Nazi-Sozi Questions and Answers / Dr. Joseph Goebbels -- Part 2

PART II

Parliament and Political Parties

"And that required a new party? Why didn't you just take this platform to some existing parliamentary party? Surely it would have been willing to support it!"

"Ha!--You might be right. Certainly any political party would have supported it, if it could have gained a million votes that way. But we don't set much store by votes and parliament. We don't just want to 'support' our platform in the Reichstag--we want to put it into effect. That is where we're different from all the other parties. The others advocate platforms, talk, debate, take a vote, and collect their parliamentary allowances. But we want to turn our platform into reality.

"We don't believe the eyewash of parliament and parties. That's just a big business association for the exploitation of the strength and labor of the German people.

"A parliament is like a drone bee in the German hive.

"Public funds and public welfare are misused. Behind it all are the Jews, who move their chessmen, have them talk, vote and collect their parliamentary allowances--and they themselves hold the reins of government."

If they want anything from us, then we're 'the free and sovereign people, amking our will known through our elected representatives': but if we want anything from parliament, then we're just rabble. The sum of it all is what's called democracy.

"No, friend. We've never expected to gain anything that way, nor will we ever place our hopes on parliamentary action. On the contrary: we long for the day when the German people will shake off this un-German system."

"And then? What do you expect to replace that system with? There has to be some form of government! If you don't want Parliament, you have to come up with something better.

"What will it be?"

Dictatorship and the Corporate State

"It's a long-established fact of history that any young, purposeful party which has deposed a corrupt, internally rotten system has claimed the State and its instruments of power as its own for such time as it took to establish, by means of a dictatorship guided by self-confident responsiblity, the preconditions that were requisite for the complete conquest of the State, and its infusion with the new ideas. It will be no different in our case. Once we have captured the State, that State is ours. We and we alone will be its responsible represetatives. Even if today, in the battle against a corrupt system, we are, and must be, a party--not, of course, in the sense of a parliamentary party--the second in which that system collapses, we shall be the State. And then we will remodel that State according to our own principles.

"We want to liberate Germany, that's all.

"A large part of German people have already become so materialistic and cowardly that their good can only be achieved against their will."

"That's all well and good. But even you will have to admit that dictatorship can't be a permanent state of affairs. Something has to come after!"

"Of course it does! And we've thought about that, too, and made our intentions known: by no means do we want to exclude the people from power. We only want to achieve and consolidate those conditions which alone will allow our people to ensure their continued existence on this planet. Once those conditions are achieved and consolidated, our work is done. Then we will have the National-Socialist State we want.

"The party parliament of democracy will be replaced by the economic parliament(7) of the National-Socialist State. Its members will be elected by the entire working German people in accordance with the principles of universal suffrage. But in such an election the people will not stratify themselves according to parliamentary-democratic parties, but rather according to the professional guilds (8) making up the national community. Thoroughly organized professional guilds ensure that every working German receives the rights to which he is entitled by virtue of his will, his work, and his responsibility within the State. The economic parliament looks after economic policy only--not politics of the State.

"Its partner in government is the Senate. It is composed of some 200 individuals, whom the dictator selects from all ranks and professional guilds and who assist in the affairs of State. These 200 will represent the elite of the entire nation. They support the government with both advice and action and are appointed for life. In the case of a members' death, the others elect a replacement.

"The Chancellor will be elected from among the Senate. He bears full responsibility for every aspect of the Reich's domestic adn foreign politics and is prepared to sacrifice even his life, if necessary, for the sake of these political affairs.The Chancellor chooses his own ministers adn staff. He takes full responsibility for their actions as well, and it therefore goes without saying that he can appoint and dismiss them at will.

"Whether the head of this system of government is a president or a monarch will then be irrelevant. The Chancellor is the one who matters, and you can be sure that we'll see to it that he's a man of courage and integrity."

(7)Greenwood, op. cit., p. 206, comments: "The instrument by means of which all these desirable objects {nationalization of businesses, etc.} are to be brought about is the corprative organization. Nazi ideals of the Corporate State are still very ill-defined in matters of detail. It is of course visualized as an organ of economic self-government under the supervsion of the State and the Nazi movement...The guilds of the Middle Ages also serve to some extent as a model." "Economic self-government" is the key word here. The ecomomic parlianment seems to have been intended as a sort of guild-based domestic policy organ, while the Senate was to have acted as its international counterpart.

(8) Professional guilds were groups of people united by common vocations and professional interests. Historically, guilds were medieval associations of merchants or craftsmen; they were formed for mutual aid and protection or to maintain craft standards. Revival of the guild system was attempted by various ideological and political movements of the 19th and 20th century--among them National-Socialism, whose ideology of professional rather than parliamentary stratification of society the guild system would have complemented perfectly.

War and Pacifism

"you're always the trouble-makers. You don't want peace and order, you want conflict. War will be the last pearl of your wisdom!"

"Now you sound as if you're about to cry! You talk of peace. What we're given today--is that peace?! Is it peace when millions are out in the streets, out of work, without food? Is it peace when young children have to starve to death, when our people are reduced to beggary, when this once thriving Germany of ours is being made to resemble a desert? What we've experienced since 1918 has been a war without end, and this war is growing more vicious and brutal with each passing day. Have a look at the quotations of the international stock exchange--those are the war reports from the headquarters of the economic war, and see, German workers and their families are the dead and dying of that war!

"That's your peace. It's the peace of the graveyard! Your order is the rigid order of death. No indeed, good friend, we don't want that. We will call to arms in opposition to it. We will call upon the people to rid themselves of their tormentors and to break the chains that the Jews have put on us.

"Only the fight for true peace can led beyond the death of a people and its nation. The eternal principle of nature is not justice, it's strength. And that is why we want to toughen our nation, so that it may survive in the battle of life."Pacifism does not ensure peace. On the contrary! History shows us that those peoples and nations that were no longer ready and willing to defend their existence, with force if necessary, have always come to a humiliating end. We will protect our people from that fate. They shall grow strong in will and spirit; they shall not be humiliated like a pariah among nations.

"We want our rights, and these rights are liberty, bread and living space! If we are denied these rights, we will fight for them.

"This fight for liberty, bread, and living space (9) is everybody's business, the highest citizen as well as the lowliest. It's a matter for the entire nation.

"The united power of 80 million Germans determined to survive will go a longer way towards ensuring peace than any lie about human rights."

