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“National Socialism forged a national community that begins with children and ends with the eldery: no one can silence this mighty symphony of German life.” - Adolf Hitler (From “Ewiges Deutschland: Ein deutsches Hausbuch" [Eternal Germany: A German Family House Book]), 1939

This is my first time scanning a book using Adobe Scan and a shaky hand, so apologies if the quality isn't completely professional; I did OCR scan the book though, so it is easily searchable. Also also, the only reason the scan isn't in black and white is because it heavily affected the quality of the photos in the book. I also applied censorship to Page 241 for what should be obvious reasons - naturism, including nudity for health reasons, was very popular in Germany at the time, including in the Third Reich, and this applied to all ages. I wouldn't censor it if it was just nude adults, but hopefully my reasoning can be seen as justified if one simply looks at the page in question. Anyways, enjoy!

Calling for translators: As you may have noticed with some recent uploads, I've had some followers reach out to me (or me to them) in order to translate National Socialist material that is in other languages. The goal of the National Socialist Literature Archive has always been to archive all materials, not just those in German - thus, volunteers are a welcome and even necessary part of this project in order to achieve its goal. If you volunteer, you get full rights to your translation, including the right to remove it at any time or to edit it however you wish; any edits that I do will be preapproved by you unless you give me full rights to the translation. You will receive full credit for the translation both on the Internet Archive and on here; I will never take credit for the work of others. If you have a project in mind, that's great; if you don't, I can send you projects that might be of interest. I will also let you know if someone else is already working on the same project in case you want to collaborate with them. My one single requirement, above anything else, is that you are a native speaker of the language you are translating - I do not accept AI translations, and if I find out that you did solely use AI to translate (I don't have a issue with using AI for little things), the work will be removed from the Archive; this is to ensure the highest amount of quality titles that are reliable and trustworthy. Please DM me if you're interested in assisting the project - you too can help in preserving history.

Wanted to share this excellent piece from a photo album I recently bought, "Maler und Zeichner Schauen den Krieg" (Painters and Draftsmen Reflect on the War), 1942. I'll soon translate the essay it comes with and have the art scanned for the Internet Archive.

𝐕𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐦 𝐚𝐬 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞

There was a time—and it is not yet long past—when anyone who wished to speak in a living way about Volkstum as a being in itself was regarded as a fool. Inter-state foreign powers dominated the field and public opinion in Germany. World citizenship, belonging to a supra-state organization on this side and beyond, was the slogan. But since all foreign powers thrive all the better the more the inherent character of a people is hindered and crushed, the disparagement and enslavement of the national, that is, of Volkstum, was the aim of all these parasitic powers. But since they here face a living being whose roots lie in the timeless, in the divine, which, like a lime tree that has been felled, always sprouts and greens again from the stump, the foreign powers simply resorted to the trick of appropriating what they could not otherwise overcome unless they destroyed the Volk itself as the bearer of its essence. The indestructible, however, was then reshaped for as long as possible: it was given new names, hung with deceptive foreign garments, trimmed and cut back, until the Volk, with its dimmed eyes, no longer recognized its own things again. Thus today a peculiar thing is happening: precisely the powers that most eagerly sought to destroy Volkstum have-against their will, one might say-preserved much for us of our own essence and our ancestral heritage. For today the German Volk, after a thousand-year sleep of enchantment, like Sleeping Beauty, has awakened, recognizes itself and its eternal mission, and finds, above all beneath shabby foreign tinsel, itself and the nature of its forefathers again. This is the secret and the miracle of the resurrection of the German people in National Socialism. We must now, before we proceed further, put two questions to ourselves: 1. What is Volkstum? 2. What has become of it today as a binding inheritance for us? Volkstum means the distinctive and therefore race-specific character of a people in relation to itself and at the same time in contrast to the nature of a foreign people. From mysterious roots it grows like an evergreen tree. From a powerful, living trunk grow branches and twigs that blossom and bear fruit, a small image of the world and life-tree of the ancestors. From the blood of the people, which comes purely from the divine, from the sacred soil on which ancestors and descendants settle, this mighty tree Volkstum grows as a gift from the heavens, drawing from it inexhaustible, eternal strength and shaping itself in manifold branches as faith, law, custom, civilization, practice, as writing, art and symbol, as play and dance, as fairy tale, legend, song and saying, and countless other things. We see that one cannot speak of Volkstum without speaking of blood and of the soil from which it grows. And one likewise cannot affirm Volkstum while at the same time denying blood as the bearer of all national inherited values. [...] The pure Volkstum, which has become for us synonymous with National Socialism, protects us against all attacks. We will no longer allow the inheritance of our fathers to be torn away from us by anyone. This inheritance we root in the myth of blood and soil.

