Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler

Germany must not be victorious; in the last hour, with victory already threatening to be with
the German banners, a means was chosen which seemed suited to stifle the German spring
attack in the germ with one blow, to make victory impossible:
The munitions strike was organized
If it succeeded, the German front was bound to collapse, and the Vorwarts' desire that this
time victory should not be with the German banners would inevitably be fulfilled. Owing to
the lack of munitions, the front would inevitably be pierced in a few weeks; thus the offensive
was thwarted, the Entente saved international capital was made master of Germany, and the
inner aim of the Marxist swindle of nations achieved.
To smash the national economy and establish the rule of international capital a goal which
actually was achieved, thanks to the stupidity and credulity of the one side and the
bottomless cowardice of the other.
To be sure, the munitions strike did not have all the hoped-for success with regard to
starving the front of arms; it collapsed too soon for the lack of munitions as such-as the plan
had been- to doom the army to destruction.
But how much more terrible was the moral damage that had been done!
In the first place: What was the army fighting for if the homeland itself no longer wanted
victory? For whom the immense sacrifices and privations? The soldier is expected to fight for
victory and the homeland goes on strike against it!
And in the second place: What was the effect on the enemy?
In the winter of 1917 to 1918, dark clouds appeared for the first time in the firmament of the
Allied world. For nearly four years they had been assailing the German warrior and had been
unable to encompass his downfall; and all this while the German had only his shield arm free
for defense, while his sword was obliged to strike, now in the East, now in the South. But
now at last the giant's back was free. Streams of blood had flown before he administered final
defeat to one of his foes. Now in the West his shield was going to be joined by his sword; up
till then the enemy had been unable to break his defense, and now he himself was facing
attack.
The enemy feared him and trembled for their victory.
In London and Paris one deliberation followed another, but at the front sleepy silence
prevailed. Suddenly their high mightinesses lost their effrontery. Even enemy propaganda
was having a hard time of it; it was no longer so easy to prove the hopelessness of German
victory.
But this also applied to the Allied troops at the fronts. A ghastly light began to dawn slowly
even on them. Their inner attitude toward the German soldier had changed. Until then he
may have seemed to them a fool destined to defeat; but now it was the destroyer of the
Russian ally that stood before them. The limitation of the German offensives to the East,
though born of necessity, now seemed to them brilliant tactics. For three years these
Germans had stormed the Russian front, at first it seemed without the slightest success. The
Allies almost laughed over this aimless undertaking; for in the end the Russian giant with his
overwhelming number of men was sure to remain the victor while Germany would inevitably
collapse from loss of blood. Reality seemed to confirm this hope.
Since the September days of 1914, when for the first time the endless hordes of Russian
prisoners from the Battle of Tannenberg began moving into Germany over the roads and
railways, this stream was almost without end-but for every defeated and destroyed army a
new one arose. Inexhaustibly the gigantic Empire gave the Tsar more and more new soldiers
and the War its new victims. How long could Germany keep up this race? Would not the day
inevitably come when the Germans would win their last victory and still the Russian armies
would not be marching to their last battle? And then what? In all human probability the
victory of Russia could be postponed, but it was bound to come.
Now all these hopes were at an end: the ally who had laid the greatest blood sacrifices on the
altar of common interests was at the end of his strength, and lay prone at the feet of the