A Letter from Hitler
          ~By Rabbi Daniel Lapin~
          Tword Tradition
          December 10, 1999

               I have no intention of explaining how the
               correspondence wich I now offer to the public fell
               into my hands.  There are two equal and opposite
               errors into wich our race can fall about the
               devils.  One is to disbelieve in their existence.
               The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive
               and unhealthy interest in them.
              (preface to Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis)

               My Dear Julius,(1)
               Landsberg prison, which I entered on April 1,
               1924 and where I wrote Mein Kampf, is strangely
               similar to this place that I entered after
               shooting myself on the afternoon of April 30, 1945
               and from where I write this letter.  I found
               myself in both places involuntarily, yet they have
               each provided me with peace as well as
               prospective to write the ideas that fuled our
               movement.  I dedicated Mein Kampf to the dead
               heros of the so-called Beer Hall Putsch who fell
               on November 9, 1923 with loyal faith of the
               resurrection of their people.(2)  I dedicate this
               letter to you along with the nine other heros of
               Nuremberg who joined me here on Octobr 16,
               1946.  May their memory shine forever, a glowing
               example to the followers of our ideas.

               As one tends to in the timeless eternity of our
               existance here, I often reflect upon my single
               most regrettable error ~ underestimating
               America.  On December 8, 1941, I hurried back
               by train to Berlin from my headquarters on the
               Russian front. It is true that earlier that
               year Ribbentrop and I had promised the Japanese
               foreign minister, our good friend Yosuke
               Matsuoka, that should Japan become engaged in
               a war against the United States, Germany would
               join the war immediately.  However, to us, the
               Three Power Pact had as it's goal frightening
               and keeping America out of the war.  I encouraged
               Japan to immediatey take an active role in the war
               against England(3) and not to provoke America.
               Although I didn't see much future for the
               Americans, I did not want them in the war until
               we had put down Russia.

               Exactly one month after the Japanese betrayed
               me by attacking Pearl Harbor I told you all at
               our Berlin Headquarters that America is a decayed
               country.  My feelings against Americanism were
               feelings of hatred and deep repugnance.
               Everything about the behavior of American
               society reveals that it's half Judaized and the
               other half Negrified.  How can one expect a
               state like that to hold together?(4)  Well,
               America did hold together and she siezed victory
               from us.  However, and this is important my
               friend, she has finally adopted many of the vital
               ideas of our movement.  Could not this be
               described as an ultimate vindication of all we
               lived and died for?  Perhaps it is even a
               victory of sorts.

               Let me explain.  First and formost, we were
               socialists.  As national socialists, or Nazis,
               we presumed that government and the people
               were hostile to one another.  Thus, we understood
               that the old German tradition of citizens owning
               guns had to end.  On March 18, 1938 we enacted
               our Law on Weapons and ruled that only
               government officials were allowed to own
               firearms.  You can immagine my approval as I
               watched Senator Thomas Dodd craft America's
               Gun Controll Act of 1968 by having our own law
               of 1938 translated for him by an official of
               the Library of Congress.(5)  My dear Julius,
               we can be proud of how similarly those two
               laws read.  Those leading American gun controll
               efforts are naïve and well meaning but their
               results will resemble ours.  We told the German
               people that gun controll laws were needed to
               curb gang activity and preserve democracy, what
               those laws did realy was help us prevail.

               Do you remember, dear Julius, how we Nazis
               always understood that every German citizen
               must live for the state.  We did everything
               possible to keep our people healthy. They were
               our future and the destiny of our nation.  In the
               same way that wise farmers must accept
                responsibility for the health of their herds,
               we used the power of the government to keep our
               flocks healthy.  We were disgusted by the
               addictive powers of cigarettes since both mind
               and body were supposed to belong to the Führer.
               We succeded in almost criminalizing the smoking
               of cigarettes.

               Our Ministry of Science and Education ordered
               elementary schools to discuss the dangers of
               tobacco.(6)  Government sponsored cultural and
               educational events were declared "smoke free".
               In the late 1930's we called for increased
               taxes on cigarettes and later instituted bans
               on cigarette advertising.  I am most proud of
               the legislation we introduced prohibiting the
               sale of cigarettes to minors.  We set up
               counseling centers for the psychological
               treatment of smokers and we established smoke
               free restraunts.

               We soon managed to prohibit smoking on
               Luftwaffe properties and followed that with
               prohibiting smoking in post offices, government
               buldings and many workplaces.  "No Smoking"
               cars were establised on all German trains with
               fines levied upon violtors and in 1940 SS
               Chief Heinrich Himmler announced a smoking
               ban for all on-duty SS officers.  Or comrad,
               Hermann Göering, decreed that solders may not
               smoke in public and most of our cities banned
               smoking on public transport to protect the ticket
               takers from the hazards of "second-hand smoke".
               We can indeed be proud that today America has
               also come to realize the importance of central
               government taking the initiative in regulating
               what people do not have the good sense to do
               vountarily.  We may have lost the battle of
               ideas in the middle of the century, but we
               Nazis are winning the war of ideas at it's end.

               Do you remember that awkwardness in late 1940,
               my dear Julius?  The American consulate in
               Leipzig reported our policies to the American
               state department, of conducting compassionate
               euthanasia on the patients at Grafeneck Mental
               Asylum in Württemberg.  What an uproar
               resulted in America.

