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BOLSHEVISMIN THEORY AND PRACTICE
By
DR . JOSEPH GOEBBELS
.sPEECH DELIVERED L'I !.;(JRNBERG
ON SEPTEMBER to», 1936
AT THE EIGHTH NATIONALsOCIALlST PARTYCO:o,·GRE5S
"Lenin, th e f ou ntk r o f th e B ol sliro ic R ev olu tio n, slaud
frankly thaljalleiloodsareTWt o n ly j us ti fi ed b u ll uW t prooed
to bt the m ost iffUlivl to ols in the BolJlufJie ItTVggk."
J o st ph G o eb b tl s, N i lr n IH r g , Septnn}ur 1936
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My Fuhrer!
Your Exeellenciest
~Iy Honourable Guests
Fel low Members of the National Social ist Partyl
The fact. that the phenomenon of Bolshevism as represented
by the theory of Murx and put into practice by the Russian
Soviet Slate is still engaging the attention of political circles
in \\'estern Europe. as a theoretical phenomenon and a
political reality which civilized people ought to take into
account intellectually as well as politically, shows that
lhere is a falal lack of insight into the nature and essential
structure of international Bolshevism, "'hal is called Bol-
shevisrn has nothing whatsoever to do with wha] we under-
stand by "ideas" and all "outlook on life" (Weltanschauung)
in general. It is nothing hut a pathological and criminal kind
of madness, devised hy Jews, as can wcIl be proved, and led
by Jews who aim at destroying the civilizcd nat ions of Europe
and at founding a Jewish·international world regime that
would subject all nations to their power.
Bolshevism could have had its ori~in only in the Jewish
brain and l lu- sterile a sphalt of the metropolis alone made
it possible for this thing 10 grow and sprcnd. It could onlybe
accepted hy J species of rnank ind Ih;11 had been morally and
economically shuttered by the war and the econornie crisis
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which followed. On such people it was let loose and was
acceptable to them because its criminal and crazy doctrine
appealed to them.
Though superfluous, it may here once again be emphasized
that we National Socialists, in fighting this world peril as
mercilessly as we did from the very first hour of our po-
litical activity up to the present have not defended anti-
social ist or even pro-capitalist interests . Our struggle against
Bolshevism is no fight a g a ins t but in f a v0 Ur of Socialism.
Our altitude grew out of a deep conviction that a true and
genuine Socialism can only be realised if its lowest and most
ill-born offspring, Jewish Bolshevism, would have been
done away with. The fight against Bolshevism can only be
carried through to a successful issue by a people that has found
a new structure for its folk-life which is adequate to the dy-
namic values and standards of the Twentieth Century: a social ist
structure in a national form.
The bourgeois middle-classes of all nations have proved
to be impotent in dealing with Bolshevism and are unfitted
for the fight against it. They have not yet even gained a
clear insight into the principles which inspire and direct
Bolshevism. They lack the spiritual quality, the principled
conscience, political faith and moral slrens~t;t of character
that alone would enable them to face it. But not only do they
lack the necessary insighl- they Hen attempt to compromise
with Bolshevism whenever an opportunity arises, so 85 to"prevent an even greater evil". But every pact which the
bourgeois world contracts with radical Bolshevism will finally
lead to a victory of Bolshevism m-er the bourgeois world
because of the natural law according to which the stronger
will always prevail over the weaker.
Bolshevism has at least one very definite advantage over
.u other groups that bold polit ical power - excePtmc
,
those who face it with absolute and downright oppo-
sition, Itmobilises recklessly the lower grades of mankind
which exist among the dregs of every nation and are opposedto the State and the ideas which sustain it. It is the organi-
sation of till! lowest instincts ofa people aiming at the
destruction of all productive and valuable elements in a race,
It usuallv seizes upon a g-roup that holds political power
which is "based upon a brutish minority and which is deter-
mined 10 reach its final politlcal aim withunscrupulous and
criminal tactics.
But the Bolshevic readiness for tactical compromises must
not be taken as a willingness to compromise as far as their
principles arc concerned. At bottom, Bolshevism knows no
compromise, If it makes a compromise, that is only done for
one reason, i.e. to use it as a moans to seize unlimited power.
It does not hesitate to cut the throats of those who have
helped it to gain power after they have gained it. :Sot a very
al luring prospect for those bourgeois poli ticians of some of
the West-European states who still believe that the sting may
betaken from Bolshevism by the tamcr Front Populaire,
Bolshevism is the dictatorship of the inferior. It seizes
power by means of falsehoods, it maintains power by means
of Iorce. To be able to combat it, one must know it thoroughly
and one must have penetrated inlo its deepest secrets, The
more worthy forces of a nation have to be mohilized to ex-
terminate it , since it is the organisat ion of everything that mayhe called the anti-racial forces of the people.
There is one sphere in particular wherein Bolshevism has
shown its mastery, i.e_that of negative propaganda. It gains
a foothold among the nations by means of lies and hypocrisy.
It aims at presenting a garbled picture of thc nature and inner
form of this _political madness. Lenin, the Father of the
Bolshevist Revolution, stated frankly that falsehoodJ are
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not only justified but have proved to be the mostelfective
tools in Bolshevist struggle. Schopenhauer bas said that
the Jews are masters of lies and, therefore. it is nosurprising fact that Bolshevism and Jewry here meet in close
kinship. Jewish Bolshevism is a past-master in the mani-
pulation of lies, Decent and truthful people are so stunned
by this method that they are incapable of offering inner
resistance. That is just what the Jewish Bolshevist s have been
aiming at, They speculate on the incapacity of the average
truthful person to imagine that it is even possible ,to lie
with such bold and brazen-faced nonchalanceas they lie.
It is possible to lie like Ihat. Bolshevism has shown it to
be possible and it has been succeeeful in surprising and
winning over many unsuspicious people. '
In accordance WIth the very nature o f Bolshevism, its pro-
paganda is international and aggressive. It aims at the.
radiealisation of all the nations of the, world to bring about
anarchy and Bolshevism. It has got tremendous supplies
of funds at its disposal which are unlimited because the
Bolshevie dictators unscrupulously starve the entire Russian
people in order to spend the money for this purpose. This
kind of propaganda is particulnrly : insidious for outside
countries because it is supported by the Communist parties
of those countries, i.e, by the respective foreign sect ions of
the Comintern, The communist parties outside of Russia are
nothing but foreign legions of the Com intern. Witl;l theirsupport, Bolshevism ergnnises and lays out ingenious. plans
of international sedition which are very difficult t o attack
because they have their roots in the political and national
life of the respective nations. It must be estimated as the
most threatening perillo a state 10 allow the existence of a
domestic party which takes its orders from the authorities
of a foreign count ry. Experience shoy ..! that ·countries where
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a strong Communist party exists arc more or less subject to
the dictates of Stalin with regard to their Home- Social-
Economic- Military" and Foreign Policy. When concluding a .
treaty. one of the \Vestern European Great Powers bad, for
example. to jnake the request first that the Communist party
that exists on Its 0\\'0 soil should be ordered from Moscow to
stop undermining the army and vetoing the credits for milit·
ary purposes.
The Communist sections in the various countries are ordered
to prepare and to carry through the Bolshevist revolution.
They are supplied with abundant funds, unequaled anY"'bere
else, to carryon this ingenious propaganda for which
Moscow has laid out the model. This propaganda has
only one object and purpose. n aims at deceiving the other
nations as to the true nature of Bolshevism and either to pre-vent the leaking out of facts from Soviet Russia or to falsify
them. so that they lose thei r value as rel iable news. The reason
for such a policy is that the Soviet Union cannot allow the
truth about it s domest ic condi tions to be known. particularly
not in ,,"('sicrn Europe, with its more civilized and intel ligent
cit izens, The poison of the Bolshevist theory may be alluring
and enticing, but Bolshevism in practice is terrible and horror-
striking. Its way is marked by mountains of skeletons. An
ocean of blood and tears floods that unhappy tract. Human life
has. lost all value . . Terrorism. murder, bestiality - these are
the trails that characterize every Bolshevist revolution, whether
it be successful, as in Russia,or fail and be suppressed, as inHungary. Bavaria. the Ruhr district and Berlin, or still figh.
ting for power as is the case in Spain today.
