faith moves mountains the faith that must bein all of us... ...to work and to struggle;for the nation, for the reich (goebbels) 30th january 1943(clausewitz new years eve 1945) l declare and affirm to the worldand posterity... ...that l consider the false wisdomof avoiding danger... ...to be the most harmful causeof fear and alarm the wildest despair would be wiser... ...if we were unable...
...to face danger with manly courage,with calm, suer determination... ...and a clear conscience l must not forget the warning eventsof old and new times... ...the wise teachings of centuries... ...the noblest examples of famouspeoples; l must not forget these... ...and surrender world history... ...for the page of a lying newspaper l feel clean of all selfishness... ...for l can confess my everythought and feeling...
...openly to my fellow citizens l would feel only too happy... ...in the glorious fight for libertyand dignity of the fatherland... ...to find a glorious end should this belief of mine and like -minded men merit contempt and scorn... ...let posterity decide imagine a conversation in a germaniandscape in which... ...light, windows and firepiace, park,waiks, corridors, fires... ...dark faces, cogarette smoke,ciose-ups of faces...
...from face to face... ...or typicai refugee conversations,continuaily interrupted... ...or as in kari kraus'slast days of mankind... ...the optimist and the pessimist,arguments for and against that could aii be acted in eightto ten scenes perhaps not it's ali very difficuit i read from the research materiaiof the fiim imagine this hitier...
...that means one hundred and fiftysearchiights at nuremberg... ...shining verticaiiy into the sky... ...so they can be seen at nightas far as frankfurt... ...then concentrated on the stairswhere hitier made his entrance how must a man feei when,dazzied like this... ...he appears before 400,000,cheering in the darkness... ...and is then approached by thousandsof fiags, one from each party branch? i this the wiii of eiectorate,the totai artistic production... ...of german poiiticsin the twentieth century?
official opening ofgreat german art exhibition when henriette hoffmann, later the wifeof the schirach who ruied austria... ...and who ruied german youth,caiied hitier youth... ...when sixteen, this daughter ofhitier's friend and photographer... ...barefoot and in her nightdress,opened their door to hitler one night... ...he asked for his dog-whip and,siapping his open hand with it... ...turned and said: '"won't youkiss me''? he had known the giri sinceshe was eight... ...and now, fort he first time,he spoke to her as a grown-up
she repiied as girls of that age do,in fear or in honesty, who knows: ''no, realiy not, herr hitler" how impracticai, she wiil sayforty-five years iater a few years after that... ...the same henriette, now a youngwoman, was the oniy one... ...who reproached hitier forthe murder of the jews... ...in the middle of the war... ...at obersaizberg, in front ofseventeen siient uniformed men speer and schirach were in thecanteen; they preferred the staff
whereupon, hitier came up to her,stood by her at the fireplace... ...seized her by the wrists and said,at first intentiy, then shouting: ''we're at war, our best men are dyingand our german blood is drying up" ''that's why our enemies must besacrified, too" and she said: "i was taught to iove,not to hate" she rembered her eariy days withhim when he said: ''the most beautifui thing in life isto educate a human being" but now she heard him shouting:''learn to hate, to hate as i do!" eaten up by iove and hate
we must invent a new,differnt reaiity let us have the courageto change our lives it's a question of the quaiity ofthe new reaiity... ...as they aiways say in such moments the utopians, the ideologists,ideaiists or artists what did thea von harbou say in thebook she dedicated: ''to hitler and germany"... ...the authorees of fritz lang'snibelung fiims of the 1920s? ''it meant the creation of a newworld fort he new century...
'...in which the primeval beginning,the myth, the fairy-taie... '...memories of the beginning ofmankind... '...should match the recognizabiemajesty of the eariy cathedrais'" and he said: "we are ideaiists... ''...ideaiists of a steelyromanticism... ''...artists of a new reaiity,of the twentieth century... ''...the past merging with the future" but what did the widow of piauen, theufa technician, have to pay... ...when he was executed for crackinga joke about the new reaiities?
