Faith And Action For The Hitler Youth.pdf

Faith and Action

By Helmut Stellrecht

FOR THE HITLER YOUTH (1938)

Blood

Y ou carry in your blood the holy inheritance of your fathers and forefathers. You do not

know those who have vanished in endless ranks into the darkness of the past. But they all

live in you and walk in your blood upon the earth that consumed them in battle and toil

and in which their bodies have long decayed. £ Your blood is therefore something holy. In

it your parents gave you not only a body, but your nature. £ To deny your blood is to deny

yourself. No one can change it. But each decides to grow the good that one has inherited

and suppress the bad. Each is also given will and courage. £ You do not have only the

right, but also the duty to pass your blood on to your children, for you are a member of

the chain of generations that reaches from the past into eternity, and this link of the chain

that you represent must do its part so that the chain is never broken. £ But if your blood

has traits that will make your children unhappy and burdens to the state, then you have

the heroic duty to be the last. £ The blood is the carrier of life. You carry in it the secret of

creation itself. Your blood is holy, for in it GodÓs will lives.

Race

R ace means to be able to think in a certain way. He who has courage, loyalty and honor,

the mark of the German, has the race that should rule in Germany, even if he does not

have the physical characteristics of the ÐNordicÑ race. The unity of the noble and a noble

body is the goal to which we strive. But we despise those whose noble body carries an

ignoble soul. £ A variety of related European races have merged in Germany. One trunk

grew from these roots. Each race gave its best strength. Each contributed to the German

soul We Germans have a fighting spirit, a look to the horizon, the Ðdesire to do a thing for

its own sakeÑ of the Nordic race. Another racial soul gave us our cozy old cities and our

depth. Yet another racial soul gave us mastery of the magical realm of music. Yet another

gave us our ability to organize, and our silent obedience. £ We can not hold it against

anyone if he carries a variety of racial lines, for the German soul does as well, and

created out of it the immeasurable riches which it possesses above all other nations. The

greatness of our Reich grew out of this soul. £ But the Nordic race must dominate in

Germany and shape the soul of each German. It must win out in the breast of each

individual. Today our ideal is not the artist or the citizen, but the hero. £ Our highest

treasure is the soul that we have been given. He who mixes his blood with that of foreign

inferior races ruins the blood and soul that have been given to him to pass on in purity to

his children. He makes his children impure and miserable, and commits the greatest

crime that he as a National Socialist can commit. £ But he who follows the laws of race

fulfills the great commandment that only like should be brought together with like,

keeping apart those things like fire and water which do not mix.

A People ( VOLK )

A people grows from godÓs will. Woe to him who wishes to destroy the peoples and

make people alike. God created the trees, the bushes, the weeds and the grass not so that

they could merge into one species, but that each should exist in its own way. £ Just as a

tree, a people grows as a living whole from similar roots, but becoming one, the strongest

of its kind. £ All of the same blood belong to it. A people knows no state boundaries. It is

bound by the ties of blood that bind all the sons of a single mother. The German people is

a nation of a hundred million. Each German belongs to it, no matter where he may live.

£ A people cannot be destroyed as long as its roots draw on the strength of the earth.

Summer and winter may come and go. But it always blooms anew in indestructible life

and perfects itself in the strength that rises from its roots towards godÓs will. £ What does

it mean when an individual dies? It is as if the wind blows leaves from a tree. New ones

grow eternally every spring. £ The peoples are the greatest and most noble creation of god

on this earth. There is no institution in the world, no party and no church, that has the

right to make them the same or to rob them of even the tiniest bit of their individuality.

State

A people gives itself its form through the state. There is only one natural form for each

people, only one state. £ In the natural process of growth, each people finds its form and

its state, and finds them again when it has lost them, if only it wants to. £ National

Socialism has broken foreign compulsion and eliminated the unnatural. Germany once

again grows into its own state and is once more itself. £ The best rules, the Fhrer, and he

carries the responsibility because he is best able to bear it. The parliament has ceased to

exist. This form of Western democracy has been abolished. The German states

established by the grace of counts or by Napoleon disappear. The Reich becomes one.

The new state rises:

ÐThe day is coming when a single tent will cover all the German land.Ñ

Socialism

S ocialism means: ÐThe common good before the individual good.Ñ

Socialism means: ÐThink not of yourself, but of the whole, of the people and the state.Ñ

Socialism means: ÐNot the same for everyone, but to each his own.Ñ

These sentences make clear what we call ÐGerman socialism.Ñ No one is a socialist who

does not live according to them. £ A new order grows from these sentences. The sentence

ÐTo each his ownÑ has killed the Ðmass,Ñ the slogan of Marxism, and replaced it with the

Ðcommunity.Ñ Every community grows around a leader. He is the center of its order,

which forms around him. A number of these leaders form a larger community, and stand

around their leader as a living order. It all grows from belowÏthe number growing ever

smallerÏlike a pyramid, and finds its epitome in the Fhrer of the Reich. All are bound

by the community. Each community is a living order. The whole, the great living order, is

the peopleÓs community. It binds inextricably person to person, leader to leader. It does

not give the same to everyone, but to each his own. It creates the socialist people in a

socialist state. £ Each has his task in the community, given to him according to his gifts.

