e received
when at the age of twenty or twenty-two he has completed his
education or his military service or has finished the labor
service which he owes to the state and after having given
evidence of honorable conduct. The right to nationality,
which must be earned, must become an opportunity for every
German to strive for complete humanity and achievement in
the service of the _Volk_. This consciousness, which must
always be kept alive, will cause him to regard this earned
good quite differently from the way it was regarded in the
past and today more than ever.

The prevailing concept of state nationality completely
ignores the idea of race. According to it whoever has a
German passport is a German, whoever has Czech documents is
a Czech, although he may have not a single drop of Czech
blood in his veins ...

National Socialism also sees in the nature of the structure
and leadership of the state an outflowing of a definite
character in the _Volk_. If one permits a wholly foreign
race--subject to other impulses--to participate therein, the
purity of the organic expression is falsified and the
existence of the _Volk_ is crippled....

This whole concept of the state [parliamentary democracy] is
replaced by National Socialism with a basically different
concept. National Socialism recognizes that, although the
individual racial strains in German-speaking territory
differ, they nevertheless belong to closely related races,
and that many mixtures among the members of these different
branches have produced new and vital strains, among them the
complex but still _German_ man, but that a mixture with the
Jewish enemy race, which in its whole spiritual and physical
structure is basically different and antagonistic and has
strong resemblances to the peoples of the Near East, can
only result in bastardization.[41]

True to the tradition of German imperialism, Rosenberg does not
confine his ideas of racial supremacy to the Germans in the Reich
alone. He even extends them to the United States, where he envisages
the day when the awakening German element will realize its destiny in
this country. In _Der Mythus des 20. Jahrhunderts_, for example, he
writes, "After throwing off the worn-out idea upon which it was
founded ... i.e., after the destruction of the idea r