English Translation

- 2 - The power of the British Empire - if it is strong - together with the power of continental allies will always be a sufficient counterweight for any powers trying to seize power. As long as this balance remains, peace will be, for no power can prevail over the rest of Europe and the British Empire together as long as the Empire is strong. This simple mechanism is the "balance of powers". It is based on unchanging physical facts. Neither the League of Nations, nor any system of collective security, nor armament, can change these facts. Once the balance of powers is threatened, every collective system will collapse, and England will rise up against this threat if it is not to perish. l939 has done so. The mechanism of equilibrium was disturbed, and the League of Nations lost on 1 September that year any reality it has ever possessed on the day that Germany attacked Poland to disrupt the mechanism and thus began the Second World War. England fought for the preservation of equilibrium - for this and no other reason. The generally held view that Germany began war to conquer world domination is, in our opinion, wrong. It wanted to be a world power, but a world force and a world control is not the same (England is a world Power, but it does not dominate the world). Hitler would have liked to share the world with the narrow countries. They are the only nation for which he felt real respect. His book "Mein Kampf" is so imbued with this respect as it is permeated by Hitler's contempt for his own people, the Germans. His main war goal was to submit to the European mainland and then to open up Russia for German colonization. If England had remained neutral, then he would have achieved it. But then it would have been dependent on Hitler's or his successor's grace - in any case on the grace of the Germans. Depending on the new masters of Europe, for these would be infinitely larger sources of aid than the British and American empires would have. They would have made themselves invincible after a pacification of Russia on land and they would have the straits of the / Mediterranean