No nation on earth holds a square yard of territory by any right derived from heaven. Frontiers are made and altered by human agency alone.
The fact that a nation succeeds in acquiring an unfair share of territory is no superior reason for its being respected. It merely proves the strength of the conqueror and the weakness of those who lose by it. This strength solely constitutes the right to possess.
However much we recognize to-day the necessity of an agreement with France, it will be useless in the long run if our general objective in foreign policy is to be sacrificed for the sake of it. There can only be sense in it if it offers a backing for the space which our people are to inhabit in Europe. For acquisition of colonies will not solve that question—nothing, in fact, but the gain of territory for settlement, which will not only keep the new settlers in close communication with the land of their origin but will guarantee to the combination all the advantages arising from the size of the united whole.
K 25Ö MY STRUGGLE We National Socialists have deliberately drawn a line under the pre-War tendency of our foreign policy. We are where they were six hundred years ago. We stem the Germanic stream towards the South and West of Europe, and turn our eyes eastwards. We have finished with the pre-War policy of colonies and trade, and are going over to the land policy of the future.
Fate itself seems to wish to give us our direction. When fate abandoned Russia to Bolshevism it robbed the Russian people of the educated class which once created and guaranteed their existence as a State. The Germanic element may now be regarded as entirely wiped out in Russia. The Jew has taken its place. It is as impossible for the Russian to shake off the Jewish yoke by his own strength, as it is for the Jew to keep control of the vast empire for any length of time. His character is not that of an organizer but of a decom¬ posing leaven. The immense Empire will one day collapse.