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The Final Solution as Nazi Eschatology The Holocaust: Redem ptive Anti-Sem itism as an Eschatology of Death Biblical View of Prophecy/ Eschatology vs. Modern Millenarianism/ Progressivism Com m unism Social Darw inism / Eugenics
Com m unism Social Darw inism / Eugenics Technocracy Environm entalism Postm odern Socialism New Age Paganism
“Any history w ritten
Christian principles w ill be
necessity universal, providential, apocalyptic, periodized ... Having divided the past, it w ill then naturally tend to subdivide it again: and thus to distinguish other events, not so im portant as the birth of Christ but im portant in their
w ay, w hich m ake everything after them different in quality from w hat w ent before. Thus history is divided into epochs or periods, each w ith peculiar characteristics of its ow n, and each m arked off from the one before it by an event w hich in the technical language
this kind of historiography is called epoch m aking … The apocalyptic idea becam e a com m onplace, although historians have placed their apocalyptic m ovem ent at all sorts of tim es: the Renaissance, the invention
printing, the scientific m ovem ent of the 1 7 th century, the Enlightenm ent of the 1 8 th, the French Revolution, the Liberal m ovem ent
1 9 th century, or even, as w ith Marxist historians, in the future. All these elem ents, so fam iliar in m odern historical thought are totally absent from Greco- Rom an historiography and w ere consciously and laboriously w orked
“A system atic union of different rational beings under com m on law s” or a “kingdom of ends” w here no one is used as m erely a m eans to an end, but w here a com m unity of persons are treated as ends in them selves to fulfill the categorical im perative.
based on Autonom ous Reason & that the principled Application of his Transcendentalist Philosophy w ill lead to a Moral & Peaceful Kingdom of Ends on this Earth in w hich all w ill inw ardly learn to obey God’s Moral Law by His Grace w ithout any outside Political or Religious Coercion or Enslaving I nterference that w as at the very Heart of Germ an Theological Liberalism for w ell over 1 0 0 Years.
His all-encom passing Holistic Philosophy of Historical Dialectics as the W orld Spirit w as progressing through the Reconciliation of Opposites.
Subjectivity & Feelings w as to be the Progressive Goal.
I ndustrial Revolution w ill progress through Dialectical Materialism & hence destroy all Class Divisions.
Progressivism through Science & Eugenics.
w here Future Superm en rooted in an Earth based Transvaluation of all Values w ill convert Modern Nihilism into New Meaning.
Em pirical Obstacle that needed to be ‘euthanized’ in order to establish a Rational European Order in w hich its Biblical Heteronom y w ould be overcom e through Natural Theology.
Attem pt to de-Judaize the New Testam ent as they believed Jew ish Historical Particularism & Exclusivism derived from the Old Testam ent w as keeping Germ an Christianity from becom ing Progressive, Liberal & Universal.
Ecclesiastical Christianity to now enter an Ethical-Political Spiritual Age functioning as a Spiritual Pow er in Germ any.
be Jew ish Segregation, Backw ard Legalism & Restrictive Cerem onialism as they hindered their Freedom s.
Spiritual Pow er of Liberal Protestantism w here Rom anticism & Nationalism and Socialism all m ixed together through the Propagation of the Social Gospel.
Lutheranism ’s Traditional Anti-Sem itism & Replacem ent Theology – w hich Germ an Pietism often reinforced.
w ho w ere not Anti-Sem itic but even had successful Ministry Outreaches to Jew s.
rejected the grow ing Tide of Anti-Sem itism in Germ any.
1 8 7 8 to explain the Origins of the Old Testam ent – w hich w as a m ore Com plex Synthesis than Hegel’s Triad.
Elohistic Docum ent dates to Northern Kingdom ; P = Priestly Docum ent codified Rituals & Form alistic Religion in Leviticus around 5 0 0 B.C.; D = Deuteronom ic Docum ent w hich w as com piled during Josiah’s Reign before the Exile ( 1 Kings 2 2 :1 -2 0 ) in 6 2 0 B.C.
