Jim Marrs - The Rise of the Fourth Reich

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THE RISE OF THE FOURTH REICH

period when it’s impossible to form an idea of the shape the world of the future will assume. But there’s one thing I can predict to eaters of meat: the world of the future will be vegetarian.” Many Germans followed Hitler’s dream of a meatless society. About 83,000 voluntarily participated in his vegetarian-lifestyle program.

But Hitler was also a consummate politician. Although he disdained both hunting and eating meat, he did not attempt to force his ideals on his followers, for purely pragmatic reasons. “Personally, I cannot see what possible pleasure can be derived from shooting. . . . I have never fired at a hare in my life. I am neither poacher nor sportsman. . . . [But] if I excluded poachers from the Party, we should lose the support of entire districts.”

In viewing the reality behind benign, if tyrannical, government efforts at social control, Robert N. Proctor correctly concluded, “The Nazi campaign against tobacco and the ‘wholegrain-bread operation’ are, in some sense, as fascist as the yellow stars [worn to identify Jews] and the death camps. Appreciating these complexities may open our eyes to new kinds of continuities binding the past to the present; it may also allow us better to see how fascism triumphed in the first place.”

TH E FA SCIST GLOBA L ISTS , in addition to making unconscionable profits from tobacco and dangerous drugs such as aspartame, may be promoting a program of population reduction.

As previously noted, Third Reich Nazis, as well as their prominent American business partners, were greatly interested in the field of eugenics, the study of scientifically applied genetic selection to maintain and improve ideal human characteristics, which grew to include birth and population control. The concept grew from the writings of the Victorian scientist Sir Francis Galton, who after study reached the conclusion that prominent members of British society were such because they had “eminent” parents.

In 1925, after more than a decade in which at least sixty thousand “defectives” in the United States were legally sterilized, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, writing for the majority in a Supreme Court case, stated, “It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate off-