Never do all have the same task, but rather each his own. His task gives him a place in

the community, If he fulfills it completely, he wins the esteem of the others. He is happy,

even if his task is not large in the overall scheme of things. £ Such communities grow in

the field, in assault troops, in artillery battalions, in submarines, in S.A. units. Strong,

bound forever together, wordlessly understanding each other, together until the end,

sworn to a common goal. Strength grows from such communities, and from them grows

the state. £ We want community in Germany so that we can stand unshaken in the face of

whatever may come. The mass is conquered by the community. It gives to each his own,

to each his goal and his task, and everyone together one goal: the peopleÓs community in

the new state.

Fatherland

ÐOh holy heart of the peoples, O Fatherland!Ñ You were created from the endless forests

and wide moors that the glaciers of the ice age left us. It was poor land only made fruitful

through sweat and toil, in joy and sorrow, in endless work. £ One passed you on to the

next and laid down in your earth from which new life grew. In you rest the endless ranks

of past generations, the seed for new sowing in the wide land. The blood of the noble and

brave who defended you fell on you. You were fertilized by the best that you bore. £ From

you, castles and cathedrals rose to the heavens, as if the earth itself wished to rise up to

the god it was seeking. From our earth, from the seed of our dead. £ The land is broad.

Under the care of industrious hands it became a garden. They protected it lovingly, like

the mountains and valleys protect their villages. Proud cities by the rivers, displaying the

splendor of the old Reich. The market fountain has flowed for hundreds of years here.

The gates still stand through which once the Kaiser, the knights and the nobility passed.

£ The silver stream of fate winds through. On the other bank is land that was lost. The

heart almost stops. How one wishes to stroke the distant forests as one would an old and

beloved face. But the heart beats once more on the plains and the coasts that German

colonists won. The castle of the knights stands in the east, an eternal testimony of

strength and virtue. There are the fields from which FrederickÓs eagle rose toward the

sun, and there, far from the borders, is the wall of German dead, an eternal memorial of

the nation that withstood the world as long as it believed in itself. £ Everything is founded

in and rests in you, Fatherland. Our strength and our greatness, but also our need and our

misery. You are the ground that bore us and will bear those distant generations that will

work and bleed for you. £ No one can live without you, but each will gladly give his life

back to you who gave it to him.

Courage

C ourage is the most beautiful and noble trait a man can have. He who has no courage is

not a man. £ The Ðstorming courageÑ of an attack is wonderful. The feeling of having

risked all in service of a high ideal frees one and lets him charge forward with joy.

Courage bears a man as if he had wings, and fills his heart. £ The attack becomes the high

point of life. When everything depends on one card, when one can lose everything, when

one can win everything, life is at its best. He who has never charged and attacked, filled

with courage, has never fully lived. £ Alongside Ðstormy courageÑ is the Ðindomitable

courageÑ of those facing hard fate. ÐFate is great and powerful, but greater still is the

person who bears it unshaken.Ñ £ Life is often harder than death. A coward holds on to it.

No one faces a challenge greater than the strength he has been given to face it. Courage

overcomes all. When one has done all in his power, good luck comes to show him a new

way and help him along. But it is not really good luck. ÐResist all powers, never give in,

be strong, calls the army of the gods.Ñ £ Courage is needed not only by the man, by the

soldier, a woman too needs courage. For the man battle, the attack is the greatest

challenge. For the woman it comes when she gives a new person life. Men who no longer

want to wage war cannot face the mothers who give new life at the risk of their own.

£ Courage is the noblest trait of a man or woman. It determines the battle and gives

victory.

Hardness

L ife demands hardness. One must strive with burning heart toward the ideal of hardness.

To be hard for the sake of life, to become a fighter, to win the victory. £ Our environment

is a given. Burning heat in summer, biting cold in winter, long marches in the wet and

cold. Working long at the factory, or behind a machine gun. Bearing hunger and thirst,

sleeping on the bare earth, not surrendering in battle, never, never, no matter how

hopeless everything sees, hurling an empty pistol in the face of the enemy, reaching for

his neck without regard for oneself, even if it leads to death. To be a fighter, a fighter

with faith in his cause, even if everyone says it is a false cause. That brings victory, the

victory that belongs to him who is the harder. £ You should never give up in battle or

work. Even if you fail a thousand times, you must make the thousand and first attempt. In

the end it will succeed and you will be the victor, even if almost bled dry, almost faint,

but filled with the triumphant knowledge of having overcome. You are victor in your

struggle and victor over yourself. £ Each must prepare for his battle. Each must train as if

he will one day fight the decisive battle for Germany. Each must be able to march, suffer

hunger and thirst, sleep on bare ground, bear all privations, be a fighter, a soldier from the

moment he can understand what is at stake. £ We need men hard and tough as steel,

harder than anything else in the world. Only they will master the great future of

Germany. Do you want to be one of them, or stand aside as a weakling? £ Germany will

be the land of the brave and the strong. Either you belong to them, or you will no longer

be a German.

Will

W ill is the force inside you that commands. You may hesitate from weariness, anxiety,

weakness. Will lifts you over every barrier and orders you to do what your feelings and

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