German Education Forum - 10 The German Slave Market, The Tragedy of Erfurt, Interview with Peter Huebner

Peter Huebner -The German Slave Market - The Tragedy of Erfurt

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Backgrounds, Culprits, People Responsible, Victims

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PETER HUEBNER: But the thing is – and this seems to be a law of nature – that a statesmanship orientated towards material profit, which Hitler pursued so “successfully” and which the present-day run-of-the-mill politician pursues so unsuccessfully, at some point, with compelling necessity, will first lead to non-observance of the basic human rights, then more and more vehemently to lack of respect for them and finally to their violation, and in this way to official undermining of natural human dignity.

“What is against nature is against God.”
Hebbel

With Hitler all this happened faster, as a result of his extremely great political talent, and with today’s politicians it happens accordingly slower, due to the inadequate political talent of all of them.

But due to the same basic attitude of materialistically orientated politics, the way to seeming “success” in both cases – yesterday as today – is connected with violating the basic rights of man and undermining his natural dignity.

The fact that such violations against the Basic Law must not happen straight away in great numbers is nowadays known to even the most incapable politician – no, this official undermining of the basic human rights through state organs always starts concerning individuals, then extends to smaller groups – so-called dissident minorities – and finally ends with official denigration of larger communities, giving them a criminal status, which in the end leads to persecution by the state.

On the way to seeming political success, avarice and craving for power always result in the emotional decline first of the public servants but also, through their official influence, of the whole of human society - i.e. the citizens; this manifests firstly in the persecution of minorities and finally consequently in a large-scale war, where neighbouring countries are sucked into the own problems of inner mental-emotional decline of the attacker.

“What terrifies me,
is not the destructive power of the bomb,
but the explosive power
of the human heart towards evil!”
Albert Einstein

Such outwardly directed wars are in reality nothing but lightning-conductors for the seething potential civil war, which derives from violating the basic rights of man and undermining human dignity by or via the state organs.

“We have learned,
to fly like the birds
and to swim like the fishes.
But we have not learned the simple art
to live like brothers.”
Martin Luther King
1929-1968 American civil rights activist & pastor

I am saying deliberately: via the state organs and not exclusively: by the state organs – because by now not seldom the members of parliament and in consequence the political parties and thus finally also the state organs are dependants of totally different financially strong interest groups, which keep discretely in the background, and for whom governmental power is only a special instrument of exercising their own power for pursuing their very special interests.

Thus, Hitler’s last world war was unthinkable without the background of greedy, power craving economic magnates, and without the active help of at least the Lutheran Church in Germany.
Without the support of those leading men of German and partly also foreign economy and politics – especially also of the major banks –, so exclusively orientated towards material profits, Hitler and the Nazis would not have been able to manage such a large-scale, economic success so smoothly within such a short time resulting in armament for a new world war.
But the special quality of that major “Führer” of his time was persuading the masses and binding political powers. And here he was evidently supported by the Lutheran Church in Germany to an extremely high degree.

First of all, immediately after Hitler assuming his office, it entrusted “its” entire Lutheran Youth – children as well as youths – to the “great Führer Adolf Hitler” for safe keeping – I am using the expression “entrusted for safe keeping”, because I have meanwhile come to think that the Lutheran Church in Germany has to be considered as the strongest wire puller behind the violations against human rights by the Nazis.

“We live in the times
of the Last Judgement,
but of the mute one,
where the things collapse by themselves.”
Hebbel