The Archive · 1941

Organization by Continents

He contemplates organization of the world by Continents. He envisages an integrated Europe, with Berlin at its head, and the utter eradication of arbitrary' boundaries. He sees no sense in signposts which record that Denmark is to the right and Germany to the left. This picture also contemplates the organization of backward lands on other Continents as economic feeders of Burope.

The Hitler conception rejects international trade as a voluntary activity among peoples. His vision is of a controlled commerce, wherein payment for the goods {s a subordinate consideration, the main objective being that the supply should always be flowing to and from Europe.

Thus, he would constantly restrict the area in which money functions, and. substitute a direct exchange of rods and services, using bookkeeping. He thinks that bookkeeping can very largely take the place of money. The Hitler conception involves a caste system for humanity. This is not particularly new, since caste began with society, but it is novel in the method Hitler would use.

He would enforce his caste by allocation of education. Thus. he would not permit those who are to do the common work to have access to educational facilities. He would Implicit in the German plan for domination of the world is the destruction of Christianity. Moves in that direction antedated Hitler. Germany mothered the' so-called "higher criticism" which was designed to destroy faith in Christianity by intellectually riddling it at the base.

The German idea is that force. not love, should rule, that selfishness is altogether more desirable than unselfishness; that kindliness is destr tive of progress. So, at every point Hitlerism is antagonistic to Christianity. Both cannot survive. One or the other must yield. and the whole German dream falls, collapses and is thrust into the mire if Christianity survives,

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