“When Jewish Blood …”

This chapter argues that the only difference lies in the “ethical instrumentation” of criminal actions—something unknown at the time when Macbeth murdered sleep. Our world, which still retains certain established modes of thinking, feels shocked and apprehensive as it follows the contest between words and deeds, deeds and words, and anxiously awaits the outcome. If it attends more to the words and their bellicose meaning, it is told to judge the Reich by its deeds. If it refers to deeds, Hitler's conciliatory Reichstag speech is cited in refutation. Point out this contradiction, and they dismiss it as a side issue which bears no relation to the kernel of the revolution, legally invested with power.