For the SS men from the German
ethnic groups of the Southeast
An English translation of:
Glauben und Kämpfen:Für
die SS-männer aus den Deutschen Volksgruppen des
Südostens (1942)
Publisher: Der Reichsführer SS,
SS-Hauptamt (Reichsführer SS, SS-Main
Office)
Berlin-Grunewald: Reichsführer SS, SS-Hauptamt, 1942 Berlin: Elsnerdruck,
1942
Edited by Nathan R. Lawrence
INTRODUCTION
This is an English translation by Third Reich Books of the 1942 original
German Schutzstaffel
publication, Glauben und
Kämpfen: Für
die SS-männer aus den
Deutschen Volksgruppen des Südostens („Faith and Struggle: For the SS
men from the German ethnic
groups of
the Southeast”) published by
‘Der Reichsführer
SS, SS-Hauptamt
(Reichsführer SS, SS-Main Office) - Berlin-Grunewald: Reichsführer
SS, SS-Hauptamt, 1942; Berlin: Elsnerdruck,
1942.
The edition sold by Third Reich Books was titled SS Mate Selection and Race
and released in
2004.
The original German edition consisted of 82 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of
plates: illustrations, colour maps, colour charts, portraits;
23cm.
Other editors have stated that, „The original SS book contained four
chapters. The first chapter was
entitled „The Fundamental Laws of Life of Our
World
View“
(Die lebensgesetzlichen
Grundlagen unserer Weltanschauung“). The second chapter covered
the life
of Adolf
Hitler and
the history
of the National Socialist
movement, the
third chapter German
history, and the fourth chapter
the history of the SS.
The German
word „Volk“
is translated
as „folk“
instead of
the more
common, but
less precise, term „people,“even when it does not
refer to the Germans. After all,
„folk“ is indeed something
special; it is an ethnic community extending
across many generations; a
modern equivalent might
be the
term „ethnoculture,“
as „folk“
implies a
community unified
by common culture and ethnicity
more than political boundaries.
„Reich“ is used only for the German Reich and „empire“ for non-German ones. The subraces are
translated as follows: „Nordisch“ as „Nordic,“ „Fillisch“ as „Falish,“ „Dinarisch“ as „Dinaric,“
„Westisch“ as „Mediterranean,“ „Ostisch“
as „Alpine“ and „Ostbaltisch“
as „East
Baltic.“ All
the illustrations come
from
the original
SS publication. The sole
exception is the cover, Josef
Thorak’s „Two People“ („Zwei Menschen“).
„Erbgut“ and
„Erbanlagen“ have
generally been
translated
here
as „hereditary
makeup“ and „hereditary factors“
respectively.
Publisher’s note: There is a
public view of the National Socialist view of race, and the
truth as expressed
by National
Socialist writers themselves.
In our
view it
was too
valuable as information for
National Socialist scholars and detractors alike for this to be anything but
a public domain, freeware
document. While this document was written for people
of Germanic descent
outside
Germany,
its principles
apply to
all races
who wish
to preserve themselves
in an increasingly
conformist, monochromatic globalist world.”
In editing
this edition
I have
reformatted the text
completely, given it
its original
title, correced some minor
errors, added
the original
cover and
included publisher
information.
Nathan R. Lawrence
Stornoway, November 9th
2020
SS
Mate
Selection
and
Race
Translated
from the SS
Original
You
and the Question of Blood
In this
period of
struggle for
the future
of our folk you
will become
conscious – through the family and clan and beyond – of the bond that
unites us all in an
inseparable and sworn community of striving. Furthermore you know
that your life, your essence,
all abilities and characteristics stem from your ancestors, and that
you must take
over the
same role
for the
generations which
come after
you.
You
cannot shake
it off;
rather,
you have
the obligation
and duty
to adjust
your life
and live
it accordingly.
Consider for
once what
a tremendous
revolutionary change has
taken place
in the thought
and action
of our folk in
such a
short time.
After years
of decline
new life-
courage, lifewill
and confidence
broke through
in the
German folk
on a
wide front. National
Socialism has pulled up our folk from threatened annihilation not
only economically and politically, but also biologically. The answer
to the question of how the Fuehrer and
his following
could achieve
such accomplishments
is very
simple: Adolf
Hitler has
again made
the laws
of life
of our
kind –
whose observance is the prerequisite for
any further development – the foundation of our thought, action
and feeling.
What our
ancestors, who were
firmly rooted
in the
soil, instinctually
recognized as right through the
feeling of their kid, has through the course of history been
partially erased and covered over by foreign intellectual and racial
influence.
