“As Hitler’s vision expanded, in the heady days of 1941, it came to embrace all Europe.  Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, the whole of France north of the Somme were to be incorporated in a Greater Germany, the names of the cities being changed – Nancy would become Nanzig, Besancon Bisanz.  Trondheim would become a major German city and naval base of 250,000 inhabitants.  The Alps would be the boundary between ‘the German Empire of the North’, with a new ‘Germania’ as its capital, and ‘the Roman Empire of the South’.  The Pope would be hanged in full pontificals in St Peter’s Square.  Strasbourg Cathedral would be turned into a giant ‘Monument to the Unknown Soldier’.  New crops, such as perennial rye, would be invented.  He would forbid smoking, make vegetarianism compulsory, ‘revive the Cimbrian art of knitting’, appoint a ‘Special Commissioner for the Care of Dogs’ and an ‘Assistant Secretary for Defence Against Gnats and Insects’.”  -Paul Johnson, Modern Times

 

26 October 1920:

 

"Now Hitler turned to the right and left. The national right lacked a social concept, the social left a national one. He admonished the right-wing parties: if you want to be national, then you need to come down to your people's level and do away with all this class conceit! To the left he called: you who have declared your solidarity with the whole world, first show your solidarity with your own national comrades, become Germans first!… You who are truly revolutionaries; come over to us and fight with us for our whole nation! Your place is not over there as drovers for international capital, but with us, with your nation! (Hitler, 1980a, p. 250)

 

Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things."  –GK Chesterton