Friday, June 18, 2021

A Remark on Radola Gajda of Czechoslovakia

It turns out that Czechoslovakia did have interwar fascist movements, including the Vlajka and the National Fascist Community, led by Gajda:
"Gajda had been one of the leaders of the Czechoslovak legions in Russia and right-hand man of Admiral Kolchak. In 1926, as chief of staff and inspired by Marshal Pilsudsky's march on Warsaw, he had attempted a coup d'état. A reactionary epigone of pan-Slavism and anti-Bolshevik, related to the White Russians, he had the reputation in Italy of a "Czechoslovak Mussolini"."

- Enzo Santarelli

Thursday, May 20, 2021

Himmler on the Living Past and Future in Each

"The wisdom of a thousand generations slumbers in you. Waken it and you have found the key which will open the doors of your truest aspirations. Only he who esteems himself is worthy of being a man. Only he is a man who bears the living past and future in himself, for only he is able to stand above the present hour. And only he who is master of the present is successful; he alone is fulfilled. As only in fulfillment is divinity."

- Heinrich Himmler

Himmler, in front of Wewelsburg...

Thursday, January 28, 2021

Beyond the Lotus Moments of the Past

"The slow, soft days are behind us, perhaps forever. Hard days and dark nights ahead, no relaxing of the muscle of mind and will. It is at once our privilege and our ordeal to live in a dynamic period in the history of man. The tents of ease are struck and the soul of man once more is on the march. Do we envy those who have lived in the lotus moments of the past? Do those of my generation regret their own short youth; that brief bright moment between storm and storm? No! we regret nothing, not even our own past. Those who have lived in the happy valleys of blissful, peaceful periods in the history of the world have never known our depths, but they have also never known our heights." 
- Sir Oswald Mosley, 'Fascist Week,' Dec. 22-28, 1933

Monday, December 28, 2020

A Quote from Ribbentrop Complaining about the British

"It was unfortunate that I had to do most of the talking; I felt from the start as if I were addressing a wall... I have spoken to hundreds of Englishmen on this subject..."

- Ribbentrop, exasperated trying to deliver an Anglo-German alliance; in this case, his unfruitful 1936 meeting with Vanisttart

Ribbentrop, unknown date and location; he was satirized by
the British press as "Herr Brickendrop" for his brashness

Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Excerpt from Céline's Voyage au bout de la nuit

"Ce qui est pire c'est qu'on se demande comment le lendemain on trouvera assez de force pour continuer à faire ce qu'on a fait la veille et depuis déjà tellement trop longtemps, où on trouvera la force pour ces démarches imbéciles, ces mille projets qui n'aboutissent à rien, ces tentatives pour sortir de l'accablante nécessité, tentatives qui toujours avortent, et toutes pour aller se convaincre une fois de plus que le destin est insurmontable, qu'il faut retomber au bas de la muraille, chaque soir, sous l'angoisse de ce lendemain, toujours plus précaire, plus sordide.

C'est l'âge aussi qui vient peut-être, le traître, et nous menace du pire. On n'a plus beaucoup de musique en soi pour faire danser la vie, voilà. Toute la jeunesse est allée mourir déjà au bout du monde dans le silence de vérité. Et où aller dehors, je vous le demande, dès qu'on a plus en soi la somme suffisante de délire ? La vérité, c'est une agonie qui n'en finit pas. La vérité de ce monde c'est la mort. Il faut choisir, mourir ou mentir. Je n'ai jamais pu me tuer moi."

- Céline, Voyage au bout de la nuit

Monday, December 14, 2020

The Decent One

"The upper half is the teacher, the lower half is the sadist."

- Heydrich, remarking on Himmler

Monday, November 30, 2020

A Quote from Mussolini's First Speech as Prime Minister


Mussolini, in a much later image.
"The Italian Fatherland has found herself again, from the north to the south, from the mainland to those generous islands which shall no more be forgotten, from the metropolis of Rome to the industrious colonies of the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. Gentlemen, do not throw useless words at the Nation; fifty-two requests to speak on my lists is too much. Let us work, rather, with pure hearts and ready minds to assure the prosperity and the greatness of the Fatherland."

Sunday, September 20, 2020

Before the Night of the Long Knives

"National-Socialism is a revolt of the old German tribes of the primeval forest against the Latin civilization of Rome." 
- Mussolini, aghast at the Röhm purge
"All revolutions devour their own children."

- Röhm, from Vergniaud,
to Hans Frank 

Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Thursday, April 16, 2020

Remark from Henry Channon on Franco's Victory

"Franco advances - victory is clearly his. He has been so misunderstood, so misrepresented in this country that to champion him, and I have done, is dangerous from a Constituency point of view."

- Henry Channon, British politician, March 1938

 

Friday, March 20, 2020

Remark from Ferenc Szálasi on the Enemy Within

"The enemy within are always more cruel, more vicious, more hateful and more bloodthirsty than an outside enemy. The enemy within is not open about its intentions and hides it real face using religion, nationalism, friendship, patriotism, just to reach its goals. The outer enemy is always open about its intentions." 
- Ferenc Szálasi, leader of the Arrow Cross of Hungary