four hundred reichsmarksfor the executioner... ...one hundred for his assistant andtwenty-five pfennings for the sawdust he saw himself as moseswith the tablets of the law an egyption or a grecian prophet.hitier the great the shining exampie of obersaizberg,as henriette knew him... ...a nero who set europe afiamefor us... ...not insanely, but cooily,consciousiy, iogicaiiy the pianned end of our tradtionand deveiopment it is fear
fear of the great temptersdemocracy a fear persisting as iong as thereis sociaiism, the masses, technoiogy fear of the devii of thedemocratic system and germany was ripe for it the reddest state in western europe,bavaria in communist hands a state aiways top of the ciass inworld history... ...with excelience and ideaiism, withmasses, technoiogy and energy... ...no ciass hatred,but ciass reconciiiation... ...and then came his slogan:''workers equai artists"
an art fort he people whicheveryone can understand... ...a cuiturai revoiution against theturn of the century's ivory tower... ...against those who oncescorned popuiar magazines he made trash respectabie inthe history of german taste ''art fort he peopie"; a radicai slogan ''work liberates",or "to each his own"... ...or "abandon aii hope'",or right or wrong, my hitier!'' hitier, on 30th january, 1933, in thecanceiiery, later his last refuge... ...said to the iast departing guestsof his entourage:
''nobody'' wili ever get me out of hereaiive'' with that proved to be right,as he so often was let us remember how hitier wept... ...when he said good-bye to his oldfriend, the photographer hoffmann... ...before his cremation in arussian bomb-crater twiiight of the gods, 1945 in the petroi fire... ...lit by his driver and servant... ...you"il have to visualize him...
...as a iover of germany,and he was germany... ...as everybody knew; wasn't thatwhat they wanted? heir to the habsburg emperor andthe hoiy roman empire you'ii have to sustain that idea foronce, without any seif-deception look at his face, the face ofa typicai ioser... ...at the head of germany,identifying himseif with it ''i am germany and germany is me ''how fortunate that we foundeach other ''perhaps it isn't worthy of me...
''...this germany... ''...where democracy and repubiic werestili just imports from abroad... ''...aimed against our best traist,against obedience and subordination... ''...against a freedem to serveand to command... ''...against the virtues of soidiering,technoiogy, philosophy... ''...aimed against our enthusiasm,aimed against our joy in strength... ''...the strength of our beiief, of ourbeauty in the triumph of the will... ''...aimed against our electoral wiii ''our right and our desire, our garmentof honour is the uniform"
put germans in uniforms and you'iisee them achieve miracles they are unsuitable for eating,iiving or having fun in the war they were caiied fritzes better to die with honourthan iive in shame to iive for others, to die for others that's not new, it's the basis of ourcuiture, the proxy principie an oid european tradition,western civiiization ''who"il ask in the future if frã¤uieinschuize was happy?'', himmier said ''war is the father of everything",said the greeks
and today we say: "he who paysthe piper caiis the tune" the freedom of the consumer...but there's more to it we speak of war and the germans,famous for their wars and cuiture but we have realiy known how to iive... ...and known how to die we've iived a theme that wiii servefor centuries, the theme of happy guilt we've iived it to death guiit is the principle of tragedy germany is the tragic countryof the century
europe's downfail, yet uitimate victorof the iast war... ...if we deem it an honour to beand to remain... ...the foremost consumer democracyin the worid a war forced upon us, says hitier,to avoid it ali iater on it's easier to wage war at fifty thanat sixty. it had to come let us hear again the sacred war hymnsas a refiection of europe's giory... ...the orgasm of universal iife... ...which fertiiizes the chaos whichis the preiude to ali creativity... ...and which, iike christ,the redeemer from death...
...triumphs over death itseif and hitier was born of war,iike parsifai there the war-biinded hitlerdecided to be a poiitician ''there i resoived to be a poiitician" 1918, when everything came to an end let's assume he rememberedthe scene... ...when he was decorated withthe iron cross, first ciass... ...unusuai for a iance-corporal then as he stood before his officer,a german
...who was secretly caiied a jew... ...hitier was toid never to forget... ...the honour and duty to thefatherland he accepted with the medai he, a iittle man, regimentai runnerand petty bourgeois that admonishment, coming fromthe jew, hugo gutmann... ...the adjutant who considered hima crank and iaughed about it... ...as hitler was unfit for promotion,iacking quaiities of leadership... ...reading only homer and parsifal,schopenhauer and the gospeis... ...away from the others, in the trenches...
...which hitier calied asubstitute for university the ioneiiness of the chosen one,his home and his reiigion that is how adoif hitier... ...son of an austrian customsofficiai, became a poiitician... ...swearing he wouid never againbe petty bourgeois if politics is reaily the artof the possibie... ...the formuiators of programmescan oniy piease the gods... ...if they demand the impossibie in the course of human historyit can sometimes happen...
...that the poiitician and thepianner become one but he cioser this fusion is,the greater is the resistance... ...to the poiitician's activities he no ionger works for requirementsunderstandabie to the average citizen... ...but for aims which oniy a smaiiminority understands that is why his iife is torn byiove and hatred... ...and why success becomes rarer, butif it blossoms just once in centuries... ...then perhaps in his later years... ...an aura of giory can surround him
obviousiy, such great men are oniy themarathon runners of history the iaurei wreath of the present touchesrather the brow of the dying hero remember how he resolved inlandsberg prison... ...by strict observance of the iaws,by legality... ...and determination to reach powerthrough proper democratic procedures... ...radicai, fanaticai use ofdemocratic principles and possibiiities the iittie man who swore never againto be commonplace a commonpiace man with artisticambitions... ...who swears a philistine oathagainst a philistines...
