THE VOICE OF
DESTRUCTION

ספרו של הרמן ראושנינג, הרופא הפרטי של היטלר שישב בדיונים של המפלגה הנאצית בשנים 1933-1934. שיחות עם היטלר.

"They regard me as an uneducated barbarian," he exclaimed jubilantly. "Yes, we are barbarians!
We want to be barbarians! It is an honorable title. We shall rejuvenate the world! This world is
near its end. It is our mission to cause unrest."

"The Ten Commandments have lost their validity." "Conscience is a Jewish invention. It is a
blemish, like circumcision."

"Our revolution is not merely a political and social revolution; we are at the outset of a
tremendous revolution in moral ideas and in men's spiritual orientation."

"We must distrust the intelligence and the conscience, and must place our trust in our instincts.
We have to regain a new simplicity."

"The struggle for world domination will be fought entirely between us, between Germans and
Jews. All else is facade and illusion. Behind England stands Israel, and behind France, and
behind the United States. Even when we have driven the Jew out of Germany, he remains our
world enemy."
I asked whether that amounted to saying that the Jew must be destroyed.
"No," he replied. "We should have then to invent him. It is essential to have a tangible enemy,
not merely an abstract one."

"The Jew," he said, "is always with us. But it is easier to combat him in the flesh than an
invisible daemon. The Jew was the enemy of the Roman Empire, even of Egypt and Babylon;
but I have been the first to go all out against him.

"Don't you think," I objected, "that you are attributing rather too much importance to the Jews?"
"No, no, no!" exclaimed Hitler. "It is impossible to exaggerate the formidable quality of the Jew
as an enemy."

"We must
beat the Jew with his own weapon," he continued. "I saw that the moment I had read the book."
"So you derived inspiration for your struggle from the 'Protocols'?" I asked.
"Yes, certainly, down to the veriest detail," he replied. "I found these Protocols enormously
instructive.

"But we have been speaking," said Hitler, "of the Jew only as the ruler of the economic world
empire. We have been speaking of him as our political opponent. Where does he stand in the
deeper struggle for the new world era?"
I confessed that I had no notion.
"There cannot be two Chosen People. We are God's People. Does not that fully answer the
question?"
"That is to be understood symbolically?"
Again he banged the table.
"Symbolically? No! It's the sheer simple undiluted truth. Two worlds face one another—the men
of God and the men of Satan! The Jew is the anti-man, the creature of another god. He must have come from another root of the human race. I set the Aryan and the Jew over against each other;
and if I call one of them a human being I must call the other something else. The two are as
widely separated as man and beast. Not that I would call the Jew a beast. He is much further from the beasts than we Aryans. He is a creature outside nature and alien to nature."