tical program of the
National Socialist movement, as expressed in the foregoing paragraphs,
and its foreign policy was indicated by Hitler when he wrote in _Mein
Kampf_ (document 13-I, _post_ p. 226):

As National Socialists we can further set forth the
following principle with regard to the nature of the foreign
policy of a folk-state:

_It is the task of the foreign policy of a folk-state to
secure the existence on this planet of the race which is
encompassed by the state and at the same time to establish a
healthy, viable, natural relation between the number and
growth of the folk on the one hand and the size and quality
of its soil and territory on the other hand._[96]

And in the same work he states:

Yes, we can only learn from the past that we must undertake
the setting of aims for our political activity in two
directions: _Soil and territory as the goal of our foreign
policy, and a new, philosophically firm and uniform
foundation as the goal of our domestic political
activity._[97]

The political objectives of National Socialism, then, by definition of
Hitler himself, are the internal unification of the German people and
external expansion.

While the Nazis have never concealed the first of these objectives,
the second was the subject for a great deal of dissimulation up to the
outbreak of the present war. Typical of the false front which the
Nazis presented to the outside world with reference to their foreign
policy objectives are the statements made by Dr. Scurla in _Basic
Principles of National Socialism With Special Reference to Foreign
Countries_. Dr. Scurla quotes Hitler's speech of May 17, 1933 in which
he said, "We see the European nations around us as given facts.
French, Poles, etc., are our neighbor peoples, and we know that no
conceivable historic occurrence could change this reality,"[98] and
comments:

This folk principle, which has grown out of the National
Socialist ideology, implies the recognition of the
independence and the equal rights of each people. We do not
see how anyone can discern in this a "pan-Germanic" and
imperialistic threat against our neighbors. This principle
does not admit the difference between "great powers" and
"minor states," between majority peoples and minorities. It
means at the same time a clear rejection of any imperialism
which aims at t