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"Die Wirklichkeit ist anders. Ernüchterte USA-Soldaten," Das Reich, 24 December 1944, p. 4.
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Reality is Different:
Disillusioned USA Soldiers
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It has been a year since a widely-read book in the United States complained that American soldiers had difficulty comprehending the seriousness of the war. With the exception of the elite Marines and colonial soldiers in the Pacific and flyers in Europe, the greater part of the American troops were then in barracks at home or in the expeditionary camps in England and North Africa. They spent their time fighting with each other. According to British opinion, they were hopelessly spoiled, and richly provided with the criminal elements of both skin colors. In the bloody battle at Casino and at the bridgehead at Anzio they began to gather bitter experience.
Since 5 June, the Americans are Eisenhower's main force on the western front, and have had to learn what it means to face an enemy with five years of experience in war, and that has a whole people willing to give its all. The Americans were disappointed to learn after the battle in France and the supply difficulties that followed that their enormous amount of supplies did not spare them long and bloody sacrifice. As a sergeant wrote from the western front to his home-town newspaper in distant Oklahoma: "Everything else fades into insignificance next to the dead and wounded. We soldiers here live more closely together than people back home in the States. Suddenly a comrade falls or is wounded. Or one hears that someone whom one has known for years is dead. Just yesterday you were talking about him. Today there was heavy fire. It was a long year."
Politicians and generals told the American soldier that the way back to Texas, Detroit, Washington and Chicago led through Paris and Berlin, but does he see that way? Eisenhower's declarations appeal to the lowest instincts of hatred to hammer into him the purpose of the war against the German people, but either he is a brutal murderer like his Bolshevist allies, or he understands only the half of it. A British war correspondent for the "Times," reporting from General Paton's Mosel front, praised the "battle-steeled Americans," but could not suppress this complaint: "These steel-helmeted imbeciles in their loose jackets must appear undisciplined to British officers and NCOs, since they imitate Churchill and smoke cigars while on duty. The French population is often astonished at their political ignorance and their inability to understand what the Nazis have done for Europe." Has the Englishman who wrote this forgotten the reports of his comrades, who found no evidence along the road from Normandy and Brittany to Paris and Brussels that the Germans had enslaved occupied Europe or starved it? The front soldier, whether American or not, is observant enough to doubt the word of the partisan fighters, who today terrorize their own countrymen. Or will the American soldier learn something about his political education and the democratic "Crusade against Fascism" when he seeks that the American occupation army has to defend with its bayonets the emigré governments it installed against the wrath of starving peoples, and against the vanguard of the Bolshevist dictatorship of the proletariat?
The American soldier had an unpleasant shock last summer when he heard not only from back home, but also from his own military leaders, that the enemy was on the run and that the war in Europe was as good as over. At that moment, the American soldier saw the chasm that separated him from the so-called war morale back home. The majority of them voted for Roosevelt because the president was their supreme commander and made fine demagogic promises about incorporating returning soldiers back into civilian life. But the soldier can also see the contradiction between these government promises and the unavoidable postwar crisis that causes panic for the American people back home.
The October issue of "Fortune" reported: "The American nation is concentrated on war production, and is not yet ready to absorb the victors of tomorrow back into the homeland." Veterans' legislation is incomplete and confusing. Above all, the necessary jobs are not available. With daily growing mistrust, American and British soldiers observe that their rapid return is not desired by their political and economic leaders. The occupation of Germany and the war against Japan provide ways to channel the masses of returning soldiers and postpone their demobilization into the future. The American Marine remains mobile. Plans for a standing army are being made.
The newspaper for the expeditionary troops, "Stars and Stripes," was careless enough to report a private poll taken in the USA, according to which 45% of those surveyed said that the individual soldier should not be released until he had a job. 31% were even opposed to giving returning front soldiers preference for jobs. The resulting storm of protest from soldiers at the front, who by law remain unnamed, demonstrated that American soldiers feel more threatened by such things than by any outward enemy. "Who are these people," one wrote, "who think that we like it over here? They probably don't have any husbands, fathers or brothers overseas. These are the people we are fighting and dying for? They are probably afraid they will lose their well-paid war jobs that they took from us."
Another letter writer: "You people back home want to tell us when we can come back home and take up a normal life. But most of us are only civilians in uniform who are fighting for the right to be civilians again. As civilians we are also businessmen who have not forgotten what stands in black and white in the contract: our old job is guaranteed us within six months of the end of hostilities. What happened to democracy?" A third soldier, one of a dozen no less energetic and striking, has this to say: "Just as it begins to look as if we will return home in the foreseeable future, these dogs back home are squabbling and yapping again. I am 100% in favor that each of them should have the same chance — here at the front."
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"Amerika als Zerrbild europäischer Lebensordnung," Schulungs-Unterlage Nr. 19 (Der Reichsorganisationsleitung der NSDAP., Hauptschulungsamt, 1942).
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America as a Perversion of European Culture
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I. Why did the USA become a warmonger?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office as president in the midst of the worst crisis in the history of the United States. Although he was not responsible for the severe economic crisis he inherited from the Republicans in 1932, he did not have the strength to lead his nation out of its economic crisis. To the contrary. Once he saw that his plans, which went by the name "New Deal," were unfruitful, he decided that the best way out was to drive the Western European powers into a war against Germany. That would first enable him to overcome the economic crisis through war profits, and second to satisfy the stock exchange and armaments Jews.
His election promises forced him to introduce new economic policies to stimulate the economy. Driven by his Jewish advisers, he wasted countless billions in stimulating the economy, but could not end the crisis. Instead, the crisis in the United States intensified after 1936. Once again driven by his Jewish advisers, the only remaining way for Delano Roosevelt to deal with the economic situation was to become a world warmonger.
To prevent a domestic catastrophe, he created a world-wide catastrophe.
The publications of our Foreign Office prove that Delano Roosevelt incessantly incited England and other European states against Germany, hoping to drive them to war and thereby rescue himself.
He really seems to have believed that he could avoid direct involvement in the war.
The other nations were to fight for him, providing America with the economic prosperity he had promised, just as during and after the World War when the reparations payments flowed almost exclusively to America.
And the huge shipments of war supplies to the Western powers would mean big profits for American armaments magnates.
It is also clear that he was unscrupulously planning for the United States to replace England as the leader of the Anglo-Saxon community. Washington was to replace London as the economic center of the Anglo-Saxon world. Washington, already the capital of the United States as well as of the Jews and Free Masons, would become the capital of the world. He has a Messiah Complex, just as his predecessor Woodrow Wilson, in whose administration Roosevelt had served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy.
If his plans had worked out, he would have actually been the Messiah who fulfilled the millennia-old dreams of the Jews, that Ahasver people.
But the bombs at Pearl Harbor upset all the clever plans of this president of catastrophe in the White House.
Until then, no one believed that Japan would dare to go to war with the land of unlimited possibilities. After the German and Italian notes of 11.12.1941, in which both other members of the Three-Power Pact declared war on the USA, the USA for the first time found itself confronted with a two front war, which the American public had always feared. Roosevelt was no longer master of the situation — Pearl Harbor and German submarine warfare made him the prisoner of events.
2. America is no longer master of its economic forces
Roosevelt had been unable to deal with the internal crisis of the United States, even after nearly ten years in the White House. Now the crisis intensified. What the results for the USA will be cannot yet be foreseen. It is clear that the American people are at the end of a particularly fortunate era, during which they were able to live in luxury.
Roosevelt's first problem is to deal with the problems that are coming at him from every side. He had never been able to take the long view of things, but rather has always made his plans from one day to the next. That is not possible in a war. He is the worst sort of amateur. Politically clever, but otherwise weak party politicians of his sort have not been rare, but rather the rule. They all — Roosevelt included — had the luck to govern a land with vast natural resources that should have guaranteed prosperity for all Americans, if only these resources had been used for the common good, not given to a small number of Jewish financial magnates.
For example, the United States should never suffer a shortage of food. The problems developing since it entered the war result from Delano Roosevelt's chaotic policies.
Many of these problems would only result because of the complete failure of Roosevelt's unscrupulous government.
This man is sick in every regard. His infernal hatred against the Duce and the Führer is probably largely the result of his sickness. His boundless ambition is directly related to his difficulties. As the mass press in the United States regularly observes, the president has the firm conviction that he can deal with the world just as he has overcome his illness, through superhuman energy.
