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The NAZI MILITARY BIBLE
THE
Professor Banse
world war marked the end of an epoch and a turning point in the history of civilisation.
It has destroyed old values and assisted at the
birth of new ones.
The front of the world's stage is now occupied not by a ruling caste but by the people; the conception of monarchy is yielding overy- where to the idea of a com- monwealth, and subjects to become follow citizens.
This change may work itself out in two directions and is in fact doing so. On the ong side wo have the destruction of all values and the rise of the under- world ending, as in Russin, In chaos.
On the other there is a steady crystallisation of positive values; the outer shell breaks and from the inner kernel of the people there emerges a national popular renaissanco, spiritual rebirth of. thought and feeling, a realisation by the people of their true needs.
This is the read along which the German people, after inevitable convulsions--la -now-proceeding.. It stands on the threshold of a na- tional renaissance. Rejecting the of internationalism and poison pacifist It dores once again tu itself German on Ger- procialm
inan territory.
The Germon Renaissance has
two principal missions:-
1.--To summon up the soul of Germany from the depths to per- form its national, cultural and political task, so that on German soil all thought, all action and all be German; and speech shall
2-To comble German territory throughout its whole extent into a unified and therefore powerful will be far state, whose boundaries wider than those of 1014.
These are the two goals for which every German must strive And what one man, or one people, de- sires with the whole strength of his soul, that he will attain. There is no power on earth stronger than the human will.
The work of renewal must be pursued in every sphere in which The human brain and the human hands are active. Indeed, a new feld of activity lies open, one that will bridge the gulf between brain and hand, the sword and the pen.
No More
Ignorance
THIS is the science of na- tional defence, that selence" which puts thought and action at the service of the country's defence.
science must not con- This new ane itself to applying chemieni knowledge to the improvement of engines of war, but bulld up a body of knowledge derived from the earth and from the alr, fiem in- dustry and transport, and from the study of national and individual psychology
will agree that Every reader Germany must not luse noother war through ignorance of these matters.
Now that wars are waged by the whole peoples—this happened for the first time in 1914-18— they will no longer be fought with
bayonets alone bai with and meat, ults and fats, corn Iron and nickel, wool and cot-
dia- ton, rallways and lorries, tances and atmospheric pressure, character and souls and most of all with souls, for alongside the their separate armies march
and their people, of country whom they are merely the wea- Dotty.
The time is past when two states thought their work done ng KOON DE
they had completed mobilisation and sent their armies into the field.
The peoples now' fight brrast to breath, and the victory is won not by the better
army but by the stronger character and the stouter heart. The world war has taught us this.
Preparations
For War
Accordingly,
preparation
for future wars must not stop -at-the creation, equipment and training of un efficient army, but must go on to train the minds of the whole people for the war and must employ all resources of science, to master the conditions governing the war itself and, the possibility of endurance,
In 1014, we had a first class army, but our scientific mobilisation was bad, and the mobilisation of men's minds à, thing undreamed DI...
The unvelling of war memorials, parades of war veterans, flag wag- close fery speeches and guard
enough to prepare a nation's mind for the dangers that threaten. Con- viction is always mare. énthusiasm.
In Than
lasting
If the minds-and-feelings of the nation have been prepared in this
THE
article below
concludos the series of ex-" tracts from the remarka- blo publication by Ewald Banse, the German profes- sor upon whose plan Hit- ler's invasion of Holland and Belgium was based.
ניו ידי.!
In the final article, Banse discusses psycho- logy and how it must be applied to strengthen Ger- many's arms. He names the lands which must be incorporated in the Reich if Germany wins the war.
way, it will hest understand the need for a special sclence of na- tional defence,
Such teaching is necessary at a tine-nud-in-a-world in which coun-
Conclusion
tries are no longer represented by Hitler with his unscrupulous lieutenant, Ribbentrop-
monarchs or a small aristocracy or by a specialist army, but in which the whole nation, from the com- mander-in-chief to the man in the runks, from the loftie thought to the simplest wish, from corn to coal, from the Treasury vaults to the last trouser button, must be permeated through and through with the idea of national defence, if it is to preserve its national iden tily and political independence.
The selence of national defence
is not the same as military science in the narrower sense; it does not teach generals how to win battles
company commanders how
or
to
· train recruits. It's Icons are ad-
Brst dressed
and foremost to the whole people.
It seeks to train the popular mind to herolsm and war and to implant
in an understanding of the na- ture und pre-requisite conditions of modern warfare.
It teaches us about countries and
economic
con-
the man who said that Britain would never fight."
Like other sciences, the science of national defence is divided into a generni part which defines ita subject matter and
establishes
general principles, and a special part which, on the basis of the former, treats of the various nations and
countries of the world from the angle of national defence, General Science
Of National Defence
THIS science selects and brings together from all de- partments of nature and from human thought and actiun everything that seems cal- culated to increase defensive strongth and promote sound
peoples, especially our own counthinking on the subject. iry and its neighbours, their ter- capacity, ritories andi their communications and their mehtality-all-for-the-purpose of
beat creating the
possible ditions for waging future wars in defence of the national existence.
