Oldal 121 [121]
to strengthen, or else they simply want the other to submit. A
classic example is the strengthening of the German identity in the
crumbling Weimar Republic on the one hand, and the eradication
(of Jews) or subjugation (of lower peoples, e.g., Hungarians) on the
other (see Mein Kampf). This is the point from which National So¬
cialism was a political religion of redemption, according to, H.A.
Winckler. (Winkler 2002. p.g.) The eternal Orwellian pattern is
tempting. Jews are an acceptable enemy because they have different
culture, religion, and also appearance. And if they do not actually
look different, because they look exactly like the same, then they
will be given a marker of their enemy status, the sign.
It is exactly here that there emerges the opportunity for the goal
to be a tool, more precisely for exclusion to become a community
goal. I do not know if anyone has studied the signatures on Hitler’s
letters, because they reveal a great deal, even more than the content
of the letters: “mit treudeutschen Gruss”, “mit deutschem Heilgruss”,
or “Heil dem kommenden nationalsozialistischen Gross-Deutschland”.
(Maser 2002.p.,121,127.) Each of these “signatures” contains an
apocalyptic vision of the world to come. The vision of a madman.
The essence of his personality is the reinforcement of identity
through the exclusion of the other, because this identity is still
weak. His first step is to name the same, to emphasize exclusivity,
paralleled by the simultaneous naming and contempt for the other.
There can be no doubt when one reads in Mein Kampf that ,,this
conglomerate spectacle of heterogeneous races which the capital
of the Dual Monarchy presented, this motley of Czechs, Poles,
Hungarians, Ruthenians, Serbs and Croats, etc., and always that
bacillus which is the solvent of human society, the Jew, here and
there and everywhere--the whole spectacle was repugnant to me.
The gigantic city seemed to be the incarnation of mongrel depravi¬
ty.” Of course, by then he had the future fates of these “mixed” races
precisely in mind. (Hitler 1939.p.109) "" The image of the enemy is
50 „Widerwärtig war mir das Rassenkonglomerat, das die Reichshauptstadt
zeigte, widerwartig dieses ganze Vélkergemisch von Tschechen, Polen, Un¬