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Hitler, The Jews, and Rabbi Lapin
by Chad Powers
“You’d have to be a recent immigrant from Outer Mongolia not to know of the role that people with Jewish names play in the coarsening of our culture. Almost every American knows this. It is just that most gentiles are too polite to mention it.”
– Rabbi Daniel Lapin, “Our Worst Enemy”, Toward Tradition, January 20, 2005
In modern “free,” Western “democracies,” one may defame the Pope, the prophet Mohammed, or even God Him/Herself, smearing and slurring anyone’s “sacred cows” (Hindus’ obviously included) with impunity, but the “Holocaust” – holy, sacred, transcendent – is beyond public reproach. Consider that in at least seven Western countries a critic can be fined and jailed for “denying” or even “trivializing” the Holocaust, that event of Jewish obsession that has usurped what was once known as World War II, a pan-human disaster from which as many as 64 million people may have died. There is an old adage to understand this phenomenon of the holocaustal pedestal in Western life: one may gauge true power in any culture by what is forbidden to be publicly spoken.
Which brings us to Rabbi Daniel Lapin.
Quite a milestone occurred on the pages of the Internet the other day. Rabbi Daniel Lapin, an Orthodox Jew, declared that Hitler was right. At least about one thing: that highly visible Jews were in the vanguard of cultural decadence in pre-Nazi Germany. In other words, Lapin dares to infer that which cannot be publicly spoken: Jewish responsibility – at least partially – for soliciting hostile German feelings that led to the Holocaust. And attendant Jewish blame.
As we all know, particularly in “free” Western democracies, no one is allowed to speak like this. Even agreeing with Hitler that the sky is blue engenders considerable political and personal risk. Hitler and the Nazis are held to be an airtight ideological package – a kind of vacuum cleaner. If one dares to suggest that not everything Hitler said about Jews was maliciously invented, that – in today’s Judeocentric dictate – brands the offender as a certifiable “Nazi” whose latent aim must be to murder Jewry.
Well, surprise. Rabbi Lapin has broken all the rules. And for a Jew to admit that Hitler’s disdain for Jews had reasoned basis in pre-Nazi German culture, as Lapin explicitly does, is truly revolutionary. He poses a small ray of light in a very dark chamber, a light that can reveal clearly and honestly the moral and rational roots of Gentile (and Jewish!) “anti-Semitism” throughout the Jewish story.
Rabbi Lapin even has the galling audacity to quote Hitler, with both sympathy and understanding:
“Was there any form of filth or profligacy, particularly in cultural life, without at least one Jew involved in it? What had to be reckoned heavily against the Jews in my eyes was when I became acquainted with their activity in the press, art, literature, and the theater….It sufficed to look at a billboard, to study the names behind the horrible trash they advertised…. Is this why the Jews are called the “chosen people”? The fact that nine tenths of all literary filth, artistic trash, and theatrical idiocy can be set to the account of a people, constituting hardly one hundredth of all the country’s inhabitants, could simply not be talked away; it was the plain truth.”
( - Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler, Chapter II)
Lapin cites Mein Kampf (which is banned in some countries today) to illustrate the parallels between Jewish prominence in the destruction of traditional German values and to underscore similar Jewish erosion of its American counterpart today. (Lapin’s limit, however, is that he believes that secular Jewry so prominently corrosive in American and pre-Nazi German culture has wandered far astray of its allegedly noble religious roots).
Lapin interprets Hitler’s excerpted passage this way:
“It does not excuse Hitler or his Nazi thugs for us to acknowledge that this maniacal, master propagandist focused on a reality that resonated with the educated, and cultured Germans of his day. Not once in Mein Kampf did that monster charge Jews with being complicit in the killing of Christ two thousand years earlier. He knew that long-ago event, shrouded in mystery and theological profundity, would never goad enlightened people to murder. Instead, he drew attention to the obvious and inescapable; that which every German knew to be true. The sad fact is that through Jewish actors, playwrights, and producers, the Berlin stage of Weimar Germany linked Jews and deviant sexuality in all its sordid manifestations just as surely as Broadway does today. Much of the filth in American entertainment today parallels that of Germany between the wars.”
by Chad Powers
“You’d have to be a recent immigrant from Outer Mongolia not to know of the role that people with Jewish names play in the coarsening of our culture. Almost every American knows this. It is just that most gentiles are too polite to mention it.”
– Rabbi Daniel Lapin, “Our Worst Enemy”, Toward Tradition, January 20, 2005
In modern “free,” Western “democracies,” one may defame the Pope, the prophet Mohammed, or even God Him/Herself, smearing and slurring anyone’s “sacred cows” (Hindus’ obviously included) with impunity, but the “Holocaust” – holy, sacred, transcendent – is beyond public reproach. Consider that in at least seven Western countries a critic can be fined and jailed for “denying” or even “trivializing” the Holocaust, that event of Jewish obsession that has usurped what was once known as World War II, a pan-human disaster from which as many as 64 million people may have died. There is an old adage to understand this phenomenon of the holocaustal pedestal in Western life: one may gauge true power in any culture by what is forbidden to be publicly spoken.
Which brings us to Rabbi Daniel Lapin.
Quite a milestone occurred on the pages of the Internet the other day. Rabbi Daniel Lapin, an Orthodox Jew, declared that Hitler was right. At least about one thing: that highly visible Jews were in the vanguard of cultural decadence in pre-Nazi Germany. In other words, Lapin dares to infer that which cannot be publicly spoken: Jewish responsibility – at least partially – for soliciting hostile German feelings that led to the Holocaust. And attendant Jewish blame.
As we all know, particularly in “free” Western democracies, no one is allowed to speak like this. Even agreeing with Hitler that the sky is blue engenders considerable political and personal risk. Hitler and the Nazis are held to be an airtight ideological package – a kind of vacuum cleaner. If one dares to suggest that not everything Hitler said about Jews was maliciously invented, that – in today’s Judeocentric dictate – brands the offender as a certifiable “Nazi” whose latent aim must be to murder Jewry.
Well, surprise. Rabbi Lapin has broken all the rules. And for a Jew to admit that Hitler’s disdain for Jews had reasoned basis in pre-Nazi German culture, as Lapin explicitly does, is truly revolutionary. He poses a small ray of light in a very dark chamber, a light that can reveal clearly and honestly the moral and rational roots of Gentile (and Jewish!) “anti-Semitism” throughout the Jewish story.
Rabbi Lapin even has the galling audacity to quote Hitler, with both sympathy and understanding:
“Was there any form of filth or profligacy, particularly in cultural life, without at least one Jew involved in it? What had to be reckoned heavily against the Jews in my eyes was when I became acquainted with their activity in the press, art, literature, and the theater….It sufficed to look at a billboard, to study the names behind the horrible trash they advertised…. Is this why the Jews are called the “chosen people”? The fact that nine tenths of all literary filth, artistic trash, and theatrical idiocy can be set to the account of a people, constituting hardly one hundredth of all the country’s inhabitants, could simply not be talked away; it was the plain truth.”
( - Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler, Chapter II)
Lapin cites Mein Kampf (which is banned in some countries today) to illustrate the parallels between Jewish prominence in the destruction of traditional German values and to underscore similar Jewish erosion of its American counterpart today. (Lapin’s limit, however, is that he believes that secular Jewry so prominently corrosive in American and pre-Nazi German culture has wandered far astray of its allegedly noble religious roots).
Lapin interprets Hitler’s excerpted passage this way:
“It does not excuse Hitler or his Nazi thugs for us to acknowledge that this maniacal, master propagandist focused on a reality that resonated with the educated, and cultured Germans of his day. Not once in Mein Kampf did that monster charge Jews with being complicit in the killing of Christ two thousand years earlier. He knew that long-ago event, shrouded in mystery and theological profundity, would never goad enlightened people to murder. Instead, he drew attention to the obvious and inescapable; that which every German knew to be true. The sad fact is that through Jewish actors, playwrights, and producers, the Berlin stage of Weimar Germany linked Jews and deviant sexuality in all its sordid manifestations just as surely as Broadway does today. Much of the filth in American entertainment today parallels that of Germany between the wars.”