When Bolshevism has gained control i t s tops worrying about
contradictions between theory and practice: carbines and
machine guns then hold the field, But anywhere else. outside of
ils home terri tory, it uses its ingeniously devised propaganda
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machinery to deceive the world as to its own true nature.
Bourgeois people in Europe have not the slightest knowledge. of how these facts are preceding. They try to avaid a decision
by mouthing the same phrase over and over again, namely,
that nobody is allowed to interfere in the domestic affairs of a
foreign country. But what is a reality now in Russia, what is
fought for and against · J u Spain and what i s fatally preparing
its way in other European States - that is a matter of concern
for the whole world. It is no longer a problem that can be dealt
with by those who theorise about the various outlooks on life
(Weltanschauunsstheoretiker). it is rather.
matter of grave concern for statesmen aU over the world. They
will have to tackle this problem unless they wish to become
responsible for the future development which - because oftheir negligence - will push Europe into the most severe crisis
and eventually into ruin. The problem of Bolshevism as it faces,
Europe today is a question of to be or not 10 be. Here and
now the souls of men are ranged on the one side or the other.
A definite side will have to be taken either against or in favour
of Bolshevism and all consequences resulting therefrom will
have to be accepted. .
Another problem must be settled. The problem of the role
which Jcwry plays in relation to Bolshevism. Only in Gcrmany
c~n it be openly discussed, since it would be dangerous in
any, other country - as was also the case in Germany not
so many years ago - even 10 mention the Jewry by name,There can be no doubt that Jews are the founders of Bolshevism
and that it is they who represent it. The old leading class in
Russia has been so completely eliminated that no other leader-
ship group was left but the Jews. Every conflict within Belshe-
"ism is therefore more or less a family conflict among Jews,
The recent executions inMoscow, i.e. Ihe shooting of Jews by
Jews, can only be understood on motives of thi rst for power
and determination to destroy aU opponenls.Tbe belief that Jews
arc always at perfect harmony with one another is a widespread
error. They live in unity only ""hen they form a minority
that is kept ill 'control and menaced by :II large national major-
ity. In present-day Russia this is not the case any more. If
Jews have attained power - as they exclusively have done illl
Russia - the old Jewish rivalries begin again, which had been
kept in nbcvance bv the danger threatening their race.
Thc idea-underl):ing Bolshevism, i.e. the idea of unscrupulous
disintegration and destruction of decency and culture {or the
diabolic purpose of destroying the nations could have been
born only in the Jewish brain, just as Bolshevie practice, with .
all its horrifying cruel ty, is only possible when manipulated
by the Jews. In accordance with their nature these Jews do
not show their faces in the open. They work underground and,
in Western Europe they try to deny that they have ao)1bing
to do with Bolshevism. That is the way they have always
behaved and will behave in the future.
But we have found them out and, what is more, we are the
only people in Ihc ,world who have the courage to call the
attention of mankind to these capital criminals. We are not
afraid of any consequences and cal l them by their r ight Dame.
There was a time in Germany when anyone who called a Jew
a Jew was sent to prison. But in spite of thai we dared to do
it. Even today Ihe world wry often objects, with noble
restraint or even with well -staged moral disapproval , when
Jews are called Jews or l3ohh{'\'ists arc called capital crimi-
nals. But we are convinced thai we shall e\'entu311y succeed inopening the eyes of lhe world so as to make them see the true
face of Jewry and Bolshcvism just as well as we succeeded in
convincing Germany of the perilous parasitic character of
that race. In Ihe meantime we shall not lire of pointing to
this fatul danger and appealing to the attention of all the
people who are undergoing terrible crises and upheavals.
proclaiminl!:/"Tiie Jew. are to blame! The Jews are to blamel"
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This charge will be like a lash in the faces of the-Jews, disl~r -
ted as they are by. hate. It won't help them either if they try
~o adop~ the camouflage of democratic forms. That method is
Just a bi t too ingeoo.us to impress intelligent people. It is only
a r~se to catch :he Intellectual philistines. They welcome this
slogan because It enables them to fight shy of a decision. This
so.ca.lIed Bolshevist Democracy which some French and
English papers have suggestet as the prototype and counter-
~art of the so-called National Socialist Dictatorship. is engulfed
lD terror, blood and murder, Every few years the Bolshevist
despots prod~im this. moth· eaten slogan whenever they
feel t~e necessity of recommending themselves to Europe after
a period of brutal terrorism. Then suddenly canards are let
loose by U~eCom.mu.nist p~opaganda bureaus, empty promises
that a new ~onstJluhon wil l be introduced, that the universal
ba.llot etc. will be !;'I"antedto Russia But all th .esc pronuses are
.f:llselh)o~s, speculating upon the short memories and proverbial
mental .lDcr~ness of narrow-minded philistines. In reality
Bolshevism IS the crassest rule of blood and terror that the
world has ncr experienced. The Jews have planned it in order
to make it impossible for power to be taken out of their hands
and it is Jews who arc exercising it. We National Socialists.
to justify and consolidate our national power honourablv have
appealed 10 the .counlry again and again, almost year after year.
through general elect ions in which the laws of the secret ballot
are ~hserved. Bolshevism talks of People and the Country
of Workers and Peasants; but on its face is imprinted the
word For c ~"J ' .
Each person forms for himself a ce; tain idea of Bolshevism.
For the most part this idea is the product of his own brain.
Th~n propaganda comes to his aid. It s means of working forms
a picture of Bolshevism according to the mentality of a person
or a group of persons or of a nation. It is all art if ic ially
managed. There is no real basis of truth .iD it. It may easily
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happen that representatives of a great country become en-
thusiastic about a new subway in Moscow, which would attract
no aUention whatsoever in another large city, Wben the Belshe-
vies welcome the stranger with the strains of his own nationalanthem these strangers, without any rational reason wba\-
SOC\'er,discard their former ideas about Bolshevism and make
friends with it. The Red Jews in Moscow know how to handle
their dupes. It is permissible to imagine how they mock and
ridicule the attitude of the bourgeois world that i s thus created,
Therefore they are very furious with us b~use we have
recognised them and are bent on shat tering to its very founda-
tions the picture of Bolshe\'ism that is widely prevalent in
'Europe, Their hate against us is illimitable. It is one of the
best and most honourable tributes to the character of our
pol itical struggle. We tear the mask from their faces and show
them to the world in their true appearance. .It has already been stated that the concept which various
people and nations for III of Bolshevism is a special outcome of
Bolshevic propaganda. A great part of the art of deception
consists, for instance, in making people believe that the Moscow
Gm'ernment has nothing at a n to do with the Comintern. That
is about the most baf('faced and 'brazen 'swindle that can be
imagined; hecause there is only a division of administration
bl. 'lw('en the Soviet Gon'rnment and the Com intern. But to
think that one is independent of the other ..... uld he like be-
Iicving that the National Socialist Movement has nothing to do
, .with Ihe Xational Socialist Go\-ernment.
Bolshcvistlc prop:lganda operates 90 a broad scale. I ts purposeis to bring the world 10 dest ruction. In foreign countries it
"Is mistakenly interpreted. These naive people who accept it
are generally the most naive of the naive. But they exist and
they have a certain effect of their own.
Bolshevism in practice is something different, There it
is; and you cannot deny wh:lt it does. In blood it has traced
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its fearful march. Its inlenlion is to bring the whole world
inlo ils chaotic mess. It signifies the great attempt of Judaism
10 bring the nations under their own power. Therefore the
fight against this danger is, in the truest sense of the word,a world fight. Itwas begun in Germany and has been fought
out on German soil. Adolf Hitler is the historic leader in
this campaign. "-e arc 31 1 his representatives and therewith
we arc the apostles of a great historical mission. There can
never be a compromise between thc two extremes, Bolshevism
must be exterminated if Europe is to regain its normal slate
of health.
nut the Jcws know exactly 'what is about 10 happen. In
one of their last efforls they have striven to mobilize all the
forces of the world agalnst Germany. They want to st rengthen
their power by a feverish rush of armament. 'In National
Socialist Germany they see a constant' danger to their ownexistence. In Russia Judaism has established a home for
itself which they never thougt would be endangered. Up to
ninety-eight percent, it represents the new bourgeois class
among the Soviets - knaves, fati ings, dissemblers. int riguers
and plotters, back-slappers and frivolous people. These Jews
who have now attained high positions are able to exercise
their petty swindles, over a large-scale area, on 160 million
people. They arc ruthless tyrants, absolutely without prin-
ciple. They inflict themselves on the people like a universal
scourge, Ihe purpose of which is to spread catastrophe.