The knowledge of the laws of life and awakened consciousness of our kind are
today a certain signpost for our entire action. So we want to look at
the following described
foundations of
the laws
of life
of our
world view
from the
perspective of the
great community of the
entire folk and make the resultant duties of the individual
a principle of our entire
life.
What is Race?
„What is not of good race in the world is
chaff.” (Adolf Hitler,
Mein Kampf)
The great
number of
life forms shows
groups which
more or
less resemble
one another and
show common
physical characteristics. They have
the same
nature.
We call such groups of life forms
„species.“
The mankind living today forms a „species,“ for humans are fertile among
each
other. By the observation and
comparison of a White, Negro or Mongolian it
becomes immediately clear to
us that
it is
not enough
to only
speak of
the „human“ species;
rather, that for a more precise
analysis a further subdivision must be made. This
leads to the concept of
human races.
The individual
races can
be distinguished
by differences
which they
have in
respect to the uniqueness of their
hereditary,
intellectual-psychological and physical
features, tendencies and characteristics. Each race has certain
characteristics and features
which are unique to it. These RACIAL
FEATURES are passed on to the
offspring.
Race is hence a group of life forms which distinguishes itself by the
common possession of certain hereditary features. It always produces
only its own kind.
Or shorter: race is a characterized community of hereditary factors (Stengel
v. Rutkowski).
As long as a race remains pure its hereditary essence is passed on
unadulterated from one
generation to
the next.
It is hence necessary
for the
racial consciousness
of humans of the same race to be raised and the dangers correctly
recognized which lead
to a mixing, alteration, degeneration and hence annihilation of the
races affected. The predominant
race determines the folkish character and continues its influence in it
as a hereditary
factor.
As in the Germanic
peoples, the
predominant Nordic
race gives the German
folk, too, the predisposition of our
kind.
What is a Folk?
Each folk
represents a
visible community
to the outside world.
The same
blood, the same
soil, the
same language,
customs, culture
and history
are an
inseparable bond. For a
population to
become a
folk, race
as well
as history
and culture
are
necessary. The
generation alive at
any one
time is
only one
link in
the chain
which begins
with the earliest ancestors and continues with the following
generations into the future. All of them
together form
the folk
community. The
existence of
the individual is only then
purposeful if it is innerly bound with the entirety of the
folk.
The presently living blood-carriers of this community bear the
responsibility for the shaping of
the coming generations.
Each folk
has its
own unique
folkish
character.
The roots
of this
unique folkish character
lie in the racial composition of the
folk.
Folk is a community of descent and of fate. As a hereditary community it is
large able to create and shape
its own environment.
The Meaning of Race
The common heredity determines the physical and intellectual-psychological
abilities of
a race.
„Race“ as
a practical
concept relates
not only
to the
specially formed
and working life force
within us, but beyond that also to the highest value, to the
concept of value, to the
world view.
There are
races which
can create
high cultures
and those
which can
never elevate themselves on
their own strength. There are races with heroic bearing and
those without the courage to fight. Cultural accomplishments are
exclusively the creation of
higher races.
The elevation
of mankind
continues or
ceases with
the preservation of the purity and of the strength of the culture-bearing
races.
The racial composition of a folk is unique. Its alteration always has a
transformation of its nature and culture as a consequence. Each
racial mixing always means a
lowering of the worth of the higher
race.
Related Race – Foreign Race – Same
Breed – Foreign Breed
Mankind displays strictly separated racial groups.
Very
roughly expressed, we
distinguish between: White, Black and Yellow. Each of these groups in turn contains a number of
subraces with certain common features. In this case one speaks of
related races. Opposed to
these stand the foreign races. Folks which in regard to their
racial composition show
the same elements as the German folk are of „related
race“ („artverwandt“).
To these belong the majority of
European folks.
Since the racial core of our racially related folks is often very diverse,
one must look quantitatively at
the racial elements for the foundation of a distinction. In
the Germanic folks Nordic blood predominates in their racial
composition. Their relationship
to the German folk is hence referred to as being of the „same
breed“ („stammesgleich“).
Other folks which also show a small amount of Nordic blood,
but which in
their substance
are not
Nordic, are
referred to
as being
of „foreign
breed“ („stammesfremd“).
The existing
positive racial
composition of
the German
folk rests
on the
fusion of related races
and the large predominant portion of Nordic
blood.
The Origin of the Nordic Race
The main territory of the Nordic race encompasses the area of southern
Scandinavia, Jutland, the
North and Baltic Seas and reaches into central
Germany.
Already in
the earliest
period the
Nordic man
was a
settled
farmer.
