in the United States and became head of the American Jewish Congress, wrote in his 1934 book, Wir Juden ("We Jews"), that the National Socialist revolution in Germany meant "Jewry for the Jews." He explained: "No subterfuge can save us now. In place of assimilation we desire a new concept: recognition of the Jewish nation and Jewish race." /6
Zionism believes that the rebirth of the national life of a people, which is now occurring in Germany through the emphasis on its Christian and national character, must also come about in the Jewish national group. For the Jewish people, too, national origin, religion, common destiny and a sense of its uniqueness must be of decisive importance in the shaping of its existence. This means that the egotistical individualism of the liberal era must be overcome and replaced with a sense of community and collective responsibility ...
We believe it is precisely the new [National Socialist] Germany that can, through bold resoluteness in the handling of the Jewish question, take a decisive step toward overcoming a problem which, in truth, will have to be dealt with by most European peoples ...
Our acknowledgment of Jewish nationality provides for a clear and sincere relationship to the German people and its national and racial realities. Precisely because we do not wish to falsify these fundamentals, because we, too, are against mixed marriage and are for maintaining the purity of the Jewish group and reject any trespasses in the cultural domain, we -- having been brought up in the German language and German culture -- can show an interest in the works and values of German culture with admiration and internal sympathy ...
For its practical aims, Zionism hopes to be able to win the collaboration of even a government fundamentally hostile to Jews, because in dealing with the Jewish question not sentimentalities are involved but a real problem whose solution interests all peoples and at the present moment especially the German people ...
Boycott propaganda -- such as is currently being carried on against Germany in many ways -- is in essence un-Zionist, because Zionism wants not to do battle but to convince and to build ...
We are not blind to the fact that a Jewish question exists and will continue to exist. From the abnormal situation of the Jews severe disadvantages result for them, but also scarcely tolerable conditions for other peoples.
Active Collaboration
On this basis of their similar ideologies about ethnicity and nationhood, National Socialists and Zionists worked together for what each group believed was in its own national interest. As a result, the Hitler government vigorously supported Zionism and Jewish emigration to Palestine from 1933 until 1940-1941, when the Second World War prevented extensive collaboration.
Even as the Third Reich became more entrenched, many German Jews, probably a majority, continued to regard themselves, often with considerable pride, as Germans first. Few were enthusiastic about pulling up roots to begin a new life in far-away Palestine. Nevertheless, more and more German Jews turned to Zionism during this period. Until late 1938, the Zionist movement flourished in Germany under Hitler. The circulation of the Zionist Federation's bi-weekly Jüdische Rundschau grew enormously. Numerous Zionist books were published. "Zionist work was in full swing" in Germany during those years, the Encyclopaedia Judaica notes. A Zionist convention held in Berlin in 1936 reflected "in its composition the vigorous party life of German Zionists."/7
The SS was particularly enthusiastic in its support for Zionism. An internal June 1934 SS position paper urged active and wide-ranging support for Zionism by the government and the Party as the best way to encourage emigration of Germany's Jews to Palestine. This would require increased Jewish self-awareness. Jewish schools, Jewish sports leagues, Jewish cultural organizations -- in short, everything that would encourage this new consciousness and self-awareness - should be promoted, the paper recommended. /8
SS officer Leopold von Mildenstein and Zionist Federation official Kurt Tuchler toured Palestine together for six months to assess Zionist development there. Based on his firsthand observations, von Mildenstein wrote a series of twelve illustrated articles for the important Berlin daily Der Angriff that appeared in late 1934 under the heading "A Nazi Travels to Palestine." The series expressed great admiration for the pioneering spirit and achievements of the Jewish settlers. Zionist self-development, von Mildenstein wrote, had produced a new kind of Jew. He praised Zionism as a great benefit for both the Jewish people and the entire world. A Jewish homeland in Palestine, he wrote in his concluding article, "pointed the way to curing a centuries-long wound on the body of the world: the Jewish question." Der Angriff issued a special medal, with a Swastika on one side and a Star of David on the other, to commemorate the joint SS-Zionist visit. A few months after the articles appeared, von Mildenstein was promoted to head the Jewish affairs department of the SS security service in order to support Zionist migration and development more effectively. /9
