Der Fuehrer - Hitler's Rise to Power (1944) - Heiden

Chapter XXIVCONQUEST BY PEACEAT THE BEGINNING OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, HoustonStewart Chamberlain had summed up his idea of a future Germanforeign policy in a letter to his friend, Wilhelm II: 'A race-consciousGermany, knowing its aims and unified in organization from its centerto its extremities, despite the special character of its different tribes,would — even though less rich in population than the Anglo-Saxon andRussian worlds — by outward power and by inner spiritual superiority,dominate the world.'Shortly after Hitler came to power, Alfred Rosenberg, the ambassadorof the Wise Men of Zion and now the officially appointed 'spiritualteacher of the new Germany,' proclaimed the late Anglo-German the'seer of the Third Reich.' He prophesied in a speech, 'What Germany hasexperienced will befall other peoples.' And Goebbels, speaking to thepress in Hamburg, said: 'I am convinced that Germany has a worldmission to fulfill. The present revolution in Germany will not be limitedto two countries of Europe. Hitler's declaration of war on the democraticstate is only the prelude. The end of the development will be a Europeorganized along the National Socialist lines.' This meant that Germanywould dominate Europe by 'inner superiority,' to speak in Chamberlain'sterms.Inner superiority would, by a stronger magnetism than sheer