He invented
the plow, which other folks
later adopted, cultivated crops and breed pets. The
explosive population
growth of
this Nordic
mankind led
to a
new,
necessary acquisition of space and
caused wave
after wave
to stream
down into
bordering areas: into
the European area and into the wide parts of Asia. The previous
original inhabitants – even if
often for only a short time – were imprinted with the mark of Nordic
culture. Not: „From the
East came the light!“, as was claimed by science earlier;
rather, „From the
North came the strength!“
The Meaning of the Nordic Race for
Mankind
The Fuehrer says in Mein Kampf:
„Everything that
we today
marvel at
in the
world, science
and art,
technology and inventions,
is the creative product of few folks and perhaps originally of ONE
race.“
The high cultures of the Indians, Persians, Greeks and Romans – created by
the Ingo- Germanics – clearly show
the Nordic (modern „Indo-Aryan“) creative spirit.
With
the decline of the Nordic ruling class
they, too, again disappeared. Even
today we feel
relationed to these cultures, which have a common racial
origin.
We
are not
so presumptuous, however, to
believe that
all cultures,
even in earlier times, can
only be
credited to
the Nordic race.
Folks with
other racial
composition have also created cultures. In us, however, other
feelings are roused if we try to relate to the
cultures of
Old China,
Babylon or
the old
Indian cultures
of the
Aztecs (in present-day Mexico) and
the Incas
(in present-day
Peru). It
cannot be
denied: those were
also high
cultures; but towards
them we
feel undeniably
foreign. They
are not related to us, but
rather, are of foreign race. A different spirit speaks from
them. Never did these
foreign cultures
reach a
commensurate peak
with those
based on Nordic
spirit.
The technological development of today has also emerged under the leadership
of the Nordic race. This is just
as much true, for example, in modern
Turkey, the progress of
America and the rise in the Far
East.
Wherever mixed with closely related races the influence of the Nordic race
has always proven beneficial and developed abilities which produce
the highest cultural
achievements.
The German Folk and the Nordic
Race
Despite the often heavy mixture and meshing of races in the various
provinces of the Reich we find
individual races more pronounced in the various parts of
Germany:
There are
areas in
which a
tall stature, narrow
face and
light colored
hair,
eyes and
skin predominate (physical appearance of the NORDIC race). Closely
related to Nordic
man –
perhaps only
described as
a variation of the
same –
but
larger,
wider and more stocky appearing is
FALISH
man.
In many parts of the Reich we find large people with a short head and a
narrow face,
large nose, brown eyes and black hair (physical appearance of the
DINARIC race).
Or in individual areas are found small, slender and nimble people with dark
eyes and
hair color (appearance of the ALPINE
race).
Finally,
conspicuous in certain parts of the Reich are short, round-headed people
with wide faces, brown eyes, brown to black hair and dark skin color
(physical appearance
of the EAST BALTIC
race).
In all
provinces of the
Reich, whether
North or
South,
West
or East,
the NORDIC RACE
is more or
less strongly
represented. Many people
in our
folk cannot
be absolutely assigned to one or another race. In each folk are found
– next to examples who are in
appearance racially pure
– the
individual races in
more or
less mixed form.
In the German folk the Nordic heritage predominates. The Nordic race is not
only the PREDOMINANT RACE; it is
also found in the BLOOD OF ALMOST
ALL GERMANS. „Blood and soil“ are not empty concepts, rather our
destiny. Hence
the breeding goal
of the
German folk
is also
given. It
is completed
in the fulfillment of the
laws of life of its predominant
race.
The portion
of Nordic
blood in
the hereditary makeup
of the
German folk
is about
50%. Furthermore family trees teach us: EACH GERMAN HAS NORDIC
BLOOD IN HIM.
So the German folk is, in the truest sense of the word, a blood
community. History
on a racial basis has long proven that the Nordic race has a much
larger share of extraordinary
men than
other races.
The Nordic
race is
above all
the carrier
of the high degree of
ability of the German folk. Great deeds in all spheres have made it
the leader race
of mankind.
There is
no other
human race
which has
produced so
many extraordinary
leaders, commands and statesmen.
In darking
exploit Nordic
man conquered large areas,
founded states
and created
cultures. Already around the year 1000
Vikings had landed in America.
The opening up of entire
continents was led by the Nordic
spirit.
One of the striking characteristics of the northern race is self-control.
Nordic daring is the
foundation of the
martial accomplishments
of Nordic
races. Conscientiousness
and strength
of will,
paired with
reliability, greatly strengthen
the drive
for independence. These characteristics, however, reduce his ability
to sympathize, and
the danger
is great
that the
Nordic man
loses himself
and expends
himself. Nordic man
possesses a great love for sport and competition; he stands there where one
must dare. Therefore he is also more frequently found than other men
in those professions which are tied
to
danger.
