All those States profited at the time by Germany’s collapse. Fear of our strength thrust the mutual envy and jealousy of the individual Great Powers into the background. They considered that, if our Empire could be divided up between them, it would be the best guard against any future rising. An evil conscience and the fear of our nation’s strength is the most effectual cement for binding the members of that alliance together.
Times have altered since the Congress of Vienna. Princes and their mistresses no longer gamble for pro¬ vinces, but now the pitiless international Jew is fight¬ ing for control of the nations.
The frontiers of 1914 mean nothing in respect of Germany’s future. They were no protection in the past, nor would they mean strength in the future. They would not give the German nation internal solidarity, nor would they provide it with nourishment ; from a military standpoint, they would not be suitable or even satisfactory, nor would they improve our present situation with regard to the other world Powers, or rather, the Powers that are the real world Powers.
Only one thing is certain. Any attempt to restore the frontiers of 1914, even if successful, would merely lead to a further pouring out of our nation’s blood, until there were none left worth mentioning for the decisions and actions which are to remake the life and future of the nation. On the contrary, the vain glamour of that empty success would cause us to renounce any more distant objective, since “national honour” would then be satisfied and the door opened once again, anyhow until something else happened, for commercial enterprise. It is the duty of us National Socialists to cling steadfastly to our aims in foreign policy, and these are to assure to the German nation the territory which is due to it on this earth.