...and with a committed beiiefin german greatness... ...born of ancient tradition andeuropean bourgeois civiiization... ...fashions german dreams in hisheart the soidier from the battiefields ofthe first worid war... ...who had to prove his ieadershipand artistry, beiittled in vienna a terribie, seif-imposed code... ...which it was to prove impossibiefor him and his feiiow-fighters to keep which is why, through inferiority andguiit, they were strict and cruei... ...merciiess insisting on everyone'sobservance of that code
about this time, hitier saw the filmof hugo's les miserables... ...as henriette recaliedin iater years he sat under chestnut treesand drank beer the fiim was projected onto a sheet,with piano accompaniment it was a struggie between theinhuman agent of the iaw... ...and the human fate of jean vaijeanand littie cosette the fiim said it was betterto give than to take... ...a quaiity which was totaiiyaiien to hitier he was a fiim-fan, a man of the masseswho sensed the power of the cinema...
...and had decided to becomea fiim hero... ...if not iiteraily, at least he had decidednever again to be commonpiace... ...but would iive by a justice whichignored petty suspectibiiities so hitier became siegfried... ...and, like staiin, a great fanof westerns... ...whose code was: "one man against ali,against a worid of enemies'' the iittie good man againstthe big baddie... ...with enjoyment of the strengthwe ali iike to see the quickest on the draw winsand is right, appiauded at the end
a iittle pressure in the spectator'sdrab iife don't we feei once more at this momentthe miracie that brought us together? once you heard a man's voice... ...and it touched our hearts it woke you up and you foliowedthat voice you foiiowed it for years withoutever having seen its owner you heard oniy a voice and youfoliowed it when we meet here, we're fiiied bythe wonder of that meeting not aii of you an see meand l can't see aii of you...
...but i feei your presenceand you feei mine it is the beiief in our nation whichhas made us iittie peopie great... ...which has made us poor peopie rich... ...which has made us waiting,dejected, frightened people... ...brave and courageous... ...which has made the iost see againand brought us together that demanded sacrifices,true to the oid fairy-taie if you renounce iove, you'ii be rich if you renounce friendship,individuaiity, you'il be famous...
...rich and famous but he happy end is caiiedthe twilight of the gods but if there are no more gods,above or below... ...where do we faii in a godlessgame for success? fatherland, community,sociaiism, nation the secret ideal of aii managers,if they are honest he stated everything in advance,to everybody... ...but nobody wanted to beiieve it somebody had to be found who's tobiame for ail the sins of the worid...
...for the shaming rat-racefor profit... ...for art which no one amongthe peopie understood... ...for unempioyment and everydayhumiiiations and hardships and somebody had to be found... ...who undertook the task ofpurification... ...sacrified conscience and swepteverybody aiong in a dionysian cuit... ...like a nightmare with murder andbiood fort he new cause they thought they were doing good... ...by kiiiing evil, as they caiied it...
...ostensibiy in others, butsubconsciousiy in themseives a battlefieid of the ego in thuringia, where buchenwaidconcentration camp was buiit... ...they ieft standing the oak wheregoethe wrote poetry 150 years before for exampie, "the wanderer'snight-song" thou comest from skies,all our pain and torment stilling him who doubly troubled lies,doubly with thy comfort filling when will all this turmoil cease?what's the point of life's unrest? come, sweet peace,come, oh come into my breast
and four years later over all the treetops it's still over all the mountains tops you willhear each sound cease the birds have grown quiet inthe glen, wait a while then you'll also find peace when the versailies treatyforbade us... ...to use oid wooden munitions storesbecause of the expiosion risks... ...though they were isolated, fenced,with watch-towers and railway sidings... ...hitier swore to use these vacantmunition camps on state iand...
...and iock up in them,shouid he ever come to power... ...those very men who signed thattreaty of versailies and he swore to caii themconcentration camps... ...as the engiish cailed their campsin the boer war those engiish, his great rivals... ...whom he imitated, radicaiiy,thoroughiy, without any sioppiness he feared sioppiness; peopie reproachedhim for that and his indecision to the engiish "right or wrong, mycountry", he repiied "i am germany" so he became the fuifiiier ofciviiized german's principies...
...of its performance, progress,energy... ...its power and inteiligence withoutmorais, without god or emperor... ...only with a yearning masswhich iacked a raiiying point what had robert musii said, thatviennese jew, hitier's compatriot? ''if just once... ''...one of the ideas which moveour iives... ''...was appiied so thoroughiy thatno opposing ideas remained... ''...our culture wouid no ionger beour cuiture'' when abraham received the orderto kiii his son...
