e idea of racial differences has been around for some time, several hundred years, in fact. As early as 1727 the Earl of Boulainvilliers argued that the noblemen of France were descendants of an original and superior race of long-headed Franks in contrast to the lower estates of French society which were descended from the Celtic Gauls. However, it was not until the second half of the nineteenth century that the problem of race received the detailed attention of scientific scholars. In 1853-55 Arthur Comte de Gobineau published his pioneering Essay on the Inequality of Races. He claimed for the first time that race was the primary moving force of history. Equally important was his contention that his racist history was a science. It was the beginning of the entrance of science into the field of race and genetics. Enter into this genetic and scientific mix the publication of Charles Darwin’s Origin of the Species in 1859. Darwin’s theories for the first time seriously challenged the Judeo-Christian concept of the unity of man, based on the single creation of Adam and Eve. Darwin’s theory (known as evolution through natural selection and survival of the fittest) suggested that humans had evolved over hundreds of thousands, even millions of years, and that the races of men had diverged while adapting to the particularities of local conditions. Its impact on scientific scholarship was enormous.

Even before Gobineau arid Darwin, the race issue was uppermost not in Europe but in America. This was probably due to the fact that in no other major advanced White country was there such a large element of black Africans to threaten the mongrelization and miscegenation of its dominant population. Whereas enlightened European philosophers championed liberty, yet they made it contingent upon the practice of “reason,” a faculty they did not concede was shared equally among humans. Englishman David Hume, for instance, compared the intelligence of a nigroe with that of a parrot, and argued that a man of this race could never achieve the status equal to that of a European. Jean Jacques Rousseau of France claimed women were inferior to men in the sphere of reason, and therefore did not deserve the same rights as men. This position was evidently shared by the framers of the American Constitution, since it was not until 1920 that women were given the right to vote. In Britain this right was achieved in 1918 for women aged 30 or over and extended to the age of 21 in 1928. German genetic scientists were somewhat behind those in America, England and France. The German eugenics, or racial hygiene, movement emerged late in the nineteenth century. The German social Darwinists feared the degeneration of their race was becoming a threat for two reasons : first, medical care of “the weak” had begun to destroy the natural struggle for existence; and secondly, the poor and the misfits of the world were beginning to multiply faster than the fit and the competent.

In 1895, Alfred Ploetz wrote a treatise that was to become the founding document of what was to become known as Racial Hygiene (Rassenhygiene). Ploetz warned against the various kinds of social “counter-selection” (such as internecine wars, revolutions, welfare for the sick and the inferior). These forces must be avoided. War and revolution must be avoided, and support for the poor should only be given to those past child-bearing age. The population should be protected from such agents as alcohol, venereal disease, or anything else that might damage the human germ plasm. But most of all, Ploetz warned against medical care for “the weak,” for this allows those inferior individuals to survive and reproduce, who in the natural order would not. Traditional medical care, he argued, thus helps those certain individuals but endangers the race. (These theories are parallel to those we espouse in The White Man’s Bible, namely that civilization as such, without a conscious racial creed, has the disastrous effect of downgrading the species.) In 1904 Ploetz founded the Archiv fur Rassen und Gesellschaftsbiologie (Journal for Racial and Social Biology) to investigate “the principles of optimal conditions for the maintenance and development of the race.” In 1905 Ploetz, together with psychiatrist Ernst Rudin, anthropologist Richard Thurnwald, and lawyer Anastasius Nordenholz, founded the Society for Racial Hygiene to further the cause of human racial improvement. Soon the society became International, and in 1910 Sweden’s Sallskap for Rashygien became its first foreign affiliate.

Beginning only with a handful of members after World War I, the Society expanded rapidly, both in Germany and abroad. By 1930 it had 1,300 members in Germany alone, with sixteen local branches. Early in its formation, Ploetz stressed the superiority of the “Nordic stock” and, whereas he did not originally exclude the Jews from the goals of racial science, he did point out that Jews were radically different in thought and character from the Nordic stock and that in times of war it was the Nordics that are “more willing to fight for their ideas” and suffer the most in depletion of its best racial stock. The Jews, he noted, suffer least from war, since they enlist only half as often and of these are killed only half as often, consequently suffer only one-quarter as much as non-Jews. Interest in racial hygiene increased immensely among scientists and the medical profession during the 1920’s in Germany, and a number of outstanding names appear. Although we are not in a position in this limited treatise to cover the now rapidly expanding development, we should mention such names as Julius Friedrich Lehman, who soon became Germany’s most important publisher of works in racial hygiene; Eugen Fischer, who was appointed director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Genetics and Eugenics when that organization opened its doors in 1927; Theobald Lang, who declared in the National Socialist Monthly that National Socialism was simply applied biology. The ranks of notable scientists and doctors espousing racial hygiene grew rapidly with the rise of the Nazi party. In fact, the percentage of enlistment of doctors of medicine across the board into the Nazi party significantly exceeded that of any other profession.

