THE TRUTH ABOUT

SPEECH DELIVERED AT THE NATIONAL SOCIALIST PARTY CONGRESS NURNBERG, 1937

By DR. JOSEPH GOEBBELS

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY M. MULLER & SOHN, BERLIN SW 19

"Spain represents the world at the cross-roads.'' Thus wrote the Bolshevic press organ, Die Rundschau, in its issue dated July 22, 1937. That one sentence precisely defines the international signi­ ficance of the Spanish problem. It states exactly what the Spanish problem is. Here the final decision must lie either with Bolshevism or the principle of Authority. On the one side stands ruinous anarchy and, on the other, orderly constructive development. For more than a year the Spanish question has held the public of the whole world in suspense. Now, if we are to form a decisive judgment on the possible consequences and far-reaching effects of what is happening in Spain we must in this case, as in all cases where we have to deal with acute and complex problems, clearly differentiate between the opposing sides. And in striving to do this we must have the courage to call things by their names and allow nothing to remain obscurely in the background which might help to throw light on the whole situation. Above all, the, German people must be informed on the magnitude of this problem, which most surely is one of international and secular importance. That is why I am taking the present opportunity to present in its naked reality the whole complex of questions connected with the Spanish problem. In confirmation of the statements I have to make I shall appeal to a whole array of sources of information whose authenticity is undeniable. In order to make this testimony all the stronger I shall, as far as possible, quote facts and figures from the opposing camp. The picture thus formed will unfortuna­ tely portray a series of details that are terrible, indeed abhorrent

3 and nauseating. But this must not deter us from fearlessly facing facts which cannot be gainsaid. Bourgeois prudery and false squeamishness based on sentiment would be entirely out of place here. For the events that are happening in Spain today may be repeated tomorrow in any other country whose people have not such adequate knowledge of the facts as would enable them to understand the serious character of this menace and organise the means and possibilities of successfully counteracting its effects. Nations which in recent years have kept their eyes closed to the startling growth of the international Bolshevic menace will one day experience a terrible awakening from this moral narcosis. The fact that we, German National Socialists, as conscious and uncom­ promising protagonists against the Bolshevic world-front, are still condemned to play the part of a preacher in the wilderness, calling out to deaf ears—this cannot prevent us from seeing things as they are and calling them by their right names. For if the constantly increasing extension of this Bolshevic infection in should cause still greater disaster, then future historians will be in a position to record the fact that we, German National Socialists, were not among those who allowed themselves to be led astray in the universal chaos of thought and mental fog purposely created as a sort of smoke-screen by an insidious epidemic of political propaganda. Nothing could make us deviate in the le^st from the straight road we have taken. From the very nature of the case it is obvious that the subversive forces of International Jewry will raise a tumult of rage when we clearly and dispassionately lay bare the background of this revo­ lutionary development which is extending through the world. For, after all, they are the only people who are drawing profit from this chaotic ruin which Bolshevism is bringing upon mankind. That on this account they will swamp us with a torrent of abuse and lies and calumnies is only an honour for us and a further proof that we are right in warning Europe against this peril.

4 There are many cases in history where nations have undergone great catastrophes and afterwards showed symptoms of paralysis which in their derivation and effect could not be easily diagnosed. But the fact that a political, cultural, moral and intellectual infection on a large scale aims at the destruction of a whole continent, is something which history can record for the first time only in our day. It is a mighty and satanical campaign carried on by interna­ tional Bolshevism against the moral principles of the civilized world. At the present moment Spain is the epicentre where this disease has broken out again. Here we clearly recognize the symp­ toms of this malignant infection. For this reason the Spanish problem must be viewed in the light of the revelations that have exposed the whole plan for an international Bolshevic revolution* of which the events taking place in Spain represent only a small part. I should like to begin with a brief historical sketch of the develop­ ments that have taken place in Spain. The more so because, for good reasons, the situation has been for a long time artificially and completely misrepresented by the Bolshevics. I need hardly .emphasize the fact that, in view of the terrible events which have happened and are still happening in Spain, we Germans are moved with profound sympathy for the friendly Spanish nation, and are deeply bereaved that such a fate should have befallen it. The fight which General Franco is waging, with the support of all constructive elements, against the Bolshevic menace to his native land is at the same time a fight for civilization. The sacrifices which Spain has to make in this struggle are great and terrible; but if this Way of Calvary should lead to a final triumph of the national forces, as we hope and pray for, then the sacrifices will not have been in vain. We have set ourselves the task of exposing in a clear and un­ mistakable manner the connections that lie in the background of this sanguinary conflict. Such an undertaking is far removed from anything in the nature of a tactless and uncalled-for interference in the internal affairs of Spain. It is far rather an effort to raise a

5 warning signal against the attempt to bring about an international Bolshevic World-Revolution, which at present has chosen Spain as a field for its experiments. The Moscow Comintern never tires of impressing on public opinion throughout the world the theory that the national move­ ment, which on July 17, 1936, intervened in the seething develop­ ments in Spain, was a military rising organised by reactionary generals and that this rising was definitely repudiated by the Spanish people. The truth however is that this national movement was in reality an act of self-defence on the part of the people, against the revolt which had been planned by the Spanish Com­ munist Party for that time and was subsequently postponed to August 1936. This communist revolt had been planned in Moscow several years previously, organised from Moscow and directed from Moscow, and is still being carried out in practice from Moscow today. In March 1931, Manuilsky, who was then General Secretary of the Comintern, stated before the Second Plenary Session of the Ekki (Executive Council of the Communist Inter­ national) in Moscow: "The Communist Party in Spain must immediately set to work to mobilize the masses of the workers and peasants to fight for the establishment of a Workers' and Peasants' Government on Soviet lines." In 1932 the Comintern announced that it was the duty of the Communist Party to proclaim the confiscation of the estates of landed proprietors, the and all government property and the organisation of an armed resistance. On September 1, 1934, a month before the October outbreak of the revolution in Spain, the Comintern made the following declaration: "It is a question of life and death for the working classes and peasantry to forestall Fascism and seize supreme power in the shortest possible time." At the 13th Plenary Session of the Ekki in Moscow the Spanish delegate, Dolores, announced the coming Spanish Revolution in the following terms: "The principal task of the party is the organization of the Revo-

6 lution." And at the 7th World Congress of the Comintern, in 1935, Ventura, the Spanish delegate, said: "Under the banner of Lenin and Stalin we shall march forward to victory with our heads held high."