He assumed office at the same time as Hitler's seizure of power. From the first days of his presidency, he was overshadowed by the Führer. His New Deal, it is true, attempted to imitate numerous of the Führer's policies. But what led to success by us was condemned to failure in America, because Roosevelt is a man without particular gifts, and because of the particular conditions prevailing in America's model democracy. His plans were not designed for a particular people or race, but rather only for a population consisting of the most varied racial elements from throughout the world. His plans were condemned to failure, for he never had the ability to lead. The only chance was dictatorial measures.
The bizarre vanity of the man in the White House has been seriously wounded, which is why he hates the Führer and the Duce so much. He has the sick wish to destroy Europe's leading personalities.
3. The Jews alone drove President Delano Roosevelt into war.
Roosevelt's bosses while he was developing his war plans were Jews. They incessantly drove the President further along his twisted path. Bullitt, whose criminal actions as special ambassador and confident of the President are proven by the documents, began to spin his web in Warsaw and Paris. Bernard Baruch, once called a speculator by a Senate committee, gave the White House advice on foreign policy. Felix Frankfurter was appointed to the Supreme Court to see to it that Roosevelt's actions were not overturned by the highest court in the United States. Henry Morgenthau, a intimate of America's financial leadership, became Secretary of the Treasury. The New York judge Roseman wrote the president's speeches, which constantly grew more hateful. Secretary of State Hull, himself not a Jew but married to a Jewess, gave press conferences the material to arouse the rest of the world. Finally, the Freemason Roosevelt's clique of Washington Jews involved Poland, France and England in Washington's long-planned policies. The sick warmonger in Washington had reached his goal of unleashing a world-wide conflagration.
But things took a different course than Roosevelt had hoped. In Europe, one of his bastions after another fell, leaving England to fight for its very existence. Washington's arrogance toward Japan resulted in Pearl Harbor, and the notes of 11 December from Germany and Italy. Roosevelt suddenly found himself in a war that he had wanted others to wage, from which he had hoped to get the benefits.
I had repeated opportunities in the weeks after Pearl Harbor to see Roosevelt on the movie screen and hear him over the radio. He was no longer an arrogant president, but rather a broken man with a flat voice who was no longer master of the situation he had brought about. He could not understand what had happened. He had not wanted actual war, but had hoped to keep in the background. He wanted American destroyers to fire on German submarines, but without an open declaration of war. He wanted to slowly and comfortably build up his military, and only then attack us when necessary — perhaps in three to five years. His plans failed. He's probably regained his voice in the meanwhile. But despite his loud voice, his mills are grinding rather slowly. Germany can wait and see what will come from American war production.
Roosevelt's economic mismanagement in God's Country is clear from the problems the United States is currently facing. Since America's wealth means it has no problems with foreign reserves, one certainly would have expected that the warmonger Roosevelt would have stockpiled important raw materials that America lacks, such as rubber and tin. That was not the case. America imported crude rubber from Indonesia, supplies from which were cut off in a few weeks as a result of Japan's conquest. The American public was surprised to learn that its reserves were sufficient only to last to the end of this year. There was a lively discussion in the press, followed by an excited debate in Congress. That could not change the fact that the United States had neither significant rubber plantations in the New World, nor did it have any significant efforts to manufacture synthetic rubber.
And that is only part of the problem. The constant sinkings of American tankers along the East Coast led to fresh problems. The eastern states of the American union, with important industrial and commercial centers such as New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Bethlehem, Pittsburgh, Boston, Detroit, Toledo, and Chicago had been supplied with oil by tankers by sea routes from the south. Our submarines cut these routes. Tankers have been going down regularly for months. Few of us understand the effects our submarine warfare is having. In America, however, people understand clearly what the sinkings along the East Coast mean. It cuts the oil supply to the economically significant East, and creates grave transportation difficulties.
4. As a result of its rapid growth and its tendency to gigantomania, America has become a perversion of European culture.
Although any other country could accept the loss of private automobiles, the people of the United States cannot. It had become part of daily life. Every fourth American owns a car. The United States is a large country with widely separated cities. That alone made Americans dependent on the automobile. Particularly in the Middle West and the West, farmers are dependent on cars. Millions of trucks supply the big cities with food. Suddenly the United States faces a revolutionary change in its transportation system. The transportation problems are to be solved by greater dependence on the railroads, yet in recent years the number of locomotives and freight cars has sunk as the number of cars rose. Washington has announced that pipelines were being laid from Texas to the north, but even in America people openly say that such facilities will take at least a year and a half to complete.
The first thing to watch is how Americans who had a car for enjoyment will react to giving up the cars that they formerly did not think they could live without. We Germans can understand conditions in the United States only when we consider the particular mentality of the North Americans. Since they live on a rich continent, they believe they have particular privileges and deserve all of life's advantages. That makes giving things up hard for them, even things we Europeans view as luxuries that we can do without. Given their wealth, they made things as easy as possible for themselves. They were proud of their superiority to Europe in this regard, in contrast to their intellectual and cultural dependence on Europe. They did not understand how much they clung to superficialities. They spoke of a "tin can culture" in a way incomprehensible to us. American housewives can no longer survive without tin cans. They have become so lazy as a result of these tin cans that they can no longer cook like German housewives. When they came home in the evening after visiting the beauty parlor or working in an office, and before going to a cocktail party, they opened a can or two for their family's evening meal. Overnight, they have had to give up their tin cans because American tin reserves were shrinking. For we Germans that would be a trivial matter, but the Americans saw it as an intolerable imposition. They cannot understand how various other products of civilization have vanished from the American market, things such as electric refrigerators, washing machines and ovens, radios, gramophones and records, pots and other household items.
Americans who believed that they would never even know a war was going on now have to start thinking like Europeans. They will have to pay taxes like we do. We began by noting that Roosevelt's government had presided over a catastrophic economy. When he took office in 1933, his Republican predecessor had left a balanced budget. He immediately began to spend money. He promised that his New Deal would restore economic and social health. In fact, however, the New Deal threw billions of dollars out the window. Since he and his party were passing out money right and left, millions of voters had a personal interest in electing him a second and third time. But the national debt had risen by sixty billion dollars by the outbreak of the war.
This situation would undoubtedly had led to a revolt if Roosevelt had not unscrupulously been rescued by war. Without war, he would have been forced either to raise taxes or devalue the dollar. Either would have been a political disaster in peacetime that would have meant the end of Roosevelt and his clique. Once war came, Roosevelt could vastly increase his economic mistakes. He got approval for an additional $65 billion for military purposes. And he has already said that he would need "at least" another $225 billion for the war. Just as he did at the beginning of his presidency, he is constantly talking about the vast measures that these enormous sums will pay for. Formerly he spoke of job creation programs or work camps for the youth. Now he talks of huge numbers of airplanes, tanks, guns and ships. But those familiar with his methods know that he has always talked big, but has not produced results. We Germans can therefore wait and see what deeds will follow his words. The economic mismanagement in the United States, which is simply beyond our understanding, will cause even greater problems. Now that the American people are at war, Roosevelt believes he can take the risk of raising the income tax to a level of 35% to 40% for the middle class. We will see if he can do this without causing inflation. A German reader can only understand what this means when he realizes that a married American currently owes practically no income tax at all if his monthly income is equivalent to about six hundred marks. The new taxes will overnight reduce the American standard of living to a point that one will no longer be able to speak of American prosperity.
5. The war is not a matter of the people.
The natural result is that the war is not as popular as the American government would like it to be. Pearl Harbor was greeted in the United States with remarkable indifference. In the weeks and months thereafter, the American press, that naturally follows Washington's instructions, tried to build enthusiasm for the war through every possible method. But the average American could not understand that he was in a war that was a matter of life and death. The press and government try daily to fight popular attitudes. Although they do not understand what they are supposed to be fighting for, it is gradually dawning on them that they face years of sacrifice, and that the United States will never again be a land of luxury.
