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   From: mars1933@hotmail.com   
      
   An article by Dr. Joseph Goebbels, July 6 1941   
   The Veil Falls   
   by Joseph Goebbels   
      
   Hundreds of thousands of young German soldiers have been crossing our   
   Eastern border and marching through the famed "workers' and peasants'   
   paradise." Had National Socialism not been victorious, many of them   
   would today be members of the League of Red Fighters, readers of the   
   "Red Flag," and singers of adoring hymns to the "Workers' Fatherland."   
   At the end of their meetings, they would have praised "wise Stalin,"   
   "the leader of the world revolution" and the "bringer of earthly   
   happiness." A London newspaper wrote a few days ago that the danger of   
   the Eastern campaign for Germany was that our young men might be   
   infected as they came into direct contact with Bolshevism. We must   
   prepare that newspaper for a disappointment. Our solders are indeed   
   experiencing first hand what people call Bolshevism. First, however,   
   National Socialists are immune from any infection by the intellectual   
   and spiritual disease that Moscow preaches, and second they are   
   learning not only the theory of Bolshevism, but also its practice. The   
   result of the acquaintance will be distressing both for Moscow and   
   London.   
      
   The Soviet Union knew what it was doing when it sealed itself off from   
   the rest of the world from its earliest days. No matter how socialist   
   it declared itself in its programs and proclamations, it dared not do   
   what National Socialist Germany, for example, did hundreds of   
   thousands of times: to send its own farmers and workers on their own   
   ships to distant countries, where they could on the one hand enjoy and   
   admire the beauties of these lands, but also compare conditions there   
   with those in their own land. They learned to love their people and   
   Fatherland, with its order, cleanliness and social justice.   
      
   Bolshevism could maintain its social illusion only because its   
   deceived population lacked any opportunity for comparison. When one   
   has lived for 25 years in a dark cellar, a kerosene lamp looks like   
   the sun, and for those who were citizens for twenty-five years of the   
   so-called Soviet Union, the most dreadful hovel seemed a palace and a   
   piece of bread the food of the gods, since he heard every day that   
   those in non-Bolshevist countries did not get anything to eat at all.   
   Moscow was a world to itself. An insidious mixture of dogmatic party   
   doctrine, clever Jews and greedy state capitalists rode the   
   conglomerate of peoples that made up the Soviet Union. Those who could   
   remember pre-Bolshevist times, even if by hearsay, were slaughtered.   
   Since they did not see or visit other countries, it was easy to   
   deceive the drugged citizens that the Soviet Union was a paradise   
   instead of the hell it was in reality. It was one of the biggest and   
   cleverest cases of popular deception in all of human history.   
      
   Shortly after our National Socialist revolution, a number of   
   communists who had fled Germany after committing political crimes   
   returned, saying they would rather be in a German prison than   
   so-called free citizens in the so-called Soviet Union. Our soldiers   
   marching into the East now can see with their own eyes what these   
   victims of Bolshevist seduction experienced. The veil is falling. The   
   mystery with which Bolshevism so gladly (and with good reason)   
   surrounded itself is surrendering its secrets. Moscow is being   
   revealed.   
      
   We hear about it in the tales of officers who are sent from the front   
   to Berlin for a day. We read it in countless letters from soldiers   
   that reach the homeland. Rarely has an army begun its victorious march   
   into an enemy land with such curiosity, and probably never has what   
   they actually saw been so much worse than their worst expectations. It   
   is simply indescribable. Bolshevism is being revealed as a disgusting   
   mixture of phrases and poverty, of stubborn doctrine and a complete   
   lack of constructive thinking, of splendid socialist phases and the   
   most distressing social decay. It is mass betrayal in the truest sense   
   of the word.   
      
   What was supposedly going to infect our soldiers has had the opposite   
   effect. Perhaps an occasional soldier previously thought National   
   Socialist teaching about Bolshevism was a bit exaggerated. He finds   
   that reality is even worse. The same thing happened with his comrades,   
   who as they marched into the ghettos of Poland like Litzmannstadt,   
   Krakow and Warsaw realized not only the accuracy, but also the   
   pressing necessity of our anti-Semitic views. When they returned home,   
   they reproached us for understating the dangers. Our soldiers in the   
   East will have the same opinions of Bolshevism when they return.   
   It is outrageous that this spiritual infection wanted to conquer   
   Europe, indeed the entire world. It would be like a cholera patient   
   who maintained that he alone was healthy, and that it was his right   
   and duty to infect those whose health he saw as sickness, in order to   
   make them as healthy as he.   
      
   It is no accident that the question of Bolshevism is being discussed   
   just as it is being revealed. A wave of awakening is rolling through   
   Europe. The peoples who have maintained a healthy core are setting   
   aside their various differences and spontaneously heading to the   
   Eastern Front. Mr. Churchill meanwhile is hurrying to seal the   
   international alliance between democracy and plutocracy, despite the   
   cynical orgies over the past 25 years in the so-called worker'   
   paradise. Things that belong together should be together. We have no   
   doubt that the Jewish band that Mr. Churchill surrounds himself with   
   has made it easy for him to find his way to the Kremlin. The wise   
   Stalin can be pleased; the more the peoples of the Soviet Union learn   
   about the horrors of his regime, the louder the admiration he receives   
   from the plutocratic newspapers on Fleet Street. They are astonished   
   at his courage and steadfastness, comparing him with Mr. Churchill   
   himself, flooding him with waterfalls of praise. We have nothing to   
   add. We only hope to use our best efforts to reach even the last   
   person susceptible to Bolshevism with the truth about the abyss before   
   which he stands.   
      
   The OKW reports that in the Minsk area 20,000 Bolshevist soldiers   
   deserted to the German lines after shooting their political   
   commissars. 52,000 new deserters were announced today. This is more   
   than a symptom. It is a sign to the Jewish-terrorist ruling class of   
   Bolshevism that its end is near. It seeks in vain to turn the tide.   
   Listeners to German radio programs in the Russian language, even those   
   who merely pick up a German leaflet, are executed. The cowardly band   
   of liars in the Kremlin seems to sense that its end is near. Moscow   
   newspapers are full of bloodthirsty attacks on those spreading panic   
   and rumors, defeatists and fifth columnists. The style reminds us of   
   the days just before our takeover in the Reich, when the   
   class-conscious proletariat was warned against attending our meetings.   
      
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