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Background: Nazi anti-Semitism intensified as the war went on. This is a partial translation of a pamphlet originally published by the Nazi Party in 1943, and republished by the Wehrmacht for distribution among soldiers in 1944. By the time this was read, much of the Holocaust was already completed, and some of the soldiers who read it had participated in killing Jews. After reading this, they may have felt they had done the right thing. The source: G. G. Otto, Der Jude als Weltparasit (Munich: Eher Verlag, 1943). It was issued by Alfred Rosenerg’s office. I’m translating from the edition provided to the military, with thanks to Ken Fields, who provided scans of the original. The Jew as World Parasite Introduction In this war for the very existence of the German people, we must daily remind ourselves that Jewry unleashed this war against us. It makes no difference if the Jew conceals himself as a Bolshevist or a plutocrat, a Freemason, or uses some other form of concealment, or even appears without any mask at all: he always remains the same. He is the one who so agitated and spiritually influenced the peoples that stand against us today such that they have become more or less tools of International Jewry, lacking their own will. The ways in which the Jew has brought large peoples and states against us has already been made clear in two previous pamphlets, The Fateful Battle in the East and Europe and America. These proved the case for those two states. Both are, therefore, the intellectual predecessors of this pamphlet, The Jew as World Parasite, At the beginning of the war’s sixth year, we may not permit ourselves to neglect the Jewish question in any way. First of all, we must always combat the remnants of past education, the once general view, in which Jewry is seen only as a religious denomination. Instead, the racial mixture that is Jewry must be emphasized. The religious beliefs of the Jews are completely irrelevant. Instead, we must focus solely on blood, on the racial foundation. From the beginning of its existence, the National Socialist German Workers Party has always attempted to educate the German people about these facts. As early as 1922, the Führer said: “We were also those who, for the first time, made major efforts to explain to the people a danger that had crept up on us, and which millions of people did not recognize, even though it threatened to ruin us all: the danger of the Jews.” In his book Mein Kampf (p. 335), he said: “Over the long term, he can preserve his existence within other peoples only if he succeeds in persuading them that he is not a people, but only a ‘religious community,’ albeit a peculiar one.” The first and greatest lie, that Jewry is not a racial question, but a religion, inevitably leads to further lies. Another lie concerns the Jew’s language. It is not a way for him to express his thoughts, but rather a means to conceal them. Although he may speak German, French, or some other language, he thinks in a Jewish way. He may spout German poetry, but he remains a member of his race. Heinrich Heine is the best example. The importance of such comprehensive educational activity, which was carried out even before the NSDAP by some decent Germans, can best be seen in our people’s recent history. Past generations saw even the mention of the Jewish Question as impolite. One intentionally ignored all these questions, even if the individual Jew was usually perceived instinctively as a foreign body. Why do we Germans, and almost we alone, fight Jewry so energetically? Why in the course of German history have there always been times when the German element turns against Jewry? Alfred Rosenberg, in his book The Path of the Jew throughout History, provides the answer: “There is probably no nation in Europe in which man’s inner nature is so deep, and so influential, as the German. In its depths, therefore, it is the spiritual opposite of the Jews...” Despite that, the power of Jewry and its supporters grew so great in the German people that it lead to the collapse in 1918. The primary cause for this was the large increase in the population of our people, combined with growing liberal tendencies, which led more and more Germans to misperceive the fact of the racial problem, and thus become indifferent to the Jewish danger. The National Socialist worldview has in recent years opened the eyes of the greater part of our people to this problem. The German people has recognized that the Jew has crept in like a parasite not only into our people, but into all the peoples of the earth, and that it is attempting to corrupt the original racial characteristics of the peoples in order to destroy them both racially and as states, and thereby rule over them. It is, nonetheless, false if one German or another concludes that since the Jew has been eliminated from German politics, that Jewish influence has also been entirely eliminated from our thinking and conduct. One even sometimes hears the superficial view things are the same in other peoples of the world, since they have followed our example. That is true in only a few cases. Instead, we must remember that according to reliable statistics, there are about 16 million religious Jews in the world, 10 million of whom live in Europe alone, almost three fifths of the total. Another 4.5 million live in America, 800,000 in Asia, 530,000 in Africa, 25,000 in Australia. These figures along prove that the Jewish danger is particularly great in Europe. It is also clear why the dramatic growth of Jewry in America is such a danger for us. The Jew is establishing his main forces in the Western Hemisphere, from which he believes he will be able to continue to wage war against us from a secure position. Despite the fact that he feels so secure, at least for the moment, the Jew is thinking hard about why the awakened peoples of Europe are defending themselves against him. Nothing reveals his uncertainty about the path his laws dictate to world denomination than what we often read in the works of Jewish authors. It is in part this uncertainty that drives the Jews to pursue their goal of world domination more quickly and more consistently. Even Goethe wrote: “The Jew will not spare us.” We can be sure that this is more true today than ever before. In the book by the Jews Zangwill and Roth titled Now and Forever, a conversation reveals what the Jewish world parasite sees as its final goal, world domination [the book referred to is Now and Forever: a Conversation with Mr. Israel Zangwill on the Jew and the Future (New York: R. M. McBride, 1925)]. With all the passion in the Jewish breast, the book tells the story of a Jew out for revenge. He wanders from country to country, gathering his forces, at the head of which he ruins Europe with sadistic horror and lust for destruction, this Europe that will not bow to the Jew, but instead stands in the way of his path to world domination. We National Socialists believe the Führer when he says that at the end of the battle, unleashed on us as his strongest adversary by the Jewish world parasite, the Jewish race in Europe will be destroyed. Until this destruction occurs, we must always remember that the Jew is our absolute enemy who will shrink at nothing. He knows but a single goal: our complete destruction. Part I The Nature of the Parasite 1. What is a parasite? This section outlines the evils of parasites in nature. 2. The Jew is the Parasite of Humanity The so-called educated classes mocked and scorned the NSDAP as it began its struggle, particularly when the Führer repeatedly said that the Jew was a parasite. They rejected the Führer’s statement that all of decent humanity suffers today under Jewish parasitism. At best, they laughed about such “fanatics.” Of course, one had often had bitter experiences with the business practices of individual Jews, but people did not realize that Jewry concealed itself as a religious community. Their own religious sentiments prevented them from drawing the logical conclusion. They did not want to recognize the true nature of this so-called religious community. When the Führer said that “A man who believes he can come to a satisfactory agreement with parasites is like the tree that thinks it will benefit from concluding an agreement with a medlar,” some found this awkward. There were already too many connections to Jewry, one could no longer break free. One more or less let the Jew go his way, as the Führer said in the same connection: “He goes his way, sneaking into every people to hollow them out, using lies and slander, poisoning and disruption, intensifying the battle until the bloody extermination of his hated enemy.” Today, therefore, it is still necessary to reveal the Jew as world parasite, to make him visible, to rightly understand him. We therefore state: The Jew is the parasite of humanity. He can be a parasite for an individual person, a social parasite for whole peoples, and the world parasite of humanity. To understand his full nature, we must investigate his existence, which means examining his character, his views on the values of life, his claim to world domination, and his ability to assimilate. Part II The Nature of the Jewish Person II a. The Racial Origins of the Jews 3. Jewry — a Counter-race If we thoroughly study the racial nature of the Jew, we conclude that Jewry is not a race in the ordinary sense of the word. Instead, as Houston Steward Chamberlain wrote, it must be seen as a counter-race, although the term “counter-race” cannot be understood in a biological sense. From a biological standpoint, Jewry is a stable, inbred mixture of extreme races and racial rubbish. The concept of “counter-race” primarily means the destructive and disruptive effect of Jewry within natural races. The distinguishing mark of Jewry within human races has to do on the one hand with the racial makeup of the Jews, who have been scattered for millennia, and on the other hand in their stubborn adherence to the crassest materialism, based on their so-called religious laws. Jewry is the result of the mixing of every possible race. It is the biggest racial mish-mash in history. This racial mish-mash is so dangerous for all peoples because it because it includes elements from every race. The bad characteristics of these races have been passed on for many generations through Jewry in ever stronger form. From this artificial, rootless, materialistic racial mish-mash, a parasitic counter-race has developed among the peoples. The core of Jewry is the coming together of rootless, rejected, asocial, sick, and degenerate elements of the various races, predominately of Middle Eastern and Oriental origins. One should remember that in antiquity, lepers were ejected from their racial community, just as were criminal asocial elements. 4. Asocial Elements Steadily Added to the Jewish Racial Mixture As a result of its parasitic distribution among the peoples over thousands of years, Jewry wormed its way into almost all the races on earth. As a social parasite, it infected the lower classes, slaves, proletarians, the mob, etc. They had the least resistance to Jewish racial parasitism. These classes, which had largely lost their instincts against racial foreigners, allowed Jewish blood to infiltrate. Already in the Old Testament, we read in Exodus 12:38 about the departure from Egypt of the Children of Israel: “Many others of the rabble left with them.” Since these lower classes leaned strongly to criminality and asocial behavior, and were inclined to political revolution, the Jewish racial mish-mash incorporated the negative characteristics of these races, and increased them over the generations by mixing with the blood of the lowest elements of other races, passing them on in increased degree from generation to generation. Thus, the Jewish counter-race moved ever more to the negative side. The artificial Jewish racial mish-mash was held together by the force of materialistic religious laws that focused on life this side of the grave. It promised its adherents prosperity on earth, and lordship over all other peoples and nations. This Jewish racial mixture was kept strictly separate from the influence of foreign gods. During several hundred years of the Babylonian Captivity, the Jewish racial mish-mash was strengthened by inbreeding. The inclusion of foreign elements, from this point on, was almost nonexistent. For the first time in history, a well-defined and distinct type emerged in the form of the Jewish counter-race. This Jewish counter-race incorporated to the greatest degree the bad characteristics of nearly all races that it had inherited over the centuries by a process of negative selection. The Jewish racial mish-mash primarily carries the traits of the Middle Eastern and Oriental races, but also influences of the Eastern, Western, and Nordic races. Mongolian and Negro traits also are frequently present. 