From 'Mein Kampf' - Foreign Policy: The Choice of Allies
From 'Mein Kampf' - Foreign Policy: The Choice of Allies
Source: J. Remak (ed.), The Nazi Years: A Documentary History, (Prentice - Hall, 1969), pp.110-111.
... Only when people in Germany will have understood that the German nation's will to life must not wither away in a merely passive defence, only when we have the strength for a final active confrontation with France, and offer a last great decisive battle with some grand German aims indeed, only then will the eternal and basically unfruitful contest between us and France come to an end. What is basic, however, is that Germany truly sees the destruction of France as a means to an end, which is to enable our nation subsequently to expand elsewhere at long last. ...
Hitler, Mein Kampf, pp. 766-67
… There can, in the foreseeable future, be only two allies for Germany in Europe: England and Italy.
... The struggle which Fascist Italy is waging against the three principal weapons of Jewry (at bottom unconsciously, perhaps, although I do not believe this) are the best signs that, even if indirectly, this power beyond the nations is having its fangs broken. The ban on the secret Masonic societies, the persecution of the supranational press, and the permanent damage done to international Marxism on the one side; and on the other, the steady strengthening of the Fascist concept of the state will, over the years, allow the Italian government to render increasing service to the interests of the Italian people, without concern for the hissing of the Jewish world hydra.
Things in England are more difficult. Here, in this "freest of democracies," there are few limits to Jewish dictation, by way of the control of public opinion. And yet, here too a constant struggle is taking place between those who represent the interests of the British State and those who are doing battle for a Jewish dictatorship of the world. ...
Hitler, Mein Kampf, pp. 705 and 721
... If, then, we closely examine Germany's diplomatic options, only two European states are left as valuable and potential allies. They are Italy and England. Even now, the relationship between Italy and England is a good one, nor is it, for reasons I mentioned elsewhere, likely to suffer any setbacks in the near future. This has nothing to do with mutual sympathies. It rather rests, above all on the Italian side, on a sensible evaluation of actual power relationship. Also, both states share a dislike of the boundless, unlimited French hegemony in Europe. In Italy's case, that is so because its most vital interests are threatened. In England's it is because a France that is too powerful in Europe might be a new threat to Britain's maritime and global dominion, which even now is no longer unquestioned. ...
