When academics signed a letter supporting Hitler - in the name of morality ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Tuesday, May 27, 2025

When academics signed a letter supporting Hitler - in the name of morality

We often see open letters about how awful Israel is and accusing it of crimes like apartheid, genocide, war crimes and killing cute puppies.

So I wondered if I could find similar letters from esteemed academics that openly supported Adolf Hitler.

Sure enough, here is Bekenntnis der Professoren an den deutschen Universitäten und Hochschulen zu Adolf Hitler und dem nationalsozialistischen Staat - the Vow of Allegiance of the Professors of the German Universities and High-Schools to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialistic State, November, 1933. Close to 900 academics signed this letter.

Since I have been writing lately about how philosophy has been hijacked by immoral ideas, here are excerpts from the speeches accompanying this public vow that mention philosophy and morality.

The first is from famous German philosopher Martin Heidegger:

We have disengaged ourselves from the idolatry of bottomless and powerless thinking. We see the end of philosophy in servitude. We are convinced that the clear hardness and the just security of relentless simple questioning for the character of existence, will return. The original fortitude in the altercation with that which exists, and by doing so either to grow or to break, is the innermost motive of question of a national science. For pluck entices to go forward, pluck disengages itself from all which has existed, pluck dares to do the unaccustomed and the incalculable. Question is to us not the frivolous game of curiosity. Questioning neither means to us the stubborn persistence in doubt at all costs; questioning means to us: to expose oneself to the prominence of things and their laws, means to us: not to hide from the terror of the untamed and the dread of the dark. We ask for the sake of these questions and are not in the service of those grown tired in their lazy desire for simple answers. We know that questioning pluck to experience the depths of existence and precipices of existence is in itself a higher answer than a cheap information derived from artificially constructed systems of thought.

And so we, who have in our keeping the "desire to know" of our nation, confess: ...This revolution means a complete revolution of our German existence. From now on everything demands decision and every action responsibility. We are convinced: if the will to self responsibility becomes the law of the community between the nations, then each nation can and must be a teacher of the wealth and power of all great deeds and works of human existence.

And from Friedrich Karl Schumann, a German theologian:

German science has in the last years spent a great deal of serious ethic work in theology and philosophy in order to raise the foundations of political existence of men and nations. From this responsibility and in view of this serious work, German science declares: The foreign political action about which the leader is now asking his nation does not mean that Germany wishes to isolate herself from the community of nations, but it means: Germany has realised: this community is lacking a renewal of its moral foundation.

Speaking in moral terms - extolling equal rights, political freedom, science, honor, justice and peace - does not make one moral.

In fact, it can indicate the exact opposite.

Anyone impressed with the anti-Israel open letters and petitions signed by academics and entertainers should keep in mind that they are outsourcing their opinions to those whose ideas are more in line with Nazism than morality.