The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization

by Patrick J. Buchanan

In October 1933, the New York Times quoted Hitler’s Ministry of Justice as saying that ridding society of these poor creatures would make it “possible for physicians to end the tortures of incurable patients, upon requests, in the interests of true humanity.”40 The money saved could be used to benefit “those on the threshold of old age.”41 The language of tenderness is familiar to us all. It calls to mind the words Walker Percy put in the mouth of Father Smith in The Thanatos Syndrome: “Do you know where tenderness leads? … Tenderness leads to the gas chamber.”42 In making their case, the Nazis could cite Churchill, who “wanted the curse of madness to die,” and George Bernard Shaw, who had said in 1933, “If we desire a certain type of civilization we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit in.”43 The führer’s thoughts exactly, G.B.