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Bolshevism from Moses to Lenin: A Dialogue Between Adolf Hitler and Me – Deitrich Eckart
Translated by Dr. William Pierce
EDITOR’S FOREWORD
The following material has been translated from a pamphlet found in the NSDAP
Hauptarchiv. Its German title was Der Bolschewismus von Moses bis Lenin: Zwiegespräch
zwischen Adolf Hitler und mir, and it was originally published in Munich in March 1924 from
unfinished notes on which Dietrich Eckart had been working in the autumn of 1923.
Dietrich Eckart was born on March 23, 1868, in the Bavarian town of Neumarkt, which is
about twenty miles southeast of Nürnberg, and he died on December 26, 1923, in
Berchtesgaden. He was a poet, a playwright, a journalist, scholar, and a philosopher, as well as
a dedicated fighter for the National Socialist cause. Among his better-known works are his
play Lorenzaccio and his translation and adaptation to the German stage of Ibsen’s Peer Gynt.
He was for a while editor of the Völkischer Beobachter, and he wrote the NSDAP song, with
the famous words “Deutschland erwache,” which later became a NSDAP byword.
The reader interested in more details of Eckart’s life, as well as a fairly extensive sampling of
his poetry, is referred to Alfred Rosenberg’s book Dietrich Eckart: Ein Vermächtnis (Munich,
1928 ff.)
Der Bolschewismus is of interest to Americans today for three reasons. First, it is the last
earthly work of the man who, as the intimate companion of Adolf Hitler during those critical,
early years in Munich, helped prepare the spiritual foundations of National Socialism. Eckart
had been seriously ill as he was writing the pamphlet, and his arrest and temporary
imprisonment, as a consequence of the Munich putsch of November 9, 1923, were followed
shortly by his death.
Second, it is instructive, as being representative of a certain category of propaganda. Eckart
was a practical propagandist as well as an idealist and a poet, and Der Bolschewismus is an
excellent example of his style. Aimed at the reader with the equivalent of a high-school
education, it is skillfully contrived to avoid tediousness and maintain a relatively
unsophisticated audience’s interest while making a rather extensive, if not intensive, historical
investigation of the Jewish question. It achieves this by relegating the great majority of
documentary evidence to footnotes and by liberally interspersing historically significant
points with spicy or amusing tidbits.
Third, it is of considerable interest, even today, for its own sake. Although the last forty years
have unfortunately provided us with considerably more experience of Jewish-Bolshevist
activities, Eckart did quite well with the materials available to him in 1923. Of particular
interest is his use of the Old Testament, as a history of the Jews, to throw light onto more
recent Jewish activities.
PDF: http://www.jrbooksonline.com/PDF_Books/Bolshevism_From_Moses_to_Lenin.pdf
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