Weekly Fuhrer Friday Quote from Mein Kampf
It is all the more, incredible by reason of the fact that the fight carried by those so-called federalists was directed against that section of the Prussian people which was the last that could be regarded as being connected with the November democracy. For the abuse and attacks of these so-called federalists were not levelled against the authors of the Weimar Constitution-the majority of whom were South Germans or Jews but against those who represented the old conservative Prussia, which was the antithesis of the Weimar Constitution.The fact that those who directed this campaign were careful not to touch the Jews is not to be wondered at and perhaps gives the key to the whole riddle.Before the Revolution, the Jew was successful in distracting attention from himself and his war-companies by inciting the masses, and especially the Bavarians, against Prussia; similarly, he felt obliged, after the Revolution, to find some way of camouflaging his new marauding campaign, the scope of which had increased tenfold.Again he succeeded, in this case by provoking the so-called 'national' elements in Germany against one another-the conservative Bavarians against the Prussians, who were just as conservative.He acted again with extreme cunning, inasmuch as he, who held the destiny of Germany in his hands, was behind acts of provocation so crude and tactless that the victims became incensed again and again-never against the Jew, but always against their own fellow-Germans.The Bavarian did not see the Berlin of four million industrious and efficient working people, but only the lazy and decadent Berlin which haunts the worst quarters of the West End, and yet antipathy was not directed against the West End of Berlin but against the 'Prussian' city. I was often driven to despair.The ability which the Jew displays in turning public attention away from himself and directing it elsewhere can be observed at the present time.In 1918 there was nothing like an organised anti-Semitic feeling. I still remember the difficulties we encountered the moment we mentioned the word Jew. We were either confronted with dumb-struck faces or else met with lively antagonism.The efforts we made at the time to point out to the public its real enemy seemed to be doomed to failure, but then things began to change for the better, though only very slowly.The Schutz and Trutzbund (Watch and Ward League) was defectively organised, but at least it had the great merit of opening up the Jewish question once again.
Adolf Hitler Mein Kampf Stalag edition Chapter X, The Mask of Federalism Pg-487
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