perhaps he did believe it. This issue came up a long time ago here but I can't find the posts now. The first sentence IS from Mein Kampf, but. . . . . ********************************************************************** . . . . In 1999, a rabbi named Daniel Lapin wrote an essay in the style of CS Lewis's famous book "The Screwtape Letters" (a fictional series of letters between Satan and one of his minions named Screwtape). Lapin's essay is a fictional letter between Adolf Hitler and Julius Streicher. The full passage in which this quote is contained is actually far more compelling than the shortened version of the quote that is so famously used. Below is the full passage: Finally, dear Julius, you will remember what I frequently said and wrote in Mein Kampf: "The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people." I explained that as long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation. It is truly heartwarming to see how well this lesson has been learned by the American government. In the name of children, incursions into the private lives of American citizens have been made that we Nazis would have gazed at with open-mouthed admiration. Does it matter that our bodies failed as long as our spirit still triumphs? . . . . . [@nonymouse] [Guardster] [Proxify] [Anonymisierungsdienst] |