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Bonaparte, Napoleon

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		»Asia and Africa are inhabited by several colors of men, polygamy is the only effective way to mix them up so that the white man does not persecute the black man, or the black man the white man.« ~ Napoleon Bonaparte: Campagnes d’Egypte et de Syrie.
		»When we want to give freedom to the blacks in our colonies, and destroy the prejudices of color, the legislator will authorize polygamy.« ~ Napoleon Bonaparte: Campagnes d’Egypte et de Syrie.

Friedrich der Große

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1766	»Das Christentum hat wie alle Mächte der Welt einen bescheidenen Anfang gehabt. Der Held dieser Sekte ist ein Jude aus der Hefe des Volkes, von zweifelhafter Herkunft...« ~ Friedrich der Große, 1766, in seiner Vorrede zu Fleurys Kirchengeschichte.

Fukuyama, Francis

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		"We might label this the Hobbesean fallacy: the idea that human beings were primordially individualistic and that they entered into society at a later stage in their development only as a result of a rational calculation that social cooperation was the best way for them to achieve their individual ends. This premise of primordial individualism underpins the understanding of rights contained in the American Declaration of lndependence and thus of the democratic political community that springs from it. [...] Everything that modern biology and anthropology tell us about the state of nature suggests the opposite: there was never a period in human evolution when human beings existed as isolated individuals..." ~ Fukuyama, Francis: The Origins of Political Order, Profile Books 2011, pp. 29-30.