It soon became evident to the medical profession that theory was one thing, but to put into actual practice their ideas of eugenics it needed to be wedded to political power. It was thus that the racial ideas of the Nazi party rested on the research and promotion of the medical profession, and that in turn the medical profession realized they needed the political clout of the Nazi party in order to implement their ideas of racial improvement. It was a natural and mutual partnership – each needed the other. It is significant to note that the number of journals of racial hygiene and related fields had proliferated and expanded into major proportions before Hitler came into power in 1933. (There were some 200 German medical journals in existence in 1933.) It is also noteworthy to point out that racial hygiene was not “Imposed” on the German medical community; physicians eagerly embraced the racial ideal and the racial state. This they did because it was obvious to them that such a course was the only course to pursue for the future racial, political, economic and physical health of the German people, or any other people, for that matter. With the assumption of political power in 1933, the Nazi party and the medical profession lost no time in implementing those racial ideas that the medical profession had been advocating for the last several decades. Within the first few months, the medical profession was Gleichgeschaltet, that is, coordinated or unified into a single hierarchical structure, responsible to a vertical chain of command culminating in the National Socialist Physicians’ League, which was in turn subordinated to the National Socialist party.

The Gleichschaltung of the medical press in Germany marked the beginning of a campaign to eliminate Jews, and all that might be identified as Jewish, from German medical science. In the summer of 1933 the journal Deutches Arzteblatt (German Doctors’ Journal) announced that the German medical press would begin to “purge itself of non-German influences” in order to return the profession to “German feeling” and “German thinking. Educational reform was an important part of Nazi medical policy. In 1933 Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels asked that all German organizations be educated in “the eugenic way of thinking.” German universities support for racial hygiene increased rapidly. In 1933 Fritz Lenz was the only full professor for racial hygiene in Germany, a position he had held for the previous ten years. By 1936 professorships in racial hygiene were established at Berlin, Bonn, Frankfurt, Glessen, Hamburg, Heidelberg, Jena, Konigsberg, Munich and Warzburg. Soon the curriculum required that all medical students devote three hours of course-work per week in their ninth semester to “human genetics as the foundation of racial hygiene.” As in the professions of law, banking and finance, education, publishing and other fields, the medical profession up to 1933 had been heavily dominated by Jews. This was especially so in Berlin and the major cities, less so in the rural areas and the smaller cities. Jews constituted less than 1% of the German population, but 13% of all physicians were Jewish. In Berlin, the nation’s capital, that figure was a whopping 60% and with it, of course, went control of all the key nerve centers in the medical profession throughout Germany. It was a stranglehold that was not easy to root out.

However, despite their heavy entrenchment, the German doctors and the Nazi party set about to do just that. In the summer of 1933 one of the rallying cries of the new journal German Public Health from Blood and Earth was to “put an end to the pernicious influence of Jews in medicine.” The journal carried a bi-weekly cartoon caricaturing the “Life and Deeds of Mr. Isidor Farben,” a physician with exaggerated Jewish features. Kurt Holz, editor of Der Sturmer, argued in the new journal that, bad as it was that Jewish lawyers, journalists and politicians had for decades injected their poisons into the German people, a thousand times worse was the fact that that Jews had come to dominate German medicine. Routing and rooting the heavily entrenched Jews out of the medical profession was no overnight project, nor did it come easily. Home to more than half of Germany’s Jewish physicians, Berlin was to bear the brunt of the anti-Jewish legislation. One official count in October of 1933 showed a total of 3,481 Berlin physicians practicing medicine within the state-supported insurance programmes. Of these, only 1,404 were of German origin (40%), 1,888 were of foreign (Jewish) origin (54%) and 189 were of “ambiguous” origins, meaning they were probably partly Jewish or had a Jewish husband or wife. By 1934 1,144 physicians had been forced out of Berlin’s social insurance programmes, mostly Jews, but 10% also because of communist affiliations. Nevertheless, even by 1937 the proportion of Jewish physicians in Berlin was still as high as 23%.

