Readings on Fascism and National Socialism: Selected by members of the department of philosophy, University of ColoradoVarious
Philosophy
Readings on Fascism and National Socialism: Selected by members of the department of philosophy, University of Colorado
Various
Fascism; National socialism
1. Race: The legal protection of the race, which has created
a new concept of nationality [_Volkszugehörigkeit_], is
consciously put in first place, for the most significant
historical principle which has been established by the
victory of National Socialism is that of the necessity for
keeping race and blood pure. All human mistakes and errors
can be corrected except one: "the error regarding the
importance of maintaining the basic values of a nation."
The purpose of this legal protection of the basic value of
_race_ must be the prevention for all time of a further
mixture of German blood with foreign blood, as well as the
prevention of continued procreation of racially unworthy and
undesirable members of the people.
2. Soil [_Boden_]: The living-space and the basis for the
food supply of the German people are its territory and soil.
The farmer is the first and deepest representative of the
people since he nourishes the people from the fertility of
the earth and he maintains the nation through the fertility
of his own family. Here National Socialism had to accomplish
two great legal ends: the reestablishment and the protection
of the farmer class and the securing of its land for the
farmer family.
3. Work: The nation's work as a basic national value is
grounded on the leading concept of "work of the hands and of
the head" within and for the community of the people and the
elevation of work to the only criterion for the value of an
individual within the community. In place of the idea of
class warfare, National Socialism had to establish the
national community legally; in place of the defamation of
work and its degradation to an object of barter, National
Socialism had to raise it to an ethical duty and the right
to work had to become the most clearly defined personal
right of the individual. The concept of the honor of work
had to be established as the basic concept of the national
honor.
4. The Reich: With the securing of the three basic values of
race, soil, and work arises the National Socialist Reich.
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