Excerpt by Reich Press Chief Dr. Otto Dietrich.
The basic element in the political concept of National
Socialism is that of the national state. It has no ambition to make imperial
conquests, but strives after inner collectivity and national concentration. And
the clear proof of this is the unprecedented organization by National Socialism
of that tremendous return migration of racial Germans, the return of German
blood to the Motherland.
The
political conception of the national state is not directed towards a frittering
away of power by outward expansion, but towards rational internal construction
and the safeguarding of the national standard of existence. It has enforced the
idea that relations between states can be made more permanent if the prospect
of the nations is clear and determined and if leadership is responsibly and
authoritatively rooted in the nation.
The
organization of life in our present-day Germany reflects internal national and
political determination and externally also shows definite lines of conduct.
The ideas and the driving force of National Socialism are directed exclusively
towards peace, as long as the indispensable bases of existence and security are
guaranteed to our nation of 85 millions living within the heart of Europe.
National Socialist Germany has been forced to fight, because the principles of
imperialism and world domination of the Anglo-Saxons negate the simplest
preliminary conditions for the development of our peace-loving nation. It was
for this reason that they declared war on us. Britain is conducting a war of
destructive force against constructive organization in the life of nations. The
fact that National Socialist Germany has proved itself to be stronger than its
aggressor in a war which has been forced upon it, is no proof of the violence
of its principles, but only of the strength inherent in its ideal of order.
They
say: “We are fighting for the democratic way of life. We are fighting for the
liberty of living our lives as we wish.” But National Socialism has no
intention of preventing them from doing so. It holds the opinion that every
nation should live its own internal life in accordance with its own desires.
The crimes they attribute to us are in reality committed by themselves. In no
single country in the world does there exist such a great and disgusting intolerance
of the mode of living of others as in the Anglo-Saxon countries. This
intolerance is carried on hypocritically in the name of liberty, a liberty the
real character of which I have already described.
Our
adversaries maintain that this is a war of democracy against tyranny that makes
it necessary either to unmask these political play-actors or else to open the
eyes of their public to their true nature.
I
may be allowed here to quote a neutral scholar, who a short while ago wrote an
article “Hitler and the Democracies.” He asked the question why the Führer
should be an opponent of the democracies, as he was one of the people himself
and as president of the most democratic republic in the world was constantly in
sincere and direct contact with the people. During his examination, this
scholar comes to the conclusion that only the modern democracies, France,
Britain and America in particular, apparently had something in common with the
will of the people. In reality it was only a pretext for party interests and
the compensatory business of a few political circles among the upper classes.
The mistakes of liberal democracy had already been made by its founders who had
introduced into it their own material and utilitarian outlook and economic
individualism.All this had been shamefully decorated by the founders of liberal
democracy behind a facade of idealism. They themselves had never honestly
believed in the catchwords of “Liberty,” “Equality” and “Fraternity,” which
they had invented. In these so-called Western democracies, power was not
actually upheld by the people, but a few thousand capitalists. The functioning
of democracy merely concealed the selfishness of a small minority living in
ease and comfort.
These
statements hit the nail on the head. One should not always only talk of
democracy, but for once answer the question: “What is ‘democracy‘? What does it
actually mean?”
If
democracy is no more than invisible domination by a few, achieved by means of
money and the fabrication of public opinion, then our opponents are right in
calling themselves democracies. But if democracy really denotes government by
the people, then it is not they, but we, who are the democrats. We attach no
particular value to decorating ourselves with this word that has become so
compromised on account of its political past. But if the plutocrats make use of
it to camouflage their domination and to deceive the people, then it is
necessary to make its meaning perfectly clear. Whoever studies the conception
of the National Socialist state in its innermost structure and practical
functioning is bound to recognize that it is the most modern government of the
people in history. It demonstrates the principles of responsibility and
leadership in the truly national state, in opposition to the anonymous
principles of degenerate democracy. It regards the will of the people not as a
dead parliamentary majority to be gained by money or financial influence, but
recognizes it continually in the permanent and direct alliance with the life of
the people itself. The National Socialist Party is, therefore, not a party in
the parliamentary sense, but simply and positively the party of the German
nation. It is the great guardian of the social conscience of the nation, it
holds its hand on the pulse of the people, it feels its slightest stirrings,
its anxieties and its needs, its requirements and its desires, its pleasure and
its pain. It is its helper and adviser and the unceasing bearer of its
suggestions to the higher authorities. It has entrusted hundreds of thousands
of citizens of all professions and classes with political responsibility,
thereby providing tens of thousands of politically tested Germans with the
opportunity of advancement to leading positions in the Reich. It has linked the
perpetual stream of youth, organically and eternally, with the life of the
nation and has created a system for the selection of leaders, which compels
future generations to play their uninterrupted and vital part. Tangible shape
is thereby given not to the will of a questionable parliamentary majority, but
to the true will of the people. By its principles of training, efficiency and
selection of leaders, it has given the nation a wonderfully functional system
with the rhythm of strength continually renewing itself.
Nearly
2,500 years ago, Plato wrote in his “Laws” that the most excellent constitution
of a nation was that which was successful in persuading the masses to submit
voluntary and in raising the most intelligent in their midst to leadership. The
new principle of national and political leadership developed by the highly
gifted leaders of Germany and Italy has made these sublime political concepts
reality. When today the messiahs of democracy and the plutocrats talk
contemptuously of “dictatorships,” their intellectual arrogance only conceals
the stain of ignorance or the essence of hypocrisy which fears nothing so much
as the realization of truth by the awakening of the nations.
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