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CHAPTER XII.“BY T H E I R W O R K S . . .”OR the last ten years the National Socialists have hadFparliamentary representation, first under the name ofthe “Freiheitspartei” and since 1924 under their ownname. An analysis of their program must, therefore, be supplementedby the consideration of their legislative record.Although they have been mostly in a small minority duringthat time nothing has prevented them from submitting theirproposals to the Reichstag and the State legislatures.True to the spirit of the party program, Hitler‟s legislativehenchmen have been pre-occupied with race problemswhich they like to link up with economic questions.One of the most outstanding Nazi measures submittedto the Reichstag, known as “Printed Matter No. 1741,” constitutesseveral new crimes, such as high treason against therace, against the national economy, and culture. With subtleirony, Hitler called it a measure for the protection of the republicand it reads in parts:“Anyone attacking or even questioning in speech or inthe press the moral value of universal military or other Stateservice, anyone advocating the spiritual, physical or materialdisarmament of the German nation . . . publicly assertingGermany‟s share of war guilt or damaging the vital