Affairs in Spain have developed in accordance with the plan of campaign laid down in Moscow. As early as 1919 the Spanish Trades Unions had already joined the Comintern. In 1923 the first Bolshevic armed rising took place in Spain, and led to blood­ shed. In 1931 red agitation led to the formation of a republic in the hands of the freemasons. In 1932 the youth organisations were militarized by the introduction of red militia among them. The years 1931-34 were filled with a series of constantly recurring armed risings in , , Malaga and San Sebastian. In 1931 the number of votes cast for the Spanish Communist Party came to 280,000. In 1933 this total was increased to 402,000 and in 1936 the votes cast for the Bolshevic Front Populaire in Spain amounted to 4,365,000. On October 5, 1934, the red rising broke out, in which 1372 persons were killed and 2921 seriously wounded. This insurrection washoweversuccessfully suppressed. The grand rehearsal for the Bolshevic Revolutuion had failed; but the failure was taken as an occasion to strengthen and intensify the red agitation systematically.

In 1935 the annual funds which Moscow contributed for the support of the Communist Party in Spain totalled several million pesetas, of which two millions were officially acknowledged as having been paid over by the Comintern itself. At the 7th World Congress of the Comintern in Moscow, in 1935, Dimitroff gave instructions for the formation of a Front Populaire in Spain. Between February 16 and April 19,1936,140 people were murdered by gangs of red revolutionaries, and 529 buildings were burned down and destroyed before the Bolshevic Revolution officially broke out.

7 The general rising was arranged to take place in June, 1936, according to an official document issued by the Moscow Comintern and which I have before me. This document contains inter alia an order for a general strike and under Paragraph 2 orders are given for the execution of all those whose names were on the black list. The plan drawn up for the rising in the city of Madrid is typical of Bolshevic tactics. This plan ordered that revolutionary operations should open with a feint attack. This attack was to be launched against the headquarters of the Trades Unions. It was of course meant to be a provocative move for the purpose of inducing the Trades Unions to declare a general strike. It was also ordered that soldiers were simultaneously to mutiny in their barracks. And in quick succession the Chief Post Office, the Presedential and the War Ministry were to be occupied. On July 30, 1936, Calvo Sotelo, a deputy of the Right and a leader of the Nationalists, was brutally murdered by two Marxist police officers whose names are well known. Three days later the Nationalist General Balmes suffered the same fate at Las Palmas. As a result of these atrocities, the National Movement started spontaneously on the following day, and almost in a thoroughly constitutional fashion, under the leadership of General Franco. During August 1936 Southern Spain was cleared of revolutionary elements, order was restored and communications with the natio­ nalist forces in the North were re-established. On September 27, 1936, the besieged Alcazar was successfully stormed and its heroic defenders liberated. For the new Spain the Alcazar became a symbol of heroism in the fight against World Bolshevism. On April 19, 1937, the Head of the State, General Franco, founded one National Party and therewith brought the party struggle in Spain to an end. These simple facts prove that the Comintern had systematically prepared to take over political power by the use of force and establish a Soviet regime in Spain. Furthermore, it becomes clear

8 from these facts that the Comintern came very near to realizing its plans and was forestalled at the last moment only by the strong personality of one man. The ultimate political inference to be drawn from all this is that the so-called Red Committee is not a "Government" but an executive instrument in the hands of the Bolshevic organization, still holding power in certain parts of Spain. In other words, "Red" Spain is not a State according to the meaning attached to that term in international law, but a district which has been cut off by force from the Spanish nation and which is now being lawfully reconquered by the legal represen­ tatives of the Spanish people. It would be idle to ask here whether it would be more suitable to suppress Bolshevism by means of a popular constitutional move­ ment or by force of arms. In Spain the necessity of the moment is supreme. And therefore it is quite absurd to accuse Germany of wishing to introduce National Socialism into Spain with the idea of securing for itself a moral influence in that country. And it is also absurd to accuse Germany of planning to make the present difficulties under which Spain is suffering an excuse for annexing various parts of that country. We want neither the one nor the other. But under no circumstances can we allow the Communist International to establish a new basis for its operations in Western Europe, from which basis the wedge of the Bolshevic World Revolution could be driven through the European bloc all the more effectively. Therefore we have no hesitation about stating that our warm sympathy is with General Franco, whose heroic, self-denying and idealist struggle awakens the profoundest admiration among the whole German people. Consequently it was more than a merely diplomatic step when our Fiihrer and the Head of the Italian Government recognized General Franco as the only constitutional government in Spain. I have now come to the point where it is advisable to make a closer analysis of the international network of connections which

9 underlie the events that have happened and are happening in Spain. There can be no doubt that the red revolt in Spain is only part of the Bolshevic World Revolution as planned by Moscow. The International Communist Front comes upon the stage of Western Europe, wearing a Spanish mask. And we need not be surprised that this Front, here as elsewhere, has the moral, intellectual and material support of the bourgeois democracy of the Left in all parts of the world. For both these have sprung from the same well- known root, Bolshevism being only the last radical expansion of a morbid humanitarian liberalism. An irresponsible intellectualism, which is mostly without any national or racial roots, allied itself with Bolshevism the moment the latter made its appearance. In gratitude for this, these forlorn intellectuals, who had been abandoned by God and all right-thinking people, had their heads chopped off when Bolshevism came into power. We can account for this baffling style of mutual admiration between Bolshevism and Western Liberalist Intellectualism only if we assume it to be some form of mental disease. The infectious force of this malady has become so widespread in its workings that even people have fallen victims to it who, according to their whole nature, their character and activities, their social and national standing, should have been definitely on the other side. Furthermore, Bolshevism has become a convenient camouflage for International Jewry to carry on its politically and morally criminal activities. Although these activities are part and parcel of the Jewish character, yet if they were exposed in all their naked truth they would arouse feelings of abhorrence and disgust among mankind as a whole. For the international character of Bolshevism has been principally determined by the Jewish element. In point of fact it is the Jew who finds Bolshevism a working foundation for his activities, because it is the incarnation of evil. He himself shows here that Momsen was right in saying that the Jew is the evil spirit of destruction.