The fact that their army is a mirror of the nation also gives them cause to doubt. Roosevelt succeeded in building an army of several million soldiers. But even in May their weapons were ludicrous. As much as possible, all weapons and supplies had been sent to England. The American military leadership and a significant part of the American press protested. With unbelievable stubbornness, however, Roosevelt continued these shipments even during the spring, even to the Bolshevists. American maneuvers were therefore carried out with completely inadequate equipment. Most soldiers had no weapons. Tanks and artillery were completely lacking. The uniforms were in poor shape. American newspapers regularly reported that soldiers mocked their generals. There were many deserters. Venereal diseases spread.
The draft followed a strange system. One class was in the 20-39 age range, the other 40-64. Formerly, only those were drafted who passed a medical examination. Since the examination could be done by a family doctor, however, many young Americans with prosperous parents simply bought their way out of military service by paying the doctor a sufficiently high fee or by bribing officials. As a result, the American army does not make a good impression.
Since the overwhelming majority of the American population did not want to join the war, young Americans always asked me nervously before Pearl Harbor if I thought that the United States would end up at war. They clearly were afraid that they might have to put on their country's uniform. Even while I was interned, many American officials told me, the enemy, that they simply could not understand why they were fighting. Federal officials gave me the special editions of the New York newspapers that carried the notes from the Italian and German governments of 11 December. They stammered that they still hoped that the United States could still remain neutral. That is how naive the Americans are. They are like children playing with fire, who do not think they might be burned. Their complete political immaturity is the only explanation as to why a sick man was elected president for the third time, even though there was no doubt as to the dangers of his policies.
6. The president believes he can win.
Since he is sick, he is guided by wishful thinking. He naturally does not think the Axis powers will win. He does not have the least idea that if we lose, communism will take over all of Europe. Leading American newspapers openly say that the United States does not care if red flags fly over Berlin, Rome, Budapest, Bucharest, Paris, and Madrid. Since Roosevelt thinks that he can come to terms with Bolshevism, he believes they will accept Anglo-Saxon control of the seas, and that they will accept Washington as the capital rather than London. He has fantasies of policing the world's oceans. He has gathered the "United Nations" under his leadership, which includes not only the important enemy states such as the USA, England, the Soviet Union, and China, along with the Latin American states that declared wear on us by Washington's orders. It also includes the exile governments of nations like Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Yugoslavia, and Poland that no longer exist. With unbelievable vanity, Roosevelt considers himself the head of this peculiar union which he sees as the way to realize his dreams of world domination.
7. The tonnage problem is the challenge for England and the USA.
Roosevelt's problem is that events have not gone as he had naively hoped. That brings us back to submarine warfare, which from the first days of the war gave Washington serious headaches. For more than two years, the Battle of the Atlantic has been seen by the American press as at least as important as the land war. The shipping problem is a major concern for Washington, especially since Roosevelt wants the United States to be the "arsenal of democracy." Even if Roosevelt manages the impossible task of manufacturing the war materials his allies need, he still faces the problem of getting the material to England and the Eastern Front. American experts are still telling the American press that there is no immediate possibility of replacing the ships that are continually being sunk by our submarines. Roosevelt talks of the tonnage to be built by American shipyards. The experts know, however, that the capacity is lacking. Roosevelt talks of building new shipyards, but the experts in the USA have no doubt that a long time will pass before Roosevelt's plans can be realized. The highest figures named are two and a half million tons a year. Those who are familiar with American exaggeration, however, know that the final figures will probably be much lower. The same is true of the other production statistics from Washington. According to all the evidence, the American war effort is in its earliest stages. German readers must realize that in a democracy, there are many difficulties involved in moving the economy from peace to war. American war production will begin to be at full strength only by the end of next year. In the meanwhile, transportation will be more of a problem for the United States than production.
But Roosevelt has plans even if the Axis wins. He thinks he will win the war regardless of what happens. If England loses, then Canada and all the other European possessions in the Western Hemisphere will fall into his hands. He also hopes that dollar imperialism will conquer South America. Washington's current plans are to bring everything between the Rio Grande and the Panama Canal under its control, and to make South America economically dependent on the United States. Roosevelt's plans in the event of an Axis victory make clear to the reader the coldness with which he made his plans over the years, aided by his hypocritical speeches written by the Jewish federal judge Roseman.
Who knows what fate has in store for him? Many indications are that the war will end in terrible catastrophe for the United States. Perhaps this false Messiah, the lackey of his Jewish allies, will be brought to justice by his own people. History, after all, is just.
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"Europe und Amerika. Fehlerquellen im Aufbau des amerikanischen Volkstums," Schulungs-Unterlage Nr. 18 (Der Reichsorganisationsleitung der NSDAP., Hauptschulungsamt, 1942).
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Europe and America:
Failures in Building an American People
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Main Points:
The USA has no ethnic unity.
Every attempt to built an American people has failed.
Instead of an American people, there is an American class.
Jewry is a primary reason for the absence of an American people.
There is also a noticeable absence of a moral and national ideal.
The development of a unified people is also hindered by streams of asocial elements from around the world.
There is therefore no unified people in the USA, only a population.
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1. The USA has no ethnic unity.
When speaking of the German people, we are dealing with a fixed group of people who are defined by their nature and territory. There is usually a "natural" relationship between between a people and its territory, such that naming the people brings to mind a territorial area. On this particular section of the world with its climate, its beauties, and its nature the people's history took place. Here its inhabitants found the source of their strength. Here its cultural landmarks give evidence of its spirit. Here its myths and fables have their roots in the distant past.
Such a relationship between people and space does not exist in the USA. They have no myths and fables, only facts. They jumped right into the middle of history — the only instance in world history in which the development of a governmental system and a "people" could be observed by historians from the very beginning.
The history of this governmental system begins with English colonial history. Long before, however, other Europeans had come in contact with the American continent. Vikings from Greenland reached North America as early as 1000. The second visit also came from the Germanic north, as the two Germans Pining and Pothorst landed in Newfoundland in service of Denmark. These were only brief episodes, however. Only with Columbus did America enter the consciousness of Europe. Columbus is also the reason why Spain was for a while the leading European power in the new world, although as early as 1497 the English under Cabot arrived and occupied Labrador and Newfoundland. They had to share the latter with France at first. The development of North America, once Spain turned more to Central and South America, was determined by the struggle between England and France. English seafarers had occupied a section of the East Coast by the end of the 16th Century. With the help of commercial organizations, the land was settled and developed. A modern English colony of mercantile nature developed.
That changed as the first Puritans, the so-called Pilgrims, arrived in 1620. From the beginning, the goal of their settlement in the New World was to free themselves from the English Motherland, which they had left because of their sectarian beliefs. They could not free themselves, however, from their racial nature, their genuinely English outlook and attitudes that influenced every area of their lives. That gave the settlements their distinctive characteristics. It also could not stop Germans from settling on the North American East Coast, particularly in Pennsylvania, which had been settled by the leader of the patient Quakers, William Penn. They were more tolerant of religious differences than the Puritans. Pennsylvania was the first settlement that was not settled exclusively by the English.
Developments in the next decades were influenced by the conflict between England and France. France had claimed the entire Mississippi River basin in 1700. That included English settlements both in the north and south. After a long and bitter struggle that mirrored the conflict in Europe, England succeeded in ousting the newcomers. The real issue was settled by the Peace of Hubertusberg, which ended the Seven Year War. France was forced to cede Canada and all the land east of the Mississippi to Great Britain.
After the British eliminated the Dutch, who had colonized Manhattan Island and New Amsterdam, later New York, England was the dominant power on the North American continent. However, a new difficulty soon arouse, one from within. London had overlooked the fact that the colonies had changed from mercantile outposts to agrarian colonies. The land was controlled not by foreign plantation owners, but by local settlers. England believed that it could continue to treat them as mercantile outposts, which resulted in resistance from the colonialists. In the War of Independence (1776 to 1783), "the States" won their freedom.
After the War of Independence, developments took an entirely different course: The original English colony became a European colony. This change provided the basis for the establishment of a more or less racially unified population with a connection to territory. German immigrants above all sought to adjust to the new land. The other requirement, a population united by common blood, was also present. This situation changed fundamentally as a result of continuing immigration, however. There were three general periods of immigration, each with its own characteristics corresponding to the nature of the stream of immigrants.
In the first periods, which ended with the War of Independence, the Anglo-Saxon element predominated, though there were already around 250,000 Germans in America.
