THE FUTURE AGAINST HITLER

Enthusiasm is natural to youth, and these children have
known no regime other than Hitler's.

No, the German people wants a German revolution,
that is to say a national and social revolution.

The German people wants Volksgemeinschaft, the
community of the people. It wants liberty at home,
that is to say, democratic self-administration; it wants
liberty abroad, that is to say the same national rights
as other peoples.

The German people wants a new political, legal and
economic order at home; it wants peace in Germany,
peace in Europe, and peace in the world.

Am I not just as much a part of the German people
as Adolf Hitler?

Are the millions of workers, peasants, Catholics,
and socialists not a part of the German people? Are
the fighters of the Black Front and officers like Pastor
Niemoller and Colonel Mahraun1 not part of the Ger-
man people?

I have addressed millions of Germans; hundreds of
thousands of Hitler's followers have read my articles;
tens of thousands have read my books and pamphlets.
I can vouch that the best of my compatriots only
followed Hitler so long as they saw in him the standard-
bearer of the German revolution; and I believe that
all the healthy and honourable elements in my country
will cease to follow him on the day on which they
realize how they have been deceived. That day, if it

1 A German officer who made an attempt at rapprochement between
Germany and France. He lost an eye as a result of treatment received in a
concentration camp.

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