can escape sharing the fortunes of the German community as a whole—and a crime to make jealousies between town-folk and country-folk, who are bound together for good or
Economic assistance under the present political system cannot produce a permanent improvement, for political slavery is at the root of our people’s poverty, and political methods alone can remove that.
The old political Parties, which were, and are, responsible for the national enslavement, cannot be the leaders on the road to freedom.
There are important economic tasks awaiting pro¬ fessional organizations in our future State ; even now they can do much preparatory work in that direction ; but for the political struggle of liberation, which is to lay the foundation of a new economic order, they are not suitable ; for that struggle will have to be fought out from the point of view not of a single profession, but from that of the whole nation.
The Movement which will carry through the politi¬ cal struggle for liberation to the end is the N.S.D.A.P.
(1Signed) Adolf Hitler.
THE 25 POINTS The National Socialist German Workers’ Party, at a great mass-meeting on February 25th, 1920, in the Hofbräuhausfestsaal, in Munich, announced their Programme to the world.
In Section 2 of the Constitution of our Party this Programme is declared to be inalterable.