the structure of the state but with the role of the
individual in the life of the people:
National Socialist political science concerns itself not
with education to citizenship but with preparation for
membership in the German people.... Not the structure of the
state but the strength of a people determines the value and
the strength of an individual life. The state must be an
organization which corresponds to the laws of the people's
life and assists in their realization.[34]
Such indeed is the supreme goal of all National Socialist education:
to make each individual an expression of "the eternal German":
Whoever wishes fully to realize himself, whoever wishes to
experience and embody the eternal German ideal within
himself must lift his eyes from everyday life and must
listen to the beat of his blood and his conscience ... He
must be capable of that superhuman greatness which is ready
to cast aside all temporal bonds in the battle for German
eternity ... National Socialist education raises the eternal
German character into the light of our consciousness ...
National Socialism is the eternal law of our German life;
the development of the eternal German is the transcendental
task of National Socialist education.[35]
Racial Supremacy
The theory of the racial supremacy of the Nordic, i.e., the German,
which was developed by Wagner and Stewart Chamberlain reaches its
culmination in the writings of Alfred Rosenberg, the high priest of
Nazi racial theory and herald of the _Herrenvolk_ (master race).
Rosenberg developed his ideas in the obscure phraseology of _Der
Mythus des 20. Jahrhunderts_ (_The Myth of the Twentieth Century_)
(document 3, _post_ p. 174). "The 'meaning of world history'," he
wrote, "has radiated out from the north over the whole world, borne by
a blue-eyed blond race which in several great waves determined the
spiritual face of the world ... These wander-periods were the
legendary migration of the Atlantides across north Africa, the
migration of the Aryans into India and Persia; the migration of the
Dorians, Macedonians, Latins; the migration of the Germanic tribes;
the colonization of the world by the Germanic Occident."[36] He
discusses at length Indian, Persian, Greek, Roman, and European
cultures; in each case, he concludes, the culture is created by the
ruling Nordic element and declines through th
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