Adolf Hitler Quotes
The Ten Commandments have lost their validity...Conscience is a Jewish invention. It is a blemish like circumcision.
Rauschning, Hermann. The Voice of Destruction. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1940, p. 242.
This propaganda piece turned truth on its head. They claimed the Germans who banned and burned books were lovers and preservers of culture and Jews who, since they were historically banned from certain occupations, tended to concentrate in others including writing, science, painting, and music. This official pamphlet was used in German schools starting in 1934. This propaganda was so effective that by the time the Nazis started the military aggression setting off WWII, the Germans already despised the French, Poles, Russians and other Europeans and were highly anti-Semitic. Americans and others in the world knew about the Catechism but did not believe that such nonsense would be believed by anyone. We have the same reaction today to the propaganda that the Palestinians and some Islamic nations use in their schools teaching hate for America, the Christian West and the Israeli and other Jews.
This was a poem on copyright infringement which he held wrong. In American history, there has always been a significant part of the American population who were opposed to copyright on both moral and public policy grounds. In the first decades of existence, the United States did not legally recognize copyright. American publishers copied and republished English works with no compunctions. Benjamin Franklin was one of the worst offenders for people who saw it as an offence. English publishers and some American authors lobbied heavily in America and finally got Congress to pass copyright legislation. However, with every new technology, the battle is fought anew, and large numbers of Americans will use copyrighted material contrary to existing law and feel morally justified in doing so, Publishers and other owners of intellectual property then over compensate and they have lobbied heavily to stop what they call piracy by impinging what used to be the legitimate rights of consumers, readers and scholars—even those who were not violating copyright. It is another of those American political issues that never gets settled and is battled in almost every generation.
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming Chancellor in 1933 and then assuming the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934. During his dictatorship from 1933 to 1945, he initiated World War II in Europe by invading Poland on 1 September 1939. He was closely involved in military operations throughout the war and was central to the perpetration of the Holocaust, the genocide of about 6 million Jews and millions of other victims.
