Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler

We must consider it as fortunate that a Germanization of Austria according to the plan of
Joseph II did not succeed. Probably the result would have been that the Austrian State would
have been able to survive, but at the same time participation in the use of a common
language would have debased the racial quality of the German element. In the course of
centuries a certain herd instinct might have been developed but the herd itself would have
deteriorated in quality. A national State might have arisen, but a people who had been
culturally creative would have disappeared.
For the German nation it was better that this process of intermixture did not take place,
although it was not renounced for any high-minded reasons but simply through the shortsighted
pettiness of the Habsburgs. If it had taken place the German people could not now be
looked upon as a cultural factor.
Not only in Austria, however, but also in the Reich, these so-called national circles were, and
still are, under the influence of similar erroneous ideas. Unfortunately, a policy towards
Poland, whereby the East was to be Germanized, was demanded by many and was based on
the same false reasoning. Here again it was believed that the Polish people could be
Germanized by being compelled to use the German language. The result would have been
fatal. A people of foreign race would have had to use the German language to express modes
of thought that were foreign to the German, thus compromising by its own inferiority the
dignity and nobility of our nation.
It is revolting to think how much damage is indirectly done to German prestige today through
the fact that the German patois of the Jews when they enter the United States enables them
to be classed as Germans, because many Americans are quite ignorant of German
conditions. Among us, nobody would think of taking these unhygienic immigrants from the
East for members of the German race and nation merely because they mostly speak German.
What has been beneficially Germanized in the course of history was the land which our
ancestors conquered with the sword and colonized with German tillers of the soil. To the
extent that they introduced foreign blood into our national body in this colonization, they
have helped to disintegrate our racial character, a process which has resulted in our German
hyper-individualism, though this latter characteristic is even now frequently praised.
In this third group also there are people who, to a certain degree, consider the State as an
end in itself. Hence they consider its preservation as one of the highest aims of human
existence. Our analysis may be summed up as follows:
All these opinions have this common feature and failing: that they are not grounded in a
recognition of the profound truth that the capacity for creating cultural values is essentially
based on the racial element and that, in accordance with this fact, the paramount purpose of
the State is to preserve and improve the race; for this is an indispensable condition of all
progress in human civilization.
Thus the Jew, Karl Marx, was able to draw the final conclusions from these false concepts
and ideas on the nature and purpose of the State. By eliminating from the concept of the
State all thought of the obligation which the State bears towards the race, without finding
any other formula that might be universally accepted, the bourgeois teaching prepared the
way for that doctrine which rejects the State as such.
That is why the bourgeois struggle against Marxist internationalism is absolutely doomed to
fail in this field. The bourgeois classes have already sacrificed the basic principles which
alone could furnish a solid footing for their ideas. Their crafty opponent has perceived the
defects in their structure and advances to the assault on it with those weapons which they
themselves have placed in his hands though not meaning to do so.
Therefore any new movement which is based on the racial concept of the world will first of all
have to put forward a clear and logical doctrine of the nature and purpose of the State.
The fundamental principle is that the State is not an end in itself but the means to an end. It
is the preliminary condition under which alone a higher form of human civilization can be
developed, but it is not the source of such a development. This is to be sought exclusively in