But here,
too, is
the knowledge:
more important
than skin color is the
character of the man. One belongs essentially to the race whose virtues
he professes through deed.
If one examines the individual countries of Europe according to their
racial composition, one
initially notices that in almost all states the same races are represented.
We find the Nordic race
represented outside of Germany,
in the Scandinavian
lands, England
and Holland
and even
in Russia,
Italy,
France, Spain and so on.
We also find, however, East Baltic
man in the various European countries. The overall
racial evaluation
of a
folk does
not come
down to
that. It
is a
matter of the STRENGTH OF
THE PORTIONS OF THE INDIVIDUAL
RACES in the respective folk. And there we determine: already just
numerically the Reich marches
far ahead of all other folks in respect to the Nordic
portion.
With
natural right Germany can claim the leadership of the predominantly
Nordic- Germanic
folks.
Law of Life – Heredity
„The strong must rule and not mix
with the weak, and hence to sacrifice his
own greatness.“
(Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf)
What Does Heredity Mean?
Each look at the world around us shows that offspring resemble their
ancestors.
From the
sperm of
a beech tree
again grows
a beech tree.
Negroes breed
negroes, Whites always
Whites. Even
in the
case of
very young
children, the
relatives notice
for example
that the
nose was
„inherited“ from the
father, the
eyes from
the
mother. Later other
characteristics appear like industriousness, talent, susceptiveness
to certain illnesses.
That an
inheritance has taken
place is
ancient knowledge
of men.
Breeders have always
tried to
promote the
passing on
of certain
features and
characteristics and to prevent animals
and plants with undesirable characteristics from breeding. That
this was a
matter of
development according
to natural
laws, however,
has only
been recognized and proven during the last few
decades.
Like every event in nature, heredity, too, is subject to unchangeable laws.
The laws
of heredity
– like
all other
laws of
life –
have the
same validity
for plant, animal
and man. In
the offspring
either the
characteristics of
both parents
are again recognizable
or a
characteristic of the
father or
mother predominates. Many times
a characteristic can be traced through many generations or it skips
entire generations to later
suddenly again make an
appearance.
Heredity is hence the passing on of features and characteristics from
parents to offspring.
Not only physical characteristics are inherited, but also intellectual and
psychological. Man
possesses TWO hereditary
factors for
each characteristic. The child receives the hereditary factors in EQUAL
PARTS from the
parents.
A mix-breed can resemble a purebred as a result of the possession of
predominant hereditary
factors in
his appearance.
The suppressed
hereditary factors are
not thus eliminated; they
simply do not appear in that generation. What appears healthy on
the outside can hide the covered over hereditary factors for sickness
inside. One does not see on any
many what hereditary factors lie in him. A purely external evaluation
can hence never be
conclusive.
Two
different races distinguish themselves through a great number of
hereditary factors. By
their mixture
(crossing) these
hereditary factors are
randomly brought together,
whereby in the descendants a great diversity results in regard to
the hereditary makeup. The result of such a mixture is disruption of
the continuity of the hereditary
structure.
The laws
of heredity
today form
the basis
of our
knowledge of
the formation
and development of
successive generations. Since normal and sick hereditary factors
are passed on
equally to
the offspring, an enormous
importance of the
knowledge of hereditary
factors and
the duty
to intervene and work
– to
restrict and
to promote – for the
formation of coming generations
follows.
At conception, essence and worth of a person for his folk and his race
are already
determined.
Certainly education and environment can later develop and promote certain
traits and
restrain others (in that generation only), but the fundamental
essence remains unchangeable. Hence the responsibility for the next
generation lies with us.
The Significance of Mate
Selection
The right
choice of
mate is not
only the
prerequisite for the
preservation of the species,
but also
for the
continuance of
high selectivity. It is
the foundation
of any racial higher
development.
The selection of a racially highly worthy wife in itself still does not
necessarily mean
an improvement of the race. That only comes when the right mate
selection is followed by
the breeding
of an
above-average number of
children. For what
would the elimination
of bad
hereditary factors
from the
folk help,
if simultaneously
a reproduction of the good hereditary factors was not preserved and expanded?
If, for
example, mate
selection was
made by
a man
who did
not want
any children,
then this would mean a deterioration of the race, because elimination
of good hereditary factors from
the future generation would result.
Appearance and Hereditary makeup
If there were only physical differences between the individual human races,
the question of belonging to a race would be rather unimportant.
Therefore the appearance of a man
– which is given by the totality of visual features,
characteristics and
abilities – must be strictly kept
apart.
The hereditary makeup of a person has a much greater meaning than his
appearance.
