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“You must train harder than the enemy who is trying to kill you. You will get all the rest you need in the grave.”
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“They died out there, in countless numbers, not for government officials in Berlin, but for their old countries, gilded by the centuries, and for their common fatherland, Europe, the Europe of Virgil and Ronsard, the Europe of Erasmus and Nietzsche, of Raphael and Dürer, the Europe of St. Ignatius and St. Theresa, the Europe of Frederick the Great and Napoleon Bonaparte.”
― The Eastern Front: Memoirs of a Waffen SS Volunteer, 1941–1945
― The Eastern Front: Memoirs of a Waffen SS Volunteer, 1941–1945
“A country cannot live in disorder, incompetence, irresponsibility, uncertainty, and corruption.”
― The Eastern Front: Memoirs of a Waffen SS Volunteer, 1941–1945
― The Eastern Front: Memoirs of a Waffen SS Volunteer, 1941–1945
“For hate dies, suffocated to death by its own stupidity and mediocrity. But grandeur is eternal.”
― The Eastern Front: Memoirs of a Waffen SS Volunteer, 1941-1945
― The Eastern Front: Memoirs of a Waffen SS Volunteer, 1941-1945
“We can gather all the Conferences of the world, gather by herds Heads of State, economic experts and champions of all techniques. They will weigh. They will decree.
But, basically, they will fail because they will miss the point.
The disease of the century is not in the body.
The body is sick because the soul is sick.
It was she who needed to be healed and revitalized.
The real, the big revolution to do is there.
Spiritual revolution
Or bankruptcy of the century.
The salvation of the world is in the will of the souls who believe.”
― Almas ardiendo: notas de paz, de guerra y de exilio
But, basically, they will fail because they will miss the point.
The disease of the century is not in the body.
The body is sick because the soul is sick.
It was she who needed to be healed and revitalized.
The real, the big revolution to do is there.
Spiritual revolution
Or bankruptcy of the century.
The salvation of the world is in the will of the souls who believe.”
― Almas ardiendo: notas de paz, de guerra y de exilio
“Britain and France had made it a world war after Hitler invaded Poland. When Stalin did the same thing fifteen days later, no one in the Allied chancelleries took the risk of reacting.”
― The Eastern Front: Memoirs of a Waffen SS Volunteer, 1941–1945
― The Eastern Front: Memoirs of a Waffen SS Volunteer, 1941–1945
“Four years later, the comparison worked in the opposite direction: after having looted the watches, the jewelry, the clothes from all of Eastern Europe, the Soviet soldier returned grumbling to the USSR, astonished at the comfort of the non-Communist countries and disgusted with his “paradise” of wooden spoons, tattered dresses, and muddy excrement stretching around his house-barracks.”
― The Eastern Front: Memoirs of a Waffen SS Volunteer, 1941–1945
― The Eastern Front: Memoirs of a Waffen SS Volunteer, 1941–1945
“I sometimes made huge mistakes. But what actually is a mistake in politics? And when I look back, I have only one sentiment: an enormous regret. Regret that we did not succeed, that we were not able to create this European world which would be the master of the universe for all time, which made the white race the first race, with the great mastery of the spirit.
And when we see what there is on the other side, what 30 years of the others’ victory has given, this anarchy in the world, this rout of the white world, this desertion throughout the universe; when we see in our own countries the decay of morals, the fall of the fatherland, the fall of the family, the fall of social order; when we see this appetite for material goods which has replaced the great flame of the ideal which animated us, well then, truly, between the two we chose the right side. The small, miserable Europe of today, of this impoverished Common Market, cannot give happiness to men. Consumer society poisons humanity rather than elevating it.
So, for our part, we dreamed of something great, and we have only one desire, that this spirit be reborn. And with all my might, up to the last moment of my existence, I will fight for this. So that what was our struggle and our martyrdom, will one day be the resurrection.”
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And when we see what there is on the other side, what 30 years of the others’ victory has given, this anarchy in the world, this rout of the white world, this desertion throughout the universe; when we see in our own countries the decay of morals, the fall of the fatherland, the fall of the family, the fall of social order; when we see this appetite for material goods which has replaced the great flame of the ideal which animated us, well then, truly, between the two we chose the right side. The small, miserable Europe of today, of this impoverished Common Market, cannot give happiness to men. Consumer society poisons humanity rather than elevating it.
So, for our part, we dreamed of something great, and we have only one desire, that this spirit be reborn. And with all my might, up to the last moment of my existence, I will fight for this. So that what was our struggle and our martyrdom, will one day be the resurrection.”
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“WE MUST, all of us, be prepared for the most terrible. Is not death, in the midst of humiliation, a way to give oneself even more?
Sacrifice admits of neither calculation nor reserve. If I had lied like the rest where would I have landed?
Yet, I believe even so, more than ever, only the idealists can change the world.
The soul that remains is the soul.”
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Sacrifice admits of neither calculation nor reserve. If I had lied like the rest where would I have landed?
Yet, I believe even so, more than ever, only the idealists can change the world.
