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David Irving's "Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich" and the Jewish Question

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friedrich braun [OP]

2004-02-12 15:15 | User Profile

I'm currenty reading David Irving's monumental biogrpahy of Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich. It's an engrossing read and I'm unable to put it down. I love that feeling! I love reading a book that gives me so much pleasure that I would rather read than do anything else in life!

You can down loaded for free on David Irving's site:

[url]http://www.fpp.co.uk/books/Goebbels/Goebbels.pdf[/url]

I'll be posting excerpts periodically.

Goebbels arrives in Berlin to see the city completely dominated by Jews.

[B]Thus Goebbels had a highly visible opponent. Besides, he would be doing battle for the first time with the Jews. ‘Berlin,’ Muchow observed, ‘is Red and Jewish in equal measure.’22 In 1816 there had been only 3,400 Jews, but this figure had swollen to 36,500 by 1871, and to one hundred thousand at the turn of the century. By the time of Goebbels’ arrival, one-third of Germany’s half-million Jews were concentrated in the city.23 They made up 4.3 percent of its population: but they provided over half Berlin’s lawyers, fifteen percent of the real estate agents, and nearly eleven percent of the doctors; they dominated the wealthy ranks of Berlin’s dentists, pharmacists, judges, public prosecutors, and academics, and maintained a near stranglehold on the world of the arts. While Mosse’s Berliner Tageblatt would become one of Goebbels’ principal enemies, he would lump all the bourgeois newspapers into the general category of ‘Judenpresse.’

When he said that the real power was in Jewish hands there was a grain of truth in it. Dr Heinrich Brüning, Chancellor of the Reich from 1930 to 1932, could find only one bank not controlled by them. After ordering a government inquiry, he directed that its findings be kept secret for fear of provoking anti-Semitic riots.24 A series of scandals surrounding Jewish swindlers like Kutisker, Sklarek, and the Barmat brothers, paraded through the courts.25 Many of the judges and public prosecutors in Berlin were Jewish. Goebbels would portray the Berlin police as largely Jewish controlled; in fact of the top officials only the powerful vice-police chief (Vize-Polizeipräsident) who directed section Ia, the three hundred man political police force, forerunner of the Gestapo, was a Jew.

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Dr Goebbels would shun no libel to blacken his name. Instinctively carrying on an ancient tradition of name-calling, he seized on his nickname of ‘Isidor’ and commissioned a scurrilous Nazi marching song about him.29 He would highlight every malfeasance of the criminal demimonde and identify it as Jewish. In the Weimar republic, he was unfortunately not always wrong. In 1930 Jews would be convicted in forty-two of 210 known narcotics smuggling cases; in 1932 sixty-nine of the 272 known international narcotics dealers were Jewish. Jews were arrested in over sixty percent of the cases of running illegal gambling dens; 193 of the 411 pickpockets arrested in 1932 were Jews. In 1932 no fewer than thirty-one thousand cases of fraud, mainly insurance swindles, would be committed by Jews.30[/B]

Sertorius

2004-02-12 15:43 | User Profile

Frederich,

I also enjoy reading more than anything else. It is funny how the very same people think that I should be able to read/look at any sort of pornography, no matter how kinky, at the same time would restrict my viewing of historical works.

The man has been dead almost 59 years. Why is it they are afraid of a corpse to the point where they would apply pressure on a publisher not to print? (rhetorical question)

Mentzer

2004-02-21 05:01 | User Profile

They are more afraid of David Irving.

A highly talented researcher, historian and truth-teller. Respected by many historians and commentators - but hated by the willingly ignorant and politically corrupt.

His definitive work, 'Hitler's War', remains the best and honest record of Hitler's views, and details the course of WWII from the German position.

A true classic. And a required historical reference for anyone who wishes to understand the origins and development of WWII. This single book contains it all.

My regards.

Sertorius

2004-02-21 10:38 | User Profile

Mentzer,

True enough. Until Irving came out the the paperback edition of Hitler's War, it was untainable in book stores. I had to use a rare book seller to find a hard back editon. That was in 1986.