10 The internal connection between the Jew and the Bolshevic expresses itself outwardly now through the events that are happen­ ing in Spain. On October 17, 1936, the "Prawda" published a leading article which stated that the opposition to Generals Franco and Mola was "merely a part of the fight which is being waged against Fascism throughout the whole world". In its issue dated October 31, 1936, the same paper declared that, in order to allow no doubt to arise on this point, "To support the Spanish people in their struggle against the Fascist potentates is the most important international task of the hour". On December 4 and 5, 1936, The Second International and the International Federation of Trades

Unions passed resolutions in support of the Spanish Bolshevics0 On March 11, 1937, at a Conference held by the Second Interna­ tional and the International Federation of Trades Unions the following resolution was passed: "We have consistently and unconditionally given our wholehearted moral support to our Spanish comrades. We have given them material help under every possible form. We shall continue to make every effort to increase this support." In a telegram to the Central Committee of the Spanish Communist Party, Stalin stated: "The Workers of the Soviet Union are merely fulfilling their duty when they support the revolutionary masses in Spain by every means in their power."

That lies quite within the scope and aim of the Comintern. For this same reason the Comintern, in the years from 1918 to 1921, gave material support to the interventionist wars against Armenia, Estland, Finnland, Lettland, Georgia, Mongolia and Poland. On this ground also the Comintern took part in the conquest of large portions of China and in the year 1936 intervened with military power in Spain. There is no need to give a detailed account here of the material assistance which Moscow and a whole group of so-called demo­ cratic countries have rendered to the Red Party in Spain. Various

11 newspapers have already given such a wealth of information on this subject, and furnished such irrefutable proofs for the correctness of the statements, that it would be superfluous to go into the matter again. Within the short period of time from March 6 to May 14, 1937—that is to say, after the control plan had come into force- through the Dardanelles there passed 190 munition ships belonging to Soviet Russia and 88 ships flying the flag of the Red Party in Spain, on their way to Spanish harbours within the Red dominion. These ships brought 162tanks, 130cannon, 86aeroplanes, 395motor transport cars, 12 anti-aircraft guns, 31,420 tons of other war material and munitions. During February and March 101 Russian Soviet aeroplanes were shipped from Reval to Spain. And on March 1st, 50 heavy guns from Soviet Russia were brought over­ land to Almansa. Recently one single large consignment of war material from Soviet Russia to the Reds in Spain included 100 heavy tanks, 500 medium-sized tanks, 2000 light tanks, 4000 heavy machine guns, 6000 light machine guns and 300 aeroplanes, with their pilots. The amount of war material that has gone and is still going from and through France to the Reds in Spain is beyond the bounds of calculation. From Czecho-Slovakia enormius deli­ veries of arms and ammunition have been made to the Spanish Reds. Firms in England, Holland and Switzerland are engaged in this business. The international Jewish organisations for the supply of weapons of war have been mobilized to the fullest capacity to carry out this traffic. And all is taking place under the eye of an international control plan and under the aegis of the non-intervention policy.

I shall now deal with some instances which will help to give an idea of the extent to which World Liberalism goes in its moral support of the Reds in Spain. I have already emphasized the fact that the marriage between Bolshevism and Democracy presents

12 some uncanny features; indeed one might call them downright perverse. In the historical development of its activities Democracy has more and more become the political facade of World Capitalism. Bolshevism now carries the democratic principle to its ultimate logical application. We may call it the Democracy of Terror. It increases the pace of that sanguinary and pitiless development of which Liberalism had already mapped out the path. I might illustrate this point by the following rather drastic comparison. In democracy leading heads were out-voted by the counting of heads. In Bolshevism the same result is obtained by chopping off heads with the guillotine. The result in both cases in the same. The heads are wanting. The masses are robbed of their natural leaders and left a prey to international Jews, who are now free to exercise their dictatorship by the employment of terrorization and money. It is impossible not to notice the growth of a defensive movement in the various individual nations against this blatant and insolent effort to prepare the way for the Jewish domination of the world. This is a welcome sign. A number of countries have already succeeded in completely shaking off this extraordinarily acute menace to their national existence. Indeed in every nation there are people who are now applying themselves more or less energe­ tically to the task of organizing means of resistance which will correspond to the national traditions and circumstances in each case. It is now well known that International Jewry is organizing a counter-defence against these various national movements that hold out unpleasant prospects for those who are endeavouring to establish a Jewish hegemony over the world. The method employed by the Jew in his counter-defence is to present himself as the protector of national sovereignty in the country where he happens to be a guest for the time being. As the national defence movements in the individual countries are, from the very nature of their case, in spiritual communion with one another, the Jew exploits this

13 feature for the purpose of arousing public opposition on the grounds of an alleged interference of one nation in the international affairs of another. All over Europe, wherever courageous and active men come forward to fight against the Bolshevic menace in their respective nations they are branded by the Jew and his servile press as the paid and kept hirelings of National Socialism or Fascism; while National Socialism and Facism, taken in themselves, are discredited as movements which aim at an imperialistic expansion of Germany or Italy. Therefore it may be well to state here once again and most emphatically that we never intended and never can intend to turn National Socialism into an article for export. We are accustomed to think so closely along historical lines that we should never be capable of believing that a political concept—a Weltanschauung— which has arisen from the deepest depths of the national being in one country can be arbitrarily and unqualifiedly applied in another country. National Socialism is by no means a commodity for export. On the contrary, it is an article with the German patent mark which we reserve exclusively for our own use and are putting forth our greatest efforts to make it work in our own country.

Therefore when we speak about the international menace of Bolshevism we deal with it only for the purpose of laying bare those connecting links which not only for us but for all States, and especially democratic States, represent a menace of the most acute kind. And this menace is all the more critical inasmuch as it has at least the passive support, if not the positive encouragement, of a most mischievous kind of intellectualism the illusory and arrogant character of which is unfortunately not recognized, especially in liberalist countries. What is to be said when a person like Rabindranath Tagore appeals to "the conscience of humanity,, in regard to what is happening in Spain and sends forth the cry: "Help democracy, help civilization and culture ?" What is to be

14 said when a similar appeal, this time to the conscience of the World, is issued by outstanding political leaders and dignitaries in American democratic circles? What is to be said when the Dean of Canterbury writes in an appeal, dated April 18, 1937: "It is a mistake to suppose that the Spanish Government is essentially irreligious. On the contrary, I was amazed at the deep religious tone which lies behind Spanish life today. It is completely false to say that these people are irreligious, even if they deny God."