Goebbels, Joseph

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	»Ich bin so mutlos dem täglichen Leben gegenüber. Alles, was ich beginne, geht schief. Ich komme hier nicht aus dem Kaff heraus. Als ob mir die Flügel beschnitten wären. Das macht so saft- und kraftlos. Ich habe bis jetzt noch keine rechte Lebensaufgabe gefunden. Manchmal des Morgens habe ich Furcht davor aufzustehen. Nichts erwartet mich,- keine Freude, kein Schmerz, keine Pflicht und keine Aufgabe. Meinem Leben fehlt die Konzentration und die Sammlung. Ich irre und schwärme durch das Universum umher.« ~ Joseph Goebbels, 17.07.1924, zitiert nach: Fröhlich, Elke (Hrsg.): Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels, Teil 1: Bd. 1/I, München: K.G. Sauer Verlag 2004, S. 171.	»I am so despondent in the face of daily life. Everything I undertake goes wrong. I can't get out of this dump. It's like my wings are clipped. It makes me so sapless and feeble. I haven't found a real purpose in life yet. Sometimes in the morning I am afraid to get up. Nothing awaits me - no joy, no pain, no duty and no task. My life lacks concentration and collection. I wander and roam about the universe.«
19.04.1945	»Was ist aus ihren so laut und pathetisch proklamierten Beglückungsthesen, was aus ihrer Atlantik-Charta und aus ihren vier Freiheiten geworden? Nur Hunger, Elend, Pestilenz und Massensterben. Ein ganzer geschändeter Erdteil klagt sie an. Ehemals blühende Städte und Dörfer in allen Ländern Europas sind in Kraterlandschaften verwandelt worden; Hunderttausende, ja Millionen wehrloser Frauen und Kinder im Norden, Osten und Südosten des Kontinents seufzen und weinen unter der rasenden Geißel des Bolschewismus. [...] Unsere Feinde behaupten, daß die Soldaten des Führers als Eroberer durch die Länder Europas zogen, - aber wohin sie kamen, verbreiteten sie Wohlstand und Glück, Ruhe, Ordnung, gefestigte Verhältnisse, Arbeit in Hülle und Fülle und als Folge davon ein menschenwürdiges Leben. Unsere Feinde behaupten, ihre Soldaten kämen in dieselben Länder als Befreier, - aber wo sie auftreten, folgen ihnen Armut und Herzeleid, Chaos, Verwüstung und Vernichtung, Arbeitslosigkeit, Hunger und Massensterben« ~ Joseph Goebbels, 19.04.1945, Rundfunkansprache am Vorabend von Hitlers 56. Geburtstag, in: Heiber, Helmut (Hrsg.): Goebbels Reden, Band 2: 1939-1945, Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag 1972, S. 449 f.
	»...als Volk einem solchen Führer zu folgen, bedingungslos und treu, ohne Ausflüchte und Einschränkungen, jedes Gefühl der Schwäche und Wankelmütigkeit von sich abzuschütteln, auf den guten Stern zu vertrauen, der über ihm und über uns allen steht - auch und gerade, wenn er zeitweise von dunklen Wolken verdüstert ist, im Unglück nicht feige, sondern trotzig zu werden, in keinem Falle einer hämisch beobachtenden Welt den Anblick einer hundsföttischen Gesinnung zu bieten, statt der vom Feind erwarteten weißen Fahne der Unterwerfung das alte Hakenkreuzbanner eines fanatischen und wilden Widerstandes zu hissen, den Schwur zu erneuern, den wir so oft in den glücklichen und gefahrlosen Zeiten des Friedens geschworen haben, Gott zu danken immer und wieder und wieder, daß er uns für diese schrecklich große Zeit einen wahren Führer schenkte, sich seinen Sorgen und und Prüfungen Tag und Nacht aus tiefstem Herzen verbunden zu fühlen und damit allein schon der Feindwelt zu zeigen, daß sie uns verwunden, aber nicht töten, blutig schlagen, aber nicht niederwerfen, quälen, aber nicht demütigen kann!« ~ Joseph Goebbels, 19.05.1945, Rundfunkansprache am Vorabend von Hitlers 56. Geburtstag, in: Heiber, Helmut (Hrsg.): Goebbels Reden, Band 2: 1939-1945, Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag 1972, S. 451.	»It's also manly and German as a people, to follow a leader such as this with unconditional faith, without evasions or hesitation. One must shake off from oneself every feeling of weakness and vacillation, and trust in the star which guides him and all of us; especially when it's temporarily darkened by the clouds. One must not become cowardly when faced with adversity, but defiant; under no circumstances should a spiteful world observe a faint-hearted attitude; instead of the white flag of submission the enemy expects, he should see the old Swastika banner hoisted in fanatical and fierce resistance; renewing our oath that we have so often sworn in safer, happier, and more peaceful times. We must thank God again for giving us a true leader in this greatly terrible time, and to feel deeply connected in the depths of our hearts to his sorrows and the trials he faces day and night. Our world of enemies will be shown that while they can wound us, they cannot kill us; they can beat us until we're bloody, but never knock us down; they can torment us, but never humiliate us!« ~ Joseph Goebbels, 19th April 1945, Radio address on the evening prior to Hitler's 56th birthday, in: Heiber, Helmut (ed.): Goebbels Reden, Volume 2: 1939-1945, Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag 1972, p. 451.
28.04.1945	»Lass Dich nicht vom Lärm der Welt, der nun einsetzen wird, verwirren. Die Lügen, werden eines Tages in sich zusammenbrechen und über ihnen wieder die Wahrheit triumphieren. Es wird die Stunde sein, da wir über allem stehen, rein und makellos, so wie unser Glaube und Streben immer gewesen ist.« ~ Joseph Goebbels, 28.04.1945, Brief an Harald Quandt, in: Goebbels, Joseph: Tagebücher 1945. Die letzten Aufzeichnungen, Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe Verlag 1977, S. 548.	»Don't be confused by the clamour of the world which will now commence. The lies will one day collapse and the truth will once again triumph over them. It will be the hour when we stand above all, pure and spotless, as our faith and aspirations have always been.« ~ Joseph Goebbels, 28th April 1945, Brief an Harald Quandt, in: Goebbels, Joseph: Tagebücher 1945. Die letzten Aufzeichnungen, Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe Verlag 1977, p. 548.

Hauck, Ernst

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	»Der Kampf, der ab und zu von jüdischer Seite gegen das Christentum ins Werk gesetzt wird, ist nur ein Scheinkampf. Die Jakobsrasse weiß, daß das Christentum "der zähmende Talisman" ist, der das rassische Erwachen der Völker verhindert.« ~ Ernst Hauck, Welcher Rasse hat Jesus angehört, Landsberg (Warthe): Verlag Pfeiffer & Co. 1937, S. 28.

