SS Leadership Academy
Frundsberg, Greater German Reich
The 1978 Winner of the Himmler Preis for Philosophy is awarded to:
Cadet Johannes Becker
For His Thesis
"The Paradoxes of 'Biblical Christianity' and
the Fall of the British Empire"
(Excerpts follow)
Part 1:
The British Empire of the past was built by the sort of men who have built the glorious German Empire of today: men of racial self-confidence who were willing to push aside sentimentality and ruthlessly pursue the interests of their land and race ...
Part 2:
It was in the late 18th century that a weak and sentimental version of 'Biblical Christianity' began to weaken the British Empire, with agitation against slavery growing among those who were, consciously or unconsciously, traitors to their race and homeland. The idea of human equality between superior and inferior races was a malign outgrowth of certain unfortunate expressions one finds in the Bible ...
... The total failure of the British authorities to deal appropriately with racial inferiors such as Ghandi gave these vermin the encouragement they needed to undermine the white race's necessary control over the Indian subcontinent ...
...The internal rot of Britain could be seen when a group of cowards passed a resolution at Oxford in the 1930s, declining to fight for King and Country ...
...Needless to say, a nation such as Germany, led with the necessary hardness by its natural rulers, would know how to appropriately handle racial subhumans such as Ghandi and traitors in the university ...
Part 3:
While Christian humanism can be seen as negative for the British Empire, in that it allowed for inferiors to weaken it, it can also been seen, paradoxically, as the movement of Providence, for the weakness of Britain could never stand against the irresistible force of Germany. While the Oxford pacifist students were among the first to be "corrected" upon Britain's liberation, one must in a sense recognize the vital part they played in the necessary victory of our Fatherland against all who would resist him.
The pacifist students had as much value as compost ... but even compost has its purpose. As it decays, it allows for the flowering of new organisms. The Greater German Reich has been built on the wreckage of a hollowed-out, hesitant, effeminate, humanistic British Empire. And all of us of the right racial heritage, wherever our place of birth, are citizens and soldiers of the Reich! I thank Providence for freeing me and others like me from the decadence of my background!
Part 4:
And now we come to the central paradox, that of "Biblical Christianity." While there is much to properly despise in the Bible, particularly the arrogant idiocy of the Jews calling themselves "God's chosen people" ("chosen," perhaps, as chaff is chosen for the furnace!). And of course the weakness exhibited so often by the so-called Savior of the World is ridiculous. We have seen the real Savior of the really existing world, and he was a man of ruthless drive and ambition, who recognized the necessity of one race dominating (or eliminating) others, and who recognized that divine Providence has chosen Deutschland as its instrument in the world ...
...And yet there are helpful elements within the Bible, glimmers perhaps of the reality of the cosmos. The ruthless will to power shown in the accounts of the Israelites destroying their neighbors; of their obsession with ritual and racial purity; and the demand of the Christ to foresake all other allegiances ... even to hate one's own parents ... yes, paradoxically, these elements of "Bibilical Christianity" can be helpful to the Reich ...