In principle, it did not represent a new approach to government it was a continuation of the political absolutism - the absolute monarchies, the The constitution of the nationalistic Reich is therefore not based upon a system of inborn and inalienable rights of the individual." If the term "statism" designates concentration of power in the state at the expense of individual liberty, then Nazism in politics was a form of statism. "There are no personal liberties of the individual which fall outside of the realm of the state and which must be respected by the state. "The concept of personal liberties of the individual as opposed to the authority of the state had to disappear it is not to be reconciled with the principle of the nationalistic Reich," said Huber to a country which listened, and nodded. "The authority of the Fuhrer is not limited by checks and controls, by special autonomous bodies or individual rights, but it is free and independent, all-inclusive and unlimited," said Ernst Huber, an official party spokesman, in 1933.
The state must have absolute power over every man and over every sphere of human activity, the Nazis declared. The term, from which the adjective "totalitarian" derives, was coined by Hitler's mentor, Mussolini. The system which Hitler established - the social reality which so many Germans were so eager to embrace or so willing to endure - the politics which began in a theory and ended in Auschwitz - was: the "total state". Until World War II, those Germans who wished to flee the country could do so.
In 1933, when Hitler did establish the system he had promised, he did not find it necessary to forbid foreign travel. The essence of the political system which Hitler intended to establish in Germany was clear. "Mein Kampf" alone sold more than 200,000 copies between 19. Nazi literature, including statements of the Nazi plans for the future, papered the country during the last years of the Weimar Republic. The voters were aware of the Nazi ideology. Five weeks later, in the last (and semi-free) election of the pretotalitarian period, the Nazis obtained 17 million votes, 44% of the total.
On January 30, 1933, in full accordance with the country's legal and constitutional principles, Hitler was appointedĬhancellor. In the national election of July 1932, the Nazis obtained 37% of the vote and a plurality of seats in the Reichstag. The Nazi party was elected to office by the freely cast ballots of millions of German voters, including men on every social, economic, and educational level.
In this respect there was no gulf between the intellectuals and the people. The Nazis did not gain power against the country's wishes. Professors with distinguished academic credentials, eager to pronounce their benediction on the Fuhrer's cause, put their scholarship to work full time they turned out a library of admiring volumes, adorned with obscure allusions and learned references. The intellectuals were among his regime's most ardent supporters. The German university students were among the earliest groups to back Hitler. By reason of its long line of famous artists and thinkers, Germany has been called "the land of poets and philosophers." But its education offered the country no protection against the Sergeant Molls in its ranks. Their crimes were the official, legal acts and policies of modern Germany - an educated, industrialized, CIVILIZED Western European nation, a nation renowned throughout the world for the luster of its intellectual and cultural achievements. The Nazis were not a tribe of prehistoric savages. This book reveals socialisms nasty little secret." William Cooper Excerpt from Chapter One. it should be required reading for all Americans. A Veritas News Service Book Review - "A magnificent work. THE OMINOUS PARALLELS, by Leonard Peikoff. The nasty little secret they don't want you to know!