part of German statecraft inevitably led to the following
conviction:
Germany has an annual increase in population of nearly nine
hundred thousand souls. The difficulty of feeding this army of
new citizens must grow greater from year to year and ultimately
end in catastrophe, unless ways and means are found to forestall
the danger of starvation and misery in time.
There were four ways of avoiding so terrible a development for
the future:
1. Following the French example, the increase of births could be
artificially restricted, thus meeting the problem of
overpopulation. Nature herself in times of great poverty or bad
climactic conditions, as well as poor harvest, intervenes to
restrict the increase of population of certain countries or races;
this, to be sure, by a method as wise as it is ruthless. She
diminishes, not the power of procreation as such, but the
conservation of the procreated, by exposing them to hard trials
and deprivations with the result that all those who are less strong
and less healthy are forced back into the womb of the eternal
unknown. Those whom she permits to survive the inclemency of
existence are a thousandfold tested hardened, and well adapted to
procreatein turn, in order that the process of thoroughgoing
selection may begin again from the beginning. By thus brutally
proceeding against the individual and immediately calling him
back to herself as soon as he shows himself unequal to the storm
of life, she keeps the race and species strong, in fact, raises them
to the highest accomplishments.
At the same time the diminution of number strengthens the
individual and thus in the last analysis fortifies the species.
It is different, however, when man undertakes the limitation of
his number. He is not carved of the same wood, he is ' humane.'
He knows better than the cruel queen of wisdom. He limits not
the conservation of the individual, but procreation itself. This
seems to him, who always sees himself and never the race, more
human and more justified than the opposite way. Unfortunately,
however, the consequences are the reverse:
While Nature, by making procreation free, yet submitting
survival to a hard trial, chooses from an excess number of
individuals the best as worthy of living, thus preserving them
alone and in them conserving their species, man limits
procreation, but is hysterically concerned that once a being is
born it should be preserved at any price. This correction of the
divine will seems to him as wise as it is humane, and he takes
delight in having once again gotten the best of Nature and even
having proved her inadequacy. The number, to be sure, has really
been limited, but at the same time the value of the individual has
dirninished; this, however, is something the dear little ape of the
Almighty does not want to see or hear about.
For as soon as procreation as such is limited and the number of
births diminished, the natural struggle for existence which leaves
only the strongest and healthiest alive is obviously replaced by
the obvious desire to ' save ' even the weakest and most sickly at
any price, and this plants the seed of a future generation which
must inevitably grow more and more deplorable the longer this
mockery of Nature and her will continues.
And the end will be that such a people will some day be deprived
of its existence on this earth; for man can defy the eternal laws of
the will to conservation for a certain time, but sooner or later
vengeance comes. A stronger race will drive out the weak, for the
vital urge in its ultimate form will, time and again, burst all the
absurd fetters of the socalled humanity of individuals, in order
to replace it by the humanity of Nature which destroys the weak
to give his place to the strong.
Therefore, anyone who wants to secure the existence of the
German people by a selflimitation of its reproduction is robbing
it of its future.
2. A second way would be one which today we, time and time
again, see proposed and recommended: internal colonization.
This is a proposal which is well meant by just as many as by
most people it is misunderstood, thus doing the greatest
conceivable damage that anyone can imagined Without doubt the
productivity of the soil can be increased up to a certain limit. But
only up to a certain limit, and not continuously without end. For
a certain time it will be possible to compensate for the increase of
the German people without having to think of hunger, by
increasing the productivity of our soil. But beside this, we must
face the fact that our demands on life ordinarily nse even more
rapidly than the number of the population Man's requirements
with regard to food and clothing increase from year to year, and
even now, for example, stand in no relation to the requirements
of our ancestors, say a hundred years ago. It IS, therefore, insane
to believe that every rise in production provides the basis for an
increase in population: no; this is true only up to a certain degree,
since at least a part of the increased production of the soil is
spent in satisfying the increased needs of men. But even with the
greatest limitation on the one hand and the utmost industry on the
other, here again a limit will one day be reached, created by the
soil itself. With the utmost toil it will not be possible to obtain
any more from its and then, though postponed for a certain time,
catastrophe again manifests itself. First, there will be hunger
from time to time, when there is famine, etc. As the population
increases, this will happen more and more often, so that finally it
will only be absent when rare years of great abundance fill the
granaries. But at length the time approaches when even then it
will not be possible to satisfy men's needs, and hunger has
become the eternal companion of such a people. Then Nature
must help again and make a choice among those whom she has
chosen for life; but again man helps himself; that is, he turns to
artificial restriction of his increase with all the aboveindicated
dire consequences for race and species.