His JEPD Theory to Rom antic & Nationalist Theologian Leberecht de W ette ( 1 7 8 0 -1 8 4 9 ) – w ho w as a Germ an Theological Liberal.
that devolved from the Pure & Sim ple Original Hebraism in the Beginning into Deuteronom ic Legalism .
More Materialistic in their History.
Charge of the Germ an Academ ia & the Sciences.
that needs to be abandoned for Modern Christianity to prosper in the 2 0 th Century as those w ho held onto the Old Testam ent w ere having a Paralyzing Effect on the Progress of Religion & the Church.
upset the Aesthetic I dealism of both Germ an Philosophy and Religion – particularly Harnack.
that Kicked off W W I in the nam e of Germ an Christian Civilization & Modernity.
Trenches of W W I leaving a Vacuum that Secular Social Darw inism & Volkisch Nature Mysticism / Apocalypticism filled in behind.
Volkism & Racism & Eugenics after W W I .
w ere biologically ingrained & Eugenically determ ined & the Germ an Race w as the m ost Cultivated.
w as Good & w hatever led to Biological Degeneration w as bad – an Evolutionary Ethic from w hich the Master Race evolves into Fruition.
the Jew s – is therefore necessary for the Progress
into a Sunny Victorious Future.
then the Morality - based on Rom anticism & Existentialism & Scientific Eugenics - w ill also be cleaned up as the Aryan Race w ill supplant the Degenerate Races into Superm en as Nietzsche prophesied.
I nvalids w as later extended to Jew s during the Holocaust – all based on Law s of Nature.
Nature dem anded Cruelty – but such Actions led to Biological Progress & Racial Utopia.
Social Darw inism & Eugenics w ill lead to Racial Utopia in a Future Rom antic Aryan Garden of Eden.
sponger w ho, like a pernicious bacillus, spreads over w ider and w ider areas according as som e favorable area attracts him . The effect produced by his presence is also like that of the vam pire; for w herever he establishes him self the people w ho grant him hospitality are bound to be bled to death sooner or later,” Mein Kam pf.
reasons tolerates one Jew ish fam ily in it, then this w ill becom e the bacillus source for a new decom position. I f there w ere no m ore Jew s in Europe, then the unity of the European states w ould no longer be destroyed,” July 1 9 4 1 .
greatest revolutions that have taken place in the w orld. The battle in w hich w e are engaged to-day is of the sam e sort as the battle w aged, during the last century, by Pasteur and Koch. How m any diseases have their origin in the Jew ish virus! W e shall regain our health only by elim inating the Jew ,” February 1 9 4 2 .
considered to be a Jew ish W ay of doing Science that w as too Abstract w ithout any Roots in the Reality of Nature w here True Experim ental W ork is accom plished scientifically w ith Aryan Values.
interconnectedness in nature w hich w as the origin of natural science.”
presum ed a Sem i-Pantheistic Spirit anim ated all of Nature.
Sciences that he perceived to be rooted in Jew ish Materialism & not the True Life Sciences that is so im portant to the Germ an Sciences.
to m aster Nature w ith Materialistic Technology & Universalism .
inserted Nietzschean W ill to Pow er & the Fuhrer Principle into His Physics as he advocated certain Microscopic Molecules w ere endow ed w ith Dictatorial Authority over Entire Organism s.
Scientific Revolution, “Know ledge is Pow er.”
“I t is a great pity that this tendency tow ards religious thought can find no better outlet than the Jew ish pettifoggery of the Old Testam ent. For religious people w ho, in the solitude of w inter, continually seek ultim ate light on their religious problem s w ith the assistance of the Bible, m ust eventually becom e spiritually deform ed. The w retched people strive to extract truths from these Jew ish chicaneries, w here in fact no truths exist. As a result they becom e em bedded in som e rut of thought or other and, unless they possess an exceptionally com m onsense m ind, degenerate into religious m aniacs. I t is deplorable that the Bible should have been translated into Germ an, and that the w hole of the Germ an people should have thus becom e exposed to the w hole of this Jew ish m um bo jum bo.”
for Racial Superiority & Environm ental Goals w as Holistically resolved along Fascist Lines by em phasizing Sustainable Developm ent.
