The woman, besides caring for her own children, should first care for those who need her help as mothers of the nation.
This primarily involves thinking about family law and supporting families, youth legislation, and protecting the youth. It also requires thinking about the occupational paths that female youth will follow in the coming years, since some men and women are still unemployed, and some changes in women’s work will therefore be needed. Given our relations with each other, we affirm these temporary measures because we have firm faith that we have the strength to overcome the many present difficulties that our people faces. Our love for our people, however, will never allow these temporary difficulties to cause conflicts only for the sake of conflict, or that they be interpreted by sensation-hungry individuals as a failure of the National Socialist worldview.
We are always being asked if we see everything that has to be done in the area of women’s work. We can only say that each has the right and the opportunity to work with us and to follow the path leading to the resurrection of our people. However, we must sense love and concern, we must see that he comes to us because of a love for his people. Empty intellectual thinking or a superiority complex have never saved a people.
This love should teach us all in the new year to listen even better to life around us, and to do our duties in the place we stand in a way that will make clear its deepest meaning: to become true to our calling as Germans!
Women, I wish to try briefly to make clear what the deepest calling we women have is: motherhood. In the bad fourteen years between 1918 and 1933, motherhood was often robbed of its deepest meaning and reduced to something superficial, something that was even held in contempt. Instead of a child being seen as the deepest affirmation of the woman and of life, it was seen as a burden, as a sacrifice on the part of the woman. A child was often seen not as a great link to God as the creator of all life, before whom we must bow with folded hands and trembling hearts, but rather very often as the result of a weak mind and as an escape from the great events of life.
Many women were superficially mothers, but they had forgotten to subordinate themselves to the law of life, which sees the affirmation of a child as the answer of the woman to her people, and also her contribution to the right of her people to survive.
Transforming the calling of motherhood to the job of motherhood left children joyless, unhappy, without strength or soul. Devilish forces, under the leadership of Marxism, attempted to lead German women along this path.
It is therefore our task to awaken once again the sense of the divine, to make the calling to motherhood the way through which the German woman will see her calling to be mother of the nation. She will then not live her life selfishly, but rather in service to her people.
We know and believe that all German women will accept this calling over time if we clear the rubble left by a mistaken age. More and more faithful helpers will join our ranks, working cheerfully and strongly as we have done in the past. Not only those women with children will become mothers of the nation, but rather each German woman and each girl will become one of the Führer’s little helpers wherever she is, be it in the labor service, in a factory, at a university or in a hospital, at home or on the high seas.
from “To Be German Is to Be Strong” by Gertrud Scholtz-Klink
NIES: You’re going to stop the whole country from having sex?
O’DONNELL: Yes.
Brendan:
Atwood’s “Handmaid” is a great road marker and today’s events remind us of why scholars, artists, writers and philosophers warn us about the nature of fascism and the need to control human nature. The loss of human individuality, and the refusal to recognize it is, in my mind, the most grievous of all offenses against the world.
aword:
My cousin’s daughter was baptized in a Dominionist Church in Anaheim, in a ceremony that has etched itself into my mind for its utter surrealness.
My cousin’s baby daughter was baptized with five other babies in this group baptismal ceremony that took place in a big, new modern church in Southern CA. I was struck by how sleek and hard the Church’s stainless steel architecture was. It felt like a stage.
Before the pastor gave the babies their blessing, he brought himself to the podium to speak before the congregation. In his speech he thanked everyone for coming, and to make a confession. That the $14 million donated to build the Church by its congregation had been badly invested and that he begged the community’s forgiveness for losing the money in what I gather qwere bad investment schemes. In fact, he prostrated himself on the floor of the church, breaking down into a crying paroxysm of atonement.
Needless to say, the Filipino Catholic portion of this family event was not amused.
I being the godless pagan of the family did my actor’s best to keep a straight face during the entire show, and this was quite a performance. I found myself thinking about a box of popcorn.
Not all churches are like this, I know, but out of a strange set of coincidences, I ran right into an instance of the shaky foundations in which these churches run their “business”.
About five years ago, I sat transfixed listening to an interview on NPR with James Dobson, head of Focus on the Family – pro-straight family, anti-sex, anti-gay Christian group. He was justifying why they did credit screening of new Church members–what they had in assets was a pre-req for allowing them in. If you were not a person of means and abundance, God was not gracing your life.
Jesus wept.
This line really stuck out for me:
“Empty intellectual thinking or a superiority complex have never saved a people.”
Sounds like just about anything the right has done over the last 10 or 20 or 40 years should be examined with that line in mind. Do these women know they’re channeling the Third Reich? Throw in the corporatist involvement in politics, and unfortunately we seem to be looking at an American rebirth of national socialism, albeit one that is highly ignorant of what came before.
Thrown in with the purity party entry, this one is absolutely mind numbing. Since that dialog started, I’ve been somehow reminded of Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” as profoundly a creepy book if there ever was one, especially concerning extreme fundamentalism, sex, and reproduction.
Heebie jeebies I got…
Fe..mmmm ya…and sandwiched with OC (orange county).
aword:
I’m not surprised that kind of club would be in LA. Given California’s reputation as the Left Coast, there’s still enough fundamentalism in Hollywood as there is in Fresno and Stockton (Central CA – Reagan Bush country). I think its a reaction based on fear their marriages would slip under the faultline!
Jere: Dementor sucking the life and joy out from your very being. That is Ms. Coulter to a T. Her problem is, she doesn’t practice what she preaches, though she’s a good shill for that kind of stuff.
A good read these days is Wonkette’s blog. As a lefty, she’s a bit off from being PC, but her snark is a loaded gun. She makes good political meme, which this time and place provides in spades!
I have a friend who is born raised ultra LA Urban and socially is part of a perceived-radical left sub-culture yet has for years been part of a “cult” woman’s support group that guides these “wives” to be subordinate and make all life-choices based on their perception of husband’s needs first. The “Good Wives Club” – and not in the sense of the new tv series.
Thanks, Jere for my first really good laugh of the day. 🙂
Ann Coulter is a Dementor. ..Aside from that,.. I can understand the energy upsurge,.. but it’s in collaboration/(spec. highlighted), with the “dudes” who run this ranch. THIS IS REACTIONARY! And there is division. Too bad.
Chicks (and you have to forgive my horrible language) need to assert themselves into this culture of OURS. Not as reactionary but, knowhow. (..and I’ll attempt the same..[it’s all equal, cats.]).
..It’s not the loudest voice,.. just the one who Understands.
Love,
Jere
Somewhere out there Margaret Thatcher is gagging right now.
Len:
This piece was waiting in the wings for the right moment, and as luck and eric’s and amanda’s keen sense of timing would have it, “At the Purity Ball” was as an amazing a set-up as anything can be.
Nothing like putting the pieces of the puzzle together, with world and national news at 6 and 11!
Fe,
Oops, please excuse me for missing your byline. Not enough sleep last night.
Thank you for fighting fire with fire. Know for sure i would want you on my side in a fight.
A chilling film. Ignorance is a powerful weapon…of disinformation.
Hi Len — this was Fe!
But I’m happy to take credit for all the alert and awake minds I’ve drawn to Planet Waves.
Eric,
Thank you for the discrimitating research and revealing compilation.