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Adolf Hitler presents an autobiographical account of his life and the development of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. He outlines the foundational principles and aims of the movement while addressing his personal history and political objectives.

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Abolition Of The Thraldom Of Interest

  1. We demand abolition of a paid army and formation of a national army.
  1. We demand legal warfare against conscious political lying and its dissemination in the Press. In order to facilitate creation of a German National Press, we demand :

(a) that all editors of newspapers and their assist¬ ants, employing the German language, must be members of the nation ; (b) that special permission from the State shall be necessary before non-German newspapers may appear. These are not necessarily printed in the German language ;

(c) that non-Germans shall be prohibited by law from participation financially in or influencing German newspapers, and that the penalty for contravention of the law shall be suppression of 28o MY STRUGGLE any such newspaper, and immediate deportation of the non-German concerned in it. It must be forbidden to publish papers which do not conduce to the national welfare. We demand legal prosecution of all tendencies in art and literature of a kind likely to disintegrate our life as a nation, and the suppression of institutions which militate against the requirements above-mentioned.

  1. We demand liberty for all religious denomi¬ nations in the State, so far as they are not a danger to it and do not militate against the moral feelings of the German race.

The Party, as such, stands for positive Christianity, but does not bind itself in the matter of creed to any particular confession. It combats the Jewish material¬ ist spirit within us and without us, and is convinced that our nation can only achieve permanent health from within on the principle :

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