The second period included the 19th Century. It began with immigrants predominately from Northern Europe, including Germans, English, Irish and Scandinavians. In the third period, on the other hand, from about the turn of the century, the majority came from the Southern and Slavic nations. There were many Eastern Jews. By 1930, the ethnic background of the North American union was as follows:
English 41.4%
Germans 17.2%
Irish 11.2%
Scandinavians 4.3%
Italians 3.6%
Poles 4.1%
Dutch 2.0%
Russians 1.8%
(These figures include the Jews in the respective countries.) Ethnically, the USA had become a mirror of Europe, a kind of "United States of Europe" on American soil.
2. Every attempt to built an American people has failed.
Throughout the entire 19th century, North America exerted a powerful attraction on the people of densely populated Europe. People recognized what the technical means developed in crowded Europe would be able to do in an area that did not suffer from the territorial limitations of Europe. Applying the methods of a developed continent to an undeveloped one made North America into a land of unlimited possibilities. That attracted immigrants. Between 1820 and 1920, no less than 33.3 million people settled in the USA. They came from every nation of the old world. By 1900, the USA was a colorful mixture of nations.
As long as the primarily source of immigration was Northern Europe, there was really no racial problem. The various ethnic groups were close enough so that intermarriage had no negative effects. A unified people developed over the decades and centuries. That changed during the 1880's. The immigrants from the north declined, and were replaced by other groups. Between 1900 and 1910, only 23.3% of the newcomers came from Germanic areas, while 76.7% came from Southern Europe or the Slavic nations. Things were even less favorable in the following decade. The new immigrants had other customs, other languages, other ways of thinking, other religions, other skills. The nationality issue suddenly became a problem. Even the most superficial observer had to see the danger of a racial mosaic within the nation's boundaries. Many occupations were practically monopolized by individual nationalities. In the housing industry by 1910, for example, the Irish did the excavation, the Germans the rough construction, the Italians the interior work, native Americans the plumbing and the Jews the painting. The most basic areas demonstrated the disunity of the USA. The problem of Americanization was clear.
Its seriousness at first was not recognized. People assumed that the environment would encourage unity and settled for economic equality. A Jew even thought he could prove that physical appearances were merging. Immigrants had to adapt to the environment — at least outwardly — to avoid unnecessary difficulties. People hoped that with time the new immigrants would become genuine Yankees. Such naive thinking was possible only because no one had thought about the idea of a people in general or an American people in specific. An American was someone who lived in the USA, earned a lot of money, and more or less spoke English.
Some began to look deeper. Economic leaders like Ford saw the frictions resulting from various ethnic groups as a problem in production and began to consider the problem seriously.
The process of becoming a people includes matters of culture, language, customs, history and faith. There could be no immediate common history for people coming from the most varied nations, people who consciously or unconsciously still carried the marks of their homeland. The touchy matter of religion was also not easily dealt with. It was the matter that first made the problem clear to the American Babbit. Secret societies like the Ku Klux Klan were a way of resisting or actively opposing the growing influence of Catholicism. That left two ways to Americanize the immigrants: customs and language.
Even before the World War, efforts were made to teach the "aliens" the language and ways of thinking of the country. Courses in Americanism included not only the language and government, but also attempted to build American national pride. This resulted in the desire for records and gigantomania that always amuses us. Lacking a significant political and intellectual history, the American is forced to build his national pride on technology.
Customs were another leading factor. The immigrants sought to adapt to them as rapidly as possible to avoid standing out. The growing standardization of life reached such an extent in the USA that independence became impossible. Everyone wears the same clothes, and thinking like everyone else is a duty. In contrast to Europe's variety, this seems odd to us, but we should not forget that uniformity is about the only way Americans can experience community. This process of Americanization was successful, but also superficial. A type developed, but not a people.
It is significant that a Jew was the first to recognize the inadequacy of Americanization. Israel Zangwill published a play titled "The Melting Pot" in 1909. This gave the USA the metaphor for its future: a melting pot of every nationality and race that would form a new unified people. His call for an indiscriminate and homogenized mixture found its theoretical justification in the Declaration of Independence, which spoke of the equality of all people. It agreed not only with Zangwill's view of the inadequacy of previous assimilation policies, but also for the secret wish of the Jews for a nationality soup without instinct that would not stand in the way of its path to world domination.
The population, however, did put one limitation on the melting pot thesis. Mixing with Blacks was out of the question. Even today 30 states have strict laws against intermarriage with Negroes. (Naturally, that has nothing to do with illegitimate relations between Blacks and Whites; the estimates are that 20,000 mixed-race children are born annually.) The Negro problem, indeed the racial problem in general, is viewed differently in the industrialized North than in the more agricultural South, which had drawn a sharp line for centuries between the Colored and Whites. The limited penetration of the Jews in the South can also be noted. The Jew has an interest in eliminating racial boundaries and therefore always makes common cause with the Blacks. (The Jewish element in Roosevelt's ancestry or the White House's dependence on the Jews may be responsible for his attitude toward the Negro question. The president's wife in particular takes pleasure in ignoring all racial boundaries. Political calculations also play a role — there are around 12 million Negroes in the USA. They have an important influence in elections. Despite all efforts by Roosevelt and his Jewish men behind the scenes, the melting pot theory does have its limits. This is one of the biggest problems in the domestic developments of the union. Time will tell if the growing demands for emancipation by the Black element, which in some Southern states comprises over half of the population, will succeed. That might eventually lead to a dissolution of an American state.)
The World War was a turning point in the Americanization process. Blood proved stronger than the environment. There is no point in wondering if Zangwill's theory would have had greater success without the World War. It is not possible to determine the impact on the northern states and on the lower social class of immigrants who today are the primary source of relationships between Blacks and Whites.
Even before the World War, a certain re-nationalization of the masses was noticeable, which could even be decisive in presidential elections. The World War encouraged such developments. For example, the Germans were strong enough so that Wilson was forced to speak against entering the war. Other "hyphenated Americans," above all the Irish, also held to their ancestry, showing the weakness of the melting pot.
3. Instead of an American people, there is an American class.
In view of the failure of Americanization and the renationalization efforts of various ethnic groups, the Anglo-Saxon element attempted to secure its unofficial leading position and to affirm its dominance in public life. The English element, above all in the East, had always had a special position, supported by the fact that immigrants from the United Kingdom had learned national characteristics and pride in the homeland. This was not characteristic of the German immigrants, who saw themselves as Hessians or Westphalians, etc. Both their number and confidence enabled the Anglo-Saxons to impose their norms on the others. English life was the model for American society. The customs and religious nature of the Puritans and Quakers also continued to bind the old colonies to the former Motherland. Some rightly spoke of the Americans as covert Englishmen.
The new attitude received a jolt in the Immigration Law of 1921, which greatly restricted undesired immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe.
The law stopped the flow of elements that were difficult to assimilate, but is made no fundamental change. The issue was not settled; a leading class in the racial mosaic had formed. It claimed social and political leadership. It was a minority among the other nationalities that was unwilling and unable to assimilate the other racially foreign elements. Unfortunately, this Anglicizing of public life went hand and hand with a suppression or elimination of the German influence, which alone could have had an ennobling and beneficial impact on the class.
4. Jewry is a primary reason for the absence of an American people.
Jewry's domination is a major reason for the failure to develop a unified people that organically would include everyone from the leadership to the most basic economic activities. No country has more Jews than does the United States. That was not always the case. During the colonial period, they were rare. When one surfaced, he was a representative of some company. They were not found among the real pioneers. Only after the land was settled and industrialization offered new ways to earn profits did the immigration of Jews begin, above all from Eastern Europe. 90,000 Jews came to the USA annually between 1899 and 1914. Today there are around eight million Jews in the States, a quarter of whom live in New York. With some justice, it has been called Jew York. Their influence is out of all proportion to their numbers. The current president is their willing tool. He ignores Benjamin Franklin's political testament, a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, who warned: "Wherever Jews have settled in large numbers, they have had a harmful effect on morality and integrity. They stay separate and are not assimilated. They form a state within the state, and seek to destroy a nation financially if people oppose them. This was the case with Spain and Portugal. If you do not exclude them from the United States, in less than 200 years they will be here in such numbers as to rule the land and change the form of government for which we Americans have shed our blood, sacrificed our lives and property and risked our freedom. If you do not exclude them, in less than 200 years our posterity will work in the fields to feed them, while they sit in their offices. I warn you, gentlemen: if you do not exclude the Jews, your children will curse your graves. Jews, gentlemen, are Asiatic, wherever they are born and however many generations removed they may be. They will never change." [This statement, by the way, is a widely quoted by anti-Semites, but it is a fake citation.]