The official SS newspaper, Das Schwarze Korps, proclaimed its support for Zionism in a May 1935 front-page editorial: "The time may not be too far off when Palestine will again be able to receive its sons who have been lost to it for more than a thousand years. Our good wishes, together with official goodwill, go with them."/10 Four months later, a similar article appeared in the SS paper: /11
The recognition of Jewry as a racial community based on blood and not on religion leads the German government to guarantee without reservation the racial separateness of this community. The government finds itself in complete agreement with the great spiritual movement within Jewry, the so-called Zionism, with its recognition of the solidarity of Jewry around the world and its rejection of all assimilationist notions. On this basis, Germany undertakes measures that will surely play a significant role in the future in the handling of the Jewish problem around the world.A leading German shipping line began direct passenger liner service from Hamburg to Haifa, Palestine, in October 1933 providing "strictly kosher food on its ships, under the supervision of the Hamburg rabbinate." /12
With official backing, Zionists worked tirelessly to "reeducate" Germany's Jews. As American historian Francis Nicosia put it in his 1985 survey, The Third Reich and the Palestine Question: "Zionists were encouraged to take their message to the Jewish community, to collect money, to show films on Palestine and generally to educate German Jews about Palestine. There was considerable pressure to teach Jews in Germany to cease identifying themselves as Germans and to awaken a new Jewish national identity in them." /13
In an interview after the war, the former head of the Zionist Federation of Germany, Dr. Hans Friedenthal, summed up the situation: "The Gestapo did everything in those days to promote emigration, particularly to Palestine. We often received their help when we required anything from other authorities regarding preparations for emigration." /14
At the September 1935 National Socialist Party Congress, the Reichstag adopted the so-called "Nuremberg laws" that prohibited marriages and sexual relations between Jews and Germans and, in effect, proclaimed the Jews an alien minority nationality. A few days later the Zionist Jüdische Rundschau editorially welcomed the new measures: /15
Germany ... is meeting the demands of the World Zionist Congress when it declares the Jews now living in Germany to be a national minority. Once the Jews have been stamped a national minority it is again possible to establish normal relations between the German nation and Jewry. The new laws give the Jewish minority in Germany its own cultural life, its own national life. In future it will be able to shape its own schools, its own theatre, and its own sports associations. In short, it can create its own future in all aspects of national life ...Georg Kareski, the head of both the "Revisionist" Zionist State Organization and the Jewish Cultural League, and former head of the Berlin Jewish Community, declared in an interview with the Berlin daily Der Angriff at the end of 1935: /16
Germany has given the Jewish minority the opportunity to live for itself, and is offering state protection for this separate life of the Jewish minority: Jewry's process of growth into a nation will thereby be encouraged and a contribution will be made to the establishment of more tolerable relations between the two nations.
For many years I have regarded a complete separation of the cultural affairs of the two peoples [Jews and Germans] as a pre-condition for living together without conflict... I have long supported such a separation, provided it is founded on respect for the alien nationality. The Nuremberg Laws ... seem to me, apart from their legal provisions, to conform entirely with this desire for a separate life based on mutual respect... This interruption of the process of dissolution in many Jewish communities, which had been promoted through mixed marriages, is therefore, from a Jewish point of view, entirely welcome.Zionist leaders in other countries echoed these views. Stephen S. Wise, president of the American Jewish Congress and the World Jewish Congress, told a New York rally in June 1938: "I am not an American citizen of the Jewish faith, I am a Jew... Hitler was right in one thing. He calls the Jewish people a race and we are a race." /17
The Interior Ministry's Jewish affairs specialist, Dr. Bernhard Lösener, expressed support for Zionism in an article that appeared in a November 1935 issue of the official Reichsverwaltungsblatt: /18
If the Jews already had their own state in which the majority of them were settled, then the Jewish question could be regarded as completely resolved today, also for the Jews themselves. The least amount of opposition to the ideas underlying the Nuremberg Laws have been shown by the Zionists, because they realize at once that these laws represent the only correct solution for the Jewish people as well. For each nation must have its own state as the outward expression of its particular nationhood.In cooperation with the German authorities, Zionist groups organized a network of some forty camps and agricultural centers throughout Germany where prospective settlers were trained for their new lives in Palestine. Although the Nuremberg Laws forbid Jews from displaying the German flag, Jews were specifically guaranteed the right to display the blue and white Jewish national banner. The flag that would one day be adopted by Israel was flown at the Zionist camps and centers in Hitler's Germany. /19
