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party of misogynists, who regarded a woman only as a machine for making children, or else as a plaything. That's far from being the case. I
attached a lot of importance to women in the field of the training of
youth, and that of good works. In 1924 we had a sudden upsurge of women
who were attracted by politics: Frau von Treuenfels and Matilde von
Kemnitz. They wanted to join the Reichstag, in order to raise the moral
level of that body, so they said. I told them that 90 per cent of the
matters dealt with by parliament were masculine affairs, on which they
could not have opinions of any value. They rebelled against this point
of view, but I shut their mouths by saying: "You will not claim that you
know men as I know women." A man who shouts is not a handsome sight. But
if it's a woman, it's terribly shocking. The more she uses her lungs,
the more strident her voice becomes. There she is, ready to pull hair
out, with all her claws showing. In short, gallantry forbids one to give
women an opportunity of putting themselves in situations that do not
suit them. Everything that entails combat is exclusively men's business.
There are so many other fields in which one must rely upon women.
Organising a house, for example. Few men have Frau Troost's talent in
matters concerning interior decoration. There were four women whom I
give star roles: Frau Troost, Frau Wagner, Frau Scholtz-Klink and Leni Riefenstahl.

The Americans are admirable at mass-production, when it's a question of producing a single model repeated without variation in a great number of copies. That's lucky for us, for their tanks are proving unusable. We
could wish them to build another sixty thousand this year. I don't
believe in miracles, and I'm convinced that when they come along with
their twenty-eight-tonners and sixty-tonners, the smallest of our tanks
will outclass them.

They have some people there who scent an economic crisis far surpassing
that of 1929. When one has no substitute product for materials like
copper, for example, one is soon at the end of one's tether." [pages
251-252]

REDUCTIO AD HITLERUM AS IDEA #153 - 20 FEBRUARY 1942: "THE SPIRIT IN PERIL—THE OBSERVATORY AT LINZ—THE FIGHT AGAINST FALSEHOOD, SUPERSTITION
AND INTOLERANCE—SCIENCE IS NOT DOGMATIC—THE WORKS OF HÖRBIGER—PAVE THE WAY FOR MEN OF TALENT.

The biretta!

The mere sight of one of these abortions in cassocks makes me wild!

Man has been given his brain to think with. But if he has the misfortune
to make use of it, he finds a swarm of black bugs on his heels. The mind
is doomed to the auto-da-fé.

The observatory I'll have built at Linz, on the Pöstlingberg, I can see
it in my mind. A façade of quite classical purity. I'll have the pagan
temple razed to the ground, and the observatory will take its place.
Thus, in future, thousands of excursionists will make a pilgrimage there
every Sunday. They'll thus have access to the greatness of our universe.
The pediment will bear this motto: "The heavens proclaim the glory of
the everlasting". It will be our way of giving men a religious spirit,
of teaching them humility—but without the priests.

Man seizes hold, here and there, of a few scraps of truth, but he
couldn't rule nature. He must know that, on the contrary, he is
dependent on Creation. And this attitude leads further than the
superstitions maintained by the Church. Christianity is the worst of the regressions that mankind can ever have undergone, and it's the Jew who,
thanks to this diabolic invention, has thrown him back fifteen
centuries. The only thing that would be still worse would be victory for
the Jew through Bolshevism. If Bolshevism triumphed, mankind would lose
the gift of laughter and joy. It would become merely a shapeless mass,
doomed to greyness and despair.

The priests of antiquity were closer to nature, and they sought modestly
for the meaning of things. Instead of that, Christianity promulgates its inconsistent dogmas and imposes them by force. Such a religion carries
within it intolerance and persecution. It's the bloodiest conceivable.
The building of my observatory will cost about twelve millions. The
great planetarium by itself is worth two millions. Ptolemy's one is less expensive.

For Ptolemy, the earth was the centre of the world. That changed with Copernicus. To-day we know that our solar system is merely a solar
system amongst many others. What could we do better than allow the
greatest possible number of people like us to become aware of these marvels?
In any case, we can be grateful to Providence, which causes us to live
to-day rather than three hundred years ago. At every street-corner, in
those days, there was a blazing stake. What a debt we owe to the men who
had the courage—the first to do so—to rebel against lies and
intolerance. The admirable thing is that amongst them were Jesuit Fathers.

