that conviction. It is its duty no less than its right to proclaim the fact most definitely that any attempt to represent the nationalist idea outside the limits of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party is inadmis¬ sible, and that in the majority of cases it rests on a false foundation.
All kinds of associations and cliques, little groups and, as far as I care, “great Parties” as well, claim for themselves the word “nationalist” ; this in itself is but one effect of the influence of the National Socialist movement. But for it, it would never have occurred to all these organizations even to mention the word “nationalist” ; it would have suggested no meaning to them in particular, and they would have had nothing whatever to do with the conception. The N.S G.W.P. (N.S.D.A.P.) was the first to attach a mean¬ ing to that word, which contains so much, and which is now in common use by every sort of person. Our Movement has proved out and out in its propaganda work the strength of the nationalist idea, so that greed of advantage is forcing the others at least to pretend to similar aspirations.