he subjugation of foreign peoples or the
denationalization of alien populations. It demands the
unqualified acknowledgment of the right to live of every
folk, and of every folk-group, which is forced to live as a
foreign group in another state. The western European
national state together with its parliamentary democracy was
not able to do justice to the natural and living entities,
the peoples, in their struggle for existence.[99]
Farther on in the same work Scurla states:
Out of its fundamental ideologic view, however, Germany
rejects every form of imperialism, even that of peaceful
penetration. It is unable to concede to any people the
authority to develop ideas and ways of living, to which then
another people has to subordinate itself, even if some other
order is suited to its essential nature ... It does not at
all, however, consider the German order obligatory for other
peoples. National Socialism, as has been said a hundred
times, is exclusively the sum total of the German
world-view.[100]
Similar assurances by Nazi leaders were frequently made in order to
induce a sense of security in neighboring countries. Hitler, for
example, in a proclamation opening the party congress at Nuremberg on
September 11, 1935 said:
National Socialism has no aggressive intentions against any
European nation. On the contrary, we are convinced that the
nations of Europe must continue their characteristic
national existence, as created by tradition, history and
economy; if not, Europe as a whole will be destroyed.[101]
But such assurances, which were intended exclusively for foreign
consumption, were refuted by the basic policy laid down in _Mein
Kampf_, which has been persistently pursued throughout the 10 years of
the Nazi regime and has been realized to the extent that Germany now
dominates and is in control of most of the European continent. In
_Mein Kampf_ (document 13-I, _post_ p. 226) Hitler wrote:
_Our task, the mission of the National Socialist movement,
however, is to lead our folk to such political insight that
it will see its future goal fulfilled not in the
intoxicating impression of a new Alexandrian campaign but
rather in the industrious work of the German plow, which
waits only to be given land by the sword._[102]
Hitler suggests a future foreign policy for Germany
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