On April ist, 1924, under the sentence of the National Courts of Justice in Munich, I was condemned to detention in the fortress of Landsberg am Lech.
This gave me, after years of uninterrupted labour, my first opportunity of attacking a work which many were asking for, and which I myself considered profit¬ able for the Movement. So I have decided to explain the aims of our Movement in a book and also to draw a picture of how it developed. There is more to be learned from it than from any purely doctrinaire treatise.
It has also given me an opportunity of describing myself, as far as it will help me to make the volume comprehensible, and to destroy the evil legendary fabrications of the Jewish press about me.
In this work I turn not to strangers, but to those adherents of the Movement who belong to it in their hearts and wish for enlightenment regarding it.
I know that fewer people are won over by the written than the spoken word, and that the growth of every great Movement on earth is due to great speakers and not to great writers.
Nevertheless, in order to produce equality and unity in defence of any doctrine, its eternal principles must be laid down. May this book, therefore, be the building stone which I contribute to the joint work.
To-day, the Party stands erect throughout the Empire, stronger and more firmly established than ever before.