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Chapter 13 Chapter Thirteen An Apologist for Hate

It is well known that anti-Semitism in Germany predates the Nazi Party.As in other European countries, anti-Semitism has a long and notorious history dating back to the early Middle Ages.Protestant readers who associate their intellectual origins with medieval Catholicism and the Inquisition will be surprised to learn that the first influential and violent opponent of the Jews in Germany was Martin Luther.His solution to Germany's "Jewish question" was simple: drive them out of Germany.He wrote: "Cities and villages are affected by them, . . . they are a heavy burden, like a plague, a disaster...." The men and women of the Jews took the flail, the axe, the hoe... and forced them to live by sweat, as a burden rests on the shoulders of the sons of Adam." He further proposed, "To burn their churches and schools.  … Raze their houses to the ground. . . . let them live like gypsies in cowsheds and stables, . . . in pain and in prison."

Strong German nationalism, coupled with the theory that a superior race was destined for world domination, came much later.In fact, it was first theorized in the philosopher Fichte's 1807 Lectures to the Germans.It is very strange to say that it was not the Germans who first defended the superiority of the Nordic Germanic peoples from the perspective of anthropology, but a French nobleman, Count Joseph de Gobineau.His work was in four volumes, published between 1853 and 1855 (the first volume was translated into English in 1915 under the title The Inequality of the Human Races).Gobineau had no interest in nationalism.His main concern was to defend the virtues of aristocracy against the notion of democracy which had taken root in the hearts of the French Revolution.Combining a host of anthropological facts and superstitions, he proposed a racial hierarchy in which Nordic Germans (tall, yellow hair, fair skin, blue eyes) were the highest and blacks the lowest.

Gobineau's ideas greatly inspired the composer Richard Wagner and Wagner's son-in-law Halston Chamberlin.Chamberlin, who was originally British, but settled in Germany, was encouraged by the rising fortunes of the Germans. In 1899, he published "The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century", which became the third great work on the mythical history of the Nordic Germans and had a great influence on German thinking.In essence, Chamberlin combined Gobineau's Nordic Germanic superiority with German patriotism and strong anti-Semitism. A third prominent figure in the history of German racism is Hans Günter, a trained anthropologist and professor at the University of Jena.Throughout the Nazi regime, he was the highest authority on racial issues for the Nazis.Of course, it would be foolish to hold that racist anthropologists like Günter or racist anthropologists such as Ludwig Woltmann and Ludwig Sherman were responsible for the anti-Semitic crimes of the Nazis.Anti-Semitism runs deep in German cultural bigotry.Still, the books of a man like Günther clearly demonstrate how easily science can be distorted by strong emotional biases, biased not by his subjects but by his Various cultural forces around.

Günter acknowledged that Germany was a multiethnic country, but he believed that the proportion of pure Nordic Germans was greater than that of any other ethnic group.He spends a lot of time in his writings explaining how the Norse Germans differed from people of inferior races.For example, they love to clean.According to Günter, both soap and hairbrushes were invented by the Norse Germans.They loved sports (at the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, Hitler was so angry that he refused to shake hands with some blacks when they won the prize).They like blues and pale greens.Nordic Germanic women look better with freckles, which Günter believes is a characteristic of the Nordic Germanic people.But singing about "dark maidens" is much condemned, because dark-skinned maidens are not Norse-Germanic.Nordic Germanic women are dignified and virtuous.When they take the tram, they always keep their legs together, which is different from women of other races.As Wallace Derr writes in The People Under Hitler (from which the above example is quoted): "Dr. A lot of time."

According to Professor Günter, any mixture of races is inferior.Germany's hope was to avoid such a mixture and to increase the purity of the Nordic Germanic blood.Unfortunately, it was the virtues of the Norse Germans that caused their downfall.For example, they are very heroic, so they are likely to go to the army and become cannon fodder.They dared to take risks, so they emigrated.They pay attention to chastity, so they marry late and use birth control.They are innocent, so they are easy to be fooled and marry foreign women with "magic power". Under Hitler, rising anti-Semitism reached its peak, fueled of course by the Nazi Party's propaganda machine and backed by "scientific" evidence from Günter and some of his anthropologists.It is unprecedented in history for one nation to so ruthlessly and systematically destroy another nation.It is only necessary here to briefly recount the nightmare horrors that are now known to all.They established a hierarchy in which people's status depended on how much Jewish blood they had; strict and complicated laws that determined who could marry whom.Sexual relations between Jews and Aryans were punishable by imprisonment.The law even protected prostitutes from "racial law staining" by Jewish patrons.Only commercial contact between Jews and Aryans has not yet been considered a "racial stigma".Interactions such as dancing and games are blocked.A Jew who kisses an Aryan girl is jailed even if she wants to.On one occasion, a court hearing such a case declared that "a Jew kissing an Aryan girl insults not only the girl herself, but the entire German nation."