I have already bid stress on the fact that Bolshevist pro-
paganda is sufficienlly astute to adjust its teaching to itshearers. II can be radical or moderate to suit the occasion.
''"hen the terrori st , Dimitroff, speaks before the. Comintern
the attitude is different from that which Lilwinoff adopts
before the League of Nations. The Bolshevist propaganda
may he religlous or anti-religious 10 suit the circumstances.
It is ullerly without conscience and all means are justified
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by the ends they serve. Allover the world this propaganda
has at its disposal a complex machinery which is made up
of the Communist sections in the various countries. It ~nly
needs to press a, button in order to put this machinery I n ! Ooperation. In every country it operates e~lher sccre.Uy or III
the open. Woe to the nation that allows It to f~~clton •. O~e
day that nation will be undermined by this sedlhous activity
and will be disrupted, mcrely because this phenomcnon has
not been seriously taken into account.
We National Socialists are in the bappy position that we
have no need to mince our words when we speak of Bol-
shevism. We do not speak the language of the secret cabinets;
We speak. the language of the people and, therefore, hope,
that the people or outside nations will undcrstand us. \Ve are
lucky cnouzh to be able to call things by their names; and
we feel bound to do so. For the world must have its eyes
opened, We cannot and we must not bc silent in face Of. thedunner that menaces Europe. It is incumbent on the nations
andJhclr Gover nmcnts to make their own decisions; but it
is the right and the duty of every individual. whom nature
has endowed with the gift of insight and thc power of self-
expression, to proclaim his opinions and cOD\·icli .ons, to point
the fill"er to forthcoming catastrophes and to voice the needs
'of the t'ttime. To dally with Bolshevism spells ultimate ruin.
Therefore we lake tile opportunity of tbis Party Congress
to rin.' the alnrnr :Igainst this world danger, I have taken
this ol:purtunilY of pointing out whal Bolshevism is in acl~al
practice. to unmask its teaching and therewith wc are hc~pmG
towards the understanding of the history of our own times,which has to be learned and must not be forgotten.
And now wc come to the point.
Thc Wesl-Europl':m worker is apt to consider the Soviet
Lriion as a proletarian Slate, i.e. as his State. He Ihinks
Ihat i ll Ru~ia the work. iuQ cla§lli~~ceded illeliminating the
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Fahne" demanded in its electoral campaign: "Put a stop to the
increase of wages. wages han to be decreased. \Ve demand
the seven-hour working day, the forty-hour week and ad-
justed wages."
Bu t how is the situation in Soviet Russia? The price of bread
rose from 9 to 75 Kopeks per kilogramm within the years
between 1028 and 1n5. The monthly v,'age of a Sovietworker,
has fallen 78.5 percent measured by the quantilyof bread
which the worker can buy. If the Russian worker wants to
earn enought to live he has to work according to tbe Stacbanoff
system which has raised the Dorm so much above the average
that the mass of workers can never reach il The result is that
the average Russian worker gets lower ' . .. .ges.
In 1':)32 the "Rote Fahne" published a report on the housing
conditions, which had been sent in by a comrade working in
[he Soviet Union, lie wrote that be had two large rooms for
himself, with electricity and central beating.
And now a true picture of real ity: A working woman writes
in "Lcningradskaja Prawda", a Communist paper, "We, that
is Imvsclf arul mv lillie boy, who is a year-and-a-half old, my
hroth~r and 1l1\" ~istcr who suffers from tuberculosis, live in
one small and dark room. 0 .... complaints brought before the
Communist municlpul commission have been fruitless. \Ye are
still lidn~ as ht'fore in these unbelievable conditions."
The Ilussi.m worker has to spend for his simple food which
consists onlv ef bread, cabbage soup and gruel, not less Ulan
75 percent of his 'tolal income. He would have to spend twicethe amount of the average wage to attain the standard of living
which the German worker bas.
A well-known Bolshevist slogan promises the {"Stablishment
.. r the free right to work. On June 20, IU32 the "Rote Fabne"
wrote "Look to" 'prds M 0 5 C ( O W . Leningrad, Baku, Nowosibirsk
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capitalistic exploiters and in establishing tbe dictatorship
of the proletariat, where the free workers are now bui lding
up a State of their own, the "Fatherland of the Working
People".But Jews, like David Ricardo 'or Mars.-Mardochay, have
been the originators of the 1IIarxist teaching; and Jews, like
Lassalle, Wolfssohn, Adler, Liebknecht, Luxemburg, Levi etc .
have organised all labour movements. From their safe
editorial chairs, Jews have urged the workers to the barri-
cades, Jews, like Paul Singer. Schiff. Kohn etc. were the
financieis of ~Iarl:ist Bolshevism.
The Soviet Government has been and still is almost com-
pletely composed of Jews. Not one worker belongs to the
governing body, Almost all of the Bolshevist leaders who
have been recenlly shot in Moscow were Jews. There
was not one worker among them. The Triumvirate, whichrose as the victorious group out of this inter-Jewish conflict
and which now holds dictatorship over the Soviet Union, is
composed of: -
Hers c h e (. J e hu d a (Jago d a), He ado f the
OGPU
L a 1 a r u s :" 10 Se s so h n K a san 0 wit s c h, Father-
in-law of Stalin and Commissary for Transport
F j n k e 1st e in· Lit win 0ff, Commissary for For.
elgn Affairs.
all of whom are Jew s who came from the Ghetto.
The Government of the Soviet Union is not the dictatorshipof the proletariat hut tlie dictatorship of Jewry over aU therest of the population.
TIle pol i tic II I agitation of Bolshevism is equaled by its
demagogieal propaganda in the e e 0 nom ie sphere. They
proclaim that the worker leads a sort of paradisic:allife in the
So"iel UnioD. As late as April, 1932. the Dewspaper "Rote
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and know: work, bread and liberty can only be attained if we
fight and follow the example of the Bolshiviki."
The way in which the Soviet workers are urged to work by
the Stachanoff system may rightly be called slavery. But the
Soviet Union even re-introduced slavery in the verbal meaning
of the word. About six-and-a-half million people who work in
the forced labour camps ofthe Soviet Union are l iving in a slate
of hell-on-earth. In three hundred giant Iorced-labour camps,
Bolshevism is squeezing the lost ounce of work and energy
out of these workers. Some hundred thousands of people had
to be burried when the Stalin-Caspian Channel was built by
forced-labour gangs, The following Jewish. leaders of the
OGPU forced the Channel to be built in such murderous speed:
Herrselrcl Jagoda, Davidsohn, Kwasnitzki, Isaaksohn, Rotten-
berg, Ginsburg, Brodski, Bercnsohn, Dorfmann, Kagner, Angert
and others, Judaism flourishes the whip over the "Fatherland
of the Proletariat."
Bolshevist propaganda boasts of having freed the working
class among the peasants from the claws of capitalistic ex-
ploitation. To allure the innocent peasants and to get their
confidence, Bolshevism founded the "Peasants' international".
In its programme we find the following proclamation: "We
demand that the burden of taxes be lifted from the middle-
class of the peasants. that their taxes be decreased, we demand
the cxproprtation of the large estates, which shall be made
available free of charge for the sons of the peasants who till
the 50i1."
Let us have a look at the situation as it exists in reality I The
-granaries of Soviet-Russia, which fofmerly helped to supply
"·estern Europe with the necessary cereals, are no longer in a
position to feed their own population. Millions of people are
starving. A hitler war is being waged betw-een the terroristic
apparatus of Ihe OGPU and the peasants. The Jews Kagano-
...·itscb, Jadoga and Baumann, enforced a radical collectivisation
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on the peassants which simply killed more than 15 llliUioD
peasants and members of peasantfamilies. . .The main achievement of the peasant policy carried out by
the Bolshevists i s the terrorist ic law of August 7, 1932, which,
for any kind of' "wrong" committed by a peasant enacts thedeath penalty, ten years of hard labour or forc~d labo~ sen-
tences. Judeo-Bolshevism even abuses the relation of child to
parent in applying this law. "Iswestia" reports, 'on May 28,
1934 how a girl denounced her father, who had kept
back' grain that had been commissioned by the collective.