Often it is extremely difficult to derive psychological disposition from the
appearance of an
individual. By
heredity,
chance may
combine a
preponderance of
the physical
traits of one race with the psychological traits of another race. In
most cases, however,
one will
be able
to figure
the psychological
disposition from the
physical appearance or at
least
approximate it
correctly.
Environment and Hereditary
Factors
Every person carries a great treasure of hereditary factors in himself from
birth.
In the course of his life only a portion of them are realized. Environment
has a part in the
formation of the
individual. Climate, nutrition,
living space,
position, etc.,
can have
a visible
influence on the
development of a
person. If
a life form
lacks the environmental
conditions needed for it to flourish, then it is stunted. Its appearance
is thus subject to many changes due to the environment, but not the
hereditary makeup.
Environmental influences are not able to fundamentally alter the
hereditary makeup (the preservation
of Germandom for centuries on foreign-folkish soil is a
visible proof of
the strength
of the blood). Due
to lack
of possibilities
for development
the individual person often is sooner or later
ruined.
For the preservation and further evolution of a race, the necessary
foundations for life must be
present or be created.
Hence are derived the following determinations:
1. Each person
is formed by the cross-effects of hereditary factors and
surroundings.
2. The
environment and its influence remain without effect on the
descendants.
3. Acquired
abilities are not inherited. (Only through natural selection
are traits passed between
generation.)
The last fact is of especially fundamental importance. Through physical
exercise the muscles
of an
individual can
indeed be
significantly
strengthened. The son
of an
athlete, however,
does not
therefore get
stronger muscles
than any
average child. Likewise,
intellectual knowledge
is in no way
inherited. The son
of a
scholar has
to start at the beginning with the alphabet just like every other
child. The same is proven by the
mother tongue, which has been practiced for many
generations.
Marxists and democrats have – with much fantasy and one-sided
over-estimation of the effect of
environment – believed that a change of this environment could
improve the destiny of entire folks. For them all people are the
same. Hence, placed under the same
conditions, Whites, Blacks and Yellows
must also achieve the same
accomplishments in all areas.
But we know:
Racially and ethnically alien people can never become equal even in the same
living space and
even over
long periods
of time.
They always
remain what
they are:
alien blood which must be
kept away from our folk body if it is not to slowly but irretrievably fall to
destruction.
The great folkish task hence consists of protecting the genetic mass of the
folk from racemixing, to prevent
the spread of genetic defects and to shape the environment
so that the best genetic elements of the folk achieve the greatest
procreation.
The Meaning of the Laws of Life for a
Folk
The laws of nature run according to an unchangeable, un-influenceable will.
They are valid for all life
forms. It is therefore necessary to acknowledge these laws, and
their observance must be viewed as the prerequisite for the
preservation and further
development of life. Failure to observe the laws of nature is followed by
decay, deformity and
finally, ruin.
National Socialism has made the re-establishment of a natural order of life
a goal and
has given the necessary government recognition to the validity of the
laws of nature for
man.
The Law of Fertility
Animals and plants produce more offspring than is necessary for their
survival. Here are a few
examples:
A poppy produces about 4,000 seeds. If all the seeds grew and again
reproduced, after
five years
there would
be 256,000,000,000,000
poppy flowers.
Already by
the sixth year the entire
surface of the earth would no longer suffice to hold all of these plants.
A single female cod contains three to four million eggs. After just a few
generations of
reproduction, the
waters of
the earth
would be
stuffed full
of cod.
Such examples can be
expanded upon as much as desired.
The enormous fertility which we find in nature again and again receives the
necessary curtailment
through the
destruction of
large numbers
of individual
creatures. The prospects of survival are not equal for all life forms. The
FERTILITY, however, is
the prerequisite that a sufficient number of creatures remains preserved so
that the species does not perish.
Without fertility there is no further
development.
The birth
rate will
determine the future
of our
folk. The
number of
cribs must
be much larger than the number of coffins. Only then can we offer
successful resistance
against all arising dangers and turn into deed our right, which is
due us on the basis of our
leading position in Europe.
The Law of Struggle and Selection
We
have gained
knowledge about
the development
of life
on earth
largery through
sedimentation and fossils. The examinations show again and again: in the
oldest layers of the crust of the earth, very simply designed, basic
creatures appear; in later
layers we find more highly developed life forms, and finally in the
most recent layers the most most
highly developed organisms. Development means change,
growth, reproduction,
expansion, etc.
Each development requires huge
spans of
time and
knows no standing still. The life of the individual disappears
completely in the evolution of the
species.
How does
nature intervene
in events
and direct?
If we
go through
the world
with open eyes, we see that there is hard struggle everywhere. A
struggle for existence or
nonexistence.
Struggle is a fundamental law of
nature.
