NATIONAL SOCIALIST MONTHLY [Nationalsozialistische Monatshefte]
Number 54, September 1934, Pages 833-834.
ONE YEAR OF RACIAL POLITICAL EDUCATION [Ein Jahr Rassenpolitische Erziehung]
By DR. GROSS.
With the acquisition of political power the National-Socialist movement faced an entirely new task. In the years of fight the aim was to employ all means of propaganda which promised success in order to gather people who were ready to overthrow, together with the Party, the harmful postwar regime and put the power into the hand of the Fuehrer and his collaborators the prerequisite for the initiation of any actual constructive work. In those years of fight the aim was purely political: it meant the overthrow of the regime and acquisition of power for ourselves. As a result the propaganda could and had to stress only the most important basic ideas, while the more thorough education of the won-over masses to new thinking could be, in those turbulent times, left for a more quiet future.
Even if our propaganda in the years of fight succeeded in putting into the heads of the masses a few slogans intended for momentary use, naturally this was not yet an achievement of thorough knowledge of National-Socialist thinking, and after the acquisition of power the movement faced the new task of schooling
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and educating all the willing, newly won friends to true, internally understood National Socialism!
Within this great general task the education in racial thinking necessarily played a. decisive part, because herein lies basically the deepest revolutionary nature of the new spirit.
Extract from an article, on the transition from political propaganda before the seizure of power to the education in "racial thinking" that contains the "deepest revolutionary nature of the new spirit"
Authors
Walter Gross (Dr., chief of NSDAP racial policy office)
Walter Gross
German physician and Nazi politician (1904-1945)
- Born: 1904-10-21 (Kassel)
- Died: 1945-04-25 (Berlin)
- Country of citizenship: Germany; Nazi Germany; Weimar Republic
- Occupation: antisemite; author; eugenicist; physician
- Member of political party: Nazi Party (since: 1936-01-01)
- Member of: Kaiser Wilhelm Society; Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher Ärzte-Bund (since: 1932-01-01); Nazi Party (since: 1925-01-01)
- Position held: member of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany
- Educated at: Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich; University of Göttingen; University of Tübingen
Date: September 1934
Literal Title: Ein Jahr rassenpolitische Erziehung (One year of racial political education) by Dr. Gross, in Nationalsozialistiche Monatshefte
Total Pages: 1
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: PS-2845
Citation: IMT (page 255)
HLSL Item No.: 450523
Trial Issues
Conspiracy (and Common plan, in IMT) (IMT, NMT 1, 3, 4) IMT count 1: common plan or conspiracy (IMT) Nazi regime (rise, consolidation, economic control, and militarization) (I… Education, propaganda, and youth programs (IMT) Persecution of political, religious, and ethnic ("racial") groups (IMT, NM…