If we are not to look on all this as a malicious, vulgar and base attempt to make little of what is in reality a most dreadful menace, then we are undoubtedly confronted, with a kind of ignorance that is devoid even of elementary insight and which unfortunately is also recorded by the Gospel, in the prayer: Lord forgive them for they know not what they do. Innumerable appeals have been made by liberalist intellectuals to the conscience of humanity, of culture and civilization, though the latter have been shattered to their foundations in Red Spain. It is as if the world had completely closed its eyes to this manifest attempt on the part of the Moscow Comintern to use Spain as an experimental field for trying out the Bolshevic plans for a World- Revolution. For the struggle now taking place in that unhappy land is nothing less than a general rehearsal for theWorld Revolution. Here Moscow has held a military review of its vassals. Here it has a favourable opportunity to test its allies throughout the world and thereby formulate its tactical and strategical measures in preparation for the great World Revolt. Here the World Revolution is being advanced systematically and at the same time the test is being made to ascertain how far Europe is ready and what may be expected of it in its present condition. Methods which have already been approved and methods which still await official acceptance are now beeing tested for their efficacy. In this matter the question of expenses does not come into account as far as Moscow is concerned;

15 for Spain has to pay the account, that unhappy land on whose lacerated body this abhorrent and gruesome experiment is being made. Here, as in Russia, the national economic structure is being demolished through the destruction of all personal values. Here the land of the peasants is expropriated and they are herded together in collectives where there are no mutual bonds of spiritual uniori. Here in Western Europe that policy is being carried out which the so-called liberalist intellectuals held to be Asiatic and not typical of Bolshevism when attemps were made to put it into practice in Russia. Even the "Prawda" itself, in-its issue of May 10, 1937, felt bound to make the following admission: At the beginning of the agrarian movement there were approximately 350 collectives in the province of Jaen. Many of them became delapidated; there remained approximately 250 farmsteads in which 38,000 families, consisting of former land workers, are established." An eyewitness reports: "The olives in the provinces of Corboda and Jaen had not yet been harvested in the month of January, 1937. In February 1937 huge cases of rotten oranges were lying at the docks in Malaga. While advancing in the neighbourhood of Teruel, in March 1937, the national troops found that the whole of the beet-sugar crop had been left uncared for." The social life of the country followed similar lines. Pleasing catchwords were used to win the favour of the workers but when the communist leaders came into power social terror became the rule of the day. Among the workers and peasant classes hunger prevailed, as symbol and sign of the Bolshevic rule. Parasitic parvenus and unscrupulous Jews have taken advantage of the miseries under which the people suffer and are thriving on them. And the whole of this system is imbrued in a stew which reeks of proletarian phraseology. The total annihilation of the bourgeoisie has left only two groups in its wake: namely, the privileged class

16 and the class without any legal rights whatsoever. The one group is made up of those who are members of the militant Marxist organisations and all others are simply outlaws. Even the Soviet Russian, Ilja Ehrenburg, in an article published by the"Iswestija", dated June 30, 1937, had to admit: "There are charts of the battle­ fields but also bread cards. Hunger is a bad counsellor and a bad ally". On July 25, 1937, a paper called "El Diluvio" stated: "Sixty- five percent of the population in and the industrial areas are getting good pay in jobs where shirkers are sheltered. If you go searching you may by chance come upon two or three people among this sixty-five percent who are anxiously asking themselves the question: where does the money come from?" All those who do not support the Reds are outlaws. An industrialist in Bilbao was compelled by a Red judge to hand over his fortune of 60,000 pesetas to the judge himself. In passing judgment the judge said: "The fact that you possess such a large account at your bank makes your case more serious.,, In keeping with the Soviet Russian pattern, family life and the institution of marriage are being ruined by this world plague. Degradation of married women, the socialization of women, the martyrdom of children—these are the principles which are in vogue here. In contrast to this ,the Bolshevic women themselves play the so-called part of the petroleuses of Red anarchy. Their terror acts towards the nationalist population are indescribable. The so-called status of equality for women in Red Spain led to the formation of Women's Detachments and created for Spain the entirely new type of rifle-bearing woman. In a report dated June 13th 1937, Miss Jane Anderson, war correspondent for "The New York American", stated that when arrested she demanded from the twenty-three year old member of the so-called Midnight Committee in Madrid to be taken before the Spanish Government. The female Red Commandant replied: "Government? This pistol is government! Who do you think you're talking to, anyhow ?

17 Do you know who I am ? Do you know how many people I have already killed? I've killed one hundred and eighty-nine." On August 2, 1937, some of the Red Militia at the Madrid front offered to exchange with the Nationalist troops five women in return for one doctor. Reporting on this, a Paris News Service stated that a naked woman was held up in the trenches as a sample. In the course of an address to Red troops, Margarita ! Nelken, a Communist Deputy, demanded: "Mass terrorization, as this is the only possibility of annihilating our enemies". According to the "Daily Mail" of August 22, 1936, Twenty-eight from the Convent of Santa Clara "were subjected to inconceivable tortures by relays of red maniacs." A Belgian who had returned home from Spain reported from Mahora, in the "Echo de Paris" of March 29, 1937, that young women had committed suicide in order to escape being raped. Divorce has been introduced on communist lines. Speaking before government supporters in Bilbao a notorious red female agitator, LaPasstonarta, stated: "I not only preach the communist doctrine, but I also apply it in a practical way. Follow me. Do as I do and also become an apostle of Free Love." All this of course completely coincides with the theoretical principles of Bolshevism. The Plenary of the Comintern passed a resolution on November 16, 1924, that: "The Revolution is ineffective as long as the ideas of family life and family ties remain". The half-caste Jewess, Kollontay, Bolshevic ambassadress at Stockholm, stated in a brochure: "In principle we do not differentiate between a prostitute and a legally married woman the moment the latter allows herself to be supported by her husband."

