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march towards the south and west of Europe
and turn our eyes towards the lands of the East. We finally put a stop
to the colonial and trade policy of pre-war times and pass over to the
territorial policy of the future.
"But when we speak of new territory in Europe today we must
principally think of Russia and the border states subject to her."
Now Hitler was shrewd enough to see that his aggressive designs in the
East might be endangered by a defensive alliance between Russia, France,
and England. His foreign policy, as outlined in Mein Kampf,
therefore was to detach England and Italy from France and Russia and to
change the attitude of Germany towards France from the defensive to the
offensive.
The final quotation from Mein Kampf comes from Page 570:
"As long as the eternal conflict
between France and Germany is waged only in the form of a German
defense against the French attack, that conflict can never be decided,
and from century to century Germany will lose one position after
another. If we study the changes that have taken place, from the 12th
century up to our day, in the frontiers within which the German
language is spoken, we can hardly hope for a successful issue to
result from the acceptance and development of a line of conduct which
has hitherto been so detrimental for us.
"Only when the Germans have taken all this fully into account
will they cease allowing the national will-to-live to wear itself out
in merely passive defense and will rally together for a last decisive
contest with France. And in this contest the essential objective of
the German nation will be fought for. Only then will it be possible to
put an end to the eternal Franco-German conflict which has hitherto
proved so sterile.
"Of course it is here presumed that Germany sees in the
suppression of France nothing more than a means which will make it
possible for our people finally to expand in another quarter. Today
there are 80 million Germans in Europe. And our foreign policy will be
recognized as rightly conducted only when, after barely a hundred
years, there will be 250 million Germans living on this continent, not
packed together as the coolies in the factories of another continent,
but as tillers of the soil and workers whose labor will be a mutual
assurance for their existence."
I submit, therefore, that, quite apart from the evidence already
submitted to the Tribunal, the evidence of Mein Kampf, taken in
conjunction with the facts of Nazi Germany's subsequent behavior towards
other countries, goes to show that from the very first moment that they
attained power, and indeed long before that time,