Causes of the Collapse
German people and the German Empire. This is to say nothing of the Marxist lie-sheets; they cannot live without lying any more than a cat without mousing; their sole task, after all, is to break the national and popular backbone of the people in order to prepare it for the yoke of international capital and its master, the Jew.
But what did the State do against this mass poisoning of the nation? Nothing—nothing at all. A few ridiculous decrees, a few sentences for too-violent villainy, and that was all. Instead they hoped to win the favor of this plague by flattery, by recognizing the “value” of the press, its “importance,” its “educational mission,” and other such nonsense—all of which the Jews accepted with a sly smile, giving wily thanks in return.
But this shameful impotence of the State was due not so much to failure to recognize the danger as to a cowardice that cried to Heaven, and the consequent half-heartedness of every decision and measure. No one had the courage to use thoroughgoing and radical remedies, while here as everywhere people fooled with half-cures, and, instead of stabbing to the heart, merely provoked the viper—with the result that things did not even stay as they were, but the power of the institutions to be combatted grew from year to year.
The resistance of the German government of those days to the press (largely of Jewish origin) which was slowly corrupting the nation lacked any directness, any determination, above all any visible goal. Here the privy councillors’ understanding was at a complete loss, in gauging the importance of the struggle as well as in choice of means and in laying a clear plan. They tinkered aimlessly, and sometimes, if they were bitten too hard, locked up one of these journalistic vipers for a few weeks or months; but the snakes’ nest itself was left quite undisturbed.
This was of course also partly the result of the infinitely crafty tactics of Jewdom on one side and a stupidity or naivety truly worthy of a privy councillor on the other. The Jew was far too shrewd to let all his press attack with equal vigor. No, part of it was there to cover up the other part. While the Marxists were
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