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do not consider this as a joyous mission but unfortunately as a
severe difficulty and burden upon our national life, resulting from our
disadvantageous position in Europe. But we cannot avoid this destiny. Our
political position results from the following:
Presently there are only
two nations in Europe which can be regarded as being firm against bolshevism
— Germany and Italy. The other nations are either disintegrated by their
democratic way of living, infected by marxism and, therefore, designed to
collapse within the discernible future, or ruled by authoritarian governments,
the only strength of which are the military means of power, which means that
due to the necessity of protecting the existence of their leadership against
their own people by the forcible measures of the executive power, they are
unable to utilize these forcible measures outwards for the protection of the
nation. All these nations would be unable at any time to wage a war against
Russia with any prospect of success.
Generally, besides Germany and
Italy, only Japan can be considered as a power resisting the world peril.
It is not the aim of this memorandum to prophesy the moment at which
the untenable situation in Europe will reach the stage of open war.
I
only want to express in these lines my conviction that this crisis cannot and
will not fail to come, and that Germany has the duty of securing her existence
against this catastrophe, at all cost and to protect herself from it and that
this obligation gives rise to a series of consequences concerning the most
important tasks ever imposed upon our nation. |
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| The extent and the pace of the military utilization [Auswertung]
of our strength cannot be too large or too rapid. |
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| Germany's Economic Situation |
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| Just as the political movement in our nation has only one
goal, the preservation of our existence, that is, the securing of all spiritual
and other prerequisites for the self-maintenance of our nation, so the economy
has also only this identical goal. The nation does not live for the economy or
for the leaders of the economy, for the economic or financial theories; but
finance and economy, the leaders of the economy, and all theories have to serve
exclusively this struggle for the maintenance of our nation. But Germany's
economic situation — briefly summarized — is the following:
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