An Original Translation: Theodor Fritsch's Anti-Semitic Decalogue
We reprint the following to show the reader a glimpse of the thought of Theodor Fritsch as a 19th century German perspective on how one should begin to apply the philosophy of being jew-free.
This of course applies if you are not a student of the jewish question, which would require you to act contrary to the principles outlined below, but can be stuck to in spirit rather than in letter, if you are such a student of the jewish question, by separating one's research from one's personal life as to not infect yourself, your family and your home. It is worth noting the difference in what Fritsch states plainly and simply with the mealy-mouthed and quasi-hysterical criticism of jews that is forthcoming from most so-called anti-Semites today.
Fritsch says what he means so if you are easily offended please do not read further: if you do so then you risk being rather offended if you are of a philo-Semitic disposition.
'1. Be proud of being a German and strive earnestly and steadily to practice the inherited virtues of our people, courage, faithfulness and veracity, and to inspire and develop these in thy children.
2. Thou shall know that thou with all thy fellow Germans, regardless of faith or creed, hast a common implacable foe. His name is the jew.
3. Thou shall keep thy blood pure. Consider it a crime to soil the noble Aryan breed of thy people by mingling it with the jewish breed. For thou must know that jewish blood is everlasting, putting the jewish stamp on body and soul lasting until the farthest generations.
4. Thou shall be helpful to thy fellow German and further him in all matters not counter to the German conscience, the more so if he be pressed by the jew. Thou shall at once take into court any offense or crime committed by the jew in deed, word or letter, that comes to thy knowledge, lest the jew abuse the laws of our country with impunity.
5. Thou shall have no social intercourse with the jew. Avoid all contact and community with the jew and keep him away from thyself and thy family, especially thy daughters, lest they suffer injury of body and soul.
6. Thou shall have no business relations with the jews. Never choose a jew as a business partner, nor borrow nor buy from him, and keep your wife, too, from doing so. Thou shall sell nothing to him, nor use him as an agent in thy transactions, that thou may remain free and not become a slave unto the jew nor help to increase his money, which is the power by which been slaves our people.
7. Thou shall drive the jew from thy own breast and take no example from jewish tricks and jewish wiles, for thou shall never match the jew in trickery but forfeit thy honour and earn the contempt of thy fellow Germans and the punishment of the courts.
8. Thou shall not entrust thy rights to a jewish lawyer, nor thy body to a jewish physician, nor thy children to a jewish teacher lest thy honour, body and soul suffer harm.
9. Thou shall not listen nor give credence to the jew. Keep all jewish writings away from thy German home and hearth lest their lingering poison may unnerve and corrupt thyself and thy family.
10. Thou shall not use violence against the jews because it is unworthy of thee and against the law. But if a jew attacks thee, ward off his Semitic insolence with German wrath.' (1)
References
(1) Translated from the German of Thomas Frey [Theodor Fritsch], 1893, 'Antisemiten-Katechismus: Eine Zusammenstellungdes wichtigsten zum Verstaendnis der Judenfrage', 1st Edition, H. Beyer: Leipzig, p. 858. Alternative and slightly different translations to mine are available in Paul Mendes-Flohr and Jehuda Reinharz, 1980, 'The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary History', 1st Edition, Oxford University Press: New York: pp. 287-288 and Paul Massing, 1967, 'Rehearsal for Destruction: A Study of Political Anti-Semitism in Imperial Germany', 2nd Edition, H. Fertig: New York, pp. 306-307.