The socialization of woman is also being carried out in practice in Spain. I have before me an original coupon bearing the following inscription: "Valid for ten nights for Comrade Juan Palomeque with any woman he may choose. Toledo, August 7,1936." Coupons

18 of this description were found in large quantities at Toledo, Malaga and on the Corboda front. The sufferings to which innocent children are subjected in Bolshevic Spain are terrible and indescribable. Writing in a Prague paper, a Spanish refugee told how the Militia threw his seven- year-old child from the fourth storey of a building on to the barrack square. This was done before the eyes of the father himself. The child was killed instanteously and the body left lying there. A Bel­ gian deserter who had been a volunteer described, in the"Echo de Paris", of March 29, 1937, how girls of twelve and thirteen years were insulted and molested by the Reds in the most shameful manner. At Granja de Torrehermosa two dead bodies of girls were discovered. Medical examination testified that the five-year-old child had been murdered by having had its head battered against the ground or the wall. The nine-year-old girl had been violated. On February 8, 1937, at Malaga, the Red forces covered their retreat by using 70,000 civilians as a living human shield .Among these were approximately. 50,000 children. In the "Daily Mail" of October 16, 1936, a British reporter stated: "The Reds used women and children as a living shield for their positions in front of Oviedo."

Untold damage has been done by the Bolshevics in Spain through the destruction of artistic and cultural treasures. It is well known of course that Bolshevism is in the habit of trying to win the favour of unsuspecting people by pretending to be the champion of a new intellectual order. But Bolshevism in practice is nothing better than the most frightful kind of barbarism. It is the outward expression of the hatred of the underworld against all those who are representative of Western civilization and a cultural level to which Bolshevism can never hope to attain. That is why everything that is not within their mental reach is demolished and destroyed by these Red barbarians. Early in August 1937, the Red Spanish

19 paper, "El Liberal", stated: "What does it matter if the historic Giralda at Sevilla, so rich in memories, has been destroyed by bombs ? That does not matter at all. It ought to be bombarded still more effectively no matter what the cost and irrespective of the consequences." Among the 20,000 churches and monasteries which the Reds have plundered and destroyed many were of historical and architectural significance which cannot be replaced. For example, the old in , the 13th century Santa Ana Church in Seville, and many others. In January 1937, priceless old wood carvings were found scattered in the streets in Porcuna, some of them being used for repairing the street paving. Magnificent oil from the Prado in Madrid were shipped to Odessa in January, 1937, and large quantities of art treasures from and private collections in Madrid were packed in huge cases and shipped to Soviet Russian ports. All this is an example of cultural barbarism and is at the same time an example of Jewish thievery on a gigantic scale, covered by a political mask.

A special chapter must be devoted to the history of what Spain has suffered in regard to religion and the Chirch. I have already quoted a number of instances where certain ecclesiastical represen­ tatives expressed themselves in favour of the Reds in Spain. In face of the facts this attitude is utterly inexplicable, the more so if we bear in mind that these self-same ecclesiastical represen­ tatives give the strongest possible expression to their moral indignation at the so-called persecution to which the religious denominations in Germany are being subjected. The real truth is that in the course of our Revolution not a single cleric has had a hair of his head touched. But the destruction which Bolshevism has wreaked on the churches in Russia and in Spain is appalling. It is quite clear why Bolshevism should try to belittle the impor­ tance of our accusations. In this attempt the Bolshevics receive

20 every possible assistance from our Western intellectuals. On the occasion of former Party Congresses I gave figures regarding the tremendous number of clerics who were murdered in Russia, and the truth of these figures is incontestable. But it was declared in explanation that such events could take place only in Russia and that they were largely to be explained as an effect of war psychosis. Bolshevism is always expedient enough to adopt a devout and religious outer attitude in Western Europe. To the accompaniment of a huge propaganda drum, a few churches are built in Russia or in Spain, while thousands and tens of thousands of churches are burned down and otherwise laid waste. And in the meantime popular religious sentiment is gradually and steadily undermined by a systematic propaganda campaign under the aegis of the anti- God movement. But the churches of the world remain passive to it all and do not seem to have the least suspicion as to the deadly menace that threatens them. This is where Bolshevism shows itself again as the incarnation of evil. Its destructive influence on the popular religious instinct goes down to the very roots of that instinct itself. And this ruthless atheistic campaign spares nothing whatsoever which might serve to remind the people of God and religion. The one fact alone that the Fuhrer has saved the German churches from this fate should be enough to make them feel bound to remain eternally thankful to him. But instead of this they never tire of going beyond the sphere of their religious duties, interfering in political matters and making their influence felt in a way that has no connection whatsoever with their duties or their divine calling. According to indisputable figures based exclusively on Bolshevic statistics, 42,000 priests have been murdered in Russia. Up to February 2, 1937, approximately 17,000 priests and and eleven were murdered in Spain. Taking the number of Spanish dioceses into consideration as a whole, forty percent of the priests in each diocese have been murdered, but in certain

21 individual dioceses the figure was as high as eighty percent. Miss Jane Anderson, the correspondent of "The New York American", tells of a drunken driver in charge of a transport of arrested nuns. This man spoke of 11,000 priests and nuns as having been murdered and he added that he was now sitting on the Tribunal as "Chief Auditor, head bookkeeper for the Dead". A Swedish refugee stated, on November 10, 1936: "I have seen churches on the walls of which the murdered bodies of women were hung, nuns that had been beheaded or burned and whose bodies had been nailed in rows to the church walls." The Director of the Institute of Languages in Valencia made the following affidavit: "I saw the murder of nuns and priests. I saw a mob of about fifty men who violated women in the most bestial manner. Five nuns over seventy years of age and living opposite the British Consulate were taken out of their home by a mob of Communists, carried away and shot." Before the civil war the number of churches, chapels and monasteries in Spain amounted to 71,353. Of these more than 20,000 have been destroyed. In Madrid alone there were 2,201 churches, of which there is not a single one open today. The majority have been destroyed. Of the 1778 churches formerly in Barcelona, only the Cathedral has remained undamaged. Jose Diaz, the General Secretary of the Spanish Communist Party, confirmed this in a speech which he delivered on May 5th, 1937. "In the provinces which we control not a single church exists." Even the "Manchester Guardian", in its issue of June 12, 1937, had to admit: "Here in the South the interior of every Church has been destroyed and the priests have either been murdered or have fled." The same is true of the schools. I have orders before me the text of which reads: "Parents who do not send their children to the Communist schools are Fascists." The Strassburg paper,

