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smashed. The State must remain the absolute master." [pages 143]

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#1270 - FEME CHECKSUM TOTAL: #217 as [#600, #100, #8, #40, #1, #300,
#10, #200, #1, #10] = chrēmatízō (G5537): {UMBRA: #1866 % #41 = #21} 1)
*TO* *TRANSACT* *BUSINESS*, *ESPECIALLY* *TO* *MANAGE* *PUBLIC*
*AFFAIRS*; 1a) to advise or consult with one about public affairs; 1b)
to make answer to those who ask for advice, present enquiries or
requests, etc.; 1b1) of judges, magistrates, rulers, kings; 1c) to give
a response to those consulting an oracle, to give a divine command or admonition, to teach from heaven; 1c1) to be divinely commanded,
admonished, instructed; 1c2) to be the *MOUTHPIECE* *OF* *DIVINE* *REVELATIONS*, to promulgate the commands of God; 1d) to assume or take
to one's self a name from one's public business; 1d1) to receive a name
or title, be called;

REDUCTIO AD HITLERUM AS IDEA #126 - 26 JANUARY 1942: "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." [page 252]

#385 - ONTIC CHECKSUM TOTAL: #182 as [#5, #200, #100, #10, #70] =
râqîyaʻ (H7549): {UMBRA: #380 % #41 = #11} 1) extended surface (solid), expanse, firmament; 1a) expanse (flat as base, support); 1b) *FIRMAMENT*
(*OF* *VAULT* *OF* *HEAVEN* *SUPPORTING* *WATERS* *ABOVE*); 1b1)
considered by Hebrews as solid and supporting 'waters' above;

REDUCTIO AD HITLERUM AS IDEA #153 - 20 FEBRUARY 1942: "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.” [Page 322]

#657 - MALE CHECKSUM TOTAL: #227 as [#30, #9, #6, #2, #10, #600] = ṭôwb (H2896): {UMBRA: #17 % #41 = #17} 1) good, pleasant, agreeable; 1a)
pleasant, agreeable (to the senses); 1b) pleasant (to the higher
nature); 1c) good, excellent (of its kind); 1d) good, rich, valuable in estimation; 1e) good, appropriate, becoming; 1f) better (comparative);
1g) glad, happy, *PROSPEROUS* (*OF* *MAN’S* *SENSUOUS* *NATURE*); 1h)
*GOOD* *UNDERSTANDING* (*OF* *MAN’S* *INTELLECTUAL* *NATURE*); 1i) good, kind, benign; 1j) good, right (ethical); 2) a good thing, benefit,
welfare; 2a) welfare, prosperity, happiness; 2b) good things
(collective); 2c) good, benefit; 2d) moral good; 3) welfare, benefit,
good things; 3a) welfare, prosperity, happiness; 3b) good things
(collective); 3c) bounty;

REDUCTIO AD HITLERUM AS IDEA #227 - 29? MAY 1942: "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.

#217 as [#2, #1, #4, #10, #200] = ʼaddîyr (H117): {UMBRA: #215 % #41 =
#10} 1) *GREAT*, majestic; 1a) of waters of sea; 1b) of a tree; 1c) of
*KINGS*, *NATIONS*, gods; 2) great one, majestic one; 2a) of *NOBLES*, *CHIEFTAINS*, *SERVANTS*;

#217 as [#2, #10, #200, #5] = bîyrâh (H1002): {UMBRA: #217 % #41 = #12}
1) palace, castle; 2) *TEMPLE*;

#751 - MALE CHECKSUM TOTAL: #227 as [#40, #200, #1, #10, #500] = marʼeh (H4758): {UMBRA: #246 % #41 = #41} 1) sight, appearance, vision; 1a)
sight, phenomenon, spectacle, appearance, vision; 1b) what is seen; 1c)
a vision (supernatural); 1d) sight, *VISION* (*POWER* *OF* *SEEING*);

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 WALHALLA 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.” [page 505]

#788 - MALE CHECKSUM TOTAL: #227 as [#40, #200, #8, #40, #500] = râcham (H7355): {UMBRA: #248 % #41 = #2} 1) to love, love deeply, have mercy,
be compassionate, have tender *AFFECTION*, have compassion; 1a) (Qal) to
love; 1b) (Piel); 1b1) to have compassion, be compassionate; i) of God,
man; 1b2) (Pual) to be shown compassion, be compassionate;

#622 - FEME CHECKSUM TOTAL: #217 as [#1, #10, #40, #1, #300, #70, #200]
= haîma (G129): {UMBRA: #52 % #41 = #11} 1) *BLOOD*; 1a) of man or
animals; 1b) refers to the seat of life; 1c) of those things that
resemble blood, grape juice; 2) blood shed, to be shed by violence,
slay, murder;

