Fra Angelico
Beheading of St Cosmas and St Damian ~ 1439-42
Musée du Louvre
Author: C .T.
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Uncle Adolf’s table talk, 23
28th September 1941, midday
No Englishman ever leaves his country without knowing what he should reply to questions that might be asked him on thorny topics.
They are an admirably trained people. They worked for three hundred years to assure themselves the domination of the world for two centuries.
The reason why they’ve kept it so long is that they were not interested in washing the dirty linen of their subject peoples.
Matthias Grünewald
Isenheim Altarpiece ~ 1512-1516
Unterlinden Museum at Colmar
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Uncle Adolf’s table talk, 24
Night of 9th October 1941
Germany and the Asiatic hordes—
Balance of power—A Pyrrhic victory.
We Germans are alone responsible that the tide of Huns, Avars and Magyars was halted in Central Europe. We were already a great empire when the English were only beginning to build up their maritime power. If we hadn’t been such fools as to tear each other to pieces in order to find out whether we should consume God in the forms of bread and wine, or of bread only, England would never have been able to have her say concerning the balance of power on the Continent.
England is never a danger except when she can oppose a power who threatens her supremacy with other powers whom she induces to play her game. For England, the First World War was a Pyrrhic victory. To maintain their empire, they need a strong continental power at their side. Only Germany can be this power.
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Uncle Adolf’s table talk, 25
10th October 1941, midday
Fighting for open spaces—The flow back from West to East—Christianity and natural selection.
War has returned to its primitive form. The war of people against people is giving place to another war—a war for the possession of the great spaces.
Originally war was nothing but a struggle for pasture-grounds. To-day war is nothing but a struggle for the riches of nature. By virtue of an inherent law, these riches belong to him who conquers them. The great migrations set out from the East. With us begins the ebb, from West to East. That’s in accordance with the laws of nature. By means of the struggle, the élites are continually renewed. The law of selection justifies this incessant struggle, by allowing the survival of the fittest.
Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of the human failure.
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Uncle Adolf’s table talk, 26
13th October 1941, midday
Europe will gain in importance, of herself. Europe, and no longer America, will be the country of boundless possibilities.
If the Americans are intelligent, they’ll realise how much it will be to their interest to take part in this work.
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Political power
by Revilo Oliver
Political power is the essential criterion, not wishes or windbags; and to the goal of political power all else must be temporarily sacrificed. To say less is to insure defeat.
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Uncle Adolf’s table talk, 27
13th October 1941
I’ve been wondering lately whether it wouldn’t be best to collect the men responsible for the control of the economics of the following countries: Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium, Sweden and Finland.
We’d give them a notion of the vistas that present themselves nowadays. The majority of them are not at all aware of the immense field that opens up before us.
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On beauty
“Perceptions about human beauty fall within the realm of psychology and sociology.”
They do not. This assertion is simply false.
Beauty is measurable, most particularly as regards symmetry and how closely the ratios between certain facial or bodily features approach certain values.
It’s mathematically quantifiable.
There has been plenty of research on this. Denying its existence serves no purpose.
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Uncle Adolf’s table talk, 28
13th October 1941, night
A war commander must have imagination and foresight. So it’s not extraordinary that our people is at once a people of soldiers and of artists.