It is about the connection between National Socialism and the racial theorists like Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Arthur de Gobineau, Madison Grant, and others who applied Darwin's theory of natural selection to the human species. The influence of the "scientific racists" on Hitler and his cohorts is undeniable and well-documented.
using fraudulent documents
Whether the book, Conversations With Hitler, was fraudulent is unknown. None of the posters who have denounced the book have proven that it was a fraud. In any case, National Socialism derived its beliefs from a number of sources: the distorted Darwinism of the so-called scientific racists; the concepts of superman and the will to power from Nietzsche; class warfare concepts smuggled in from Marxist and utopian socialism; the romantic nationalism of the 19th Century. In numerous statements of Hitler and his associates and through many actions of the Third Reich, there was a palpable hostility to Christian churches and Christian theology. Unlike the Soviet Communists, the National Socialists took some pains to hide their anti-Christian bias in their public statements.
Free Republic should be somewhat sensitive to to use of fraudulent documents.
FR should also be sensitive to attempts to smuggle leftist ideology, such as the idea that National Socialism derived from, and was even a logical consequence of, historic Christianity and Western culture, into a conservative forum.
Certainly they have. The Original German does not contain the key statements denouncing Christianity.
You are sucking FreeRpublic into the slime pit with Dan Rather and CBS.
when you suddenly have third hand translations of remembered conversations between two mass murderers -- that contradict every recorded and published statement by them -- the least you can do is go back to the original language.
None of the posters who have denounced the book have proven that it was a fraud.
This sounds a bit like Dan Rather.
"FR should also be sensitive to attempts to smuggle leftist ideology, such as the idea that National Socialism derived from, and was even a logical consequence of, historic Christianity and Western culture, into a conservative forum."
(Applause) Thank you.