Joseph Goebbels Quotes
Press coverage should not mention that there are two non-Aryans among the women: Helene Mayer (fencing) and Gretel Bergmann (high jump and all-around track and field competition).
The Germans were planning to use the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin as a propaganda platform for their Nazi approach. Their perverse notion that the German Arayans were the most superior people and Blacks, Jews, Gypsies at the lower end of the spectrum was called into question by the fact that two of their own champions were Jewish. Goebbels gave orders that no newspaper could mention that fact. Mayer refused to participate. However the Nazi plan backfired when Jews and Blacks won many of the medals. Jessie Owens of America alone won 7 Olympic medals. Adolf Hitler, in order to avoid the “embarrassment” of shaking hands and congratulating Black and Jewish winners, refused to meet any of the athletes.
Joseph Goebbels, 1897-1945, Nazi Germany Minister of Propaganda, Edict to the German Press, July 16, 1936
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Ernest Lee Jahncke, a former assistant secretary of the Navy, of German Protestant descent, was expelled from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in July 1936 after taking a strong public stand against the Berlin Games. The IOC pointedly elected Avery Brundage to fill Jahncke's seat. Jahncke is the only member in the 100-year history of the IOC to be ejected.
This was a Nationally Broadcast Speech speech in the run up to American entry to WWII, Lindbergh had been a national here for being the first aviator to fly over the Atlantic to Europe. Politically, the National Hero became an active fascist supporter of Mussolini and Adolph Hitler who awarded him a Medal for Supporting Fascism, Anti-Semitism and advocating for America to allow Hitler to conquer German and the rest of Europe. After WWII he was in disgrace. This quotation is one of his many attempts to keep America from interfering with Hitler in Europe as he was a great admirer of Fascism and the two leading proponents in Europe.
He had abdicated and was serving as the Governor of the Bahamas at the time. While the public was given the reason for has abdication as his love for a divorced woman, his pro Nazi viewpoints which were not publicly known in England, made him unacceptable and his treason a danger to England at war with Nazi Germany.
Henry Ford, the American industrialist, was a virulent anti-Semite. He published some of the worst hate literature ever distributed in the United States. However, the German Nazis used his materials to influence young Germans who were great admirers of Ford whose autos and trucks sold also in Germany. In 1942, Ford repudiated his anti-Semitic positions () but by that time the damage had already been done with millions of German youth.
Frau Wagner was one of several agents of Nazi Germany sent to the United States to develop good will for Germany and funds for Hitler. Anti-German feeling was still high from the First World War but America had its share of right wingers like Ford. Hitler and Ford were mutual admirers. See {586988} for Hitler’s view of Ford.
Lindbergh, a great aviator, was a major Nazi supporter and Hitler admirer. He not only campaigned against America joining the allies in trying to stop Hitler’s aggression, but also was a major propagandist for the Nazi party-line canards about the Jews controlling the media and the government.
Funk appears to be one of the first people to use the term—possibly the first.
He defeated Adolf Hitler at the polls in 1932, but the next year he was compelled to yield to Nazi power and appointed Hitler Chancellor of Germany.
All German Jewish Citizens were immediately disenfranchised including decorated military veterans.
There had been vicious assaults on most of the Black workers, when a few Negro welders were hired. The “compromise” was that the Negro workers would be protected from harm but there would be no Blacks in skilled positions. This was despite a huge labor shortage and a critical national need for the ships in the midst of war. Patriotism and the national crisis could not overcome the racism and hatred that existed in America. Northern newspapers pointed out the irony that America was practicing and upholding the racial theories of Hitler and the Nazis.
The Daily Mail was a very conservative newspaper which supported English Fascist Oswald Mosley and wrote articles favorable to Mussolini and Hitler before the war. There was a small but powerful part of English Aristocracy who were pro German and pro Fascist including the King, Edward, Duke of Windsor {584507} who was persuaded to abdicate and relegated to the Bahamas where his views were not so public. The Daily Mail catered to that part of the English Aristocracy.
Nostradamus made thousands of prophecies most of which seem not to have occurred as he predicted. However there were a few that some people believe predicted later events. In this case, it is argued that he foretold the rise of Adolf Hitler. The crooked cross was supposed to be the Swastika symbol of the Nazi Party.
This quotation is important because there are some who believed that the professional German Soldiers did not respect Hitler and his murderous policies. This quotation shows that at least publicly Donitz had no problem extolling Hitler above all others. After the war Donitz was found guilty of Unrestricted Submarine Warfare and using thousands of slave laborers in his shipyards. He was sentenced to 10 years, one of the lightest sentences if the German War Crimes Trials.
Hitler and the Nazis assumed that they would dominate the world. The 1936 Olympics in the stadium in Germany was to be the first and only that Nazi Germany would entertain.
At the time there were some Americans who supported Hitler and Fascism. Even senior military men like Osborne.
Although a fervent Nazi, he detested Hitler. When Hitler consolidated power, one of the first things he did in 1934 was to order his guards to murder Strasser, just as Strasser had feared.
Paul Joseph Goebbels was a German politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. One of Adolf Hitler's close associates and most devoted followers, he was known for his skills in public speaking and his deep and virulent antisemitism, which led to his supporting the extermination of the Jews in the Holocaust.
