Unfortunately, the central kernel of our German nation is no longer racially homogeneous. The pro¬ cess of welding the various original components together has not yet gone so far that we can assert that a new race has emerged from it. On the contrary, the poisoning through the blood from which our national body has suffered ever since the Thirty Years’ War, has not only upset our blood, but our soul as well. The Fatherland’s open frontiers, the neighbourhood of foreign non-German bodies close to our frontier lands, and above all, the steady flow of foreign blood into the interior of the Reich, leave no time for absolute fusion, since the invasion continues without intermission.
Germans are without the herd-instinct which appears when all are of one blood and protects nations against ruin especially at moments when danger threatens. The fact of this want has done us untold harm. It provided a number of small German poten¬ tates with capital, but it robbed the German nation of its rights of mastery.
To take the place of a dead machine, which only claims to exist for sake of itself, a living organism must be formed with the exclusive aim of serving a high conception.
In its capacity as a State, the German Reich must gather all Germans to itself; it must not only select out of the German nation only the best of the original racial elements and conserve them, but must slowly and surely raise them to a position of dominance.
MY STRUGGLE x57 It is quite natural that the officials who control our State to-day are much happier in working simply to keep things going as they are than in fighting for some¬ thing which is to come. They will feel that it is far easier to look on the State as a machine which is there simply for the purpose of keeping them alive—so that their lives, as they are fond of saying, “belong to the State”.
When, therefore, we are fighting for our new ideas —which are in full harmony with the original meaning of things—we shall draw very few