5. The Main Groups in the Jewish Racial Mix [This section outlines the alleged racial history of the Jews.] 6. The Ashkenazi and the Shepardim [Discusses these two Jewish groups.] 7. Non-Jewish Converts in the Jewish Religious Community [Some groups have converted to Judaism as a religion, but that does not make them Jews.] 8. Jewry and Inbreeding This brief overview about Jewish racial origins demonstrates the uniqueness of the origin and development of Jewry, which is precisely the opposite of the origin and development of all other races. As we have seen, other races grew organically from particular situations over an ethnically-based history, through a process of contact and struggle in commerce and war with other peoples. Unlike other peoples, it did not attempt to raise its members to a higher level through industry and labor. Jewry is neither a race nor a mixed race. It is a confusing mixture of races, racial mixtures, and racial fragments, artificially held together by its rabbis. It acts as a kind of counter-race, which can only destroy, never build. Jewry is the product of the inbreeding of asocial, criminal, sick, degenerate and rejected elements of every possible race in the ancient world. Jewry is neither a race nor a people nor a religion in our sense of those words. He possesses no homeland, but leads a rootless, parasitic life at the expense of the host peoples. Its current homeland is largely the criminal neighborhoods of the great cities of the world, its god is money, its policy is revolution and the destruction of the cultural treasures of mankind. II b. Physical Characteristics 9. Outward Appearance Should Conceal Reality [The section begins by noting that although many Jews can be identified by outward features, others learned over time to conceal themselves so as to blend in to the society they were part of.] The great mass of Jewry, however, was incapable of overcoming their physical appearances. That became clear to each German who wanted to see as he observed Jews after 1933 from a politically trained viewpoint. This was particularly clear to those who were able to look into the concentration or labor camps. In comparison with us, what a difference in conduct and behavior. A German who must spend a long time in a camp, perhaps as a prisoner of war, even under the most primitive of conditions, will behave as a member of the Germanic family of peoples. He will maintain his dignity and personal appearance. In particular, he will not lose his sense of the necessity of cleanliness. 10. Aggravating Pressures It is exactly the opposite with the Jew. As long as he, with the help of lies, is striving for full equality with his host people, attempting to deceive them about his drive for absolute rule, he exerts himself to the fullest to resist his own drives, in order that he may behave as expected. But at the very moment that these pressures, for whatever reason, disappear, he sinks back into the filth, even if he has seemed to be a cultivated Jew for decades. In a way we cannot understand, he stops taking care of his body and manner. After perhaps only a few days, and certainly after a few weeks, he reveals once more the original appearance of his race: the stooped little filthy and greasy Jew. It had only been a facade. Even over decades, he had been unable to change his real nature, nor had he wanted to. Never has a Jew, if he was honest, had any real interest in learning from his host people. After all, he was firmly convinced that he would one day be lord of his host people, and that he could then impose his law on them, also in the physical realm. 11. Dislike of Physical Labor One of Jewry’s particular characteristics is a dislike of physical labor. His physical appearance alone did not predestine him to physical labor. But as the result of generations of inbreeding and of his racial mixture, the Jew made this his goal. He would rather trade, leaving work to others. His Talmud doctrines assisted him. In Germany, we hardly ever saw a Jew among miners, farmers, masons, and earth workers, or other professions that involved heavy labor. When a Jew did work, there was some sort of “big business” involved. Then he could work for quite a period. The decisive factor, however, is that the Jew has no ethical relationship to labor, as we do. For him, labor is one of various possibilities for exploitation. He does not create value, but rather his goal is to heap up money. II c. Intellectual Manifestations 12. The Conflict between German Genius and the Jewish Demon 13. The Jew Corrupts the Intellectual Products of his Host Peoples 14. The “Greatest” Jews are the Greatest Corrupters People have allowed themselves to be blinded by Jewish intellectuals, and do so even today. How much was said in Germany about the abilities of Jewish attorneys. We need only recall the “great defender Dr. Alsberg.” What praise there was for the “great” philosopher Einstein, “the Newton of our day,” for the “great” doctors Freud and Hirschfeld. How much praise people attempted to heap up for the many Jewish university professors, for the whole so-called “intellectual world.” A look at the influence of the Jews and Jewry on German literature gives opportunity to see how the much-praised Jewish intellectualism was nothing more than the most bitter and painful expression of the destructive Jewish spirit on its host people, even when one looks at less well-known writers such as Maximilian Harden, Arthur Schnitzler, or Emil Ludwig. 15. The Lack of a Concept of Honor [I’ll likely translate more of this over time.]   [Page copyright © 2008 by Randall L. Bytwerk. No unauthorized reproduction. My e-mail address is available on the FAQ page.] Go to the 1933-1945 Page. Go to the German Propaganda Archive Home Page.