The objection may still be raised that this future will face the
whole of humanity in any case and that consequently the
individual nation can naturally not avoid this fate.
At first glance this seems perfectly correct. Yet here the
following must be borne in mind:
Assuredly at a certain time the whole of humanity will be
compelled, in consequence of the impossibility of making the
fertility of the soil keep pace with the continuous increase in
population, to halt the increase of the human race and either let
Nature again decide or, by selfhelp if possible, create the
necessary balance, though, to be sure, in a more correct way than
is done today. But then this will strike all peoples, while today
only those races are stricken with such suffering which no longer
possess the force and strength to secure for themselves the
necessary territories in this world. For as matters stand there are
at the present time on this earth immense areas of unusued soil,
only waiting for the men to till them. But it is equally true that
Nature as such has not reserved this soil for the future possession
of any particular nation or race; on the contrary, this soil exists
for the people which possesses the force to take it and the
industry to cultivate it.
Nature knows no political boundaries. First, she puts living
creatures on this globe and watches the free play of forces. She
then confers the master's right on her favorite child, the strongest
in courage and industry.
When a people limits itself to internal colonization because other
races are clinging fast to greater and greater surfaces of this
earth, it will be forced to have recourse to selflimitation at a
time when the other peoples are still continuing to increase.
Some day this situation will arise, and the smaller the living
space at the disposal of the people, the sooner it will happen.
Since in general, unfortunately, the best nations, or, even more
correctly, the only truly cultured races, the standardbearers of all
human progress, all too frequently resolve in their pacifistic
blindness to renounce new acquisitions of soil and content
themselves with 'internal' colonization, while the inferior races
know how to secure immense living areas in this world for
themselvesthis would lead to the following final result:
The culturally superior, but less ruthless races, would in
consequence of their limited soil, have to limit their increase at a
time when the culturally inferior but more brutal and more
natural t peoples, in consequence of their greater living areas,
would still be in a position to increase without limit. In other
words: some day the world will thus come into possession of the
culturally inferior but more active men.
Then, though in a perhaps very distant future, there will be but
two possibilities either the world will be governed according to
the ideas of our modern democracy, and then the weight of any
decision will result in favor of the numerically stronger races, or
the world will be dominated in accordance with the laws of the
natural order of force, and then it is the peoples of brutal will
who will conquer, and consequently once again not the nation of
selfrestriction.
No one can doubt that this world will some day be exposed to the
severest struggles for the existence of mankind. In the end, only
the urge for selfpreservation can conquer. Beneath it socalled
humanity, the expression of a mixture of stupidity, cowardice,
and knowitall conceit, will melt like snow in the March sun.
Mankind has grown great in eternal struggle, and only in eternal
peace does it perish.
For us Germans the slogan of 'inner colonization' is catastrophic,
if for no other reason because it automatically reinforces us in the
opinion that we have found a means which, in accordance with
the pacifistic tendency, allows us ' to earn ' our right to exist by
labor in a life of sweet slumbers. Once this doctrine were taken
seriously in our country, it would mean the end of every exertion
to preserve for ourselves the place which is our due. Once the
average German became convinced that he could secure his life
and future in this way, all attempts at an active, and hence alone
fertile, defense of German vital necessities would be doomed to
failure. In the face of such an attitude on the part of the nation
any really beneficial foreign policy could be regarded as buried,
and with it the future of the German people as a whole.
Taking these consequences into account, it is no accident that it
is always primarily the Jew who tries and succeeds in planting
such mortally dangerous modes of thought in our people. He
knows his customers too well not to realize that they gratefully
let themselves be swindled by any goldbrick salesman who can
make them think he has found a way to play a little trick on
Nature, to make the hard, inexorable struggle for existence
superfluous, and instead, sometimes by work, but sometimes by
plain doing nothing, depending on how things 'come out,' to
become the lord of the planet.
It cannot be emphasized sharply enough that any German
internal colonization must serve to eliminate social abuses
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