Kuan Yew, Lee

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	»Anfangs habe ich geglaubt, alle Menschen seien gleich. Heute weiß ich, dass das sehr unwahrscheinlich ist, denn die Evolution hat Millionen von Jahren gedauert, die Menschen haben sich über die ganze Erde verstreut, waren voneinander isoliert, haben sich unabhängig entwickelt, es gab unterschiedliche Mischungen zwischen Rassen, Völkern, Klimazonen, Böden [...] Ich habe nicht mit diesem Wissen angefangen. Aber durch Beobachten, Lesen, Betrachtung, Diskutieren, Fragen bin ich zu diesem Schluss gekommen.« ~ Lee Kuan Yew, zitiert in: Kwang, Han Fook et al.: Lee Kuan Yew. The Man & His Ideas.	»I started off believing all men were equal ... I now know that’s the most unlikely thing ever to have been, because millions of years have passed over evolution, people have scattered across the face of this earth, been isolated from each other, developed independently, had different intermixtures between races, peoples, climates, soils.« ~ Lee Kuan Yew, zitiert in: Kwang, Han Fook et al.: Lee Kuan Yew. The Man & His Ideas.

Mussolini, Benito

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		»Fascist anti-Semitism or anti-Semitic Fascism is an absurdity. We have been much amused by the efforts of the anti-Semites in Germany and elsewhere to associate Fascism with anti- Semitism. Fascism seeks unity; anti-Semitism seeks destruction and separation. We protest against these attempts which compromise Fascism. Anti-Semitism is a product of Barbarism to which our movement is diametrically opposed. If we are to exclude Jews, we will only strengthen our enemies.« ~ Benito Mussolini, 23rd November 1927, in: Mussolini Tells Roumania Press That Fascism is Opposed to Anti-semitism, Jewish Daily Bulletin, Vol. IV, No. 928, 25.11.1927, p. 1, [online] https://www.jta.org/archive/mussolini-tells-roumania-press-that-fascism-is-opposed-to-anti-semitism [28.04.2023].

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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	»Das Christentum, aus jüdischer Wurzel und nur verständlich als Gewächs dieses Bodens, stellt die Gegenbewegung gegen jede Moral der Züchtung, der Rasse, des Privilegiums dar - es ist die antiarische Religion par excellence: das Christentum die Umwertung aller arischen Werte, der Sieg der Tschandala-Werte, das Evangelium den Armen, den Niedrigen gepredigt, der Gesamt-Aufstand alles Niedergetretenen, Elenden, Mißratenen, Schlechtweggekommenen gegen die "Rasse" - die unsterbliche Tschandala-Rache als Religion der Liebe...« ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, Götzendämmerung.

Patton, George S.

