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In fact, it is a struggle of two worlds. Forty-six million English rule and govern a total territory of roughly 40,000,000 square kilometres in this world. Eighty-five million Germans have a living space of hardly 600,000 square kilometres and these only through their own initiative. This earth, however, was not distributed by Providence or by Almighty God. This distribution is being taken care of by the peoples themselves and this distribution chiefly took place in the past 300 years at a time when our German people were domestically unconscious and torn apart. The right to live constitutes a claim of fundamental nature. The right to live includes the right to the soil, which alone gives life. For this claim peoples have even fought when a lack of wisdom threatened to interfere with their relationship, for they knew that even bloody sacrifices are better than the gradual dying off of nations. National unity was our first demand. Piece by piece and move by move this was realized. Haves & Have-Nots. Whoever has not anything will not get anything either. All my life I have been a have-not. I count myself as one of their number and have fought for them. Now again, I enter the fight as the representative of the havenots. I will never recognize the claims of others to that which they have gained by force and robbery. In no case will I permit this claim to apply to what has been taken from us. It is interesting to observe the mode of living of the rich. They have so-called democracy in the Anglo-French world. In reality, capitalism reigns supreme, that is, there is a band of several hundred people who possess unmeasurable fortunes and who, because of the peculiar construction of the State, are more or less completely independent and free. It is said this means rule by the people. But when you look closer, the people as such have not an opinionthere is no difference between them. Now, one might suppose that in lands of freedom and democracy everybody lived in plenty. The contrary is true. Nowhere is the standard of the masses lower. England for decades has had two-and-a-half million unemployed. Rich America has twelve to thirteen million unemployed annually. These people, to give but one example, have the possibility of pocketing up to 160 percent dividends from the ammunition industry. They say that if these German methods gain ground and prove victorious all this will stop. They are right. I believe six per cent sufficient. It’s natural for the English leaders to say they do not want their world to go under because they fear Germany’s new ideas may spring over to England. They say, “We don’t like these methods.” What were those methods? I am proud that the revolution occurred in 1933 without a single window being smashed. They claim in England that we have terrorized liberty. Yes, that is true, namely, when freedom was at the expense of the common weal. Certainly, we will not permit anybody freely to dispose of his earnings if thereby the common weal is interfered with. Two worlds are in conflict, two philosophies of life. They say we should help to keep up the gold standarday from us. If we already have no gold, then we have the power of work, and German power of work is our gold and our capital, and with this gold I can beat any other power in the world. I built up my entire economy on the conception of work. Our German mark without gold is worth more than gold. Opportunity for Man. What we are reconstructing is a world of cooperative labor, but also a world of cooperative duties. For the first time in our own German history there exists a State which, in principle, has removed all social prejudices as regards appointment to positions. I myself am the best document to prove this. I am not even trained in the laws. Nevertheless I am your leader. Our ideal is that every position in the country shall be filled by a true son of the people. We want a State in which birth matters nothing, achievement means everything. For this we are working with tremendous fanaticism. Contrasted with this is the idea of our enemiesI stretched out my hand! I was not in any mood to arm. That devours so much labor power. I wanted to use German labor power for other plans. My ambition is to make the German people rich and the German land beautiful. I would like us to have the most beautiful and best culture. I was determined to rear our structure in the world, to widen our position and, secondly, to arm at home so that the German soldier must no longer stand alone on a front, lonely and the victim of superior forces. Then I did everything humanly possible to avoid a conflict. I made offer after offer to the English, but there wasn’t anything to be done do it in France, either. When we attacked Paris, only Parisian armaments objectives were singled out. Then, however, it occurred to that great strategist Churchill to begin unlimited air warfare at night. But not a single munitions plant was put out of action. Many unhappy families, however, were struck. I could no longer take the responsibility before the German people of letting our own people perish while strangers were spared. Thereupon this warfare, too, had to be conducted. And it will now be fought. It will be conducted with all the determination and courage at our disposal. We determine the hour for this conflict. I decide in such matters. The world must take cognizance of one thing: there will be no defeat in Germany, either military or economic on the grounds of time. Whatever may happen, Germany will emerge victorious from this fight. This fight not only is a struggle for the present but especially a fight for the future. We are decided more and more to tear down barriers restraining the individual from unfolding his possibilities, acquiring that place which he deserves. The others fought their fight only for the damned plutocracy, those few dynasties which administer the capital market for those few hundred who, in the last analysis, direct these people. When this war is over the great work of creation is to begin in Germany. Then the German people will cease manufacturing cannon and will begin works of peace and reconstruction. 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