Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler

Prostitution is a disgrace to humanity, but it cannot be eliminated by moral lectures, pious
intentions, etc.; its limitation and final abolition presuppose the elimination of innumerable
preconditions. The first is and remains the creation of an opportunity for early marriage as
compatible with human nature- particularly for the man, as the woman in any case is only
the passive part.
How lost, how incomprehensible a part of humanity has become today can be seen from the
fact that mothers in so-called 'good ' society can not seldom be heard to say that they are
glad to have found their child a husband who has sown his wild oats, etc. Since there is
hardly any lack of these, but rather the contrary, the poor girl will be happy to find one of
these worn-out Siegfrieds, and the children will be the visible result of this 'sensible'
marriage. If we bear in mind that, aside from this, propagation as such is limited as much as
possible, so that Nature is prevented from making any choice, since naturally every creature,
regardless how miserable, must be preserved, the only question that remains is why such an
institution exists at all any more and what purpose it is supposed to serve? Isn't it exactly
the same as prostitution itself? Hasn't duty toward posterity passed completely out of the
picture? Or do people fail to realize what a curse on the part of their children and children's
children they are heaping on themselves by such criminal frivolity in observing the ultimate
natural law as well as our ultimate natural obligation?
Thus, the civilized peoples degenerate and gradually perish.
And marriage cannot be an end in itself, but must serve the one higher goal, the increase
and preservation of the species and the race. This alone is its meaning and its task.
Under these conditions its soundness can only be judged by the way in which it fulfills this
task. For this reason alone early marriage is sound, for it-gives the young marriage that
strength from which alone a healthy and resistant offspring can arise. To be sure, it can be
made possible only by quite a number of social conditions without which early marriage is
not even thinkable. Therefore, a solution of this question, small as it is, cannot occur without
incisive measures of a social sort. The importance of these should be most understandable at
a time when the 'social' - republic, if only by its incompetence in the solution of the housing
question, simply prevents numerous marriages and thus encourages prostitution.
Our absurd way of regulating salaries, which concerns itself much too little with the question
of the family and its sustenance, is one more reason that makes many an early marriage
impossible.
Thus, a real fight against prostitution can only be undertaken if a basic change in social
conditions makes possible an earlier marriage than at present can generally take place. This
is the very first premise for a solution of this question.
In the second place, education and training must eradicate a number of evils about which
today no one bothers at all. Above all, in our present education a balance must be created
between mental instruction and physical training. The institution that is called a Gymnasium
today is a mockery of the Greek model. In our educational system it has been utterly
forgotten that in the long run a healthy mind can dwell only in a healthy body. Especially if
we bear in mind the mass of the people, aside from a few exceptions, this statement becomes
absolutely valid.
In pre-War Germany there was a period in which no one concerned himself in the least about
this truth. They simply went on sinning against the body and thought that in the one-sided
training of the 'mind,' they possessed a sure guaranty for the greatness of the nation. A
mistake whose consequences began to be felt sooner than was expected. It is no accident
that th Bolshevistic wave never found better soil than in places inhabited by a population
degenerated by hunger and constant undernourishment: in Central Germany, Saxony, and
the Ruhr. But in all these districts the so-called intelligentsia no longer offers any serious
resistance to this Jewish disease, for the simple reason that this intelligentsia is itself
completely degenerate physically, though less for reasons of poverty than for reasons of
education. In times when not the mind but the fist decides, the purely intellectual emphasis