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of the nation in the anticipated clash with an envious surrounding
world. As always, when taking precautionary defensive measures on a newly won
field, it was not possible here, either, to plan in a way that would be
satisfactory. It was necessary to check what was on hand, and build with that
the most essential and the momentarily most useful. It could not be prevented
that the result, measured with the yardstick of what had been planned for the
future, would appear modest and perhaps even inadequate.
It has not
always been simple for those charged with practical social work to
satisfactorily master the juxtaposition of old, scantily mended institutions,
and new ones. But certainly it was even more difficult for the biggest part of
the people to see how the effort supported by it was, year after year, applied
to tasks which initially necessitated renunciation after renunciation. After
all it seemed like a small matter to apply the energies released by the
National Socialist revolution to the improvement of social conditions desired
for so long. Instead, the leadership chosen by the people and time and again
confirmed by them channeled all strength into armaments [Wehrhaftigkeit] and
won the consent especially of those people who had had to suffer more from the
social conditions prevailing up to then. |
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