The soul that remains is the soul.”
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“In the human desert, where there are so many lambs, be lions!”
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“At Dniepropetrovsk the Stalin regime had made great efforts in construction. We were at first impressed as we approached the suburbs of the city, where we saw outlined the large masonry blocks of the proletarian housing erected by the Soviets. Their lines were modern. The buildings were huge, and there were many of them. Undeniably, the Communist system had done something for the people. If the misery of the peasants was great, at least the worker seemed to have benefited from the new times. Still, it was necessary to visit and examine the buildings. We lived for six months in the Donets coal basin. We had plenty of time to test the conclusions that we had reached at the time of our entrance into Dniepropetrovsk. The buildings, so impressive from a distance, were just a gigantic hoax, intended to fool sightseers shepherded by Intourist [Soviet tourism agency] and the viewers of documentary films. Approaching those housing blocks you were sickened by the stench of mud and excrement that rose from the quagmires surrounding each of the buildings. Around them were neither sidewalks nor gravel nor paving stones. The Russian mud was everywhere, and everywhere the walls peeled and crumbled. The quality of the construction materials was of the lowest order. All the balconies had come loose, and already the cement stairways were worn and grooved, although the buildings were only a few years old.”
― The Eastern Front: Memoirs of a Waffen SS Volunteer, 1941–1945
― The Eastern Front: Memoirs of a Waffen SS Volunteer, 1941–1945
“Solo el alma cuenta y debe dominar a todo lo demás. Corta o larga, la vida solo vale la pena si no tenemos que avergonzarnos de ella en el momento en que hay que devolverla”
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“En la vida todo es cuestión de fe y tenacidad”
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“L’agonie de notre temps gît là.
Le siècle ne s’effondre pas faute de soutien matériel. Jamais l’univers ne fut si riche, comblé de tant de confort, aidé par une industrialisation à ce point productrice.
Jamais il n’y eut tant de ressources ni de biens offerts.
C’est le cœur de l’homme, et lui seul, qui est en état de faillite.
C’est faute d’aimer, c’est faute de croire et de se donner, que le monde s’accable lui-même des coups qui l’assassinent.
Le siècle a voulu n’être plus que le siècle des appétits. Son orgueil l’a perdu. Il a cru aux machines, aux stocks, aux lingots, sur lesquels il régnerait en maître. Il a cru, tout autant, à la victoire des passions charnelles projetées au delà de toutes les limites, à la libération des formes les plus diverses des jouissances, sans cesse multipliées, toujours plus avilies et plus avilissantes, dotées d’une « technique » qui n’est, en somme, généralement, qu’une accumulation, sans grande imagination, d’assez pauvres vices, d’êtres vidés.”
― Almas ardiendo: notas de paz, de guerra y de exilio
Le siècle ne s’effondre pas faute de soutien matériel. Jamais l’univers ne fut si riche, comblé de tant de confort, aidé par une industrialisation à ce point productrice.
Jamais il n’y eut tant de ressources ni de biens offerts.
C’est le cœur de l’homme, et lui seul, qui est en état de faillite.
C’est faute d’aimer, c’est faute de croire et de se donner, que le monde s’accable lui-même des coups qui l’assassinent.
Le siècle a voulu n’être plus que le siècle des appétits. Son orgueil l’a perdu. Il a cru aux machines, aux stocks, aux lingots, sur lesquels il régnerait en maître. Il a cru, tout autant, à la victoire des passions charnelles projetées au delà de toutes les limites, à la libération des formes les plus diverses des jouissances, sans cesse multipliées, toujours plus avilies et plus avilissantes, dotées d’une « technique » qui n’est, en somme, généralement, qu’une accumulation, sans grande imagination, d’assez pauvres vices, d’êtres vidés.”
― Almas ardiendo: notas de paz, de guerra y de exilio
“Il est doux de rêver à un idéal et de le bâtir dans sa pensée.
Mais c’est encore, à dire le vrai, fort peu de chose.
Qu’est-ce qu’un idéal qui n’est qu’un jeu, ou mettons même un rêve très pur ?
Il faut le bâtir, après cela, dans l’existence.”
― Almas ardiendo: notas de paz, de guerra y de exilio
Mais c’est encore, à dire le vrai, fort peu de chose.
Qu’est-ce qu’un idéal qui n’est qu’un jeu, ou mettons même un rêve très pur ?
Il faut le bâtir, après cela, dans l’existence.”
― Almas ardiendo: notas de paz, de guerra y de exilio
“¡Que el destino nos escuentre siempre fuertes y dignos! Debemos amar la felicidad como amamos el canto fugitivo del viento, como amamos los colores del atardecer que se va a extinguir. Porque los vientos renacen y cantan de nuevo...”
