particularly the German industrial region would lie defenselessly
exposed to the concentrated aggressive arms of our foes. There is
the additional fact that between Germany and Russia there lies
the Polish state, completely in French hands. In case of a war
between Germany and Russia and Western Europe, Russia would
first have to subdue Poland before the first soldier could be sent
to the western front. Yet it is not so much a question of soldiers
as of technical armament. In this respect, the World War
situation would repeat itself, only much more horribly. Just as
German industry was then drained for our glorious allies, and,
technically speaking, Germany had to fight the war almost
singlehanded, likewise in this struggle Russia would be entirely
out of the picture as a technical factor. We could oppose
practically nothing to the general motorization of the worth
which in the next war will manifest itself overwhelmingly and
decisively. For not only that Germany herself has remained
shamefully backward in this allimportant field, but from the
little she possesses she would have to sustain Russia, which even
today cannot claim possession of a single factory capable of
producing a motor vehicle that really runs. Thus, such a war
would assume the character of a plain massacre. Germany's
youth would be bled even more than the last time, for as always
the burden of the fighting would rest only upon us, and the result
would be inevitable defeat.
But even supposing that a miracle should occur and that such a
struggle did not end with the total annihilation of Germany, the
ultimate outcome would only be that the German nation, bled
white, would remain as before bounded by great military states
and that her real situation would hence have changed in no way.
Let no one argue that in concluding an alliance with Russia we
need not immediately think of war, or, if we did, that we could
thoroughly prepare for it. An alliance whose aim does not
embrace a plan for war is senseless and worthless. Alliances are
concluded only for struggle. And even if the clash should be
never so far away at the moment when the pact is concluded, the
prospect of a military involvement is nevertheless its cause. And
do not imagine that any power would ever interpret the meaning
of such an alliance in any other way. Either a GermanRussian
coalition would remain on paper, or from the letter of the treaty it
would be translated into visible realityand the rest of the world
would be warned. How nalve to suppose that in such a case
England and France would wait a decade for the GermanRussian
alliance to complete its technical preparations. No, the storm
would break over Germany with the speed of lightning.
And so the very fact of the conclusion of an alliance with Russia
embodies a plan for the next war. Its outcome would be the end
of Germany.
On top of this there is the following:
1. The present rulers of Russia have no idea of honorably
entering into an alliance, let alone observing one.
Never forget that the rulers of presentday Russia are common
bloodstained criminals; that they are the scum of humanity
which, favored by circumstances, overran a great state in a tragic
hour, slaughtered and wiped out thousands of her leading
ir.telligentsia in wild blood lust, and now for almost ten years
have been carrying on the most cruel and tyrannical regime of all
time. Furthermore, do not forget that these rulers belong to a race
which combines, in a rare mixture, bestial cruelty and an
inconceivable gift for lying, and which today more than ever is
conscious of a mission to impose its bloody oppression on the
whole world. Do not forget that the international Jew who
completely dominates Russia today regards Germany, not as an
ally, but as a state destined to the same fate. And you do not
make pacts with anyone whose sole interest is the destruction of
his partner. Above all, you do not make them with elements to
whom no pact would be sacred, since they do not live in this
world as representatives of honor and sincerity, but as champions
of deceit, lies, theft, plunder, and rapine. If a man believes that he
can enter into profitable connections with parasites, he is like a
tree trying to conclude for its own profit an agreement with a
mistletoe.
2. The danger to which Russia succumbed is always present for
Germany. Only a bourgeois simpleton is capable of imagining
that Bolshevism has been exorcised. With his superficial thinking
he has no idea that this is an instinctive process; that is, the
striving of the Jewish people for world domination, a process
which is just as natural as the urge of the AngloSaxon to seize
domination of the earth. And just as the AngloSaxon pursues
this course in his own way and carries on the fight with his own
weapons, likewise the Jew. He goes his way, the way of sneaking
in among the nations and boring from within, and he fights with
his weapons, with lies and slander, poison and corruption,
intensifying the struggle to the point of bloodily exterminating
his hated foes. In Russian Bolshevism we must see the attempt
undertaken by the Jews in the twentieth century to achieve world
domination. Just as in other epochs they strove to reach the same
goal by other, though inwardly related processes. Their endeavor
lies profoundly rooted in their essential nature. No more than
another nation renounces of its own accord the pursuit of its
impulse for the expansion of its power and way of life, but is
compelled by outward circumstances or else succumbs to
impotence due to the symptoms of old age, does the Jew break
off his road to world dictatorship out of voluntary renunciation,
or because he represses his eternal urge. He, too, will either be
thrown back in his course by forces lying outside himself, or all
his striving for world domination will be ended by his own dying
out. But the impotence of nations, their own death from old age,
arises from the abandonment of their blood purity. And this is a
thing that the Jew preserves better than any other people on earth.