Himmler's security service cooperated with the Haganah, the Zionist underground military organization in Palestine. The SS agency paid Haganah official Feivel Polkes for information about the situation in Palestine and for help in directing Jewish emigration to that country. Meanwhile, the Haganah was kept well informed about German plans by a spy it managed to plant in the Berlin headquarters of the SS. /20 Haganah-SS collaboration even included secret deliveries of German weapons to Jewish settlers for use in clashes with Palestinian Arabs. /21
In the aftermath of the November 1938 "Kristallnacht" outburst of violence and destruction, the SS quickly helped the Zionist organization to get back on its feet and continue its work in Germany, although now under more restricted supervision. /22
Official Reservations
German support for Zionism was not unlimited. Government and Party officials were very mindful of the continuing campaign by powerful Jewish communities in the United States, Britain and other countries to mobilize "their" governments and fellow citizens against Germany. As long as world Jewry remained implacably hostile toward National Socialist Germany, and as long as the great majority of Jews around the world showed little eagerness to resettle in the Zionist "promised land," a sovereign Jewish state in Palestine would not really "solve" the international Jewish question. Instead, German officials reasoned, it would immeasurably strengthen this dangerous anti-German campaign. German backing for Zionism was therefore limited to support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine under British control, not a sovereign Jewish state. /23
A Jewish state in Palestine, the Foreign Minister informed diplomats in June 1937, would not be in Germany's interest because it would not be able to absorb all Jews around the world, but would only serve as an additional power base for international Jewry, in much the same way as Moscow served as a base for international Communism. /24 Reflecting something of a shift in official policy, the German press expressed much greater sympathy in 1937 for Palestinian Arab resistance to Zionist ambitions, at a time when tension and conflict between Jews and Arabs in Palestine was sharply increasing. /25
A Foreign Office circular bulletin of June 22, 1937, cautioned that in spite of support for Jewish settlement in Palestine, "it would nevertheless be a mistake to assume that Germany supports the formation of a state structure in Palestine under some form of Jewish control. In view of the anti-German agitation of international Jewry, Germany cannot agree that the formation of a Palestine Jewish state would help the peaceful development of the nations of the world."/26 "The proclamation of a Jewish state or a Jewish-administrated Palestine," warned an internal memorandum by the Jewish affairs section of the SS, "would create for Germany a new enemy, one that would have a deep influence on developments in the Near East." Another SS agency predicted that a Jewish state "would work to bring special minority protection to Jews in every country, therefore giving legal protection to the exploitation activity of world Jewry."/27 In January 1939, Hitler's new Foreign Minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop, likewise warned in another circular bulletin that "Germany must regard the formation of a Jewish state as dangerous" because it "would bring an international increase in power to world Jewry." /28
Hitler himself personally reviewed this entire issue in early 1938 and, in spite of his long-standing skepticism of Zionist ambitions and misgivings that his policies might contribute to the formation of a Jewish state, decided to support Jewish migration to Palestine even more vigorously. The prospect of ridding Germany of its Jews, he concluded, outweighed the possible dangers. /29
Meanwhile, the British government imposed ever more drastic restrictions on Jewish immigration into Palestine in 1937, 1938 and 1939. In response, the SS security service concluded a secret alliance with the clandestine Zionist agency Mossad le-Aliya Bet to smuggle Jews illegally into Palestine. As a result of this intensive collaboration, several convoys of ships succeeded in reaching Palestine past British gunboats. Jewish migration, both legal and illegal, from Germany (including Austria) to Palestine increased dramatically in 1938 and 1939. Another 10,000 Jews were scheduled to depart in October 1939, but the outbreak of war in September brought the effort to an end. All the same, German authorities continued to promote indirect Jewish emigration to Palestine during 1940 and 1941. /30 Even as late as March 1942, at least one officially authorized Zionist "kibbutz" training camp for potential emigrants continued to operate in Hitler's Germany. /31
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