The deeper meaning of this eternal, apparent battle of annihilation is
this:
Everything weak
and/or inferior
is annihilated. Only the
strong and
powerful designs
procreate.
The goal
is hence
a selection
upward, the
preservation of
the best.
We
only have
to correctly recognize the natural events and act accordignly. What
our ancestors correctly understood
instinctively, being
much more
strongly bound
to nature,
must again become our common knowledge. It is not a matter of the
INDIVIDUAL, rather the promotion and preservation of the
SPECIES.
In National Socialist terms that is
phrased:
„Communal good
goes before
individual good“ or
„the individual
is nothing,
the folk is
everything.“
Each folk
needs space
to live.
Again and
again throughout history the
struggle for living space
occurs. The growing, healthy folk alone has the moral right to expand
its living space and, if
necessary, to conquer it.
In Nature,
Selection Occurs
through the
Struggle for
Survival
We
must never carry over the concept of „struggle for existence“ into economic
life.
We understand it in a purely
biological sense.
Artificial, often unnatural selection takes place on a large scale in every
culture-folk (culture-folk appears to
refer here to political states,
as opposed to ethnic-cultural
states, or folks). Intellectual inferiors, criminals and sickly people
are frequently saved from
destruction. Thus bad hereditary make up is not only preserved, but
also passed on to future generations. Medical accomplishments
especially prevent a selection
that once also applied to man. With
nature-bound people of a similar
culture – as
we must
view our
ancestors – the
same selective
forces were
in effect as
with animals. This selection developed man more
highly. But the rise of culture
and especially of
civilization allowed the laws of nature to be forgotten. Man can
perhaps postpone their effect, but
never eliminate
it. Just
as many
species of
animals and
plants have
become extinct
over the
course of
history,
so have entire folks
been destroyed because they violated the laws
of nature.
Hereditary changes and environmental influences (natural selection) pushed
evolution continuously
onward. The
formation and
splintering
off
of new
races was kept
within bounds by
nature through
selection. In nature,
those creatures
unsuited for
the preservation of each
race were
eliminated, while the
carriers of
favorable qualities
remained.
Selection preserves the race at its
peak.
The death
of the
individual creature has
nothing to
do with
the essence
of selection, but
is only a
means for
it.
Traits
are gradually eliminated when
they are
no longer passed
along to the
same degree.
Then in
the next
generation this trait
is no
longer strongly enough represented. The effect is the same whether
this elimination is achieved
through sterilization or abstinence, through death or
otherwise.
The most important selection is
fertility.
The person
who has
no children
can have
a long
life, but
he is forever
purged from the life of the
race. His genetic combination working together with
certain environmental conditions represents something unique. The
permanence of individual
accomplishment, however, is only then secured if the creative person
provides for the perpetuation of his
work descendants
of himself.
FERTILITY
alone determines
the continuation of hereditary
makeup.
Every selection which affects a folk is an enduring and irrevocable success
or failure.
With
this knowledge the main cause for the decline of ancient culture-folks
becomes understandable. In them the carriers of industrious
hereditary traits, the culture-
bearers and
creators, were
eliminated. The
inferior won
the greatest
victory over them: the
victory of a greater birth rate.
During the
Persian wars,
approximately 500
BC, Sparta
had 8000
combat-worthy men. In the year 244 BC, only 700 were
produced.
The decline
of Sparta
and the
collapse of
Rome were nothing
other than
a failure
of the fertility of the genetically
able.
Reverse Selection and Deformity
It stands confirmed that all culture-folks, especially the basically
Nordic-Germanic in character, are
an example of reverse selection in regard to
fertility. That means:
The fertility of the capable is less than that of the less
capable.
The ever
unequal reproduction
of the
capable and
less capable,
however, leads
to a lowering of the
superior hereditary factors in a folk and invariably mean its racial
and hence cultural
decline.
Earlier the fundamentally false view was often taken that higher ability was
confined to certain „classes“ of the
population.
„Talent
is a monopoly of a social class.“
(H.W.
Siemens)
In the National Socialist state therefore selection and state help are not
based on rank
or social classes, but solely and limited to ability and
accomplishment, industriousness and bearing. The National Socialist
Education institutes, the Adolf
Hitler Schools, the
Langemarck Study and
the Order
Castles („Ordensburgen“)
are living proof of this. They produce the future leaders of the
German folk in all areas.
The lower
fertility of the
Nordic-based folks is
confronted with a
high reproduction rate of
especially those European folks which show Asiatic
strains.
In 1933 Germany’s natural population growth with 66 million inhabitants
was 233,297.
In 1933 Poland’s natural population growth with 32 million inhabitants was
402,465.
