BTW, the audio of Himmler reciting this extremely moralistic speech (apparently in the uncoxian belief that moral language would move his audience) is here: http://www.holocaust-history.org/himmler-poznan/himmler-poznan-large.mov
Good God, Himmler was ugly. It seems that being aryan does not involve having a chin.
--- On Thu, 7/30/09, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] The Moral Case for Health Care
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Thursday, July 30, 2009, 6:42 AM
> --- On Thu, 7/30/09, C W Sedley
> <cwsedley at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Himmler
> > praised the
> > SS men who sensed that it was wrong to comit genocide
> but
> > who overcame
> > their own resistance and did their historical duty.
> He
> > thought this
> > was evidence of their racial superiority.
>
>
> Indeed he did:
>
> I am talking about the "Jewish evacuation": the
> extermination of the Jewish people.
>
> It is one of those things that is easily said. "The Jewish
> people is being exterminated," every Party member will tell
> you, "perfectly clear, it's part of our plans, we're
> eliminating the Jews, exterminating them, ha!, a small
> matter."
>
> And then along they all come, all the 80 million upright
> Germans, and each one has his decent Jew. They say: all the
> others are swine, but here is a first-class Jew.
>
> And none of them has seen it, has endured it. Most of you
> will know what it means when 100 bodies lie together, when
> there are 500, or when there are 1000. And to have seen this
> through, and -- with the exception of human weaknesses -- to
> have remained decent, has made us hard and is a page of
> glory never mentioned and never to be mentioned.
>
> Because we know how difficult things would be, if today in
> every city during the bomb attacks, the burdens of war and
> the privations, we still had Jews as secret saboteurs,
> agitators and instigators. We would probably be at the same
> stage as 1916-17, if the Jews still resided in the body of
> the German people.
>
> We have taken away the riches that they had, and I have
> given a strict order, which Obergruppenführer Pohl has
> carried out, we have delivered these riches completely to
> the Reich, to the State. We have taken nothing from them for
> ourselves. A few, who have offended against this, will be
> [judged] in accordance with an order, that I gave at the
> beginning: He who takes even one Mark of this is a dead man.
>
>
> A number of SS men have offended against this order. There
> are not very many, and they will be dead men - WITHOUT
> MERCY! We have the moral right, we had the duty to our
> people to do it, to kill this people who wanted to kill us.
> But we do not have the right to enrich ourselves with even
> one fur, with one Mark, with one cigarette, with one watch,
> with anything. That we do not have. Because at the end of
> this, we don't want, because we exterminated the bacillus,
> to become sick and die from the same bacillus.
>
> I will never see it happen, that even one bit of
> putrefaction comes in contact with us, or takes root in us.
> On the contrary, where it might try to take root, we will
> burn it out together. But altogether we can say: We have
> carried out this most difficult task for the love of our
> people. And we have taken on no defect within us, in our
> soul, or in our character.
>
> http://www.holocaust-history.org/himmler-poznan/speech-text.shtml
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