Der Fuehrer - Hitler's Rise to Power (1944) - Heiden

240 DER FUEHRERSeriously questioned, Chamberlain would have said that he hadlearned from the great masters of world domination, from the Jewishprophets Ezekiel, Ezra, and Nehemiah, who created, as he says, by orderof the Persian king the race-conscious Jewish people. To penetrate theother nations, to devour them from within by virtue of superior intellect,bred in the course of generations; to make themselves the dominantintelligence in foreign nations, and thus make the world Jewish — this,according to Chamberlain, is the aim of the Jews. Later, Hitler was toreveal this supposed Jewish secret to the people in passionate andgruesome pictures: how Isaac Kohn inveigled the workers and MosesKohn the capitalists into following Jewish leadership; how the demonicbrothers incited the two classes against one another until they sankexhausted into the Jewish net; how the Jewish intelligentsia won controlof the economic system, the press, art — this, according to the forgedProtocols, Chamberlain, and Hitler, is the true road to world domination,allegedly discovered by the Jewish intelligentsia. And hence itmust become the road of the German intellectual.If up to now the Germans abroad, because of the political weakness oftheir mother country, had not given up their language and specialcharacter, this penetration of the thinking, creating, organizing—predominantly German — element in all countries of the world wouldbe clear for all eyes to see. If from now on they remain closely bound toGermany, consciously, openly, and proudly German — then the worldconquest will mature with astonishing rapidity. To mention but oneexample — Why should Germany have to conquer Australia? Howwould this conquest be begun? How would it be executed? But onceeven ten per cent of the inhabitants of that continent are consciousGermans, they will constitute nine tenths of the intelligence andeducation, and consequently provide the guiding mind.How threadbare and pale beside this are our present conceptions ofthe 'fifth column'! Chamberlain writes Australia, because the vigilantmilitary censorship forbade the intended 'South America' or plain'America.'Inspired by the mania of perfection, he foresaw a perfect Germanythat would create a perfect world: