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Background: The following essay was published in Der Angriff, 21 January 1929. Goebbels founded the newspaper in Berlin in 1927 presently later taking over as the party's leader there. This commodity is a typical attack on the Jews.

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

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The Jew

by Joseph Goebbels

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Everything is discussed openly in Germany and every German language claims the correct to have an opinion on any and all questions. One is Catholic, the other Protestant, one an employee, the other an employer, a backer, a socialist, a democrat, an aristocrat. In that location is nothing dishonorable nigh choosing 1 side or the other of a question. Discussions happen in public and where matters are unclear or confused one settles it by argument and counter argument. Only at that place is one problem that is not discussed publicly, i that it is frail fifty-fifty to mention: the Jewish question. It is taboo in our democracy.

The Jew is immunized confronting all dangers: one may call him a scoundrel, parasite, swindler, profiteer, it all runs off him like h2o off a raincoat. But phone call him a Jew and you will be astonished at how he recoils, how injured he is, how he all of a sudden shrinks dorsum: "I've been establish out."

One cannot defend himself against the Jew. He attacks with lightning speed from his position of safe and uses his abilities to crush any attempt at defense.

Quickly he turns the attacker'due south charges dorsum on him and the assailant becomes the liar, the troublemaker, the terrorist. Nothing could be more mistaken than to defend oneself. That is only what the Jew wants. He tin invent a new lie every day for the enemy to respond to, and the consequence is that the enemy spends and so much time defending himself that he has no time to practise what the Jew actually fears: to assail. The accused has go the accuser, and loudly he shoves the accuser into the dock. And then information technology ever was in the by when a person or a motion fought the Jew. That is what would happen to us equally well were nosotros not fully enlightened of his nature, and if we lacked the courage to describe the post-obit radical conclusions:

one. One cannot fight the Jew by positive means. He is a negative, and this negative must exist erased from the German system or he volition forever corrupt it.

two. 1 cannot discuss the Jewish question with the Jews. Ane tin can hardly testify to a person that 1 has the duty to render him harmless.

three. Ane cannot allow the Jew the aforementioned means one would give an honest opponent, for he is no honorable opponent. He will use generosity and nobility but to trap his enemy.

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

five. The and so-called religious morality of the Jews is no morality at all, rather an encouragement to expose. Therefore, they have no claim to protection from the state.

6. The Jew is not smarter than we are, rather only cleverer and craftier. His system cannot be defeated economically — he follows entirely different moral principles than nosotros do. It tin only be broken through political ways.

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

viii. The more a German person or a German movement opposes the Jew, the more valuable information technology is. If someone is attacked past the Jews, that is a sure sign of his virtue. He who is not persecuted by the Jews, or who is praised by them, is useless and dangerous.

9. The Jew evaluates German language questions from the Jewish standpoint. Equally a result, the opposite of what he says must exist truthful.

x. One must either affirm or decline anti-Semitism. He who defends the Jews harms his own people. Ane can only be a Jewish lackey or a Jewish opponent. Opposing the Jews is a thing of personal hygiene.

These principles give the anti-Jewish movement a take a chance of success. Only such a movement will be taken seriously by the Jews, simply such a motion will be feared by them.

The fact that he shouts and complains about such a motility therefore is only a sign that it is correct. We are therefore delighted that we are constantly attacked in the Jewish gazettes. They may shout about terror. We respond with Mussolini'southward familiar words: "Terror? Never! It is social hygiene. We accept these individuals out of circulation just as a doc does to a bacterium.

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