In their fight against the Church, the Russians are purely negative. We,
on the other hand, should practise the cult of the heroes who enabled
humanity to pull itself out of the rut of error. Kepler lived at Linz,
and that's why I chose Linz as the place for our observatory. His mother
was accused of witch- craft and was tortured several times by the
Inquisition.

To open the eyes of simple people, there's no better method of
instruction than the picture. Put a small telescope in a village, and
you destroy a world of superstitions. One must destroy the priest's
argument that science is changeable because faith does not change,
since, when presented in this form, the statement is dishonest.

Of course, poverty of spirit is a precious safeguard for the Church. The initiation of the people must be performed slowly. Instruction can
simplify reality, but it has not the right deliberately to falsify it.
What one teaches the lower level must not be invalidated by what is said
a stage higher. In any case, science must not take on a dogmatic air,
and it must always avoid running away when faced with difficulties. The
contra- dictions are only apparent. When they exist, this is not the
fault of science, but because men have not yet carried their enquiry
far enough.

It was a great step forward, in the days of Ptolemy, to say that the
earth was a sphere and that the stars gravitated around it. Since then
there has been continual progress along the same path. Copernicus first. Copernicus, in his turn, has been largely left behind, and things will
always be so. In our time, Hörbiger has made another step forward.

The universities make me think of the direction of the Wehrmacht's
technical service. Our technicians pass by many discoveries, and when by
chance they again meet one they dis- regarded a few years before, they
take good care not to remind
anyone of their mistake.

At present, science claims that the moon is a projection into space of a fragment of the earth, and that the earth is an emanation of the sun.
The real question is whether the earth came from the sun or whether it
has a tendency to approach it. For me there is no doubt that the
satellite planets are attracted by the planets, just as the latter are themselves attracted by a fixed point, the sun. Since there is no such
thing as a vacuum, it is possible that the planets' speed of rotation
and movement may grow slower. Thus it is not impossible, for example,
that Mars may one day be a satellite of the Earth.

Hörbiger considers a point of detail in all this. He declares that the
element which we call water is in reality merely melted ice (instead of
ice's being frozen water) : what is found in the universe is ice, and
not water. This theory amounted to a revolution, and everybody rebelled
against Hörbiger.

Science has a lot of difficulty in imposing its views, because it is
constantly grappling with the spirit of routine. The fact is, men do not
wish to know. In the last few years, the situation of science has improved.

It's a piece of luck when men are found at the head of a State who are
inclined to favour bold researches—for these latter are rarely supported
and encouraged by official science.

There's no greater privilege, in my view, than to play the part of a
patron of the arts or the sciences. Men would certainly have regarded it
as a vast honour to be allowed to encourage the career of a man like
Richard Wagner. Well, it's already a great deal gained that people like
him are no longer burned alive! One sometimes hears it regretted that
our period does not provide geniuses of the same stature as those of
bygone times. That's a mistake. These geniuses exist; it would be enough
to encourage them. For my part, when I know that a scientist wishes to
devote himself to new researches, I help him. I shall not cease to think
that the most precious possession a country can have is its great men.
If I think of Bismarck, I realise that only those who have lived through
1918 could fully appreciate his worth. One sees by such examples how
much it would mean if we could make the road smooth for men of talent.

It's only in the realm of music that I can find no satisfaction. The
same thing is happening to music as is happening to beauty in a world
dominated by the shavelings—the Christian religion is an enemy to
beauty. The Jew has brought off the same trick upon music. He has
created a new inversion of values and replaced the loveliness of music
by noises. Surely the Athenian, when he entered the Parthenon to
contemplate the image of Zeus, must have had another impression than the Christian who must resign himself to contemplating the grimacing face of
a man crucified.
Since my fourteenth year I have felt liberated from the superstition
that the priests used to teach. Apart from a few Holy Joes, I can say
that none of my comrades went on *BELIEVING* *IN* *THE* *MIRACLE* *OF*
*THE* *EUCHARIST*.