The science of national defence Is the systematic application of every branch of human thought and human endeavour to the end of Increasing the defensive strength---- of our people.
In the first place, it ransacks Ilterature for works which facili- tate this task and maps which give
It is the general mental background out of which strategy and tactics flash their lightning sparks.
It collects from every department of thought whatever theories and facta con facilitate and improve the, preparation, waging and thorough exploitation of war. Its content, therefore, is not drawn from any of knowledge. Its particular sphere constructive feature is a
special 'point of view. e. the maximum defensive strength of the nation as and the various branches of such and knowledge are selected, combined, utilised and envisaged from this standpoint.
It requires that attention shall be specially directed to such matters as geography, economies, communi. cations and transport, national psychology,
politica.
and Thus the science of national de fence is the intellectual expression of a nation's military will and the symbol of its heroic
Instincts. It the
comprehensive view of all the countries of the world, and of the distribution of phenomena posses- sing intes
my significance and-col-
Secondly, it is concerned with the surface of the earth as the
histork and theatre--of-all-
of
Inasmuch as it teaches people to know, understand and evaluate from the military
point view the following things-the general geographical positions of and its people; the pre- maritime character of a as such, and thegion; land-forms
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dominandor
connection be- tween their evolution and their geological formation; water supply and ground water; climate and Anuna, settlement and Besides this, the general selence of defence deals with the economic and technical preparations for and conduct of war, That is to say, It takes note of what foodstuffs and raw materials for industry are available at home and which
must Into the be Imported and question of
neir preparation: thus makes possible
economic superior
equipment, which cannot be taken unawares by an tsexpected method of warfare, such as the Eriglish
Its own interest. The Engiial campaign of lies was founded on first rate psychological Insigli,
Finally, it will not neglect the political study of the countries of the world, for the actors on the stage of war are in the first place states. this applies particularly to the diplomalle preparations for war. A country's general position in the
world, from which
the atmos- phere of war proceeds; the whole weight with which it backs up its political leaders, the moral qualities which brace or wenken them both politically all these things need to be studied from the angle of na- tional defence.
Special Science.
Of National Defence
Here we are no longer concerned with these pheno- mena ir general and con- sidered in themselves, but in their connection with a par- ticular territory, in their geographical uniqueness.:
Whereas in the general science the main question is the mullery utility of a phenomenon as such, in the special selence it is the topo- graphical features of a particular region and their connection with other features in it.
What
required therefore, is to get a
a firm grasp of the defensive character of the various regions and countries of the world, and so des- cribe and elucidate it that it can be assessed as an absolutely definite quantity from the military point of view.
We must know exactly what our own defensive structure and the defensive structures of ther countries are like, so that we can accurately forecast our own and our prospectivo 'enemy's, chances in a war. We shall thus bo spared the disagreeable surprises which otherwise lle in wall for
German Franco (Flanders, Alsace
·and -:- Lorraino); German Haly. (especially the southern Tyrol); German Yugo-Blavis - (soulbern Sirria); German Czecho-Slovakia (Bohemala, Bioravia, Silesia): Ger- man Poland (West Prussia, Posen, Upper Bllesta); German Lithuania (the Memel territory); German Denmark.
2-France and her associates, LË. the league for the suppression of Germany which emerged from the world war:
(a) FrATICO and the French colonies.
(b) Belgium and its cofontes, Luxemburg, Yugo-Elavia, Czecho Slovakia, Poland, Kumania.
3. The Anglo-Saxon group of powerm wilch control world trade, and without whose' support or benevolent neutrality a new Euro- pean war on a large scale is an impossibility
(a) Great Britain, Ireland, the -British Empire
•
(b) The United States of America.
italy and is colonies, 3.Russlo
0.The remaining" countries of Europe:
(a) Denmark, Sweden, Nor-
way, Finland.
(b) Liihuania, Latvia, Estonia, (e) Hungary, Bulgaria, Greece, Albania, Turker
(a)
Spain,
colonics
Portugal and its
7.The oversens powerat
(a) Japan, China, Slam.
Persia, Afghanistan.
(b) Perala, ́Afghanistan,
(c) Abyssinia.
(d) México, Brazil, the Argen:
tine, Chile Perth, and the rest of Latin America,
Life Growing
Steadily Harder
Finally, we are faced with the question in what form the conclusions of this new science - can be mado available for the service of the Reich and be- come the common property of the nation.
In
these days of national and economic struggle life is growing steadily harder for the state no less.
for the Individual, and the whole atmosphere of danger which every country to-day and
than
Be our encircled Reich, de-
sclentine sublimation in manda order that one may be able to survive it and put it to good use in war.
Any form of thought or aspira-. tion of activity which is of use to the country demands every possible support from the state and the na- tion itself.
A-distinction must, however, be made between creative and popular work. Creative work in the sclehco. of natioral defence means the ex- tension and deepening Its stocks of knowledge as such, it is of interest primarily to the Reich,
and cs- pecially the army command, as pro- viding a foundation on which both of them may base their policy be- fore, during and after a war,
The creative side of the science... demands quiet and retirement for the worker in it. It is his business to travel about his own and other countries, digest the existing litera- ture of the subject, write books and draw maps in which all the rele- vant material is clearly set forth in a usable form.
