Night of 25-26 September 1941

The revelation that her encounter with her first man is for a young woman, can be compared with the revelation that a soldier knows when he faces war for the first time. In a few days, a youth becomes a man.

14 October 1941, midday

Special guest: Reichsfuehrer Himmler

It’s possible to satisfy the needs of the inner life by an intimate communion with nature, or by knowledge of the past. Only a minority, however, at the present stage of the mind’s development, can feel the respect inspired by the unknown, and thus satisfy the metaphysical needs of the soul. The average human being has the same needs, but can satisfy them only by elementary means. That’s particularly true of women, as also of peasants who impotently watch the destruction of their crops. The person whose life tends to simplification is thirsty for belief, and he dimly clings to it with all his strength.

25 October 1941, evening

Special guests: Reichsfuehrer SS Himmler and SS General (Obergruppenfuehrer) Heydrich

For the nuns, I’m opposed to the use of force. They’d be incapable of leading any other life. They’d be without support, literally ruined. In this respect, the Catholic Church has taken over the institution of the Vestal Virgins. As soon as a girl becomes a woman, she’s faced with the problem of getting a man. If she doesn’t find a fianceé, or if she loses him, it’s possible that she may refuse to have anything more to do with life, and may prefer to retire to a convent. It can also happen that parents may promise their children to the Church. When a human being has spent ten years in a monastery or convent, he or she loses the exact idea of reality. For a woman, a part is played by the sense of belonging to a community that takes care of her. When she lacks the support of a man, she quite naturally looks for this support elsewhere.

In Germany we have, unfortunately, two million more women than men. A girl’s object is, and should be, to get married. Rather than die an old maid, it’s better for her to have a child without more ado! Nature doesn’t care the least bit whether, as a preliminary, the people concerned have paid a visit to the registrar. Nature wants a woman to be fertile. Many women go slightly off their heads when they don’t bear children. Everybody says, of a childless woman: “What a hysterical creature!” It’s a thousand times preferable that she should have a natural child, and thus a reason for existence, rather than slowly wither.

30 August 1942, evening

Fundamentally, there is a certain moral to be drawn from the Russian attitude towards brothels – it is beneath one’s dignity to legislate for such places. In our own country, however, prostitution has to a certain extent been sanctified by the fact that it was the Archbishops and the Bishops who introduced the levying of the harlot’s tithe. The princely Bishop of Mainz drew a large portion of his revenues from this source. That the Bolsheviks admit the legality of a woman’s having children by different men is due, I think, to their desire to bring about a fusion of their various races. It is curious, but it is none the less a fact, that our medical examinations show that 80 to 90 per cent of their unmarried girls up to the age of twenty-five are virgins and have a clean bill of health.

4 September 1942, midday

The speaking of several languages is not necessarily a proof of intelligence. For a child to speak two or three languages as the result of having had an English or a French nurse is an everyday occurrence.

Spanish women, even though they speak several languages, are outstandingly stupid. Franco’s wife, for instance, goes to church every day of her life. I admit confession has its uses; the woman has the satisfaction of absolution and permission to carry on with her little games, and the parson has the pleasure of hearing all about it! But, of course, it must all be paid for!

These Hungarian girls have a terrific temperament! The Tabody is a devil incarnate, and the very devil of a baggage! The Hungarian Csardas is a fine dance, comparable to our Schuhplattler, and worthy of any man. Our ballroom dancing, on the other hand, is, in my opinion, the essence of effeminacy.