Blood sin and desecration of the race are the original sin in this
world and the end of a humanity which surrenders to it.
How truly wretched was the attitude of preWar Germany on this
one very question ! What was done to check the contamination of
our youth in the big cities? What was done to attack the infection
and mammonization of our love life? What was done to combat
the resulting syphilization of our people?
This can be answered most easily by stating what should have
been done.
First of all, it was not permissible to take this question
frivolously; it had to be understood that the fortune or misfortune
of generations would depend on its solution; yes, that it could, if
not had to be, decisive for the entire future of our people. Such a
realization, however, obligated us to ruthless measures and
surgical operations. What we needed most was the conviction
that first of all the whole attention of the nation had to be
concentrated
upon this terrible danger, so that every single
individual could become inwardly conscious of the importance of
this struggle. Truly incisive and sometimes almost unbearable
obligations and burdens can only be made generally effective if,
in addition to compulsion, the realization of necessity is
transmitted to the individual. But
this requires a tremendous
enlightenment excluding all other problems of the day which
might have a distracting effect.
In all cases where the fulfillment of apparently impossible
demand.s or tasks is involved, the whole attention of a people
must be focused and concentrated on this one question, as though
life and death actually depended on its solution. Only in this way
will a people be made willing and able to perform great tasks and
exertions.
This principle applies also to the individual man in so far as he
wants to achieve great goals. He, too, will be able to do this only
in steplike sections, and he, too, will always have to unite his
entire energies on the achievement of a definitely delimited task,
until this task seems fulfilled and a new section can be marked
out. Anyone who does not so divide the road to be conquered
into separate stages and does not try to conquer these one by one,
systematically with the sharpest concentration of all his forces,
will never be able to reach the ultimate goal, but will be left lying
somewhere along the road, or perhaps even off it. This gradual
working up to a goal is an art, and to conquer the road step by
step in this way you must throw in your last ounce of energy.
The very first prerequisite needed for attacking such a difficult
stretch of the human road is for the leadership to succeed in
representing to the masses of the people the partial goal which
now has to be achieved, or rather conquered, as the one which is
solely and alone worthy of attention,
on whose conquest
everything depends. The great mass of the people cannot see the
whole road ahead of them without growing weary and despairing
of the task. A certain number of them will keep the goal in mind,
but will only be able to see the road in small, partial stretches,
like the wanderer, who likewise knows and recognizes the end of
his journey, but is better able to conquer the endless highway if
he divides it into sections and boldly attacks each one as though
it represented the desired goal itself. Only in this way does he
advance without losing heart.
Thus, by the use of all propagandist means, the question of
combating syphilis should have been made to appear as the task
of the nation. Not just one more task. To this end, its injurious
effects should have been thoroughly hammered into people as the
most terrible misfortune, and this by the use of all available
means, until the entire nation arrived
at the conviction that
everythingfuture or ruindepended upon the solution of this
question.
Only after such a preparation, if necessary over a period of years,
will the attention, and consequently the determination, of the
entire nation be aroused to such
an extent that we can take
exceedingly hard measures exacting the greatest sacrifices
without running the risk of not being understood or of suddenly
being left in the lurch by the will of the masses.
For, seriously to attack this plague, tremendous sacrifices and
equally great labors are necessary.
The fight against syphilis demands a fight against prostitution
against prejudices, old habits,
against previous conceptions,
general views among them not least the false prudery of certain
circles.
The first prerequisite for even the moral right to combat these
things is the facilitation of earlier marriage for the coming
generation. In late marriage alone lies the compulsion to retain an
institution which, twist and turn as you like, is and remains a
disgrace to humanity, an institution which is damned illsuited to
a being who with his usual modesty likes to regard himself as the
'image' of God.
Prostitution is a disgrace to humanity, but it cannot be eliminated
by moral lectures, pious intentions, etc.; its limitation and final
abolition presuppose the elimination of innumerable
preconditions. The first is and remains the creation of an
opportunity for early marriage as compatible with human nature
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