1 9 3 0 ’s – but also em phasized Green Sustainable Developm ent Plans in order to blend Modern Life into a m ore harm onious Relationship w ith Nature.
Sustainable Developm ent.
Rom anticism .
good, but soulless technology of I nternational Capitalism w as Evil.
by the SS’s Green Sustainable Developm ent Plans including Green Building & Master Planned Com m unities & Renew able Energy & Recycling – as they w anted to create a Garden of Eden in the East.
Developm ent that w ould becom e a Future Garden of Eden to Alleviate Germ any’s Presum ed Overpopulation Problem that targeted prim arily the Jew s - but also the Slavs as w ell.
Displacem ents & Reorganization.
Tides.
to asking m an to fashion life w orthily. For this, it is sufficient for him to conform to the law s of
these principles, and in the long run w e’ll trium ph over religion.”
appear on the scene and introduce that m ad conception of a life that continues into an alleged Beyond! I t enables one to regard life as a thing that is negligible here below .”
a catalyzing elem ent. A people that is rid of its Jew s returns spontaneously to the natural order.”
extrem e Jew ish intellectualism has com e to an
m an of books, but a m an of character.”
announce to us, light for us, show the path from w hich there is no turning back.”
. increase in pow er finds its basis in the fact that W estern m etaphysics—above all, in its m odern incarnation—offers fertile ground for the dissem ination of an em pty rationality and calculability, w hich in this w ay gains a foothold in ‘spirit,’ w ithout ever being able to grasp from w ithin the hidden realm s of decision.”
ungraspable everyw here and doesn't need to get involved in m ilitary action w hile continuing to unfurl its influence, w hereas w e are left to sacrifice the best blood of the best of our people.“
the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Rights Law that forbid Kosher Slaughter – the First Attack on their Food Supply.
recently passed Anti-Sem itic Nurem berg Law ( s) that stripped the Jew s of their Citizenship “as an attem pt to find a solution. I f w e don’t succeed, w e w ill let the National Socialist Party find a Final Solution to save the Germ an People.”
Germ an Destiny based on W ill Pow er, Struggle, Hard W ork, and Faith in the Germ an Volk that w ill all spring up from w ithin the Germ an Com m unity itself since nothing w ill com e dow n from Heaven to help them .
Question, the Nazis w ill use their W illpow er to resolve it anyw ay.
Holocaust from other Genocides.
essential to the salvation of the Germ an nation and there w as an apocalyptic dim ension to the vision that Hitler had,” Michael Berenbaum .
Antisem itism - to save the w orld the Jew had to w iped out, “Saul Friedlander.
dynam ic, revolutionary thrust, unachievable w ithout w ar and a colossal gam ble for w orld pow er and dem anding national salvation through racial purification – a chiliastic goal that becam e institutionalized in every facet of political organization in the Third Reich – distinguishes the Third Reich from every other know n political dictatorship …” I an Kershaw .
eugenic, volkisch, and occult apocalyptic ideas of the tim e,” David Redles.
interpreted as an eschatological w ar. Hitler defined Marxism w as a ‘poison’ deliberately produced by the Jew ish ‘prophet’ Karl Marx ‘in the service of his race’ to bring about the ‘sw ifter annihilation of the independence existence of free nations on this earth.’ The final battle w ould com e in a fight to the death w ith the Jew ish Bolsheviks,” David Redles.
eschatological w ar,” David Redles.
people” of God & com pared the Jew s to the “Red Dragon” of the book of Revelation.
required Aryans to purify them selves in order to reach a stage of biospiritual perfection, thereby achieving a state of godlike capabilities, ruling the earth as god-m en as in ancient tim es,” David Redles
chaos, renew the spiritual health of the Volk, and usher in the Millennial Reich,’ David Redles.
Creator, he m eant Nature as god, or Pantheism .
I nspiration of Social Darw inian Law s of Nature that im bued the Aryan Race w ith Special Qualities that need to be enhanced through Eugenics.
Form of Pantheism that allow ed for som e Elem ent of Transcendence – but certainly not like the Judeo-Christian God of the Bible w ho stands com pletely Transcendent and Outside of History.
Germ an Social Darw inism and Ecology, said that Pantheism w as a Quiet Form of Atheism .