               But now, one of America's most prestigious
               institutions, Prinston University, has appointed
               as professor of bioethics (whatever that is)
               one Peter Singer who openly advocates putting
               to death the mentaly defective, the termially ill,
               and even severly disabled infants.  He would
               give parents and doctors the right to actually
               kill ~not just withhold treatment~ newborns
               with for instance, spina bifida and hemophillia.
               Singer insists that a newborn as no greater
               right to life than pigs, cows, and dogs.  Peter
               Singer is one of us, Julius.  And the best part
               of it is that those who most loudly protested our
               comparatively mild policies in Wüttemberg,
               have no uttered even a squeek of protest to
               Princeton University and it's proffessor of
               Bioethics.  The ridiculous idea that all human
               life is sacred is now finally under attack in
               America.  A sitting President was reelected
               after affirming the legitimacy of exterminating
                infants during birth, and doctors in
               their province of Oregon have begun doing away
               with the elderly and the weak.  Yes, America
               is certainly comming around to our way of seeing
               things.

               Finally dear Julius, you will remember what I
               frequently said in Mein Kampf; "The state must
               declare the child to be the most precious treasure
               of the people."(7)  I explained that as long as
               government is precieved as working for the benifit
               of the children, the people will happily endure
               almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any
               deprivation.  It is truly heartwarming to see how
               well this lesson has been learned by the American
               government.  In the name of the children,
               incursions into the private lives of American
               citizens have been made that we Nazis would
               have gazed at with openedmouthed admiration.
               Does it matter that our bodies failed as long as
               our spirit still triumphs?

               I know you have a question to ask me, my friend;
               What about the Jews?  After all, how can I say
               that much of America is adopting our views when
               Jews still exert such disproportionate
               influence in that country?  Grasp the genius of
               your Führer.  You see dear Julius, with well
               meaning earnestness, most American Jews are
               solidly behind the ideas I have been describing.
               In the mistaken belef that they are making
               America safer for minorities, American Jews have
               joined those advocating ever larger and ever more
               powerful government.  In reality, what they are
               doing is making more hospitable to our form of
               national socialism.  When it eventually arives,
               they too will see the real dangers, but by then it
               will be too late.  Now they only see danger in
               illiterate thugs with no hair on their heads
               and in degenerate psychopaths with second hand
               Nazi regalia.  American Jews are frightened by a
               handful of the sort of people we used to execute,
               instead of being terrified of the danger they
               are helping to create ~government with limitless
               power that could one day be hospitable to tyranny.

               We didn't just kill Jews ~we were obsessed with
               them.  We knew and understood the power their
               God conferred upon them.  It was either their
               three thousand year old vision of holiness or our
               modern idea of scientific progress that would
               prevail in the world.  Do you recall that Israeli
               thug, Issar Harel, who founded their cursed
               Mossad and who captured our brother Adolf
               Eichmann, upon realizing that he had been
               captured by Jews,(8) called out the Hebrew prayer
               Shema Yisrael.  "Hear O' Israel, the Lord is
               our God, the Lord is one."  Eichmann understood.
               You, Julius also understood.  You ascended the
               gallows in Nüremberg and your very last words
               were "Heil Hitler!" (for which I than you) and
               then "Purim Fest 1946."(9)  You knew that when
               the Allies hanged my ten friends, they were
               playing out a modern day version of the
               Biblical Book of Esther in which ten enemies
               of the Jews were hanged on the festival of Purim.

               And it wasn't just the Jews.  Joseph Goëbbels
               put it quite correctly when he said, "The Führer
               is deeply religious though completely anti-
               Chrstian.  He views Christianity as a symptom
               of decay.  Rightly so, it is a branch of the
               Jewish race."(10)  We can be confident that
               America will preserve and develope our Nazi
               ideas of human perfectability because of one
               stroke of genius that even Rëich minster if
               propaganda, the great Joeseph Goëbbels, has to
               admire.  Those who are advocating socialism in
               America, whether deliberately or inadvertently,
               have succeded in turning the term "Nazi" into a
               slur that may only be used against those on the
               right, such as Christian conservatives.  Never
               is it used against those on the left who are
               precisely the Americans doing the most to
               advance our agenda.  We are winning Julius,
               we are winning!  "Heil Hitler!"

                  Radio talk show host, Rabbi Daniel Lapin, is the author of
                  the recent best seller, "America's Real War", and is
                  president of the Seattle based "Tword Tradition".

               (1) = Adolf Hitler is addredding Julius Steicher,
                      hanged by the Allies in Nüremberg.  October
                      16, 1946
               (2) = Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler, Publ. Verlag Franz
                       Eher, 1927, Dedication and Preface.
               (3) = The Second World War, Volume 3, Winston
                       Churchill, Publ. Houghton Mifflin, 1950.
                       Page 186.
               (4) = The Rise and Fall of the Third Rëich, Willam
                       L. Shirer, Publ. Simon and Scuster, 1959.
                       Page 895.
               (5) = Aaron Zelman, JPFO, Milwaukee, WI
               (6) = The Nazi War on Cancer, Robert N. Proctor.
                       Publ. Princeton University Press.  Page 198.
               (7) = Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler, Publ. Houghton
                       Muffin, 1943, 1943.  Page 403.
               (8) = Los Angeles Times, April 7, 1989.
               (9) = Newsweek October 26, 1946.  Joseph
                       Kingsbury~Smith, An American Reporter
                       present at the hangings.
             (10) = Joseph Göebbels, quoted in Anthrozoos,
                       5 (1992).  Page 18.

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