...to perform a service for god... ...to compiy with reiigionand god's law... ...it was the arm of that god whichstopped him at the iast moment hitier had to do without that mercy... ...in the godiess period of thecoiiapse of western civiiization and history progressed through him he accompiished it. east and westface each other on te eibe... ...and israei has becomegreater lsrael europe is, as he said, at its end
not economicaily, but he never spokeof economics; that's how we prefer it we don't discuss money, of course in ten years, car fumes destroyed asmuch cuiture as four previous centuries that the post-war years destroyed morein our cities through rebuilding... ...than the iast war's bombs, is aweii known joke of our reaiity final victory, final soiution this is how goebbels and his men sawthemseives in the war's iast battie... ...when he spoke of the fiim kolberg: ''gentiemen
''in one hundred years they'il showanother coiour fiim... ''...describing the dreadful dayswe are about to undergo ''don't you want to play a part inthe fiim that wiii resurrect you? ''every man now has the chance topick the part... ''...that he'li piay in that fiimin one hundred years ''i can assure you it wiii be a great,beautifui, inspiring film... ''...and fort he sake of that fiim, it'sworth standing fast. hold out!" and the story, a very short story an everyday story of a man with apiacard marked '"jew"...
...who was driven through the streetsof greifswaid in pomerania... ...the town of the paintercaspar david friedrich... ...driven by the hitier youthof greifswaid... ...who kicked his arse and spat at him but that german waiked proud andupright through his town a young officer, in tears atthis iegitimized injustice... ...had to be restrained... ...lest the suffer the same fate and in may, 1945,when the war was over...
...some gis caught the sonof von schirach... ...the three year oid son ofthe former hitier youth ieader the chiid thought he would getsome chewing-gum... ...but they demanded he saysieg heii! or heii hitier! at a ioss, the weeping chiidimitated the gl's actions... ...and one stubbed a iightedcigarette on his arm what did hitler say before theend of the war? ''even if we iose it, the sacrificeswiii not have been in vain" the seed wiil sprout, some time,somewhere
i am immortai as iong as this worldexists... ...as iong as sociaiism, capitaiismand human masses exist at the end of the fiim jew sã¼ss... ...goebbeis banned the jew's curseon his town... ...when he was imprisoned in a cageand hanged this was the curse: ''you biood-thirsty tyrants, siavesof baai, judges of sodom! ''your iimbs shaii wither, your livingbodies shali decay ''your chiidren and chiidren'schiidren shaii fester
''each day shaii bring you misfortune... ''...and pain shail drive the sieepfrom your eyes ''evii neighbours shali disturbyour peace ''your first-born shaii bring you shame ''your memory wiii be cursed... ''...and your town wiii be destroyedby fire from heaven ''no bread shali stili your hunger,nothing quench your thirst ''your rights shail find no hearing... ''...and your own tongues shalirevile your god"
and on the road, the old man... ...dragging a cart with his casesand remainung possessions... ...moves fearfuiiy on... ...forever trekking on, a refugee... ...goaded on, staring ahead,without rest... ...ignorant that he is forever withouta homeiand, that he wiii never arrive hitier is to biame for everything only hitler? the questions of a literate worker
but how are we to represent aii that... ...without narrow-mindedness,injustice? where does one begin? the ideas and their consequences,big and smali... ...the grief and the merrimentwhich was aiways present what could henriette von schirachteli us today? it was the giorious time ofour youth, great decisions he took my hand and forbademe to cry when mother died ''one mustn't aiiow people to iookinto one's heart'" and that same man, now grown oidat the end of his war, weeping...
...who stood turned aside atthe firepiace... ...hearing the death-roii of his biondsoidiers, handkerchiefs to his iips... ...like frederick il after thebatties in the seven years war... ...when his great men feli,as menzei painted him in between, there were the giorious,goiden days picnics with him in munich in 1923,when we sang in the open mercedes dreamed with him of rockets tothe moon... ...the house of art, the iabyrinthsof the minotaur... ...with cars for aii on the motorways
butterfiies on the naked bodiesof our youth... ...when geli was stiii alive... ...and ernst rã¶hm stiii laughed... ...and brã¼ckner aiways had his eibowout of the car window... ...untii it was shattered inthe accident... ...with the big mercedes stiii drivenby maurice... ...the founder of the s.a. ,iater condemned as a jew... ...hitier's oidest friend, who savedhis iife, a jew from germany with putzi who whistled wagnerand read from newspapers...
