get on with each other. All that tends to divisions in the nation’s life must be converted by the Army into a uniting influence. It must lift each youth above the narrow horizon of his own little country and set him in his place within the German nation. He must learn to look on the frontiers not of his home, but of his Fatherland ; for it is those which he may have to protect one day. It is folly, therefore, to let the young German stay in his home, but a good thing to show Germany to him during the time of his military service. This is all the more essential to-day, since young Germans do not travel and so widen their horizon as once they used to.
The doctrines of National Socialism are not meant to serve the political interests of single States of the Confederation, but to lead the German nation. They must determine the life of a whole nation and shape it afresh ; they must, therefore, peremptorily claim the right to overstep boundaries, drawn according to political developments which we have rejected.