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"Lord! Bless

Our Battle!"

-HITLER

ERHAPS the pacifist-humane

"PER

idea is quite a good one in cases where the man at the top has first thoroughly conquered and sub- dued the world to the extent of making himself the sole master of

'MEIN KAMPF'

it. Thus, first the Struggle, and their honour were merchants and then the Pacifism.”

officials. Why could I not have been These words constitute the sole born a hundred years, earlier, some- concession to peaceful doctrine and where about the time of the War

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Germans advancing -on the Western Front during the Great War. One soldier is throwing a hand-grenade into enemy trenches beyond the barbed wire entanglement. flis comrades have tallen to machine-gun bullets

the

for

do

the

Ecstatically Hitler went to war to bring the job to an end quickly, belief that Hitler permits himself of Liberation (against Napoleon) himself "I prayed to Heaven that and the most drastic devices in 800 pages of the original Mein when a man was still worth some- Destiny be given a free course. that most effectively. The cruellest then the first thunderbolt weapons are, in fact, the most Kampf.

thing, quite apart from 'business'?" And He hastens to point out that

they curtail Though it seemed that the future shook the world. The storm broke humane, unless the world dictator has first was going to belong to "peaceful loose, and with the thunder in the slaughter in, the long run.” completely beaten down all resist competition," that is, quiet mutual sky mingled the droning of

And the-objectives of war? The tance to his will, then chaos has swindling which stops just short of guns of the world war."

German triumphed and not any ethical idea. violence, though the whole universe

present security of the Ecstatically Hitler stayed at war. Race, the future return of all their "Some will laugh at this theory, but was on the way to becoming a single "I was lucky enough to have taken

former landą, "The recovery of the world once spun through space vast warehouse under Jewish bosses for millions of years devoid of Man. Hitler affirms (not in the English part in the first and the last offen- lost provinces is not achieved by It will do so again "if men forget or version) "I was never a pacifist, fail to understand and ruthlessly and all educational efforts in apply the age-old laws of Nature." direction were a failure.”

Germany, before the war, fell into

this

most lamentable error.. De The Schoolboy sperately her lusty expanding

strength needed room to stretch in, Makes Germany Bigger

In- a

for their talk of women.

not even grouse,

arms.

sives."

solemn invocations of the Beloved this He was not much liked by his Lord, nor through pious hopes in a through comrades. To begin with he never League of Nations, but joined them in drinking bouts in armed violence alone.” billets and had no time whatever

More. "The Nordic Race has a He did Indeed he would right to rule the world!" needed land. But her rulers shied The reader may believe him. As sometimes treat them to a patriotic And now the final invocation of at war, which was inevitable.

schoolboy the future Fuehrer outburst, which is more popular on stead, they sought peace "at any spent moody hours pouring over the home front than in the tren-

They invented and pur- maps. price."

When his fellows chipped ches. Nor, when the other men "Once more we want weapons! sued the absurd polic, of peaceful him he answered loftily, "I am received parcels from home was Yea-and even such a Treaty as economic conquest of the world. Of wiping out the boundaries of Ger- there ever one for Hitler; hardly Versailles can serve this end! course, they did not succeed in many, MAKING THEM BIGGER!" even a letter in the four years. He the infinity of its oppression, in the dodging destiny. Dreaming of He devoured popular accounts of stood morosely and perhaps pathe shamelessness of its demands, lies world peace, they landed the Ger- the Franco-Prussian war, and was tically apart when the post from the greatest propaganda weapon for .man people in world war, and at the fascinated with the cheap coloured home arrived. He had no wife, no re-awakening the slumbering life- most inconvenient hour for them. prints of victorious Germans chas- mother, no sweetheart. When it will of the nation! Then every- Such was the leadership of the ing Frenchmen. He wondered was all over in. 1918 he went back thing, from the child's primer to

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to his barracks.

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In

professors, the sorry intellectuals why ALL Germans had not fought

the latest newspaper, 'every theatre, who presumed to rule Germany in against the French.

every cinema, every bulletin board Let the soldier speak: 1914, men who learned history- The Boer War was like a flash of

and every empty fence space will and taught it without knowing in light to him (he was 10 years of

"Thus the fighting went on from be placed in the service of this one the least what it was all about. age). He hung around for the year to year; horror had taken the great single mission, until the fear- newspapers every day, and was place of the romance of battle. En- prayers of our present pseudo- Well, Hitler knew anyway (so he happy to be even a far-off witness thusiasm cooled off and the glorious patriots' 'Lord make us free!' will says) that things were not what of this heroic war." As for

the exuberance,

was drowned in the be changed even in the brain of the they seemed.

Russo-Japanese war four years agony of death. A time came when smallest boy to the glowing appeal, "In my

excitable youth," he later, Hitler claims that it found each man had to struggle between 'Almighty God, bless our weapons writes "nothing had worried me so him already pro-Jap, because he saw the urge of self-preservation and for the future. Be just as You much as having been born in a time in the defeat of the Russians

Judge now & the call of duty. By the winter of have ever been just. when it was evident that the only setback for the Austrian pro-Slav 1915 this struggle was over with whether we are worthy of freedom. people who had temples erected in movement.

me. In the early days I had LORD! BLESS OUR. BATTLE!' "' joined in the attack with cheers

To-morrow Hitler sums up ENG- and laughter; now I was. calm and determined. The young volunteer LAND. Next week begnis the story had grown into an old soldier. The of his actual. "Struggle,” his quar- change went on throughout the rel with his father, his view about army. The perpetual fighting himself, his ill-starred armed rising, aged and hardened it and broke imprisonment, march to power and any who could not stand up against the massacre of his old friends. the storm."

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Elsewhere in Mein Kampf he the pays a tremendous tribute to German army, which, even in the shameful Revolution held on to its: tradition of self-sacrifice, respon- "In sibility and stern devotion. the sink of general flabbiness and effeminacy there shot up in the ranks of the army thousands... of young men in the pride of their. strength who in two years forgot. the softness of youth and acquired bodies strong as steel. It was not for no reason that the inveterate. hatred of the Jews was concentrated on the army. Their greed and envy required that the State should be powerless." Cruellest Weapons Most |Humane In The End

As for the method of waging war, he thoroughly approved of Prussian | "thoroughness." Hitler accepts Von Moltke's dictum, "the essential is

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