The Stupidity of the System’s Foreign Policy

It is furthermore untrue, Mr. Reich Chancellor, that any of our responsible party leaders has called for “a stupid foreign policy” that is even one thousandth as bad as the stupid foreign policy of the last twelve years, which today is a historically demonstrable fact. Signing the Young Plan alone, which allows France to set reparations payments at whatever level it wishes, was an act of political stupidity that cannot be outweighed by a thousand rhetorical gaffes, even if they actually were that. Thirteen years after the World War the German Reich is in a hopelessly desperate condition. Surely that is not because of of the wisdom of our political leadership, but rather because all imaginable political stupidities were put into practice by our foreign policy leaders.

Perhaps a kindly fate will some time in the future send the German people a statesman of real stature whose commission comes not from the 8-Uhr-Blatt or the Morgenpost, but from history itself, a man who will have the time and energy to weigh the foreign policy achievements of 1918-1932 from the standpoint of posterity. I fear that he will have difficulty finding even the smallest scrap of “wisdom” from our time to place on the scale. It will be impossible for him, however, to to find weights heavy enough to counterbalance the stupidities.

Let us consider current events:

Do you really believe, Mr. Reich Chancellor, that from the perspective of foreign policy it correct and intelligent to call a movement that from the national-political viewpoint is Germany’s only active proponent of a truly nationalist foreign policy an “illegal” and “destructive” band of criminals? Even though doing so does not slow the victory of this movement in the slightest?

It it really “statesmanlike wisdom” to attack a party whose victorious march has been unstoppable despite twelve years of oppression, telling the world through an evil-minded press that it is a danger for human society, for tranquility, peace, and order, thereby darkening the name of the inevitable New Germany in the eyes of the world?

There are more leaders and members of the National Socialist movement who fought in the great World War than in any other party. We came to know each other under terrible conditions. None of us wishes for a war. Nonetheless, we have remained men who think less of our lives than of freedom when that is necessary. If one screams that that is a “bloodthirsty spirit” that should be exterminated, one signs a death warrant for our nation!