The danger of a racial transformation in Europe is great. It is upon us now
to prevent
it.
We
know that
the number
of heads
of a
folk alone
do not
make up
its strength
or significance. But no
one will
deny that,
next to
qualitative level, size
and natural
growth of a folk are the most significant foundations for its
influence and power.
War
and Reverse Selection
Every war represents a reverse selection in pure form. It is followed by
more or less severe
folkish-biological damage for
the participating
peoples. Precisely
the most industrious
and most
capable lose
their lives
on the battlefield. Germany
lost two million of its
best men in the First World
War. Three-quarters of a million
people fell victim to the enemy’s
hunger blockade.
About the war and overcoming it in regard to population politics, the
Fuehrer said:
„The successful outcome of
this war
will give
the German
Reich tasks
which it
will only be able to fulfill through an increase in its population.
It is therefore necessary that
the gaps created in the folk body
through war be filled by growth in
births.“
From the order of the Reichsfuehrer-SS of October 28,
1939:
„Many a victory of arms for a folk was simultaneously a devastating defeat
for its life
force and its blood. In this
regard the unfortunately
necessary death of the best men,
as regrettable as it is,
still is not the worst part of war.
Much worse is the absence
of the children
that
were
not conceived by the
living during
the war
and by
the dead after the war.“
The sacrifices which this war demands of our folk are very painful from a
human and
a population-political
standpoint. But they
are by
no means
senseless, because they have
brought the
life and
future of
our folk.
They serve
the security
and defense
of our natural right of
life.
Dangers of Race-Mixing
The „irrational“
animal only
joins with
members of
the same race
for procreation. People
close to nature
like the
Germanics –
the farmer,
who is
rooted in
the soil
and close to the earth,
who feels the call of blood and race – acted from the same
instinct over many generations. Only the „overly rational“ cultured
person believes he can act
against nature.
That is always to his detriment. If two different races mix, their
hereditary traits never merge
into a new genetic mass that will be passed on uniformly.
We know from
the study of
heredity that,
aside from
the coupling
of certain
genetic factors,
traits are inherited
individually and independently
of each
other.
At the
propagation of such bastards these
traits further separate and divide themselves up in various
descendants.
Every racial
mixing changes
the harmonious
balance of
racial makeup.
The farther apart
in origin
the mixing
races are,
the greater
will be
the disruption
which such
a bastardization has
as consequence.
Furthermore come all
the disadvantages
in the areas of health and
especially psychology which result from
race-mixing.
Mixed-breeds are physically and psychologically
disharmonious.
Race-mixing means
a slow
decline of
the higher race
and hence
the sure
loss of
the uniqueness of a folk. The consequences of a harmful racial
mixture are taught clearly to us by
history.
From the
moment a
folk loses
its racial
consciousness a moral, intellectual
and cultural decline set in. The popular opinion today that race-mixing
is culturally expansive and
even culturally
creative is
false.
True,
on the
other hand,
is that contact with foreign folks and races often first triggers in
us the correct
consciousness of
our own
essence. This
knowledge, however,
requires us
to adhere precisely to
strict separation of everything foreign to our kind in racial
matters.
About race-mixing the Fuehrer says:
„Blood-mixing and through it the sinking of racial level is the sole cause
of the dying off of old cultures.“
A series of culture-folks shows the following common path of development,
which, however, does not
represent a law of life:
After a
slow rise
to a
certain level
there follows
a short
golden age
and then
a rapid decline. The
decline of strength is almost always introduced through the
replacement of simplicity, sobriety and health with pleasure-seeking,
lack of principles and
sickness.
Simultaneously bloody
wars eradicate
the best
carriers and
lack of
children steadily reduces
the number of the capable. The death
blow, however, is dealt by mixture
with foreign blood. It has the consequence that inner contradictions
become even
greater.
With such division it is then easy
for a vigorous folk to triumph over the sickly
one.
The Nordic race is the carrier and foundation of the German
people. Nature teaches us
as the highest law:
The individual is not the purpose, rather the means of
life.
The German
folk is
not the
sum of
85 million
people, but
rather a
great oneness,
a community, in which the Nordic hereditary makeup predominates. This
hereditary makeup shows itself not
only in
physical form
and appearance, but also
finds its expression above
all in a COMMONLY DIRECTED RACIAL
SOUL. Not decisive, even
if desirable, are the
physically Nordic features
of the
individual person alone.
Instead, his psychological-character traits
are.
The Nordic race is the race of the German folk; it impresses its stamp on
our essence;
it determines our thought, action and
feelings.
