1st January 1933
Sign of the Times
'Nationalsozialistische Monatshefte'
The so-called Academic Journal of the NSDAP was edited by Adolf Hitler until the end of 1933; Alfred Rosenberg was its editorial director. The journal appeared from 1930 to 1944.
From Vol 4, no.34 (January 1933), in part: 'Recognising that... a volkisch renewal of Germany can only take place on a idealistic basis that corresponds to the ancestral character of the German people and its inherent disposition, and leads it again to dominance, National Socialism felt compelled from the outset to take a stand against alien influences... it had to harken back to the eternally renewing forces of its race and soul, restore them to victory, and repel and eliminate as far as possible any influence of a foreign race on the psyche that prevented the unfolding of our own, or adulterated it.
Continuing, '...it would through having an internal bloodstream like no other, which would mean the extermination of the most valuable racial elements , the most creative and headstrong, the most German in character and essence, which would never ever bow to such a reign of deluded notions alien to its nature. [Germany] would be eliminated from the history of peoples, and Judaism would then have experienced not its first, but certainly its greatest, triumph.
Concluding, 'It is thus stated in the NSDAP manifesto: 'Only those of German blood, whatever their creed, may be citizens of the state. No Jew, therefore, may be a Volksgenosse.
[Volksgenosse: Is a German language term meaning a fellow member of a community or compatriot (translated literally as people's comrade). This was Point 4 of the NSDAP 25-Point Program as announced by Adolf Hitler to an audience of 2,000 people at the Hofbrauhaus, Munich, 24th February 1920].
'This provides the basis for the next demand: 'Whoever is not a citizen of the state, shall only be able to live in Germany as a guest and must be subject to legislation pertaining to foreign nationals.''
Article written by Arno Schickedanz (1892-1945), journalist; joined the NSDAP in 1923 and took part in the Beer Hall Putsch the same year; director of the Berlin office of the Volkischer Beobachter, 1930-1933; chief of staff of the Foreign Policy Office of the NSDAP, 1934-1945; head of the main office in the task force known as Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg, 1940-1945; author of Die Juden: Eine Gegenrasse (1927).
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