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Ursprungligen postat av
NinoRojo
Hitler hade ingenting till övers för individuell frihet, samtidigt som han berömde/försvarade en del av Stalins åtgärder. Min fetning:
Henry Picker, Hitlers bordssamtal i führerhögkvarteret 1941-42 (1984), s. 95-96.
Ingen vidare översättning till svenska. Jämför med den engelska texten i motsvarande kap 423. Då blir det tydligt att det Hitler kritiserar är anarkistisk frihet. Läs särskilt första passagen.
”A very large measure of individual liberty is not necessarily
the sign of a high degree of civilisation. On the contrary, it is
the limitation of this liberty, within the framevvork of an
organisation which incorporates men of the same race, which is
the real pointer to the degree of civilisation attained.
If men were given complete liberty of action, they would
immediately behave like apes. No one of them could bear his
neighbour to eam more than he did himself, and the more they
lived as a community, the sharper their animosities would be-
come. Slacken the reins of authority, give more liberty to the
individual, and you are driving the people along the road to
decadence.
The eternal mouthings about the communal špirit which
brings men together of their own free will, make me smile. In
my own little homeland, when the lads of the village met in the
local tavern, their social instincts rapidly degenerated, under
the influence of alcohol, into brawling, and not infrequently
finished up in a real fight with knives. It was only the arrival
of the local policeman which recalled them to the realisation
that they were ali fellovv-members of a human community.
The idea of human solidarity was imposed on men by force,
and can be maintained only by the same means. For this reason
it is unjust to condemn Charlemagne because, in what he considered to be the best interests of the German people, he built
up the whole organisation of the State on a basis of constraint.
Stalin, equally, has during these last few years applied to the
Russian people measures very similar to those of Charlemagne,
because he, too, has taken into consideration the very low level
of culture among the Russians. He realised the imperative
necessity of uniting the Russian people in a completely rigid
political organisation; had he not done so, he could not possibly
have ensured a livelihood for the heterogeneous masses which
make up the USSR, nor could he have extended to them those
benefits of civilisation, such as medical care, the value of
which they cannot appreciate.
In order to retain our domination over the people in the
territories we have conquered to the east of the Reich, we must
therefore meet, to the best of our ability, any and every desire
for individual liberty which they may express, and by so doing”
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