...foreign reports of the iatestspeeches at the zirkus krone... ...where hitier said: ''the jewis aiways in us... ''...and if he didn't existwe'd have to invent him" pure medievai times, witches andbeiief in devils, western civilization it was at that time that he suddeniyordered the car to stop... ...on the way to berchtesgaden,before the house was rebuiit... ...when he saw a boy readingunder a tree... ...just iike the trite picturesof yesterday... and today ''just as it was in my youth",he cried...
..."when i sat in the shade and readto my friends about the boer war... ''...how they were fighting the engiish;ohm krã¼ger versus lord kiichener... ''...with concentration campsand great harshness ''and behind me was my stern father'sbeehive... ''...shaped iike the victoriousnapoieon, the master of frozen moscow ''napoieon, through whose stomachthe bees fiew in and out... ''...a busy community, ciean and tidy,which ioved its state... ''...capabie of organizing honeycombs,tending its queen... ''...iooking after its future...
''...always battiing with thehostile wasp... ''...which is stupid, but wiiy,incapabie of building a dweliing... ''...parasites which have to beexterminated, as my father said ''that was my task from earlychiidhood. duty against the vermin ''father was stern, with his pipe andwhip and aii the bees around him ''we can aiways iearn from nature;aiways, everything" and there was young hesswho took pity on a wasp... ...and rescued it from a wasp trapon the verandah of hitier's house it bit him on the tongue so badiy...
...he needed doctors and a hospitaiand a tracheotomy in berchtesgaden that's when hitler said: ''you see, my chiid, he's too kindand that's the resuit'' i remember him listening to bruckner,his compatriot from upper austria... ...his romantic symphony bruckner, not wagner, to get intothe right mood for his speeches we shall go into this battleas into a church service ( goebbeis, 11th march, 1945,gã¶riitz ) and when they shoulder their rifles...
...and start their tanks... ...then they will see their murderedchildren and their raped wives... ...and a cry for vengeance will arisefrom their throats... ...which will make the enemey blanch ...which suddeniy grew so hugein its smaii surroundings... ...like a cancer in the history ofour traditions hitier as the iast maker ofeuropean history... ...who failed in tradition, ideas,art, power poiitics... ...energies and achievement
why faiied? why not a meiting-pot, a mindiessvictim, medium of a world spirit? you think you're pushing,but you're being pushed the mirror of our avid desire anddreams for the power to the community there was no other choice;the deveiopment of history... ...and the many attempts at democraticeiections in germany prove it aii iead again to him;he was the oniy soiution no chance, no mistake, but iogicaiiy,to the iast he and we were together the goddess of history and of destinyhad spoken
he was right, in a terrible way right he was germany, germany was him,in twentieth century europe aii in the traditions offrederick the second... ...napoleon and lenin and staiinand waiienstein... ...the knightiy dynasties,king arthur and charlemagne... ...the romantics and the ciassicsof kant... ...nineteenth century vienna, greeks,romans, the entire middie ages the executor from the grandiose eraof vienna... ...who came from the provinceof upper austria...
...the cathoiic acoiyte adolf, withmozart's masses in his ear... ...grown up to bet he petty bourgeoisexecutor of prussians virtues... ...in the iast st. vitus's danceof the twentieth century the european atom bomb had expioded it ignited in the fieid of cuiture... ...that mixture of the eniightenedbeiievers in progress... ...with the conservative taste andintent of western reaction... ...and the desire for recognition insacrifice of the proietarian masses aii that in the heart of europe
austria and prussia again unitedin a german reich... ...for the iast time with the globalambition of a petty bourgeois genius or he iast desperate attempt of theinteliectuaiiy deprived... ...hungry upstarts of thecuiturai proietariat... ...to find their own styie, to gainequaiity, together with the urge... ...to be admitted into piacesincomprehensibie to them... ...the offensive venues of thecuitured, capitaiists, fashionable... ...those despised sets which wereso chummy with one another... ...who iived it up and laughed atthe have-nots of the slums...
...and the vuigar masses... ...untii they were siain, insisting ontheir last right to fulfiiment... ...in the seif-imposed paradise in heli what does it say in muspilii,the ninth century manuscript... ...about the finai battle between theheaveniy host and satan's foliowers? imagine elijah and satan... ...satan's blood dripping onto the earth,kindiing the worid's confiagration the earth, mountains burning... ...trees disappear from the earth...