I m m igration Law s of Germ any w ere Contradictory.
the East w ho w ere having their ow n Financial Difficulties.
im poverished all over again & w hich further intensified the Problem s m entioned above.
East som ew here, including trying to use Poland w as w hat they called a Catch Basin – particularly in SE Poland today – w hich w as strongly opposed by Nazi Governor Hans Frank w ho did not w ant any m ore Jew s.
aw ay from Europe.
bit, but then forced them to earn their ow n keep through Slave Labor through w orking for the W ar Effort, w hich in som e Ghettos began to w ork relieving them to som e extent – at w hich tim e the Nazis finally decided to start liquidating them as the ‘Hum ane’ thing to do anyw ay.
Sum m er of 1 9 4 1 – starting East & w orking W est – as Hitler presum ed the W ar w as virtually over at that Early Tim e.
Holocaust w as increasingly Set-up - but becam e m ore calculated & bloodless in order to alleviate the consciences of the Shooters.
Vans in Minsk – know ledge from w hich w as later used to develop the Death Cam ps in Poland.
“Functionalists argue that there rather than a straight line from anti-sem itism to the Holocaust, there w as instead 'a tw isted road' to the Holocaust. I n other w ords, the Holocaust w as very m uch the result of the im m ediate circum stances that the Nazis found them selves in. I n his w ork ‘The Origins of the Final Solution,' the Am erican historian Christopher Brow ning ( follow ing Germ an Scholar Hans Mom m sen) argues that the Final Solution only took shape w hen Nazi Germ any invaded the Soviet Union. I t w asn't that the exterm ination centers sim ply form ed w ithout the know ledge or intents of Hitler and
from sim ply rem oving the Jew s from Europe ( i.e. deporting, perhaps to Madagascar, but not necessarily exterm inating them , w hich Brow ning claim s w as Hitler's plan up until 1 9 3 9 ) , to an actual plan for physical exterm ination. Even though Hitler's racial ideology played a driving role in the Holocaust, changing circum stances did as w ell. As the Nazis prepared to invade the Soviet Union in 1 9 4 1 , the Nazis felt that they w ere invincible as they destroyed Jew ish com m unities in the Soviet
that the atrocities he com m itted against Soviet Jew s could be expanded to all of Europe,” – Michelle Penn.
som ething else com pletely different from any previous cam paign,” Hitler said to his generals.
not accept this, w e m ay w in, but the problem w ill resurface in 3 0 years. W e are not w aging w ar to spare the enem y.”
Heydrich to Einsatzgruppen leaders in July 1 9 4 1 speaking of shooting the Jew s in Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltics and W estern Russia.
m urder all the Jew s as they reported it to their friends and fam ilies w hen they w ere on leave, recorded in their diaries, and w ith letters sent hom e.
& thus w ere destroyed as First Order of Business.
Machinery of the Destruction, i.e., the”how ” of the Holocaust, but not the “w hy” – w hich hides the Motive of Murder.
Existentialism & Postm odernism that has infected Modern Historiography – the Lion’s Share of w hich is founded upon strong Germ an I nfluences from the 1 8 0 0 ’s and early 1 9 0 0 ’s.
because there can be no Meaning to such Nazi Madness.
protects Germ an Academ ia from Culpability.
all Biblical Studies also show up in the Historiography of the Holocaust.
Bureaucratic I nfighting the Nazis still carried out the Holocaust in spite of all the Massive ‘Functional’ Barriers that interfered w ith their Plans.
infiltrated the I vy League through Form er SS Scholars & Pro-Nazis via Martin Heidegger in the 1 9 6 0 ’s & 7 0 ’s.
contem porary anti-hum anism from Nazi dehum anization, for they share ( the sam e) philosophical and cultural origins.”
Auschw itz, “I n brief, the post-Auschw itz age is one in w hich the 1 9 th century prophecies of Marx & Nietzsche have been realized in the Soviet gulag, on the one hand, and in the Nazi death cam ps, on the
the post-Auschw itz age is one of total w ar, m ass m urder, and genocide; an age of the death of God and of the eclipse of w estern culture and Judeo-Christian values.”
