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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 16, 1988

"MEIN

A STRONG BODY FIRST KAMPE

The Might of the Nation is Youth

The "China Mail" examina- tion of the doctrines laid down in the Nazi Bible here reaches its fifth instalment.

"The Movement does not con- sider it its duty to uphold or restore any particular form of State in op- position to any other one, but rather to create those fundamental prin- ciples without which neither Re public nor Monarchy can exist per- manently. The mission of our Movement is not to found a Mon- archy or establish a Republic, but TO CREATE A GERMANIC STATE:“

Thus Adolf Hit'er in Mein Kampf, 1924. Within nire years he stood at the head of Germany. It was a republic then. Nobody would recognise to by that name now. But on monarchy has been set up instead. The Third Reich can only be called, vaguely but properly, a Germanic State.

This Germanic commonwealth Hitler vigorously differentiates from the abstract idea of the State as such. Indeed, he has to

The cream of Germany's youth, military and clvll, hear the words of their lender on the Tempelhof Field.

Goering addresses the Labour Corps. symbol of Germany's determination to build herself into a mighty power.

to be stimulated by the story great deeds.

Energy Better Than Education

of

must

Scientific education, too, draw attention to the great men of the nation, not to the monarchs, but to the statesmen, soldiers and spiri- tual leaders who have been the pillars of wisdom for their general and the inspiration of the German people for the future.

Only third in importance comes.

The schooling in pure knowledge. Nazi Reich will hold that a man of im "If an earthquake should destroy supreme task of German Govern- moderate education but sound

filled do so in Mein Kampf, for the the world to-day, if all populated ment is: to bring all Germans with body, firm in character and State at that time was in the araes were to be flooded and all in the frontiers of the Reich and with bounding self-confidence and hands of his enemies, the Social- trace of present civilisation swept from the finest. specimens among will-power is better citizen than Democrats. Not even a genius- away, all States dissolved into them create for Germany a do- the highly educated weakling. agitator like Hitler could preach nothing-out of this chaos could be minant position among the nations. As for women. "The main stress revolution and State loyalty at reborn a new culture, if only there "Catch 'em young" is, therefore, there should go on bodily training. the same time.

survived a handful of men of the the obvious policy. The children After that on the building up of Last of all in intellect. the bedrock of to-morrow's character. Aryan race."

female Reich. So a revolution in teaching The one absolute aim of Far swifter than before the Aryan

methods is imperative.

education must be with a view to man would build up a civilised life on earth. A thousand years, says

Vitally, and above all, comes the the future mother." Hitler, would see a new State, a new

healthy body. History, geography, God knows, cries Hitler, the Ger- So Mein Kampf says: "The State Culture.

languages can wait for second mans have never been lacking in is not an end but a means.

Germany's trouble It is

Thus he returns once more to his thoughts. The first condition must "knowledge.” the frame for the development of a theory of race. The highest aim

be physical fitness. Sport, gymnas- has been not that the brains govern- higher human culture, never the of the Government must be

tics, camps, military discipline, are ing her were too little educated but The heads of the rulers origin of that culture., The immedi- preservation of the pure

the grounding of every good citizen. too fully.

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If The Flood

·Came Again.

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the racial

are

bereft

ate reason, cause and fount of such elements of the nation. The supreme And, of course, it must go on after were stuffed with information and

a culture lies exclusively in the exis- test of good government is: does it tence of a race."

preserve and develop the Race? The

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There empty of instinct, utterly his schooldays are over. should be no gap between the energy and audacity. education of the child and the young man's service as a soldier. Hence the Hitler Labour Battalions.

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* * * Why? Because the so-called in- tellectual class shut itself away from the rest of the workaday world. They had no living ties with the classes below them. Two results Crown of all preparation for citi- followed: First, this contemptible zenship of Greater Germany is army "Upper Ten Thousand" did not, be- training. "In that school the boy cause they could not understand shall be transformed into the man; the masses. Second, they lacked he shall not merely learn to obey, the will power which is always but shall be trained with a view to stronger in the primitive strata of giving orders one day.

He shall society. learn to be silent, not only when he

A Man of the People would never is justly blamed, but to bear in- have led the nation into the mess of justice in silence, if necessary.” 1918. No, that required a philosop- After health, then, comes Will, hic weakling like Chancellor Beth- The formation of character stands mann - Hollweg. And remember! far above the mere pumping-im of The scoundrels who betrayed fight- "knowledge." That policy is posi- ing Germany in 1918 were the high- tively harmful. The child's brain brows of the Left.

should not be filled with such stuff. So education must now take on In any case 95 per cent. of it is this new turn; instead of confining useless and is promptly forgotten. the deciding influence in the State The Race creed must be inoculated to a narrow class, it must aim at in the child if it is to become the drawing the finest brains out of the driving force of the adult. Self total mass of the nation, harnessing confidence will develop in this way, them to the service of the nation.

.the. helping the youth to recover

The Roman Catholic Church sets lost faith of German people in the here a wonderful example. The invincible power of the German celibacy of the priests compals. it Nation. **

to recruit the, succeeding. generation History taught by dates of battles of the priesthood not from its own and accession and decease of puppet ranks but from the people. This is kings is nonsense. Real history is the truc foundation for the astonish- the rise and fall of races and why. ing vigour of the Church. National pride, of course, requires

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