The System tolerates communist rabble-rousing against the state, just as it tolerates murderous communist rabble-rousing against National Socialists

The System alone bears the guilt for the rise of the Bolshevist danger, for its toleration has paved the way for communism

As long as such an intolerable situation exists in Germany, all the talk about unity is nothing but a dangerous illusion. If this System remains in control the bolshevist danger will continue to grow enormously, until one day catastrophe will fall on Germany. It will be a catastrophe of incredible scope.

Bolshevism in Germany means nothing other than

World war!

Even worse, a world war

On German soil!

That is no empty threat to scare good, prosperous citizens, but rather a grave danger that threatens Germany’s ruination.

One need only recall Germany’s current situation.

Germany is open on all sites, sitting defenseless in the center of Europe. Three large national states surround Germany, bound together by military treaties:

France, Poland, and Czechoslovakia

These three national states (as opposed to a Bolshevist state) together have about 8 million soldiers equipped with the best modern weapons.

Does anyone in the world believe that these three national states would or could tolerate a Bolshevist stronghold between them? A Bolshevist stronghold that would over time spread to France, Poland, and Czechoslovakia? For a Bolshevist Germany could survive only by infecting its neighbors with Bolshevism.

These three national states, France, Poland, and Czechoslovakia would have no choice, if they did not want to surrender — which a national state will never do — than to strangle the Bolshevist stronghold in their midst, whether they want to or not. It would be a matter of their own survival. Does anyone believe that French foreign policy — the cleverest in Europe after the World War — would wait until Bolshevists were marching into Paris or Warsaw? But that means world war.

For just as surely as these three national states would intervene, so, too, would Soviet Russia become involved in the conflict. For Soviet Russia, Germany is a stepping stone on the path to world revolution. Russian Bolshevism stands or falls with the doctrine of world revolution. The Russian Soviet state to some degree is built on this doctrine. Russia’s intervention would mean world war!

This world war would take place on German soil. Quite simply, a Bolshevist Germany is the only state that would have no means to defend itself against the invasion of foreign armies.