Hitler and Purity of Race
January 30, 2018
MANY people on the Internet, in the wake of multiculturalism and national decline, sadly admire Adolf Hitler and National Socialism. I am not prepared to write an extended critique of Hitler’s extreme racial consciousness (and hasn’t enough been said?), but I offer this one quote from Mein Kampf as an example of where he goes disastrously wrong, without implying that this is the only problem:
IT [the National Socialist state] must see to it that only the healthy beget children; that there is only one disgrace: despite one’s own sickness and deficiencies, to bring children into the world; and one highest honor: to renounce doing so. And conversely it must be considered reprehensible to withhold healthy children from the nation. Here the state must act as the guardian of a millennial future in the face of which the wishes and selfishness of the individual must appear as nothing and submit. . . . Those who are not physically and mentally healthy and worthy must not perpetuate their defects in the bodies of their children. In this the National Socialist state must perform the most gigantic educational task. And someday this will seem to be a greater deed than the most victorious wars of our present mediocre era. . . . In the National Socialist state, finally, the National Socialist philosophy of life must succeed in bringing about that nobler age in which men no longer are concerned with breeding dogs, horses, and cats, but in elevating man himself.