The USA's leaders ignored these words and gave their nation to the Jews. The arrival of the Jews was eased by two influential organizations: Freemasonry and the church. The help Protestantism gives to Jewry is evident in the frequency with which Protestant ministers preach in synagogues and rabbis stand behind Protestant pulpits.
What significance does Jewry have in the process of nation building? As we have seen, the Jews are the most ardent defenders of the idea of the melting pot. Unlike other proponents of Americanization, they do not even draw a "color line" between Blacks and Whites. Thus New York's Jewish governor Lehmann signed a law in summer 1939 that abolished all differences between races, colors, and religions. The Jews have no interest in developing a nation with solid racial substance, such as was present in those coming from Northern Europe. To the contrary, they oppose every effort toward national affirmation and work toward a racial stew — except for themselves! Domination by the Jews and national distinctiveness are opposites that cannot be brought together even in the Land of Unlimited Opportunity.
The end result in the USA will not be the development of an American people, but rather the domination of the Jews. The Anglo-Saxon upper class serves them, and leads the American "people" in a way that serves Jewish hopes for world domination.
5. There is also a noticeable absence of a moral and national ideal.
The first English immigrants who left their stamp on political and intellectual life in the East were the Puritans. One must know the Puritans to understand the Americans. One of the most important aspects of this unusual faith is that it draws its entire intellectual strength from the Old Testament, forming its life by it and evaluating the world from its perspective. Persecuted because of their beliefs, the Puritans denied others the intellectual and religious freedom they had claimed for themselves. They went after adherents of all other beliefs, imprisoning, torturing and hanging them. (Later toleration was the result of German influence). This Old Testament fanaticism which extends to moral sadism is even today a foundation of Americans. It is the basis of their rejection of everything foreign and their superiority complex, as well as their claim to be able to judge the world. A Christian sect that was influenced by the Jewish spirit thus prepared the way for Judah's later takeover of the USA.
A further characteristic of Puritanism — the result of the Hebraic influence from the Old Testament — was its materialistic emphasis. This originally had a religious emphasis, but later was transformed into materialism. Money-make [sic] is the American public's ideal. It is the single American contribution to its own culture, which is otherwise entirely a European import.
Common ideals are necessary for a people. Great power dwells therein. Roosevelt knows this, and therefore tries to give his nation some kind of ideals. He tries to replace missing national ideals with a common ideology of "fighting Fascism and aggression." This will have as little success in building a people as the idea of money-making. Money-making today is the idol, anti-Fascism the ideology of Americans, but neither is an ideal sufficient to build a people upon.
6. The development of a unified people is also hindered by streams of asocial elements from around the world.
The ideal of eternal success is a grave danger to a people's morality. The result is that in the USA, people are valued only according to their success, ignoring all other measures. Such a view of life inevitably must attract materialistically-oriented people. The USA was their place. Alongside Nordic farmers desiring land, adventurers and gold-diggers of all sorts came to the United States. Even worse, the unfit elements who were outside the social or legal order were drawn to the New World. There only what one did counted, regardless of whether or not it was consistent with morality. It is certainly true that some dubious elements found useful work in the fresh air of the new nation, but others who had demonstrated their moral weakness back home brought their antisocial or criminal nature along to poison the US-American population. For example, during the 1860's criminals condemned to death for murder in Germany could be pardoned if they emigrated to America. Such blood elements could not contribute to building a nation. They could only hinder the development of a community that put the good of the whole above the good of the individual, and that demanded one serve the community even at the risk of one's life. This is yet another reason for the failure of the USA to develop a people. The political and criminal gangsters that are so evident today cannot be understood without seeing not only the national origins of immigrants, but also their social value. It is certainly true that the most valuable and active elements from overpopulated and cramped Europe went abroad, but also some asocial and less gifted ones. The reply that signs of decay in the USA are the result of European influences is actually the fault of the Americans themselves, since their indifference to firm moral standards drew such elements to their country.
7. There is therefore no unified people in the USA, only a population.
Despite all the efforts, the various elements of the USA have not been able to form a unified people. The attempt failed first because of the superficiality of an attempt that ignored racial and historical differences and was satisfied with external assimilation, and second because it met the clear and determined opposition of some circles that resisted active or passive assimilation. The most active groups included the Anglo-Saxons, who rejected connections to groups they viewed as inferior, and the adherents of certain religious groups who saw giving up their national characteristics as a threat to their religious survival. The problem of Americanization, for example, does not exist for the Amish-Mennonites, who for religious reasons stand outside the larger society.
Such behavior may be viewed as narrow-minded from the American standpoint, but still has significant impact on intellectual, economic and political life in the USA. One cannot ignore the fact that the source of strength — and the Union has had considerable strength — lies in the countryside and small towns where immigrants have held to their ethnic characteristics and languages longer than in the big cities. There the individual is needed racially, not merely physically. The melting pot theory found its greatest acceptance in big cities. We clearly see there the blatant perversions of American life that result from racial mixing. To judge the USA by that, however would be as false as if one had judged Germany during the Weimar period by what was happening in Berlin.
A guided process of nation-building through indiscriminate mixing — a contradiction in terms — is impossible, as is a legal separation of the various racial and ethnic groups living in North America, apparently the goal of the Blacks. The only remaining possibility is to let the various groups live as they wish, hoping that over time a common American culture will develop. Like Wilson before him, Roosevelt is trying to establish unity through a common ideology. He has succeeded in leading his nation to war. However, his ideology today is the ideology of the past, which is attempting to maintain the interests of the past. That is too weak a foundation on which to build a nation. Time will tell if it is also too weak a foundation on which to wage war. The USA as yet has not experienced a modern war that demands its full resources. Its participation in the World War was limited to a few months of battle against an enemy that had already been bled dry. Its political contributions at the end of the war at Versailles, its failure to ratify that treaty, and its refusal to join the League of Nations shows the unreliability and questionableness of policies based on ideology, not true national foundations. During a war, only a people can fight for its future, not a mere population that is racially, religiously, linguistically, ideologically and governmentally disunified. Given all that has been said, the USA has no unified people, only a population.
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Roosevelt Betrays America!
by Dr. Robert Ley
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We stand at the threshold of a new era. An old world is used up and exhausted, a new one is knocking strongly and insistently at the doorway of the world. The young peoples, called the have-nots by the old sinking capitalist world, are demanding their right to recognition and equality. The aging world of money and democracy does not want to make room. The honorable Lord Halifax said it plainly: They want to live on in the gluttony and luxury to which they have become accustomed. Their standpoint was: "Money rules the world, and the have-nots will have to accept that fact."
They sought the war, they provoked and maneuvered to get it. They pressed the young peoples of Germany, Italy and Japan wherever they could. They wanted war, a real world war — and now they have it.
Not only two worlds of ideas are at war here, but the whole world. This war reaches every corner of the world. The plutocrats are on the line; they have to defend themselves. The Jews and their hired lackeys, Churchill and Roosevelt, must themselves step into action. The field is cleared, and now we face our real enemy, the men behind the scenes who over the decades plunged the world into disorder, war, and revolution, but whose own valuable capitalist lives were naturally too valuable to sacrifice in war.
But finally we have forced them into the open, and we have sworn that we well not let go of them until their murderous handiwork is laid bare. This is a hard war, a matter of being or not being, of life or death, either or. We therefore must understand the strengths and capacities of our main enemy, to weigh and evaluate them insofar as it is possible within this brief pamphlet. We will consider the grounds that moved Mr. Roosevelt to drive his people into war. Aside from his deep hatred against us Germans in general and National Socialism in particular, there naturally are domestic causes and imperialist intentions that led the warmongering clique in New York to chase after war until they finally caught it.
Let us begin.
I. The racial confusion in the USA.
We National Socialists know that every action is in some way racially determined. There is no doubt that on the one side of this struggle stand absolutely unified peoples and nations, while on the other side there are various nationalities led by the Jews, the prototype of racial decay. Germany, Italy, and Japan are unified nations, whose national unity is based on blood. The other side has only unions: the union of the states of North America, the Union of Soviet Republics and the Union Jack, the union of the English empire.