The Nazi Concentration/ Death Cam ps of Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec & Majdanek ‘evacuated’ alm ost Tw o Million Jew s to their Deaths – m ost of w hom w ere Polish Jew s.
lake district, w as, as Him m ler identified in 1 9 3 8 , a good location for a concentration cam p. Rail and w ater connections w ere good. Fürstenberg, cradled by three lakes, the Röblinsee, Baalensee and Schw edtsee, sits astride the River Havel, w hich divides into several channels as it flow s through the tow n.
natural beauty. Him m ler believed that the cleansing of Germ an blood should begin close to nature, and the invigorating forces of the Germ an forests played a central role in the m ythology of the Heim at – Germ an soil. Buchenw ald – m eaning Beech Forest – w as sited in a fam ous w ooded area close to W eim ar and several other cam ps w ere deliberately located in beauty spots. Just w eeks before Ravensbrück w as opened a stretch of w ater here w as declared an ‘organic source for the Aryan race’. Fürstenberg had alw ays been popular w ith nature lovers w ho cam e to boat on the lakes, or visit the baroque Palace of Fürstenberg
w hich ran the concentration cam ps and m uch else in Nazi Germ any, w anted his cam ps to be self-sufficient as far as possible. There w as to be a rabbit hutch, chicken coop and vegetable garden, as w ell as an orchard and flow er garden. Gooseberry bushes, dug up from the Lichtenburg gardens and transported in the trucks, w ere already being replanted here. The contents of the Lichtenburg latrines had been brought to Ravensbrück too, to be spread as fertilizer.
saplings stood at regular intervals in betw een the rest. – Sarah Helm , RAVENSBRÜCK: Life and Death in Hitler’s Concentration Cam p for W om en.
identified the site for the prototype at Dachau. He also selected the Dachau com m andant, Theodor Eicke, w ho becam e head of the ‘Death’s Head’ units, as the SS concentration-cam p guard squads w ere called – they w ore a skull and crossbones badge on their caps to denote loyalty to death. Him m ler charged Eicke w ith devising a blueprint for terrorizing all ‘enem ies of the state’.
‘Papa Eicke’ and w hom he ‘hardened’ before they w ere sent off to other cam ps. Hardening m eant the m en should learn never to show w eakness to the enem y and should only ‘show their teeth’ – in other w ords, they should hate. Am ongst Eicke’s early recruits w as Max Koegel, the future com m andant of Ravensbrück, w ho cam e to Dachau looking for w ork after a short spell in jail for em bezzlem ent.
and for Gothic castles, Koegel w as the son of a m ountain shepherd. Orphaned at the age of tw elve, he spent his early years shepherding on the Alps before seeking other w ork in Munich, w here he fell in w ith far-right ‘völkische’ societies and joined the Nazi Party in 1 9 3 2 . ‘Papa Eicke’ quickly found a use for Koegel, now thirty-eight, his hardness already deeply chiselled.
recruit, w ho w ent on to becom e com m andant of Auschw itz and w ho also played a role at Ravensbrück. Höss w ould later rem em ber his Dachau days w ith affection, talking of an entire cadre of SS m en w ho learned to ‘love’ Eicke and never forgot his rules, ‘w hich stayed fast and becam e part of their flesh and blood’.
Dachau m odel - Sarah Helm I nside Ravensbruck.
The m ostly Protestant villagers of this tiny m ountain plateau didn't talk about it at the tim e. Today, they still m ostly don't talk about it. But during W orld W ar I I , in defiance of the Vichy and Nazi regim es, they hid som e 4 ,0 0 0 Jew s, m any of them
shopkeepers risked their lives to rescue Jew s from the Holocaust in the largest com m unal effort of its kind in Europe. W hat they did has been largely ignored or forgotten in France, experts say. Yet in I srael, Cham bon is one of tw o European tow ns honored at Yad Vashem , the official Holocaust m em orial in Jerusalem . Opposite a stone Protestant church in this French ham let sits a plaque presented by Jew s to "the righteous,” – by Robert Marquand, “A Protestant tow n's 'conspiracy of good' in Vichy France,” CS Monitor, May 1 5 , 2 0 0 8 .