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21.07.1945		»Berlin gave me the blues. We have destroyed what could have been a good race and we are about to replace them with Mongolian savages. And all of Europe will be communist. It's said that for the first week after they took it, all women who ran were shot and those who did not were raped. I could have taken it had I been allowed.« ~ George Patton, 21st July 1945, in: Blumenson, Martin (ed.): The Patton Papers. 1940-1945, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1974, p. 731.
XX.08.1945		»It is indeed unfortunate, my General, that the English and the Americans have destroyed in Europe the only sound country - and I do not mean France - therefore the road is now open for the advent of Russian Communism.« ~ George Patton, August 1945, in: Blumenson, Martin (ed.): The Patton Papers. 1940-1945, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1974, p. 739.
08.08.1945		»The difficulty in understanding the Russian is that we do not take cognizance of the fact that he is not a European but an Asiatic and therefore thinks deviously. We can no more understand a Russian than a Chinaman or a Japanese and, from what I have seen of them, I have no particular desire to understand them except to ascertain how much lead or iron it takes to kill them. In addition to his other amiable characteristics, the Russian has no regard for human life and is an all out son of a bitch, a barbarian and a chronic drunk.« ~ George Patton, 8th August 1945, in: Blumenson, Martin (ed.): The Patton Papers. 1940-1945, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1974, p. 734.
10.08.1945		»Well the war is over. We just heard that Japan had quit. Now the horrors of peace, pacifism and unions will have unlimited sway. I wish I were young enough to fight in the next one. It would be great killing Mongols [Russians].« ~ George Patton, 10th August 1945, in: Blumenson, Martin (ed.): The Patton Papers. 1940-1945, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1974, p. 735.
27.08.1945		»I have been at Frankfurt for a civil government conference. If what we are doing is "Liberty, then give me death." I can't see how Americans can sink so low. It is semitic and I am sure of it.« ~ George Patton, 27th August 1945, in: Blumenson, Martin (ed.): The Patton Papers. 1940-1945, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1974, p. 743.
29.08.1945		»Today we received a letter... in which we were told to give the Jews special accommodations. If for Jews, why not for Catholics, Mormos, etc.? I called up General Bull, Deputy Chief of Staff for Eisenhower [...] He simply stated that he had investigated it and that the letter had considerable background. [...] We are also turning over to the French several hundred thousand prisonders of war to be used as slave labor in France. It is amusing to recall that we fought the Revolution in defense of the rights of man and the Civil War to abolish slavery and have now gone back on both principles.« ~ George Patton, 29th August 1945, in: Blumenson, Martin (ed.): The Patton Papers. 1940-1945, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1974, p. 743 f.
31.08.1945		»The stuff in the papers about fraternization is all wet... All that sort of writing is done by Jews to get revenge. Actually the Germans are the only decent people left in Europe. It's a choice between them and the Russians. I prefer the Germans. So do our cousins...« ~ George Patton, 31st August 1945, in: Blumenson, Martin (ed.): The Patton Papers. 1940-1945, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1974, p. 744.
14.09.1945		»I am frankly opposed to this war criminal stuff. It is not cricket and is semitic. I am also opposed to sending PW's to work as slaves in foreign lands [in particular, to France] where many will be starved to death... Some times I think i will simply resign and not be a further party to the degradation of my country.« ~ George Patton, 14th September 1945, in: Blumenson, Martin (ed.): The Patton Papers. 1940-1945, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1974, p. 750.
15.09.1945		»Evidently the virus started by Morgenthau and Baruch of a Semitic revenge against all Germans is still working. Harrison and his associataes indicate that they feel German civilians should be removed from houses for the purpose of housing Displaced Persons. There are two errors in this assumption. First, when we remove an individual German, we punish an individual German while the punishment is not intended for the individual but for the race. Furthermore, it is against my Anglo-Saxon conscience to remove a person from a house, which is a punishment, without due process of law. In the second place, Harrison and his ilk believe that the Displaced Person is a human being, which he is not, and this applies particularly to the Jews, who are lower than animals.« ~ George Patton, 15th September 1945, in: Blumenson, Martin (ed.): The Patton Papers. 1940-1945, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1974, p. 751.
22.09.1945		»There is a very apparent Semitic influence in the press. They are trying to do two things: First, implement Communism, and second, see that all business men of German ancestry and non-Jewish antecedents are thrown out of their jobs. They have utterly lost the Anglo-Saxon conception of justice and feel that a man can be kicked out because somebody else says he is a Nazi.« ~ George Patton, 22nd September 1945, in: Blumenson, Martin (ed.): The Patton Papers. 1940-1945, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1974, p. 766.
		»The attitude of the American people as evinced by the press and radio is such [that] I am inclined to think I made a great mistake in serving them for nearly forty years, although I had a very good time doing it. [...] The more I see of people I regret that I survived the war.« ~ George Patton, 22nd September 1945, in: Blumenson, Martin (ed.): The Patton Papers. 1940-1945, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1974, p. 766.
02.10.1945		»Of course I know the expression "Lost tribes of Israel" applied to the tribes which disappeared - not the tribe of Judah from which the current sons of bitches are descended. However, it is my personal opinion that this too is a lost tribe - lost to all decency.« ~ George Patton, 2nd October 1945, in: Blumenson, Martin (ed.): The Patton Papers. 1940-1945, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1974, p. 790.

Philo Judaeus

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38		»And then, being immediately seized by those who had excited the seditious multitude against them, they were treacherously put to death, and then were dragged along and trampled under foot by the whole city, and completely destroyed, without the least portion of them being left which could possibly receive burial; and in this way their enemies, who in their savage madness had become transformed into the nature of wild beasts, slew them and thousands of others with all kinds of agony and tortures, and newly invented cruelties, for wherever they met with or caught sight of a Jew, they stoned him, or beat him with sticks, not at once delivering their blows upon mortal parts, lest they should die speedily, and so speedily escape from the sufferings which it was their design to inflict upon them. Some persons even, going still greater and greater lengths in the iniquity and license of their barbarity, disdained all blunter weapons, and took up the most efficacious arms of all, fire and iron, and slew many with the sword, and destroyed not a few with flames.  And the most merciless of all their persecutors in some instances burnt whole families, husbands with their wives, and infant children with their parents, in the middle of the city, sparing neither age nor youth, nor the innocent helplessness of infants.  And when they had a scarcity of fuel, they collected faggots of green wood, and slew them by the smoke rather than by fire, contriving a still more miserable and protracted death for those unhappy people, so that their bodies lay about promiscuously in every direction half burnt, a grievous and most miserable sight.« ~ Philo Judaeus, In Flaccus, https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Philo/in_Flaccum*.html.