The United States was settled by nearly all the races of the earth, of which the European contingent was the largest. The common English language does not say much, for the English language won over German by only a single vote majority. Just as we could not have spoken of the North Americans as Germans had that happened, neither can we today speak of Anglo-Saxons or English. The Jew would have us believe that a new race develops when other races are mixed. He even gives it a romantic-sounding name: "the melting pot of the races." That is, however, biologic nonsense. Such a bastardization process does not lead to a new and valuable race, but rather a corrupt racial mixture in which the bad characteristics come to the fore, and in which finally parasitic manifestations appear, such as we see in American insanity and in the ruthless business style of the ruling class in North America.
The USA became the home of the gangsters, the insanities of Hollywood, the stock dealers of New York, the orators of Washington: in brief, the land of truly unlimited possibilities, namely those of insanity and criminality, produced by its racial mixing.
II. The World View Foundations
The USA once conducted a war of independence against the British Crown. The Declaration of Independence of those freedom fighters even today is thought to be the beginning of North American freedom and independence, celebrated annually. But one today hears voices on both sides of the ocean about reuniting the Anglo-Saxon world. Churchill even makes the idea the center of this Christmas message in Washington. The sly old fox is quite right. The USA has decayed into the English world of Puritanism and Calvinism. The hypocritical lying capitalist world of Manchester and Oliver Cromwell is today the world of Roosevelt, Morgenthau, Knox, Stimson, and their consorts. One can even say that the Jew rules more fully, ruthlessly and completely in New York than in London. Remember the oft-cited quotation from Calvin that the masses of workers and craftsmen must be kept poor so that they will be obedient to God, and will work only when they are driven to it by necessity. This is a central theme of the capitalist economy, resulting in the theory of the "productivity" of lower wages. The misuse of the concept of God runs like a red thread through English history. God was always the ground for any crooked dealing. The notion of the Old Testament's chosen people fits in here as well. This clearly proves the similarity in English and Jewish thinking. We find such nonsense repeatedly by the leading English circles over the centuries.
The original claims of chosenness, of God-willed wealth and God-ordained poverty, of dark secrets and mystic superstitions was begun by Oliver Cromwell and became the foundation of the English Empire. On can read the following about the English saint in Volume II of Wilbur Contez Abbot's "Writing and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell": "They could hardly say anything to Cromwell without him putting his hand to his heart, raising his eyes to the heavens and calling God as his witness. He will weep and lament and moan, all the while sticking the knife in your ribs."
Does that not remind one of our contemporaries Churchill and Roosevelt when they together sang "Onward Christian Solders" on the since-sunken "Price of Wales"? Or when they sing in a Methodist church in Washington. They are Cromwell's pious, hypocritical successors.
Oliver Cromwell always called on God n the midst of his atrocities, his bloodthirsty orgies against the Irish and the Scottish, and viewed his devilish soldiers as the chosen people of God. Churchill and Roosevelt have learned the methods of the bestial hypocrite Cromwell by heart, and have proven that nothing, absolutely nothing has changed in the English-American world over the past three hundred years. That is the lying capitalist world that calls God as its witness to every shameful act and enslaves and exploits humanity in its dreadful superiority. Its father was Calvin, its sword Oliver Cromwell and its benefactors and successors are Churchill and Roosevelt. They are so proud and self-confident that they call the USA God's Own Country. As the Jews use Jehovah, they use the Lord God!
III. The Actual Nature and Real Strength of the USA.
The Jew in the USA. The original citizens of the USA were anti-Semites, and the emancipation of the Jews in America took a long time. But just as a young and growing organism is more easily infected by parasites and bacteria than a more mature and stronger one, so too the North American national body was overwhelmed by Jews from everywhere in the world. According to American statistics, over 5 million Jews lived in the USA in 1926. They were concentrated in the big cities. Since public opinion in democracies, and especially in the USA is made in the big cities, and since the Jews in the USA control all elements of public opinion such as the press, publishing, radio, parties, clubs and so on, one can affirm that the Jews control public opinion in North America. The following table presents the distribution of Jews in the USA:
New York has 2,000,000 Jews, 33% of the population
Philadelphia has 280,000 Jews, 15% of the population.
Cleveland has 12,000 Jews, 8% of the population
Chicago has 260,000 Jews, 8% of the population
Boston has 85,000 Jews, 12% of the population
Baltimore has 70,000 Jews, 17% of the population
Pittsburgh has 60,000 Jews, 17% of the population
Saint Louis has 60,000 Jews, 18% of the population
New Orleans has 55,000 Jews, 16% of the population
Detroit has 50,000 Jews, 17% of the population
Hartford has 27,000 Jews, 17% of the population
The increase in the number of Jews since the turn of the century is particularly clear in the case of New York. The number of Jews there has increased as follows:
From 225,000 in 1877
To 597,674 in 1900
To 1,252,135 in 1910
To 1,643,012 in 1920
To 1,876.545 in 1930
To over 2 million in 1935 (counting only religious Jews).
Some areas of New York business life are Jewish monopolies. They have taken over the clothing industry and a substantial part of the cigarette industry. They are heavily involved in some light industries. The big New York department stores are owned by Jews. The American magazine "National American" gives the following illuminating figures:
The Jews control:
98% of the financial markets
99% of the banking industry
69% of the food industry
100% of the theater and movie industry
99% of the press
82% of the radio, telephone, and telegraph industries
75% of the transportation industries
85% of real estate.
The following Jews have key positions in the economy, government, legal system, state and local governments, labor unions, etc.:
The Jew Bernhard Mannes Baruch was the most influential man in the USA during the World War. He had dictatorial power over the whole war economy and its approximately 40 varied industrial branches. Even today he has a leading role in Roosevelt's inner circle. Felix Frankfurter is a member of the Supreme Court, Henry Morgenthau Jr. is Secretary of the Treasury, Herman Lehmann is Governor of the State of New York, La Guardia leads the Jewish metropolis New York. Numerous Jews have leading positions in the American labor movement. One need mention only the Jews Volman, Sidney Hillmann, Schloßberg and Matthew Woll. Wherever one looks he sees nothing but Jews and genuine Hebrews! The words of the Russian-born Jew Baruch Chareny Vladek describe precisely the position of the Jews in America: "We are numerically in the minority, but our fingers tip the scales."
That is how it is: He who is fed by the Jews dies, particularly when the national body is still so young, disunified and weak as the USA. We see all the manifestations of the Jews that always accompany the Jews. For example, the USA is the leading country for lodges, secret societies, the Ku-Klux-Klan, sects and spiritualists. There are about 4,178,000 Free Masons in the entire world; 3.3 million of them live in the USA. All leading men of the government, from the president on down, belong to lodges, and all the lodges of course belong to and are led by the Jews. There are 49 major lodges in the USA with 16,518 branches. One cannot even count the sects and secret societies. We see that the Jew has understood how to break the USA down into individual particles and atoms, killing any kind of national life. The parties belong to him entirely, for over half of those in Congress — 213 members of the House — and more than half of the Senators, 48 in all — are Free Masons.
Gangsters and criminals along with stock traders are other manifestations of decay brought about by Jewry. The legal system in the USA is fragmented and disunified. The benefactors are the plutocrats, corrupt politicians and businessmen without consciences. Judges are elected to their offices for a limited time. It is clear than they are dependent on the corrupt parties. Major insurance swindles, corrupting juries, and making false statements under oath are the order of the day.
According to "Century Magazine" of July 1910: "American lawlessness begins in children's rooms and schools and ends in courthouses and lawmaking bodies." The legal uncertainly is called a "national burden," which is made even worse by the fact that cooperation is also lacking in the police system. It is not surprising that crime rates are higher in the USA than anywhere else in the world. The following figures from 1939 demonstrate the fact. There was:
a robbery every 9 minutes
a break-in every 1 3/4 minutes
a theft every 40 seconds
a car theft every 2 1/4 minutes
a murder every 39 minutes
Leading gangsters in Chicago included John Dillinger, who was overpowered and shot by the police at a theater at the close of 1934 and Al Capone, who had a bodyguard of 185 men, each of whom he paid $300 to $400 a week. Two thirds of Chicago unions had to pay protection money to these criminal organizations. Al Capone was so connected to America's leading men that he went to jail not because he was the leader of a gangster organization, but because the federal authorities caught him for tax fraud. He lives as a multimillionaire today in a palace on a sunny beach in Florida.
