even now that the War is over, it spares no pains to turn the peace into a Hell.
For myself and all other true National-Socialists there is only one doctrine : Nation and Fatherland.
What we have to fight for is security for the existence and increase of our race and our nation, nourishment of its children and purity of its blood, freedom and independence for the Fatherland, and that our nation may be able to ripen for the fulfilment of the mission appointed for them by the Creator of the Universe.
I was beginning to learn afresh, and only now came to a right comprehension of the teachings and intentions of the Jew, Karl Marx. Only now did I properly understand his Capital, and equally also the struggle of Social Democracy against the economics of the nation, and that its aim is to prepare the ground for the domina¬ tion of the truly international capital of the financiers and the Stock Exchange.
In another way also this course produced great results. One day I announced my intention to speak. One of those taking part thought he would break a lance for the Jews and started to defend them in a long argument. This roused me to opposition. An overwhelming majority of those present took my side. The result was, however, that a few days later I was ordered to join a Munich regiment, nominally as instructor !
At that time discipline was rather slack amongst the troops. They were suffering from the aftermath of the period of Soldiers’ Councils. It was only by degrees and cautiously that the transition from obedience “by consent”—the pretty way they described the pigsty under Kurt Eisner—over to military discipline and subordination could be effected. In the same way the troops had to learn to feel and think of themselves as members of the nation and the Fatherland. My new activities lay in this direction. I started them full of love and keenness.