WHY HITLER?

Every year tens of thousands of persons worldwide pause to remember Adolf Hitler on the anniversary of his birth. Why do they do so? Why, well over a half century after his physical death, are they still drawn to this man? At a special NEW ORDER celebration on April 20, 2002, Movement Commander Matt Koehl, asked the same questions and offered this definitive explanation:

Why do we celebrate this day? Why do we pause once more to pay homage to someone who is the most hated figure in the history of the world? What inner motivation drives us to come together with those of like mind to pay tribute to this most remarkable personality?

These are questions which are asked, not only by the public at large, but also by those generic racialists who say that the most important thing is the future of our race, and that everything else is secondary and of no consequence to this purpose.

"Why all this Hitler business?" they ask. "Sure, I agree with what you say about how bad things are and that something must be done about it. Sure, I want to see a better world for my children and grandchildren. But why do you keep bringing up this man, who is not only from another country and another time, but someone whom everyone hates and rejects?"

That is the common attitude. What do we say in response? What credible answer can we give to these honest concerns of decent white brothers and sisters?

First of all, we must recognize the enormity of the issue before us today. It is not merely one of simple social, economic, political or moral upset and dislocation—something which can be righted painlessly and without much effort in a few short years.

Understand that the problems we face in the world today are not the product of some bad election or a downturn of the stock market, or of a few bad apples in society getting out of hand.

Collapsing Old Order

What is your favorite complaint? Is it rat-race consumerism or corporate greed? Is it environmental devastation, pollution or race-mixing? Is it Affirmative Action, minority quotas or demographic invasion? Is it Black History? Is it the Holocaust Industry and the Israel-extortion racket? Is it drugs, gun control or teen suicide? How about pornography, filth, perversion, chaos, crime, corruption, dumbing down and insanity of every kind? Take your pick.

All of these things, however, are merely symptoms of something far more serious: namely, a GENERAL DECLINE OF CIVILIZATION. What this means is that every institution and every facet of contemporary society is affected.

In a nutshell, an entire civilization is collapsing. What we see about us is an Old Order that is crumbling and falling apart.

And so, to try to stop this collapse is like that little Dutch boy trying to stem the rising tide by sticking his wee finger in the dike. One can admire such pluck, but we all know it will never succeed. In the face of the dire circumstance before us, something else is required—in this case, a seaworthy vehicle to carry us to the farther shores of a New Order.

Advent of a Führer

The condition of our race today did not occur overnight. It has been a long time in coming. Consequently, to think that radical improvement can occur overnight is nothing more than wishful thinking; because what is required is, first of all, a revolution of values—a MORAL AND SPIRITUAL REVOLUTION among those who call themselves white and say they want to see a better world for their children.

But that takes time—decades and generations—for its accomplishment and the concomitant work of preparation for a New Order. That, in turn, requires a nucleus of FAITH to sustain the integrity of its mission over a protracted period of time.

But where do we find this sustaining faith? Where do we look for it?

Fortunately, there is in every age a unique and singular figure who stands out above all the rest of humanity as someone very special. The good news is that such a figure invariably appears when there is great corruption and confusion, in accordance with the words of ancient Aryan scripture: "Age after age, when justice is crushed, when evil reigns supreme, I come; again am I born on the Earth to save the world."

Such a figure comes as a leader, a guide—what the Germans call a Führer. He comes to lead and to guide—not just physically, but above all spiritually. As such he establishes the basis of a new faith.

As this leader and guide—this Führer—he brings humanity a new symbol and a new law. Indeed, he himself becomes a symbol. In so doing, he divides human history into two parts, and a new age on Earth begins.

Germany Personified

As leader and guide—as Führer—he comes as a special gift of Providence. He is that Gottmensch—that godlike figure—spoken of by Houston Stewart Chamberlain, who comes but once in thousands of years to redefine and reorder human relationships.

"Also in Thee are joined all elements which can lead to a new, free, golden age of the spirit, comparable to earlier summits in the life of mankind!" So spoke this prophet on page 88 of  The Aryan Worldview. He was speaking of course, of none other than—ADOLF HITLER!

Adolf Hitle came into the world as the personified culmination of German history. The whole purpose and meaning of this extraordinary history was nothing less than to produce—ADOLF HITLER. This is what Rudolf Hess was talking about, when he declared at the 1934 Congress of our Movement:

"Hitler is Germany, even as Germany is Hitler."

But here we must ask ourselves: Was Hitler strictly a German phenomenon? Or does his appearance have a wider meaning and significance for Aryankind everywhere and, indeed, for the entire world?

To ask this question is to pose the further question: Did the German nation bear a larger purpose and destiny on this Earth beyond itself alone?

The answer is indicated by that old German adage, whose true meaning has been little suspected: "Vom deutschen Wesen wird die ganze Welt genesen." (By the German essence shall the whole world be healed.)

But what is this essence? It is the very One who came as a special gift of Providence, the One who came to fulfill Germany's destiny, namely, that One of whom our Comrade Hess was speaking. ADOLF HITLER is this essence, this Wesen. It is through him that the whole world is to recover and through him that all Aryankind will find its salvation.