As the world knows, in the end, the Jewish people were also deprived of their professional and commercial activities, their property was confiscated, and their citizenship was revoked.When hatred reached its peak of hysteria, there were concentration camps, gas chambers, and sadistic medical experiments that shocked the world. In the case of this insanity constantly increasing, German pseudo-anthropology has also reached its peak.Hermann Gauck, in his 1934 book New Factors in the Study of Race, wrote that "Non-Nordic Germanic peoples lie between the Nordic Germanic man and the great apes." To cite another typical "scientific" fact, Julius Streicher said in a lecture in 1935: "The blood composition of the Jews and the Norse Germans is completely different. So far people dare not admit this fact, which has been confirmed by microscopic observation." It will be remembered that, Streicher edited The Front, a pornographic publication devoted to obscene stories about Jews, crude, obscene, and promoting hatred.

The word "Aryan" as used by Hitler eventually lost all reasonable meaning.For example, the Japanese, after becoming allies, were also declared Aryan.There was a Nazi reporter who happened to have a grandmother who was a Sioux among the American Indians, and in 1938, after several anthropological deliberations, the Press Association decreed that the Sioux among the Indians was officially Aryan!However, no regulations were found for other Indian tribes. The most prominent literal interpretation of the Nazi myth is, of course, that of Hitler.The second was the 700-page book Myths of the Twentieth Century written for educated Germans by the leading philosopher of Nazism, Alfred Rosenberg.This book can be described as a complete collection of the insane characteristics of a complete madman.Orthodox anthropology and history were wiped out.The so-called "myth" refers to the racial purity that the Nordic Germans in Germany consider themselves to be, and are destined to rule the world.Everything good is labeled "Aryan".Everything bad comes from Jews, Catholics, Russians and orthodox Protestants.Even Christ was an Aryan, though his views were soon corrupted by Jewish influence.This book is worthless and has not been taken seriously by famous German scholars after its publication.They underestimated the book, not expecting it to have a huge impact.

No country is immune to the poison of racism, and the United States is no exception.Our greatest sin, of course, is our attitude towards people of color in our country, and this sin is inseparable from the pseudoscience on racial issues.Even in the northern states, the average white person today may think that the Negro is somewhat less gifted.In the South, almost everyone believes this.According to modern anthropology, this is as naïve as the idea that the Earth is flat, with the important difference that it would be endlessly catastrophic.If the environment of black people is the same as that of white people, they will also make creative and intellectual achievements.Hundreds of serious controlled studies have been conducted to find the genetic differences between the two races, to prove that one is superior to the other, but they have all failed.George Bernard Shaw aptly summed up the situation in America when he wrote in Man and Superman, "...the defiant Americans... compel the negroes to polish their boots, and so, as reason, to prove that they are inferior."

In the early history of the United States, when the idea of ​​race was at its height, there were many books and pamphlets proving the inferiority of the Negro.It's hard to find a book written by a professional anthropologist, however.Most of them are religious in nature, mainly based on the Bible.The content is varied, but the basic theme of these poor writings is that God created different races and He did not want them to intermarry, and that blacks are a race destined to be slaves.This view pervades the entire South.John Calhoun once declared: "Show me a nigger who can solve a problem in Euclidean geometry or analyze a Greek verb, and I'll admit he's a man."

Today it seems unlikely that any educated person would think of the Negro as an inferior race, but even at the beginning of this century this view was still quite common in the South. In 1867, the Reverend Buckner Payne, under the pseudonym "Ariel," published a pamphlet (later expanded into a larger work) entitled The Ethnographic Status of Negroes .Penn concluded that the Negro is a soulless animal.A resident of St. Louis, Charles Carroll, even formulated a definite formula for this crazy theory.His two books on the subject, "The Negro Is the Beast" (1900) and "Satan Who Seduced Eve" (1902), set a record in racial literature that no one will surpass him in the future. .

