[Footnote 94: Feder, _op. cit._, p. 18.]
[Footnote 95: Gauweiler, _op. cit._, pp. 149-151.]
[Footnote 96: _Mein Kampf_, pp. 727-728.]
[Footnote 97: _Ibid._, pp. 735-736.]
[Footnote 98: Scurla, _op. cit._, p. 21.]
[Footnote 99: _Ibid._, pp. 21-22.]
[Footnote 100: _Ibid._, p. 23.]
[Footnote 101: _Der Parteitag der Freiheit_ (official record of the
1935 party congress at Nuremberg: Munich, 1935), p. 27.]
[Footnote 102: _Mein Kampf_, p. 743.]
[Footnote 103: _Ibid._, pp. 754-755.]
[Footnote 104: _Ibid._, pp. 437-438.]
[Footnote 105: Rosenberg, _Wesen, Grundsätze und Ziele der NSDAP_, p.
48.]
[Footnote 106: _London Times_, Sept. 26, 1939, p. 9.]
[Footnote 107: _Ibid._]
[Footnote 108: _Ibid._]
[Footnote 109: _My New Order_, p. 592.]
[Footnote 110: _Ibid._, pp. 669-671.]
[Footnote 111: _Ibid._, p. 687.]
[Footnote 112: Goebbels, _op. cit._, p. 6.]
[Footnote 113: _Mein Kampf_, p. 252.]
[Footnote 114: _Ibid._, p. 197.]
[Footnote 115: _Ibid_., p. 198.]
[Footnote 116: _Ibid._, p. 200.]
[Footnote 117: _Ibid._, pp. 200-201.]
[Footnote 118: _Ibid._, p. 202.]
[Footnote 119: _Ibid._, p. 203.]
[Footnote 120: _Ibid._, p. 273.]
[Footnote 121: _Ibid._, p. 129.]
[Footnote 122: Banse, _Germany Prepares for War_ (New York, 1934), pp.
348-349.]
[Footnote 123: Goebbels, _Der Angriff: Aufsätze aus der Kampfzeit_
(Munich, 1936), p. 71.]
[Footnote 124: _Ibid._, p. 73.]
[Footnote 125: _My New Order_, pp. 195-196.]
[Footnote 126: Huber, _Verfassungsrecht des grossdeutschen Reiches_
(Hamburg, 1939), p. 31.]
[Footnote 127: _Ibid._, p. 32.]
NATIONAL-SOCIALISM AND MEDICINE
Address by Dr. F. Hamburger to German Medical Profession. Translated
(in part) from _Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift_, 1939, No. 6.
Medical men must beware of pride, a pride which is certainly
wide-spread and which leads to the disparagement of the practical
doctor and medical layman, and then further to the disparagement of
the craft of nature healers. The practical doctor and the nature
healer on the one hand tend towards an understandable disparagement of
medical science and analysis and, on the other hand, tend towards
superficiality. The superficiality of the opponents of science is,
however, as unhappy an affair as the pride of the so-called
scientists, but the one group should not demean the other. This would
lead to successful cooperation to the advantage of the sick and health
of the community.
Academic medicine and nature healers generally have one thing in
common, that they underestimate the significance of automatism and
suggestion. In this regard there is an absence in both camps of the
necessary criticism and clarity. Successes are noted with specific
methods without any confirmation as to whether or not suggestion and
faith alone have not produced the improvement in the patient.
National-Socialism is the true instrument for the achievement of the
health of our people. National-Socialism is concerned with the great
significance of inherited traits and with the insight into the working
of spiritual forces upon the body, with the study of the power of
custom and, along with this, of the significance of education and
nurture. (Hamburger here complains about the luxurious arrangement for
dealing with the mentally ill in contradistinction to the neglect of
Folk-health. This he attributes to the era of liberalism with its
stress upon the single individual. He here also attacks the Socialism
of Social Democracy and its conception of a Community of Equal Men.
