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To: Neocon who wrote (187162)	9/27/2001 10:44:12 AM
From: H-Man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Good post. As a history buff, I always appreciate the relevance of the past to the present. I doubt the target of the post will be able to comprehend the significance, but the audience no doubt will.

To: Neocon who wrote (187162)	9/27/2001 12:49:58 PM
From: asenna1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Such responsibility is too heavy for an individual to bear, were not the people behind him. That is why the Führer saw his first political task as seeking out the entirety of the people and going with them on his tiring and difficult path. Perhaps it was good that the people did not immediately fall into his arms, that he had to fight bitterly for 14 years* to win the nation.* Only thus did the nation come to belong to him so thoroughly and completely. There are men whom the people fear, men whom they respect, men whom they honor. But the greatest fortune of an historic personality is to be loved by a people. The greatest honor a man can hold is to be so bound and united with his people that he can at any time and in any situation speak in their name. In all that happens in Germany today, whether economically, socially, or culturally, whether domestically or in foreign policy, one senses clearly that behind it all is the ordering and ruling hand of the Führer. There is no area of public life that is hidden from him, or with which he is unfamiliar. His clear gaze reaches far, and he is involved in everything that happens. That is the case with the Führer. He is in fact the bearer of the German national will. His voice is the voice of the people. -Goebbels' 1937 Speech on Hitler's 48th Birthday

To: Neocon who wrote (187162)	9/27/2001 12:50:34 PM
From: asenna1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"This ability to believe is rather weak in some circles, above all in those with money and education. They may trust more in pure cold reason than a glowing idealistic heart. Our so-called intellectuals do not like to hear this, but it is true anyway. They know so much that in the end they do not know what to do with their wisdom. They can see the past, but not much of the present, and nothing at all of the future. Their imagination is insufficient to deal with a distant goal in a way such that one already thinks it achieved. That is why their carping criticisms generally focus on laughable trivialities. Whenever some unavoidable difficulty pops up, the kind of thing that always happens, they are immediately inclined to doubt everything and to throw the baby out with the bath water. To them difficulties are not there to be mastered, rather to be surrendered to. One cannot make history with such quivering people. They are only the chaff in God's breath. Thankfully, they are only a thin intellectual or social upper class, particularly in the case of Germany. They are not an upper class in the sense that they govern the nation, rather more a fact of nature like the bubbles of fat that always float on the surface of things. Today, they seek to give good advice to National Socialist Germany from abroad. We do not have to ask them for it. They focus all their energies on the small problems that always are there, complain about the cost and believe that crises and unavoidable tensions are on the way. They are the complainers who never tire of bringing National Socialist Germany before the so-called court of world opinion. In the past they always found willing and thankful followers. Today, they only have a few backward intellectual Philistines in their camp. The people want nothing to do with them. These Philistines are the 8/10 of one percent of the German people who have always said no, who always say no now, and who will always say no in the future. We cannot win them over, and do not even want to. They said no when Austria joined the Reich; they said no when the Sudetenland followed. They always say no as a matter of principle." -Joseph Goebbels 1938