The Awakening of Our Race

 

 

Source: SS Leitheft, No. 9, 1944

 

written by a Dutchman

 

The mission entrusted by history to the Germanic peoples is now inflexible. The Western world of ideas, in which we have lived for so long, has collapsed. New forces are at work. Europe is now being challenged by powers that want to reduce it to a colony. This Europe can only assert its autonomy, its space and its high culture if it fights together. It was from this continental thinking, from this awareness of the common character of the Germanic communities, that the first political alliances were born. The political consequences followed the awakening of the race. All the Germanic countries brought together a selection of their youth in the SS Order.

 

That Germany is ahead of us in fulfilling her mission of restoring political vigour to the Nordic race and spirit is due to the fact that we Germanic peoples have too long slumbered in the shadow of England.

 

Norway has its fleet, the Netherlands has its colonies, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, liberated with the help of Germany and England, are swinging between the two. Now, for all of us, the matter is serious. It is often said too easily that we are living through one of the greatest revolutions in the history of the world, a time at the end of many centuries. Generally speaking, people are not at all aware of the dimension of this era, which is not simply a change of governmental regime. The upheaval spans a century and what we are experiencing today is the succession of the French Revolution by the National Socialist Revolution. It is the beginning of an era in which the ideals of a so-called democracy dominated by international big business no longer prevail, but a turning point in history in which the renewal of our blood, the revolt of our race, influences our lives. Only in this way can we understand the superhuman performance of the German blood soldiers over the last four or five years. The men and women would not have endured the frightful bombardment of the cities with such greatness of spirit if they did not know that their very existence was at stake. All these millions of human beings act, fight, and die in a new religious upsurge. From their blood is born a new faith that enriches the natural and healthy forces of life. This law of blood is at the same time the law of the same race. He who betrays his blood betrays himself. All mixing leads to destruction. If a race is to survive, men must fight for the preservation of the species and women must be prepared to ensure the survival of the species for generations through their children. We fight as National Socialists and SS men for a life in keeping with our species, against all foreign psychic intrusion and against race mixing. We seek to return to the sources of our life and our species. The law that the bloods of related peoples attract each other demands a fight against all the powers that want to bastardize and fragment us. These are the same powers for whom, in their plan for world domination, peoples and races are merely targets to be exploited. They are also the ones who want to prevent people of the same blood from coming together. It is the Bolshevik-Plutocratic power with its new agents throughout the world, international big capital, the power of Judaism, international Freemasonry and as a third power, the politicised Christian Church with its thirst for political power. At the other end of the spectrum is the slogan for the reunification of the Germanic world: the fight for the Great German Empire.

 

We are fighting today, often misunderstood by our own people and branded as traitors to our homeland. It seems as if these people have taken over the role of the Jews and the Freemasons in the 1930s and are acting in their place. Peoples and races do not die out in wars if they remain true to their blood, but through internal decomposition, in the course of a long peace.

 

Wars are always nothing more than trials that history imposes on people. In Adolf Hitler we honour the leader of all Germans, and when we Germanic volunteers speak of Germania, it is because we believe that in the future our own survival is guaranteed only in the interests of the Germanic world as a whole.

 

The small Germanic countries on the periphery of the Great German Empire wanted to work towards a general European goal. Blood calls for blood. We must contribute our strength and will to a great German Empire because, more than Germany, we have fallen into disunity and foreign domination. Even if there had been no German Empire in history, there would still be time to build one. Not only would we then be following a law of nature, but our survival and freedom threatened by the Soviet Union, the United States and the British would be assured.

 

We must join this future community of all Germanic peoples with equal rights, but one can only speak of equal rights if one has fulfilled equal duties. This is a National Socialist principle for the common life of the peoples. Equality of rights presupposes equality of duties and benefits. We are convinced that in ten, twenty or thirty years’ time this great Germanic community will become a reality and that in the government of this great Germania there will sit men from the various Germanic regions who today fight in the SS. Just as today men from the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark and Sweden fight together, so they will work in the new community of peoples, supported by the loyalty of their fellow citizens, for the whole nation. The small disagreements that have arisen from time to time cannot destroy this great picture, this hopeful opening to the future. Adolf Hitler is its guide and guarantor.

 

Let’s open an important parenthesis about the German Empire. My father served in the Dutch army but never had to risk his life, nor did my grandfather or great-grandfather. And then, suddenly, I myself am a soldier in the front line and this peaceful, middle-class clan life is interrupted for the first time by my going to the front. This act is an important contribution to the formation of the future German Empire. Moreover, for the first time in our clan, my son will have a father who was a soldier at the front. In this way we are entering the heroic tradition as it lives in Germany.

 

This new emerging tradition also includes a proud generation of soldiers’ wives. Thus we are assured of the future, for National Socialism, in its warlike expression, can only be based on front-line soldiers.

 

In one of his last speeches, the Führer said: “No bourgeois state will survive this war”. This was of great importance to many workers, but it must also be important to us. No bourgeois state will survive this war; this means that a totally revolutionary society will arise. The struggle will not end with our victory, and the men at the front in all the German-speaking countries must also set to work after the war to make National Socialism a reality. The SS must be the driving force behind the National Socialist Revolution. The SS is not the Party, but only the storm troop of National Socialist ideology.

 

It is, moreover, a community of the Order whose aim, after the battle, is to transmit the ideological heritage seamlessly from generation to generation.

 

As we can see, there is hardly anything that separates the Dutch from the German or the Norwegian. The greatness that we all share is the sublime heritage of the Nordic race and National Socialism as an ideology in keeping with our species. We consider the combination of these two things to be the most important, and we will overcome the small differences. In faith in our historic mission, we want to build the new Europe together with all Germanic people. We are not only soldiers, but also pioneers and as such the guarantors of the race and the future of Europe.

 

The reality of the heroic commitment of an elite of Germanic peoples on all the fronts of Europe is a striking proof of the value of Nordic blood in general.