And so we National Socialists consciously draw a line beneath
the foreign policy tendency of our pre-War period. We take up where we broke
off six hundred years ago. We stop the endless German movement to the south
and west, and turn our gaze toward the land in the east. At long last we
break of the colonial and commercial policy of the pre-War period and shift
to the soil policy of the future.
If we speak of soil in Europe today, we can primarily have in
mind only Russia and her vassal border states.
Here Fate itself seems desirous of giving us a sign. By handing
P ussia to Bolshevism, it robbed the Russian nation of that intelligentsia
which previously brought about and guaranteed its existence as a state.
For the organization of a Russian state formation was not the result of
the political abilities of the Slavs in Russia, but only a wonderful example
of the state-forming efficacity of the German element in an inferior race.
Numerous mighty empires on earth have been created in this way. Lower nations
led by Germanic organizers and overlords have more than once grown to be
mighty state formations and have endured as long as the racial nudeus of
the creative state race maintained itself. For centuries Russia drew nourishment
from this Germanic nucleus of its upper leading strata. Today it can be
regarded as almost totally exterminated and extinguished. It has been replaced
by the Jew. Impossible as it is for the Russian by himself to shake off
the yoke of the Jew by his own resources, it is equally impossible for the
Jew to maintain the mighty empire forever. He himself is no element of organization,
but a ferment of decomposition. The Persian I empire in the east is ripe
for collapse. And the end of Jewish rule in Russia will also be the end
of Russia as a state. We have been chosen by Fate as witnesses of a catastrophe
which will be the mightiest confirmation of the soundness of the folkish
theory.
Our task, the mission of the National Socialist movement, is
to bring our own people to such political insight that they will not see
their goal for the future in the breath-taking sensation of a new Alexander's
conquest, but in the industrious work of the German plow, to which the sword
need only give soil. . . .
Never forget that the rulers of present-day Russia are common
blood-stained 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
Anglo-Saxon to seize domination of the earth. And just as the Anglo-Saxon
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 pre-War 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 pan-Slavic
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. . . .