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We might have called ourselves the Liberty Party

We chose to call ourselves National Socialists

We are not Internationalists

Our Socialism is national

We demand the fulfillment of the just demands of the productive classes by the state on the basis of race solidarity

To us state and race are one

Asked to elucidate his program further, he said: We believe in the ancient adage of "a healthy mind in a healthy body

" The body politic must be sound if the soul is to be healthy

This is no less true of the individual

Moral and physical health are synonymous

The slums are responsible for nine-tenths, alcohol for one-tenth of all human depravity

No healthy man is a Marxist, for being healthy, he recognizes the value of personality

We contend against the forces of disease and degeneration

Bavaria is comparatively healthy,, because it is not completely industrialized

All Germany, including Bavaria, is condemned to intensive industrialism by the smallness of our territory

If we wish to save Germany, we must see to it that our farmers remain faithful to the land

To do so, they must have room to breathe and room to work

We must regain our colonies and we must expand eastward

There was a time when we could have shared the world with England

Now, we can stretch our cramped limbs only towards the East

The Baltic is necessarily a German lake

However we cannot expand commercially or territorially, we cannot regain what we have lost, until we find ourselves

We are in the position of a man whose house has burned down

He must have a roof over his head before he can indulge in more ambitious plans

We have succeeded in creating at least an emergency shelter to keep out the rain

We were not prepared for hailstorms

However, misfortunes hailed down upon us

Germany has been living in a veritable blizzard of national, moral, and economic catastrophes

Two years of democracy have lost us Silesia, the Rhine and the Ruhr

Our demoralized party system is a symptom of our disease

What can the present government do? Nothing

It has no permanent support anywhere

Parliamentary majorities fluctuate with the mood of the moment

Parliamentary government is the spawn of hell

It opens the gate to Bolshevism

Bolshevism, Hitler emphatically continued, is our greatest menace

Kill Bolshevism in Germany and you restore seventy million people to power

France owes her [present] strength not to her armies, but to the forces of Bolshevism in our midst

The Treaty of Versailles and the Treaty of St

Germain are kept alive by Bolshevism in Germany

The Peace Treaty and Bolshevism are two heads of one monster

We must decapitate both

Our German workers, Hitler said, have two souls

One is German, the other is Marxian

We must arouse the German soul

We must root out the taint of Marxism

Marxism and Germanism, like German and Jew, are antipodes

Here Hitler outlined his case against the Jews

The Jew, Hitler asserts, is destructive by nature

Unable to lead a national existence of his own, his presence in the modern state provides the ferment of decomposition

[Asked, "What would you do with the Jew?", Hitler said], We would disfranchise him

[Even if he is born in Germany, because] birth in itself is no sufficient qualification for citizenship

Citizenship depends upon a clear recognition of the duties implied in its rights

The Jews are not German

They are an alien people in our midst, and manifest themselves as such

The fact that a man is decent is no reason why we should not eliminate him

Our hand grenades [in the war] made no discrimination between decent Englishmen and others

Decent Jews will realize that it is necessary for us to protect the integrity of our race

I look upon the Jews, Hitler continued, as you look upon the Japanese

Both are an alien race

Both are an ancient people

Both have an ancient culture

Nevertheless, you [in the USA] do not admit the Japanese to citizenship

Yet, the Japanese, unlike the Jews, are not a destructive force

They have ruined no state

They are not carriers of Bolshevism

They constitute no problem

Mixed breeds lack vitality

We would forbid mixed marriages hereafter

We would treat the off-spring of mixed marriages according to their desert

If they were patriots, we would accept them, although we would not encourage intermarriage with them

The issue that confronts us is one between Jew and Aryan

The mixed breed dies; it is a valueless product

Rome fell, when it ceased to keep its race pure

In literature, in the movies, in science, the influence of the Jew is destructive

We are like a consumptive, who does not realize that he is doomed unless he expels the microbes from his lungs

Nations, like individuals, are apt to dance most wildly when they are nearest the abyss

Hence, I say, we need violent correctives, strong medicine, maybe amputation

Now, more than ever, we must differentiate between elements that make for weakness and elements that make for strength

Incidentally, no deed of violence against Jews is on record in Bavaria

Not even the windows of a single Jew were smashed by my followers

No one, not even the Jews, can deny our honesty of purpose

We wish to purge ourselves from the Jews not because they are Jews, but because they are a disturbing influence

We wish to reserve citizenship and a voice in the council of our nation only to those who are of pure German blood

Our slogan is "Germany for the Germans