Coder the terror law her father was subject to the death
penal ty. The child received of ficial congratulat ion fo~ her act.
In pre.~ational Socialist Germany the Communist Party
put forward the following demands in their ~rosramme for t~e
soldiers; Point 12: Abolit ion of all undesirable persons m
command. Point 20: Annulment of the order to live in bar-
racks. "Emancipation from blind Obedience" and the "Demo-
cratisation of the Army" were the slogans.
Compulsory mobilization of the workpeople was introduced
forthwith after the Bolshevist dictatorship had been set up.
Those who did not obey the order were shot or sent to the
blood dungeons of the Tscheka. Instead of the voluntary
people's militia, there was central authori.tarian co~mand,
iron proletarian discipline, the forced conscripts were interned
in barracks and the strictest laws. courts-martial were set up.
From the "Comrade Commandants" the whole army aristocracy
was chosen. including lieutenants, captains etc. up to the
red marshals. The Soviet Jew, Hahinowilsch, cynically
~dmilted that the simulated "democratisation" of the army
was "only a ruse to gain conlrol of the army".
Another Bolshevist slogan, which is widely believed, is the
"Emancipation of Woman". The pretension is that the
woman must be freed from the'oomeslic yoke and placed on
an equal (oolinS with the ~n. In the year 1924 the Comin-
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tern Congress explicitly stated' "The revol Ii .a I I' . U ion as powerlesss ong n~ t ie fnn~ll! and family conditions rema in," But in .
the pructical uumlOlstration of the SOV1'et Uni th. " . Ion e actual
way o~ tIllS. highly vaunted "Emancipation of Woman"shows Itself In the fact that, without having the right to
appeal for protection. women are forced to submit and
surrender themselves to the arbitrary demands of the men
and they_ have. to earn their livelihood by heavy manual
labour .. Even In the labour-camps, which have the worst
reputation, there are more than one million women.
, Furthermore Bolshevist propaganda asserts that the woman
IS .released from the burden of having to look after h
children. Th~s task is taken over by the Soviet State itse~:
At the same time the official party press is forced to acknow-
ledge. that the army of waifs and youthful criminals is
steadl~Y on t1~e increuse. A special and influent ial appeal in
the S) sl.em 01 Bolshevist propaganda is the demand for the
abrogation of the legal veto against abortion The p rof abor lion, which wcnl on without hindranc'e f .rs,Ctlce, I b or elg 1 een).e.ars, las .econ~e so prevalent that the SOviets would nowlike to forbid this praclice of abortion.
Bolshevist propaganda in reuard to the po '[' f· . ," SI Ion 0 womenIII Ihe SOCial order reaches the peak of mental aber rwhen it < .I I II . . ra Ion· . ec ares ,1at Inthe bourgeois social order prostitut-
l~~lS a neces~ary evil, but lhatthis will finally 'disappear
'nth the estuhlishment of Communism The .· tl . . .' re IS no countryIn ie world where t ile spectacle of prost itution is 5 '.
versal a ' II S. ,., 0 um· s I~ ie ovrct LIIIOIl. Even in order to hold theirjobs, working women have 10 submit to the desires of their
~osscs ., In the. truest" sense of the' term, women in this
Pa~adlse of \\ omen" are the open prey of the Jewish Sovietbullies,
The "study-trip" ma~e by the French statistician, Herriot,
during the famine period of 1933, oHen a specialJycrau
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example of how the bemused polit ic ians ofWestern liberalism
may be allured by Sovlet propaganda. On this po-int the
Jewish New York' paper "Forward", which certainly cannot
be suspected of pro-Naa! leanings, declared as .foUows:
"On the day prceeeding the arrival of the delegation the
whole population of Kiew was mobilized at two o'eleek ~n
the night, to clean the main streets. Ten thousand hands
worked fcn!rishly to give an European aspect to the neglected
and filthy town. AU relief centres, cooperat ive stores were
closed. Queues 'were forbidden, The imposing army of waifs,
beggars and starvelings 'were all removed, Militiamen on
highly groomed horses strutted at the street crossings, manes
of their horses entwined wlth white ribbons - a picturewhich Kiew saw never before, or after" (Ihi& is a retranslation).
One of the great parade pieces from the arsenal of
Bolshevist propaganda is the claim for the abolit ion of the
army. the demand for "allround and complete" disarmamenL
The K.P.D. (German Communist Party), under the slogan "Ko
more \Yar""Forward with the fight against armament",
for instance, demanded a plebiscite 00 lhe following propo-
sition:"The construction of drC'adooughts and cruisers of aU kinds
is forbidden." And in February, 1932, the Jew, Finkelstein-
Litwinoff, took oceasion, at one of the innumerable Geneva
Conferences, to champien before the world the principle of
"complete dlsarmament", Up to the present no change hal
taken place in these methods of deception. This statement is
c,orroDoraledby the
dcclaratlon which the same Litwlnoffmade last July, when he said that the "complete disarmament"
.was :l "maximal guarantee" of peace. -
That's Bolshevist propaganda. LAnd what is the reality? The peace strength of the Red
Army amounts to t......nlillions, by reason of the lowering of
the age limi t of those l iable for military service. But to this we
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must add the trained reserves, which number from nine to
len mil lions. In case of war therefore they could mobi lize eleven
millions; and, within a pract ical period of t ime, even fourteen
millions.
Should war break out, the Red Army would be able toissue marching orders to Red soldiers of between 160 and
180 infantry divisions and 25 cavallery dlvisrons. Recently
the increase in the lank forces was declared by qte Red
Marshal Tuchatschewski, as 24i5 percent,
The strength of the Red Air Force amounts to 6000 planes.
The planes of the First Line arc .dividcd into 3100 heavy and
light bombers and scout plancf and 1500 chassers. The
bombing weapon prevails over al~ others and proves that .the
l\ed Air Force is preeminently a weapon ofnttack. The idea
is that in case of war the bombing planes should be able to
make a surprise attack before the attacked country will have
had time to organise its defence. The view of the Sovietstrategists is that .the next war will _!>ebegun without any
introductory declaration of war. A~d it is not generally known
that the Soviets possess the greatest submarine force in the
world.
The aggressh'e character of the Red Army is testified by
the aggressive strategy of its leaders. One of the great
paragons of efflcieney in the Soviet regime is that of the
"obvious justice" of the victorious Bolshevic revolution on a
world extension, according to Tuchatschewski, who said:
"Bolshevism will strive with elementary force to embrace the
\\'h~le world by direct influence. Its most important means
will be its militarv power." .And now the most incredible thing of all: Insptte of this
very obvious imperialistic kind of armament. Bolshevic
propaganda insists even today that Moscow adheres to a
"policy of peace". '<The Soviet Union does not wi5h to expand
its territory. 11 is always there when peace is to be defended
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and maintained" - that is the kind of lies that Mr. Litwinoff
casts into the face of the world. And the French Communist
leader, Thorez,' declares in ..Humanile": "\\'e have shown
that the aim of peace is inseparable from the policy of the
Soviet Union,"In glaring contrast to this systematic campaign of false-
hoods we have the political offensive of the military pacts.
Under the slogan of "collective security" these were established
between Moscow and Paris on May 2. 1935 and between
~loscow and Prague on May 16, 1935.
A little while ago the Mayor of St. Denis, Jacques Doriot,
formerly a Communist and now a leader of the "Parti Popu-
laire Francais" described the purpose of the Frunco-Bolshevic
military pact in the following words: "And when they have
formulated it in true earnest, when Cachin is President of
the Hepubl ic and Thorcz is Prime Minister and Peri i s Foreign
:'Ilinister, under orders from Moscow they will unleash thedogs of war against Germany and thus secure freedom for
the Soviet Union on their Western front ... "
And the case is not otherwise with the mil itary pact between
Moscow and Prague. On December 15, 1935, a Soviet airman
and member of the Communist Party made the following
~ecJ;Jrations on that point to a representative of the French
paper "G r i n g 0 ire". '-The erection of air stations in the
neighbourhood of Prague and in the hinterland would be an
ideal mow for us. From these points only half the aeroplanes
arc nccessarv and onlv half the fuel is needed. Hence-i t would
be possible i'or us to carry an extra three tons~r explosives."
