The Reich as Task

By Friedrich Schmidt. Translated from the Third Reich original.

From the introduction: “The simplest and most unpretentious German today feels that political changes of the greatest magnitude are now dawning on the European continent. These are changes whose scope cannot be foreseen at present. Beyond that, anyone who concerns himself with the spiritual forces of the present feels that this European New Order means a complete spiritual and intellectual reevaluation of all European traditions. We are certain that at the moment the war comes to an end, a New European Order must become a fact. – Yes, we are convinced that we as Germans are called upon to be the decisive bearers of this European New Order.

“We must hence today become clear about the position of the National Socialist revolution and hence the position of the German folk or the Germanic world of the present inside the European space.

“When we hence speak of the events and the necessities that emerge from this war, then we must put the war and the end of the war in the millennia of German and Germanic history. For only through a comparison with German history do the events of the present receive their necessary outline and reveal their full significance in the whole fate of the German folk.”

P/B, 44pp