It seems a bit funny that a group of skinheads in New Zealand should celebrate Hitler’s birthday like the Hammerskins did in Wellington the other weekend.

FDB decided to do a bit of digging to see what Der Fuhrer thought of New Zealand. What we found was, well, rather disappointing. He was obviously not very informed on geography or ethnography.

Take a look at this; it’s excerpts from a speech given by Hitler on July 15, 1925, explaining Nazi racial doctrine. He started by using dogs as an example, declaring that although dogs were indeed dogs, not all dogs were alike and some were better than others. Sheer genius there, but it gets better…

“You say ‘a human being is a human being’. No doubt! But between the individual human beings there is after all a certain differentiation. For example: many New Zealanders live in trees and many still climb around on all fours, very different from a European who walks on two legs and does not live in trees but wanders on streets.

“Now you might say: ‘That is the effect of climate’. My friend, if all Europeans left the Continent and the New Zealanders slipped in here, you will surely not believe that the climate will make a European out of the New Zealander, however great the influence of climate, that influence will not reach beyond certain characteristics…”

It’s almost beyond comprehension that the leader of a political party could be so dumb, but obviously Party officials didn’t think so. The whole of Hitler’s speech was considered to be significant enough for official publication in pamphlet form by the Nazi Party and widely distributed.

For comparison, here’s a photo of some NZ Hammerskins.

Cheer up boys, bananas are available all year round in New Zealand now. We hear the Hutt Valley has some pretty fancy trees. Perhaps you could hold the next celebrations for Hitler’s birthday in one.