Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler

moral devastations which accompany this degeneracy suffice to destroy a people slowly but
surely. This Jewification of our spiritual life and mammonization of our mating instinct will
sooner or later destroy our entire offspring, for the powerful children of a natural emotion will
be replaced by the miserable creatures of financial expediency which is becoming more and
more the basis and sole prerequisite of our marriages. Love finds its outlet elsewhere.
Here, too, of course, Nature can be scorned for a certain time, but her vengeance will not fail
to appear, only it takes a time to manifest itself, or rather: it is often recognized too late by
man.
But the devastating consequences of a lasting disregard of the natural requirements for
marriage can be seen in our nobility. Here we have before us the results of procreation based
partly on purely social compulsion and partly on financial grounds. The one leads to a
general weakening, the other to a poisoning of the blood, since every department store
Jewess is considered fit to augment the offspring of His Highness-and, indeed, the offspring
look it. In both cases complete degeneration is the consequence.
Today our bourgeoisie strive to go the same road, and they will end up at the same goal.
Hastily and indifferently, people tried to pass by the unpleasant truths, as though by such
an attitude events could be undone. No, the fact that our big city population is growing more
and more prostituted in its love life cannot just be denied out of existence; it simply is so.
The most visible results of this mass contamination can, on the one hand, be found in the
insane asylums, and on the other, unfortunately, in our-children. They in particular are the
sad product of the irresistibly spreading contamination of our sexual life; the vices of the
parents are revealed in the sicknesses of the children.
There are different ways of reconciling oneself to this unpleasant, yes, terrible fact: the ones
see nothing at all or rather want to see nothing; this, of course, is by far the simplest and
easiest 'position.' The others wrap themselves in a saint's cloak of prudishness as absurd as
it is hypocritical; they speak of this whole field as if it were a great sin, and above all express
their profound indignation against every sinner caught in the act, then close their eyes in
pious horror to this godless plague and pray God to let sulphur and brimstone-preferably
after their own death-rain down on this whole Sodom and Gomorrah, thus once again
making an instructive example of this shameless humanity. The third, finally, are perfectly
well aware of the terrible consequences which this plague must and will some day induce,
but only shrug their shoulders, convinced that nothing can be done against the menace, so
the only thing to do is to let things slide.
All this, to be sure, is comfortable and simple, but it must not be forgotten that a nation will
fall victim to such comfortableness. The excuse that other peoples are no better off, it goes
without saying, can scarcely affect the fact of our own ruin, except that the feeling of seeing
others stricken by the same calamity might for many bring a mitigation of their own pains.
But then more than ever the question becomes: Which people will be the first and only one to
master this plague by its own strength, and which nations will perish from it? And this is the
crux of the whole matter. Here again we have a touchstone of a race's value-the race which
cannot stand the test will simply die out, making place for healthier or tougher and more
resisting races. For since this question primarily regards the offspring, it is one of those
concerning which it is said with such terrible justice that the sins of the fathers are avenged
down to the tenth generation. But this applies only to profanation of the blood and the race.
Blood sin and desecration of the race are the original sin in this world and the end of a
humanity which surrenders to it.
How truly wretched was the attitude of pre-War Germany on this one very question ! What
was done to check the contamination of our youth in the big cities? What was done to attack
the infection and mammonization of our love life? What was done to combat the resulting
syphilization of our people?
This can be answered most easily by stating what should have been done.