Source: "Volkstum als Erbe" Nationalsozialistische Monatshefte Heft 77, Jahrgang 7, August.Franz Eher Nachf Verlag München 1936 p.2 𝔊𝔬𝔱𝔱𝔤𝔩ä𝔲𝔟𝔦𝔤𝔨𝔢𝔦𝔱

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐉𝐞𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

The Jewish Laws proclaimed before the Reichstag at Nuremberg bring a fundamental decision regarding the German-Jewish relationship. Their immeasurable scope and significance demand the most careful treatment from the legislative authorities and a fundamental knowledge of the Jewish problem from the German national comrade. Above all, it would be especially dangerous and wrong if the existence of certain laws were regarded as a cheap liberation from the duty of one's own engagement with the problems concerned. National Socialist laws are intended to live within the people and to find deeper development. A superficial consideration of the Jewish question will not suffice even to understand the new laws. Only because the National Socialist movement uncovered what it regarded as the naturally determined parasitism of Jewry and thus revealed the Jewish question in its ultimate mysteries before the world and, in the final analysis, for the world in the positive sense of völkisch self-preservation, was it able to avoid the fate of the earlier merely antisemitic waves of rebellion against Jewry. Not surging up and then subsiding again, but advancing ever more deeply with purposeful and diligent constancy, the path of the movement proceeds. It is therefore also necessary that at least every National Socialist seriously immerse himself in the subject matter of the Jewish question and, especially in these days, prepare himself to master the fundamental points of view so thoroughly that it becomes easy for him to convey to every national comrade the clarity that many still require. Therefore, the following observations of an outstanding National Socialist expert and researcher must be studied with diligence and dedication. It is certainly not enough merely to read this article through once in a cursory manner. It is necessary to work it out for oneself! From the very beginning of its existence, the NSDAP immediately recognized and took up the Jewish question as one of the most important questions in the life of, and for the life of, the peoples. [...] Without any factual refutation, “antisemitism” was portrayed as an attack upon the “sacred rights of man,” which, once and for all, was obliged to evaluate everything bearing the designation “human” as also being “equal.” Every distinction, every differentiation, was to be suppressed in the name of a consciously misinterpreted humanity, and was to be regarded as a relapse into a falsely portrayed barbarism of the so-called Middle Ages, in which Inquisition tribunals and chambers of terror, stakes and crusades against members of peoples were said to indicate the effects of a dreadful drama of intellectual crippling among almost all European peoples. But all these bogeymen painted upon the wall failed to have any effect. The other means likewise failed, including a falsely invoked “state authority,” which, compelled by the decisive position of domination held by the Jews in the former November State, vainly threw its instruments of power into the balance for the forcible refutation of the allegedly attacked “rights of man.” A great expenditure of effort was squandered disgracefully. The unforeseen force of will of the NSDAP, personified in its leader, prevailed, and with it a different evaluation of citizenship and membership in the people, as had already been formulated in the first programmatic points of the NSDAP: “Only he who is of German blood can be a citizen, without regard to confession. No Jew can therefore be a national comrade.”

