Hitler's Second Book by Adolf Hitler

Author:Adolf Hitler
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Enigma Books
Published: 2010-03-01T05:00:00+00:00

[Chapter XII]

[Principles of German Foreign Policy]

In the construction of the future German foreign policy, the following must be considered in view of Germany’s hopeless military situation:1. Germany itself cannot bring about a change in its current situation if this must be accomplished through military resources.

2. Germany cannot hope that a change in its situation will occur through the measures of the League of Nations, as long as the influential representatives of this institution are at the same time those with an interest in Germany’s destruction.

3. Germany cannot hope to change its current situation through a combination of powers that brings it into conflict with the French alliance system surrounding Germany, unless Germany has prior opportunity to remedy its purely military powerlessness in order to be able to act militarily—immediately, and with likelihood of success—in the case of [an application] the invocation of alliance obligations.

4. Germany cannot hope to find such a combination of powers until its ultimate foreign policy goal appears to be established with complete clarity and does not conflict with the interests of those states—yes, and even seems useful to them—that could come into consideration as alliance partners for Germany.

5. Germany cannot hope that these will be states outside the League of Nations; rather, it must, on the contrary, exist288 its only hope in its success at breaking individual states away from the previous coalition of victors and creating a new interest group with new goals whose realization cannot be achieved through the League of Nations, based on its very nature.

6. Germany can only hope to attain success in this way if it definitively renounces its previous vacillating dithering policy and fundamentally decides on one direction and also takes on and bears all the consequences.

7. Germany should never hope to be able to make world history through alliances with peoples whose military worth is inferior—this being adequately identified either through the fact of their previous defeat or their general racial significance. Because the fight to regain German freedom will again raise German history to world history again.

8. Germany should not forget for one instant that regardless of how and in what way it intends to change its fate, France will be its enemy, and that any coalition of powers that turns against Germany can from the outset count on France.

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