:'Ilcallwhile great numbers of these red air Italians have beenerected in Czechoslovak ian territory. Recently they were
increased to thirty-six. "S 10v ens k y Den n i k" - which is
a ncswpaper published at Pressburg and controlled by the
Prime Minister - made the astonishing admission: "If the
air stations are intended foi the defence of the State, then
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assuredly no geese wil l be found grazins ou them. They will
be a refuge for those friends of ours who may rand them
adapted for use and proteclion." I n other words, these thirly-
six air stations 'are meant to be the slarting points from
which the Red bombers will attack Europe. This is ,an acute
danger" That is proved by the fact that ahe ,Red bombers
could thus feac)l the most important strategic points in
Western Europe \fithin less than an hour and could destroy
.these. From the' air bases of, the Red Arm\" within,.. . . _ " - . . . . ._ \. .{.zedlOslo\:akian tcrrHGry, Dresden. for example. could be
rea~hed ,within twenty minuies." Cbemnitz, within eleven
,ntinules, the Silesian industr ia l distr ic t within nine minutes.
Derlin with in forty-' ';-o minutes, Vienna within ninemiDutes.
·tbefhuni ti,on "works in Steier wi thin se,'cnteen minutes and
the manufacturing district of the Stelermark vdthiil twenty-
~ven mlnufes. The Red planes could reach Budapest within
, ahout sil. minutes and make it a. heap!)f dust and ashes ..
-That is the stGcy 01 the Bolshevist "peace policy". On this
".spot 1351 year I .gave an exact account of bow' many
clergymen had been murdered in Russia and pointed to
the danger of such's procedure being repeated in other
count ries. But even ecclesiastical circles in outside countries
poo.poohed thi,s warning. They expressed the naive view
,that Bolshnism had changed and Il.at in future it would
guarantee freedom of worship to religioul denominations.
ll€anwhile events in Spain have shown only too clearly that
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, , · a srisht. "In all districts in which the )ladrid Govern-
ment rules there i,sno longer a church that is OpeD_-, So writes
the ··Dia rio de ia mar ina". And Ihe Catholic Church
bas even officially announced that ~n Bareelona alone
250 priests bave been murdered and several churches demolish-
ed Tbat is the Iliad of religious freedom which one enjo)·s
under Bolshevist rule.
Jnordet to appcarbarmless aud bourseoil iD lhe ey~ of
We~tern De.mocracy, the Bolshevist "diplomats" have even
copied habits and behaviour of respectable persons, al-
though the change must cost them an effort. But to us who
know the Bolshevist tactics it causes only amusement to see
how so many statesmen in Western Europe, who otherwise
seem so intelligent, believe that Bolshevism has abandoned
its. plan of World Ilevolution because its diplomatic represent-
ativcs now appear in tail coats and white collars.
A~d yet this varnishing docs not seem adequate for the
Jewish Hulcrs in the Soviet Union, In order to give a final
proof of its inpeccnhility, Bolshevism has furnished itself with
~ "C~nslilution": In this Con~liIutionthe "right of education"
IS I.ald down, having regard to the 40 G/. of the pupulation
which cannot read or write. And in the same Constitution
"freedom of speech and of the press" is mentioned, in a
country where everything that departs frOID the line of
opinion laid down. by the Jewish dic ta tors is punished by
death. as we have just experienced in the trial of Ihe Trotz-
kyist s. This system speaks of the "inviolahility of the person
and hIS home and the right of unopened postal correspon-
dence" although d:Jy after day the . Tscheka gathers in
thousands of distracted persons and, shoots tIHITI or deports
them.
The "P a p u 1a r Fro n 1", which was founded bv the
Communists in France struggles "for the defence of democratic
lilll'rl)', its rnaintenanr e and exIcnsion'. These are the ~·ord5
of ~Ir. Thorcz, the leader of the party. The "Popular F~ont"
has come lu power in Spain, This "democratic: lihertv" is
dj~l'b: ..cd ill filling the prisons uf Madrid and narcdo~a In
tirr estin~ and shooting all nun-COlllmunists. In this way i:000
have already been murdered in ~ladrid alone. '
The phrase "Liberty and Bights of ~lall" is I I f av o ur it e
l>log:m .of the Coumumists. Hfigures prominently in their
rcwluhonary bymn. The following paragraphs of a leiter
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from the So...iel Union give an idea of how Liberty and the
Rights of Man are treated there:
The letter, dated August. 10. 1935stales: .
"Then some hundreds of the outlawed are shoved intoempty and unheated freight-waggons, l ike animals. They 1;o 'ere
ordered to be brought to the Caspian Sea or to Sibiria ...•
• OnC' of the leading Communists said to us: 'Die on the
roadside and in the fields. We cannot kill you all; but you
'will 6a\'e to die in the. gutters!' ••
A letter dated June 7, 1935, states: "It seems as if the
crisis were at the beginning ence again but it is to be hoped
that the events of the year 1932.'HJ33 will not be repealed
when almost 80 ° :0 of the deported died' within the one year."
On Xovcmber 16, 191i, Lenin promised in. the "Declaration
of the Rights of the :;.riation3Ii lies·' that the peoples' of the
former Czarist regime would be granted autonomy. But how
did this promise work out in reality for these nationalities?
On April 2i, H120, the Red Army overran Aserbeidshan, in
:;.rim'ember of the same year they overran the Ukraine, on
December 3, Armenia, and on February 25, 1921 the young reo
public of Georgia, after Moscow had 1 . 1 ) ' treaty acknowledged
their territorial inlt';;rily the previous year."
In Ingria the Finnish population is being systematically stam-
ped out. From 1929 to 1931 18,OUO Finns were banished to
Siberia and in the spring of 1~359.000 were forced to undergo
the same fate. Only two month ago the gOH~rnnll!nt of the
S ov ie t L nio n decided10
drive out another 2M,OOO from theirnative land.In the Polish-Soviet fronlier district 18,000 peasants of
German stock .. had their sdtlement transferred" during the
spring of this year. From 80 to 90 persons . .. .. re packed into
catt le t rucks and sent to Siberia.
Last year 4,000 Carelians . .. ..re seat inbanishment to Central
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Asia and 3,000 to the Ural, where more than fifty percent of
them succumbed to the inhuman conditions of life and work.
In August 1927 the Communist propaganda apparatus
drummed into the cars of the world proclamations againstthe execution of Sacco and Vanzetti. In millions of leaf'lets
and newspapers the Communists carried on thcir campaign
in foreign countries for the revocation of the death sentence.
Yet, what happens in the Soviet Union itself? In Paragraph 58
alone of the Criminal Code, Fourteen different kinds of acts
arc laid down which are punishable with death. By the law
of April 7. 1935, the death penalty was introduced even for
children. .
Starving children in an educational institution 113\'e often
told how good the conditions were that prevailed there in
former times. This fact alone was enough to bring them
within thc terms of paragraph 58. Ten children 'were shotby the OGPL' in the presence of their comrades. In a
newspaper article the Soviet Prosecuting Attorney, "'i·
schinskv, recalls "with content and pleasure" the firsl
anniver sury of the day on which the death penalty for
children was c stablishcd by law. (.\11 these arc facts ~\'hi~h arc vouched for exclusively by
ullquc~lion:.ll.olc and demonstrable documents originating
1l1O,tIy frOID Soviet sources. Last year, at the :;.riiirnuergParty
Congress, when I uttered words of warning Oil what I
pre s.uuu-d would be the consequences (If the Seventh Cumin-
tern Congress. held f rom July 25 to August 21, 1~35, the world
at large was syent and showed that it did not understand theimport of wliat Ihad said. The safe slay·at·homes took our
prophecies as exaggerated and believed that they could just
throw tlu-rn to the winds.
Therefore Imay permit myself (0 repeat here some of the
proposals that were made at . .the Comintern Congress and the
plans that were decided upon and bring before you the
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events which meanwhile have resulted therefrom in "ariou~
countries.
