THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 1270, sig. 110-12/96

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45.) and tend to use far-reaching sociological theories From here is only a small step towards untolerant, fanatisasah, exclusive, limited national chauvinism. Turning back to the people, to his primitive, original peasant profession, National Socialism emphasizes his attachment to the local spreads, to the closer homeland and thus to the soil, thus adding to his racial blement of blood, i.e. the race, still the element of the soil And he thus brags his well-known catchphrase "blood and soil", which in its indeterminate forms and in its unclear meaning, nevertheless expresses two strong concrete ideas. The bloodthirsty and racial kinship and the hanging on the ground and the homeland are ideas for every more primitive human being, which completely fill his life; and so this so-called word again becomes a great political force and a factor in the practical political struggle of today's German Rogimes. It unites all Germans, wherever they live in the world, to a unity, brings their national belonging together in memory and is the basis of two great politicist tendencies: a) to extend the spiritual national unity, the uniform National Socialist Waitanschauung to all members of German blood and German culture, wherever in the World; b) to serve the territorial expansion of the National Socialist State, which is based on the