Carroll believed that blacks were created as a higher ape, along with animals, to serve as servants of Adam and his descendants, doing manual labor in the Garden of Eden.Like other mammals, they have brains but no souls.Satan, who tempted Eve, was actually a black maid.The age-old question of where Cain got his wife is solved ingeniously.It turned out that Cain married a black man, which set a precedent in history for the heinous crime of mixing humans and animals.All races except whites are a mixture of Adamic and black animals. Do these hybrid offspring have souls?Carroll doesn't even think that's a difficult question to answer.They have no soul, he declares.He wrote: "Human beings cannot be descended from soulless beings like negroes. Therefore, all mestizos are soulless." Carroll was not overwhelmed by the brilliant academic achievements of mestizos: he said , "The mere fact that Alexandre Dumas has a good brain by no means proves that he has a soul." If the red race, the yellow race, the brown race, and all the yellow race or the descendants of the brown race have no souls, why bother to send missionaries to preach the gospel to them?Like many eccentric scholars, Carroll maintains a surprisingly consistent argument, arguing that God never intended to evangelize these hybrids.Doing so simply shows how sinful, corrupt and "blackened" the modern church has become.Since the fall of Adam and Eve, the root of almost all the evils of the human race is the failure to recognize the bestiality of all peoples except the pure white descendants of Adam. Carroll cites eminent anthropologists.He copied brain weight scales, etc., in an attempt to provide "scientific" proof for his views.In his previous book, 10 caricatures that maliciously vilified black people were compared to portraits of Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and white men and women.Carroll doesn't see herself as having any "biases."He is merely a dutiful "worker for God" engaged in "removing the negro from his perverted position in the human family, and returning him to his rightful place among the apes." His opponents described him as a "little, narrow-minded bigot," equally ignorant of the Bible and modern science. Of course, we hope that no one in the South today believes that Negroes have no souls.But many of Carroll's anthropological arguments are still being used in religious articles to demonstrate the inferiority of blacks.One of the most common arguments is that blacks, on average, have slightly smaller brains than whites.But white brains are slightly smaller than those of Eskimos, Polynesians, American Indians, and Japanese, let alone those of the African tribes of Kafir and Amalisa. .Even Neanderthals had larger brains than modern whites. Of course, as far as human intelligence is concerned, this anthropological variation in form does not explain anything.But an astonishing number of so-called scientific works, often believed to be true, are full of this kind of nonsense.For example, Paul Broca, a French anthropologist with a broad skull, wrote 5 volumes in 1871, proving that the wider the skull, the better the brain, and the French have particularly broad skulls. The popular belief widely circulated among ignorant whites that the colored races are closer in structure to monkeys than other races is groundless.Every race has certain characteristics similar to apes, and people tend to recognize such characteristics of other races, but not easy to see such characteristics of their own race.Blacks have thick lips, curly hair, and less body hair, all of which suggest that they are more distant from apes than Caucasians.Apes have thin lips, straight hair, and hairy bodies. There's a book that focuses on how white people look like chimpanzees.When it first came out in 1924, it was all the rage in Britain and the United States.The title of the book is The Mongols Among Us.The author was a physician named Francis Cruickshank. The last edition, published in 1931, has 539 pages and is accompanied by many interesting photographs.Cruickshank argued that the human race is divided into three main branches; whites, Orientals, and blacks.Caucasians are closer to chimpanzees, orientals to orangutans, and blacks to gorillas.As a result of the interbreeding of various races, atavisms of atavistic inheritance occasionally appear.The idiots of the Mongols showed the characteristics of the "orangutan" ancestors.People with deformed microcephalies and schizophrenic patients are atavistic phenomena of the "chimpanzee" blood.The stupidity of black people is the reappearance of the characteristics of "gorilla".Needless to say, this is pure pseudoscience. The most deceptively racist writers in America are undoubtedly two lawyers—Madison Grant and Lothrop Stoddard.Their work is closer to that of Nazi anthropologists than anyone else's.Both embraced the myth of Nordic Germanic superiority.They warned that mixing with foreign races would degenerate the Norse Germanic blood.It is worth noting that in a book by Günter, the photos of Grant and Stoddard are juxtaposed with the photos of Gobineau and Chamberlin as the four apologists for the superiority of the