Ex-Hitler youth’s warning to America
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Because it has abandoned moral absolutes and its historic Christian faith, the U.S. is moving closer to a Nazi-style totalitarianism, warns a former German member of the Hitler Youth in a new book.
“Every day brings this nation closer to a Nazi-style totalitarian abyss,” writes Hilmar von Campe, now a U.S. citizen, and author of “Defeating the Totalitarian Lie: A Former Hitler Youth Warns America.”
Von Campe has founded the national Institute for Truth and Freedom to fight for a return to constitutional government in the U.S. – a key, he believes, to keeping America free.
“I lived the Nazi nightmare, and, as the old saying goes, ‘A man with an experience is never at the mercy of a man with an argument,'” writes von Campe. “Everything I write is based on my personal experience in Nazi Germany. There is nothing theoretical about my description of what happens when a nation throws God out of government and society, and Christians become religious bystanders. I don’t want to see a repetition. The role of God in human society is the decisive issue for this generation. My writing is part of my life of restitution for the crimes of a godless government, of the evil of which I was a part.”
Von Campe grew up under the Nazis, served in the Hitler Youth and fought against the Red Army in the Yugoslavian theater as a tank gunner in the German army. He was captured at the end of the war and escaped five months later from a prisoner of war camp in Communist Yugoslavia.
“It took me a long time to understand and define the nature of National Socialism,” says von Campe. “And, unfortunately, their philosophy continues to flourish under different labels remaining a menace to America and free human society.”
He writes: “The most painful part of defining National Socialism was to recognize my own moral responsibility for the Nazi disaster and their crimes against humanity. It boiled down to accepting the truth that ‘as I am, so is my nation,’ and realizing that if every German was like me, it was no wonder that the nation became a cesspool of gangsters. This realization is as valid today for any person in any nation as it was then, and it is true for America and every American now.”
Von Campe’s message is that political freedom and democratic rules alone are not sufficient to govern humanity justly.
“Democratic procedures can be subverted and dishonest politicians are like sand in the gearbox, abundant, everywhere and destructive,” he writes. “What I see in America today is people painting their cabins while the ship goes down. Today in America we are witnessing a repeat performance of the tragedy of 1933 when an entire nation let itself be led like a lamb to the Socialist slaughterhouse. This time, the end of freedom is inevitable unless America rises to her mission and destiny.”
Von Campe says he sees spiritual parallels among Americans and his childhood Germany.
“The silence from our pulpits regarding the moral collapse of American society from within is not very different from the silence that echoed from the pulpits in Germany toward Nazi policies,” he explains. “Our family lived through the Nazi years in Germany, an experience typical of millions of Europeans regardless of what side they were on. We paid a high price for the moral perversions of a German government, which excluded God and His Commandments from their policies. America must not continue following the same path to destruction, but instead heed the lessons of history and the warning I am giving.”
Specifically, von Campe warns Americans their political leaders are on the wrong footing, “denying our cultural and traditional roots based on our unique Constitution and Christian orientation as a nation. Christians don’t understand their mission.”
Wild Thing’s comment………..
Excellent article about this book written by someone that has experienced the reality of what could happen here.
Churchill: ” we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall never surrender”.
I think it is important for all of us to be as informed as possible.
….Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
great read…real scary stuff.
Thats straight from the horses mouth. One who was there. I have heard similar arguments in the past from Ex-nazis.
The amazing thing is the left hates Fascists, and think there is no correlation between the two policies. Obama and Hitler. Yet their paths are running parallel to each other and at warp speeed.
The brownshirts are already in place, in the form of the Unions. They hate everybody who disagrees with them. Our children are being brainwashed leftist bilge and corruption. A good example is the hate generated at the school where the little 14 year old wore the ‘McCain Girl’ T-shirt, and ‘her friends’ wanted her dead.
Then you have the other side where the radicals are: Ayers, Farrakhan, Black-Panthers, the extremists. Who have been trying for the destruction of our country for the past 40 years. Suddenly, thanks to the Republican Parties inept policy of saying Reaganism is dead, we have reached this point.
And the drones want change, they will get it alright and they won’t like it and by the time they realize it…it may be too late.
Frau Vader’s (von Dusseldorf WEST Germany) father lost family on the Russian Front in Operation Barbarossa and in Italy during WW II. Adolf rose to power because the Treaty of Versailles punished the Fatherland for WW I costs and destruction. The Great War, WW I, the First World War was supposed to be the war that ended all future wars? The door was cracked open and Adolf and his henchmen blasted through it. The Nazis had the CNN of their times doing their propaganda – masterfully I might add…History always repeats itself! GREAT article!!
I worked for 13 years with Gunter, he was 12 years old when he was conscripted by Hitler, yes he was a Hitler Youth, he was befriended, liberated and sponsored by an American soldier that took him in and he became an American citizen. Gunter was a devout Christian who absolutely loathed the Democrats. There isn’t an American with greater love and patriotism for America than this man because he survived the Nazi regime, his family did not. The stories that he told of conditions in Germany under the Nazi’s are horrendous. Obey or be summarily shot in the street by the SS, the penalty for disobedience was harsh. We are essentially in the Deutsches Reich stage and our Hitler is about to take power. Sobering but real, Hitler was a Socialist before he became a dictator, he had all the credentials, an Austrian-born politician who was elected to lead the National Socialist German Workers Party, ‘patriotism’, a religious connection, an association with radical elements and a gift of mesmerising the masses and he had a massive sycophant following. Sounds just like Obama.
James R McKenna, I agree, it adds to how scary it is coming from one that has lived it.
Mark, this was so excellent thank you again for sending it to me.
Darth, thank you for sharing about Frau Vader’s father.
Yes history God help us seems to be repeating itself.
Jack, thank you for sharing about Gunter.
Yes it does sound just like what Obama wants.