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Blood and Soil We Wish for No Other God Than Germany-Hitler

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comes of pensant stock.

His father's name was a varia- His of Huttler, a cottar.

mother, it is said, was Czech by

descent.

"MEIN KAMPF"

Hitler will show you his hands, ture. The reasons are manifold white, shapely, soft, "These were but they are of a piece. not meant to dig," he says. Nor do

they dig. Hitler is bone-lazy. It (i) The cutting-off of

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 28, 1938

Peasants Lai trudi. ttonal costume arriving at the Munich Beer

Festival.

craze of "peaceful penetration by The soil must ever have an im- The German trade," they gave a fresh spurt to mense influence on mankind.

inferior quality of a soil may urge is his brain that leaps and whirls, colonies and world trade compelled the harmful over-industrialisation of

one race on to the highest achieve- generating astonishing, energy. Not her to pay more heavily for import Germany. The factory workers ments: it may result in discourag- for Hitler the joyful sweating at ed food. It drove the nation more the harvest of that other dictator, deeply into the debt of "the interna were multiplied, the farm labourers ing another so that they sink back, born, undernourished and poor in spirit. and other son of the soil, Mussolini. tional moneylenders who provide reduced, the proletariat was

But this very thing only proves that credits." A home agriculture was seed bed for Marxist lies.

important as the soil is, the heart of the only escape.

The misery of the proletariat in the men who till it is the vital thing. deed was real enough, says Hitler, It is all part of Man's struggle. “He who lived it himself. And the con- who wants to live must fight. And trasts in that world of capitalism- he who will not fight does not deserve The world is not for chic- run-wild were hardly less painful, to live.

Abundance ken-hearted races." Hitler raved about it.

But Hitler's Mein Kampf has not overlooked the Land, nor has that still earlier dispensation, the Twen-

(ii) Without "a larder of growing ty-Five Unalterable Nazi Points. food" the German nation would be The peasant returns to his earth. once more laid open to the terrible

·

of

weapon of starvation by blockade.

Point Three demands land and territory "for the nourishment our people and the settling of our (iii) The strongest counterpart and utter want dwelt side by side. superfluous population." Point that could be raised against the The beggars glared with increasing Race Is Kneaded Eight demands the end of all non- money-power of the Jew exploiters hatred through the windows of the German immigration. Point Seven- and middlemen at home would be a rich man's coach. The very worst By Contact teen declares for land reform, the well-founded and stable agriculture. thing happened. end of all speculation in land. the

ex-

their

abolition of interest on land loans, (iv) The land provides the outlet and the confiscation of land without for the millions of unemployed Ger- compensation "for communal pur- mans, "the most truly possessionless class." The land would give them poses."

The lower peasants, who voted a stake in the country, and would steadily for Hitler, thought that the give the country a stake in them. last item meant an agrarian re- Rome's frontiers were held by

Against the rush volution something like the Russians soldier colonists." had put over. They believed that it of the barbarians they interposed was the death signal for the great their bodies and those of Junker estates.

Hitler had to explain (to the upper that peasants and the landowners) it meant only confiscation of land "illegally acquired" by Jews, for example.

In practice the only land that has been seized since Hitler rose to power is that along the Rhine borderland, which is required for Beggars Glared the fortifications of the Siegfried

At The Rich Line.

Grow Food And Defeat Blockade

families.

(v), The country population as a whole is the "bearer of the inheri- tance of health, the source of the nation's youth, and the backbone of its armed stregth."

The question of land gives Hitler a chance to draw the whip across the back of Germany's pre-war rulers The Hitler land policy, however, once more. When they renounced does aim at a re-birth of agricul- the idea of conquering land for the

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inflamed the poor.

access

Lack of money

Superfluity of With Its Soil

of the sword abdicated.

The vile

it corrupted the rich. cancer infected even the Imperial circle, and the plutocrats gained The purely practical policy of put- to the Kaiser's ear. The ting men back on the land began to

which aer never far from the Ger- money bags ruled, and the nobility be invested with the mystic ideas man mind. The blood-and-soil mix- ture had to be consecrated.

Hitler began to speak of the New to the Nobility of the Soil. Land settle- Mein ment, declared Walter Darre, leader cries. of the Nazi Land Crusade, has noth- bawled through the ing in common with the Communist Munich beer halls, along the Ham- idea of creating a peasant pro-

the letariat. burg streets, they echoed in Black Forest, over the Harz Moun- tains, across the long Prussian plain.

* * *

Back to the land! Back land! Save the peasantry! Kampf sounded the battle They

were

local

A strange, picturesque, powerful figure is Darre, born in the Argen- tine. Hitler owes the blood-and- "History shows that it was the soil idea to him as he owes the idea Germanisation of the LAND, which of industrial (German) capital and our forefathers won with the sword, finance (Jewish) capital to Feder. which brought true profit, for it was Darre preached to Hitler that a race colonised with German farmers and is kneaded by its contact with the German families. Whenever foreign soil it dwells on, that the blood is blood has been introduced into the actually tempered by the body of our nation its unhappy ef- earth. That fitted exactly in with fect has been to break up our na- the Hitler conception of the pure Germanic tribes who first occupied tional character.”

"the virgin land of the great Ger- Now he is fairly launched, and on man forests. It drove down of the core of the German Folk Race! very the familiar central theme! Blood-and soil, Culture, Civilisa- legend. tion, these are not rooted in language

determined to re-create -a German-speaking Negro is still a Negro, and a German-speaking Jew this virile German Tribe. It was to can only be a Jew-it is inherent in be a race within the Race, the inner- blood. Races which possess crea. most heart of Germany. They were tive talent have these qualities latent to hold land, not on a money basis, within them, however unfavourable but on the footing of service, the circumstances may be to their full proper cultivation of the soil. A law of inheritance was to prevent the development at one moment.

subdivision of the family estate

German Would

Flower, Not Rot,

In The Sun

Hitler

and to make mortgage impossible,

· The settlers were to be selected on the grounds of physique—and blood purity.

More than a policy, a philosophy, was required to establish this con- Thus it is outrageous to represent ception. The minor prophets, Darre the pre-Christian Germanic tribes (the soil expert) and Rosenberg as barbarians. The harsh climate (the race-expert) were turned on to of their northern home forced them the job. Peasant pageants, feasts to live as they did. But if there and rallies were arranged.

had been no classic antique world' Blood-and-Soil came up to the

and the Germans had migrated to

the warm south and obtained there philosophy mark and passed it. It the technical aids then available entered the sphere of religion. Hit- that is, inferior, slave races (who ler burst forth, "The only God that were, in fact, exploited by the Med!- the German people need is Ger- terranean States), then the world many. would have witnessed a flowering of culture as splendid as that which actually happened in ancient Greece.

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TO-MORROW

Hitler on The Soule of Men.