Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler

importance,land that is the question of the racial preservation of the nation. In the blood
alone resides the strength as well as the weakness of man. As long as peoples do not
recognize and give heed to the importance of their racial foundation, they are like men who
would like to teach poodles the qualities of greyhounds, failing to realize that the speed of the
greyhound like the docility of the poodle are not learned, but are qualities inherent in the
race. Peoples which renounce the preservation of their racial purity renounce with it the
unity of their soul in all its expressions. The divided state of their nature is the natural
consequence of the divided state of their blood, and the change in their intellectual and
creative force is only the effect of the change in their racial foundations.
Anyone who wants to free the German blood from the manifestations and vices of today,
which were originally alien to its nature, will first have to redeem it from the foreign virus of
these manifestations.
Without the clearest knowledge of the racial problem and hence of the Jewish problem there
will never be a resurrection of the German nation.
The racial question gives the key not only to world history, but to all human culture.
(6) Organizing the broad masses of our people which are today in the international camp into
a national people's community does not mean renouncing the defense of justified class
interests. Divergent class and professional interests are not synonymous with class cleavages
but are natural consequences of our economic life. Professional grouping is in no way
opposed to a true national community, for the latter consists in the unity of a nation in all
those questions which affect this nation as such.
The integration of an occupational group which has become a class with the national
community, or merely with the state, is not accomplished by the lowering of higher dasses
but by uplifting the lower dasses. This process in turn can never be upheld by the higher
class, but only by the lower class fighting for its equal rights. The present-day bourgeoisie
was not organized into the state by measures of the nobility, but by its own energy under its
own leadership.
The German worker will not be raised to the framework of the German national community
via feeble scenes of fraternization, but by a conscious raising of his social and cultural
situation until the most serious differences may be viewed as bridged. A movement which
sets this development as its goal will have to take its supporters primarily from this camp.' It
may fall back on the intelligentsia only in so far as the latter has completely understood the
goal to be achieved. This process of transformation and equalization will not be completed in
ten or twenty years; experience shows that it comprises many generations.
The severest obstade to the present-day worker's approach to the national community lies
not in the defense of his class interests, but in his international leadership and attitude
which are hostile to the people and the fatherland. The same unions with a fanatical national
leadership in political and national matters would make millions of workers into the most
valuable members of their nation regardless of the various struggles that took place over
purely economic matters.
A movement which wants honestly to give the German worker back to his people and tear
him away from the international delusion must sharply attack a conception dominant above
all in employer circles, which under national community understands the unresisting
economic surrender of the employee to the employer and which chooses to regard any
attempt at safeguarding even justified interests regarding the employee's economic existence
as an attack on the national community. Such an assertion is not only untrue, but a
conscious lie, because the national community imposes its obligations not only on one side
but also on the other.
Just as surely as a worker sins against the spirit of a real national community when, without
regard for the common welfare and the survival of a national economy, he uses his power to
raise extortionate demands, an employer breaks this community to the same extent when he
conducts his business in an inhuman, exploiting way, misuses the national labor force and