By no means was Germany the only country to realize the Jewish menace in the medical profession. By 1939 countries as diverse as Bulgaria, France, Italy, Norway, Poland and Romania had passed laws restricting the proportion of Jews allowed to practice medicine in their countries. In 1937 the Polish Medical Association voted 120 to 104 to exclude Jewish members from that organization. In 1938 the Hungarian Medical Chamber ruled that the number of Jewish physicians in the Chamber could not exceed 20%. As Jewish physicians fled Germany during the 1930’s, neighbouring countries took measures to keep them out. Holland denied working permits to Jews fleeing Germany. Bulgaria closed its borders to Jews in 1939. In Belgium, in 1939, as the influx of Jews reached 1,250 per month, the Flemish Nazi leader Braun announced a campaign to exclude the “white Negroes” (weisse neger) from further immigration. At the German University of Prague and the technical colleges at Brno many Jewish professors were relieved of their posts months prior to the German invasion of March, 1939.

Euthanasia
Having more or less cleaned house (but never completely) of the Jewish problem in their own bailiwick, the German medical profession in collaboration with the German government set about instituting reforms to improve the German genetic health in all other ailing categories and set programs for the future cleansing and upgrading of the German gene pool. The idea of the destruction of “lives not worth living” had been discussed in legal and medical literature long before the Nazi rise to power. In the late nineteenth century, British scholars writing for the Westminster Review had debated the merits of destroying the terminally insane in order to relieve society of “this terrible burden.” In 1912, at a meeting of the Hungarian Psychiatric Association, Dr. Namenyi recommended that “useless idiots” be done away with in accordance with the principles of euthanasia. The word has different meanings to different people. To some it means the right to die deliberately at a time of their choosing without pain or prolonged suffering. To others it means that certain groups or individuals be destroyed forcefully as lives useless and/or harmful and burdensome to the community – lives not worth living. One is voluntary and the other is compulsory, and the two have been invariably confused, a confusion that can hardly be attributed to the Nazi doctors.

In 1920, Alfred Hoche, a professor of medicine, and Rudolph Binding, a professor of law, published their book Release and Destruction of Lives Not Worth Living, in which they argued that the principle of “allowable killing” should be extended to the incurably sick, and they also defended the right to suicide. The right to live, they asserted, must be earned and justified, not dogmatically assumed. Those who are not capable of human feeling – those “ballast lives” and “empty human husks” that fill our psychiatric institutions and insane asylums – can have no sense of the value of life. Theirs is not a life worth living; hence their destruction is not only tolerable, but humane. The ideas of euthanasia were not restricted to Germany. In 1935 a number of British physicians formed the Voluntary Euthanasia Legalization Society, headed by Lord Moynihan, president of the Royal College of Surgeons. In 1936 the Euthanasia Society submitted a bill before the House of Commons to allow voluntary euthanasia. A not uncommon view in Britain was that euthanasia should be considered an option for the mentally retarded, though they might be otherwise healthy.

American discussion of euthanasia peaked in the period 1936 to 1941. As in Britain, most advocates claimed that people should have the right to choose when or how to die, and help guarantee the rights of those individuals who today would call for death with dignity. Many argued it would be a good way to save on medical costs. Dr. W.A. Gould in the Journal for the American Institute of Homeopathy defended euthanasia as one way of resolving economic difficulties. He reminded his readers that euthanasia was not a recent idea, and some of the best and healthiest societies in the ancient world had practiced it, as witnessed by the “elimination of the unfit” in ancient Sparta, a society that already practiced partial eugenics, and undoubtedly produced the finest specimens of the human race both mentally and physically in all history. (What doomed the Greek civilization was two fold : (a) their internecine wars – Sparta vs. Athens, and (b) the pollution of their gene pool by the import of inferior foreign slaves. What the Greeks needed most desperately, but did not have, was a well structured racial religion which not only could have saved their exemplary gene pool but propelled it to unimaginable heights.) Also in America, W.G. Lennox in a 1938 speech to Harvard’s Phi Beta Kappa chapter claimed that saving marginal lives “adds a load on to the back of society.” He wanted physicians to recognize “the privilege of death for the congenitally mindless and the incurable sick who wish to die : the boon of not being born for the unfit.” Lennox was astute enough to perceive that “the principle of limiting certain races through limitation of offspring might be applied internationally as well as intranationally. Germany, in time, might have solved her Jewish problem in this way.”

