Evening star., 1940-09-16
THE HERREN CLASS
Bv DIR. HERMANN RAUSCHNING.

By DH. HEkMANN hhOSSHNlNU.
Back in 1882 when Hitler finally
came into power in Germany he re-
vealed to some of his intimates his
plan for race of pure-bred Ger
mans who should be the Herren-
class. or ruling group not only IN
Germany, but in the united Europe
he hoped to govern. Meeting in
Munich. the group had been dis
Cussing the subject of economics
and Germany's crying need for GER
tain resources such as wheat and
oil and the countries to which Ger
many must look for supplies.
MY party comrades said Hitler
taking charge of the conversation,
81 am not thinking in the first in
stance of economical matters. Ger
tainlv we need the wheat, the Oil
and the ores of these countries. But
our true object is to set up our rule
for all time, and to anchor it so
firmly that it will stand firm for a
thousand years. No political or eco
nomic agreements, such as Papen
and Hugenberg dream Of, will
achieve this. These are liberal
games. which end in the bankruptcy
of a nation. Today We are faced
with the iron necessity Of creating
a new social order. Only if we sue
ce, 4 in this shall we solve the great
historical task which has been set
our people
The claSsless society of the Marx
lists. he contended. was madness.
Order always meant class order. But
the democratic notion of a class Or
der based on the money bag was
equally mad A genuine ariStocracy
was not born out Of the accidentally
successful speculations of bright
businessmen. The secret of our
success lay in the fact that We had
once more placed the law of genu-
inc aristocracy at the heart of the
political struggle. True aristocracy
existed only where there was also
true subsection. We did not in
tend to abolish the inequality of
man: on the contrary, we would
deepen it and, as in ancient great
civilizations. create inSurmOuntable
barriers which would turn it into
law. There was no equal right for
all. We would have the courage to
make this denial the basis of all
our actions. and to acknowledge it
openly. Never would he concede
to other nations eQuf. rights with
the German. It was our task to
place other nations in subjection.
The German people was called to
give the world the new aristocracy.
His Aristocracy Program.
Hitler then went on to show how
this new aristocracy was to be
created.
THE part played by the bourgeoisie
Is finished-permanently. my party
comrades" he said. do not be de-
ceived by any galvanic currents that
may for a moment cause their dead
muscles to jerk again. But even
these upper classes justified by his
tory, this paper aristocracy, these
degenerate shoots of ancient noble
families, have still one thing left,
to die in beauty The Herrenklub
members and their associates will
not be able by the prepoSterouS
methods of their clubs and cliques to
halt the march of history. I shall
certainly destroy no ariStocracy
which today is still genuine. But
where is there any such? If there
is any, it will give its support to me.
No, my party comrades, We shall
not discuss the growth of new up
per class We shall create it, and
there is only one way of creating
1t: battle. The selection of the new
Fuehrer class is my struggle for
power. Whoever proclaims his al
legiance to me is, by this proclama-
ton and by the manner in which it
is made, one of the chosen. This is
the great revolutionary significance
of our long, dogged struggle for
power, that in it will be born new
Herren-class, chosen to guide the
fortunes not only of the German
people, but of the world.
Not by hair-splitting and expert
mentation. but in a single historical
occurrence. with the rise of new
Herren-claSs, new social order will
rise as we'll. We are in the midst
of such process. We stand in the
midst of such revolutionary cata-
clysm. produced by the abdication of
old social powers and the rise of new
ones But the MarXiSt gentry are
mistaken if they think it is the
workers who will take the place of
the Junkers as the new, leading
social power. 1t is the preposterous
mark of the COWardice of the sur
rendering bourgeoisie that it sees in
the industrial worker the mystic
savior in accordance with a kind
of social doctrine of healing. The
worker today, from the political as
pect, is as much temporary symp-
tom of dying social order as the
nobility and the bourgeoisie."
He would tell us what the society
Of the future would look like.
A Modern Slave Class.
There will be Herren-class," he
said. IAN historical class tempered
by battle, and welded from the most
varied elements. There will be a
great hierarchy of party members.
They will be the new middle class
And there will be the great mass of
anonymous. the serving collective,
the eternally disfranchised, no mat
ter whether they were once men,
bers of the old bourgeogisie, the big
land-owning class, the working
class or the artisans. Nor will their
financial or previous social position
be of the slightest Importance.
These preposterous differences will
have been liquidated in a single
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