Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler

pacifist old women, but a peace that would be guaranteed by the triumphant sword of a
people endowed with the power to master the world and administer it in the service of a
higher civilization.
The fact that our people did not have a national being based on a unity of blood has been the
source of untold misery for us. To many petty German potentates it gave residential capital
cities, but the German people as a whole was deprived of its right to rulership.
Even today our nation still suffers from this lack of inner unity; but what has been the cause
of our past and present misfortunes may turn out a blessing for us in the future. Though on
the one hand it may be a drawback that our racial elements were not welded together, so
that no homogeneous national body could develop, on the other hand, it was fortunate that,
since at least a part of our best blood was thus kept pure, its racial quality was not debased.
A complete assimilation of all our racial elements would certainly have brought about a
homogeneous national organism; but, as has been proved in the case of every racial mixture,
it would have been less capable of creating a civilization than by keeping intact its best
original elements. A benefit which results from the fact that there was no all-round
assimilation is to be seen in that even now we have large groups of German Nordic people
within our national organization, and that their blood has not been mixed with the blood of
other races. We must look upon this as our most valuable treasure for the sake of the future.
During that dark period of absolute ignorance in regard to all racial laws, when each
individual was considered to be on a par with every other, there could be no clear
appreciation of the difference between the various fundamental racial characteristics. We
know today that a complete assimilation of all the various elements which constitute the
national being might have resulted in giving us a larger share of external power: but, on the
other hand, the highest of human aims would not have been attained, because the only kind
of people which fate has obviously chosen to bring about this perfection would have been lost
in such a general mixture of races which would constitute such a racial amalgamation.
But what has been prevented by a friendly Destiny, without any assistance on our part, must
now be reconsidered and utilized in the light of our new knowledge.
He who talks of the German people as having a mission to fulfil on this earth must know that
this cannot be fulfilled except by the building up of a State whose highest purpose is to
preserve and promote those nobler elements of our race and of the whole of mankind which
have remained unimpaired.
Thus for the first time a high inner purpose is accredited to the State. In face of the
ridiculous phrase that the State should do no more than act as the guardian of public order
and tranquillity, so that everybody can peacefully dupe everybody else, it is given a very high
mission indeed to preserve and encourage the highest type of humanity which a beneficent
Creator has bestowed on this earth. Out of a dead mechanism which claims to be an end in
itself a living organism shall arise which has to serve one purpose exclusively: and that,
indeed, a purpose which belongs to a higher order of ideas.
As a State the German Reich shall include all Germans. Its task is not only to gather in and
foster the most valuable sections of our people but to lead them slowly and surely to a
dominant position in the world.
Thus a period of stagnation is superseded by a period of effort. And here, as in every other
sphere, the proverb holds good that to rest is to rust; and furthermore the proverb that
victory will always be won by him who attacks. The higher the final goal which we strive to
reach, and the less it be understood at the time by the broad masses, the more magnificent
will be its success. That is what the lesson of history teaches. And the achievement will be all