Point 3. We demand land and
territory for the sustenance of our people, and the colonization of
our surplus population.
Point 4. Only a member of the race can be a citizen. A
member of the race can only be one who is of German blood, without
consideration of creed. Consequently no Jew can be a member of the
race . . . .
Point 22. We demand abolition of the mercenary troops and
formation of a national army."
Of these aims, the one which seems to have been
regarded as the most important, and which figured in almost every
public speech, was the removal of the "disgrace" of the
Armistice, and the restrictions of the peace treaties of Versailles
and Saint Germain. In a typical speech at Munich on 13 April 1923,
for example, Hitler said with regard to the Treaty of Versailles:
"The Treaty was made in order to
bring 20 million Germans to their deaths, and to ruin the German
Nation . . . . At its foundation our movement formulated three
demands:
1. Setting aside of the Peace Treaty.
2. Unification of all Germans.
3. Land and soil to feed our Nation."
The demand for the unification of all Germans in the
Greater Germany was to play a large part in the events preceding the
seizure of Austria and Czechoslovakia; the abrogation of the Treaty
of Versailles was to become a decisive motive in attempting to
justify the policy of the German Government; the demand for land was
to be the justification for the acquisition of "living
space" at the expense of other nations; the expulsion of the
Jews from membership of the race of German blood was to lead to the
atrocities against the Jewish people; and the demand for a national
army was to result in measures of rearmament on the largest possible
scale, and ultimately to war.
On 29 July 1921, the Party which had changed its name to National
Sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter Partei (NSDAP) was reorganized,
Hitler becoming the first "Chairman". It was in this year
that the Sturmabteilung or SA was founded, with Hitler at its head,
as a private pare-military force, which allegedly was to be used for
the purpose of protecting NSDAP leaders from attack by rival
political parties, and preserving order at NSDAP meetings, but in
reality was used for fighting political opponents on the streets. In
March 1923 the Defendant Göring was appointed head of the SA.
The procedure within the Party was governed in the most absolute
way by the "Leadership Principle" (Führerprinzip).