Alfred Ernst Rosenberg was born on January 12, 1893, in Reval, Estonia, in the Russian Empire. He was executed by the remorseless victors of World War II on the morning of October 16, 1946. During his imprisonment awaiting the “predictable results” of the Nuremberg revenge-trials, he was able to draft an excellent autobiography entitled Memoirs.
Upon the last page of Memoirs is Rosenberg’s powerful statement to his foes: “National Socialism was the content of my active life. I served it faithfully, albeit with some blundering and human insufficiency. I shall remain true to it as long as I still live.”
Condensed from the Introduction to the book: In 1918, following the victory of the Russian Revolution, Rosenberg immigrated to Germany. By 1919, he had joined the German Workers’ Party which was transformed into the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, or NSDAP), becoming a member before Adolf Hitler had joined the party.
During his lifetime, Rosenberg authored many articles and books such as: The Track of the Jew through the Ages; Immorality in the Talmud; The Crime of Freemasonry: Judaism, Jesuitism, German Christianity; Being, Principles, and Goals of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party; The Plague in Russia. Bolshevism, its Heads, Henchmen and Victims; The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and Jewish World Politics; and The Myth of the 20th Century.
Alfred Rosenberg was elected to the Reichstag for the NSDAP in the 1930 elections. After Hitler was appointed Chancellor, Rosenberg became the leader of the NSDAP’s foreign political office and attempted to promote an alliance between Germany and Britain. By 1934, Rosenberg was responsible for the spiritual and philosophical education of the NSDAP and all related organizations.
Following the invasion of the USSR in June of 1941, Rosenberg was appointed Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories. He followed a policy designed to encourage anti-Communist opinion among the population of the occupied territories and was largely responsible for the very large flow of recruits to the German military effort against the Soviet Union, drawn directly from peoples formerly under the control of the Communist state.
Rosenberg was arrested at the end of the war and put on trial in Nuremberg. Clearly, his execution was for the crime of creating the National Socialist ideology…that alone.
The book Memoirs contains much information about the early bloody struggles and formation of the NSDAP. Rosenberg offers up his thoughts about Third Reich supporters and leaders; some he respected and others he despised. The extensive footnotes are invaluable.
From Rosenberg’s chapter on Race and Racial theory: “Style, customs, language, are the manifestation of different souls and peoples; and just as these cannot be mixed without a resultant deterioration of their purity, so men, as their embodiment, and to whom they belong organically and spiritually, cannot intermingle.”
Take a gander at his prediction for a racial dissolution of America: “And yet history does not stand still. The forces of life and blood exist and will be effective. The very state that today charges us with crimes against humanity, the United States of America, ought to listen with particular attentiveness to the theories of race and heredity if it wishes to preserve its power.
Fourteen million Negroes and mulattoes, four to five million Jews, the Japanese in the west, and the rest, are more than America can carry without endangering the heritage of her pioneers. But if the present generation fails to do something to elude the fate of someday having twenty-five million Negroes and mulattoes, ten million Jews and half-Jews in America, then a later generation will certainly be harsh in its judgment. The Americans will have to decide whether they want a white America or whether they want to make the choice of their President ever more a question of additional concessions toward mulattoisation.”
“Never will a Hottentot, believer though he may be, build cathedrals; never will a Negro write a Fifth Symphony, nor even understand it. And it is actually unfair to expect it of them.”
Rosenberg explains why the German people had to confront the enemy within, the Communist foreign parasites. “The war against Jewry came about because an alien people on German soil arrogated the political and spiritual leadership of the country, and, believing itself triumphant, flaunted it brazenly.”
The soft-bound copy of Memoirs by Alfred Rosenberg contains 201 pages with one photograph of the author. This book can be purchased from The Barnes Review, P.O. Box 15877, Washington, DC 2003 Tel: (877) 773-9077 for $15 plus $5 for shipping.
From pages 200 and 201: “The Nuremberg show trials will presently be over and our fates decided. Let my confession stand behind them: National Socialism was the European answer to a century-old question. It was the noblest of ideas to which a German could give all his strength. It made the German nation a gift of unity, it gave the German Reich a new content. As other great ideas knew heights and depths, so National Socialism too will be reborn someday in a new generation steeled by sorrow, and will create in a new form a new Reich for the Germans.”
And even our present acres of death will someday bloom again. A.E.R.
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