Adolf Hitler
Excerpts from Mein Kampf (1924)
Volume One, Chapter Eleven:
"Nation and Race"
{22}Any crossing of two beings not at exactly
the same level produces a medium between the level of
the two parents. This means: the offspring will probably stand higher than the
racially lower parent, but not as high as the higher one. Consequently, it will
later succumb in the struggle against the higher level. Such mating is contrary
to the will of Nature for a higher breeding of all life. The precondition
for this does not lie in associating superior and inferior, but in the total
victory of the former. The stronger must dominate and not blend with the
weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness. Only the
born weakling can view this as cruel, but he after all is only a weak and
limited man. . . .
{23}The
consequence of this racial purity, universally valid in Nature, is not only the
sharp outward delimitation of the various races, but their uniform character in
themselves. . . .
{24}Nature looks
on calmly, with satisfaction, in fact. In
the struggle for daily bread all those who are weak and sickly or less
determined succumb, while the struggle of the males for the female grants
the right or opportunity to propagate only to the healthiest. And struggle is
always a means for improving a species' health and power of resistance and,
therefore, a cause of its higher development.
{25}No more than Nature desires the mating of
weaker with stronger individuals, even less does she desire the blending of a
higher with a lower race, since, if she did, her whole work of higher breeding,
over perhaps hundreds of thousands of years, night be ruined with one blow.
{26}Historical experience offers countless
proofs of this. It shows with terrifying clarity that in every mingling of
Aryan blood with that of lower peoples the result was the end of the cultured
people. North America, whose population consists in by far the largest part of
Germanic elements who mixed but little with the lower colored peoples, shows a
different humanity and culture from Central and South America, where the
predominantly Latin immigrants often mixed with the aborigines on a large scale.
By this one example, we can clearly and distinctly recognize the effect of
racial mixture. The Germanic inhabitant of the American continent, who has
remained racially pure and unmixed, rose to be master of the continent; he will
remain the master as long as he does not fall a victim to defilement of the
blood. . . .
{27}If we pass all
the causes of the German collapse in review, the ultimate and most decisive
remains the failure to recognize the racial problem and especially the Jewish
menace.
{28}The defeats on
the battlefield in August, 1918, would have been child's play to bear. They
stood in no proportion to the victories of our people. It was not they that
caused our downfall; no, it was brought about by that power which prepared
these defeats by systematically over many decades robbing our people of the
political and moral instincts and forces which alone make nations capable and
hence worthy of existence.
{29}The lost
purity of the blood alone destroys inner happiness forever, plunges man into
the abyss for all time, and the consequences can never more be eliminated from
body and spirit.
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Volume Two, Chapter Fourteen:
"Eastern Orientation or Eastern
Policy"
{30}We National
Socialists must hold unflinchingly to our
aim in foreign policy, namely, to secure for the German people the land and
soil to which they are entitled on this earth. And this action is the only
one which, before God and our German posterity, would make any sacrifice of
blood seem justified: before God, since we have been put on this earth with the
mission of eternal struggle for our daily bread, beings who receive nothing as
a gift, and who owe their position as lords of the earth only to the genius and
the courage with which they can conquer and defend it; and before our German
posterity in so far as we have shed no citizen's blood out of which a thousand
others are not bequeathed to posterity. The soil on which some day German
generations of peasants can beget powerful sons will sanction the investment of
the sons of today, and will some day acquit the responsible statesmen of
blood-guilt and sacrifice of the people, even if they are persecuted by their
contemporaries.
{31}And I must
sharply attack those folkish pen-pushers who claim to
regard such an acquisition of soil as a 'breach of sacred human rights' and
attack it as such in their scribblings. One never
knows who stands behind these fellows. But one thing is certain, that the
confusion they can create is desirable and convenient to our national enemies.
By such an attitude they help to weaken and destroy from within our people's
will for the only correct way of defending their vital needs. For no people on
this earth possesses so much as a square yard of
territory on the strength of a higher will or superior right. Just as
{32}But we
National Socialists must go further. The
right to possess soil can become a duty if without extension of its soil a
great nation seems doomed to destruction. And most especially when not some
little negro nation or other is involved, but the
Germanic mother of life, which has given the present-day world its cultural
picture.