Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler

A certain unification, especially in the field of transport., appears logical. But we, National
Socialists, feel it our duty to oppose with all our might such a development in the modern
State, especially when the measures proposed are solely for the purpose of screening a
disastrous foreign policy and making it possible. And just because the present Reich has
threatened to take over the railways, the posts, the finances, etc., not from the high
standpoint of a national policy, but in order to have in its hands the means and pledges for
an unlimited policy of fulfilment – for that reason we, National Socialists, must take every
step that seems suitable to obstruct and, if possible, definitely to prevent such a policy. We
must fight against the present system of amalgamating institutions that are vitally important
for the existence of our people, because this system is being adopted solely to facilitate the
payment of milliards and the transference of pledges to the stranger, under the post-War
provisions which our politicians have accepted.
For these reasons also the National Socialist Movement has to take up a stand against such
tendencies.
Moreover, we must oppose such centralization because in domestic affairs it helps to
reinforce a system of government which in all its manifestations has brought the greatest
misfortunes on the German nation. The present Jewish-Democratic Reich, which has become
a veritable curse for the German people, is seeking to negative the force of the criticism
offered by all the federal states which have not yet become imbued with the spirit of the age,
and is trying to carry out this policy by crushing them to the point of annihilation. In face of
this we National Socialists must try to ground the opposition of the individual states on such
a basis that it will be able to operate with a good promise of success. We must do this by
transforming the struggle against centralization into something that will be an expression of
the higher interests of the German nation as such. Therefore, while the Bavarian Populist
Party, acting from its own narrow and particularist standpoint, fights to maintain the 'special
rights' of the Bavarian State, we ought to stand on quite a different ground in fighting for the
same rights. Our grounds ought to be those of the higher national interests in opposition to
the November Democracy.
A still further reason for opposing a centralizing process of that kind arises from the certain
conviction that in great part this so-called nationalization does not make for unification at all
and still less for simplification. In many cases it is adopted simply as a means of removing
from the sovereign control of the individual states certain institutions which they wish to
place in the hands of the revolutionary parties. In German History favouritism has never
been of so base a character as in the democratic republic. A great portion of this
centralization today is the work of parties which once promised that they would open the way
for the promotion of talent, meaning thereby that they would fill those posts and offices
entirely with their own partisans. Since the foundation of the Republic the Jews especially
have been obtaining positions in the economic institutions taken over by the Reich and also
positions in the national administration, so that the one and the other have become
preserves of Jewry.
For tactical reasons, this last consideration obliges us to watch with the greatest attention
every further attempt at centralization and fight it at each step. But in doing this our
standpoint must always be that of a lofty national policy and never a pettifogging
particularism.
This last observation is necessary, lest an opinion might arise among our own followers that
we do not accredit to the Reich the right of incorporating in itself a sovereignty which is
superior to that of the constituent states. As regards this right we cannot and must not
entertain the slightest doubt. Because for us the State is nothing but a form. Its substance,
or content, is the essential thing. And that is the nation, the people. It is clear therefore that
every other interest must be subordinated to the supreme interests of the nation. In