(9) Lebensraum, translated as living space, waws perhaps the most misunedersttod Bermamn slogan during WW2. This term was pounced on by British as well as Soviet propagandists and became an effective tool for motivating the troops for the ri campaign of terror against Germany.The author is actually referring to the harsh terms of the Versailles Treaty, which he mentions on page 12. Germany, by the dictates of the treaty, had a large amount of its territitory taken away. By far the most painful and portentous loss was that of the Posen area, West Prussia and Danzig (the Polish Corridor), which chopped Germany in two and put the Polish border just 100 miles from Berlin. Besides the areas in Europe, vast German territories in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific Ocean, were likewise taken away. The millions of German residents in these former German administrative areas, furthermore, were subjected to harsh treatment by the new governments.Also, Germany suffered 1,900,000 military deaths in World War 1 adn 763,000 more died as a result of the starvation blockade, which was even extended after 1918.To envisage what pyschological effects these losses had on the German nation, we need only recall the costly and frantic military efforts undertaken by Great Britain just to recover the Falkland Islands from Argentina in 1982. Scarcely 2,000 inhabitants were involved.

Germany's Freedom

"And what will be the end result of all this?"

"The end result will be the freeodm of the German people on German soil. This freedom will ensure bread and life for every working German. It bears within itself those moral and spiritual strentghs with which we will shape this new country."We want to achieve more by means of this freedom than just a new system. We want to achieve the new man who, within the conditions of the better world view that we will have attained, can progress into the future.

"This future will be ours, or it will not be at all.

"Liberalism will die so that Socialism may live.

"Marxism will die so that Nationalism may live.

"And then we will shape the new Germany--the nationalistic, Socialist Thrid Reich!"

Nazi-Sozi Questions and Answers / Dr. Joseph Goebbels -- Part 1

PART I

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10 Commandments for National-Socialists

Your country is the mainspring of your life; remember this always!

1. Germany is your Fatherland; love it above all, and more in deeds than in words.

2. Germany's enemies are your enemies; hate them with all your heart.

3. Every national comrade, even the lowliest, is part of Germany; love him as you love yourself.

4. Demand only duties for yourself; then Germany will also regain rights and privileges.

5. Be proud of Germany; you have a right to take pride in a Fatherland for which millions gave their lives.

6. He who abuses Germany abuses you and your deceased; repay him with your fists!

7. Repay like with like and then some. If you are denied your just rights, remember: you can secure them again only through your own political movement.

8. Do not be a hooligan anti-Semite--but beware of the Berliner Tageblatt! (1)

9. Live your life in such a way that one day you will not need to stand ashamed before a new Germany.

10. Have faith in the future; only thus will you win it. (1) The Berliner Tageblatt was one of Germany's foremost newspapers, and entirely in Jewish hands. Proprietor: Lachmann-Mosse.

Politics—No Thank You

"No, no! Keep away from me with politics. That's nothing more than swindle and deception anyhow. After the Revolution it was still possible to ensnare foolish people with all these empty phrases, but those times are over. I no longer believe in any of that stuff. I do my work and pay no attention to politics any more. And that's all there is to it!"

"Forgive my saying so, but then our mutual enemy--by whatever name you want to call him: Capitalism, the Jews, Parliament, Democracy or Marxism--has achieved what he wanted!"

"Why? I don't understand."

"He has ensured that the German people are not interested in politics. They can slave away and work their fingers to the bone--and the Jews make their politics for them."

"You're relentless. But I ask you: whom can I trust in this day and age? Name just one party, of the left or the right, that hasn't stuffed us full of empty phrases and promises ever since 1918, and name one that ever had even the slightest intention of fulfilling even a fraction of those promises."

"You're right. All the parties have lied to and cheated the people. Not a one was honest and even tried to put into practice what they promised us in theory. They only knew their people at election time. But do Germany's political parties, and the disappointment at their betrayals, need to be synomymous with despair of our future? If the parties are no good, then let's leave the parties and go against them!"

"Oh no! It's too late for that now. We no longer have the courage, the faith or the determination to proclaim a new Germany's will to live--not under the conditions we are faced with today."

"You would do well to say I, not we. We have the courage, the faith and the determination to do it. And you? How do you imagine the future?"

The Economy and Politics

"There is one factor in which I still see a spark of hope. Our economy. I believe that the indestructible industriousness of the German people will triumph in the end. Work and the economy are what decides our fate. We must work more and do less talking!"

"Very good! I suggest that you go to our 3 million unemployed and preach to them, like some voice crying in the wilderness: 'We must work more and do less talking!' Maybe then someone will show you the folly of your platitudes a bit more clearly than I can and want to right now.”

"'The economy is what decides our fate!' Walther Rathenau (1) said the same thing when he made the first large-scale attempts to fit the German production process into the international syndicate concept of American high finance. You believe in the economy. But what is the economy, if not a national life factor on direct interaction with politics? Name just one people in all of history that established or even maintained a productive economy without having a healthy, purposeful political system! And vice versa, name just one people with a clear and instinctively confident system of politics which did not find a way, by means of these politics, to establish an economy that assured the continued existence of the people!

"Your opinion is utter nonsense, of a kind such as only mercenary Jewish scoundrels or notoriously bourgeois Germans could possibly suggest. Not the economy is the fate of a people--politics are! Helathy politics create the necessary economy. A healthy economy without the firm foundation of a strong political system is completely unthinkable.

"In such a case, however, politics are something quite different from that which today's so-called German statesmen practice."

(1) Rathenau, Walter (1867-1915) Weimar politician and industrialsit of Jewish extraction. His support of the policy of fulfillment, ie, compliance with the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, made him extremely unpopular with nationalistic and anti-Semitic groups.

The Nature of Politics

"Politics may be defined as responsible activity in the service of the people, with the goal of creating for these people such conditions as enable them to preserve and defend their existence in this our harsh world, to multiply, and to ensure liberty and a living for themselves and their descendants."

Youth and Politics

"And that is the political idea you want to practice with your movement? With greenhorns who have barely got a whiff of life? With riots and insurrections? With street-fighting and the intimidation of anyone who thinks differently than you? With this unscrupulous fight against the State and its natural foundations?"

"Yes indeed! We want to practice these politics because no-one else does. Neither the experienced, mature leaders of the people, who can't complain enough about us green-horns today, not the well-bred bourgeois forces of education and the intelligentsia, nor the timid, sickly pale stay-at-home would-be politicians! Neither the 'State' nor those who make the 'politics' of the State.

"But you must permit me some minor corrections: if we practice our politics with the 'greenhorns'--youth, German youth is what we call them among ourselves--then we do so in the proud and happy awareness that Germany's youth has found the path leading out of the poison of our present times and to a new Germany.Whether or not this youth has got little more than a whiff of life is of no matter to us. Certainly, you've seen much of life: but you haven't a clue about politics. I know 18-year-old lads in our SA(2) who could put you to shame at every turn. Our politics are not based on riots, but where riots are necessary, we are not so cowardly as to avoid them. The average citizen scolds against the riots until he is hoarse, perhaps because no-one bothers to riot for his nation any more. And we resort to intimidation wherever we ourselves meet up with it. In that case we don't run for the police like the veteran's associations and rifle clubs, and we don't huddle behind the curtains trembling in fear like cowards, waiting submissively for whatever fate has decreed for us. Instead, we go out into the streets and meet intimidation head-on. And that is when we turn the theoritical concept of opposition to the middle-class one-class State into practice!"

