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is a world power with territory sufficient for a future
German people, of a magnitude which he does not define.
In the next quotation, from Page 554, the first sentence reads:
"For the future of the German nation
the 1914 frontiers are of no significance."
And in the third paragraph the Court sees:
"We National Socialists must stick
firmly to the aim that we have set for our foreign policy, namely,
that the German people must be assured the territorial area which is
necessary for it to exist on this earth. And only for such action as
is undertaken to secure those ends can it be lawful in the eyes of God
and our German posterity to allow the blood of our people to be shed
once again; before God, because we are sent into this world with the
commission to struggle for our daily bread, as creatures to whom
nothing is donated and who must be able to win and hold their position
as lords of the earth only through their own intelligence and courage.
"And this justification must be established also before our
German posterity, on the grounds that for each one who has shed his
blood the life of a thousand others will be guaranteed to posterity.
The territory on which one day our German peasants will be able to
bring forth and nourish their sturdy sons will justify the blood of
the sons of the peasants that has to be shed today. And the statesmen
who have decreed this sacrifice may be persecuted by their
contemporaries, but posterity will absolve them from all guilt for
having demanded this offering from their people."
Then, the next quotation; Hitler writes at Page 557:
"Germany will either become a world
power or will not continue to exist at all. But, in order to become a
world power, it needs that territorial magnitude which gives it the
necessary importance today and assures the existence of its citizens."
And, finally, he writes:
" ... we must take our stand on the
principles already mentioned in regard to foreign policy, namely, the
necessity of bringing our territorial area into just proportion with
the number of our population. From the past we can learn only one
lesson, and this is that the aim which is to be pursued in our
political conduct must be twofold, namely: (1) The acquisition of
territory as the objective of our foreign policy, and (2) the
establishment of a new and uniform foundation as the objective of our
political activities at home, in accordance with our doctrine of
nationhood."