Lies being taught;
Mein Kampf is unintelligible ravings of a
maniac.
Now the Truth; Read and know. VOLUME II Chapter III: CITIZENS
AND SUBJECTS OF THE STATE
“The institution that
is now erroneously called the State generally classifies people only into two
groups: citizens and aliens. Citizens are all those who possess full civic
rights, either by reason of their birth or by an act of naturalization. Aliens
are those who enjoy the same rights in some other State. Between these two
categories there are certain beings who resemble a sort of meteoric phenomena.
They are people who have no citizenship in any State and consequently no civic rights
anywhere.
In most cases nowadays
a person acquires civic rights by being born within the frontiers of a State.
The nationality to which he may belong plays no role whatsoever. The child of a
Negro who once lived in one of the German protectorates and now takes up his
residence in Germany automatically becomes a 'German Citizen' in the eyes of
the world. In the same way the child of any Jew, Pole, African or Asian may automatically
become a German Citizen.
Besides naturalization
that is acquired through the fact of having been born within the confines of a
State there exists another kind of naturalization which can be acquired later.
This process is subject to various preliminary requirements. For example one
condition is that, if possible, the applicant must not be a burglar or a common
street thug. It is required of him that his political attitude is not such as
to give cause for uneasiness; in other words he must be a harmless simpleton in
politics. It is required that he shall not be a burden to the State of which he
wishes to become a citizen. In this realistic epoch of ours this last condition
naturally only means that he must not be a financial burden. If the affairs of
the candidate are such that it appears likely he will turn out to be a good
taxpayer, is a very important consideration and will help him to obtain civic
rights all the more rapidly.
The whole process of
acquiring civic rights is not very different from that of being admitted to
membership of an automobile club, for instance. A person files his application.
It is examined. It is sanctioned. And one day the man receives a card which
informs him that he has become a member. Smilarly an information is given that
he has become a citizen. The information is given in an amusing way. An applicant
who has hitherto been a Zulu or Kaffir is told: "By these presents you are
now become a German Citizen."
The President of the
State can perform this piece of magic. What God Himself could not do is
achieved by some Theophrastus Paracelsus (Note 16) of a civil servant through a
mere twirl of the hand. Nothing but a stroke of the pen, and a Mongolian slave
is forthwith turned into a real German.
[Note 16. The last and
most famous of the medieval alchemists. He was born at Basleabout the year 1490
and died at Salzburg in 1541. He taught that all metals could be transmuted
through the action of one primary element common to them all. This element he
called ALCAHEST. If it could be found it would proveto be at once the
philosopher's stone, the universal medicine and their resistible solvent. There
are many aspects of his teaching which are now looked upon as by no means so
fantastic as they were considered in his own time.]
In this way, year
after year, those organisms which we call States take in poisonous matter which
they can hardly ever overcome.
Another point of
distinction between a citizen and an alien is that the former is admitted to
all public offices, that he may possibly have to do military service and that
in return he is permitted to take a passive or active part at public elections.
Those are his chief privileges. For in regard to personal rights and personal
liberty the alien enjoys the same amount of protection as the citizen, and
frequently even more. Anyhow that is how it happens in our present German
Republic.
I realize fully that
nobody likes to hear these things. But it would be difficult to find anything
more illogical or more insane than our contemporary laws in regard to State
citizenship.
At present there
exists one State which manifests at least some modest attempts that show a
better appreciation of how things ought to be done in this matter. It is in the
U.S.A. that efforts are made to conform at least partly to the counsels of
commonsense. By refusing immigrants to enter there if they are in a bad state
of health, and by excluding certain races from the right to become naturalized
as citizens, they have begun to introduce principles similar to those on which
we wish to ground the People's State.
The People's State
will classify its population in three groups: Citizens, subjects of the State,
and aliens.
The principle is that
birth within the confines of the State gives only the status of a subject. It
does not carry with it the right to fill any position under the State or to
participate in political life, such as taking an active or passive part in
elections. Another principle is that the nationality of every subject of the
State will have to be proved. A subject is at any time free to cease being a
subject and to become a citizen of that country to which he originally belongs by
virtue of his nationality. The only difference between an alien and a subject
of the State is that the former is a citizen of another country.
The young boy or girl
who is of German nationality and is a subject of the German State is bound to
complete the period of school education which is obligatory for every German.
Thereby he submits to the system of training which will make him conscious
member of the folk-community. Then he has to fulfill all those requirements laid
down by the State in regard to physical training after he has left school; and
finally he enters the army. The training in the army is of a general kind. It
must be given to each individual German and will render him competent to fulfill
the physical and mental requirements of military service. The rights of citizenship
shall be conferred on every young man whose health and character have been
certified as good, after having completed his period of military service. This
act of inauguration in citizenship shall be a solemn ceremony. And the diploma
conferring the rights of citizenship will be preserved by the young man as the
most precious testimonial of his whole life. It entitles him to exercise all the
rights of a citizen and to enjoy all the privileges attached thereto. The
State must draw a sharp line of distinction between those who, as members of
the nation, are the foundation and the support of its existence and greatness,
and those who are domiciled in the State simply as earners of their livelihood
there.
On the occasion of
conferring a diploma of citizenship the new citizen must take a solemn oath of
loyalty to the national community and the State. This diploma must be a bond
which unites together all the various classes and sections of the nation. It
shall be a greater honour to be a citizen of this REICH, even as a
street-sweeper, than to be the King of a foreign State.
The citizen has
privileges which are not accorded to the alien. He is the master in the REICH.
But this high honour has also its obligations. Those who show themselves
without personal honour or character, or common criminals, or traitors to the
fatherland, can at any time be deprived of the rights of citizenship. Therewith
they become merely subjects of the State.”
Adolf
Hitler
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