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"Wenn wir Nationalsozialisten uns schämen, eine Krawatte vom Juden zu kaufen, dann müßten wir uns erst recht schämen, irgendetwas, das zu unserer Seele spricht, das innerste Religiöse vom Juden anzunehmen. Hierher gehört auch, daß unsere Kirche keine Menschen judenblütiger Art mehr in ihren Reihen aufnehmen darf."
"Die Angeklagten haben im Kriege in Flugblättern zur Sabotage der Rüstung und zum Sturz der nationalsozialistischen Lebensform unseres Volkes aufgerufen, defaitistische Gedanken propagiert und den Führer aufs gemeinste beschimpft und dadurch den Feind des Reiches begünstigt und unsere Wehrkraft zersetzt. Sie werden deshalb mit dem T o d e bestraft. [...] Wenn solches Handeln anders als mit dem Tode bestraft würde, wäre der Anfang einer Entwicklungskette gebildet, deren Ende einst – 1918 – war. Deshalb gab es für den Volksgerichtshof zum Schutze des kämpfenden Volkes und Reiches nur eine gerechte Strafe: die Todesstrafe."
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.