By Dr. Walter Gross, director of the Racial Policy Office of the NSDAP
National Socialism as a political movement will have
reached its goal when the Reich has ultimately secured its proper position
among other nations. National Socialism as a Weltanschauung [worldview] will
only have completed its historical mission when it prevails among all classes
in Germany and thus unites the nation in a new character. The political
realization of National Socialism will have been reached in a powerful Reich
and a new order of living space. The National Socialist Weltanschauung, however
has to materialize in the attitude and lifestyles of our nation and its
inhabitants.
In
National Socialist Germany, life will be very different from what it used to be
while many eternal values of our historical past will remain valid for the
future as well. In some fields however, the prevailing attitude of German life
will have to be significantly different from traditional lifestyles due to the
new triumphant Weltanschauung! The National Socialist Weltanschauung and its
practical effect on German lifestyle is based on two supporting pillars:
On
the one hand, personality is given a chance to unfold and the individual
receives an education that is nearly perfect. On the other hand, the individual
is ready to contribute to the welfare of the community. These are the two poles
that generate the productive potential of National Socialist Germany.
Developing
and shaping his abilities makes the individual happy and conscious, and doing
this is the prerequisite for the nation to receive his genuine efforts that are
of highest value for the community. Only these efforts for the community add
meaning and ultimate nobility to the individual personality and its
development. In morbid times, personality and community became opposites, but
for us they are a full harmonic chord in which the individual strings of life
sound together.
For
a National Socialist German the key note in life is happiness and joy of life.
We do not speak here of a flat and superficial attitude that doesn’t know life
or tries to avoid the depths, gravity and pains of life. It is rather the
attitude and spirit of a healthy, strong man to whom life itself is joyful and
full of beauty; just like the unencumbered child that cheerfully loves its
existence. For the growing and maturing man ever struggling with obstacles and
difficulties, hard and troublesome periods in life only mean a chance for him
to prove his power and they leave him with an elevated existence and a feeling
of inner joy. Therefore, the National Socialist way of life affirms everything
that increases happiness. Our approach to life only excludes all destructive
and degrading influences: the abuse of physical and mental resources, the
reduction of individual capacities through an insane consumption of stimulating
and inciting drugs, the negligent endangering of the individual’s health and
life, which belong not only to the individual, but to the nation as well.
Whatever generates strength and happiness is good and therefore required by the
new German lifestyle in the same way that all destructive and corrupting
influences, whether they affect the nation or the individual, are excluded.
The
statement above is valid for both sides of our existence: for the body and its
development as well as for the mind and soul. A trained and controlled powerful
body stands equal in intelligent sport to a mature mind and elevated thinking
skills in a great variety of experiences in spiritual things and in the field
of the arts. Both sides are united in the fully and completely developed human
being, and only that human is suitable to serve the future of our nation.
In
both fields, physical and mental, the individual is limited in his
possibilities and disposed towards certain special abilities. Long before our
own consciousness awakens we are already determined in this matter by the
inexorable laws of heredity. To these laws we owe all variations and
differences among individuals as well as the abundant wealth of talents and
abilities in the community of our nation. This is why the National Socialist
lifestyle does not offer the illusionary phantom of a desolate egalitarianism,
or compulsory standards for everybody. The National Socialist ideal is not a
silly fashion and not a standardized type of man. On the contrary, our goal is
a variety of individual personalities, all educated and trained according to
their talents. Only this variety grants a harmony that elevates the individual
and bestows the nation with historical power and beauty.
Along
with happiness, courage is a dominant value for the new German man. National
Socialism created the heroic attitude best displayed in the great military
tradition of Germany, the nation’s duty and ideal. Courage proves itself best
in times of war. In peaceful times we must also be led in a brave and heroic
manner, a demand that addresses both men and women.
In
everyday life there are many opportunities to put ourselves to the test: never
to avoid difficulties, to walk straight even if there are easier, crooked ways
to go, to estimate a goal higher than one’s own laziness, to demand the most
from oneself and to ignore lazy wishes, to obey the great national laws rather
than to cultivate one’s selfishness, to follow one’s own conscience in grave
personal decisions and to take responsibility instead of hiding behind cheap
excuses and cowardly submissiveness. All this is courage and is a required part
of the lifestyle of the new German man educated by National-Socialism. Mental
courage, the fight and struggle with great new ideas, belongs here as well. In
the end, only those creeds and beliefs are of value for the nation and the
individual which were achieved through honest endeavor, and not those that were
gained through indolent repetition of what one has heard from others.
It
is courage as well to suffer from inner and outer wounds and pains without
getting depressed. Discontent and pessimism, resignation and despair basically
prove weakness and cannot exist with the brave attitude of a new generation of
Germans.
Beyond
one’s own life, beyond the fights and victories of the individual and the
nation an eternal future arises for Germans in this world. We will secure our
future by the method of new generations who, children today, men tomorrow,
ancestors of a new generation the next day, inseparably link us with the past
and the future. National Socialism considers these bonds and therefore family
and children to be essential elements in National Socialist lifestyle. It means
a special fulfillment in any man’s life to be a family-member. Giving birth to
many children and raising them is the highest goal for a woman. Family is
necessary for anybody unless he wants to carelessly dispense with the strongest
forces in human life. Moreover, family and children are the only guarantee for
the eternal existence of a nation, and therefore a demand from our national
future to the present generation. The rising German Reich, enormously powerful
and protected by the sword, now and in coming decades needs families with
uncountable children of the finest German blood to fill the spaces we open up
and to permanently secure what the courage of the present generations wins for
us.
The
combination of private life and community service is perfectly expressed in the
optimistic large families of National Socialism. It is within the family that
the most intimate power of the love and strong tension between the sexes lead
to complete fulfillment in private life and to a meaningful contribution to the
development of the entire nation. We are equally opposed to negation and
unnatural asceticism as we are to the selfishness of those who do not want to
commit themselves. In this way, families and children grow up as the nation’s
most precious commodity as they combine individual happiness with the profits
and gains of the community.
With
this attitude, pride in their race is a natural matter for both men and women.
In dealing with foreigners the German attitude will show respect, comradeship
and cooperation along with an unshakeable self-confidence and a racial pride
which identifies a sin against blood as a nation’s fatal sin.
It
is this attitude that puts the National Socialist way of life to the crucial
historical test. Destiny will always deny to some of us complete fulfillment in
life. Those denied fulfillment however, are of equal value and they will work
twice as hard so that their performance will compensate for what they were not
granted in another field. We cannot speak of a true National Socialist attitude
in a case where we do not find the yearning for family and children combined
with the knowledge that a nation blessed with children means happiness and
duty. For it is only through children that we participate in eternal German
life and only a superficial or timid man does not feel the need for such
participation. Everybody who lived his life in good days and bad days in
accordance with these principles will face death with calmness. He will not
desire or carelessly seek his death because even in his darkest hours, his life
is meaningful and worth living. He will not fear the end either and piteously
flee from it, because death is a part of life, as natural and inescapable as
birth. Just like all universal laws of nature, death is forgiving in its
pitilessness. What comes after death, nobody knows. In this field, the
individual may follow his knowledge or instinct in what he wants to think and
believe. In any case, a happy and brave life includes a courageous and
confident death. Life has been good and meaningful and coming generations will
carry on and complete the work of the person that death took out of our hands.
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