22 "Der Elsasser", in its issue of February 27, 1937, published the staggering fact that " 50,000 Spanish children are at the present moment wandering through the Spanish provinces, abandoned and in rags. All public activities for the welfare of the youth have been abolished. And so the youngsters, very often no more than four or five years old, are left no alternative. They stagger along the roads in swarms, shivering with cold and are nothing more than wandering skeletons." This is in keeping with a state of affairs reported by a Geneva Press Service on February 12, 1937. It stated: "In Barcelona a revoluionary children's newspaper has been founded. Its editor is a boy of ten years and no members of his staff are more than fourteen years old." One shudders to think what might happen to humanity if this system became universal throughout the world. It makes one angry and indignant to recall to mind a poster which was circulated throughout the world some time ago and which depicted Stalin, the Soviet Russian Dictator, surrounded by a laughing group of happy children. This is where theory and practice stand in violent contrast to one another. Before the bar of humanity they talk of the training of a new generation, the propagation of culture among the working classes and the participation of the people in the amenities of cultural life. Truth however speaks with a different tongue, disclosing the very opposite of this fraternal phraseology.

The average man in the street today asks with surprise: How it is that so devastating a system, which is a torture and a martyrdom for humanity, can possibly last for twenty-four hours, without being swept away in a torrent of rage and indignation by the afflicted people ? Whoever thinks or speaks thus only shows that he has not the faintest idea of the inner nature and the modus operandi of Bolshevism. Terrorization of the individual and the masses is the instrument which the Bolshevics use to maintain themselves in power. Those methods of terrorization are employed on such a

23 gigantic scale that the very first instincts of reaction against it are strangled the moment they show the first signs of life. With impudent effrontery, this method is disavowed before the world at large; but in practice it is put into ruthless execution. Bolshevism and its "friendly press" throughout the world lose no opportunity of pointing an accusing finger at the alleged use of terror in countries which are governed according to the principles of authority. The whole world gives out a cry of agonizing sympathy when, for example, a Jew in Germany receives a well-earned box on the ears. But what is this when compared with the terror that disrupts whole nations, torturing and exterminating them. At previous Party Congresses, when we placed before the public undeniable testimony on these matters the reaction throughout the world press was principally shown in an attempt to side-track the import of the evidence by saying that it applied only to Russia, which is more Asiatic than European and accustomed to such methods in everyday life. Such a thing in Europe, it was said, is out of the question. But what is the state of things in Spain ? What does the most reliable information say on the subject of transplanting these Asiatic methods in the extreme western parts of western Europe ?

One must have a strong nerve before one dares to visualize for oneself the real character of this gruesome and revolting manner of shedding human blood. In our possession we have photographs of women and children who have been violated and then murdered. These direct photographic proofs are so abhorrent that they cannot be placed before the public gaze. It curdles the blood in one's veins as one wades through this infernal tide of misery and suffering. Those who plan and carry out such brutalities are hardly human beings but rather satanic spirits that have been let loose upon the world by some dim and inscrutable fate, to torture and martyr humanity, and also perhaps to bring it to a sense of reason.

24 It cannot be replied here that such occurrences are to be attri­ buted to irresponsible individuals, that they are a natural after­ math of every revolution and therefore unavoidable. No. The contrary is the case. We can furnish what is practically a word- for-word proof that in every instance these practises are a literal application of principles that have already been avowed and pro- calimed. Lenin himself, when asked at the 12th Congress of the Red Party, what were the principles of action on which Commu­ nism relied, answered: "Murder, destruction, not a stone to be left in its place if its removal should be to the advantage of the Revolution.,, This same Lenin writes (Works vol. 18 p. 365 and vol. 8 p. 443): "If tomorrow your voting paper should be taken away, a rifle and a quick-firer of the most modern type will be put into your hands, then take these weapons of murderous destruction and do not pay attention to sentimental blubberers who are afraid of war. In the world there are still many things left that call for extermination by fire and sword. And when a revo­ lutionary state of affairs is created, be prepared to use your effec­ tive weapons of murder and destruction against your government.,, —"The murder of informers, policemen, gendarmes, dynamiting of police stations, liberation of prisoners, confiscation of state funds to pay for the revolution—every section of the revolutionary army must be prepared at a moment's notice to undertake this work." Oganowsky himself, the official Soviet statistician, gives a figure of 1,9 millions as representing the number of persons that were sacrificed to the Red Terror in Russia up to 1923. Ventura, the Spanish Bolshevist, faithfully followed in Lenin's footsteps when he stated, at the 7th World Congress of the Comintern at Moscow in 1925: "We shall introduce the most severe terror."

He and his confederates have put that promise into practice. A Belgian hotel director stated in "Le Matin", January 14, 1937,

25 that in Valencia 30,000 persons had been murdered and that many young girls belonging to the bourgeois class had been compelled to submit to the lust of the Red Militia in order to save themselves and their families. The "Neue Zuricher Zeitung" stated, on Fe­ bruary 4, 1937, that the Red Dictator at Puigoerda had 300 people murdered. On January 11, 1937, a communist Spanish newspaper declared: "The Red Tribunal passed 61 death sentences on a Sunday." The "Gringoire" reported, in its issue of January 8, 1937, that in Guarena one of the inhabitants had his intestines inflated with a motor car pump. Other prisoners had dynamite cartridges fixed to their clothing and were then turned loose. These unfortunate people were blown to pieces. And the "Times" reported, on October 28, 1936: "Within one month 150 people were murdered in Posadas by the Reds. Two families were entirely annihilated. In the course of three weeks the Communists murdered 154 citizens. An aged couple was fettered to a bed, soaked in petrol and then burned alive. After paying ransom money for his four sons, a father had to witness their execution and was then shot himself." Reports concerning the torturing and murder of hostages are equally revolting. Here also the Spanish Reds follow faithfully in the footsteps of Moscow. As far back as August 1919 a commu­ nistic press organ of the government published at Jekaterinoslaw had a notice which, inter alia, contained the following sentence; "It is about time that the corpses (of hostages) be removed from the streets; because the dogs which have eaten human flesh are running wild and attacking human beings." And the position in Spain? The "Daily Telegraph", in its issue of June 19, 1937, reports that about 10,000 hostages were at that time lying in the Red prisons in Spain. The Paris "Le Jour", on November 7, 1936, published the report of an eyewitness from Alicante: "Red mobs stormed the prison. About a thousand were killed in this action."