Source: "Die Judenfrage" Der Schulungsbrief. Jahrhang II, Folge 11, November. Franz Eher Nachf Verlag Berlin 1935 p.24 𝔊𝔬𝔱𝔱𝔤𝔩ä𝔲𝔟𝔦𝔤𝔨𝔢𝔦𝔱

𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐚𝐬 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐲 𝐒𝐒-𝐔𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐟ü𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐮𝐬 𝐊𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐳 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐒𝐒 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠

National Socialism, on the other hand, is based on biological, natural insights. It is not Nature that is to be changed, but rather the worldview that must be adapted to it. The world is the visible form of God himself. By following the laws of Nature, one can best follow God's laws. Therefore, National Socialism recognizes the divine in Nature and, by adhering to the laws of Nature, gives life to its insights. In this case, we are interested in the laws of Nature that relate to human existence. The developmental process of Nature did not occur all at once, as various religions teach us, but over millennia. However, this does not diminish the magnitude of God's work. On the contrary, one can only marvel at how life unfolds from a single tiny germ (single-celled life). We speak here not of development but of unfolding, since the world is not in a state of restless development but in unfolding, i.e., the world fertilizes itself in a state of perpetual change. Therefore, we speak of the law of the transformation of our lives. Races arose through mutation, selection, and counter-selection. The laws of race are: 1) preservation of the species, 2) fertility, 3) the law of heredity. Heredity extends not only to physical but also to mental traits.

Der Nat.-Sozialismus gründet sich dagegen auf biologischen naturgemäßen Erkenntnissen. Nicht die Natur soll verändert werden, sondern die Weltanschauung hat sich danach zu richten. Die Welt ist die sichtbare Gestalt Gottes selbst. Durch Verfolgung der Gesetze der Natur kann man am besten den Gesetzen Gottes folgen. Deshalb erkennt Nat.-Sozialismus das göttliche in der Natur und wird durch die Befolgung der Naturgesetze seinen Erk. Leben geben. Es interessieren uns in diesem Falle mir die Gesetze der Natur, die sich auf menschliches Dasein beziehen. Der Entwicklungsprozess der Natur erfolgte nicht wie uns verschiedene Religionen lehren nicht auf einmal, sondern in Jahrtausenden. Dadurch wird jedoch die Größe des Gotteswerks nicht vermindert. Im Gegenteil man kann nur bewundern, wie sich aus einem einzigen kleinen Keime (Einzelliges Leben), das Leben entfaltet. Wir sprechen hier nicht von Entwicklung sondern Entfaltung, da die Welt befindet sich nicht im Zustande einer rastlosen Entwicklung sondern in der Entfaltung d.h. die Welt be- fruchtet sich in dem Zustande des ewigen Wandels. Daher sprechen wir vom Gesetz der Umgestaltung unseres Lebens. Die Rassen sind durch Mutation, Auslese und Gegenauslese entstanden. Die Gesetze der Rasse: 1) Erhaltung der Art, 2) Früchtbarkeit, 3) das Gesetz der Vererbung. Die Vererbung erstreckt sich nicht nur auf körperliche, aber auch auf seelische Anlagen.

Source: BArch RS 4/778 SS-Unterscharführer Liberius Krumholz "Weltanschauung" [o.D.] p.129 𝔊𝔬𝔱𝔱𝔤𝔩ä𝔲𝔟𝔦𝔤𝔨𝔢𝔦𝔱

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅ü𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐒𝐀 𝐦𝐚𝐧 A small piece from the Völkischer Beobachter gave light to Hitler honoring the oldest Sturmabteilung comrade in 1941:

As reported, a few days ago, Germany's oldest SA man, Obersturmführer Hofmann from Bayreuth, celebrated his 95th birthday. The Führer honored the old stormtrooper by presenting him with a picture bearing a heartfelt dedication, which the SA Staff Sergeant, Viktor Luze, personally delivered to the jubilarian.

