Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler

But when we consider the possibilities of alliances we must be careful not to lose sight of
three factors. The first factor concerns ourselves; the other two concern the two States I have
mentioned.
Is it at all possible to conclude an alliance with Germany as it is today? Can a Power which
would enter into an alliance for the purpose of securing assistance in an effort to carry out its
own offensive aims – can such a Power form an alliance with a State whose rulers have for
years long presented a spectacle of deplorable incompetence and pacifist cowardice and
where the majority of the people, blinded by democratic and Marxist teachings, betray the
interests of their own people and country in a manner that cries to Heaven for vengeance? As
things stand today, can any Power hope to establish useful relations and hope to fight
together for the furtherance of their common interests with this State which manifestly has
neither the will nor the courage to move a finger even in the defence of its bare existence?
Take the case of a Power for which an alliance must be much more than a pact to guarantee
a state of slow decomposition, such as happened with the old and disastrous Triple Alliance.
Can such a Power associate itself for life or death with a State whose most characteristic
signs of activity consist of a rampant servility in external relations and a scandalous
repression of the national spirit at home? Can such a Power be associated with a State in
which there is nothing of greatness, because its whole policy does not deserve it? Or can
alliances be made with Governments which are in the hands of men who are despised by
their own fellow-citizens and consequently are not respected abroad?
No. A self-respecting Power which expects something more from alliances than commissions
for greedy Parliamentarians will not and cannot enter into an alliance with our present-day
Germany. Our present inability to form alliances furnishes the principle and most solid basis
for the combined action of the enemies who are robbing us. Because Germany does not
defend itself in any other way except by the flamboyant protests of our parliamentarian elect,
there is no reason why the rest of the world should take up the fight in our defence. And God
does not follow the principle of granting freedom to a nation of cowards, despite all the
implications of our 'patriotic' associations. Therefore, for those States which have not a direct
interest in our annihilation no other course remains open except to participate in France's
campaign of plunder, at least to make it impossible for the strength of France to be
exclusively aggrandized thereby.
In the second place, we must not forget that among the nations which were formerly our
enemies mass-propaganda has turned the opinions and feelings of large sections of the
population in a fixed direction. When for years long a foreign nation has been presented to
the public as a horde of 'Huns', 'Robbers', 'Vandals', etc., they cannot suddenly be presented
as something different, and the enemy of yesterday cannot be recommended as the ally of
tomorrow.
But the third factor deserves greater attention, since it is of essential importance for
establishing future alliances in Europe.
From the political point of view it is not in the interests of Great Britain that Germany should
be ruined even still more, but such a proceeding would be very much in the interests of the
international money-markets manipulated by the Jew. The cleavage between the official, or
rather traditional, British statesmanship and the controlling influence of the Jew on the
money-markets is nowhere so clearly manifested as in the various attitudes taken towards
problems of British foreign policy. Contrary to the interests and welfare of the British State,
Jewish finance demands not only the absolute economic destruction of Germany but its
complete political enslavement. The internationalization of our German economic system,
that is to say, the transference of our productive forces to the control of Jewish international
finance, can be completely carried out only in a State that has been politically Bolshevized.
But the Marxist fighting forces, commanded by international and Jewish stock-exchange
capital, cannot finally smash the national resistance in Germany without friendly help from
outside. For this purpose French armies would first have to invade and overcome the