The Jewish Question
The destructive influence of race-mixing with the Jews proved especially
harmful in our
folk until
the rise
to power
of National
Socialism. These parasites
of mankind have well
understood to the present day how to prevent a complete merger with
their host folks. Representing this is the statement of the English
Jew Disraeli: „Every race must perish
which subjects its blood to mixing without care.“ If in the year 1928
for every 100 pure Jewish marriages in Germany there were already 53
mixed marriages, then
this proves how
deeply this
slow but
steadfastly working
poison had
crept into our
folk. Furthermore there
existed the
special danger
that Jewry
BY MEANS
OF SPIRITUAL DECAY HAD BEGUN TO
SYSTEMATICALLY UNDERMINE
THE RACIALLY CONSCIOUS
ACTION AND THOUGHT OF OUR FOLK in order to raise itself politically and
economically to predominance. Alongside this undermining, miscegenation
spread primarily in the intellectually leading groups
of our folk.
Jews made
sincere feeling
despisable and
their propaganda aimed intentionally
at the inner undermining and fragmentation of the folk
body. The aftereffects of this
destructive, decades-long
infection are
even today
detectable in our
folk. It
requires intensive
effort to
eradicate the
last traces
of this
pestilence and
lead our entire folk back to the natural and only correct path of
life.
The solution to the Jewish question has today become a vital task beyond the
borders of the Reich for the peoples of
Europe.
The Population-Political Development of Germany and its
Neighbors
After a short increase in the number of births in the decade after the
1870-71 war,
the birth rate sank slowly until the turn of the century and then
descended
faster.
Causes of the Decline of Births
These are
above all
of a psychological
nature. The
declining birth
rate started
first among the
wealthy,
who because
of comfort
and pleasure-seeking
were scared
off from rearing the appropriate number of children. The broad masses
then copied this example.
Today it must become the opposite
and in the wealthier circles the
number of children must especially
increase.
The Development of Births in
Germany
After the 1870-71 war there were in Germany annually 40 births for every
1000 inhabitants.
At the turn of the century there were only 35 births for every 1000
inhabitants annually.
The birth
rate reached
its lowest
point during
World
War
I when
it reached
14 births for every 1000
inhabitants
annually.
Even more terrifying is the following picture of the decrease of
births: 1870 with 42 million inhabitants there were about 2 million
births.
1933 with 65 million inhabitants there were about 0.9 million
births.
The renewed
positivity of the
changed psychological
attitude with
the rise
to power
of National Socialism brought a tremendous
turnaround.
There were....
1933: 14.7 births per 1000 inhabitants
1935: 19.9 births per 1000 inhabitants
1939: 20.8 births per 1000 inhabitants
This turn
is certainly
very encouraging
in itself,
but the
increasing birth rate
should not be overestimated. The numbers above still do not ensure
the necessary increase of our
people.
This war
is a
great biological
test of
strength. The
birth development in the
last decade, however, clearly shows the new life will and life
confidence which
determined the turnaround in this
sector.
History proves
through many
examples that
a folk
can only
harvest the
fruits of
its industriousness and its strength of accomplishment when it has
sufficient people at its
disposal. The
greater the
space, the
greater the
need for
people to
protect this
space (soldiers), to ensure nourishment (farmers), and to produce
industrial products (workers).
All folks which for whatever inner reasons were no longer able to achieve an
increase in population strength simultaneously with the strengthening
of their power fell victim to
annihilation.
Let us look at the fertility of the European
peoples: 1936-37
Germany had per 1000 inhabitants 19.4
births Sweden had per 1000 inhabitants 14.2
births Norway had per 1000 inhabitants 15.1
births England had per 1000 inhabitants 15.5
births.
In comparison...
Poland had per 1000 inhabitants 26.2
births Rumania had per 1000 inhabitants 31.5
births Ukraine had per 1000 inhabitants 34.0
births
The quantitative
development of the
Germanics, Latins and
East Baltic
speakers of Slavic
language:
|
|
Germanics |
Latins |
East Baltic |
|
1810 |
59 million |
63 million |
65 million |
|
1930 |
149 million |
121 million |
226 million |
|
1960 |
160 million |
133 million |
303 million |
The peoples of the Soviet Union are increasing annually by about three
million. In the Asian
area Japan
has doubled
its population
in the
last 70
years. It
has an annual
growth of about one million people. Likewise China and India are
constantly increasing their populations despite famine and
pestilence.
If we do not ourselves provide for the appropriate quantity of offspring and
produce an increase
of the
Nordic hereditary
makeup, then
Nordic blood
will become
more and more displaced by Eastern and East-Baltic
blood.
The Nordic
race
or,
we can
safely
say,
the Germanic
folks march
at the
end when
it comes to
fertility.
The number of births, however, decides the fate of
folks.