Dimit roff, the accredited agent of the Soviet dictatorship
for bringing about the world revolution, has verbally-declaredi "'With Stalin at the head, our- political, army of
millions of men can and must overcome aU difficulties, com-
pletely surmount all obstacles, raze the fortress of Capitalism to
the ground and achieve the victory of Social ism, throughout
the whole world."
He said further:
"The proletariat is the real master of the world, the master
who will rule tomorrow. Itmust be granted I t s historical right
and in every land throughout the world it must take the sceptre
of power in its own bands."
"It is vain to think of turning the wheel of history back-
wards. No! The wheel of history is turning and will turnfurther in the direction of the World Union of the Soviet
SO,cialist Republlcs, unto the final conquest of the whole
world by Socialism."
Such is the programme set forth by this Bulgarian terrorist
for the rcvoluticnising of Ihe world. As to how it is carried
out, Jet the plaiO' facts speak.
Since this congress, much more than a hundred Corn-
munist revol ts' have occurred in different countries through.
out the world, among them the revolts in Brest and Toulon.
in. Au.gust, 1935, with many dead, in Lemberg 00 April 18,
1936, wilh 10 dead, and in Saloniki on May 10, 1936, with
more than 100 dead. Three armed uprisings, planned long in:lEbo'ance,shook whole countries for weeks on end: inXovember,
1.935, in Pernambuco, in January, 1936, in Buenos _'ires. and
in March, 193{), in Spain. .
Six attempted revolutions were frustrated in advance.
among them those in December. 1935, in Uruguay, in Fe.
bruary, 1936, in Paraguay and in the same month in Chile,
Sixty-two large fires were caused, among them that in Lan-
chou in China, which claimed 1,000 victims. Fifty-four
armed raids were carried out and 78 stores of explosives
plundered. Altogether 3,041 lives were sacrificed by these
Bolshevist criminals.
To select a few examples. At the meeting of the Com-
munist World Congress on July 30, 1935, Comrade
Dsordsos appeared as the representative of G r e e c e , and
outlined a plan of action for the future. Almost exactly one
year after his appearance in Moscow, on. August 5, 1936,
Greece was shaken by a general strike, which developed
direct ly into an armed revolution. Only through the energetic
intervention of General Metasas was Greece saved rrom
being reduced to a state of Bolshevist chaos, and the plan of
Comrades Dimitroff and Dsordsos frustrated.
\\"ith regard to the stirring up or revolution in colon il •
Dimitroff said that the peoples of the colonial and seni-
colonial countries no longer regarded their liberation ,as a
hopeless cause, but tended more and more towards a de-
termined struggle against their imperialist oppressors.
Scarcely one year later a dangerous revolt broke out in
S y ria, which cost many lives. The new friendship with
France by no means prevented ~loscow from carrying out
its premeditated plan in a territory under the mandate of
its ally. fa few months later the disturbances in Palestine
broke out, during wich the English police confiscated masses
of Communist leaflets and dispersed secret meetings ofCommunist agents.
Marques, the representative of Bra z; il , declared at the
Seventh World Congress ·in July, 1935, that the country ",as
hastening towards the decisive struggle for the fall of the
government ... and for .the establishment of a national revolu-
tionary governmenL
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Three months later a Communist revolution broke out in
Nata~ and Recife, which claimed 150 dead and .00 wounded.
Luis Carlos Prestes, the Jew Ewert and the "Ambassador" of
Soviet Russia in Montevideo, the Jewish former furrier
Minkin, were revealed as the agents of the "Alliance".
To come to F ran c c. Dimitroff said that the French
Communist Party provided an example for all sections of
the Communist International of how the tactics of II Front
Pcpulairc should be carried QuLThorcz, the leader of the French COlll l11unist Party, added
that II revolution docs not o,ccurauloIl lulically, but musi be
organized. We are determined, he said, to follow Ule~~ample of
the Russian Bolshe"isls, We are ... in fa,' our of the Soviets .
The French Co,mmunist Party has proved ihelf worthy
of the praise which Dimitroff accorded it, Its membership
increased from Hi ,000 in January to, 100,000 in March, to
187,000 in June and to O\'C.T 225,000 in August, 1936. During
'the same period ,lhe number of nJiJilary youth organizat ions
""as qU;lrl,tU,pkd. 'fIle number of votes increased from
79LJ;600Io 1,5.0{},( :)00, third of which were recorded in grea-
tor Paris alone. The number of Conmlunist members in the
Frcneh i:h:ulI!iJeri1ncrc3st.>d from 10 to 73. The circulation
of Ute ncwspap.cr·'Uu'luandc" rose Jeom 154,000 in 1933 to
750,000 Jer It time in HJ36. During the electoral campaign for
m£'lHb('rship in the Cluunbcr, in H136. 27 million pamphlets
were ilist<ributl'd by the Cemmuuist propaganda headquarters.
After t ll l' ie aHiliat .ion with the Communist Front Populaire, the
t rade uaions increased in membership from 800,000 in ~lay of
this yt':u to 4.:mO.'600 in August.
France is abo proeccdlug to follow the example of the
Spanish Front Populaire. Dim it r 0 f f 's "Trojan horse"
stands , ,; i: th inthc walls of Paris .
: I . ~ l . . nethring pro\' idcs us with a better object lesson, nothing
could CO D vinee us more lhorougblY of the seriousness. of
the decisions of the Seventh World Congress. than the
sanguinary and appalling events in Spa in, They represent
the literal carrying out of the directions given at that time.
They are practically the realization of the "Front Populaire"·
plan, which has attained only jls preliminary stage in France,
b~t ~as reached its highest point of development in Spain.
Dimitroff had announced the plan of action under a Front
Populaire gO\'ernmcnt when he said that the exercise of 'the
powers of ~ government of this kind was to be utilized to
prepare the' masses for the revolution, and that they should
arm themselves for the Socialist revolution, because Soviet
power alone could provide salvation,
The Spanish delegate , Ventura, announced that the exact
programme was as follows: "The Spanish proletariat and our
party . .. will overthrow Fascism and the power of the
bourgeois and the owners of the large estates once and for all.
and bring about the triumph of the workers' - and peasants ' -
revolution ... Under the banner of Lenin and Stalin, we are
proudly marching towards victory."
Before the murder of the monarchist leader Calm Sotelo,
which took place on July 13, 2G9 lives had already been
sacrificed to the murderous Communist pest . The French
journali st Arminjon repor ted, for example, that . in Murcia the
mob seized upon two young men who had been said to be
Fascists . They were maltreated on the street, and finally a
woman soizcd a butcher's hatchet and beheaded them both,
This occurred on :'Ilarc11 Iii, and the names of the two men
were Pedro Culillas and Antonio Martinez, .
The Pr(,55 throughout the world had finally to print
reports of the inhuman horrors perpetrated by the Spanish
Marxists at the command of their foreign instigators, It is
impossible to give even approximate figures approaching
the actual Iacts, On' August 19, the following facts were made
publ ic, derived from an official source: in the city of Madrid
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and in its suburbj, up to the present more than 6,000 people
were ~urdered' by the Reds, 1,400 alone in the famous
park £asa -del Campo. In the largest prison, the Carc.el
Modele, there' were at that time 3,000 prisoners. and 1,146 10
San Antonio, the total for Madrid being 6,000. I have in
front of me a report by an e)"c!witness, the German Hein-
r ichs, whose house overlooked the Casa del Campo, and here
quite different figures are gi,·en. This eye-witness reports
that up till August 30, he himself had seen about 6,000
people shot. He also reports that on other squares in the
city, in the streets and in the houses, 20,000 more. were
murdered.Other eye-witnesses, some of "'hom were forced to witness
the Bolshevist murders from ".-ilhin the pri sons, give reports
of hundreds of murders daily. A young foreigner saw with
his own eyes how in the night of August 20, about200 prison officials in the Carcel Modelo were murdered,
and how, on the next day, 250 members of the Fascist or~
ganizations were shot in the eourtyar'd of the barracks. On
August 15 he saw a conroy of 250 prisoners arriving
in Madrid from Almeria handed over to the Red militia by
the police escort. The latter lined up 240 of them and shot
them (In the spot then and there, They escorted only 10 of
them to the prison. so as to have carried out their "duty".