And so he advances on his fatal road until another force comes
forth to oppose him, and in a mighty struggle hurls the heaven
stormer back to Lucifer.
Germany is today the next great war aim of Bolshevism. It
requires all the force of a young missionary idea to raise our
people up again, to free them from the snares of this international
serpent, and to stop the inner contamination of our blood, in
order that the forces of the nation thus set free can be thrown in
to safeguard our nationality, and thus can prevent a repetition of
the recent catastrophes down to the most distant future. If we
pursue this aim, it is sheer lunacy to ally ourselves with a power
whose master is the mortal enemy of our future. How can we
expect to free our own people from the fetters of this poisonous
embrace if we walk right into it? How shall we explain
Bolshevism to the German worker as an accursed crime against
humanity if we ally ourselves with the organizations of this
spawn of hell, thus recognizing it in the larger sense? By what
right shall we condemn a member of the broad masses for his
sympathy with an outlook if the very leaders of the state choose
the representatives of this outlook for allies?
The fight against Jewish world Bolshevization requires a clear
attitude toward Soviet Russia. thou cannot drive out the Devil
with Beelsebub.
If today even folkish circles rave about an alliance with Russia,
they should just look around them in Germany and see whose
support they find in their efforts. Or have folkish men lately
begun to view an activity as beneficial to the German people
which is recommended and promoted by the international
Marxist press? Since when do folkish men fight with armor held
out to them by a Jewish squire?
There is one main charge that could be raised against the old
German Reich with regard to its alliance policy: not, however,
that it failed to maintain good relations with Russia, but only that
it ruined its relations with everyone by continuous shilly
shallying, in the pathological weakness of trying to preserve
world peace at any price.
I openly confess that even in the preWar period I would have
thought it sounder if Germany, renouncing her senseless colonial
policy and renouncing her merchant marine and war fleet, had
concluded an alliance with England against Russia, thus passing
from a feeble global policy to a determined European policy of
territorial acquisition on the continent.
I have not forgotten the insolent threat which the panSlavic
Russia of that time dared to address to Germany; I have not
forgotten the constant practice mobilizations, whose sole purpose
was an affront to Germany; I cannot forget the mood of public
opinion in Russia, which outdid itself in hateful outbursts against
our people and our Reich; I cannot forget the big Russian
newspapers, which were always more enthusiastic about France
than about us.
But in spite of all that, before the War there would still have been
a second way: we could have propped ourselves on Russia and
turned against England.
Today conditions are different. If before the War we could have
choked down every possible sentiment and gone with Russia,
today it is no longer possible. The hand of the world clock has
moved forward since then, and is loudly striking the hour in
which the destiny of our nation must be decided in one way or
another. The process of consolidation in which the great states of
the earth are involved at the moment is for us the last warning
signal to stop and search our hearts, to lead our people out of the
dream world back to hard reality, and show them the way to the
future which alone will lead the old Reich to a new golden age.
If the National Socialist movement frees itself from all illusions
with regard to this great and allimportant task, and accepts
reason as its sole guide, the catastrophe of 1918 can some day
become an infinite blessing for the future of our nation. Out of
this collapse our nation will arrive at a complete reorientation of
its activity in foreign relations, and, furthermore, reinforced
within by its new philosophy of life, will also achieve outwardly
a final stabilization of its foreign policy. Then at last it will
acquire what England possesses and even Russia possessed, and
what again and again induced France to make the same
decisions, essentially correct from the viewpoint of her own
interests, to wit: A political testament.
The political testament of the German nation to govern its
outward activity for all time should and must be:
Never suffer the rise of two continental powers in Europe.
Regard any attempt to organize a second military power on the
German frontiers, even if only in the form of creating a state
capable of military strength, as an attack on Germany, and in it
see not only the right, but also the duty, to employ all means up
to armed force to prevent the rise of such a state, or, if one has
already arisen, to smash it again.See to it that the strength of our
nation is founded, not on colonies, but on the soil of our
European homeland. Never regard the Reich as secure unless for
centuries to come it can give every scion of our people his own
parcel of soil. Never forget that the most sacred right on this
earth is a man's right to have earth to till with his own hands, and
the most sacred sacrifice the blood that a man sheds for this
earth.