The only difference between then and now is that in those days I was
convinced one must blow up the whole show with dynamite." [Page 322-325]

REDUCTIO AD HITLERUM AS IDEA #227 - 29? MAY 1942: "LOLA MONTEZ AND
LUDWIG I OF BAVARIA—HOSTILITY OF THE CHURCH—PERSONALITY OF LUDWIG I—RESPECT FOR RACIAL CHARACTERISTICS.

On a proposal by Dr. Göbbels to produce a film of LOLA MONTEZ. I welcome
the idea, but you must take care that neither the fate of this woman nor
the personality of King Ludwig I of Bavaria is in any way distorted.

Lola Montez had nothing in common with the dancers of our times,
strip-tease artists, but was a woman of exceptional intelligence with
wide experience of the world. She was, too, a woman of character, as is
shown by the way she resisted the Catholic Church and, in spite of
enormous pressure, refused to kow-tow to it.

As regards the personality of Ludwig I, you must be careful, too, not to portray him as first and foremost a "skirt-chaser" (Schürzenjäger). He
was in every sense a great man, and was the finest architect of his time
in Europe. The idea and execution of the Valhalla Building alone show
him to have been a monarch whose vision stretched far beyond the
confines of his own petty State and embraced the whole pan-German
panorama. Apart from that, we have to thank him for having given, in the
city of Munich, a magnificent art centre to the German
nation.

That he is nevertheless one of the most controversial figures among the
Kings of Bavaria is attributable to the fact that the Church never
ceased to harry him. The attacks of the latter on Lola Montez were only
a pretext, and it was in reality the strong liberal tendencies of the
King at which the attacks were aimed.

You must not, therefore, represent Ludwig I as a King of the Viennese
charm school, something after the style of Paul Hörbiger, but rather as
a worthy monarch, and I think Kayssler is the best man for the role.

While respecting their racial characteristics, I have, in the interests
of the Reich, divided my Austrian homeland into a series of Alpine and
Danubian provinces. I have decided to act in the same way as regards
other portions of the Reich. I shall not, for example, permit that West Friesland continue to form part of Holland, for these West Frieslanders
are of exactly the same race as the people of East Friesland and must, therefore, be united with them within a single Province.” [pages 505-506]

REDUCTIO AD HITLERUM AS IDEA #277 - 4 AUGUST 1942: "MEMORIES OF THE
FIRST WAR—THE LACE WORKERS OF BELGIUM— YPRES AND LÜBECK.

When we went into the line in 1916, to the south of Bapaume, the heat
was intolerable. As we marched through the streets, there was not a
house, not a tree to be seen; everything had been destroyed, and even
the grass had been burnt. It was a veritable wilderness.

In the present campaign I got my greatest surprise when I revisited
Arras. In the old days it was just a mound of earth. And now— —! Fields filled with blossom and waving corn, while on Vimy Ridge the scars are
much as they were, shell- holes and all. I believe it is much the same
in the Champagne.

The soldier has a boundless affection for the ground on which he has
shed his blood. If we could arrange the transport, we should have a
million people pouring into France to revisit the scenes of their former struggle.

Marching along the roads was a misery for us poor old infantrymen; again
and again we were driven off the road by the bloody gunners, and again
and again we had to dive into the swamps to save our skins! All the
thanks we got was a torrent of curses—"Bloody So-and-Sos" was the
mildest expression hurled at us.

My first impression of Ypres was—towers, so near that I could all but
touch them. But the little infantryman in his hole in the ground has a
very small field of vision.

I shall send our people who have been given the task of rebuilding
Lübeck to Ypres before they start work. Fifty different shades of tiles,
from salmon-pink, through gold to deep violet! The new Ypres is a city
out of fairyland!

In those days the girls making lace always sat working out- side the
houses, surrounded, of course, by a horde of soldiery. But at least they
were able to buy and send home genuine Flemish lace and the embroidery
of Brabant.

If a soldier in France buys chocolate or a pair of stockings for his
wife, I agree absolutely with the Reichsmarshall; we did not start the
war, and if the French population have got nothing, what the blazes does
it matter to us!

I wish to goodness we could buy something here. But here there is
nothing but mud.” [pages 609-610]

REDUCTIO AD HITLERUM AS IDEA #303 - 28 AUGUST 1942: "SKY-SCRAPERS—THEIR VULNERABILITY TO AIR ATTACK—ANTI- AIRCRAFT DEFENCE—NEW ARTILLERY WEAPONS—LEARNING WHILE FACING THE ENEMY.