...rivers dry up,the moon falls down... ...and finally the whole worldis burning attention! here is an air-raid report enemy bomber and fighter squadronsare heading east from norderney a small group is reported overthe rhineland... (president rooseveit,20th january, 1943 ) we speak to you as germans withheartfelt love for their people soldiers, our people has no need ofyour senseless death lt needs your life for workin a germany of the future
(waiter uibricht, 11th aprii, 1945,moscow radio ) this is radio wehrwolf inenemy-occupied territory we are the voice of the germanfreedom fighters every evening at seven we bring younews of the german fight fã¼r freedom on 1,3000 metres, 32 4 kilohertz further news of our wehrwolves' fightwill be given later. meanwhile, music (5th aprii, 1945 ) attention! here is an air-raidreport warning enemy bombers areapproaching bremen
( 12th aprii, 1945 ) (winston churchili. 25th aprii, 1945 ) (bbc report from auschwitz,15th april, 1945) today we are happy thateverything is behind us we don't know how we can ever thankthe liberators we only know that when we get out... ...we must tell the world everythingwe have been through here otherwise, we would not be ableto live listeners will probably think that weare no longer quite normal...
...but when you start to tell thestory, it's so gruesome... ...you don't know where to start,there are such terrible things you can't find words to describethe things we have experienced... ...and anyone who wasn't herewill never understand... ...how dreadfully that red flamestays in our memory when we see the sun setting today,we think of the auschwitz chimney... ...which devoured thousands,and we had to look on fists clenched in our pockets, wecould do nothing, we were slaves... ...tortured only because we had cometo auschwitz as jews...
...because we had the terriblemisfortune to be born jews we had committed no crime, except... ...we had come into the world as jews;as jews we had to end up that chimney ( 1st may, 1945 ) lt is reported from the fã¼hrer'sheadquarters... ...that our fã¼hrer, adolf hitler... ...fell this afternoon in his commandpost in the chancellery... ...fighting to the end againstbolshevism he died for germany
(bbc, 2nd may, 1945 ) obersaizberg today.memories of hitler the whip the suit torn in the attemptedassassination. a winter charity badge eva braun's leather shorts.hitier's dogs, stuffed secretaries, servants,drivers, military men then the iast things from hitier'sroom in his bunker frederick the great,painted by anton graff his mother's portrait.the pistoi for his final soiution
and muspiiii, which he read... ...as he wrote mein kampf on his spot ladies and gentiemen, the opening of''the life of hitier'' in bavaria a report on the exhibition, beforeit is expanded. three thousand visitors per day,as in ludwig the second's casties that's our iimit. five buses up,five buses down, in convoy... ...on the singie track roadto the teahouse iift many americans, french,scandinavians... ...and from eastern europe andthe german democratic repubiic...
...if they can get out secretiy;and our people whoie bus-ioads of factory workers... ...work's outings and ceiebrities, too romy schneider recentiy... ...and biacks from deveiopingcountries, with white giris... ...and aisatian dogs, on an eiegantshort chain therefore as a tourist attraction... ...a pubiic demand can bestatisticaliy measured capacity is stiii capable of expansion
a diagram shows how they movedbetween the destroyed piaces of history... ...between their homes,overgrown with vegetation... ...bormann, gã¶ring and hitier... ...like ants whose nest has beendestroyed and their queen removed and, strangeiy, where their housesstood... ...the new green grows more iushly it's comforting to reaiize how ourtraces and those of historic deeds... ...imprint their spiritin their iandscape... ...how our traces cannot perishfor eternities...
...or cannot be obiiterated by agovernment decree to biow them up the spirit iives on many peopie cannot forget that many want to see it again,even the evii at ieast that might bea last consolation (7th may, 1945 ) welcome, everybody! don't be aiarmed, we're notdeaiing with politics we don't want any probiems
we're deaiing with ieisure industries entertainment, show business,films and tourism of course, within the framework ofiaw, not of morais do some business, have some fun the best one is the one who seiis weil business is the freedom of thedemocrat democracy is oniy possibie witheconomic growth seen like that, hitler is ciearlythe internationai best-seiier... ...with reai box-office potential
of course we've made a fewconcessions to public feeiing... but the pubiic is aiways right at the box-office, quality isdecided democraticaiiy porno, hetero, homo, biood, horror reaiiy human situations amidcatastrophe... ...a cast-iron story withconvincing actors big business, worid-wide,sociaiiy conscious, socio-poiiticai nothing esoteric; cuiture is exciuded the common people's taste ruies, o.k.?
softly the telephone's ringing... ...and we know what it's bringing... ...it can only be you, just you this is bandleader wolf haven't you, haven't you,got a wife for me, too? sure, sure,we've got one you'll adore one l'd like from head to toe,with a great big stack of dough she must be charming, yes, yes, yes.not alarming, no, no, no. have no vices, no, no, no,pay my prices, yes, yes, yes
of course, we must not giorify hitier... ...but using him for business ispermitted that creates jobs and a leisureactivity important milestones of thedemocratic spirit... ...that we have iearned so weil,don't you think? if you piease, herr director here is the pistoi with whichhitier shot himseif... ...in front of frederick the great'sportrait don't be afraid
(winston churchili, 8th may, 1945 ) of course, we must aiso rememberthe victims a mini-show as reparation... ...a mini-dachau, with the boger swing no power without resistance;no castie without a torture chamber witness the tower of london here we deai with the terrible powerand torture of the twentieth century very modern and progressive... ...technicaiiy perfect, approved bythe state buiiding authority
we are open for aii questions,strictly impartial with arab money and israeiimanagement, equaliy baianced land speculation with money fromreparations on our aipine territory in germany,absoiuteiy democratic the secret piaces where bormann'sbioiogicaiiy dynamic food grew vegetarian food nowadays where hermann gã¶ring, the fat one... ...practised archery and iaughed and eva wept in the evening whenshe had to stay aione...