Source: Völkischer Beobachter 15. Februar 1941, p.3 𝔊𝔬𝔱𝔱𝔤𝔩ä𝔲𝔟𝔦𝔤𝔨𝔢𝔦𝔱

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐏𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐭

At the cultural conference of the first Reich Party Congress after the seizure of power, Adolf Hitler explained the significance of the term "Worldview" for National Socialism with the following statement: "The very word "worldview" contains the solemn proclamation of the decision to base all actions on a specific initial conception and thus a visible tendency. Such a conception can be right or wrong: it is the starting point for taking a stance on all phenomena and processes of life and thus a binding and obligatory law for all action. The more such a conception coincides with the natural laws of organic life, the more useful its conscious application will be for the life of a people." [...] In other words: blood, race, is the origin of all worldviews. Blood is both the carrier and the hereditary bearer of this worldview. Environmental influences and upbringing may be able to suppress the voice of blood to a greater or lesser extent, but they cannot eliminate it from the world. When a great personality then possesses the strength to expose all the illusory values ​​of alien education and influence, the voice of blood erupts with primal force in the liberated people. The millions of declarations of allegiance to National Socialism are a striking example of this. If blood is, as it were, the carrier of worldview, then all racially and blood-related expressions of human culture simultaneously give us insight into the worldview of the culture creators. A considerable part of such racially determined expressions of the people still survives today in the form of “custom” — the countless traditions and practices that have remained alive above all within the German peasantry. It is anything but a coincidence that these customs endured so tenaciously precisely among the peasantry: the peasantry is that way of life which still corresponds today to the way of life of the creators of our racially distinctive customs. The creators of native German customs were, in fact, our Germanic ancestors. Our Germanic ancestors, however, were settled farmers from the very beginning. Only someone who views the level of civilization and culture of the Germanic peoples from a fundamentally different standpoint than we do, that is, someone who does not stand on the ground of our worldview, can ignore this fact. Let us therefore consider a German peasant custom that has remained alive in four-fifths of the German peasantry to this day: the inheritance of the farm. As long as liberalism, with its doctrines of greed and materialism, had not transformed the peasant mindset, it was the custom that the farmer bequeathed his farm to the eldest or the youngest, sometimes also to another of his sons, but always undivided to a single one of them! This was not prescribed in any generally valid German code of law, but it was an unwritten law of unconditional validity and, if necessary, implacability. The indomitable strength of the peasant community, the unshakable conviction in the correctness of what their fathers and forefathers had practiced, kept a strict watch over this custom of inheritance. Wherever unspoiled peasantry still existed, no one dared to break with the custom of their fathers. Likewise, in the true peasantry of old, it would never have occurred to the siblings of the heir to demand a monetary settlement from him, the heir, under whose burden the farm could have collapsed. If we now go back, step by step, into the history of our people, then the further back we go, the more it becomes the history of the peasant! And if we use the results of numerous branches of science: linguistics and onomastics, legal systems, prehistory, etc., then the purposeful structure of Germanic peasant law emerges before us with increasing clarity. In it, land law plays a paramount role.

Source: "Das deutsche Erbhofrecht" Der Schulungsbrief. Jahrgang I, Folge 9, November. Franz Eher Nachf Verlag Berlin 1934 p.7 𝔊𝔬𝔱𝔱𝔤𝔩ä𝔲𝔟𝔦𝔤𝔨𝔢𝔦𝔱

I should also state this here: I myself am agnostic, and am not anti-Christian or anti-pagan myself; I furthermore believe, as many did in the NSDAP, that religious discourse only serves to distract the people away from finding themselves and becoming a people's community. The Third Reich, in my opinion and from my readings, was not explicitly a Christian or pagan state, but one that blended these two things together in certain aspects, and while one member of the Party might have been more notably Christian, another was notably pagan, and so on so forth (the only religious aspect that everyone seemed to agree to be against was atheism). When I translate and post works with a Christian or pagan element by the author, my goal isn't to shift the discourse one way or another on the history of National Socialism, but simply to present primary sources to the reader and for him to make up his own mind on the matter: that's all. Thank you for reading this ramble.