Slag Heap: Goebbels quotations

[Ironweed]

I think these were originally posted by FadeTheButcher at Thephora. I edited them in response to some windbag referring to Karl Rove as a second Goebbels at TMF. Dropping them in here 'cuz I won't be able to get at them after 02/13/03. Will be adding more, at least from '42-43. My local library's copy of the 39-41 diaries has disappeared. Hopefully just misshelved. I think the 39-41 diaries are where he tees off at the Poles and Poland.

Slag Heaping this, it needs editing.

What a lowlife mutant this character was.

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Notes from the Goebbels Diaries
"The incidents that Sepp Dietrich related to me about the Russian people in the occupied areas are simply hair-raising. They are not a people, but a conglomeration of animals. The greatest danger threatening us in the East is the stolid dullness of this mass. The soldiers won't surrender, as is the fashion in Western Europe, when completely surrounded, but continue to fight until they are beaten to death. Bolshevism has merely accentuated this racial propensity of the Russian people. In other wars, we are facing an adversary about whom we must be careful. The human mind cannot possibly imagine what it would mean if this opponent were to pour into western Europe like a flood."

- Joseph Goebbels, The Goebbels Diaries, January 27, 1942 pg. 52

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"The English intended establishing a connection with the Eastern theatre of war via Sweden. But the Swedes are determined to oppose by force of arms anybody who attacks their territory. At least that is what they say today. It would have been better if we had also taken Sweden during our campaign in the North. This state has no right to national existence anyway"

- Joseph Goebbels, The Goebbels Diaries, April 15, 1942

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"Franco, as we know, is a bigoted churchgoer. He permits Spain today to be practically governed, not by himself, but by his wife and her father confessor. That's a nice revolutionist we placed on the throne! But after all it is better for him to sit there than any old Bolshevik who would undoubtedly be on the side of our enemies."

Joseph Goebbels, The Goebbels Diaries, February 1, 1942

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"It is gradually dawning upon them [the Hungarians] that they cannot sit in club chairs while the new Europe is being shaped, and later share in the successes. The Hungarians must risk blood if they wish to get more territory."

Joseph Goebbels, The Goebbels Diaries, February 5, 1942

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"I have given instructions for our Ministry to prepare dictionaries for the occupied areas in which the German language is to be taught."

Joseph Goebbels, The Goebbels Diaries, February 12, 1942

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"The hundreds of thousands of foreign workers now employed in the Reich are a headache. The danger exists that intercourse between these workers and German women will cause a gradual deterioration of our race. This danger must be checked by every possible means. But it is difficult to discuss such questions in public because the peoples and nations affected immediantly take offense. For example, the Italians fight tooth and nail against being regarded as reacially inferior, or even different, from ourselves."

Joseph Goebbels, The Goebbels Diaries, February 15, 1942

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" The danger to German security from Czech elements in the Protectorate had been completely overcome. Heydrich operates successfully. He plays cat and mouse with the Czechs and they swallow everything he places before them. He has carried out a number of extremely popular measures, among them first and foremost the pracitically complete conquest of the black market. Slavs, he emphasized, cannot be educated as one educates a Germanic people. One must either break them or humble them constantly. At present he does the latter. Our task in the Protectorate is perfectly clear."

Joseph Goebbels, The Goebbels Diaries, February 15, 1942

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"Looking at this film I realized once again that the Jewish race is the most dangerous one that inhabits the globe, and we must show them no mercy or indulgence. This rifraff must be eliminated and destroyed. Otherwise it won't be possible to bring peace to the world."

Joseph Goebbels, The Goebbels Diaries, February 18, 1942

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"Stalin issued a program of thirty points to his army. These points are about as naive as can be imagined. But I suppose he knows how to treat his Russian people. They are as primitive as the language he uses to talk to them."

Joseph Goebbels, The Goebbels Diaries, February 23, 1942

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"I have received a report about the fate of German minorities in Hungary. The Hungarians still dare to commit acts of effrontery toward us that go far beyond what we can stand for. I suppose, however, we must keep quiet for the moment. We are dependent upon them. But every one of us is yearning for the moment when we can really talk turkey to the Hungarians."

Joseph Goebbels, The Goebbels Diaries, March 5, 1942

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"Anyway, I am of the opinion that the greater the number of Jews liquidated, the more consolidated will the situation in Europe be after the war. One must have no mistaken sentimentality about it. The Jews are Europe's misfortune. They must somehow be eliminated, otherwise we are in danger of being eliminated by them."

Joseph Goebbels, The Goebbels Diaries, March 6, 1942

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"While France still has even a breath of life she will always remain our enemy. We must definitely eliminate France's military and political power from a future European interplay of forces."

Joseph Goebbels, The Goebbels Diaries, March 7, 1942

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"Their communique [The Dutch] strikes one as partly tragic, partly comic. No sympathy need be wasted on such weak peoples."

Joseph Goebbels, The Goebbels Diaries, March 9, 1942

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"In the East, nationalistic current are increasingly observable in all former Baltic states. The populations there apparently imagined that the German Wehrmacht would shed its blood to set up new governments in these midget states, which at the end of the war, would veer over to the side of our enemies. That is a childish, naive bit of imagination which makes no impression upon us. One would have to take the imperial regime of Kaiser Wilhelm as a model if one were to inaugurate so shortsighted a policy. National Socialism is much more cold-blooded and much more realistic in all these questions. It does only what is useful for its own people, and in this instance the interest of our people lies in the rigorous establishment of German order within this area without paying any attention to the claims, more or less justified, of the small nationalities living there."