26 The "Times" reported on September 22, 1936, that refugees from Malaga had stated in Gibraltar that, as a reprisal for the bombardment of Malaga on September 21, 100 prisoners were taken out and shot. The militia detachment "Rote Carmen" stormed the prison ship in the harbour of Bilbao on September 27 and murdered 220 hostages as a reprisal for the nationalist bombardment. The six British Members of Parliament who visited Red Spain in December, 1936, state in their report, dated December 18, 1936: "People are said to have been taken from one prison to go to another and have never arrived at their destination nor been heard of since. In other cases prisoners have been set free and been sho after leaving the prison. Bodies of armed men are said often to have kidnapped prisoners, whose bodies were frequently found later lying by the roadside. It is stated by reliable people that between August 15 and the end of November thousands of persons have been done away with in this manner." "Le Matin" of January 14, 1937, reports from Cartagena that on the ship "Jaimie I" while at sea, stones were attached to 600 hostages who were then thrown overboard. This was done in revenge for a Nationalist air bombardment. Perhaps it will be objected here that all this is a purely internal Spanish affair which manifestly has nothing to do with the picture of a world danger which we have painted. The Jewish Soviet Ambassador in London finds it convenient to express his moral indignation before the Non-Intervention Committee in London. The world and the League of Nations are hypocritically appealed to. Before these tribunals the Jew Litwinow-Finkelstein plays the part of the civilized philistine and fills Europe with cries of protest. But at the same time what is Moscow doing in Spain ? The International Brigades which are sent into action on the Red Spanish front are commanded by Soviet officers. Their

27 former commander was the Jew, General Kleber, whose real name is Lazar Fekete. He was born in Hungary and, together with four other Jews, was connected with the murder of the family of the Czar. The responsiblity for the major part of the atrocities commit­ ted by the International Brigades must be attributed to him. Between January 24 and 26, 1937, ninety Soviet Russian officers crossed the Red Spanish frontier in sleeping cars. Furthermore, innumerable Soviet Russian officers received high war decorations: for military services rendered in Spain. At Perpignan 12,000 volunteers had crossed over into Spain, up to February 20, 1937. A large number of organizations under the control of the Red International are working in various coun­ tries to recruit reserves for the replenishment of the International Brigades. In Marseilles alone, during the month of May, 300 volunteers, principally North Americans who had travelled via Bologne and Le Havre, were assembled and transported to Spain. Every Tuesday and Friday a motor convoy still leaves Marseilles for the Pyrennees frontier. In December last year a secret recruiting department for Spanish Bolshevics was discovered at the head­ quarters of the Czecho-Slovakian Communist Party. As a result of the increased recruiting activities on behalf of Red Spain, a communist senator and two other communist ringleaders had to be arrested in Prague. It might be asked: What are the individual plans that the Bolshevics are following out in Spain ? Their purpose is so clear that there can be no illusion whatsoever about it. Their plans are of a world-revolutionary and imperialist nature. Bolshevism is intent on creating a platform in Spain for the purpose of revo­ lutionizing westerm Europe. Seeing that the Bolshevization of Central Europe has been made impossible by the National Socialist Revolution, Bolshevism now looks to Spain for an entrance gate to the West. The"Iswestija" admits this quite frankly in its issue

28 dated May 23, 1937, when it states: "The overthrow of Fascism in Spain will arouse the whole anti-Fascist front and will be the first stage in the destruction of World Fascism.'' Bolshevic Im­ perialism wants to create a base for its army and fleet in western Europe and in the western Mediterranean. This project was openly discussed by the "Prawda" newspaper in September 1935 when it stated: "Soviet Russia firmly intends to create a position for itself as a World Power. The Mediterranean question is assuming an international character." The Bolshevics endeavour to utilize the Spanish question under all circumstances for the purpose of arousing mutual conflicts between the other states. Lenin gave his advice on this point when he wrote: "The practical task which the Communist policy has to fulfil is to assure that the mutual enmities existing among the capitalists will be intensified and that we shall benefit thereby." The consequences of this were recognized by the "Morning Post" when it stated, in its issue of June 1, 1937: "There is also the possibility that the attack on the Deutschland was designed to provoke an embroilment of the Powers, and to transform European neutrality into European conflict. Of Valencia's Government it might be said: II est capable de tout" Thus we have here the clearest proof that the whole of Europe is facing a very perilous situation. The enemy is in our midst; but he must be recognized if we would rid ourselves of him. That is why we are pointing him out and drawing the attention of the world to the danger which Bolshevism represents for humanity. And we shall never grow tired of interpreting the signs of the times in this way. The first effects of these Bolshevic revolutionary proceedings in Spain are already visible. They can no longer be ignored. Bolshe­ vism has already taken a firm footing in the middle of Europe and from here it is pushing forward its forces and consolidating its position prior to putting all its resources into action for the

29 final objective of the World Revolution. There seems to be little difficulty in doing so, in view of the fact that in various countries Moscow maintains a kind of Foreign Legion within the framework of the various communist parties which, in the ultimate analysis, are merely branches and sections of the Comintern. And it cannot be denied that in a number of European countries Bolshevism has extended its grip to an alarming degree since the beginning of the Spanish conflict. It is indeed a fact that all destructive upheavals are set in motion by an unchecked series of revolutionary acts which follow one another with increasing intensity. A commen­ cement is made with strikes in various shapes and forms—the stay-in strike being the most recent and modern type—and these lead on to insurrection and open revolt. The first symptoms may appear to be harmless, but on no account should they be under­ estimated. These symptoms are designed merely as a test to gauge how far the opposing side has been broken and paralysed and what further advances can be made, where the forces of a possible counter-offensive are situated, what opponents are first to be assassinated when it comes to the final onslaught, so that all resistance may be crippled at the outset. One must admire the ingenious manner in which responsible statesmen and journalists in West-European democracies close their eyes to this terrible menace and, following the methods of the lftte M. Coue, repeat in stereotyped fashion that they will not allow Europe to be split up into two camps. These people ought to study and probe for themselves the full significance of what the Bolshevic Jew, Michael Kolzoff-Ginsburg-Friedlander said with cynical frankness, in June 1937, on the Spanish problem. This Jew declared: "The war area has been considerably extended. It starts in the trenches before Madrid, passes through Europe and the whole world and splits up countries, villages and cities.'y That is a profound exposition of the whole problem. It shows in stern reality the acute character of the menace that threatens