(2) SA, abbreviation for "Sturmabteilung" (Storm Detachments). Its rival counterpart was the SS ("Schutzstaffel," Companies of the Guard). Together, they comprised the elite defense force of the NSDAP. "They formed a great resevoir for the unemployed youths of the country in which it was trained in Nazi principles in discipline and in the fighting spirit." (Greenwood, The German Revolution, Wayne: Landpost, 1992, p. 111)

The Class Struggle

"That means that you've become a party supporting the class struggle! You called yourself the Workers' Party! That was the first step. You called yourself Socialist. That was the second. Now you're talking about a middle-class one-class State. That's the third and last step. "Is there even anything left now to set you apart from Marxism?" "Really, there's nothing more hypocritical than a well-fed citizen protesting against the working class idea of class struggle. "You made it through the winter all snug and comfortable. Your very person is provocative of class struggle. What gives you the right to puff yourself up, all swelled with the pride of national responsibility, against the struggle of the working class? For almost 60 years, has the middle-class State really been anything other than an organized one-class State which, out of compelling historical necessity, itself gave rise to the working class concept of class struggle? Didn't you pay the price of this one-class State on November 9, 1918? And aren't you at this very moment busily exploiting the people's despair of the insanity of Marxism in order to re-establish the same old reactionary middle-class nonsense as before? "Aren't you well-fed citizens ashamed to fight against the class struggle of the undernourished, hollow-cheeked, unemployed, hungry working class? "Yes, we call ourselves the Worker's Party! That's the first step. The first step away from the middle-class State! We call ourselves the Worker's Party because we want to make work free, because for us, productive work is the driving force of history, because work means more to us than possessions, education, niveau, and a middle-class background do! "That's why we call ourselves the Worker's Party!

Social and Socialist

"Yes, we call ourselves Socialist. That's the second step. The second step away from the middle-class State. We call ourselves Socialist in protest against the lie of social middle-class pity. We don't want pity, and we don't want social-mindedness. We don't care a hoot for that which you call 'social welfare legislation.' That's barely enough to keep body and soul together.

"We want the rights to which nature and the law entitle us.

"We want our full share of what Heaven gave us, and of the returns from our physical and mental labors.

"And that's Socialism!

The One-Class State

"And now we speak of the middle-class one-class State. Why? Because this middle-class State has turned into a complete one-class State. Because this is a system under which value is no longer placed on achievement and will, but rather only on education, wealth, and tradition. We speak of a middle-class State because this State has taken a nation's greatest good--the love of nation and people--and has perverted it into venal love of possessions, thereby excluding 17 million German-feeling and German-thinkingworkers. What the middle class wanted is irrelevant. What it achieved is what's important. If it wanted a strong Germany, what did it achieve? An international slave colony, which the blows of the rebels drove to the brink of destruction on November 9, 1918! "

And that's the truth. We protest against the concept of the class struggle. Our entire movement is one grand protest against the class struggle which has eliminated our people from history. But we face the facts: if 17 million workers on the left consider the class struggle as their last hope, then only because the right has taught them so in practice, for 60 years. And where would we get the moral justification for going up against the middle-class concept of class struggle, if the middle-class State were not first torn down to its foundations and replaced with a new, Socialist structuring of German society."

Muscle and Intellect

"And who is to help you tear down the old system and build up the new?" "

For that we rely on the healthy instincts of the German workers. The day will come when even the last of them will see the light. Someday, both muscle and intellect will rise up together in protest; and then it will be our turn to bring charges and to judge.”

"We will do everything in our power to see to it that that time comes soon. “"Then the workers of muscle and of intellect will find each other. Then it will become clear who truly loves his country, beyond party and social class. And then, the working youth of the future will build the Third Germany. “

"That inexperienced youth will then have the say. And wisdom and experience will go the way of chaff in the wind. “

"Then we will take Germany's fate into our own hands. We will solve the problem of Socialism, radically and once and for all, unhampered by concerns for tradition, education and wealth, niveau and social class, and taking into consideration only the future of the working German people. “

Nationalist and Socialist

"Then we will prove that nationalism is more than a comfortable moral theology of middle-class wealth and Capitalist profit. The cesspool of corruption and depravity will then yield to new nationalism as a radical form of national self-defense, and to new Socialism as the most conscious creation of its requistie preconditions."

Despair of Marxism

"You speak of Socialism! But after a 60-year struggle for Socialism which has resulted in the complete undoing of the ideal of the State, is the German worker not justified in despairing of Socialism and the future of his social class?"

"Never! Consider:

1. He has not fought for 60 years for Socialism, but for Marxism. And Marxism, with its destructive theories of peoples and races, is the exact opposite of Socialism.

2. Marxism was never the German worker's ideal of the State. He accepted this jumble of Jewish ideas only because there were no other choices open to him in his struggle for the freedom of his class.

3. Marxism is the graveyard not only for national peoples but also particularly for the one class that fights whole-heartedly for its realization: the working class.

"It is therefore not the worker's right to give up on Socialism, but rather his duty to give up on Marxism. The sooner he does so, the better for him. The clock is about to strike midnight."

Anti-Semitism

"You make a big fuss about being opposed to the Jews. Today, in the 20th century, isn't anti-Semitism passe? Aren't the Jews human beings too? Aren't there also white Jews? Isn't it a bad sign for us that we 60 million Germans are afraid of two million Jews?"

"Careful! Try to think logically:

1. If we were only anti-Semitic, then yes, that would indeed be passe. But we are also Socialist. We can't have one without the other: Socialism, that is, the freedom of the German workers, and thus of the German nation, can only be achieved in opposition to the Jews, and because we want Germany's liberty, and Socialism, we are anti-Semitic.

2. Granted, the Jews are human beings too. None of us has ever doubted that. But by the same token, fleas are animals too--just not very agreeable ones. And since fleas are not agreeable animals, we do not have a moral obligation to protect them and to let them thrive so that they will bite and torment us, but rather must put them out of commission."The same goes for the Jews.

3. Certainly there are also white Jews. And there are more of them every day. But that's no argument in their favor, but rather against them. The very fact that we call scoundrels among us white Jews is proof that being a Jew is something inferior; otherwise one would call deceitful jews yellow Christians! That there are so many white Jews proves that the subversive Jewish spirit has already contaminated large numbers of our people. It's just one more admonition for us to take up the fight against the Jewish world plague in evey possible way.

4. It's not a bad sign for us, but rather for you, that 60 million Germans fear two million Jews. We don't fear these two million, we fight against them. But you are too cowardly for this fight and only ever beat around the bush."If those 60 million would combat the Jews as we do, they would no longer need to fear them; it would be the Jews' turn to be afraid."

