Nazi Conspiracy & Aggression B. Methods. The Nazi conspirators advocated the
accomplishment of the foregoing aims and purposes by any
means deemed opportune, including illegal means and resort
to threat of force, force, and aggressive war. The use of force was
distinctly sanctioned, in fact guaranteed, by official statements and
directives of the conspirators which made activism and
aggressiveness a political quality obligatory for Party
members.
Hitler stated in Mein Kampf:
"*********The lack of a great creative idea means at all
times an impairment of the fighting spirit. The
conviction that it is right to use even the most brutal
weapons is always connected with the existence of a
fanatical belief that it is necessary that a
revolutionary new order of this earth should become
victorious. A movement which does not
fight for these highest aims and ideals will therefore
never resort to the ultimate weapon."
*******
"*********It is not possible to undertake a task half-
heartedly or hesitatingly if its execution seems to be
feasible only by expending the very last ounce of
energy . . . One had to become clear in one's mind that
this goal [i.e. acquisition of new territory in Europe]
could be achieved by fight alone and then had to face
this armed conflict with calmness nd composure." (2760-A-PS)
In 1934 Hitler set out the duties of Party members in the
following terms:
"Only a part of the people will be really active
fighters. But they were the fighters of the National
Socialist struggle. They were the fighters for the
National Socialist revolution, and they are the
millions of the rest of the population. For them it is
not sufficient to confess: 'I believe,' but to swear: 'I fight'." (2775-PS)
This same theme is expressed in the Party Organization Book:
"The Party includes Only fighters who are ready to accept
and sacrifice everything in order to carry through the
National Socialist ideology." (2774-PS)
At the trial of Reichswehr officers at Leipzig in September
1930 Hitler testified:
[Page 189]
"Germany is being strangled by Peace Treaties. *********
The National Socialists do not regard the Treaty as a
law, but as something forced upon us. We do not want
future generations, who are completely innocent, to be
burdened by this. When we fight this with all means at
our disposal, then we are on the way to a revolution.
President of the Court: 'Even by illegal means?'
Hitler: "I will declare here and now, that when we have
become powerful (gesiegt haben), then we shall fight
against the Treaty with all the means at our disposal,
even from the point of view of the world, with illegal
means." (251-PS)
Moreover, Hitler stated the true reason for rearmament as follows:
"It is impossible to build up an army and give it a
sense of worth if the object of its existence is not
the preparation for war. Armies for the preservation of
peace do not exist; they exist only for the triumphant
exertion of war." (2541"' PS)
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Volume
I Chapter VII
Means Used by the Nazi Conspiractors in Gaining Control of the German State
(Part 2 of 55)