A lillie later the Fascist leaders, Huiz de AIda, Fernando
Primo de Rivera, Cuesta and ,"aIdes, were murdered.
The whole German nation mourns for the seven Germans
who died a horrible death as victims of the murderous Redcrew. On their way to the Recreation Congress in Hamburg,
four Germans, named Caetje, Dato, Hofmeister and Treiz,
who were also members of the National Socialis t Party. were
murdered by a group of Bolshe\-ists. After a long "trial",
Iwo of them were led behind a factory, and the other two
were placed against a v..all a Little way off and the four of
them were shot. Itwas afterwards ascertained that the criminals
had performed their bloody work with small shot. Hof-
meister and Trciz were so disfigured that they could only be
recognized with difficulty by the shape of their f~ces. Manyother Germans were injured or suffered damage to their
property. The National Socialist, Hans Hahner, was d.ur-
dered on the way to his work at the Red Cross station. 'Hi;
house was plundered and his wife left destitute.
:\01 only in Madrid, but throughout the whole country.
there were constant furlher reports of the horrible doings of
the Reds. According to the "Diaric de Noticias" of Lisbon,
I87 people were murdered in Llora del Rio, and 250 in
Constantina.
According to the German paper "Germani a", in Cartagena
G O O officers and soldiers were thrown into the sea
with stones lied round their necks. According to the"Seculo", in the monastery of Baena 180 persons were
executed by the Communists with choppers and razors,
among them the priest of Santa Maria Mayor, and also
women and children, The women's bodies were ripped i.
open. The "Seculo" also referred to a report by two peasants
from ~lalaga of the murder of more than 400 persons, who
were thrown into the wells with weights lied to their feet, or
bound to the tails of horses and dragged through the streets.
According to "Die Front" of Zurich, the' Italian consulnr
agent Soianrani reported Iha·t a girl of 16 fired t'lie first shot
at a prisoner. The "Journal de Genhe" reported that bl
Rosal de 1a Frontera Ihe Communists locked 40' people' in (hechurch and set fire to it, so that they were burnt to death.
According to "The Times", 400 inhabitants were mu.rdered
in Runda, about 200 of them being Ifuown into the Tagul.
According to Ihe "Evening Standard", 51 hostages. were shot
in San Sebastian on Augu!it U. Again aceordiing. to the
"Seculo" I in' Almeodralago General' Franco'. troups found
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the corpses of prisoners, crucified head downwards on the
prison walls. The "Seculo' reported further that 80 persons
were burnt alive. According to the "Daily Mail", in Cartagena
50 members of the civil guard were bound neck to neck, andbeaten with iron bars and thrown into the sea from the Red
prison ship "SH". The same paper stated that the special
correspondent of "Le Journal", Emile Condroyer, hadreported from El Arahal that the Reds shut up 30 men;
women and children in prison, 'poured petroleum in through
the window and threw in Hgbtell!matches.
The details which reach us of the murdering of priests and
violating of nuns are inconceh·abte.The following are a few
examples. The "Journal de Geneve" reported that the Arch-
bishop of Tarragona and the Bishop of Leridawere rmrr-
dercd. According to the "Matin", the American. Henry Hams,
reported that he himself witnessed in prison the murder of150 members of religious orders. According to the "Journal
de Geneve", the Catholic workers' leader, D9n Dimas
Madariaga, was murdered in Piedralvez. The German Hein
Hausmann reported that in Tarragona eight priests were
shot, and a monk trampled on and finally shot. Cases arc
constantly being reported of priests being beheaded and.
their heads being dragged through the streets. The "Ger-
mania" reported that in Valencia whole rows of nuns ..were
shot, and their bodies burnt. The. priests of Adrero, Las
Casas and Torres were killed in the most horrible fashion.
The list could be continued indefinitely. Children often look
part in the shootings. Thus, according to the "Diario de 13
Marina", Raff'ael Oriol o r La Habana reported that in Barce-
lona he had seen many groups of boys under 15 among the
murderers.
Irreplaceable works of art were destroyed and the inteUecl·
ual elite of the country was exterminated. According 10
the London "Daily Mail" , the Nobel prize-winner Benavente,
~the well-known dramatist Alvares Quintero and the painter
Zuloaga have been executed. Professor 'Waller \V. S. Cook
reports that in Barcelona alone St. Anne's Cathedral and all
other churches, with one exception, have been burned doWD.
The famous altar wings by Vermejo dating from the 15th
century have been destroyed and the 15th century Church
of Santa Maria del Mar reduced to a heap of ruins. All that·
remains of the 9th century Church of San Pedro de las
Puellas is the walls. The famous ·monasteries in Barcelona
and the Palace of the Archbishop have ~en completely
destroyed.
That is the real face of Bolshevist atheism which has the
effrontery to state its readiness to co-operate with the
Churches in other countries. The fact that the bodies of nuns
were torn from their coffins in Barcelona is a symbol of thedesecration of all that is holy by Bolshevism. When Andres
Xln, one of the principal agitators in Spain and formerly
secretary 10 the Bolshevist Tornsky, states, that they have
solved the church problem by Ieaving not a single church
standing, we must stale that this is the Incarnation of god-·
lessncss, That is the' real face of Bolshevism!
In Spain, as in Russia of 1917, and in all other countries,
it is Ihe unpatriotic and Jewish wire-pullers who cause and
lead Bolshevist re\·olls.' If they arc non-Jews; they have
completely lost their feeling of patriotism.
Xow who is 10 blame, theoretically and practically. fot
everything that is happening in ·Spain~ All these eventsrepresent nothing else than the execution of the resolutions
adopted in :\10 s cow. The Bolshevist Jew, n e I a K u D, the"Murderer of Hungary", N e u man n , who in Spain, calls
himself Enrique Fischer Neumann, K 0 I z o·w - G iD i-bur g. posing as the correspondent of the Moscow "Praw-
da", and, finally, the red League of Nations diploma! and
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They are the leaders of all Soviet Russian terrorists who
carry out their sanguinary ,,-orkin Spain provided iwlfh
forged passports which, strange to say, are mostly or French
origi~._ ,
Nothing is more characteri!ic of Moscow's responsibility
than the well-laid' plan to make the e i v i1 war slarted by
Bolshevism in Spain develop into an in t ern a t ion a I
con f) ie t. The Jew S c h w e r oj k, the president of the
Soviet Russian trade unions, frankly admitted the intention
to Intervene when he said, according' to the "Iswestia", that
the Central CommiUee... summons all workers and the
masses in the Soviet i:nion'to provide mat I.' ria I ass i-
s tan e e for the Spanish fighters who are defending the
democra tic republic by force- of arms.
The "Iswestia" itself states thai the First Secretary of the
Central Council of the Soviet Russian trade union' associ-
ations has remHted the sum of 12 million roubles, which is,
equal to 36 million francs, to' the Spanish Bolshevists.
According to the Berlin "nurseRzeituns", the President of the
Spanish SI,at.e,_-\izana,thanked the SOYet Jew Kolzow-Ginsburg
in the roJlewing words: "Please convey to the Soviet people
Ihat we have been profoundly touched by their sympathy
and slirring assistance. Itwas always clear to me that there
must always be a community of interests between the great
Soviet Democracy and the Spanish Democracy."
Moscow attemps by means of its Cominlern sections to
induce even for e ig n go v ern men t s to intervene on 'behalf of the Reds in Spain, The French Right press con-
stantly reports the delivery of French aircraft and French
war material 10 :Madrid.
~roney is collected by the Moscow Red Aid in every country
without any disguise in order to help.the Bolshevists in Spain.
J 0 u b a u x , the Secretary General of the French Front
Populaire trade union, the agent And r ~ ].I aIr a u x and
others maintain connection between the French and Spanish
Marxists. According to the "Prawda", the Spanish PremierGiral thanked Kolzow-Ginsburg for the "brilliant initia tive
of French organizations and persons who are energetiea1ly
, 4 supporting the Spanish Government in its struggle".
making special mention of Jouhaux, AIalraux and the Jew
J. B. B lac h. and concluding with renewed thanks to. the
"fraternal Soviet people", How does the Front Populaire
government in Spain come to thank a So\-jet lew for 1M
support of French Communists? It pro\·esthat the riDgleaden
of the French Communist party, like those of the same party
in Spain , live in Moscow.