Monarchy or Republic?

"Now you'll have to come clean. Are you monarchists or republicans?

"Neither one nor the other. Because:

1. The question of the organizational structure of a State is a very minor one today. A people wasting away under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles has other things to worry about than the question of monarchy versus republic.

2. The people will be able to settle this question once and for all only when they have their liberty."But in principle, we say:"A good republic is better than a bad monarchy, and a good monarchy is better than a bad republic. Both forms of government have their merits and their disadvantages. Weighing them against each other is the concern of a people facing the rest of the world in liberty."

A Flag of Black, White and Red, or of Black, Red and Gold?

"Now, be honest: are you for black-white-red or for black-red-gold? (3)

"Neither, nor. Because:

1. It makes no difference to us whether the demise of the Republic of Scheidemann and Stressmann (4) comes under the black-white-red or black-red-gold. Maybe black, red and gold would be better, that way at least this Republic would die in a shroud of its own colours.

2. The question of a common flag can only be settled when the German people have united in a common idea and a common will. The movement that will achieve this national unity shall also give its colours to the entire people, as a unifying symbol. We are confident that we will be that movement."

(3) The flag colours--black, white and red versus black, red and gold--refer to some rather tortous winding of German political history: Rencontre-Lexikon. Editions Rencontre Lausanne, n.d., p. 21: "As of 1815, the activities of student fraternities had turned the colors black, red and gold into the symbol for Germany striving for unity. Following the Revolution in 1848, the German Bundestag temporarily declared these as the national colors. But in 1867, the North German Confederation chose black, white and red as national colors--a combination of the colors of Prussia and the Hanseatic towns. These colors were retained by the German Empire of 1871-1919....In 1919, the Weimar Constitution introduced black, red and gold as the Reich's national flag. By a decree of Jan. 1, 1922, however, black, white and red, together with a black, red and gold jack, was retained as merchant flag. Under National-Socialism, the black, white and red were the sole colors of the Reich.

(4) The "Republic of Scheidemann and Stresemann" refers to the Weimar Republic, whose leading politicians included Philipp Scheidemann and Gustav Stresemann:Scheidemann, Phillip (1865-1939), Social-Democrat. Nov. 1918, proclaimed the Weimar Republic; became German Chancellor the following year but resigned his office after signing the Treaty of Versailles. He was succeeded by Otto Bauer (cf. relevant note).Stresemann, Gustav (1878-1929), German liberal statesman, one of the preeminent politicians of the Weimar Republic; German Chancellor (1923). In 1924 he ratified the Dawes (1924) Plan for reparation payment (cf. note for Dawes Colony), and, in 1929, its replacement, the Young Plan, whose terms greatly worsened the direct impact of the reparations debt for the German people."Under Stresemann, who had entered politics by way of the industrial federations, whose party was the avowed party of Big Business, and who surrounded himself with industrialists, bankers and economists, business leaders seemed destined to become the new ruling class." (Greenwood, op. cit., p. 69) The Stresemann regime was thus the exact antithesis of the National-Socialist ideals here set forth by Goebbles.Stresemann was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (1926)

Our Platform

"Every party has a platform. What is yours? If you want to win the German worker over to your side, what do you offer him?”

"If we were bigshots of Jews, we would now spell out a long list of promises. Nothing is easier than that. Telling the truth is what's difficult. It is even more difficult to listen to and understand it. We tell it nevertheless, knowing that it alone shows the way to salvation:

1. Certainly, every party has its platform. But no party has ever put its platform into effect. None could, nor will they be able to in the future, because all platforms set out to date have been unworkable.

2. Our platform is concise: the liberty of the working German people. The way to achieve it is clear and simple: the liberation of the German worker, and his reintegration into the national framework."We will do anything it takes to achieve this goal. We won't back away from social revolution if the liberty of the nation requires it. We do not fear to burst the chains imposed on this nation, if that is what is needed to secure the necessities of life for the German work force.

3. We promise the german worker only this: that we will fight with him to the last breath for his rights, regardless of what this fight costs and what may come after. We offer the greatest good that anyone can conceivably offer a people and its repressed social class:"The fight for freedom and bread!"

Our Demands

"And what does the German worker have to do in return?"

"Nothing in the world is free, and so the worker should bear in mind:

1. If he wants to be free, he must make sacrifices to this end. No-one can make him free--he has to do it himself. And since freedom is the ultimate, he must stake his utmost: life itself.

2. A goal always stadns in direct proportion to the energy expended in attaining it. Only liars promise Heaven in return for a party membership card."

But we say: liberty is everything. And for that reason, it demands everything from us: a long, bitter struggle filled with hardship and worry and arduousness and hunger and danger, and a constant sacrificing of health, pleasure, happiness and contentment.

"That's what the German worker must provide.

"But at the end of it all, the best possible reward beckons: a free Germany of productive labor."

The Middle Class

"Aren't Marxists perhaps right after all when they say that the NSDAP is just a petty middle-class movement whose leadersip consists of failed officers, students and doctors?

How is a worker to believe that these could possibly liberate him?

You won't be able to convince him that workers can only be liberated by workers.

"That's a lot of nonsense all in one breath. Listen:

1. The NSDAP is not a petty middle-class movement, but rather, on the contrary, a protest against the bourgeoisification of Socialism in a social democracy. Not our leaders are petty middle-classers--but such as Schiedeman, Leinert, Noske and Bauer (5) are; although by now they've become memebers of the upper class.

2. Name just one failed officer, student or doctor in the NSDAP's leadership! You see, my friend, if an officer, student or doctor is at the head of Marxism--and I could name a hundred, just like that--then he's 'a leader of the working class,' but if he's at the head of the NSDAP, he's a 'failure.'

3. You ask, how could they possibly liberate the workers? If your question is to be justified, then the workers will first of all have to rid the labor movement of that horde of Jewish literati who call themselves leaders of the working class and in actual fact misuse the labor movement for their own despicable aims. And then they should look around them and take a good look at the 'workers' who alone can bring about their liberation: the 'workers' Scheidemann, Wels, Noske, Bauer and who-they-all-are. They've all turned into fat, well-fed members of the upper class.

Their struggle against the middle class was motivated only by envy, and when they themselves were admitted to the upper classes, both their envy and their struggle ended."The spearhead of the German workforce consists, besides of German workers, also of seceders from the middle class--that type of renegade who has mentally overcome the middle class and who is driven in his struggle not by envy, but by the hatred of a class which has brought Germany to the brink of disaster, and who does not join the working class to gain personal advantages, but rather has found his way to the mainspring of the people's creative power out of a deep and responsible inner need."He will join the German worker in a bodn of friendship. Intellect and muscle together will give rise to the miracle of the future: the Third Reich."(5) Leinert, Noske and Bauer--politicians of the Weimar Republic.Noske, Gustav (1868-1946), Social-Democrat, founder of the Weimar Republic's army.Bauer, Otto (1882-1938), Austrian politician of Jewish extraction, Social-Democratic spokesman for "Austor-Marxism." He succeeded Phillipp Scheidemann as German Chancellor (cf. note 4).