The Coster-Musica scandal aroused considerable excitement in the American business world at the end of 1938. Coster-Musica had carried out swindles on a widespread scale, including drug smuggling, weapons sales, and crooked dealings, and was a member of many prominent clubs. Coster-Musica had been in jail for fraud as yearly as 1906. He was convicted in a huge financial scandal in 1913. Given his connections to "high society," he did not serve time in prison. His company collapsed when the fraud was discovered. 13,500 stockholders lost over $100 million. He committed suicide because he feared his well-placed friends were no longer able to protect him from the wrath of those he had cheated.
American capital developed in the course of the 18th and 19th centuries either through land speculation, railroad enterprises, or big industry. The ship owner Girard, J. J. Astor, Peter Golet, and the Schermerhorns, Fealds, Vanderbilts, Goulds, Sages, Morgans, Hills, Carnegies, Roosevelt, Morgenthau, and so on were typical of those who amassed their wealth with bribery, cheating, plundering, lawbreaking, tax evasion, swindles, extortion, and piracy.
The first great fortune was Vanderbilt's, which grew out of the railways. Cornelius Vanderbilt, born in 1794, at age twelve could hardly write his own name, but he was greedy, ruthless, and power-hungry. He began with passengers and freight. He was never particularly creative, though he was presented as such in books. He was certainly the leading merchant pirate and scoundrel of his day. His first millions were primarily the result of extortion, cheating, and theft. The mail his steam ships carried won not only foreign postage payments, but also substantial government subsidies. The postal subsidies were the real foundation of his wealth. The Civil War put an end to his shipping career. He began a railroad enterprise at the age of 69, though he knew nothing at all about the technology and administration of this branch of transportation. Cornelius Vanderbilt knew how to present himself as a leading patriot during the Civil War. When the Union government decided to send a fleet to New Orleans in 1862, it bought the very ships from Vanderbilt that government subsidies had built. He even lent one of his unused ships to the government. By means of manipulation Vanderbilt succeeded in driving down the stocks of the New York and Harlem railroad at the end of 1863, and bought the majority of the shares, which rose from $9 a share in the middle of April 1863 to $50. It was also the usual practice to bribe the New York City council to secure certain railroad lines.
They are all the same, Dillinger, Al Capone, Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Morgan, and so on: gangsters, pirates, stock traders, businessmen. They have a single ideal: money-making, and still more money-making. American lawlessness and the double morality of Calvinism and Puritanism conceals it all
IV. The Dollar Devours Everything
There is not a country in the world where money is as important as it is in the USA. The ideals of family, fatherland, culture and manliness are all dominated by the desire to "make money." While the peoples of Europe bled during the World War of 1914-1918, North America knew but one principle: to earn as much as possible through the war.
The stock prices climbed into the heavens. A rise from $20 to $1000 was no rarity. And these crazy profits did not stop after the World War. The armaments tycoons bought back the airplanes, weapons, and munitions for a song, and then sold them at a fat profit to other customers. Profiteering without end.
60 Families Rule America
F. Lundberg's book appeared in 1937, and is seen by American politicians as a reliable source. He begins with the blunt assertion: "The United States of America is owned and controlled by a hierarchy that at its core consists of the 60 richest families of the country, to which at most 90 families of somewhat lesser wealth may be included. These families are the center of the modern industrial oligarchy that controls the United States. They function discretely under a de jure democratic form of government, behind which a de facto government of abolutistic and plutocratic nature has existed since the Civil War." This hollowing out of democracy was possible only because enormous fortunes developed in the United States that have no parallel in the rest of the world.
The extent of the wealth controlled by the "golden ring," the sixty richest families in America, is astonishing. Rockefeller's personal income in 1924 was $30-50 million, though his taxable income was only $18 million. His total fortune certainly exceeds a billion dollars, and those of the Melons and the Ponts is surely no less. Such a concentration of wealth by itself is extraordinarily powerful, a state within a state, but the power of money and the dollar dynasties extends yet further. The real nature of the power of the "golden ring" is less in personal wealth as in the control that they are thereby able to exert over others. The foundation here is the expansion of so-called stock capital. In 1880 16% of the total capital of the United States was in such "liquid assets," a figure that had reached 40% by 1930.
Stock majorities are guided, holding companies established, the various interests are so concealed and covered up in a way that enables them to become suddenly public when it is necessary. With amazing lack of scruples, huge fortunes are made in ways that put gangsters and pirates to shame.
Old Rockefeller used to say with Puritan hypocrisy, after he had taken someone's money, that "God gave me my wealth." J.P. Morgan the elder, however, displayed a deeper knowledge of the source of his wealth. Half in jest, half seriously, he claimed that one of his ancestors was the famous Caribbean pirate Henry Morgan. He named his black luxury yacht the "Corsair," and loved to fly the Jolly Roger, the skull and crossbones, above the Stars and Stripes when on the high seas. His son is said to continue the custom, except that as the American financial agent of the British government during the World War, he preferred to fly the Union Jack above the Jolly Roger,
Corrupt bureaucrats over the decades understood how to transfer billions in public property to people who understood how to give a golden handshake. Some of these bubbles collapsed, giving the citizens of the United States a look at the swamp of its government. For example, the major scandal with oil reserves under the government of Harding — 1921 to 1923 — might have had something to do with the president's mysterious death.
The extent and subtlety of the corrupt system in the freest land in the world was revealed a few years ago when a Senate committee investigated the list of favorites to whom the J.P. Morgan Company sold cheap stocks in 1929. Beside the many financial potentates were names like Calvin Coolidge, who had been president until 1929, William H. Woodin, Roosevelt's Treasury Secretary in 1933, W. G. McAdoo, Treasury Secretary under Wilson and Senator from California, Ch. F. Adams, Naval Secretary and Bernard M. Baruch, organizer of the war economy during the World War and also one of Roosevelt's most influential Jewish advisors. The number of cases in which the power of money was enough to blind the eyes of justice is legion. Nowhere are as many scoundrels running around loose as in the United States. When a scandal stinks so badly that one of the "greats" must be punished, for example Samuel Insull or Van Swerigen, it is always a fringe figure, an agent of the leading families, never a member of the "golden ring" itself. Senator Norris, with the healthy instincts of a Nebraska farmer, was outraged when in the 1939 scandal the two most heavily implicated figures, the Interior Secretary Fall and the Industrialist Sinclair were acquitted. He said sarcastically: "We should pass a law which says that a man who is worth $100 million may not be brought to trial. Then our laws would at least correspond to reality."
This unimaginable wealth stands in contrast to enormous poverty. In the end, those who are betrayed are the millions of workers and farmers, the broad masses of the people. The American people will be the victims of this war as well. They will pay the price for the increased profits of the upper ten thousand. 21,000 new millionaires came out of the last war, and the previous ones became a lot richer. The same will happen in this war. The American armaments industry will earn a lot and the poor stupid people will pay the bills. It will also have to pay a price in blood, and not a small one.
Just as in England, the people have a limited role in the "democracy."
Unfortunately, the common impression that American workers have a high standard of living is a myth.
A Third of the Population Lives in Poverty
Roosevelt himself saw himself forced after his second election to tell Congress: "I see several tens of millions of our citizens — a significant part of our population — who even today lack much of what we consider the absolute minimum necessities of life. I see millions of families who must live with an income so modest that the pale of family disaster hangs over them day by day. I see millions in the cities and the countryside whose live under conditions that a so-called decent society would have termed indecent even fifty years ago. I see millions to whom education, recreation and the possibility of improving their lives and those of their children are denied. I see millions who lack the means to buy the products of our factories and farms, and who through their poverty deny work and productivity to millions of others."
Roosevelt's words clearly show the results of his efforts at "reconstruction." And he was by no means painting too dark a picture. His statements are supported by numerous reports and statistics from official sources that prove conclusively that the common European idea of the comfortable life of the American worker is in no way accurate. That is also clear to anyone who walks through the numerous side streets in New York and Brooklyn, or who visits a sharecropper in the "cotton belt."
