17th September 1941, evening, and the night of 17th-18th

                The Czechs are the people who will be most upset by the decline of Bolshevism, for it's they who have always looked with secret hope towards Mother Russia.

                When we learned of the fall of Port Arthur, the little Czechs in iny class at school wept -- while the rest of us exulted! It was then that my feeling for Japan was born.

                It would have been the duty of the Hohenzollerns to sacrifice the Habsburg monarchy to Russian aspirations in the Balkans. A dynasty's domination ceases to be justified when its ambitions are no longer adjusted to the nation's permanent interests. Once a dynasty adopts the safeguarding of peace at any price and the maintenance of undue consideration for the feelings of other foreign dynasties as its guiding principles, it is doomed.

                That's why I'm grateful to Social Democracy for having swept away all these royalties. Even supposing it had been indispensable, I don't know whether any of us would have so definitely set himself against the house of Hohenzollern. Against the Habsburgs, yes! In my eyes, it was a foreign dynasty.

                The injustice committed by the Kaiser at Bismarck's expense finally recoiled upon him. How could the Kaiser demand loyalty from his subjects when he had treated the founder of the Reich with such ingratitude? The shameful thing is that the German Folk allowed such an injustice to be committed. The generation of 1900 was lost -- economically, politically and culturally.

                The men of the nationalist opposition exhausted themselves in being right. When one has preached in the desert for decades, it proves, when the time comes for action, that one has lost all contact with reality. These Germans of the old school were fine fellows, but their speciality was literature. Their audience was twenty thousand readers of their own stamp. None of them knew how to speak to the people.



















sp;               Right from the beginning, I realised that one could not go far along that track. The man who means to act must find his support in faith, and faith is found only in the Folk. The great masses have no mercy, they go straight ahead with the simplicity of innocence. We have seen what a Folk is capable of, when it is led. All possibilities exist in it, for good as well as for evil. The duty of National Socialism inevitably boils down to this: all that is best in the Folk should be allowed ceaselessly to develop.