"THE MIDDLE CLASS"

Proletariariat and Working Class

"So if I understand you correctly, the NSDAP is a proletarian party under bourgeois leadership?""

I see; you can only think in terms of concepts from a time quickly becoming extinct.

The Germany that we want represents an overcoming of all these old, antiquated concepts. We are neither bourgeois nor proletarian.

The concepts of the bourgeoisie is dead, and that of the proletarian will never rise again. We neither want that which is coming to an end today in the form of a middle-class world, nor that which the Jews and their servants strive for as Marxist-proletarian future.

"We want a Germany of the working class. What does that mean? It means that we want a Germany in which work and achievement are the highest moral and political standards. That's why we are a Worker's Party in the truests sense of the term. Once we have gained the power of the State, Germany will be a nation of labor, a working-class State."

"Those are grand words. But tell me what's behind them! Or do you intend to use empty phrases to gloss over unthought-out half-ideas?""Not at all, my friend. Don't misunderstand me. The Germany of the future will be reorganized to its very foundations. It is wrong to believe that the middle class could effect this management, considering that it is at the same time the pillar of the State against which this arrangement will be directed, namely the middle-class Germany of today. That does of course not mean that members of the middle class cannot help to build the new Germany.

But the historical role of the middle class is at an end and will have to yield to the creative force of a younger, healthier class."It will be replaced by the younger class of--we don't say 'of the proletariat,' because that is a slander on German workers--of the working class. This working class includes everything that works for Germany and towards her future: muscle and intellect."Muscle will be guided by intellect, and intellect will ensure the consistent support lent to it by the creative power of force in order to build up its new German State.

This inter-reliance of intellect and muscle will perforce unite the workers of both sides. For as long as the Jews make up the German worker's leadership, they will use the misrepresentations of the International to blur the dividing line."German intellect presiding over German muscle results in the only maxim leading to freedom:"German workers of intellect and of muscle, unite!"

International and National

"In other words: you want to counter the International of Marxism with the nationalism of German Socialism?"

"Exactly! Finally we've begun to understand each other!"

"But you do have to grant me one question: if you've recognized that the enemy--whether we call him the Jews, Capitalism, or whatever--thinks and feels internationally, then surely he can't be combated in any but an international way. And the result of such a fight will be the International of Socialism, which shatters once and for all the International of Capitlaism?"

"I can see, my friend: I can talk until I'm blue in the face, and it's all the same in the end. We just can't come clear with each other.

Try to think logically:

1. Of course we have recognized clearly that the enemy is taking up international residence on the backs of the European nations. There are barely any national kinds of capital left in Germany: the railways, mines, factories, money, gold, the National Bank--everything has been converted into stock papers, which repose in the safes of Jewish banks in London and New York. But papers in and of themselves are worthless--they don't roll on railway tracks, they don't yield any coal, don't produce any bread or goods and don't create or maintain value. They only serve to skim off the interest. If we had a real German State, it would declare all German stock stashed in Jewish banks null and void, it would treat them as the scraps of paper they are, and would proclaim a government of national labor in Germany. Since we don't have such a State, we must instead put up with the blessings of the Dawes Colony (6). There's no national wealth and no national capital, that is, wealth and capital belonging to the people, to the nation; instead, everything is under the management of an international syndicate of banks. National capital does not work for us on the international scene; rather, hyaenas of international finance work with it internationally.

2. The fight against this world power does of course have to be fought internatioally, and it would be very short-sighted indeed of us if we were not to support, in all countries, each and every movement which fights on the same front line as we do. But the goal of this fight is never, by no means, a World Republic of Socialism--there has never been any such thing and there never will be; it exists only in the minds of Jewish traitors to the working class, and of mislead German workers. The true goal is the establishment of new nationalistic Socialist states. We also place little or no stock in a united international struggle of nations against the International of finance. There are far too many barriers to such international communication and cooperation. The International of Capital would also not be so foolish as to enslave all peoples and nations in the same way, at the same time--it all happens step by step and one by one, and no nation thinks to equate its situation with that of a previous case, as each believes that it can still save itself by means of compliance and relenting, until it's too late for that nation, too, and it has been swallowed up in its turn by the Moloch of Capitalism."

And further, my friend, we don't have time to wait for all the others. We're on the brink of our last, final collapse, and in this situation it's nothing short of a crime to count on the help of others who have never helped us yet and probably won't help us in the future.

"What counts for us is the maxim: God helps those who help themselves!

3. If you keep talking about an International of Socialism, you only prove that you've failed to understand even the most basic natural foundations of nation and people. No great conception of a State--and Socialism is certainly one--has ever led to an International. The guiding principle of history is not blending, but diversity and difference. That has always been so, always will be. Fighting is what shapes peoples and nations, and anyone who refuses to fight is doomed."You may say, that is terrible--that's the way it is; we ahve to come to terms with it, and to fight. History is shaped by eternal laws of nature, not by placatory Marxist phrases.

"Nature loves diversity, not uniformity. It does not want a homogenous porridge of manking--it wants mankind composed of many different peoples and races, among which the strongest will ever hold its own against the weak."We have recognized this fact, and are willing to act accordingly in order to help our German nation forge the weapons it needs in the struggle for existence on this Earth, so that it can assert itself in this world of struggle and of triumph of the stronger over the weaker."That's wehat we call being nationalistc!"

(6) Under the leadership of American financier Charles Dawes, an international committee of experts worked out a WW1 reparations payment plan for Germany according to the maxim "business, not politics." Germany's political debts were to be converted to economic obligations and settled along purely economic lines. The Dawes Plan decreed the following:

1. Industry will accept a first debt of 5 billion gold marks at terms of 5% interest and 1% annual payment.

2. The State Railway will be converted into a joint-stock company, with a capital of 15 billion of which 11 billion is immediately committed to reparations payment and is subject to the same interest and terms as the economic debts.

3. The Reich's income from duties and indirect taxes will serve as security for the reparations payments.

4. The National Bank will be converted into a Federal Reserve bank, independent of the government.

This meant that until 1928, Germany would pay an annual 1,750 billion gold mark in reparations, and after 1928, payment would only have been possible if Germany had increased its exports tenfold. This would have meant unbearable competition for the victorious nations, and the destruction of their own economies. In February of 1928, the Dawes Plan was replaced by the more workable Young Plan.Dawes, Charles Gates (1865-1951), U.S. politician and financier. The Dawes Plan won him the 1925 Nobel prize for peace.International and National

Production and Nationalization

"That's all well and good. But all this has been only talk. Now, the pivotal point: how do you envision the solution to the social problem?"

