In 175 pages Abir Taha attempts to illuminate this subject matter. Bearing the above comments in mind let’s see what she has to offer

2. The Book

2.1 Form

The paperback front cover is striking. It depicts soldiers marching with the Deutschland Erwache banners, above which appears a portrait of Hitler to the left and Nietzsche to the right that are balanced in the centre by the Olympian ideal granite-chiseled face of a man with a victory wreath gracing his head.

The Bibliography contains 47 references, a list of the conventional texts on the Hitler era including Eberhard Jäckel’s 1981 published Hitler’s World View: A Blueprint for Power, and Helena Petrova Blavatsky’s The Secret Doctrine, which contextualises the cult argument. The reference list generates 446 footnotes.

Although the book contains a brief note about the author, it has no Index, something disturbing for those interested in the subject but without too much time – they cannot short-cut the process of actually reading the book by glancing through the Index of subject matter and names. It is hoped that the next edition of this book will include a detailed Index.

The Table of Contents reveals that a Preface, an Introduction and six Chapters make up the text of the book.

A Nietzsche quote serves as a kind of Dedication: “Not ‘mankind’ but Superman is the goal!”

2.2 Content

If we recall Ortega y Gassett’s comment above, then the concept ‘Superman’ bruises a little because it does not quite convey that process of maturation, of ripening as a person as is implied in the concept of  ‘overman’, of overcoming one’s human weaknesses. Instead, the concept, perhaps misleadingly, jumps into the hothouse of world politics that has branded Germany-Nazism as obsessed with world domination. This, of course, hides the fact that those who think like that – the current political movement that wishes to save the world through freedom and democracy and against terrorism – is deflecting from its own actions that is hell-bent on controlling and ruling the world.

“Herrenvolk/Master Race in body and spirit” is what Nazism is all about, so according to Abir Taha. The western Judaeo-Christian civilization, advocating liberalism’(corrupt egalitarian democracy) and materialism (capitalism/socialism) needs to be replaced by the ‘aristocratic radicalism that abhors any form of derivative/dependence slave morality thinking.

Taha maintains that this striving to human perfection is nothing new, that it seamlessly attaches itself to ancient mythical figures such as Rama, Krishna, Manu, Zarathustra, Prometheus, Orpheus, Hermes, Pythagoras, Plato… and finally Jesus Christ, who were all prototypes of the “Son of God, the God-man which the ‘Cult of the Superman' strives to re-create.”

I would add that specifically for Jews the concept of ‘God’s Chosen people’ is an attempt to enshrine this God-man mindset within a specific Jewish-Talmudic context where perfection is scorned at but where slave-morality predominates. In other words, the mind process operates at a more primitive, elementary level.

She sees the direct link between what Nietzsche wrote about and National Socialism because it adopted all of these concepts in its political program: ‘Superman’, ‘Master Race’,  ‘Will to Power/ , ‘Immoralism’, ‘Transvaluation of values’, ‘Beyond Good and Evil’, ‘Master versus Slave Moralities’,  ‘War’,  ‘Domination’,  ‘Exploitation’,  ‘Breeding’.

A proponent of National Socialism may well respond at this point to state that the first six years of National Socialist rule in Germany certainly were phenomenal years in what Germans achieved physically and mentally – it was a re-birth of a devastated nation that had taken place, that even Jews/Zionists attempted to emulate in Palestine! And what happened then?

By willing and through eugenics, The National Socialists – Abir Taha uses the ‘Nazi’ word throughout her book – aimed to eliminate the weak, by adopting “a racist-aristocratic and spiritual brand of anti-Semitism, a deep and thorough hostility to, and contempt for, the Jewish Spirit which they believed was utterly despicable: the Jew was in fact the supreme decadent, the typical Untermensch (“subhuman”), the perfect antithesis to the Superman, for he embodied the slave morality to perfection and was hence behind all the decadent movements of history (Judaeo-Christianity, Socialism, Liberalism, Democracy …).

I am reminded how many Christians would object to Abir Taha’use of the term ‘Judaeo-Christianity’! I am further reminded that what she writes is still current, and it is Horst Mahler who has taken up this battle again – to disconnect from things Jewish, to distance his mind set from things Jewish by adopting and postulating a similar dialectic process as set up by the National Socialists. I might also ask here: What is wrong with that? Is it our lot to be enslaved by a Jewish mindset? There is more to life than being Jewish, surely?

3. Conclusion

Abir Taha elaborates on this quest for humans wishing to universalize their world view – all religions have done it, all political movements inexorably will attempt to do it. Her elaboration of the Nazi secret doctrine – the esoteric and the exoteric, and how the former links up with Nietzsche’s pagan Aryanism – is worthy and required reading for those who are interested in such philosophical matters.

To the above let me end by making a general comment. If Germans are a mixed race that does not mean that they may not strive to perfection. After all, most families survive barely three generations, but each one attempts to improve upon the former’s achievement. Imagine what can be done if a political program, such as that used by Jews over the centuries, can be adopted by non-Jews in their attempt to survive as a cultural entity. I am specifically thinking of the Nordic race of peoples, loosely termed ‘Europeans’. Their existence is certainly threatened by multicultural policies that enable everyone else except the European from fruitfully procreating.

After all, what else is there for humans to do but to leave one’s genetic information behind. It seems to me that democracy-liberalism-hedonism-consumerism-nihilism is designed to prevent procreation of the masses. In this context it is interesting what Michael Collins Piper has stated about the powerful Jews in the USA, and elsewhere, and how they have ensured they will survive any catastrophe – even a declining birth rate. Isn’t it pathetic to note how a number of so-called white racists never procreated!

Interestingly, the just completed ‘democratic’ election in the Palestine territories brought about a victory for Hamas – and now western ‘democracies’ refuse to deal with a government wherein Hamas has a controlling influence, a political organisation that refuses to recognize Israel’s legitimacy as a political entity.

So much for western democracies’ sense of democracy – Nietzsche may need to be re-visited for some political inspiration. For both the novice and for the erudite Abir Taha’s book may assist in clarifying matters for them.

Adelaide

26 January 2006