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...works on the required reading list of German A. "Das Konzert" by Herman Bahr, will be presented by the German Club tonight, assisted by its sister organization at Radcliffe...
Nothing so maddens Marxists as to have Marxism called a religion (hence by their definition, opium). Nevertheless, Marxism has its bible (Das Kapital), its god (dialectical materialism), its pope (Stalin), saints (Marx, Engels, Lenin), martyrs (Liebknecht, Luxemburg), doctrine (communist "line"). As in other religions, heresies and schisms occasionally crop up. Heretics are sometimes exiled, often handed over to the secular arm (shot), always excommunicated. Most serious heresy in the eyes of Stalinist true believers is Trotskyism, whose heresiarch is Leon Trotsky, now an exile in Mexico. Trotsky's heretical sect styles itself the Fourth International (5,000 communicants). Until...
Because comic strip hero Superman recently spread pacifist propaganda in the trenches, singlehanded attempted to destroy the Westwall and all its works, Das Schwarze Korps (organ of the Nazi SS Guards) stormed, "Instead of taking wise advantage of the opportunity really to further serious virtues, he sows hate, injustice, laziness and crime. ... It is pitiful that American children . . . don't even recognize the poison...
Scarcely a week goes by without the newsorgan advocating the favorite Himmler thesis of a free love that will promote the birth of more illegitimate "children of good blood." Last week, for instance, Das Schwarze Korps plugged for artificial insemination of childless women. Wrote Editor d'Alquen: "The problem is to find a helper toward procreation . . . who will place his hereditary substance at [their] disposal." The SS publication cribbed from the ancient Spartan Code of Lycurgus by recommending that impotent husbands choose their brothers to impregnate fertile brides...
...that was fairly old stuff. Later in the week Das Schwarze Korps clicked its heels again and did better with a brand-new patriotic ism. Discarding the long-proclaimed Nazi thesis that the English were racially first cousins to the Germans, Himmler's theorists announced that actually the English were "white Jews" and that British "Protestantism" was after all only a modern version of the "old Jewish law book.'5 "This theory," conceded the paper, "is, of course, too novel to be immediately grasped by everyone. We have been far too accustomed to regard England as we would...