Communism With the Mask Off

[brandon_rss18]

Hey everyone have been a member for a while now but this is my first post. Good to know there is a website devoted to this side of the war. Anyways, I have question to start this off. I found a copy of Communism With the Mask Off by Dr. Joseph Goebbels. Along the bottom it states that it was printed im Berlin in 1935 by Muller & Sohn. The cool thing is that it is a printed english version. I have heard that these paphlets were handed out at his speech. I think he came to the US before we got involved in the war somtime in the mid 30's. I have tried to find info out about this pamphlet on the net but the only thing I can find is reprints. Is it possible that this was given out to someone that might have attended a speech by him in the US? Any info on these would REALLY help, I am at a dead end guys. Thanks, and I am glad to be a member of this forum.

[brandon_rss18]

anyone?

[Michael Fay]

pro nazi USA groups in 1930s

Hello Brandon,
I dont know for sure about your item,
but I remember seeing a bunch of pamplets in english from the 30's from many nsdap dignitaries like Hess and Rosenberg for example.
The pamphlets may have been distributed by one of the many pro nazi or pro fascist organizations found in the USA back then after getting them from Germany or having permission to print them up in USA, maybe even with a German publisher's name and place of pub.. Some were German Bundist groups, some pure home-grown organizations that really liked what they saw in the Italian and then German political models. To be a bit flip: Fascism helped shut up labor, stop the spread of communism, and keep industry happy...plus cool uniforms.
Also, the Germans did have propaganda outlets funneling such items into USA, Canada, South America, etc. on their own and with the USA groups.
So this is a general back ground to the context of where your booklet comes from.

[brandon_rss18]

Thank you for the response and info Micheal! Very much appreciated!

[Michael Fay]

Thank you for the response and info Micheal! Very much appreciated!

Your very welcome. Sometimes one must wait awhile for answers and sometimes no one reading the threads happens to know anything that could help.

[brownshirts]

goebbels in usa

hi brandon,

if you would like to see goebbels in the US look on you tube.
i was watching some stuff about him on there,when i came across an interview with him ......note,he didnt even wear his nsdap member badge for the meeting.

regards

matthew

[ramon]

I would be most interested in seeing any information that places Joseph Goebbels physically here in the US. I have no such information that Goebbels ever step foot in the US. Had he done so, I think his impression of the US would have undergone a bit of revision. In re reading Irving and Reimann, there is no indication he came here.

Please provide a source that places Goebbels on US soil.

Thanks,

Ramon

[brownshirts]

goebbels in usa

ramon,

take a look on you tube,some great footage of goebbels,the interview im on about is mixed up in there.

it is 2 american guys and goebbels in suits(not his uniform)

HE is being interviewed about world problems...note the HE part,if this was in germany,first goebbels would have at lease his nsdap badge on his suit,also it would be HIM holding the interview rather than other way round.....

go take a look,theres some very interesting clips regarding both goebbels and other senior nazis.
best regards

matthew

[ramon]

Matt,

Please provide the link to the You Tube snippet. I shall look at this with great interest.

English speaking reporters did interview Goebbels regularly in pre war Germany, Switzerland, and Italy. Louis Lochner comes immediately to mind. I have scanned and attached a photo of Journalist Lochner and Goebbels speaking with one another in Berlin. Notice NO party badge.

Please provide me with a written source that explicitly documents Goebbel's travels to the US. I'll state emphatically now that Goebbels did not come to the US ever.

Thanks,

Ramon

[ramon]

Matt,

Further examination of several (30+) photos of Goebbels in civilian mufti in the prewar period, discloses that Goebbels did NOT wear the Party Badge as a rule. Please don't believe me (I suspect you won't anyway), but do some research and I think you'll find my information borne out by the evidence.

Whatever you think of David Irving, his book, Mastermind of the Reich, which is based upon Goebbels' own handwritten diary has no mention of a trip to the US. Such a trip would have Goebbels holding forth in his private diary. Further, I have a subscription to the New York Times archives, and there is NO mention of a Goebbels/US visit EVER. Such a trip would have been big time news over here.

Cheers,

Ramon

[torstenbel]

I could not find any mention anywhere to state that Goebbels has ever been to the USA, but he certainly had a strong opinion about the country and its people. Have a look at this very interesting translation of an essay that he wrote in 1942: http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/goeb5.htm

Cheers, Torsten.

A little sample:

One is never sure which of two characteristics is more prominent in the American national character and therefore of the greater significance: naivete or a superiority complex. When for example they say things about our region, our surprise at their ignorance is surpassed only by annoyance at their stupid insolence. The less they know about a matter, the more confidently they speak. They really believe that Europeans are eagerly waiting to hear from them and follow their advice. They took our strategic decision not to discuss their shallow culture before the war as a sign of admiration. Their greatest technical accomplishments are refrigerators and radios. They cannot believe that there are cultural values that are the result of centuries of historical development, which cannot simply be bought. It was no bad joke when, after the war, they bought the ruins of German castles and moved them stone by stone to the U.S.A. They really thought that they had purchased a piece of national history embodied in stone, and were naive enough to think that mocking laughter from Europe was respect for the wealth that enabled them to buy what their own tradition and culture lacked.

[Michael Fay]

I could not find any mention anywhere to state that Goebbels has ever been to the USA, but he certainly had a strong opinion about the country and its people. Have a look at this very interesting translation of an essay that he wrote in 1942: http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/goeb5.htm

Cheers, Torsten.

A little sample:

One is never sure which of two characteristics is more prominent in the American national character and therefore of the greater significance: naivete or a superiority complex. When for example they say things about our region, our surprise at their ignorance is surpassed only by annoyance at their stupid insolence. The less they know about a matter, the more confidently they speak. They really believe that Europeans are eagerly waiting to hear from them and follow their advice. They took our strategic decision not to discuss their shallow culture before the war as a sign of admiration. Their greatest technical accomplishments are refrigerators and radios. They cannot believe that there are cultural values that are the result of centuries of historical development, which cannot simply be bought. It was no bad joke when, after the war, they bought the ruins of German castles and moved them stone by stone to the U.S.A. They really thought that they had purchased a piece of national history embodied in stone, and were naive enough to think that mocking laughter from Europe was respect for the wealth that enabled them to buy what their own tradition and culture lacked.

OUCH!
hits home a bit, I must admit! ....and still applicable, too.