Hitler's Table Talk

562 GERMANY AND BRITAIN—ROME AND CARTHAGE
field or as men of very wide experience in war should be
made available as models and instructors for the rising generation.
The Reserve of Officers must be carefully nursed, for in
the military training of the individual the Reserve Officers, the
living incarnations of the martial spirit of our race, have an
incomparable military duty towards the whole people. Apart
from this, the schools and other centres of instruction must in
all circumstances foster that interest—an interest, by the way,
which remained active even during the Weimar Republic—
which Germans have always shown in the connection between
science and the military art.
I have always been an ardent disciple of the belief that, in a
struggle between peoples, the people with the higher average
morale must always emerge victorious. In my opinion, that an
inferior people should triumph over a strong is a negation of the
laws of nature.
The British maintained their position of world domination for
three hundred years solely because there was during that period
nothing on the Continent comparable in race or intelligence to
oppose them. Napoleon himself was no real menace to them,
because, in the frenzy of the French Revolution, he had no
solid basis on which to found a new order in Europe; and apart
from him, there has never been in Europe, since the disintegration
of the old German Empire, any State which, in either
quantity or quality, could compare with the British.
Thanks to the development of National Socialist Germany, I
firmly believe, if only on purely biological grounds, we shall
succeed in surpassing the British to such an extent that, with
one hundred and fifty to two hundred million Germans, we
shall become the undisputed masters of the whole of Europe.
A recrudescence of the problem Rome or Carthage in the new
guise of Germany or Great Britain is not, in my opinion,
possible. For the result of this war will be that, whereas in
Britain each additional million of population will be an
additional burden on the island itself, the increasing growth of
our own races will have open to them horizons of political and
ethnological expansion which are limitless.
Further, any alleviation of the overcrowding of towns by a
mpvement back to the land is not possible in Britain, for this