Some German towns must be protected at all costs—Weimar, Nuremberg, Stuttgart. Factories can always be rebuilt, but works of art are
irreplaceable.

Multi-storeyed houses are reasonably safe against a direct hit from a
bomb, but not against the subsequent blast. A small breeze is enough to
make a sky-scraper sway as much as from forty to eighty centimetres. The
depth of the foundations of some sky-scrapers in New York is as much as
seventy metres, and the driving of the cement foundation demands a
pressure of six or eight thousand hundredweights. An air raid, such as
those against London, would have a devastating effect on New York. It
would be physically impossible to clear the débris, and it is not
possible to build air-raid shelters.

In America, the capitalist conception, based on the gold standard, leads
to many absurdities.

If this war continues for ten years, aircraft will all be flying at a
height of forty thousand feet, and ocean-going traffic will all be
submarine, and the world at large will be free to lead a pleasant
existence. Fights will take place, but they will not be visible; Britain
will lie in ruins; in Germany every man and every woman will belong to
an anti-aircraft crew. With an annual production of six thousand
anti-aircraft guns, every little village in Germany will soon have its
own battery and its own searchlight section, and the whole Reich will be
one single, integrated defence unit. Blinded by the reflection of
mirrors, the enemy pilots will be able to see nothing; if a mirror is
placed at each corner of a five-hundred-metre square, the desired effect
will be obtained. I wonder what people would have thought if I had
spoken of figures of this kind before the war!

The Navy has the most efficient anti-aircraft defences. I have seen
them, and the shooting was magnificent. Thirteen hits for every hundred
shots! This is attributable principally to the fact that the Navy is
taught to shoot accurately from continuously moving platforms. As a
result, their total of 'planes shot down is colossal. The best A.A. gun
is the 8'8. The 10*5 has the disadvantage that it consumes too much
ammunition, and the life of the barrel is very short. Reichsmarschall
Goring is most anxious to continue producing the 12*8. This double-
barrelled i2'8 has a fantastic appearance. When one examines the 8'8
with the eye of a technician, one realises that it is the most beautiful
weapon yet fashioned, with the exception of the
12-8.

With a new type of weapon, much often depends on the hands into which it
is first delivered. If it comes first into clumsy, incapable hands, we
are very liable to write it off. We had that experience, nearly, with
the '34 machine gun. One must never condemn a weapon because one has not
got the hang of how to use it. The '34 machine gun fired consistently,
even in the greatest cold, as soon as we found the right lubricating oil
for it.
The grenade-throwers issued to the Engineers, which were completely
noiseless, were rejected time after time for one reason after another;
and I must say that, every time I poked my nose into a report on the
subject, the reasons given for rejection seemed to me to be, to say the
least of it, very thin.

If one restricts instruction to the essentials, one can teach a soldier
all he requires to know for all practical purposes in three months. The
rest he will learn gradually, with experience. Under war conditions, a
soldier learns more in three months than he learns in a year in
peace-time. Instruction acquired in the face of the enemy cannot be
bettered." [pages 669-670]

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION SEE: "APPENDIX #369 - TRANSCRIPT OF VCAT 500 /
2000 HEARING DATED 7 DECEMBER 2001 CONVEYING MISREPRESENTED TELEPHONE
CALLS AS SERIOUS MATTER REPORTED TO POLICE"

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION SEE: "APPENDIX #425 - COGITO ARRAY / TEMPORAL /
INFUSED IDEA ASSOCIATIONS FOR MISREPRESENTED TELEPHONE CALLS BY
INSURER'S CHIEF LEGAL COUNSEL AT VCAT 500 / 2000 HEARING DATED 7
DECEMBER 2001"

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FOR COMPARATIVE APPROACH SEE: "APPENDIX #911 - TEMPORAL HEURISTIC /
INFUSED IDEAS IN DISTRESSED TELEPHONE CALL @ 0947 HRS ON 11 SEPTEMBER
2001 FROM HIJACKED AIRPLANE PRIOR TO WORLD TRADE CENTRE CRASH"

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