There is proof that the unheard-of. acts of cruelty in SpaiD
were instigated' and committed by agents of the Comintern.
There is proof that Soviet Russia provides the Spanish
Bolshevis ts with financial, pol it ical and pract ical ass istance.
fhere is proof that the last Comintern Congress in Moscow
intended to introduce Bolshevism in theory and practic:e
into Spain and that Moscow is now endeavouring to
carry out this plan. Moscow's undiminished and even in-
creased determination to bring about a world revolution is
illustrated by Ihe example of Spain. Anyone who does not
realize this now cannot complain about the consequences.
That is_Bolshevism in theory and pract ice, an infernal world
pestilence which must be eradicated and which it is the duty of
everyone, conscious of his responsibilities, to assist in remo\ing.
It is not merely oratory when we Germans appeal to aU the
nations of the world to combine in order to meet this menace
if they do not .,.ish to be drawn into the whirlpool of a te rrible
and incalculable fate.
Germany has given the signal for this ~o'Orldstruggle. We
National Socialists, as the originators of this struggle, have for
fourteen yean been the opponents wbo fought .,a inat
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Bolshevism'of every variety and hue; we did that under govern-
ments which were typically middle-class in character and had
no idea of the effects of Bolshevism and who. therefore.
hindered us every time we wished to strike a decisive blow.It seems almost like a miracle to-day that we succeeded.
nevertheless. in defeating Bolshevism in Germany. It is also
perhaps a miracle to be attributed to a supernatural power
which did not wish to allow nations and civilizations, thousands
of years old, to be destroyed by' the nihilistic will of inter-
national Bolshevistic Jewry.
We were able to overcome Bolshevism because we were able
to counter it with a better ideal and a stronger faith, because
the nation rose with us against Jewry and the racially inferior
underworld connected with it , because we advocated a "\YeH-
anschauung" which, in contrast to that of Bolshevism, is fine.
noble and idealist ic, because in our struggle we were supportedby the people themselves, and not, l ike the middle-class parties,
by those with possessions and culture. because we combined
the attractive force of our ideas with the strong faith and
political fervour of a newly awakened nation, and because we
had a Fuhrer who pointed out the way from the darkest hour
of our national life to the clear. bright, pure light of a better
future.
It is the historial service rendered by the Fuhrer, which the
whole world already recognizes, that he barred the way to the
onset of Bolshevism on Germany's eastern frontiers. and thus
assumed the role of Europe's spiritual pioneer in its struggle
with the subversive forces of destruction and anarchy. A trueknight, without fear or reproach, he seized the banner of cul-
ture, humanity and civilization in his strong hands and carried
it proudly against the menace and onset of the world revolution.
He has taught us to despise fear and love the things that are
worthy of veneration, and thus restored our respect Cor our
old national ideals and virtues..
That ought to be a signal for the whole world. We have
proved under the most unfavourable circumstances lh.tBolshevism can be overcome if one wishes to do 50, if one
uses the proper means and if one is determined to oppose thepowers of destruction with all one's strength and alI oile~s
manly courage, The German People have thereby become
happier, and this will happen to all nations who will have thegood fortune to produce men who dare 10 take up_this
challenge. The scales would fall from their eyes andllley
would sec the whole evil cunning of Jewry and thusteaIize
thai once it has been recognized and seen through . .i t, is neither
clever nor dangerous. o:
May the world follow Germany's example. Of course Natio-
_nal Socialism is not suitable for export. and other nations sbaJi
not be persuaded or even forced to adopt its methods. Yel' it
may prove instructive, and its methods of procedure maystimulate other nations to adopt the same course and thus
evade a terrible crisis. May they do so before it is too late. for
the danger is approaching everywhere,
But we German National Socialists are proud that we have
already solved this problem not only for Germany but also
for the rest of Europe, Adolph Hitler, as the leader ofUUs
German struggle, has at the same time become the best
European. He has shown this tortured continent how to
overcome the worst crisis that has ever threatened i _ t , an dthus glvcn the nations of Europe an opportunity of learning
from Germany and acling accordingly. For the Red en~~y
of civilization is at work in every country. The whole~ofii lis in danger. Therefore there must be no more vaeuia:tio~.
We must be ready to meet the danger at the decish·eho~r.
The Red Menace threatens us from the East. but the Fuhrer
is on the watch. Germany, as the outpost of EuroPean-~iiiU~
zation, is ready and determined to ward off this danger' from
her frontiers "..ith all the means at her dispoul.
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,Ve have burned out the Bolshevist pest in Germany. and
there is not a trace of it left in the country. It will also no
:}oj)Sl'r find any opportunity of raising its head again in any
way or at any time. The last sparks of this smouldering fire-have been trampled upon. The former leaders and initiators
of this pest in Germany have either IcC! the country or been
taken into safe custody; but most of the ir former followers and
adherents have long been absorbed in the new great German
national community. Regardless of how Moscow might
attempt to set Bolshevism going again in Germany, such an
attempt would be opposed with a ruthlessness thai would
astonish even Moscow, There is no one and nothing that
could restrain us in such a Case. The Gcrman nation wishes
and demands that we should act thus. The people are happy
i T , . the enjoyment of their new internal peace, and by no
means inclined to allow it 10 he disturbed anywhere, at any,lime or by anyone. Th~ Party. as the agency for combating
Bolshevism, watches O\'Cf the safely of the State and
protects the people and the nation within the country.
while the .\nny. as lh~ incorporation of our national deter-
iriiTlaHoq to resist and defend ourselves, protects the Iron-
(i~r~'.of Germ·unr. 'These arc the bulwarks of our safety. the
supports of the people and the Slate, The nation can feel
secure under lIwir powerful protect ion.
:'.fc3J;iwhilc the Red anarchists in Moscow arc arming in
ft'n;tish, haste. Their armaments arc meant for aggressi'-e pur-
P . ~ l i t - " S , for e'\"t'ry Red regiment is imbued with the idea of
'v~rld.ce\·olut~on Every Red aeroplane and every Red guni~,~~on'sln.lcled for Ihe purpose of spreading chaos throughout
Europe;
W~'are unable to influence or affect what other peoples
oredoing !o ~\-ard off this danger, "'c cnnnot force thorn to
1 1 _ 1 : : 1 ' 1 ; 1 ' ~ell~ihk am) suitable preparations, Bu t \ \ " 1 1 ; 1 1 we tin is
nul dd~'flllint·'-' 'uy payill<: fut ile and can'I l'~! \ regard 10 the
League of Nations nor 10 the more or less shertsighted sympathywith Ihe Soviet idea in other countries, nor yet by vague and
unsuhslantial attempts to promote col lect ive secur ity. attempts
which entangle Europe in a network of incalculable respon-
sibilities. What we do is determined by our duly and our
conscience and the feeling of responsibil ity towards Germany
and Europe. The Red Kremlin, by extending the period p C
military service, has considerably increased the effective
strength of the Bolshevist army. The Fuhrer has not left this
challenge unanswered. By introducing a period of two years'
military sen-icc he lias ;lsain provided Germany with the
security necessary to protec t us from Red anarchy ,
Even if other States and governments may thoughtless lyattempt to make lillie of Ihe danger by which we 'are aU
menaced from Moscow, we do not allow ourselves io be
misled: we. pay lillie attention to what the )foscow Jews are
say in g - Ihl' important Ihing for us is what lhe.'-. do.
" ' 1 ' have seen through them, and counter every 1l10\·.c- they
make with uhsnlute precision and logicality.
'But the German People can now once more earry on 'their
work reassured and in peace .. The lleich is safeguarded and
prolcetcd: II l1 ' Rl'd Ilnsd front the East will- be checked by
the bulwarks of Xational Socialism. But above the' nation
stands the Fuhrer liS the Iaithful Paladin of his, people, weU-,
tried in need and danger, and inspired solely by,the {anaLical'dctcrmiuation to make Germany once more proud; rich and
happy, The Party watches over our sarety tit home and the
Army over our safety on IIIl' frontiers, nul both obey "''1th
joy and determination the orders of the 0 n e- man' ""bo.
s tands before Us as the outpos! of his own peeple and' tbe
pioneer ol a be lkr. sincerer. nohler and~happier Europe .
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