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Show notes, Hitler Youth Episode 3

Race
Race means to be able to think in a certain way. He who has courage, loyalty and honor,
the mark of the German, has the race that should rule in Germany, even if he does not
have the physical characteristics of the “Nordic” race. The unity of the noble and a noble
body is the goal to which we strive. But we despise those whose noble body carries an
ignoble soul. §A variety of related European races have merged in Germany. One trunk
grew from these roots. Each race gave its best strength. Each contributed to the German
soul We Germans have a fighting spirit, a look to the horizon, the “desire to do a thing for
its own sake” of the Nordic race. Another racial soul gave us our cozy old cities and our
depth. Yet another racial soul gave us mastery of the magical realm of music. Yet another
gave us our ability to organize, and our silent obedience. §We can not hold it against
anyone if he carries a variety of racial lines, for the German soul does as well, and
created out of it the immeasurable riches which it possesses above all other nations. The
greatness of our Reich grew out of this soul. §But the Nordic race must dominate in
Germany and shape the soul of each German. It must win out in the breast of each
individual. Today our ideal is not the artist or the citizen, but the hero. §Our highest
treasure is the soul that we have been given. He who mixes his blood with that of foreign
inferior races ruins the blood and soul that have been given to him to pass on in purity to
his children. He makes his children impure and miserable, and commits the greatest
crime that he as a National Socialist can commit. §But he who follows the laws of race
fulfills the great commandment that only like should be brought together with like,
keeping apart those things like fire and water which do not mix. 

A People (Volk )
A people grows from god’s will. Woe to him who wishes to destroy the peoples and 
make people alike. God created the trees, the bushes, the weeds and the grass not so that
they could merge into one species, but that each should exist in its own way. §Just as a
tree, a people grows as a living whole from similar roots, but becoming one, the strongest
of its kind. §All of the same blood belong to it. A people knows no state boundaries. It is
bound by the ties of blood that bind all the sons of a single mother. The German people is
a nation of a hundred million. Each German belongs to it, no matter where he may live.
§A people cannot be destroyed as long as its roots draw on the strength of the earth.
Summer and winter may come and go. But it always blooms anew in indestructible life
and perfects itself in the strength that rises from its roots towards god’s will. §What does
it mean when an individual dies? It is as if the wind blows leaves from a tree. New ones
grow eternally every spring. §The peoples are the greatest and most noble creation of god
on this earth. There is no institution in the world, no party and no church, that has the
right to make them the same or to rob them of even the tiniest bit of their individuality. 

State
A people gives itself its form through the state. There is only one natural form for each
people, only one state. §In the natural process of growth, each people finds its form and
its state, and finds them again when it has lost them, if only it wants to. §National
Socialism has broken foreign compulsion and eliminated the unnatural. Germany once
again grows into its own state and is once more itself. §The best rules, the Führer, and he
carries the responsibility because he is best able to bear it. The parliament has ceased to
exist. This form of Western democracy has been abolished. The German states
established by the grace of counts or by Napoleon disappear. The Reich becomes one.
The new state rises:
“The day is coming when a single tent will cover all the German land.”

Socialism
Socialism means: “The common good before the individual good.”
Socialism means: “Think not of yourself, but of the whole, of the people and the state.”
Socialism means: “Not the same for everyone, but to each his own.”
These sentences make clear what we call “German socialism.” No one is a socialist who
does not live according to them. §A new order grows from these sentences. The sentence
“To each his own” has killed the “mass,” the slogan of Marxism, and replaced it with the
“community.” Every community grows around a leader. He is the center of its order,
which forms around him. A number of these leaders form a larger community, and stand
around their leader as a living order. It all grows from below—the number growing ever
smaller—like a pyramid, and finds its epitome in the Führer of the Reich. All are bound
by the community. Each community is a living order. The whole, the great living order, is
the people’s community. It binds inextricably person to person, leader to leader. It does
not give the same to everyone, but to each his own. It creates the socialist people in a socialist state. §

Each has his task in the community, given to him according to his gifts.
Never do all have the same task, but rather each his own. His task gives him a place in
the community, If he fulfills it completely, he wins the esteem of the others. He is happy,
even if his task is not large in the overall scheme of things. §Such communities grow in
the field, in assault troops, in artillery battalions, in submarines, in S.A. units. Strong,
bound forever together, wordlessly understanding each other, together until the end,
sworn to a common goal. Strength grows from such communities, and from them grows
the state. §We want community in Germany so that we can stand unshaken in the face of
whatever may come. The mass is conquered by the community. It gives to each his own,
to each his goal and his task, and everyone together one goal: the people’s community in
the new state.