REDUCTIO AD HITLERUM AS IDEA #277 - 4 AUGUST 1942: "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.” [page 609]

#114 - ONTIC CHECKSUM TOTAL: #182 as [#50, #1, #50, #8, #5] = ʼânach
(H584): {UMBRA: #59 % #41 = #18} 1) (Niphal) sigh, *GROAN* (*IN* *PAIN*
*OR* *GRIEF*), gasp; 1a) moan (of cattle);

#320 - MALE CHECKSUM TOTAL: #227 as [#10, #300, #6, #4] = shûwd (H7736): {UMBRA: #310 % #41 = #23} 1) (Qal) to ruin, *DESTROY*, *SPOIL*, *DEVASTATE*;

APPRAISAL #1: The pool so deep and broad (淵潢洋)
Cradles all sides in darkness. (包無方冥)
FATHOMING #1: The deep, broad pool (淵潢洋)
MEANS: It envelops an infinity of things. (資裹無方也)

bāo (包): 1. to wrap; to pack, 2. bundle; package, 3. package in a programming language, 4. a package; a bag, 5. a sack; a bag, 6. baozi; a
steam bun with filling, 7. a lump; swelling, 8. to contain; to include,
9. to take full responsibility for a task, 10. to ensure; to guarantee,
11. *TO* *HIRE*; *TO* *CONTRACT*, 12. to encircle, 13. to grow densely,
14. Bao, 15. to hide, 16. to designate for a special purpose, 17. a yurt

wú (無): 1. no, 2. Kangxi radical 71, 3. to not have; without, 4. has not yet, 5. mo, 6. do not, 7. not; -less; un-, 8. regardless of, 9. to not
have, 10. um, 11. Wu

fāng (方): 1. square; quadrilateral; one side, 2. Fang, 3. Kangxi radical
70, 4. measure word for square things, 5. square shaped, 6.
prescription, 7. power; involution; abbreviation for a square meter or
cubic meter, 8. local, 9. a way; a method, 10. at the time when; just
when, 11. only; just, 12. a direction; a side; a position, 13. an area;
a region, 14. a party; a side, 15. *A* *PRINCIPLE*; *A* *FORMULA*, 16.
honest; upright; proper, 17. magic, 18. earth, 19. earthly; mundane, 20.
a scope; an aspect, 21. side-by-side; parallel, 22. agreeable; equable,
23. about to, 24. equal; equivalent, 25. to compare, 26. a wooden tablet
for writing, 27. a convention; a common practice, 28. *A* *LAW*; *A* *STANDARD*, 29. *TO* *OWN*; *TO* *POSSESS*, 30. to disobey; to violate,
31. *TO* *SLANDER*; *TO* *DEFAME*, 32. beside

míng (冥): 1. dark, 2. profound; deep, 3. *OBSCURE*, 4. the unseen world,
5. Hades

#568 - ONTIC CHECKSUM TOTAL: #182 as [#2, #40, #90, #30, #6, #400] = mᵉtsôwlâh (H4688): {UMBRA: #171 % #41 = #7} 1) *DEPTH*, the deep, the
deep sea;

REDUCTIO AD HITLERUM AS IDEA #303 - 28 AUGUST 1942: "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.” [page 669]

EXPANSIVE TABLE TALK REDUCTIO AD HITLERUM - PART 2

REDUCTIO AD HITLERUM AS IDEA #75 - 13 DECEMBER 1941: "TIME TO SOLVE THE RELIGIOUS PROBLEM—CONDEMNATION OF THE ORGANISED FALSEHOOD—THE SS AND RELIGION—ST. PAUL AND PRE-BOLSHEVISM—PARADISE: ACCORDING TO CHRISTIANS
AND ACCORDING TO MAHOMMEDANS—NEGRO TABUS AND THE EUCHARIST —THE JAPANESE AND RELIGION—MUSSOLINI MAKES A MISTAKE.

The war will be over one day. I shall then consider that my life's final
task will be to solve the religious problem. Only then will the life of
the German native be guaranteed once and for all.

I don't interfere in matters of belief. Therefore I can't allow
churchmen to interfere with temporal affairs. The organised lie must be smashed. The State must remain the absolute master.