Unemployment is unimaginable. Despite the New Deal and the Social Security Administration, despite the land's riches of every variety, despite vast and fruitful soil, despite technology and the much-praised American progress, Roosevelt has not succeeded in reducing the numing it unnecessary to discuss it here. Capitalist greed has leveled the forests and produced drought and wind storms. Everything has become desert, and whole regions have been ruined. The world knows that the misery of the American farmer is a catastrophe that the government is unable to do anything about,
American workers know nothing about such social benefits as old age care, care for the handicapped or accident and health insurance. Roosevelt's New Deal has attempted to copy the German model. The copy is a bad one. The renowned social apostle is bluffing here as everywhere else. Despite complicated regulations, only a small number of workers enjoy a decent retirement. Insurance against accidents, industries mishaps,and illness simply does not exist.
Women, children and young people are exploited in the most shameless fashion in "God's own country." To give only one example, girls in the tobacco industry in Ohio still work unlimited hours under dangerous conditions for $10 a week. After four or five years, most are sick with tuberculosis and are thrown out on the street because the owner would otherwise have to pay unemployment insurance. Thousands of new and cheap workers are waiting at the door, willing to sacrifice their health for low wages.
The best Americans, such as the famed American political philosopher Daniel Webster, the theoretician of the Whig Party, predicted the effects of a similarly deficient social system in these words: "The freest government will not long survive if wealth is concentrated in a few hands while the great masses of the people become dependent and poverty-stricken."
V. Franklin D. Roosevelt's Complete Bankruptcy
Everything that Daniel Webster feared and despised has come to pass in the USA. Even worse! The idiocy and criminality have increased, and no one sees a way out. Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed a New Deal in 1933 as a way to end the misery. Since this invention of Mr. Roosevelt's Brain Trust has caused so much confusion, I wish here to briefly summarize it and comment critically on it.
The New Deal is a collection of economic policy measures that Roosevelt implemented from 1933 to 1935, of which recent measures are a continuation.
The central points are:
Measures to increase purchasing power: (Farm Credit Act, protection of bankruptcy, public and private jobs, increased and stabilized wages, repricing of agricultural products and raw materials, devaluation to increase exports);
Establishing Unified Labor Legislation: (universal labor conditions, working hours, pay, right to organize, mediation system);
Introducing Social Security Measures: (unemployment compensation, workmen's compensation, Social Security).
The "New Deal" presumes cooperation between employers, workers and the government. This could only result because of the severity of the crisis, and the traditional American individualism immediately sabotaged it as soon as enormous public expenditures seemed to lead to improvements in some areas.
The "New Deal" was an expression of federal economic leadership. But it lacked the necessary bureaucracy, which had until then not existed in the USA.
The political conditions necessary for the "New Deal" economic policies were also lacking. The party and Congressional systems remained unchanged, as did the other institutions (the Supreme Court), which meant that business and labor circles influenced the legislative process.
The "New Deal" tried to have a planned economy without effective planning. The various measures were not coordinated with each other. The result: bureaucratic infighting, the influence of political moods, the pressures of election propaganda, the power of unemployed voters, the misuse of tax moneys for these purposes, "the use of social misery for electoral purposes." The "New Deal" was thus a confused liberal system. "The capitalists presented themselves as socialist!"
Fact: Roosevelt amassed $40 billion in debt prior to the beginning of the war.
The number of unemployed rose, after initial declines from 1938-1939, significantly, until the unimaginable figure of 11,300,000 was reached.
Roosevelt's policies have failed utterly.
VI. The Background to Roosevelt's Policies
The background to these policies is not easy to see. There are two primary explanations current in American circles:
First Explanation:
Roosevelt is a member of the American plutocratic class.
The social conditions in 1932-1933 presented the danger of revolution.
American capitalism sent one of its best humbugs to preach salvation to the masses.
He succeeded by using all the tricks of American propaganda.
The capitalist clique was ready to intervene at the proper moment,
The program was torpedoed at the proper moment by means of a bribed Supreme Court. The measures had served their purpose, namely to conceal the growing social misery. To guarantee armaments profits, the humbug Roosevelt was put to work on foreign policy. The methods were hate propaganda, war hysteria, and armaments.
Second Explanation:
Roosevelt, a plutocratic son, is a confidante of American Jews and Free Masons.
The catastrophic economic situation in 1932-1933 offered the Jews the opportunity to take over both the industrialists and the workers.
Roosevelt was put to work with his plan of salvation.
Labor and management became involuntary captives of the "New Deal," and helped bring about its failure.
Foreign policy was the only way out. The Jews were out for revenge against Greater Germany. Once again, hate propaganda, war hysteria, and armaments.
Both views are true. Roosevelt, the son of plutocrats, served American capitalism, and as a Jewish product served them, too. Since American capitalists are mostly Jews, both are in the end the same.
VII. Ancestry and Relatives of F. D. Roosevelt and his Wife.
This picture of current conditions in the USA would be incomplete without considering the ancestry and relatives of the warmonger Roosevelt. I will therefore discuss the matter briefly here. I hold to strict facts, without making any assumptions.
The "Detroit Jewish Chronicle," a Jewish newspaper, reported in 1935 that Roosevelt was descended from the Spanish Jew Rossocampo. In 1939 Adolf Schmalix concluded in his "Are the Roosevelts Jewish?" that Roosevelt is the descendant of a Dutch family whose earliest member is the farmer Claes Martensen, who was named after his farm, called "Het Roosevelt." On the other hand, it is clear that the Roosevelts took on Jewish blood through marriage once in the United States. Schmalix proves that as early as the second generation on American soil (from the 17th to the 18th Century), a Jewess Sarah Salomons joined the Roosevelt family. The mother of President Roosevelt was Sarah Delano, who Schmalix maintains was a descendant of the Italian or Spanish Jewish family Delano (Dillan, Delan, or Dillano).
The President held a press conference on 20 March 1935 on the matter of his presumed Jewish ancestry ("Neue freie Presse," Vienna). Roosevelt said: "My ancestors came to America from Holland over 300 years ago. I am not worried about whether or not they were Jewish." Schmalix notes: "This is a clear case of Talmud morality." Schmalix says that Mrs. Roosevelt's mother was Anna Rebekka Hall, and notes: "There are many families named Hall in the USA, some of Jewish origin, others of Christian origin from Germany or England." (p. 17)
The oldest son James Roosevelt, formerly the president's private secretary, is vice chairman of Samuel Goldwyn's well-known Jewish film company. Roosevelt's Jewish environment and the influence of Jewry on the USA has already been sufficiently discussed.
Conclusion.
When Roosevelt became president, not only millions of Americans, but people around the world asked "What does Roosevelt want?" Many hoped that the new American president would combat the need and misery, gangsterism and plutocracy, the power of Jewry. Those who put their hope in him did not realize his Jewish connections. Roosevelt disappointed their hopes and went in the opposite direction. Roosevelt has sworn allegiance to Jewry.
Jewry has had two centers in recent decades: New York and Moscow, London, Paris, Prague, Warsaw, Geneva, and other Jewish centers were of secondary importance. In Moscow the Jew ruled with GPU methods: murder and the most blatant exploitation. In New York, he used his financial strength. To win over America for the Jewish war against Germany, Jewry infiltrated plutocratic circles. They believed that they had finished off Europe for good through the Treaty of Versailles, since they had defeated Germany, the heart and soul of the continent, once and for all. They believed they had eliminated it as a factor. The plutocrats wanted to inherit the wealth of our ancient part of the world. They thought the time had come when for a few dollars they could buy all the European culture that had had been built with so much effort and sacrifice over a time span of 4500 years. Who could stop them? The American newcomers were already imagining themselves in possession of our splendid and immortal cultural values. In a few years everything would be forgotten and everything would be Americanized. That is what these cultural ignoramuses thought, who themselves have no culture or traditions.
They are mistaken!
Their time is far distant. In fact, it will never come! This war that Roosevelt and Churchill are waging on behalf of Jewry will end with the victory of the young peoples who the plutocrats have mocked as have-nots, whose last possessions they wanted to steal.
A new world order is coming! Jewry will have nothing to say about it. The power of the plutocrats will be broken forever.
The judgment on Roosevelt and Churchill will be as follows: Not only have they plunged foreign peoples into a world war, they have sacrificed and betrayed their own people in the interests of Jewry.
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