"To get to the bottom of this question: what is the nature of the social problem? Seventeen million workers are unconditionally at the mercy of Capitalism, which has complete control over all methods of production; they are thus forced to sell their own, their only capital--their power of work--at the lowest possible price. And for this reason, they rightly feel cast out from a society (by whatever name: people, state, or nation) which silently tolerates the situation. Under such conditions, the security of the people breaks down, and they become divided into two factions--one which wants to see this state protected, and one which wants to go up against it. Through such internal division, this nation is eliminated as power of consequence in the grand scale of history."The solution to the social problem is therefore nothing more or less than the social reintegration of a part of the population, its decisive involvement in all matters of political and economic importance, and, in this way, the reintegration of our nation into the grand course of history.

"Towards this end, we demand:

1. Everything that nature has given the people: land, rivers, mountains, forests, the natural resources both above and below the ground, the air--all this in principle belongs to the people as a whole. If anyone owns these, he is in effect the trustee of the people's property, and must consider himself accountable to the State and the nation. If he manages the possessions entrusted to him poorly or in a manner detrimental to the good of the whole, then the State has the right to terminate his ownership and to give his possessions back to the people as a whole.

2. As far as human strength, talent, inventiveness, enterprise and ingenuity are concerned, production remains the province of the individual. The State guarantees that every productive person, whether his means of output be muscle or intellect, is given the largest possible share in the goods and profits arising from production.

3. Production, which is essentially complete and thus requires no rurther strength, talent, inventiveness, enterprise or ingenuity (transportation and communication, trusts, syndicates, etc.) is returned to the State."With this, the sequence of production comes full circle, and once again incorporates each and every worker responsibly into its cycle."

"By putting this system into effect, we free productivity from the shackles of wage slavery. The result will be a free people with a free economy, in a free country: the national community."

Report and Video from the Front Lines

1 Dead, and 3 apprehended.
After-Action Report From The Front lines.

Video part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21WUb9uVGKw

Once again the National Socialist Movement set the bar for true patriotic activism. As they celebrate the accomplishment of patrolling the border for well over a year the members of NSM Arizona and NSM California Units decided to step up their efforts to defend our nation from the invasion from Mexico. The nation has become concerned about state parks and wildlife refuges in Arizona reported by the media as being lost to the the Mexican drug cartels. Residents of Arizona have become infuriated along with a sense of despair as the federal government refuses to properly fund local officials or take any appropriate action to safeguard our land or it`s people. Following three days of recon missions the heavily armed NSM leaped into action reclaiming many miles of southern Arizona known for both it`s human and drug trafficking. They were assisted by armed locals of different ethnicities who were pleased to help an organization willing to fight the cartels and reclaim the land. After clearing an area known as a safe haven for illegal aliens at around 4pm on July 19th, 2010 the NSM along with unaffiliated local residents raised American flags and prepared for the third phase of operations. Just before midnight a patrol was sent further south to collect Intel and cut off known routes used by coyotes and the cartels. While the patrol was out an alliance of local patriots and NSM members worked security around the base camp. The first patrol returned and was succeeded by a substantial second patrol in the early morning hours at a time when the drug cartels and coyotes prefer to travel. A secondary camp was established and the allied force then dominated miles of southern Arizona. heavily armed foot patrols guarded both the camps and went on quiet recon missions into the desert hundreds of yards from the main camps. Many hours later the secondary camp retired from their stronghold and returned to the main base of operations just as day light hit the desert. A hour after the assemblage at base camp NSM members on security spotted one of Mexico`s biggest export; a Mexican. Javier was almost delirious from heat exhaustion and dehydration and his feet bled through his socks from nine days of hiking through the desert. Immediately the base camp went into high alert. Invaders into our nation never singly come and a single person found near a camp usually serves as a distraction for the coyotes or the cartels. As Javier searching for humanitarian aid voluntarily gave up his travel into America our base security was vigilant and a heavily armed search team went on patrol. While waiting for Border Patrol to pick up Javier the search team discovered a body lying dead in the nearby wash. Although partially hidden by brush there was no hiding the stench of decaying flesh. Judging by what the buzzards didn`t eat, and by the clothing, the body appeared to be a middle aged man. The only item near the body was a pole his hand clutched with a water bottle tied at the end. The position of the body indicated to us that he either fainted and collapsed or was the victim of foul play. Local authorities were notified and an investigation by the authorities was launched. Javier was taken into custody by Border Patrol and two others that were part of his party were picked up on the main highway.

This highly successful operation also pushed drug runners on a path in the neighboring county the previous night that isn`t usually traveled and they were easily spotted according to one source. A local who goes on patrol to safeguard his neighborhood reported that the drug runners were forced to use the paths usually reserved for the coyotes. As we reclaim more of southern Arizona the cartels will be forced to fight over the paths outside of our patrols. A local source reported that with more local citizens on patrol every day and the NSM placing more boots in the region the cartels are fighting and killing each other. The last gun battle between cartels in the area was only a week prior to our major operation. After last Saturday the cartels have been left with fewer ports of entry. We continue to work with locals (some of the locals are NSM members) and we receive good Intel on both the coyotes and the cartels activities. We will coordinate our efforts accordingly.

I would like to thank JT Ready, Harry, and NSM Arizona for coordinating this recent effort, for their recon missions prior to the big push into the desert, and for all their work at the border. I would also like to thank NSM California member "Butch" and NSM supporter Steve for the supplies and for helping transport NSM California`s border equipment. And although this operation was made possible, and successful, by a variety of people we must thank all the locals who decided to help us in the field and/or in supporter roles. We can not stress how grateful we are for the boots at the border and the Intel provided by these locals of different ethnicities. These people were scrutinized by the media at Saturdays press conference and some were even attacked for supporting an effort led by the NSM however these individuals were not persuaded to leave or abandon the mission. There was no talk of political affiliation or beliefs. We openly spoke on who we are to not mislead any individual however the goal was to reclaim American land, and not push our beliefs. There was an Apache Indian and a Hispanic along with others supporting the mission and willing to fight and die along side of us to keep drugs off our streets, keep Mexicans from further invading our land, and reclaim American land and the border. The Hispanic man was very vocal about being an American first, last, and only. The Apache was a reward recipient and acknowledged state wide for his work against drug abuse in his community and has personally led many addicts to recovery. His statement before embarking on the mission was simple yet powerful,"I`ve been fighting drug abuse for many years. Now it`s time for me to fight the problem at it`s source. The drugs stop here".

The NSM patrols at the border in Arizona and California continue and future large scale missions are being organized in both states. The National Socialist Movement continues with their campaign to reclaim the Southwest!