Putin, Vladimir

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		»It is our duty today to fight actively against xenophobia, anti-Semitism, nationalism, religious intolerance and the propaganda of violence and extremism. […] Russia considers any manifestation of nationalism and xenophobia to be destructive because we are a multiethnic country. We must and we will fight these manifestations, but we must do so using methods that do not simply make it look as if we are doing something, but which really do achieve genuine results. […] This year, as we mark the sixtieth anniversary of victory over Nazism, we should come back to this problem and make every possible effort to ensure that nothing like this ever happens in the world again. We need to work to eradicate the roots of all nationalism, and anti-Semitism, too.« ~ Vladimir Putin, http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/22939.
		»...people with neocolonial thinking, dimwits in fact, who do not understand that this diversity makes us stronger.« ~ Vladimir Putin, https://www.rt.com/russia/576587-putin-cultural-diversity-strength/

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Tacitus

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		»Among the Jews all things are profane that we hold sacred; on the other hand they regard as permissible what seems to us immoral. [...] The other practices of the Jews are sinister and revolting, and have entrenched themselves by their very wickedness. Wretches of the most abandoned kind who had no use for the religion of their fathers took to contributing dues and free-will offerings to swell the Jewish exchequer; and other reasons for their increasing wealth way be found in their stubborn loyalty and ready benevolence towards brother Jews. But the rest of the world they confront with the hatred reserved for enemies.« ~ Tacitus, Histories 5.4-5.

Tolkien, J. R. R.

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25..07.1938		»I regret that I am not clear as to what you intend by arisch. I am not of Aryan extraction: that is Indo-Iranian; as far as I am aware none of my ancestors spoke Hindustani, Persian, Gypsy, or any related dialects. But if I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I regret that I appear to have no ancestors of that gifted people.« ~ J. R. R. Tolkien, 25th July 1938, in: Carpenter, Humphrey (ed.): The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1981, p. 37.
		»I do not regard the probable absence of all Jewish blood as necessarily honourable and I have many Jewish friends, and should regret giving any colour to the notion that I subscribed to the wholly pernicious and unscientific race-doctrine.« ~ J. R. R. Tolkien, 25th July 1938, in: Carpenter, Humphrey (ed.): The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1981, p. 37.

Von Braun, Wernher

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15.07.1969	»Wenn es unsere Absicht gewesen wäre, nur eine Handvoll Erde und Gestein aus der Mondkiesgrube mitzubringen und dann die ganze Sache zu vergessen, wären wir sicherlich die größten Narren der Geschichte. Aber das ist jetzt nicht unsere Absicht - und wird es auch nie sein. Was wir bei der morgigen Reise suchen, ist in der Tat der Schlüssel zu unserer Zukunft auf der Erde. Wir erweitern den Verstand des Menschen. Wir erweitern dieses gottgegebene Gehirn und diese gottgegebenen Hände bis an ihre äußersten Grenzen, und davon wird die gesamte Menschheit profitieren. Die ganze Menschheit wird die Ernte einfahren. ... Was wir erreicht haben werden, wenn Neil Armstrong den Mond betritt, ist ein völlig neuer Schritt in der Evolution des Menschen.« ~ Wernher von Braun, 15.07.1969, Bankettrede am Vorabend des Starts von Apollo 11, Royal Oaks Country Club, Titusville, in: Of a Fire on the Moon, LIFEmagazine, 29.08.1969, Jhg. 67, Nr. 9, S. 34.	»If our intention had been merely to bring back a handful of soil and rocks from the lunar gravel pit and then forget the whole thing, we would certainly be history's biggest fools. But that is not our intention now — it never will be. What we are seeking in tomorrow's trip is indeed that key to our future on earth. We are expanding the mind of man. We are extending this God-given brain and these God-given hands to their outermost limits and in so doing all mankind will benefit. All mankind will reap the harvest. … What we will have attained when Neil Armstrong steps down upon the moon is a completely new step in the evolution of man.« ~ Wernher von Braun, 15th July 1969, Banquet speech on the eve of the Apollo 11 launch, Royal Oaks Country Club, Titusville, quoted in: Of a Fire on the Moon, LIFEmagazine, 29th August 1969, Vol. 67, No. 9, p. 34.