Joseph Goebbels, The Goebbels Diaries, March 16, 1942

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"Beginning with Lublin, the Jews in the General Government are now being evacuated eastward. The procedure is a pretty barbaric one and not to be described here more definitely. Not much will remain of the Jews. On the whole it can be said that about 60 percent of them will have to be liquidated whereas only about 40 percent can be used for forced labour."

Joseph Goebbels, The Goebbels Diaries, March 27, 1942

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"We must not place too great hopes on developments in France. I consider the French people sick and worm-eaten. Nothing noteworthy in the way of positive contributions for the reconsturction of Europe is to be expected from them. Once more it has been proven that the Fuehrer's policy toward France has been absolutely right. One must put the Frenchmen on ice."

Joseph Goebbels, The Goebbels Diaries, April 2, 1942

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"However when the war ends, France will have to pay dearly, for she caused and started it. She is not being thrown back to her borders of A.D. 1500. This means that Burgundy will again become part of the Reich. We shall thereby win a province that so far as beauty and wealth are concerned compares more than favorably with any other German province."

Joseph Goebbels, The Goebbels Diaries, April 26, 1942

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"Short shrift is made of the Jews in all eastern occupied areas. Tens of thousands of them are liquidated."

Joseph Goebbels, The Goebbels Diaries, April 29, 1941

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"If the French knew what the Fuehrer is one day going to demand of them their eyes would in all likelihood brim over. It is good for the present not to say anything about this and to try to get out of French attentism as much as we can."

Joseph Goebbels, The Goebbels Diaries, April 30, 1942

”For when the Hungarians report that “they” have pacified a village, this usually means that not a single inhabitant is left. That means, in turn, that we can hardly get any agricultural work done in such regions.”

Joseph Goebbels, The Goebbels Diaries, May 19, 1942, pg. 219

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”In Rumania measures are being taken against the German elements there - of the people. They have been forbidden to wear uniforms and have had to suffer all sorts of other humiliations.”

Joseph Goebbels, The Goebbels Diaries, May 21, 1942, pg. 223

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”Personally I believe we must change our policies essentially as regards the people of the East. We could reduce the danger of Partisans considerably if we succeeded in at least winning a certain measure of confidence of these peoples. A clear peasant and church policy would work wonders there. It might also be useful to set up sham governments in the various sectors which would have to be responsible for unpleasant and unpopular measures. Undoubtedly it would be easy to set up such sham governments, and we would then always have a facade behind which to camouflage our policies. I shall talk to the Fuehrer about this problem in the near future. I consider it one of the most vital in the present situation in the East.”


Joseph Goebbels, The Goebbels Diaries, May 22, 1942, pg. 225


"Jewish rabbis in London have held a great protest meeting. The theme was "England Awake." It is just too funny for words that the Jews are now compelled, after fifteen years, to steal our slogans and to call upon the pro-semitic world to fight us, using the same battlecry with which we once called upon the anti-semitic world to fight Jewry. But all this won't avail the Jew anything. The Jewish race has prepared for this war; it is the spiritural originator of the whole misfortune that has overtaken humanity. Jewry must pay for its crime just as our Fuehrer promised in his speech in the Reichstag; namely, by the wiping out of the Jewish race in Europe and possibly in the entire world."

- Joseph Goebbels, The Goebbels Diaries, December 14, 1942 pg. 244

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"Although they have not signed the Geneva Convention, they are not trying to pose as civilized and cultured people [the Bolsheviks.]"

- Joseph Goebbels, The Goebbels Diaries, December 17, 1942 pg. 247

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"There is no point in replying to such provactions now, as we are not in a position at the moment to publish all our arguments. We shall have to wait for a more favorable opportunity. Most likely we can tackle the Church question bluntly only after the war."

- Joseph Goebbels, The Goebbels Diaries, December 18, 1942 pg. 249

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"The English, anyway, are the Jews among the Aryans."

- Joseph Goebbels, The Goebbels Diaries, December 19, 1942 pg. 251

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"My collaborator Dr. Splett wrote me from Tunisia about the strange war customs of the Americans. The later, based entirely upon his observations, indicate that in a sense the Americans are still a half savage people."

- Joseph Goebbels, The Goebbels Diaries, March 17, 1943 pg. 277


It seems rather significant to me that this picture is running unchallenged in Sweden with Swedish captions. That's how low the so called Nordic states have sunk!

The film, however, once more made it clear to me that we have to be exceptionally careful about Bolshevism. Russia is not a bourgeoise but a proletarian Jewish state. If we don't exert every effort it may someday overrun us. Our slogan should be, now more than ever: "Total war is the imperative need of the hour."

- Joseph Goebbels, The Goebbels Diaries, December 4, 1943 pg. 272

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"With regard to the Jewish Question he approved of my measures and specifically ordered me to make Berlin entirely free of Jews. I shall see to it that there is no concubinage between Berlin Jews and foreign workers."

- Joseph Goebbels, The Goebbels Diaries, March 9, 1943 pg. 290

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"A report on interrogations of American prisoners is really gruesome. These American boys are human material that can in no way stand in comparison with our people. One has the impression of dealing with a herd of savages."

- Joseph Goebbels, The Goebbels Diaries, April 9, 1943 pg. 317