Nordic Germans.Grant's photograph appears to be a bronze bust, perhaps to conceal the fact that he was dark-skinned (he was not Norse-Germanic). Grant, who died in 1937, was a New York lawyer, amateur zoologist, and trustee of the American Museum of Natural History.His two major works on race are The Fall of a Great Race (1916) and The Conquest of a Continent (1933).Both books are prefaced by the famous biologist Henry Osborn.This is always an embarrassment for those who praise Osborne. What most characterizes Grant's two books is the statement that they are the most powerful attacks on the lines inscribed on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.These lines are: give it to me!Take your weary and poor, Those trapped together longing for freedom, Poor waste dumped from your crowded shores, give it to me!Take these homeless and displaced people. Grant believed that the earliest inhabitants of the United States were pure-blood Nordic Germanic Protestants (Iris Hedlica questioned this in his 1925 essay "Old Americans").Grant went on to say: Unfortunately, this excellent race that could have brought America to its peak was soon "corrupted" by the "foreign race" that moved in like a tide.As a result we have become a mixed people, like the "racial confusion" that existed before the fall of the Roman Empire.Fortunately we still have 70 percent Nordic Germans and 80 percent Protestants.As long as we can stop this "alien aggression," Grant wrote, we can still grow vigorously and fulfill our destiny. Grant believed that all interracial reproduction was a bad thing.He says, "It must be borne in mind that specialization, which is a characteristic of the higher races, is a relatively recent development, rather unstable, and tends to disappear as soon as it is mixed with general or primitive characteristics. Whether we Willing to admit that the result of the mixing of two races, in the long run, is to regress one race to a more primitive, more general, and lower type. A white-black mixed-race is a black; a white-Indian mixed-race is an Indian , the admixture of any of the three European races with a Jew is a Jew." Of course, the above statement has no scientific basis at all.They are folk beliefs, pure myths, like the superstition that a white couple will have a "black child" if one of them has a little black blood. Blacks were at the bottom of the racial hierarchy, which Grant took for granted.He wrote: "... there is indeed evidence that the knowledge and abilities of the colored people are in perfect proportion to their white blood composition. . . ." Intellectual and emotional traits" which "may unknowingly draw them back to their Negro ancestry, and may in the same way make them white". Grant said, "Southerners know how to treat Negroes with grace and kindness; and as long as Negroes maintain their proper relationship with whites, people like them in the South." Grant's solution to the "Negro Problem" was that the states enacted strict laws ,, prohibiting intermarriage (by the way, there are now 30 states with such laws, many of which also prohibit whites from marrying Mongoloids), doing everything possible to prevent social integration; finally, teaching blacks birth control, Let them not reproduce so fast. Another American lawyer, Lothrop Stoddard (who received a Ph.D. from Harvard University), largely shared Grant's views.His best-known book, The Colored Race on the Rush, was published by Scribner & Company in 1902.As the title suggests, people of color (black, yellow, brown, red) are rising like a gigantic tide to engulf the good white people.Stoddard wrote that the white man, like King Canute, "sat on the sand at high tide and ordered the tide to die down. If he could run away with wet shoes, he would be lucky." According to Stoddard, race is the "soul" of a culture.Civilization is only the body.He said: "If the soul is lost, the body also perishes. . . . " What caused the soul to be lost in the race?It's crossbreeding.All racial mixing is bad, especially when inferior races are involved.Stoddard argued that the more primitive a race is, the more dominant its genes are. "That is why intermarriage with Negroes has invariably had fatal consequences." He continued: "If current trends do not change, we white people will all ultimately be doomed.  … And that would mean that the race apparently endowed with the greatest creativity has achieved much in the past and The most promising race in the future will perish. And with it will be taken to the grave the latent powers upon which man's noblest hopes are realized. Millions of years of human evolution will be in vain, Human beings, the most advanced creatures on earth, will never be able to fulfill their natural destiny." It is astonishing how frequently the word "fate" is used in writing by those who consider themselves superior to all other races.If America was to fulfill its destiny, Stoddard argued, it must somehow build “levees” that would hold back the rising tide of people of color.And this can only be done if the white man has a "genuine racial consciousness" and realizes that maintaining a superior genetic lineage is of paramount importance. Stoddard