consider the German order obligatory for other peoples.  National Socialism, as has been said a hundred times, is exclusively the sum total of the German world-view.[100]

Similar assurances by Nazi leaders were frequently made in order to induce a sense of security in neighboring countries.  Hitler, for example, in a proclamation opening the party congress at Nuremberg on September 11, 1935 said: 

National Socialism has no aggressive intentions against any European nation.  On the contrary, we are convinced that the nations of Europe must continue their characteristic national existence, as created by tradition, history and economy; if not, Europe as a whole will be destroyed.[101]

But such assurances, which were intended exclusively for foreign consumption, were refuted by the basic policy laid down in Mein Kampf, which has been persistently pursued throughout the 10 years of the Nazi regime and has been realized to the extent that Germany now dominates and is in control of most of the European continent.  In Mein Kampf (document 13-I, post p. 226) Hitler wrote: 

Our task, the mission of the National Socialist movement, however, is to lead our folk to such political insight that it will see its future goal fulfilled not in the intoxicating impression of a new Alexandrian campaign but rather in the industrious work of the German plow, which waits only to be given land by the sword.[102]

Hitler suggests a future foreign policy for Germany which would assure Lebensraum and domination of the European continent.  In Mein Kampf he states: 

     But the political testament of the German nation for its
     outwardly directed activity should and must always have the
     following import: 

Never tolerate the establishment of two continental powers in Europe.  See an attack against Germany in every attempt to organize a second military power on the German borders, even if it is only in the form of the establishment of a state which is a potential military power, and see therein not only the right but also the duty to prevent the formation of such a state with all means, even to the use of force, or if it has already been established, to destroy it again.  See to it that the strength of our folk has its foundations not in colonies but in the soil of the European homeland.  Never regard the foundations of the Reich as secure, if it is not able to give every off-shoot of our folk its own bit of soil and territory for centuries to come.  Never forget that the most sacred right in the world is the right to the soil which a man wishes to till himself, and the most sacred sacrifice is the blood which he spills for this soil.[103]

It is impossible to adduce from the writings of Hitler, or other Nazi leaders direct statements indicating that they aspire to the domination of the entire world.  Such expressions, however, may be inferred not only from the direction of German foreign policy and the effusions of the geopoliticians but also from the following statement made by Hitler in Mein Kampf (document 13-I, post p. 226):