Monday, April 18, 2011

“Pacifism is the Deadliest of Sins” Rumbold

Thesis: As an ambassador to Germany, his ideas are assessed concerning his interpretation of Mein Kempf.

· Hitler has been Chancellor for 3 months

· Parliamentary regime has been replaced by a regime of brute force, and the political parties disappeared from the arena

· Hitler tries to lull the outer world into a sense of security

o To ensure stability at home is an easier task. The new regime is confident that it has come to stay

· Hitler has unlimited faith in propaganda

· Hitler has resources of State at his disposal

· Goebbels tries to uproot every political creed in Germany except Hitlerism and to prepare the soil for revival of militarism

· The outlook for Europe is far from peaceful

· Hitler believes that man is a fighting animal; thus, the nation is a fighting unity, being a community of fighters

o Any living organism which ceases to fight for its existence is doomed to extinction

o Intellectualism is undesirable; the ultimate aim of education is to produce a German who can be converted with minimum of training into a solder

o Climax of education is military service

· Germany’s lost provinces can be gained by force of arms

o Thus Germany has to rearm on land and lull their adversaries into a state of coma so that they will allow themselves to be engaged one by one

o Germany needs peace until she has recovered strength that no country can challenge her without serious preparations

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