Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler

and so on? And would it not be more reasonable to show the Rhine and the North Sea to the
Bavarian, the Alps to the native of Hamburg and the mountains of Central Germany to the
boy from East Prussia? The character proper to each region ought to be maintained in the
troops but not in the training garrisons. We may disapprove of every attempt at unification
but not that of unifying the army. On the contrary, even though we should wish to welcome
no other kind of unification, this must be greeted with joy. In view of the size of the present
army of the Reich, it would be absurd to maintain the federal divisions among the troops.
Moreover, in the unification of the German army which has actually been effected we see a
fact which we must not renounce but restore in the future national army.
Finally a new and triumphant idea should burst every chain which tends to paralyse its
efforts to push forward. National Socialism must claim the right to impose its principles on
the whole German nation, without regard to what were hitherto the confines of federal states.
And we must educate the German nation in our ideas and principles. As the Churches do not
feel themselves bound or limited by political confines, so the National Socialist Idea cannot
feel itself limited to the territories of the individual federal states that belong to our
Fatherland.
The National Socialist doctrine is not handmaid to the political interests of the single federal
states. One day it must become teacher to the whole German nation. It must determine the
life of the whole people and shape that life anew. For this reason we must imperatively
demand the right to overstep boundaries that have been traced by a political development
which we repudiate.
The more completely our ideas triumph, the more liberty can we concede in particular affairs
to our citizens at home.