are
work ... The great misconception of the democracies is that
they can see the active participation of the people only in
the form of plebiscites according to the principle of
majority. In a democracy the people does not act as a unit
but as a complex of unrelated individuals who form
themselves into parties ... The new Reich is based on the
principle that real action of a self-determining people is
only possible according to the principle of leadership and
following.[9]

According to Huber, geographical considerations play a large part in
the shaping of a people:

The people stands in a double relation, to its lands; it
settles and develops the land, but the land also stamps and
determines the people ... That a certain territory belongs
to a certain people is not justified by state authority
alone but it is also determined objectively by its
historical, political position. Territory is not merely a
field for the exercise of state control but it determines
the nature of a people and thereby the historical purpose of
the state's activity. England's island position, Italy's
Mediterranean position, and Germany's central position
between east and west are such historical conditions, which
unchangeably form the character of the people.[10]

But the new Germany is based upon a "unity and entirety of the
people"[11] which does not stop at geographical boundaries:

The German people forms a closed community which recognizes
no national borders. It is evident that a people has not
exhausted its possibilities simply in the formation of a
national state but that it represents an independent
community which reaches beyond such limits.[12]

The State justifies itself only so far as is helps the people to
develop itself more fully. In the words of Hitler, quoted by Huber
from _Mein Kampf_, "It is a basic principle, therefore, that the state
represents not an end but a means. It is a condition for advanced
human culture, but not the cause of it ... Its purpose is in the
maintenance and advancement of a community of human beings with common
physical and spiritual characteristics."[13]

Huber continues:

In the theory of the folk-Reich _[voelkisches Reich_], people
and state are conceived as an inseparable unity. The people
is the prerequisite for the entire political order; the