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Groundwork: The following essay was published in Der Angriff, 21 January 1929. Goebbels founded the newspaper in Berlin in 1927 shortly later on taking over every bit the party's leader there. This article is a typical assault on the Jews.

The source: "Der Jude," Der Angriff. Aufsätze aus der Kampfzeit (Munich: Zentralverlag der NSDAP., 1935), pp. 322-324.

The Jew

by Joseph Goebbels

Everything is discussed openly in Deutschland and every High german claims the right to have an stance on any and all questions. Ane is Catholic, the other Protestant, one an employee, the other an employer, a capitalist, a socialist, a democrat, an aristocrat. There is nothing dishonorable almost choosing one side or the other of a question. Discussions happen in public and where matters are unclear or dislocated 1 settles it by argument and counter argument. Simply there is 1 trouble that is non discussed publicly, one that it is frail fifty-fifty to mention: the Jewish question. It is taboo in our republic.

The Jew is immunized against all dangers: one may phone call him a scoundrel, parasite, swindler, profiteer, information technology all runs off him like h2o off a raincoat. Just call him a Jew and you will be astonished at how he recoils, how injured he is, how he suddenly shrinks back: "I've been constitute out."

One cannot defend himself confronting the Jew. He attacks with lightning speed from his position of safety and uses his abilities to shell whatever attempt at defense.

Speedily he turns the attacker's charges back on him and the attacker becomes the liar, the troublemaker, the terrorist. Nothing could exist more mistaken than to defend oneself. That is just what the Jew wants. He can invent a new lie every day for the enemy to reply to, and the event is that the enemy spends so much time defending himself that he has no fourth dimension to do what the Jew really fears: to attack. The accused has go the accuser, and loudly he shoves the accuser into the dock. So it always was in the past when a person or a movement fought the Jew. That is what would happen to united states of america besides were we not fully enlightened of his nature, and if nosotros lacked the courage to depict the following radical conclusions:

one. One cannot fight the Jew past positive means. He is a negative, and this negative must exist erased from the German organization or he will forever decadent it.

2. Ane cannot discuss the Jewish question with the Jews. I tin can inappreciably bear witness to a person that one has the duty to render him harmless.

3. 1 cannot allow the Jew the same means one would requite an honest opponent, for he is no honorable opponent. He will use generosity and nobility only to trap his enemy.

4. The Jew has nothing to say about German questions. He is a greenhorn, an alien, who merely enjoys the rights of a guest, rights that he always abuses.

5. The so-called religious morality of the Jews is no morality at all, rather an encouragement to betrayal. Therefore, they accept no claim to protection from the state.

vi. The Jew is not smarter than nosotros are, rather only cleverer and craftier. His system cannot be defeated economically — he follows entirely different moral principles than we practise. It can merely be cleaved through political ways.

7. A Jew cannot insult a High german. Jewish slanders are but badges of honor for a German language opponent of the Jews.

viii. The more a German language person or a High german motion opposes the Jew, the more valuable it is. If someone is attacked by the Jews, that is a certain sign of his virtue. He who is non persecuted by the Jews, or who is praised by them, is useless and dangerous.

nine. The Jew evaluates High german questions from the Jewish standpoint. Equally a result, the contrary of what he says must be true.

ten. One must either assert or reject anti-Semitism. He who defends the Jews harms his own people. One can only be a Jewish lackey or a Jewish opponent. Opposing the Jews is a matter of personal hygiene.

These principles give the anti-Jewish movement a chance of success. Only such a movement will exist taken seriously by the Jews, merely such a movement will exist feared by them.

The fact that he shouts and complains about such a movement therefore is simply a sign that it is right. We are therefore delighted that we are constantly attacked in the Jewish gazettes. They may shout most terror. We answer with Mussolini'southward familiar words: "Terror? Never! It is social hygiene. Nosotros take these individuals out of apportionment just as a dr. does to a bacterium.