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Man is a Beast of Prey |
| My system of education is a harsh one. Weakness must be stamped out. The world will shrink in trepidation from the youngsters who grow up in my Ordensburgen. A violent, masterful, dauntless, cruel younger generation—that is my aim. There must be nothing weak and tender about it. Its eyes must glow once more with the freedom and splendour of the beast of prey. |
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| Adolf Hitler (H. Raushning, Hitler Speaks - 1939) |
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| We now turn to the Nazi view of a person. If nature is cruel and violent this leads to the belief that man, himself, is a beast of prey. He is a predator, a tiger whose main mission in life is to kill and eat weaker animals. A tiger feels no compassion for the deer it has suddenly pounced upon. Indeed a tiger who felt compassion for Bambi the deer would not be a tiger at all! Merciful, sensitive tigers would not be able to survive. Hitler wanted to create a new generation of cruel children! Hitler believed that there were two kinds of people: the hunters, those who rule, dominate and kill; and the hunted, those who are weak, pathetic and 'ripe for destruction'. | |