Drunk paki escapes jail for killing a swan

A drunken chef found covered in blood and feathers after strangling a wild swan escaped being sent to jail yesterday.

It is believed that Mohammed Miah, who has worked as a curry chef, intended to cook the bird.

Yesterday he was given a three-month suspended jail sentence after admitting intentionally killing a protected bird.

Miah, 29, throttled the sleeping swan on the banks of the Great Ouse river in Bedford in the early hours of the morning last month.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1287701/Curry-chef-caught-police-covered-blood-feathers-killing-swan-given-suspended-prison-sentence.html#ixzz0rNUEIO3p

Jews reveal their plans for the world

The “Mongrel Race” Nonsense Refuted

Two weeks before the election this year, Sandy Walkington, a Liberal Democrat candidate for St Albans said, "We're all mongrels. I mean, this country is the most mongrel country in the world. In 200 years we'll all be coffee-coloured — and I've got no problem with that.”

It is outrageous and deeply offensive that politicians, the media and left-wing celebrities have promoted the lie that we are somehow all basically from mixed breeding stock in order to legitimise the invasion by hordes of foreigners.

Eddie Izzard said in his TV series Mongrel Britain, “our country has been massively diverse for most of its history — a blend of Angles, Saxons, Romans, Vikings, Celts.”

But the history of the British people shows that we have been here for thousands of years and that past invasions have contributed no more than five percent to our population.

Izzard speaks with excitement about “rich diversity” and “a dynamic and vibrant mix of foreign genes.”

Yet there is nothing vibrant or dynamic about losing your job to cheap Eastern European workers or finding that you can’t spot a white face in your high street.

http://bnp.org.uk/?q=news/%E2%80%9Cmongrel-race%E2%80%9D-nonsense-refuted

IN FRANCE THEY PUNCH WHITE GIRLS

How do you like diversity in Europe these days? Many immigrants including the cowardly black African in the video enter Europe, enjoy the fruits of the people’s labor by living off its social system only to repay their host country by never assimilating into the culture, its language or its customs.

Watching this poor excuse for a man punch a woman because apparently she rejected his advances is frustrating because one is unable to help. Right?

Except few White people respond anymore to the growing pattern of aggression against their race. How many times have we seen this before. White people no longer defending themselves and White people no longer coming to the aid and defending other White people.

Getting mixed up in some one’s fist fight or entering a potential violent confrontation is another thing and frankly inadvisable unless you are experienced in violent situations. However, there should be an automatic response in White men and women to group together, close ranks, fight back and defend others. This must be absorbed into our survival. That is, if we ever hope to survive as a race.

For now, welcome to the world of diversity. Where good pupils are taught the White Man’s Wickedness. And Whites are running a mile of sorry and worry, petrified of using language that might be construed as being “racist” or “homophobic.” Stay with the program of non-violent responses, hushed protests and remain politically correct.

RIP Hans Schmidt

Hans Schmidt (1927-2010) was an energetic and prolific German-American activist who for years steadfastly defended Germany’s heritage, forthrightly countering lies and distortions of twentieth-century European history. He was also the author of several books. During World War Two he served as a soldier in the Waffen SS.

He was born in western Germany in April 1927, the second of seven children. In 1944 he volunteered for service in the famed Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler SS panzer division. During the war’s final months he was engaged in the furious winter combat of the “Battle of the Bulge,” in bloody fighting in Hungary, and finally in desperate battles in Austria. He ended the war as a twice-wounded 18-year-old corporal and squad leader.

After surrendering to US troops just two days before the end of fighting in Europe, he was held -- along with many tens of thousands of other German prisoners of war -- under brutal conditions in primitive stockades without shelter. Thanks to the kindness of individual American GIs, he was spared transfer to Soviet imprison­ment, or prolonged custody in US internment.

He soon migrated to the United States, where he became a successful businessman and a naturalized US citizen. He married and became the father of two daughters.

In 1983 he founded the German-American National Political Action Committee (GANPAC), which was devoted to countering anti-German bias in the media. For years he ran GANPAC, first in southern California and then in Florida. He wrote and published two GANPAC newsletters, one in English (Ganpac Brief) and one in German (USA-Berichte).

In June 1985 the GANPAC office in Santa Monica, California, was set on fire. The arson attack was carried out by the Jewish Defense League, a Zionist terror group, apparently because of Schmidt’s skepticism of familiar Holocaust claims

Schmidt was the author of several books, including SS Panzergrenadier: A True Story Of World War II (published in late 2001), Hitler Boys in America: Re-Education Exposed, and Jailed in Democratic Germany.

http://www.revisionists.com/revisionists/schmidt.html

Stop the Boer Genocide March May 15th Central London - Photo Slide Show

Bristol: Council Accused of Racism over 'No Whitey' Job Advert

ACCUSATIONS of racism have been levelled at Bristol City Council, for advertising a management training scheme purely for ethnic minorities.

The city’s largest employer is looking for two graduates in a bid to address its lack of minority employees and better match the ethnic diversity of the city.

The process is legal but one potential applicant, who did not wish to be named, has criticised the fact the job was not open to everyone. He said: “I am a tolerant white person who has lived in Bristol for 27 years. I am currently searching for a job and stumbled across a job advertisement on Bristol City Council’s website that I see as totally racist.

“I feel the job itself would be an excellent opportunity for me to make use of the skills and qualifications that I have acquired, however, being white I am totally excluded from applying for the post. Surely equal opportunities means giving everyone an equal chance to succeed rather than discriminating against people because of the colour of their skin.

http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/news/Bristol-City-Council-accused-racist-advert-management-trainee-job-vacancy/article-2235050-detail/article.html

South African asylum seeker told to get out of Britain

A WHITE SOUTH African who moved his family to Stoke-on-Trent more than two years ago to look after his ill mother is being booted out of Britain.

Immigration officers have told Grant and Charlotte Rabe and their three children that they will be deported by the end of July.

Grant had arrived in Britain on a six-month visa in December 2007 and has spent £4,000 on legal fees to try to remain in the country.

http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/news/don-t-deserve-kicked-UK/article-2233505-detail/article.html

The British Government has consistently undermined the rights of the Boer from putting them in concentration camps during the Boer, to supporting sanctions during the apartheid era, to support black murdering scum, to deporting innocent families like this one yet letting terrorist scum like Abid Naseer can stay whilst the police and others monitor his every move at great expense to the tax payer.

The Boer are our Kindred our blood we must fight for them however we can I am dedicated to do whatever we can to help. The Boer deserve a nation of their own as do the Rhodesians a nation that is free of non white, a nation were they are safe.

But it does not stop there we need that for all whites whether they are in the world.

NSM Britannia Meet & Greet

When:
26/06/2010 at 11:00 am

Where:
TBC
West Midlands
Birmingham,
United Kingdom

Email Contact:
NSMBritannia@googlemail.com

Monthly Meet & Greet with flyer distribution held by NSM Britannia!