30 all civilized countries. European States must no longer close their eyes to this condition of affairs, hide their heads in the sand and copy the policy of the ostrich. Every tendency to take the matter in a free-and-easy way is criminal, in view of the dreadful danger with faces us all. If public leaders and especially if the people themselves would only recognize the nature of this fatal malady which is looming along the whole horizon, then the whole of Europe would surely rise as one man, free itself from these pestilential fangs and once more array its best forces in a united front to stave off this appalling menace. At a time when the fortunes of Germany were at their lowest ebb, when the Red Enemy was at the gates and was prepared to overrun and lay waste our cities and our provinces, we began to raise the war-cry among our people—Germany Awake. Against a world of opposition, against laughter and scorn, terror and bloodshed, we succeeded. And what was first a cry of despair sent out by a small and derided sect became the battle-cry of a whole nation, which had now woken up from its deep narcosis. Some weeks ago a Brussels newspaper wrote: "International Bolshevism wants this war, so that on the ruins of civilization it may reach its own revolutionary goal." On June 1,1937, the Paris paper, "L'Intransigeant", said that we must be careful not to play the game of the Comintern, which does not fear a war because in such a war it envisages the beginning of the World Revolution. Indeed the Valencia Bolshevics themselves have cynically admitted this in public. In the course of a speech which he delivered on July 24,1937, their so-called Prime Minister, Negrin, declared that if General Franco continued his opposition "nothing else remains but to trans­ form the Spanish conflict into a world conflict." Thus the design is made clear. The Spanish problem concerns the whole world. There is no further cause to divide Europe into two sections. Bolshevism and the Comintern have already seen

31 to that. This is the meaning of the Red Revolution which has spread its fearful convulsions all over Spain. The question whether and how the affair will be further pursued can no longer depend on our wills alone. For what is happening now is partly the outer effect of internal dynamic laws that have been set in motion. Of course there are elements that have remained neutral in th?s struggle; but what is of decisive importance is that the struggle has begun and that it cannot be broken off at will. Here also Europe's stand on the international Jewish question must be decided. For the Jews want this war. They are preparing it with all the means at their disposal. For them it is necessary as a prelude to the Bolshevic world hegemony. In the service of this purpose the press and other means of propaganda are employed to foment trouble between the unsuspecting nations; and at the same time a defensive front is organized against those nations that are already awake to the danger. The Jew, who has been detected and unmasked as the chief agent and trustee of Bolshevism, represents a foreign and parasitic element in the social body of the civilized nations. He has created Bolshevism as a favourable soil on which he can flourish. There­ fore the Jews throughout the whole world are also against Franco. Here again we have this world conspiracy fighting against the awakening of a people. And this is a further reason why we whole­ heartedly take the side of the new Spain. We shall not be deterred from pointing to the Jew as the inspirer, the instigator and the beneficiary of this dreadful catastrophe. Behold the World Enemy, the wrecker of civilization, the parasite among the nations, the son of chaos, evil incarnate, the ferment of dissolution, the plastic demon of every decadence. At Barcelona he sits, in the person of Wladimir Bischitzki as director of the international organization for the smuggling of arms and munitions, comrades Lurje and Fuchs, of his own racial

32 breed, sitting by his side. His Paris agents are his racial compatriots, Fratkin, Rosenfeld and Schapiro. At Hirtenberg in Austria their collaborator is the Jew, Mandl. In Amsterdam the Jew, Wolf. In Rotterdam the Jews, Cohen, Griinfeld, Kirsch and Simon. In Denmark the Jew, Moses Israel Diamant. In Prague the Jews, Kindler, Kahn, Abter and Hithner. We know them all and we know them well. The fact that Western Liberalism closes its eyes to this evil portent is only a sign of its almost childish naivety. Here the good old German proverb is very applicable: It is only the very stupid calf that chooses its own butcher. Indeed Democracy has for a long time now enjoyed the privilege of allowing events to take it by surprise and to notice nothing until catastrophe descends, like a terrible scourge from God, upon the people. "We are certainly not going to take action which will divide Europe into two blocs" declared a prominent British statesman on April 12, 1937. No. Not we, but Moscow will take that action. Moscow has already taken it. And all the means at our disposal must be organized in defence against it. For it is not yet too late. The forces for the counter-attack are already in motion. The onslaught which, in 1932, swept in from the East and was about to overturn Europe in one rush was held up on the German frontier and lay broken there. The Germans have risen up and banded together against the World Enemy. We hope and believe and know that we shall finally bring him to the ground. Therefore, not only for us but for the whole of Europe, the Fiihrer has come as a saviour. Five hundred years hence, when the history of our epoch will have been written, the name of the Fiihrer will be emblazoned among the very greatest men in the history of the West. For in an age of appalling paralysis he saved Europe from being submerged by the red storm flood. As yet nothing is lost, but all is still to be won. In Italy, in

33 Japan, in Austria, in Hungary, in Poland, in Brazil, in Turkey, in Portugal, the fight is already being waged openly. A struggle for native land and liberty, for honour and familiy and God and religion, for wife and child, for school and upbringing, for order, moral principle, culture and civilization, for our lives and our daily bread, has begun. In Germany it has already been brought to a triumphant issue. We feel happy that we have been and are and will be not only witnesses but also combatants in this fight. We are proudly conscious of having in our midst one of the greatest men in all our history, one whose banner we follow and whom it is our privilege to obey. We thank the Fiihrer that he has called upon us to be fellow combatants in this fight and has thereby given our lives a special purpose and meaning. He has taught us to realize the bitter necessity of this historical struggle and, moreover, he hks shown us the right way to bring it to a triumphant finish. We Germans are no longer helpless and abandoned; but we are furnished with the weapons of knowledge gained through experience. And, God be praised for it, the German Sword is again in our hand to guard and defend our frontiers. A new order is coming into being. It will be an international order of self-respect, where a nobler spirit and principles of moral decency will prevail, an order that will uphold the ideals of honour and liberty and mutual understanding and the vital rights of every nation, an order of social constructivity and eco­ nomic progress, an order where there will be a new flowering of art and knowledge. For this ideal we shall fight as long as the breath of life re­ mains in us. Adolf Hitler shows us the way.

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