I should not like to conclude these reflections without pointing
once again to the sole alliance possibility which exists for us at
the moment in Europe. In the previous chapter on the alliance
problem I have already designated England and Italy as the only
two states in Europe with which a closer relationship would be
desirable and promising for us. Here I shall briefly touch on the
military importance of such an alliance.
The military consequences of concluding this alliance would in
every respect be the opposite of the consequences of an alliance
with Russia. The most important consideration, first of all, is the
fact that in itself an approach so England and Italy in no way
conjures up a war danger. France, the sole power which could
conceivably oppose the alliance, would not be in a position to do
so. And consequently the alliance would give Germany the
possibility of peacefully making those preparations for a
reckoning with France, vhich would have to be made in any
event within the scope of such a coalition. For the significant
feature of such an alliance lies precisely in the fact that upon its
conclusion Germany would not suddenly be exposed to a hostile
invasion, but that the opposing alliance would break of its own
accord; the Entente, to which we owe such infinite misfortune,
would be dissolved, and hence France, the mortal enemy of our
nation, would be isolated. Even if this success is limited at first to
moral effect, it would suffice to give Germany freedom of
movement to an extent which today is scarcely conceivable. For
the law of action would be in the hands of the new European
AngloXermanItalian alliance and no longer with France.
The further result would be that at one stroke Germany would be
freed from her unfavorable strategic position. The most powerful
protection on our fiank on the one hand, complete guaranty of
our food and raw materials on the other, would be the beneficial
effect of the new constellation of states.
But almost more important would be the fact that the new league
would embrace states which in technical productivity almost
complement one another in many respects. For the first time
Germany would have allies who would not drain our own
economy like leeches, but could and would contribute their share
to the richest supplementation of our technical armament.
And do not overlook the final fact that in both cases we should
be dealing with allies who cannot be compared with Turkey or
presentday Russia. The greatest world power on earth and a
youthful national state would offer different premises for a
struggle in Europe than the putrid state corpses with which
Germany allied herself in the last war.
Assuredly, as I emphasized in the last chapter, the difficulties
opposing such an alliance are great. But was the formation of the
Entente, for instance, any less difficult? What the genius of a
Ring Edward VII achieved, in part almost counter to natural
interests, we, too, must and will achieve, provided we are so
inspired by our awareness of the necessity of such a development
that with astute selfcontrol we determine our actions
accordingly. And this will become possible in the moment when,
imbued with admonishing distress,l we pursue, not the
diplomatic aimlessness of the last decades, but a conscious and
determined course, and stick to it. Neither western nor eastern
orientation must be the future goal of our foreign policy, but an
eastern policy in the sense of acquiring the necessary soil for our
German people. Since for this we require strength, and since
France, the mortal enemy of our nation, inexorably strangles us
and robs us of our strength, we must take upon ourselves every
sacrifice whose consequences are cakulated to contribute to the
annihilation of French efforts toward hegemony in Europe.
Today every power is our natural ally, which like us feels French
domination on the continent to be intolerable. No path to such a
power can be too hard for us, and no renunciation can seem
unutterable if only the end result of ers the possibility of downing
our grimmest enemy. Then, if we can cauterize and close the
biggest wound, we can calmly leave the cure of our slighter
wounds to the soothing effects of time.
Today, of course, we are subjected to the hateful yapping of the
enemies of our people within. We National Socialists must never
let this divert us from proclaiming what in our innermost
conviction is absolutely necessary. Today, it is true, we must
brace ourselves against the current of a public opinion
confounded by Jewish guile exploiting German gullibility;
sometimes, it is true, the waves break harshly and angrily about
us, but he who swims with the stream is more easily overlooked
than he who bucks the waves. Today we are a reef; in a few years
Fate may raise us up as a dam against which the general stream
will break, and flow into a new bed.
It is, therefore, necessary that the National Socialist movement
be recognized and established in the eyes of all as the champion
of a definite political purpose. Whatever Heaven may have in
store for us, let men recognize us by our very visor!
Once we ourselves recognize the crying need which must
determine our conduct in foreign affairs, from this knowledge
will flow the force of perseverance which we sometimes need
when, beneath the drumfire of our hostile press hounds, one or
another of us is seized with fear and there creeps upon him a faint
desire to grant a concession at least in some field, and howl with
the wolves, in order not to have everyone against him.
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