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“Mentir ha llegado a ser una forma de espíritu. El honor ha perdido todo sentido, el honor del juramento, el honor a servir, el honor de morir. Se ríen de quienes se aferran todavía a esos viejos ritos. La virtud ha perdido su dulce canto de fuente. Las sonrisas no son ya los sentimientos del corazón, sino suspiros, estafas o rictus. Las almas se asfixian, el aire es pesado, cargado de todos los renunciamientos espirituales”
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“Había soñado con un siglo de caballeros fuertes y nobles, dominadores de sí mismos antes que dominadores de otros. El ser humano se ha parapetado detrás de su propio egoísmo y de su propio placer. La virtud ha abandonado su canto natural, el aire está cargado de todas las negaciones morales y espirituales. Nosotros saldremos de este decaimiento sólo a través de una inmensa rectificación, reenseñando a los hombres a amar, a sacrificarse, a vivir, a luchar y a morir por un ideal superior. Contando sólo con la fe, la confianza ardiente, la ausencia completa de egoísmo e individualismo. Contando sólo con la calidad del alma, sus vibraciones, el don total, la voluntad de tener en alto y por encima de todo un ideal entre el desinterés más absoluto. Llega la hora de salvar el mundo, habrá necesidad del puño de los héroes y de los santos que harán la reconquista. Respirar, volver a creer en la virtud, la belleza, la bondad, el amor, sentirse bailando entre las olas, entre otras miles de velas hinchadas por el viento llevadas por un mismo soplo hacia una misma llamada. Cuando del mar dorado venga fluyendo toda esta blancura la revolución se pondrá en marcha levantada sobre la cúspide de esta flota de almas”
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“Lo único que importa es la fe, la confianza ardiente, la ausencia total de egoísmo e individualismo, la tensión de todo el ser hacia el servicio, por ingrato que sea, en cualquier lugar, de todos modos, una causa que va más allá del hombre, preguntándole todo, prometiéndole nada”
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“La sociedad de consumo convirtió a la humanidad en una inmensa multitud materialista a la cual la simple idea de sacrificio le hacía temblar. Las fiestas, la televisión, la avidez de tenerlo todo, de poder pagar todo lo que se ve, de no someterse nunca a ninguna moral limitativa, de incluso hartarse de los ancianos (carga pesada) o de los niños (obstáculos), han enviado a la civilización occidental al declive”
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“¡Qué el destino nos encuentre siempre fuertes y dignos! Debemos amar la felicidad como amamos el canto fugitivo del viento, como amamos los colores del atardecer que se va a extinguir. Porque los vientos renacen y cantan de nuevo...”
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“The disease of the century is not in the body. The body is sick because the soul is sick.
This is what is essential, whatever it may take to cure.”
― The Burning Souls
This is what is essential, whatever it may take to cure.”
― The Burning Souls
“The money, the honours, the mess of bodies, the eagerness to seize an earthly happiness, which leaks between the fingers and always escapes, has made of the human herd a pitiful horde ruining itself, tearing itself apart to find a liberation which does not exist... The desire to be first, that is to say, the desire to trample upon. The desire for purely material power, that is to say the desire to suffocate and destroy the spiritual.”
― The Burning Souls
― The Burning Souls
“Solo los cerebros vacíos, o los corazones inconstantes, tiene miedo de quedar en silencio frente a sí mismos”
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“Aunque se reúnan todas las conferencias del mundo y se agrupen los jefes de Estado y los expertos, nada podrán cambiar. La enfermedad no está en el cuerpo. El cuerpo está enfermo porque lo está el alma. Es el alma la que tiene que curarse y purificarse.
La verdaderamente grande y única revolución que está por hacerse es ésa: aun tan sólo las almas, llamadas por el amor del hombre y alimentadas por el amor de Dios podrá devolver al mundo él claro rostro y una mirada limpia a los ojos purificados por el agua serena de la entrega generosa. No hay opción: o revolución espiritual, o fracaso del siglo”
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La verdaderamente grande y única revolución que está por hacerse es ésa: aun tan sólo las almas, llamadas por el amor del hombre y alimentadas por el amor de Dios podrá devolver al mundo él claro rostro y una mirada limpia a los ojos purificados por el agua serena de la entrega generosa. No hay opción: o revolución espiritual, o fracaso del siglo”
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“En el combate, un hombre miedoso está perdido. El valor, más aún que exponer, se impone, porque la muerte también, con tal de que se la mire a la cara, se deja asustar”
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“Son muchos los hombres viles, pero junto a ellos, junto a esos cuya bajeza es una blasfemia de vida, existen otros: todos aquellos, los que vemos y los que no vemos, que no son así y que, por no serlo, salvan al mundo y al honor de vivir”
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“¡Cuánta gente, colmada de todo, se queja de continuo, lo encuentra todo mal y no acierta a gozar nunca de nada!
Debemos mirar siempre hacia los que tienen menos que nosotros y contentarnos, y gozar de lo que poseemos sin alimentar nuestro espíritu de quimeras”
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Debemos mirar siempre hacia los que tienen menos que nosotros y contentarnos, y gozar de lo que poseemos sin alimentar nuestro espíritu de quimeras”
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“No hay más remedio que alimentar el espíritu, para no dejarse caer en el embrutecimiento, en la suciedad, en la mediocridad”
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