Monday, April 20, 2020

The Führer’s Birthday

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Obedient historians have often enough dignified emperors and kings, nobles and the powerful, with the flattering term “the Great,” without however ensuring that these fine men actually went down that way in the book of world history.

In reality, the great men of history are rare. There are even whole centuries that lack a towering historic figure.

The historically great are those few personalities who stamp a whole epoch with their will, which lives on into the future and entirely changes the political order.

Great men are also rare because the unity of idea and will, of desire and action is so seldom achieved.

As we celebrate today the birthday of our Führer and bow before the greatness of this man, we have both the right and duty as people who think politically — beyond all cheap outward enthusiasm — to ask what is behind this greatness.

Deceived by liberal superficiality during the bourgeois era, people said that character was molded by the environment. The Führer refutes this persuasively: He worked hard to build his will and knowledge such that he became one of the deepest experts not only on the German nature, but on the deep political connections of world politics. The Führer’s ruthless self discipline gave him the strength of his convictions and the unshakable confidence of a genius who reaches his goals through the full force of his will.

The Führer has never been given anything, nor has he allowed himself to be given anything. All that he has, both intellectually and spiritually, he won himself! The blows of fate that he suffered from his youngest days onward made him harder and more passionate. He thus developed a character not dependent on a more or less hostile environment, but rather one able to stand against any opposition.

The World War was the last test of his character: with pride the Führer has always said that he learned as a simple soldier to bear the full weight of war! The war did not break him, but rather enabled him to understand more clearly and plainly the reality of life.

As chaos fell over Germany after 1918, the wisdom of those philosophers and poets who proclaimed that only character can survive defeat and collapse was proven.

In the familiar words of the Greek writer of tragedy, there is much that is powerful, but nothing that is more powerful than man. His words find amazing proof in the Führer, a single man with one goal who applied his passionate will in a time that lacked will. A single man proclaimed freedom during the years of slavery!

Coming ages will see the Führer as an almost mythic figure who did not only stand against the flow of a worthless era, but rather against a whole avalanche of apparently irresistible fate. He stood up as Germany was in danger of vanishing into the mists of history, changing history’s very direction.

We remember the catastrophic years that began in 1919. We remember the disgrace of Versailles, Germany’s enslavement, terrible arbitrary international forces.

While “well-meaning” bourgeois circles at best were dreaming that one day freedom would once more shine on Germany, the Führer pondered and labored to realize his idea of freedom, which had as its presupposition the mobilization of the German soul. Year in, year out, first unnoticed, then piled high with suspicion, envy, and ridicule, the Führer wandered through Germany and woke the best of the nation, leading them to self-awareness, forcing them under his prophetic will. The National Socialist movement developed as a gathering of those Germans who no longer wanted something for themselves, but rather thought only of Germany and of the eternal life of the nation.

When the seizure of power came in 1933, bourgeois politicians probably thought that the Führer has achieved the goal of his struggle. Those who saw, or at least sensed more deeply, realized that it was only the starting point for the second and most difficult phase of the Führer’s great struggle.

20 April 1889, birth date of Adolf Hitler, Nazi propaganda art, World War II

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History teaches that great revolutionary brilliant ideas always encounter the fierce hatred of the world, and that no one has come to lead a nation who is not threatened with war by all the old forces.

With enormous determination and clear knowledge of the way things were, the Führer proceeded to rearm Germany and make it strong. The enemy no longer had the freedom to dream of an attack on the German people. Within a few years, he succeeded in unifying a people that had been split by states, religions, dictates and treaties, making the German Reich the homeland of all Germans. We remember these years of construction at the triumph of a passionate will for German freedom.

There were some who, seeing the gathering thunderclouds around Germany, nervously asked what fate had in store should war break out.

We National Socialists who saw the Führer as a unique historic personality who took into account all conceivable possibilities were and remain full of confidence. As the enemy forces began the war, the Führer proved that he had the answer to the frequently discussed question of who should have the final say during war, the politician or the general. There was no division between politician and general: the Führer possessed both gifts!

Thus he joined the small proud group of those men of history who are able to represent the totality of an entire nation!

We ourselves are witnesses of the victories won by no one but the Führer, and we are deeply moved to see what a people can do that is united politically and spiritually by the hand of such a man.

We ourselves experienced the collapse of the old system, we ourselves fought in a numerically inferior army that defeated overwhelmingly superior armies. We learned that the passion of will and joyful ideas overcame walls of steel and concrete.

And this war has shown us that there is nothing that can withstand ready, fearless people who are confident of the superiority of the Führer.

The totality of his leadership, the uniqueness of his character have gathered all alert people of our nation behind the flag of the Reich.

We have not asked how long the war will last, nor which tasks lie before us. After each victorious battle we have tightened our helmets and waited for the Führer’s next orders.

We know that the longing of generations for freedom and the Reich are becoming reality in the battle we are fighting in the Führer’s name. We believe in the Reich we are building through our sacrifice, and we know that this Reich will be the home of free, honorable, upright and strong people.

We know our historic mission: Building a Reich that will give old and tired Europe a new, youthful, powerful and just order!

May the Führer find in the aware and thoughtful people of his nation that absolute sacrificial and loyal obedience that is worthy of his confidence.

We have learned to see life’s reality not as a problem, but rather as a fighting mission. Our loyalty demands that we fulfill this mission, which binds us completely to the Führer as the agent of that law that we obey.

Kurt Eggers

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