Opposing all such views were the Christian churches and the liberal bleeding-hearts, the latter being vociferously promoted by the Jewish press. Germany, meanwhile, although psychologically and politically prepared to act on the problem of the insane and the misfits, nevertheless proceeded cautiously and slowly. Partly this was due, undoubtedly, to the fact that she was under heavy attack by the Jewish press in their worldwide campaign. For the same reason support for euthanasia dwindled in the early 1940’s in America and other Jew-occupied “democracies.” As the Jews managed to incite more hate and fanaticism against the Germans and to plunge the world into a fratricidal war in 1939, the dire exigencies of war and the need for conserving their resources and strength finally brought about some
limited action by the Germans in ridding their population of the burden imposed by caring for the mindless, the insane and congenitally unfit. As early as 1935, at the Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg, plans were discussed for the destruction of all of Germany’s “lives not worth living.” In a speech before that congress Gerhard Wagner, head of the N.S. Physicians’ League, assailed liberalism and Marxism for having denied “the inherently different values of the lives of different individuals.” The doctrine of equality (Gleichheitslehre), he said, was even worse in its effects (biologically speaking) than the Bolshevik revolution, insofar as it led one ‘to value the sick, the dying, and the unfit on a par with the strong and the healthy.” He pointed out that the average family size of the “inferiors” was nearly twice that of healthy families. Thus the number of mentally ill had grown by 450% over the last seventy years, while the population as a whole had increased by only 50%. Inferiors thus lived at the expense of the healthy, and were growing at a rate nine times as fast as the normal and the healthy. Again, projecting this into the future, it assured the deterioration and breakdown of society, he pointed out.

Hitler realized all this, but although he was determined to cleanse the German nation of the human refuse that threatened to destroy it, he was reluctant to proceed in the face of bleeding-heart propaganda. It was not until the nation was fully enmeshed in war when it became a matter of having to choose between saving useless idiots and saving the lives of fighting soldiers that the plans set up earlier were put into action. The Nazis argued that if the healthy should sacrifice their lives in time of war, then why should the sick, incompetent and useless not do the same? Beginning after the war against Poland had been completed, after some hesitation the records indicate that between January of 1940 and September of 1941, a total of 70,273 individuals were mercifully put to death by means of anesthetic injections, gas and other painless means. In a population of more than 80 million, this constituted less than one tenth of one percent, and did not really make a major dent in the numbers of insane and incurably ill. But it did indicate that the German people meant business in trying to cleanse their race of defectives and, over a longer period of time, would undoubtedly have succeeded. Rome wasn’t built in a day, and you cannot expect all the accumulated ills and racial sins of centuries to be cured in the short period of six years that the Nazis had in peace time.

Sterilization
Racial policy was not long in coming after Hitler came to power on January 30, 1933. On July 14 of the same year the Nazi government passed the Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring, according to which an individual could be sterilized if in the opinion of a genetic health court he or she suffered from any one of several genetic illnesses, including feeblemindedness, schizophrenia, manic-depressive insanity, genetic epilepsy, Huntington’s chorea, genetic blindness or deafness, or severe alcoholism. Racial hygienists and much of the orthodox medical press had long advocated sterilization as a means of improving the quality of the race. As early as 1892 psychiatrist August Forel had tried to justify sterilization of the insane as a national sacrifice similar to that of a soldier in war.

The Nuremberg Laws
In the fall of 1935 Hitler signed into law a series of three measures, generally referred to as the Nuremberg Laws, to further cleanse the German population from unwanted elements.

(a) The Reich Citizenship Law of September 15, 1935 distinguishing between citizens and residents. Citizens, the more exclusive category, included only those “of German or related blood” and “able to faithfully serve the German people and nation.” Jews in particular were considered as excluded from citizenship, but could be classified as residents, not entitled to many privileges of citizenship. Strangely enough, single women were also classified as residents, the motivation evidently being that German women should get married and bear children.