...not even a grass widow,fanaticaiiy taking snaps for her album a german war savings bond... ...for the german disneyiand on thehoiy mountain near berchtesgaden an amusement park with speciaifilm shows hitier in ufa-iand, servant giris'fiction aii sorts of shows, from fairy-taieto the iand of the future... ...and a merry-go-round of progress tofantasy-land and frontier-land... ...where there's aiways chailenge:don't say "we didn't have our history'' business deals
the time is ripe, it's expected of usnow, the interest is there we'il continue with figures anddates exactiy according to history the wedding in the teahouse of eva'ssister with ss-man fegelein ...the traitor and ss butcherin poland on 20th april, a memorial ceremonyfor the victims... ...and on the anniversary of his deatha wonderful woif's ceiebration... ...for the ione woif in the1945 bunker jungie and always in the off-seasonin november... ...a meditation, like 1923,with star-gazing...
...and an introduction to "the worldice theory" in the poiytechnic (8th may, 1945) (hitier) so i was a member of the german army,a rifleman among millions of others... ...and that gave me my belief... ...and my struggle in the movementfor the soul of the germann masses... ...of the millions of workers andpeasants that struggle taught me to know themost precious thing there is: the constant strength ofthe mass of the people...
...from whom the concept of anational socialist state was born... ...from whom our people's communitywas created... ...our national socialist party... ...our german reich! star of the sea, i greet you o virgin mary, help mother of god so sweet o virgin mary, help us all... ...from our deep distress
you comrades, march in spiritin our ranks! you comrades, shot by redsand reactionaries! twenty hours and three minutes radio flensburg and all other stations we bring you the last armed servicescommunique of this war... ...from the h. q. of admiral dã¶nitz 9th may, 1945 the high command of the armed forcesannounces: ln east prussia, german divisions...
...yesterday bravely defended thevistula estuary and the memel sector... ...to the last the seventh lnfantry division foughtwith particular distinction commander-in-chief tank generalvon salten... ...in recognition of the exemplaryconduct of his soldiers... ...was awarded the oak leaves withswords, in diamonds... ...of the knight's cross as the advanced bastion incourland... ...in our armies commanded bygeneral grã¼ter...
...tied down superior forces of sovietinfantry and tanks for months... ...and won immortal fame insix great battles they refused any premature surrender far from the homeland, thedefenders of the atlantic wall... ...our troops in norway and the forcesin the aegean lslands ...have preserved the honour of thegerman soldier, with discipline since midnight... ...there has been a ceasefireon all fronts by order of admiral...
...our armed forces have ocasedthe hopeless fight the heroic struggle of almost sixyears is at an end lt brought us great victories,but also heavy defeats the german armed forces... ...have finally been overcomehonourably by vastly superior strength that was the text of the last armedservices communique of this war there will be radio silencefor three minutes (joseph stalin, moscow,9th may, 1945 ) the great day of victory over germanyhas come
beaten to it's knees by the red armyand the troops of our allies... ...fascist germany has admitted defeatand has surrendered unconditionally (president truman, san francisco,26th june, 1945 ) (b.b.c. , 6th august, 1945 ) after so much praise ofthe worid's progress... ...in imitation of his legacy... ...let me speak of the iost iife you are guilty... ...of moscow's successfuiimperiaiism...
...stretching to the eibe, with wailsand concentration camps iike yours... ...patroiled by aisatian dogs and who said... ...that the eternai jew, wanderingfor centuries through the worid... ...obliged by vioient unrestto seek refuge in cuiture... ...spurred on by endiess provocation... ...wanted to become a commonpiacephiiistine iike ail the others? in israei there lives no kari kraus... ...no musil, kafka, schnitzier,aitenberg, friedeii, poigar
there they need the moshe dayans,i can weli understand you kilied the eternai jew you destroyed beriin and vienna yet your ridiculous panoramicwindows on the obersaizberg... ...triumphantly progress through thehoiiday homes of austria and germany and the others are iearningfrom us stiii you're responsible for the houseswithout a soui, with burnt out eyes... ...without tears, towns whichcannot weep motor-iandscapes without stiilness,fuli of noise
you've taken away the sunsets sunsets by caspar david friedrich you're to biame... ...that we can't see a cornfieldwithout thinking of you you've made kitsch ofthe oid germany... ...with your simpified craftsand peasant pictures and you're to blame... ...that we've lost our proud inns... ...turned into quick servicerestaurants...
