which would assure
_Lebensraum_ and domination of the European continent. In _Mein Kampf_
he states:

But the political testament of the German nation for its
outwardly directed activity should and must always have the
following import:

_Never tolerate the establishment of two continental powers
in Europe. See an attack against Germany in every attempt to
organize a second military power on the German borders, even
if it is only in the form of the establishment of a state
which is a potential military power, and see therein not
only the right but also the duty to prevent the formation of
such a state with all means, even to the use of force, or if
it has already been established, to destroy it again. See to
it that the strength of our folk has its foundations not in
colonies but in the soil of the European homeland. Never
regard the foundations of the Reich as secure, if it is not
able to give every off-shoot of our folk its own bit of soil
and territory for centuries to come. Never forget that the
most sacred right in the world is the right to the soil
which a man wishes to till himself, and the most sacred
sacrifice is the blood which he spills for this soil_.[103]

It is impossible to adduce from the writings of Hitler, or other Nazi
leaders direct statements indicating that they aspire to the
domination of the entire world. Such expressions, however, may be
inferred not only from the direction of German foreign policy and the
effusions of the geopoliticians but also from the following statement
made by Hitler in _Mein Kampf_ (document 13-I, _post_ p. 226):

... If the German folk, in its historical development, had
possessed that herdlike unity which other peoples have
enjoyed, the German Reich would today be mistress of the
globe. World history would have taken another course, and no
one can tell whether in this way that might not have been
attained which so many deluded pacifists are hoping today to
wheedle by moaning and whining: a peace supported not by the
palm branches of tearful pacifistic female mourners but
founded by the victorious sword of a master race
[_Herrenvolk_] which places the world in the service of a
higher culture.[104]

Like Hitler, Rosenberg envisaged the extension of Nazi power far
beyond the borders of Germany. In his _Nature, Princip