(b) Also on September 15, the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour, or the Blood Protection Law, was announced. If forbade both marriage and sexual relations between non-Jews and Jews, and later this law was extended to all “non-Aryans.” It classified Jews as “full Jews” if all four of their grandparents were Jews; half-breeds, first degree if two were Jewish, and second degree if one grandparent was Jewish. Based on these classifications, the law was quite specific which categories could be married. The law further stipulated that Jews were forbidden to employ German servants under the age of forty-five.

(c) On October 18, the government passed a third and final measure in this series. The Law for the Protection of the Genetic Health of the German People, or the Marital Health Law, required couples to submit to medical examination before marriage in order to prevent racial damage from occurring. The law forbade marriage between individuals suffering from venereal disease, feeblemindedness, epilepsy, or any other infirmities specified in the 1933 Sterilization Law. Those considered “genetically ill” were permitted to marry others in the same category, but only after they had been sterilized to insure that they would not leave any offspring.

Walter Gmelin, head of the Health Office of Schwabisch-Hall, wrote an article in 1933 urging doctors to help construct racial legislation, which embodied both negative and positive measures. The negative measures included the Sterilization Law, marital sanctions, certain forms of birth control and other sanctions. The more important positive measures included support for “valuable genetic lines” and incentives for families of good stock to have many children. He further suggested that considering the large numbers of Jews that had converted to Christianity for the sake of convenience, religion alone was no longer a reliable measure of race. Gmelin therefore suggested that the government launch a massive effort to construct a comprehensive genetic registry of the German people in order to determine the scale of the problems German health authorities would have to deal with in order to upgrade the genetic health of the nation. As early as 1930 Kurt Thomalla had proposed that all Germans carry a health pass which would include vital information on one’s genetic and racial health.

Conclusion
As we can see from the above, the German nation during the 1930’s was well on its way in implementing a powerful, constructive policy in cleaning up the racial quagmire into which the Jews had dragged them after their defeat in World War I. The Jews feared a healthy and resurgent German nation, and rightfully so, because their exemplary success would soon have been emulated by all the other White nations, not only in Europe but also in America and throughout the world. The Jews, therefore, through their worldwide propaganda apparatus and financial manipulations treacherously euchred the other White nations into a global Second War to smash what Germany had built. We must never let such a catastrophe of White people killing White people ever happen again. After they had smashed the German government, her cities and infrastructure, they viciously set about to rape and defile the German women with hordes of blacks. We Creators strongly support the spirit of the German cleansing operation and their racial laws, but do not necessarily condone or intend to emulate them per se. Nor are we going to sort them out and make a laundry list of those we approve or disapprove. We have already clearly set forth our racial and eugenic philosophy in various chapters of the White Man’s Bible, such as “Creativity and Eugenics;” “Life, Death and Immortality,” and a number of others, as well as “Eugenics and Survival of the White Race” in Salubrious Living, and we see no reason to change any of them now. Nor do we see any reason to spell out any of our laws or creed in greater detail at this time. I believe we have done so clearly and in sufficient detail for the time being. However, there is much we can learn from the German experience and it behooves us to study their history.

The main difference between our philosophy and that of the Nazi philosophy of the 1930’s is that whereas the Nazis put the major emphasis on Germanic racial characteristics, we say that there are a tremendous number of valuable racial qualities in all the nations of the White Race, and also a number of undesirable characteristics that must be culled out if we are to survive and advance as a species. Whereas the Nazis differentiated between German and non-German, we address and embrace all the White peoples of this Planet Earth and draw the line between the White Race and the dark races. We need all of our White Racial Comrades in order to survive, and we believe that our aggressive programme of eugenics, once we get it into operation, can and will effectively upgrade our race to the era of the Superman and beyond. There are two other points I want to make. One is that we are now racially in a much greater and alarming catastrophic mess than were the Germans in the 1920’s, and we are now going to hell in a handbasket at an accelerated clip unless we change direction violently and vigorously, and we do it now. The other point is that nothing will stop the mongrelization of the White Race unless we get the Jews off our back, as did the Germans in the 1930’s, and take control of our own destiny and our governments, worldwide. Only Creativity has the creed and the programme to unite the White peoples on a global basis and drive the Jew from power.

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