Heinrich Himmler, one of the main co-authors of an attempted biological solution to a non-biological problem.

By some happy (or unhappy) chance, YAHOO.COM had provided this link :

http://www.third-reich-books.com/himmler.htm

— which I had discovered just as I was writing these words here.

The link proffers "#543 SS DEFENDER AGAINST BOLSHEVISM by Reichsf�hrer-SS Heinrich Himmler. English translations of Himmler�s writings are rare!"

Please note that when dealing with anything containing the word "Bolshevism" in it one is on the watch for fabrications. Instances of bogus anti-Bolshevism have been not infrequently seen by me personally.

(Please do your own research, the reader, but let me inform you that virtually everything connected with Bolshevism is naturally suspect.)

As to Herr Himmler's own ideological background, please note that his boss, one Adolf Schücklgruber (alias Hitler) began as a sort of 'socialist' and the party led by the latter was known as a 'national socialist workers party'.

This offshoot of 'socialism' could fairly well be described as a non-survival mutation of some 'socialism' — but this does not naturally prove that the originals were much (or any) better.

The earliest formulations of a 'national socialism' known to me came down from 1918 and were :

" The international Poale-Zion confederation is the living expression of National Socialism or Socialistic Nationalism, which has been finally recognized as the only true conception of Socialism. "

Source : The aims of Jewish labor by the Jewish Socialist Labor Party, New York City : Poale-Zion of America, 1918, page 17 (as given by B. Brasol, Socialism vs. Civilization, New York : Scribner's, 1920, pages 39-40. The original Poale-Zion publication is listed in the New York Public Library.)

It seems to me that the activities by Messrs, Hitler, Himmler, etc. reflected some such situation : the Fuehrer did not much see beyond what he (etc) opposed.

"The madness of the chief had become the religion of his followers", observed a diplomatist with good knowledge of the situation in Europe in the 1930-40's.

One would not seek a remedy in a something which is but a perversion of the problem faced.

Attacking the problems of the USSR under Stalin one can see something like another perversion — of the Hitlerite perversion of 'socialism' (please confer Stalin's Kampf by J. Stalin, Hew York : Howell, Soskin, 1940). A second-order perversion so to speak — of a "thing" that was never any good to begin with.

WPT