When I was younger, I thought it was necessary to set about matters with dynamite. I've since realised that there's room for a little subtlety.
The rotten branch falls of itself. The final state must be: in St.
Peter's Chair, a senile officiant; facing him, a few sinister old women,
as gaga and as poor in spirit as anyone could wish. The young and
healthy are on our side. Against a Church that identifies itself with
the State, as in England, I have nothing to say. But, even so, it's
impossible eternally to hold humanity in bondage with lies. After all,
it was only between the sixth and eighth centuries that Christianity was imposed on our peoples by princes who had an alliance of interests with
the shavelings. Our peoples had previously succeeded in living all right without this religion. I have six divisions of SS composed of men
absolutely indifferent in matters of religion. It doesn't prevent them
from going to their deaths with serenity in their souls.

Christ was an Aryan, and St. Paul used his doctrine to mobilise the
criminal underworld and thus organise a proto-Bolshevism. This intrusion
upon the world marks the end of a long reign, that of the clear
Graeco-Latin genius.

What is this God who takes pleasure only in seeing men grovel before
Him? Try to picture to yourselves the meaning of the following, quite
simple story. God creates the conditions for sin. Later on He succeeds,
with the help of the Devil, in causing man to sin. Then He employs a
virgin to bring into the world a son who, by His death, will redeem
humanity!

I can imagine people being enthusiastic about the paradise of Mahomet,
but as for the insipid paradise of the Christians! In your lifetime, you
used to hear the music of Richard Wagner. After your death, it will be
nothing but hallelujahs, the waving of palms, children of an age for the feeding-bottle, and hoary old men. The man of the isles pays homage to
the forces of nature. But Christianity is an invention of sick brains :
one could imagine nothing more senseless, nor any more indecent way of
turning the idea of the Godhead into a mockery. A negro with his tabus
is crushingly superior to the human being who seriously believes in Transubstantiation.

I begin to lose all respect for humanity when I think that some people
on our side, Ministers or generals, are capable of believing that we
cannot triumph without the blessing of the Church. Such a notion is
excusable in little children who have learnt nothing else.

For thirty years the Germans tore each other to pieces simply in order
to know whether or not they should take Communion in both kinds. There's nothing lower than religious notions like that. From that point of view,
one can envy the Japanese. They have a religion which is very simple and
brings them into contact with nature. They've succeeded even in taking Christianity and turning it into a religion that's less shocking to the intellect.

By what would you have me replace the Christians' picture of the Beyond?
What comes naturally to mankind is the sense of eternity and that sense
is at the bottom of every man. The soul and the mind migrate, just as
the body returns to nature. Thus life is eternally reborn from life. As
for the "why?" of all that, I feel no need to rack my brains on the
subject. The soul is unplumbable.

If there is a God, at the same time as He gives man life He gives him intelligence. By regulating my life according to the understanding that
is granted me, I may be mistaken, but I act in good faith. The concrete
image of the Beyond that religion forces on me does not stand up to examination. Think of those who look down from on high upon what happens
on earth: what a martyrdom for them, to see human beings indefatigably repeating the same gestures, and inevitably the same errors!

In my view, H. S. Chamberlain was mistaken in regarding Christianity as
a reality upon the spiritual level.

Man judges everything in relation to himself. What is bigger than
himself is big, what is smaller is small. Only one thing is certain,
that one is part of the spectacle. Everyone finds his own role. Joy
exists for everybody. I dream of a state of affairs in which every man
would know that he lives and dies for the preservation of the species.
It's our duty to encourage that idea: let the man who distinguishes
himself in the service of the species be thought worthy of the highest
honours.

What a happy inspiration, to have kept the clergy out of the Party! On
the 2ist March 1933, at Potsdam, the question was raised: with the
Church, or without the Church? I conquered the State despite the
malediction pronounced on us by both creeds. On that day, we went
directly to the tomb of the kings whilst the others were visiting
religious services. Supposing that at that period I'd made a pact with
the Churches, I'd to-day be sharing the lot of the Duce. By nature the
Duce is a free- thinker, but he decided to choose the path of
concessions. For my part, in his place I'd have taken the path of
revolution. I'd have entered the Vatican and thrown everybody out—
reserving the right to apologise later: "Excuse me, it was a mistake."
But the result would have been, they'd have been outside!

When all is said, we have no reason to wish that the Italians and
Spaniards should free themselves from the drug of Christianity. Let's be
the only people who are immunised against the disease." [pages 143-145]

REDUCTIO AD HITLERUM AS IDEA #126 - 26 JANUARY 1942: "WOMEN IN POLITICS—AMERICAN METHODS OF PRODUCTION— TOWARDS ANOTHER ECONOMIC CRASH.

I detest women who dabble in politics. And if their dabbling extends to military matters, it becomes utterly unendurable.

In no local section of the Party has a woman ever had the right to hold
even the smallest post. It has therefore often been said that we were a
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

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