This is a false Socialism.)
So we scientists and doctors simply and soberly affirm the principle
of strength of faith and the nationalist socialist principle of
Positive Christianity which does not prevent us from the inspired
consideration of natural and divinely willed phenomena. We doctors
must never forget the fact that the soul rules the body.
Soul forces are the most important. The spirit builds the body.
Strength springs from joy. Efficiency is achieved despite care, fear,
and uncertainty--We speak here of thymogenetic automatism or the
automatism of harmony ("thymogenetische automatismus oder
stimmungsautomatismus"). The autonomous nervous system achieves, under
the influence of joy, the expansion of the blood vessels in skin and
muscle.... The muscular activity incited by joy means the use of
calories and stimulation of appetite. Muscular contraction pulls and
draws at the bones, ligaments are tensed, breathing deepend, appetite
increased ... A child influenced by the daily exercise of joy develops
physically strong and powerful. ... The Soul care (Seele Sorge) of the
practical doctor is his most significant daily task alongside of
prescriptions and manipulative dexterity.
Soul-care in the medical sense is a concern for the wishes, hopes and
fears of the patient, the considered participation in his fate. Such a
relationship leads to the all-important and generally recognized trust
in the doctor. This faith, in all cases, leads to the improvement,
often even to the elimination of symptoms, of the disease. Here we
have clearly before us the great significance of thymogenetic
automatism.
Academic physicians should not dismiss this because we do not know its
biochemical aspects. (We must beware of regarding something as
unacceptable because it is not measurable in exact terms, he warns.)
We see its practical results, and, therefore, thymogenetic automatism
must stand in the first rank as of overwhelming significance. Thus,
also, the principle, strength through joy (Kraft durch Freude) stands
firmly as an inescapable natural law.
We see the practical country doctor spreading courage and confidence.
For years too few doctors have seen clearly that gymnastic tourism and
sport do more for health than all doctors taken together. And now we
face the fact that a single man, a non-medical man (Hitler) through
his great qualities, has opened up new avenues of health for the
eighty million folk of Germany.
In the majority of cases things so happen that the doctor must act
before making a diagnosis, since only the mis-educated patients, the
one-sided intellectual patient, wishes in the very first place to know
the diagnosis. But the unspoilt and properly ordered type of person
wishes only to be relieved of his pain. For him the diagnosis is an
interesting side issue but not the principle thing. We can thus also
understand why we always meet the desire for a diagnosis placed first
by the over-intellectualized Jewish patient. But that is not the case
with most Aryan patients. They, from the first, come to meet the
doctor with more trust. They do not entertain as many after-thoughts.
And I cannot help but remark that after-thoughts are hardly conducive
to right results.
(After a discussion of the sterilization of the unfit and of
inheritable diseases he turns to the subject of child bearing.)
It has been estimated that every couple should have four children if
the nation's population is to be maintained. But we meet already the
facile and complacent expression of young married people, "Now we have
our four children and so have fulfilled our obligations"--What
superficiality! Today we must demand a much higher moral attitude from
the wife than previously. Earlier it was taken for granted that a
woman would bear a child every one or two years. But today in this
time of manifold amenities of life, at a time when women is not denied
access to these joys it is understandable that she is eager to
participate in them. Add to this that the knowledge of birth control
is general today. Despite all this women must be encouraged to give
birth during twenty years of married life to eight or ten and even
more children, and to renounce the above-mentioned joys of life. She
must decide as a mother of children to lead a life full of sacrifices,
devotion, and unselfishness. It is only when these ethical demands are
fulfilled by a large number of worthy wives of good stock that the
future of the German nation will be assured.
Doctors are leaders of the Folk more than they know ... They are now
quite officially fuehrer of the people, called to the leadership of
its health. To fulfill this task they must be free of the profit
motive. They must be quite free from that attitude of spirit which is
rightly designated as Jewish, the concern for business and
self-provision.