Defeating the Totalitarian Lie: A Former Hitler Youth Warns America

by Hilmar Von Campe

The main preoccupation of my parents during the Nazi years was to save us children from Nazi indoctrination says Hilmar von Campe. At 10 years old, like every other child, he had to enter the Hitler... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0981509193
• ISBN13: 9780981509198
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Anomalos Publishing
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"

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Defeating The Totalitarian Lie

"Defeating The Totalitarian Lie: A Hitler Youth Warns America" by Hilmar Von Campe is a sobering look at the bleakness of life and culture of death within Nazi Germany and shines like a torch as bright and as threatening as the one Paul Revere once saw. Hilmar Von Campe wrote "How Was It Possible?" in 2006. In his book, he wanted to explain why Germany allowed a madman like Adolph Hitler to rise to power and to persecute the Jews. However, since the publication of that book, Hilmar felt that current events demanded that he expand on his work. From his life experiences, the author understood the frightening correlation between Nazi Germany and the erosion of freedom in the United States. So, his new book is a look back at the extreme socialist agenda in Germany (taken from "How Was It Possible?") and a look forward at the increasing extreme socialist agenda in the United States. Hilmar grew up in Germany during this tumultuous period under the shadow of Adolph Hitler. Subsequently, he was forced into the Hitler Youth organization at an early age. Meetings were usually twice a week and the youth had to sing Nazi propaganda songs. He saw within his family a split in ideology, between pro- and anti-Nazi, that became so hateful that conversation was avoided. Hitler had a obsession for cruel treatment of his fellow citizens to drive out what he termed as `weakness.' He once stated," Weakness must be hammered away. In my castles of Teutonic Order, a youth will grow up and the world will tremble. I want a brutal domineering, fearless, cruel youth. Youth must be all that. It must bear pain. There must be nothing weak and gentle about it. The free, splendid beast of prey must once again flash from its eyes... That is how I will eradicate thousands of years of human domestication... That is how I will create the New Order." Von Campe describes the persecution of the Jews in detail. At a young age, Hilmar witnessed the initial and subtle marginalization of the Jews. For instance, laws were passed which discouraged Germans to buy from Jewish merchants. Businesses owned by Jews were forced into bankruptcy. The author recalled, with regret, that the churches in Germany were silent to the treatment of this segment of the population. At the beginning of World War II, the Von Campe family led a relatively normal life: going to school, having vacations and spending time together as families do. In 1943, Hilmar entered military service and explains his active duty which involved intense combat. As he points out, most of them hated the Nazis but still took orders from their superiors. With this in mind, Hilmar looks back and honestly recognizes that most Germans were guilty of the crime of silence. By this time, the persecution of the Jews was at the height of its' most evil form. Hilmar points out that it was the indifference of the German citizens that allowed this mass execution of life, even though most of them would not know about the death cam

great book. a should read for all in America

This book tells how Nazi Germany was formed. The reader will see very similar things happening in the US today. Especially since Obama has become president. The Nazis were not facists, they were the National Socialist party. It CAN happen here in America if people do not pay attention

Leaders Reflect the People Governed

I lived in West Germany for 8 years before the fall of the Berlin Wall and spoke with Germans who had experienced Hitler first hand. Hilmar von Campe's story and explanation for what happened sounds remarkably like theirs. Some people would like to say that this book is warning of the perils of unbridled Democratic Party power; others of unchecked Republican Party exploits. Campe, like those German citizens I knew, argue otherwise. They would say -- look in the mirror. The Bible says (and I'm paraphrasing here) that people get the leaders they deserve. If George Bush bothers you -- look in the mirror. If Barrack Obama bothers you -- look in the mirror. Campe's central premise is that the collapse in moral standards has set the stage for the rise of National Socialism (NAZI) / Communism / Liberal Fascism, (or some other brand of radical socialism)in the United States. If you didn't get that when you read the book, then re-read it with an open mind. The past 20 years of national politics have seen ever greater abuses of power, a more and more dumbed down electorate, elections based increasingly on cult and not substance, and a progressive collapse of morality. This goes beyond political parties; beyond the Republicrats we are force fed every four years; to the heart of what is ailing America and how to get back on track. This book represents hard core analysis from an insider who lived it; not theoretical intellectual hype. Get the book. Read it. And THINK.

Frightening Parallels Between Nazi-Germany and Today's Red, White and Blue. America Be Warned!

Hilmar von Campe was seven years old when Hitler took over Germany. "The main preoccupation of my parents during the Nazi years was to save us children from Nazi indoctrination" says Hilmar. At 10 years old, like every other child, he was required by law to enter the Hitler Youth, and at 18 he was conscripted into the army. He was a gunner in a tank in the Yugoslavian theatre fighting the Soviet army, became a prisoner of war of the Communist Tito government in 1945, and in the same year staged a sensational escape crossing seven borders by following the North Star by night and hiding in bushes by day. The destruction of Germany, the loss of his father in a Soviet concentration camp, the death of his elder brother in the war with the Soviet Union, and the expulsion from their home in Eastern Europe, had a profound impact on von Campe. His reports about the Nazi years and the war are a lesson of history as he brings facts unknown to most Americans. As a student of economics at the University of Hamburg, he had to come to grips with the question, "How could this happen?" and reflects upon his own moral responsibilities for the atrocities of a godless government. He discovered that the Nazi system was built on lies and contempt of human life and that his link, as well as that of millions of Germans to the Nazis, was the lie. "I lied for personal gains and they lied for political power. But a lie is a lie," he stated. "The bystander is as responsible as the criminal." "All materialistic totalitarian ideologies, the Nazis, the Communists, and the radical Islamists are based on lies and hatred," von Campe maintains. "They have a common source." His comparisons of the National Socialist ideology and society with the other ideologies and modern society are unique. Having lived nearly thirty years in various countries of Latin America, and equipped with the experience of one who has traveled the world, resulting in a broad basis of political comparison, Hilmar speaks to warn America in this book, Defeating the Totalitarian Lie, linking shockingly similar developments between Nazi-Germany and America today. "America needs a God-inspired ideology - only on that road can America fulfill her destiny and as a nation under God, give moral leadership to the world and make truth the basis of all human relationships." A MUST READ!!!

A Must Read !!!

A must read for anyone that wonders why the ACLU hates God and why the Democratic Party hates American and individual liberty. Do you think it a coincidence that Obama has proposed the same type of "mandatory youth groups"? Do you think it is a coincidence that Freedom OF Religion has become Freedom FROM Religion thanks to the ACLU and the socialists/left? Do you think it a coincidence that there is nothing that Obama and the Demoratic Party will not insert themselves into? Read this book and see where they are headed.