English Translation

18 For as long as there are in these peoples the layers that are often not insignificant in North-Rassian, mostly German-born, state- and culture-shaping, they only activate these otherwise mostly uncreative and unpolitic peoples politically and economically. On the basis of profound misunderstanding and complete ignorance of the processes of population change, the often proclaimed thought that it is precisely a strengthening of the northern racial strata in the eastern peoples that would serve us: this is hiss only to strengthen their chauvinist-active strata. 18 The guiding principle of all German foreign policy must therefore be: leaching of the racially valuable strata of the foreign people and their Germanization, as well as at the same time the non-genuinely repopular core parts of the peoples under all circumstances, and whether it is by force to let them remain foreign people. The popular Germans in the foreign states are Germans, questions of their future political fate are not to be discussed here. The idea of "leaching" does not refer to the popular Germans, but only to the racially valuable, often German-born strata of the foreign people. Re-Germanization) will only be possible if we ourselves have developed an ideal of life from the national socialist world view alongside the grandiose reality of our Greater Germany. Only by the strong, advertising power of a new, high, Germanic ethics corresponding German ideals of life will we be able to win the valuable individual peoples of our foreign peoples. Never, however, should pure and even so great a state's development of power cause and stimulate other peoples to approach in the long term. The vast political reality of the ideals of freedom, democracy and humanity proclaimed by England still today has fallen to most neutrals, despite the shameless English attacks. d t dt de Reich only begin to approach when this one political - 6 -