either cower in silence, or—what is more to the point—in order to put an end to the Jews’ Press campaign, they persecute those who are being unjustly attacked, and this, in the eyes of such Jacks in office, stands for vindication of State authority and maintenance of peace and order.
Thus, if we review all the causes of the German collapse, the final and decisive one is seen to be the failure to realize the racial problem and, more especially, the Jewish menace.
The defeats on the field of battle of August, 1918, might have been borne with the utmost ease. It was not they which overthrew us ; what overthrew us was the force which prepared for those defeats by robbing the nation of all political and moral instinct and strength by schemes which had been under way for many decades ; and only these instincts can fit nations for existence and justify them in existing. By ignoring the question of maintaining the racial basis of our nationality, the old Empire disregarded the one and only law which makes life possible on this earth.