epresented by New
York, the United States of North America has the great task ... of
setting out with youthful energy to put into force the new
racial-state idea which a few awakened Americans have already
foreseen."[42]

This idea was developed at length by the German geopolitician, Colin
Ross. In his book _Unser Amerika_ (_Our America_) (document 4, _post_
p. 178), published in 1936, Ross develops the thesis that the German
element in the United States has contributed all that is best in
American life and civilization and urges it to become conscious of its
racial heritage and to prepare for the day when it may take over
complete control of the country.

Reference was made in the preceding section to Beck's _Education in
the Third Reich_. On the subject of racial supremacy Beck points out
that certain new branches of learning have been introduced into the
National Socialist schools and certain old ones have been given a new
emphasis. The most important of these are the science of race and the
cultivation of race (_Rassenkunde und Rassenpflege_), which teach the
pupil to recognize and develop those racial powers which alone make
possible the fullest self-realization in the national community. An
awakening of a true racial consciousness in the people should lead to
a "qualitative and quantitative" racial refinement of the German
people by inducing a procreative process of selection which would
reduce the strains of foreign blood in the national body. "German
racial consciousness must have pride in the Nordic race as its first
condition. It must be a feeling of the highest personal pride to
belong to the Nordic race and to have the possibility and the
obligation to work within the German community for the advancement of
the Nordic race."[43] Beck points out that pupils must be made to
realize "that the downfall of the Nordic race would mean the collapse
of the national tradition, the disintegration of the living community
and the destruction of the individual."[44]

Under the influence of war developments, which have given the Nazis a
chance to apply their racial theories in occupied territories, their
spokesmen have become increasingly open with regard to the political
implications of the folk concept. In an article on "The Structure and
Order of the Reich," published late in 1941, Ernst Rudolf Huber wrote,
"this folk principle has found its full confirmation for the first
time in the events of this war, in which th