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the Aryan German is superior to other races and has the
right to conquer and rule them; thirdly, that all doctrines which preach
peaceable solutions of international problems represent a disastrous
weakness in the nation that adopts them.
Implicit in the whole of the argument is a fundamental and arrogant
denial of the possibility of any rule of law in international affairs.
It is in the light of the general doctrines of Mein Kampf that
I invite the Tribunal to consider the more definite passages in which
Hitler deals with specific problems of German foreign policy.
The very first page of the book contains a remarkable forecast of Nazi
policy. It reads — Page 1, Column 1:
"German Austria must be restored to
the great German motherland; and not, indeed, on any grounds of
economic calculation whatsoever. No, no. Even it the union were a
matter at economic indifference, and even if it were to be
disadvantageous from the economic standpoint, still it ought to take
place. People of the same blood should be in the same Reich. The
German people will have no right to engage in a colonial policy until
they shall have brought all their children together in one state. When
the territory of the Reich embraces all the Germans and finds itself
unable to assure them a livelihood, only then can the moral right
arise from the need of the people, to acquire foreign territory. The
plough is then the sword; and the tears of war will produce the daily
bread for the generations to come."
Hitler in this book also roundly declares that the mere restoration of
Germany's frontiers as they were in 1914 would be wholly insufficient
for his purposes. At Page 553 he writes:
"In regard to this point I should
like to make the following statement: To demand that the 1914
frontiers should be restored is a glaring political absurdity that is
fraught with such consequences as to make the claim itself appear
criminal. The confines of the Reich as they existed in 1914 were
thoroughly illogical because they were not really complete, in the
sense of including all the members of the German nation. Nor were they
reasonable, in view of the geographical exigencies of military
defense. They were not the consequences of a political plan which had
been well considered and carried out, but they were temporary
frontiers established in virtue of a political struggle that had not
been brought to a finish; and indeed, they were partly the chance
result of circumstances,"
In
further elaboration of Nazi policy, Hitler does not merely denounce the
Treaty of Versailles; he desires to see a Germany which