of the Poles, whereas they made an enemy of Russia.
The solution of the question of Alsace-Lorraine was a half-measure. Instead of brutally, once and for all, knocking the French hydra on the head, allowing, MY STRUGGLE ”7 however, equal rights to the Alsatians, they did neither. Moreover, they could do nothing. The chief betrayers of their country kept their places in the ranks of the great Parties—Wetterle, for instance, in the Centre Party.
Whilst Jewry, through its Marxist and Democratic Press, broadcasted lies about German “militarism” over the whole world and tried to injure Germany by every means in its power, the Marxist and Democratic Parties refused to consider any comprehensive measure for com¬ pleting the national forces of Germany.
The loss of the struggle for the freedom and inde¬ pendence of the German nation is the result of the peace-time half-heartedness and weakness in calling up the combined strength of the nation in defence of the Fatherland.