Hitler's Second Book: German Foreign Policy by Adolf Hitler

Author:Adolf Hitler [Hitler, Adolf]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Ostara Publications
Published: 2014-11-29T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter X

Summing up, therefore, it can be reiterated that our bourgeois national policy, the foreign policy aim of which is the restoration of the borders of the year 1914, is senseless and indeed catastrophic.

It perforce brings us into conflict with all the states which took part in the World War. Thus it guarantees the continuance of the coalition of victors which is slowly choking us.

It thereby always assures France a favorable official opinion in other parts of the world for her eternal proceedings against Germany.

Even if it were successful, it would signify nothing at all for Germany’s future in its results, and nevertheless compel us to fight with blood and steel. Further it altogether prevents in particular any stability of German foreign policy.

It was characteristic of our pre-war policy that it necessarily gave an outside observer the image of decisions often as wavering as they were incomprehensible.

If we disregard the Triple Alliance, the maintenance of which could not be a foreign policy aim but only a means to such an aim, we can discover no stable idea in the leaders of our people’s fate in the pre-war period. This is naturally incomprehensible.

The moment the foreign policy aim no longer signified a struggle for the German people’s interests but rather the preservation of world peace, we lost the ground under our feet.

I can certainly outline a people’s interests, establish them, and regardless of how the possibilities of their advocacy stand, I can nevertheless keep the great aim uninterruptedly in view. Gradually the rest of mankind will also acquire a general knowledge of a nation’s special, definite, chief foreign policy ideas.

This then offers the possibility of regulating mutual relations in a permanent way, either in the sense of an intended resistance against the known operation of such a power, or a reasonable awareness of it, or also in the sense of an understanding since, perhaps, one’s own interests can be achieved along a common path.

This stability in foreign policy can be established with a whole series of European states. For long periods of her existence Russia exhibited definite foreign policy aims which dominated her whole activity.

In the course of the centuries France has always represented the same foreign policy aims regardless who embodied political power in Paris at the moment.

We may speak of England not only as a state with a traditional diplomacy but above all as a state with a foreign policy idea become a tradition.

With Germany such an idea could be discerned only periodically in the Prussian state. We see Prussia fulfill her German mission in the short period of the Bismarckian statecraft, but thereafter any foreign policy aim staked out far in advance came to an end.

The new German Reich, especially after Bismarck’s retirement, no longer had such an aim since the slogan of preserving peace, that is of maintaining a given situation, does not possess any kind of stable content or character.

Just as any passive slogan is doomed in reality to be the plaything of an aggressive will. Only he who himself wants to act can also determine his action according to his will.

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