of the so-called world Powers. England is not an example to be quoted, since the British Mother Country is really but the great capital city of the British world Empire, which claims nearly a quarter of the earth’s surface as its property. We must rather look at giant States such as the American Union, then at Russia and China —enclosed areas, some of them ten times as big as the German Empire. France herself must be reckoned as one of their number. She is constantly adding to her Army from the coloured populations of her immense Empire. If France goes on as she is now doing for three hundred years, she will have a powerful enclosed territory from the Rhine to the Congo, filled with a race continually becoming more and more bastardized. That is where French colonial policy differs from Germany’s former one.
Ours neither increased the lands occupied by the German race, nor did it make the criminal attempt to strengthen the Empire by introducing black blood. The Askari in German East Africa were a small hesi¬ tating step in that direction, but actually they were only used for defence of the colony itself.
We have ceased to enjoy any position compared with the other great States of the world, and that thanks merely to the fatal direction of our nation in foreign policy, to an absolute lack of any tradition, as I might call it, of a definite policy in foreign affairs, and to loss of all sound instinct and urge to maintain ourselves as a nation.
All this must be remedied by the National Socialist movement, which must attempt to remove the dis¬ proportion between our population and our area— MY STRUGGLE *55 the latter seen both as the source of nourishment and the basis of political power—between our historic past and the hopelessness of our present impotence.
One of the greatest achievements of German policy was the formation of the Prussian State, and the culti¬ vation, through it, of the idea of a