Walter Gross Quotes
Civilization is only possible through the individual becoming part of the whole and just as collective authority in the interests of all limits the egoism of the individual ... it similarly has the right to implement such measures for the benefit of the community as are scientifically proved expedient in the way of population policy or eugenics.
Gross committed suicide at the end of WWII as he was one of the worst Nazi War Criminal offenders so he was never tried in court. This quotation illustrates the “intellectual” basis for the German Nazi genocide of Jews and the extermination of Gypsies, mentally ill or retarded people. Individual rights in their warped logic had to give way to the benefit of all, including the right to live.
Walter Gross, 1904-1945, Head of the German Nazi Reich Bureau for Enlightenment on Population Policy and Racial Welfare, Quoted in Claudia Koonz, The Nazi Conscience, 2003
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Friedman was commenting in particular about Egypt and other Arab societies.
1st Viscount Snowden. This quotation is particularly interesting in that we have an early 20th century socialist acknowledging that one of the objectives of Socialism is to increase the individual’s dependency on the state. By the late 19th century, few socialists if any saw this as an objective of socialism. However, this dependency objective is one of the attack points of conservatives who assume that this is a result of socialism whether or not it was intended.
There was a German anti-Semitic movement then to expel the Old Testament and everything that related to the Jewish People out of Christianity. In the early days of irrational anti-Semitism and Nazism he was one of the few who preached against the hateful Nazi propaganda. – See {638919}. However, when it became clear that the Nazis had the upper hand, he publicly recognized the Nazi government as legitimate, required Catholic clergy to remain loyal to the Nazi government, and maintained bridges between fascism and the Church He then became intimidated and became silent on the terrible inhuman, un-Christian treatment of the Jews concentrating his efforts on negotiating the best for the Catholics that he could get. See {639129}.
This classic quote illustrates how rapidly things can change. A decade later most German Jews either emigrated or were murdered.
Despite Gross and the Nazi perpetrated holocaust, Jews not only are returning to Europe but have reached many of the highest achievements. (For example, French President Sarkozy was a Jew) Nazi’s however are almost extinct in Europe, and Germany has been one of the major leaders outlawing Nazi’s and their ideas.
He was one of the few Nazi War Criminals to admit guilt and testify against himself and other war criminals.
The reconstruction to which he referred was the rebuilding of Germany after the First World War. Anti-Semitism distracted most of the people from focusing on the terrible policies that guided Germany into WWI and the incompetent government that was operational.
Earlier in the Nazi movement he had criticized some of the more absurd anti-Semitic positions of Hitler and his henchmen. However, when it became clear that the Nazis had the upper hand he publicly recognized the Nazi government as legitimate, required Catholic clergy to remain loyal to the Nazi government, and maintained bridges between fascism and the Church while over 6 million Jews, Gypsies, and handicapped were murdered—many by his faithful.
Dr. Walter Gross (written Groß in German) was a German physician appointed to create the Office for Enlightenment on Population Policy and Racial Welfare (Aufklärungsamt für Bevölkerungspolitik und Rassenpflege) for the Nazi party (NSDAP). He headed this office, renamed the Office of Racial Policy (Rassenpolitisches Amt) in 1934, until his suicide at the close of World War II.