insists that one element is fundamental in this new perception. "This is blood. This pure, gifted blood, handed down from ancient times to the present through accurate inheritance, will multiply under certain favorable circumstances, solve our various problems, and make our destiny enter Higher, higher realms." In 1935, Scribner published another book by Stoddard on the same subject, The Rising Tide of the Colored People, the "rising tide," now a "massive wave— The tumbling eddies and the turbulent waves converge into turbulent waves and beat each other." Although he felt that the new Nazi racial theory was "difficult to evaluate", he appreciated the words of the Nazi anthropologist Günter and quoted them. Stoddard's last book, published in 1940 by Dewar, Sloan, and Pierce, describing his trip to Germany shortly before the United States entered the war, was titled Into the Dark middle".Although the book is mildly critical of Hitler's racial and eugenic programs, the general impression is that the author is in many ways sympathetic to Hitler's racist aims. Stoddard was certainly not some trained anthropologist.He was a lawyer like Grant.They only scratch the surface of the subject they are writing about.This lack of scientific basis is even more pronounced in the authors of some of the more naively racist works: Charles Gould's America: A Family Question (1920); Ernest Cox's "White America" ​​(1923); James Sayers' "Will the White Race Go On?" (1929); William Stokes, a wealthy horse farmer in Lexington, Kentucky, The Right to Be Born to the Superior Race (1917); and numerous British works on the subject, such as James Curr Hall's "Testing Our Times" (1926) and so on. It is a blessing for our country that none of these writers are "scientists."It shows how strong and pervasive our racial feelings are among the common masses, especially among the uneducated, we are quite different from the Nazi state on such matters.No reputable professor of anthropology considers racial hatred to be scientifically sound, and since 1935 the major publishing houses have virtually stopped publishing racist books. In America, the most violent anti-Semitic propaganda has always come from people who do not understand science.A major source of racial lies spread by such people is the famous forgery of the Proceedings of the Jewish Council.This is a crude, incoherent tome, falsely purporting to be the record of a series of secret meetings of Jewish leaders conspiring to control the world; Leigh's attack on Napoleon III.Jolie's book has nothing to do with the Jews.However, although this falsification has been thoroughly exposed as early as 1921, but.Wherever anti-Semitic movements have emerged, this book will continue to appear.Nazi philosopher Alfred Rosenberg published the book in 1923, with an elaborate review.In the United States at the time, the book was circulated only among professionally anti-Semitic people. A curious work by the American Samuel Roth (a New York City publisher of semi-pornographic books) deserves a brief mention.The title of the book is "The Jew Must Live" and the subtitle is "Israel's Harm to the World in All Spheres of Civilization."The dubious feature of this book is that it is the most violently anti-Semitic book ever written by an American Jew.The appendix to the book is titled "Do Jews Have a Special Smell?" "The author's answer is yes.Roth self-published the book in 1934 (all of his books are self-published).It was sold in small numbers in the United States, but was reprinted extensively by Nazi groups in Germany and other countries.Roth's later book, A Peep into the Modern Age (1945), outlined a new system of philosophy and physics.However, this book is very obscure.The thinking is messy, the proofreading is sloppy, so it is unreadable. If the reader can't help laughing at the folly of someone who takes such nonsense seriously, remember how widespread is the absurd superstition in America on the question of race!During World War II, public opinion forced the Red Cross to separate blood banks, one for plasma donated by whites and one for plasma donated by blacks, even though the plasma was identical.In the South, every drinking fountain has two spouts, one marked "For White Men" and the other "For Colored Men."It became a shameful monument to how deeply grotesque views of race were entrenched. Everyone remembers the parable of the good Samaritan, but few realize that Jesus chose the Samaritan as a typical example of a beloved true "neighbor" because, in ancient Jerusalem, Samaritan The Marias are a minority that are looked down upon.Replace "Samaritan" with "Negro" and you begin to understand the meaning of the parable as Christ's audience did. The Nazi Streicher once declared: "To be beautiful, to be natural, to be like God." Dr. Walter Gross, director of Hitler's racial policy office, said: "National Socialism re-embodies God's will, so it is Doing the will of God." Christ taught love and compassion when someone went so far as to associate his name with pseudoscience on race.In the history of Christianity, there is nothing more blasphemous than this.
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