English Translation

23 - 2 What it is about. And the better one not only feels, but also knows what it is all about, the better he will live in all circumstances into the tasks that fall to him and - in association or alone - always fulfill these in the right line of the German needs. German foreign policy is now not an area hovering above the clouds, completely raptured from the usual mortal, but in an appropriate form and gradation, not only accessible to all German people, but even destined. If this is already the case for the German soldier at all, it applies to an increased extent to the German officer. He is also responsible and responsible for the fact that the foreign policy interest and thinking of the German soldier does not only remain active, but also runs in the right direction; that it does not sink to evil, spitting pot foundry, nor even false ideas and illusions, which can then become dangerous. The National Socialist distinguishes himself from the Kannegießer in his dealings with foreign policy issues in two main directions: firstly, he will not complain and know better. It is precisely in the field of foreign policy that the points of view and demands of the leader's idea apply in a particularly clear form.Making foreign policy is the least a matter of professors, iron turners, lawyers, manufacturers or God knows whom, but clearly only a matter for foreign policy leaders. In other words, men who are suitable for this purpose and who are therefore called upon to do so, trained and entrusted with it, and the German people have a particularly well-intentioned cause in the field of foreign policy to trust without reservation its current leadership. For quite in contrast to the time between Bismarck and 1933, which, in its political general weakness, also staggered from failure to failure in foreign policy, even the most cautious critic must now admit that the foreign policy of the new empire has been particularly visible and tangible in just as skillful and powerful leadership from success to success. As a Sudeten German and thus a living witness of a particularly happy example, I can perhaps say this even more experientially than the national comrade of the Inner Empire, who perhaps has not yet had the success of our leader's foreign policy so directly in his own flesh. And the second difference to the failed kannegießer is that we do not want to fantasize and chatter without reason and without banks. Rather, we want to strictly limit ourselves to what we are calculated to derive from the fixed bases given or approved by the Reichsführung in responsible interpretation with fug. Such solid documents are quite present, though not unlimited. With full intention and for good reasons, they will have to be conscientiously limited. That cannot be otherwise. If the Führer has repeatedly, even personally, made it clear to us that and why he cannot always hold everything to the big bell with regard to the war, then all these aspects apply similarly also to foreign policy. Again, a responsible government can not express everything publicly.