The Nordic Man Is Always An Idealist And Optimist

A basic question for the moral bearing of a person in his private and public life is the question of responsibility.

Based on their racial makeup, individual folks and countless world-views have taken very different stances toward this question. There are natural, primitive folks who go through life with a certain lack of worry, in their actions still largely driven by instinct, and for whom great conflicts about responsibility and duty do not exist.

There is a Marxist world that has managed to remove responsibility from the individual human being. The dominant factor in life is, for these Marxist circles, the environment. The conditions under which a person grows up, the people he lives with, the given surroundings in which fate has put him, in short, the whole environment in which he finds himself, shape his development. The criminal hence practically does not deserve any punishment. Prisons must hence practically be transformed into institutions of healing and sanatoriums for these unhappy people, toward whom all these mushy feelings of Marxism and humanitarian do-gooders turn.

According to another view, which comes from the oriental world, man is held down and chained by the original sin that weighs upon him. All folks of all eras are affected by the original sin the same way. Human reason is, according to this view, clouded, the human body is shameful, human will is weak. Man is practically only to a limited degree educatable. Insofar man can be led to positive action at all, so-called supernatural and cult means are much more important for influencing him than all natural forces.

The healthy German does not let his actions or his whole inner bearing be suppressed by environment or original sin. He feels that the Creator has not made him small–above all with an inescapable original sin–rather he is filled deep inside with the faith in the hereditary nobility of his blood. Grateful and proud, the German carries within him the consciousness that the Creator has given him the most precious energies, which enable him to stand his ground in life.

Nordic man is basically always an idealist and optimist. He indeed sees the hampering, the negative and the bad in life, but he does not let himself be pulled down by that. His eye again and again looks at the good, the beautiful and noble that Providence has given him. His idealism is never unreal. In his heroic bearing he hence also overcomes everything tragic in life.

The symbol of Nordic man is the sun, which again and again shines, warms and radiates though every night and every cloud.

So German man walks his path into the future proud and happy, full of confidence in the strengths that the Creator gave him.

-Anton Holzner “On Responsibility” From Hitler’s Priest: The Anton Holzner Collection