Lies
being taught;
Mein
Kampf is unintelligible ravings of a maniac.
Now
the Truth; It is the opposite of what press has told
you
CHAPTER
XIII THE GERMAN POST-WAR POLICY OF ALLIANCES
Part 4
-South Tyrol
In
this connection I have to think of the Wooden Horse in the riding of which the Marxist
press showed extraordinary skill during these years. I mean South Tyrol.
Yes,
South Tyrol. The reason why I take up this question here is just because I want
to call to account that shameful CANAILLE who relied on the ignorance and short
memories of large sections of our people and stimulated a national indignation
which is as foreign to the real character of our parliamentary impostors as the
idea of respect for private property is to a magpie.
I
should like to state here that I was one of those who, at the time when the
fate of South Tyrol was being decided--that is to say, from August 1914 to
November 1918--took my place where that country also could have been
effectively defended, namely, in the Army. I did my share in the fighting
during those years, not merely to save South Tyrol from being lost but also to
save every other German province for the Fatherland.
The
parliamentary shapers did not take part in that combat. The whole CANAILLE
played party politics. On the other hand, we carried on the fight in the belief
that a victorious issue of the War would enable the German nation to keep South
Tyrol also; but the loud-mouthed traitor carried on a seditious agitation
against such a victorious issue, until the fighting Siegfried succumbed to the
dagger plunged in his back. It was only natural that the inflammatory and
hypocritical speeches of the elegantly dressed parliamentarians on the Vienna
RATHAUS PLATZ or in front of the FELDHERRNHALLE in Munich could not save South
Tyrol for Germany. That could be done only by the fighting battalions at the
Front. Those who broke up that fighting front betrayed South Tyrol, as well as
the other districts of Germany.
Anyone
who thinks that the South Tyrol question can be solved to-day by protests and
manifestations and processions organized by various associations is either a
humbug or merely a German philistine.
In
this regard it must be quite clearly understood that we cannot get back the
territories we have lost if we depend on solemn imprecations before the throne
of the Almighty God or on pious hopes in a League of Nations, but only by the
force of arms.
Therefore
the only remaining question is: Who is ready to take up arms for the
restoration of the lost territories ? (Emphasis supplied)
As far
as concerns myself personally, I can state with a good conscience that I would
have courage enough to take part in a campaign for the reconquest of South
Tyrol, at the head of parliamentarian storm battalions consisting of
parliamentarian gasconaders and all the party leaders, also the various
Councilors of State. Only the Devil knows whether I might have the luck of
seeing a few shells suddenly burst over this 'burning' demonstration of
protest. I think that if a fox were to break into a poultry yard his presence
would not provoke such a helter-skelter and rush to cover as we should witness
in the band of 'protesters'.
The
vilest part of it all is that these talkers themselves do not believe that
anything can be achieved in this way. Each one of them knows very well how
harmless and ineffective their whole pretence is. They do it only because it is
easier now to babble about the restoration of South Tyrol than to fight for its
preservation in days gone by.
Each
one plays the part that he is best capable of playing in life. In those days we
offered our blood. To-day these people are engaged in whetting their tusks.
It is
particularly interesting to note to-day how legitimist circles in Vienna preen
themselves on their work for the restoration of South Tyrol. Seven years ago
their august and illustrious Dynasty helped, by an act of perjury and treason,
to make it possible for the victorious world-coalition to take away South
Tyrol. At that time these circles supported the perfidious policy adopted by
their Dynasty and did not trouble themselves in the least about the fate of
South Tyrol or any other province. Naturally it is easier to-day to take up the
fight for this territory, since the present struggle is waged with 'the weapons
of the mind'. Anyhow, it is easier to join in a 'meeting of protestation' and
talk yourself hoarse in giving vent to the noble indignation that fills your
breast, or stain your finger with the writing of a newspaper article, than to
blow up a bridge, for instance, during the occupation of the Ruhr.
The
reason why certain circles have made the question of South Tyrol the pivot of
German-Italian relations during the past few years is quite evident. Jewish
capital and press and Habsburg legitimists are greatly interested in preventing
Germany from pursuing a policy of alliance which might lead one day to the
resurgence of a free German fatherland. It is not out of love for South Tyrol
that they play this role to-day--for their policy would turn out detrimental
rather than helpful to the interests of that province--but through fear of an
agreement being established between Germany and Italy.
A
tendency towards lying and calumny lies in the nature of these people, and that
explains how they can calmly and brazenly attempt to twist things in such a way
as to make it appear that we have 'betrayed' South Tyrol.
There
is one clear answer that must be given to these gentlemen. It is this: Tyrol
has been betrayed, in the first place, by every German who was sound in limb
and body and did not offer himself for service at the Front during 1914-1918 to
do his duty towards his country.
In the
second place, Tyrol was betrayed by every man who, during those years did not
help to reinforce the national spirit and the national powers of resistance, so
as to enable the country to carry through the War and keep up the fight to the
very end.
In the
third place, South Tyrol was betrayed by everyone who took part in the November
Revolution, either directly by his act or indirectly by a cowardly toleration
of it, and thus broke the sole weapon that could have saved South Tyrol.
In the
fourth place, South Tyrol was betrayed by those parties and their adherents who
put their signatures to the disgraceful treaties of Versailles and St. Germain.
And so
the matter stands, my brave gentlemen, who make your protests only with words.
To-day
I am guided by a calm and cool recognition of the fact that the lost
territories cannot be won back by the whetted tongues of parliamentary
spouters but only by the whetted sword; in other words, through a fight where
blood will have to be shed.
Now, I
have no hesitations in saying that to-day, once the die has been cast, it is
not only impossible to win back South Tyrol through a war but I should
definitely take my stand against such a movement, because I am convinced that
it would not be possible to arouse the national enthusiasm of the German people
and maintain it in such a way as would be necessary in order to carry through
such a war to a successful issue. On the contrary, I believe that if we have to
shed German blood once again it would be criminal to do so for the sake of
liberating 200,000 Germans, when more than seven million neighbouring Germans
are suffering under foreign domination and a vital artery of the German nation
has become a playground for hordes of Africans.
Adolf
Hitler
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