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Hitler's Fundamental Aspiration was to Cure the Disease from which he believed Germany was suffering
Dr. Richard Koenigsberg, with Thuppahi
Everything that Hitler did began with his belief that Germany was ill--suffering from a disease--and that the cause of this disease was the Jew. Thus, his life's mission, more significant than "conquest" and everything else that the historians write about, was to destroy Jews, and thus to cure the disease from which he believed that German nation was suffering. The Holocaust was not the "side dish," but the main course. In fact, waging war could be conceived as a side dish, until one realizes that Hitler believed that Jewish bacteria were streaming in from the Soviet Union. Thus, the purpose of war against Soviet Union was to destroy these Jewish bacteria. This is why he abandoned the war against Great Britain. He didn't believe that nation was filled with Jewish bacterium.
On March 24, 1882, the German physician and scientist, Robert Koch, presented his discovery of the bacterium that causes tuberculosis. The causal organisms of a great number of bacterial diseases subsequently were isolated. Bacteriologists became aligned with the state—through the use of military analogies in their observations on bacteria. Koch described how “alien parasites” entered the body. Bacteriology was glamorized by comparing laboratory researchers to soldiers, “Warriors against Disease.”
ROBERT KOCH AT WORK
Spectacular advances in bacteriology during the 1880s and 90s greatly enhanced the prestige of laboratory science. There was widespread adulation of Koch. Thousands of handkerchiefs on which his face was embroidered were sold. Bacteriology and experimental biology inspired hope that degenerate germplasms could be located and prevented from reproducing. Just as pathogenic bacteria could be isolated, so it was hoped that the germs of psychopathic mental illness, criminality and feeble-mindedness could be located.
The basic message of bacteriology was simple: each disease was caused by a specific pathogenic organism. If one could identify and isolate this organism—the disease could be cured.
Hitler conceived of himself as a physician, insisting that every distress has "some cause or another.” His mission was to “penetrate to the cause” of Germany’s disease and to effect a cure. On the evening of July 10, 1941, Hitler declared at his table: “I feel I am like Robert Koch in politics. He discovered the bacillus and thereby ushered medical science onto new paths. I discovered the Jew as the bacillus and the fermenting agent of all social decomposition.”
At Hitler’s table talk on 22 February 1942, the following statement was recorded:
“The discovery of the Jewish virus is one of the greatest revolutions that has taken place in the world. The battle in which we are engaged today is of the same sort as the battle waged, during the last century, by Pasteur and Koch. How many diseases have their origin in the Jewish virus! We shall regain our health only be eliminating the Jew.”
Dr. Richard Koenigsberg, with Thuppahi
Everything that Hitler did began with his belief that Germany was ill--suffering from a disease--and that the cause of this disease was the Jew. Thus, his life's mission, more significant than "conquest" and everything else that the historians write about, was to destroy Jews, and thus to cure the disease from which he believed that German nation was suffering. The Holocaust was not the "side dish," but the main course. In fact, waging war could be conceived as a side dish, until one realizes that Hitler believed that Jewish bacteria were streaming in from the Soviet Union. Thus, the purpose of war against Soviet Union was to destroy these Jewish bacteria. This is why he abandoned the war against Great Britain. He didn't believe that nation was filled with Jewish bacterium.
On March 24, 1882, the German physician and scientist, Robert Koch, presented his discovery of the bacterium that causes tuberculosis. The causal organisms of a great number of bacterial diseases subsequently were isolated. Bacteriologists became aligned with the state—through the use of military analogies in their observations on bacteria. Koch described how “alien parasites” entered the body. Bacteriology was glamorized by comparing laboratory researchers to soldiers, “Warriors against Disease.”
ROBERT KOCH AT WORK
Spectacular advances in bacteriology during the 1880s and 90s greatly enhanced the prestige of laboratory science. There was widespread adulation of Koch. Thousands of handkerchiefs on which his face was embroidered were sold. Bacteriology and experimental biology inspired hope that degenerate germplasms could be located and prevented from reproducing. Just as pathogenic bacteria could be isolated, so it was hoped that the germs of psychopathic mental illness, criminality and feeble-mindedness could be located.
The basic message of bacteriology was simple: each disease was caused by a specific pathogenic organism. If one could identify and isolate this organism—the disease could be cured.
Hitler conceived of himself as a physician, insisting that every distress has "some cause or another.” His mission was to “penetrate to the cause” of Germany’s disease and to effect a cure. On the evening of July 10, 1941, Hitler declared at his table: “I feel I am like Robert Koch in politics. He discovered the bacillus and thereby ushered medical science onto new paths. I discovered the Jew as the bacillus and the fermenting agent of all social decomposition.”
At Hitler’s table talk on 22 February 1942, the following statement was recorded:
“The discovery of the Jewish virus is one of the greatest revolutions that has taken place in the world. The battle in which we are engaged today is of the same sort as the battle waged, during the last century, by Pasteur and Koch. How many diseases have their origin in the Jewish virus! We shall regain our health only be eliminating the Jew.”
Robert Proctor observes that Hitler was celebrated as the “great doctor” of German society and as the “Robert Koch of politics.” As Robert Koch had discovered the Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes tuberculosis, Hitler imagined that he had discovered the Jewish bacterium (or virus): the cause of Germany disease and suffering.
The Final Solution was enacted with the purpose of curing Germany’s (and Europe’s) disease by removing or eliminating its cause.
The Final Solution was enacted with the purpose of curing Germany’s (and Europe’s) disease by removing or eliminating its cause.