Hitler did not Lose

But some will immediately object: "If Hitler died in 1945, how can he save us? If he was so great, why did he lose the war?"

One might as well ask how someone who was crucified 2,000 years ago could offer salvation; and why, if he was so great, did he lose?

The fact is that Hitler did not lose, but has been resurrected in the hearts and minds of men and women and is very much alive in the world today. Indeed, his work is not finished, but only begun.

No, Hitler did not lose the war. But all those Aryans who rejected him and sought his defeat, they lost, as have their children and their children's children.

All Aryankind was given a choice. Some did elect to follow Hitler. But others chose to reject him. And in the increasingly sick, corrupt and alien world before us today we see the end results of the choice of this latter group, which elected to wage war against this special gift of Providence.

Adolf Hitler gave us a Sign. That Sign represents Light, Life, Love and Good Fortune. But in rejecting him, what we have today are the very opposite: namely, DARKNESS, DEATH, HATE and DISASTER.

But this is not the kind of world that a Higher Power intended. It is not His will that Aryankind should perish. He gave us a free will, however, which we elected to use to make war against Him. We chose to reject the very One whom He sent into the world for the salvation of our race. As such, we are now in a state of condemnation.

But there is still hope—IF we are prepared to grasp the mighty hand that remains extended to us.

When I say "we," I am speaking generally, of course, of those in the West who turned their back on this Heaven-sent figure, and who persist in hating him to this very day.

But there were others who did recognize this extraordinary man, and who did follow him.

Was It All in Vain?

Tonight we have with us, as our special guest, someone who had the rare privilege of joining with thousands of others in pledging his honor and his loyalty, as the member of an elite formation, to the Führer—and then sealing that pledge by staking his life daily during five years of relentless physical combat for the Leader's Cause.

Those of us who have not undergone such a baptism of fire can never fully appreciate the measure of devotion that such a commitment requires. We can only look upon it with deepest awe and admiration.

Thousands—yes, millions—of this man's comrades died fighting for a better world. Despite all their sacrifice, however, and despite the greatest display of heroism this world has ever witnessed, these men were to taste the bitter cup of defeat.

And so, the question aries: Was it all in vain? All the suffering, all the sacrifice, all the deaths of millions of the finest Aryans—was it all for nothing? Was it all pointless? Was it all without meaning and purpose?

It would be—IF that were what we wanted. But that is not what we want. We have determined, rather, that these deaths and this suffering shall not have been in vain. Given the choice of our free will, we have decided to cast things in a different light.

And so, we see the events of 1945, not as an ending, but rather as part of what Rudolf Hess called the necessary "birth pangs of a new age," that difficult and painful process destined to give rise to something new and wonderful.

War of Consecration

Seen in this light, the Second World War was more than just another historical conflict. What it was can only be described as a WAR OF CONSECRATION in an ongoing contest between the elemental forces of Right and Wrong in this world—between the opposing forces of Order and Chaos, between those of Idealism and Materialism, between those of Aryan destiny and Jewish destruction.

It was none other than LINCOLN ROCKWELL who was first to recognize the actual nature of this sacramental conflict. This man—who, in his misguided youthful enthusiasm, had fought against Adolf Hitler—was later to make the following declaration in his testament, In Hoc Signo Vinces:

"Until the advent of Adolf Hitler, the white men of the world had nothing, absolutely NOTHING, in the way of a common cause, common heroes, common martyrs, common shrines, names and symbols.

"But now, after millions of young German white men have heroically flung their precious lives away in the first real fight in history for the white elite, we finally HAVE the blood-soaked shrines, symbols and martyrs which are the most elementary stuff of revolution!"

Was it all in vain, meaningless, pointless? There, my good comrades, you have your answer.

In our collective consciousness, our Führer has come back to life. He lives in our hearts and minds. And as he so lives, he is joined by all those countless fallen heroes and martyrs and by all those who have remained true to him and to his Cause.

Why Hitler? Why this man who is so hated and despised?

Why do we believe in him? Why do we acclaim him as our Leader? Why do we follow him?

We follow him, because we recognize in him our immortal symbol before the world.

We follow him, because he is the One who came for the restoration of truth and righteousness.

We follow him, because he is the One who came into the world so that Aryankind might not perish, but have everlasting life.

We follow him, because he is the One without whom there is no hope, but with whom all things are possible according to his will.

We follow him, because he is our undying inspiration—because he is the greatest figure of the age.

This is the One we proudly hail as Leader, Guide—as Führer. We do so in the certain knowledge that his way alone can lead to a better world and to a brighter time for future generations of Aryankind.

And so, once again, we are reminded of the Seventh Principle of our Faith, as set forth by Lincoln Rockwell: "We believe that Adolf Hitler was the gift of an inscrutable Providence to a world on the brink of Jewish-Bolshevik catastophe, and that only the blazing Spirit of this heroic man can give us the strength and inspiration to rise from the depths of persecution and hatred, to bring the world a new birth of radiant idealism, realistic peace, international order, and social justice for all men."

On this anniversary of his birth, I salute each and every one in the name of our immortal Leader—

HEIL HITLER!