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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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Part Two

The ordinary attitude towards politics current with us to-day rests in general on the notion that creative and civilizing strength ought to be an attribute of the State, that the latter has no part in matters affecting race but is a product of economic necessity or, at the best, a natural outcome of political forces. Carried to its logical conclusion, this basic attitude leads not merely to misrepresentation of racial causes, but also to failure to assign to personality its proper value. For denial that there is a difference between races as regards their capacity for building up culture is bound to extend that great error to judgments formed concerning the personality of the individual. An assumption that all races are equal as regards character will be followed by a similar way of considering nations, and so on to individuals. Thus, international Marxism itself is merely a general view of the world—which has really been held for a very long time—carried forward by the Jew, Karl Marx, in the form of a definite confession of political faith. Lacking the foundation of some such poisoning process already in general operation, the extraordinary political success of those doctrines would have been impossible. Karl Marx was in reality merely the one among millions who recognized with the sure eye of a prophet in the slough of a corrupting world the essential poison, and extracted it as if by magic arts, in a concentrated solution in order to bring quicker destruction to the independent existence of free nations on this earth. And all in order to serve his own race.

In this way the Marxist doctrine is the intellectual epitome of the world views generally current to¬ day.

In this part of the world human culture and civilization are inextricably bound up with the presence of the Aryan element. If it died out or went under, the black veil of a cultureless period would once again descend upon the globe.

To anyone who views the world through National¬ ists5 eyes, any breach in the existence of human civiliza¬ tion, effected by the destruction of

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