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Adolf Hitler presents an autobiographical account of his life and the development of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. He outlines the foundational principles and aims of the movement while addressing his personal history and political objectives.

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Chapter XI

at a time when the State—i.e., the organized community—is paying practically no attention to him, he will have to protect his interests himself. Now that the so-called national bourgeoisie, blinded by money interest, is setting every obstacle in the way of this struggle for a living, and is not only opposing but universally and actively working against all attempts to shorten the inhumanly long hours of work, put an end to child labour, protect the women, and produce healthy conditions in factories and dwellings—the cleverer Jew is identifying himself with the under-dog.

He is gradually assuming leadership of the Trades Union movement—all the easier because what matters to him is not so much genuine removal of social evils, as the formation of a blindly obedient fighting force in industry for the purpose of destroying national economic independence.

The Jew forcibly drives all competitors off the field.

Helped by his innate greedy brutality, he sets the Trades Union movement on a footing of brute force. Anyone with intelligence enough to resist the Jewish lure is broken by intimidation, however determined and intelligent he may be. These methods are vastly successful.

By means of the Trades Union, which might have been the saving of the nation, the Jew actually destroys the bases of the nation’s economics.

The political organization proceeds on parallel lines with the foregoing. It works in with the Trades Union movement since the latter prepares the masses for the political organization, and in fact drives them forcibly into it. It is, moreover, the constant money source out of which the political organization feeds its vast machine. It is the organ of control for the political work and acts as whipper-in for all great demonstra¬ tions, political in character. Finally it loses its economic character altogether, serving the political idea with its chief weapon, refusal to work, in the form of the general strike.

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