For More Information and details of meeting points please contact me. 88
--
Corporal John - NSM Britannia Unit Leader

Isreal Piracy & Terrorism at it's finest

YESTERDAY ISRAEL CLAIMED NOTHING HAPPEND!!!! TODAY THEY CLAIM SELF DEFENCE!

JERUSALEM – Israeli naval commandos stormed a flotilla of ships carrying aid and hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists to the blockaded Gaza Strip on Monday, killing nine passengers in a botched raid that provoked international outrage and a diplomatic crisis.

Dozens of activists and six Israeli soldiers were wounded in the bloody predawn confrontation in international waters. The violent takeover dealt yet another blow to Israel's international image, already tarnished by war crimes accusations in Gaza and its 3-year-old blockade of the impoverished Palestinian territory.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanhayu canceled a much-anticipated meeting with President Barack Obama in Washington on Tuesday in a sign of just how gravely Israel viewed the uproar. In Canada, Netanyahu announced he was rushing home but said he had called the American president and agreed to meet again.

President Barack Obama voiced "deep regret" over the raid and "expressed the importance of learning all the facts and circumstances" surrounding the incident.

The activists were headed to Gaza to draw attention to the blockade, which Israel and Egypt imposed after the militant Hamas group seized the territory of 1.5 million Palestinians in 2007.

There were conflicting accounts of what happened early Monday, with activists claiming the Israelis opened fire without provocation and Israel insisting its forces fired in self defense.

Speaking alongside the Canadian prime minister, Netanyahu expressed "regret" for the loss of life but said the soldiers had no choice. "Our soldiers had to defend themselves, defend their lives, or they would have been killed," he said.

Israel said it opened fire after its commandos were attacked by knives, clubs and live fire from two pistols wrested from soldiers after they rappelled from a helicopter at about 4 a.m. to board one of the vessels.

Night-vision footage released by the military showed soldiers dropping from a helicopter one by one and being grabbed by a mob of men wielding sticks on the lead boat, the Turkish-flagged Mavi Marmara. The soldiers succumbed to the assailants and fell to the deck, where the men continued to beat them and dump one of them from the top deck.

A commando who spoke to reporters on a naval vessel off the coast, identified only as "A," said he and his comrades were taken off guard by a group of Arabic-speaking men when they landed on the deck.

Some soldiers were stripped of their helmets and equipment and thrown from the top deck to the lower deck, and some had even jumped overboard to save themselves, the commando said. At one point one of the activists seized one of the soldiers' weapons and opened fire, the commando said.

Communications to the ships were cut shortly after the raid began, and activists were kept away from reporters after their boats were towed to the Israeli port of Ashdod.

Helicopters evacuated the wounded to Israeli hospitals, officials said. Five ships had reached port by early evening and some 136 activists had been removed without serious incident, the military said.

Sixteen were jailed for refusing to identify themselves, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said. Israel had said activists would be given the choice to be deported or imprisoned.

Israeli officials said the death toll was nine with 30 wounded, after earlier saying 10 people were killed. It said the final tally was reached after bringing all six boats in the flotilla under control.

A high-ranking naval official displayed a box confiscated from the boat containing switchblades, slingshots, metal balls and metal bats. Most of the dead were Turkish, he said.

In a sign the soldiers didn't anticipate such fierce resistance, two commandos told The Associated Press that the primary weapons were guns that fired paintballs — a nonlethal weapon that can be used to subdue crowds. They said they resorted to lethal handgun fire after they were assaulted.

Turkey's NTV network showed activists beating one commando with sticks as he landed on one of the boats. Dr. Arnon Afek, deputy director of Chaim Sheba Medical Center outside Tel Aviv, said two commandos were brought in with gunshot wounds. Another had serious head wounds from an unspecified blow, Afek added.

Activists, however, painted a completely different picture, saying the commandos stormed the ships after ordering them to stop in international waters, about 80 miles (130 kilometers) from Gaza's coast.

A reporter with the pan-Arab satellite channel Al-Jazeera, who was sailing on the Turkish ship leading the flotilla, said the Israelis fired at the vessel before boarding it, wounding the captain.

"These savages are killing people here, please help," a Turkish television reporter said.

The broadcast ended with a voice shouting in Hebrew, "Everybody shut up!"

At Barzilai hospital in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, a few activists trickled in under military escort. "They hit me," said a Greek man, whose right arm was in a sling, calling the Israelis "pirates." He did not give his name and later was escorted away with a neck brace.

At a news conference in Tel Aviv, Israel's military chief of staff and navy commander said the violence was centered on the lead boat, which was carrying 600 of the 700 activists. Troops took over the five other boats without incident, military chief Gabi Ashkenazi said.

Reaction was swift and harsh, with a massive protest in Turkey, Israel's longtime Muslim ally, which unofficially supported the mission. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan accused Israel of "state terrorism," and the government said it was recalling its ambassador and called off military exercises with the Jewish state.

The U.N. Security Council held an emergency meeting later Monday, while the Arab League planned to meet Tuesday in Cairo.

Robin Churchill, a professor of international law at the University of Dundee in Scotland, said the Israeli commandos boarded the ship outside of Israel's territorial waters.

"As far as I can see, there is no legal basis for boarding these ships," Churchill said.

Many of the activists were from Europe.

The European Union deplored what it called excessive use of force and called for the Gaza blockade to be lifted immediately, calling it "politically unacceptable."

Israeli security forces were on alert across the country. Protesters gathered at two universities and burned tires and threw rocks in Israel's largest Arab city, but no injuries were reported.

Organizers said two prominent activists, 1976 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire and Holocaust survivor Hedy Epstein, 85, did not join the flotilla as planned.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the Israeli "massacre," declared three days of mourning across the West Bank.

Ismail Haniyeh, leader of the rival Hamas government in Gaza, condemned the "brutal" Israeli attack and called on U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to intervene.

In Uganda, Ban condemned the deaths and called for a "thorough" investigation.

Before the ships set sail from waters off Cyprus on Sunday, Israel had urged the flotilla not to try to breach the blockade and offered to transfer some of the cargo to Gaza from an Israeli port, following a security inspection.

Organizers included the IHH, an Islamic humanitarian group that is based in Istanbul but operates in several other countries. Israel outlawed the group in 2008 because of its ties to Hamas.

The flotilla of three cargo ships and three passenger ships carrying 10,000 tons of aid and 700 activists was carrying items that Israel bars from reaching Gaza, like cement and other building materials.

Israel has allowed ships through five times, but has blocked them from entering Gaza waters since a three-week military offensive against Gaza's Hamas rulers in January 2009.

Hmm so Israeli commandos lay siege a Turkish vessel in international waters and now claim self defense. . . . Interesting.