The popular side, on the other hand,
courts - the full glare of publicity; it desires its ideas to be- come the common property of all Germans in order that they may be Ins fully equipped as possible, economically and psychologically.as well as militarily, for any future contest.
D
For this purpose, the selence of national defence must become recognised subject of instruction, both in the Reichswehr and in our universities and technical institutes; In the case of the last two it might be laid down that each student shall attend a course of lectures in the science and toke part in appro-
two terms.
This involves the immediate foundation of chaira of National Defence. It should also be made a subject in our étcondary schools in the two upper classes of our primary schools.
The special or, as one might say,, reglona) science of defence drst of all surveys a country from the standpoint and by the methods of the general selence, and takes note of the presence of the singls ele-priate practical work for at least blockade la 2014, and gives end of their general se
ments cursorily mentioned above fect_economio ΣΕΙ
security in vance. This branch of our science is pre-eminently provi- deat
in character. Further, the science of defence studies all questions of commual- cation, not only in so far as they
mobilisation, affect
deployment, the
of conduct
operatiorts (strategy) and the conduct of the battle (tactics)that
18, all re the ways of defending a country (the art of generalship being in the last resort a sort of applied Ecography
consciousness awakened desire to assert oneself against neighbouring peoples, and It is a clear, unmistakable. con- firmation of the old saying that the vanquished of to-day are the victors of to-morrow, Losited at In this light, it is a new method of fighting, supplementing the old method of generats and armies.
we pursue train of
this
If, howet, to the end, we
And that the science of national de- fence grows from a mere branch of knowledge into a general men- tal atmosphere in which all knowledge is directed towards a national goal.
The value of any
special science to a nation is determined _br...
the_wo_that_the_student of national defence can make of it. This is the furnace in which the mind and spirit of Germany are being testnā,
The new science is thereby ralted to the level of a kind of national philosophy, which clairns the first place among all the sciences throughout Germany, at the meeting ground where the en- / tre will, obility and determination of Germany meet together for the purposes of reconstruction, and a new creation.
Just as In any very primitive tribe a man.", la Judged by his usefulness in upholding and de-“ fonding the tribe's'
ho Judged first and Inst, once and for all, by the place he tule “In 'the' schönse" of national:`do- fence...Whoever falle ́· Ân ́‚· £hke capacity forfeits his claim to full ellisenship.
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of communications), but also in relation to the transport of mer- chandise to meet the needs of the fighting forces and the civil popu- lation.
A particularly important and, like the economic, new branch of this science is national psychology. Its business is to penetrate into the character and merital Hfe of nations with the object of discover- ing their whole attitude to war and getting an insight into their heroic or paelle temper, which may make ft possible to form right judgments about one's own and other nations in the hour of crisis.
It concerns itself with the laws which determine the warlike and the pacifle
temperaments, the psychological structure
of the enemy and the neutrals,
the phenomena associated will to victory, the spirit of sur
with the render and collapse respectively.
was, by creating the instrument of propaganda, which, based or the moat,inálomita semuaintance with the tiuzkality of the town', people, its killes,÷shë: anemy"uid"
the neutrala;-plagn-upoRA “SE:CNS.
This analysis accomplished, It proceeds to synthesis and builds up out of these elements a picture of the nation in which one sees-it-as
military power, with all li hu man and spiritual resources, its economic assets
meani of communication, to the round as it. were and can peer into the inder- most arteries and nerve centres of the organlan.
and
The general science of defence subdivides its material not merely in accordance with its relation to the separate auxiliary sciences, but also with the geographical selling: and as this varies from one side of the frontler to the other, there sub- divisions are constantly changing. A-Hint Of
Hitler's Desires
As regards the German Empire to-day, the following regional classification suggests itself.
1Germany and the Ger- man Empire, e. German speaking Central Europe, with a present population of 92 millions, the proper ter- ritory of a true Third Reich.
It is divided into: (1) Purely Gokros slates:
her Eail Indian colonies; Lich-
Since, however, this method of propagating 4 wientific knowledge of defence and a corresponding sttitude'io ii will necessarily, take SOMIS YEARs, before it can act on the nation as a whole, it is de....... sirable that articles on mbleeti corrected with defence should appear in the, newspapers, and tint lectures, broadlessting' flems and films of a similar character should be arranged.
Much may also be done by the distribution at a very low price, or even grails of little-book on national defence, as distinct from 'later works un the subject.
It In most important that all, these i activities should be concentrated in:- a special government department for the science of rational-defence, which could no doubt annat cón“ veniently come under the existing? Ministry of Defence.
Its task wild be: (1) to do the scientific spade worlt" for the cene. iral goverment and the army command, And (2) to carry out the training on the German people;ćin, national defence and supervisa: all muita diciuilam Thaldea..ofin.resoatEl. Tretstate It Allonar de enct di has much to recommend it. !This is indeed a mighty and a grateful, task; May “the Reich C1136se the right men; to:parry,much; "n'achome throughl
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