...as peopie fear to vaiue this workmore than money... ...the harmlessly harmful, the oniything you've left them... ...because you've occupied everythingeise and poisoned it with your touch everything honour, loyaity... ...country iife, rest for work,films... ...dignity, fatherland... ...pride, beiief you are the executioner ofwestern civiiization...
...democraticaiiy seif-eiected,voiuntariiy with the victory of money... ...of materiaiism over us the piague of the century the pitifui artist who becameexecutioner and poiitician voiuntariiy cheered as no man ever was before how am i to explain it to youand myseif... ...and to aii the children andgrandchildren who knew nothing... ...of the previous life thateveryone has forgotten today... ...poisoned by the new iegacyof your time?
the new version of the oidaverage, philistine citizen ''the commonpiace was aiways there"... ...said wailenstein, "it aiways wasand aiways returns... ''...and wili be there tomorrowbecause it has prevailed today ''man is made of commonpiace thingsand he caiis habit his nurse'" aii this has been made impossibie the words ''magic'" and "myth"... ...and "serve'" and "ruie''... ...'"ieader", "authority'",are finished and done...
...banned for ever and we... ...are extinguished nothing wiii grow after us a whole peopie has ceased to exist inthe shere of the spirit and the eiite the new men were designed, deveioped the new man is here the plague of materiaiism hasconguered east and west my congratuiations!
after the journey into this worid... ...who is nearer to god thanthe guiity? but what about the time without god... ...since we ourseives havedethroned him? so spoke the devii. uitimateiy,cynicaiiy and moraiiy or, rather, in a somewhat human tone... ...in one of his roies abouttwiiight of the gods without gods the finai end of progress the end through death of environmentof the species known as "man''...
...among the iower vermin ofthe insects... ...or the death of souis ofan ice age society the last judgement without iawyersand therefore finaily just incredibiy terrifying making room for the next race... ...on the next pianet, after this onefinaliy became seif-destroying... ...through the species known as "man" now they'ii say we're crazy... ...and so are those who inventedand made us
but there'ii be no posterity todescribe and praise our worid or did we insult anybody,offend anyone? we oniy praised. as in iife what eise is one to saywith such a theme? and it is this biack motherof our fantasy... ...of the iast star-stories of ceiluloid ... ...the biack mary... ...as she was caiied by edison,who made his first fiim in her the hoiy apparatus, as mary pickfordcaiied the camera
the camera obscura, the biackchamber... ...which telis us oid stories anew... ...stories, projections ofour inner thoughts... ...like "once upon a time'"... ...or "ln the beginning there was..." stories of home-sicknessand longing... ...and madness within us... ...after everything has slowiy beenbuiit up externaliy let's remember school
biack stone iapis iapidi, stone of light iux ex coeiis, failen fromlucifer's crown the graii, the kaaba... ...the goiden fieece fromthe tree of life... ...faiien from the stars stars waxing and waning part of the treasure from delphi... ...from the legacy of apoiio,the sun god...
...brought to the gardens ofthe resperides... ...and granting eternal iifeto the gods... ...and those who want to be... ...like the men in the land of thehyperboreas in montsegur do you remember? the holy chaiiceof the graii... ...in which the biood flowed thatnight, the true, pure blood orient, mohamed, the middie ages... ...and christianity together king arthur's court and richardwagner, once again
a black stone falien to earth fromheaven, eternaiiy ionging to return... ...to the iost paradise the angei who tears the biamefort he worid's sin... ...when adam and eve became guiity biack sun of the iight at thebeginning... ...and from the end of ali ends... ...the black hoie, appie-size, in thewhiripooi of dark nothingness... ...containing everything,our earth... ...the sun, the planetary system...
...the miiky way, one amongfifty miliions, miiiiards... ...coilapsed... ...into the smaii biack hoieof the future that's what we are... ...and aii our projections,memories... ...dreams from the era of the iight come down to us, night of love,give forgetfulness, to make us live take me up into your armsand release me from the world praise to joy, from god descended
daughter of elysium,ray of mirth and rapture blended goddess, to thy shrine we come by thy magic is unitedwhat harsh custom parted wide all mankind are brothers plightedwhere thy gentle wings abide thinking of germany in the night,all my dreams have taken flight l can no longer sleepand with hot tears l weep ...though i have faith so l couldmove mountains and have not charity... ...i am nothing a projection into the black holeof the future
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