Hitler's Table Talk

42 UNEMPLOYMENT AND ITS CURE
It would be a wise policy for Europe to give up the desire to
export to the whole world. The white race has itself destroyed
its world commerce. The European economy has lost its outlets
in other continents. Our manufacturing costs prevent us
from meeting foreign competition.
Wherever it may be, we are so handicapped that it's impossible
to gain a footing anywhere. For the few articles that
foreigners still need, there's a cut-throat struggle between the
suppliers. To gain access to these markets, one must pay such
premiums that it represents a disproportionate effort for our
economy. Only new inventions sometimes enable one to do a
little business.
To their misfortune, the English have industrialised India.
Unemployment in England is increasing, and the English
worker gets poorer.
To think that there are millions of unemployed in America !
What they should do there is to embark on a revolutionary
new economic policy, abandon the gold standard and further
increase the needs of their home market.
Germany is the only country that has no unemployment.
And that hangs together with the fact that we are not slaves to
the need to export.
The country we are engaged in conquering will be à source
of raw materials for us, and a market for our products, but we
shall take good care not to industrialise it.
The peasant is the being least of all accessible to ideologies.
If I offer him land in Russia, a river of human beings will rush
there headlong. For a man of the soil, the finest country is the
one that yields the finest crops. In twenty years' time, European
emigration will no longer be directed towards America, but
eastwards.
The Black Sea will be for us a sea whose wealth our fishermen
will never exhaust. Thanks to the cultivation of the soya
bean, we'll increase our livestock. We'll win from that soil
several times as much as the Ukrainian peasant is winning at
present.
We'll be freed from the worry of having to seek outlets for
our goods in the Far East. For our market is in Russia. We
must make sure of it. We'll supply cotton goods, household