Throughout the centuries of Germanyโs sorrowful history, the yearning of the best and noblest Germans for a Reich, for a true German reality, shines forth. And German history is replete with instances of indignation, uprising, reform, and Reformation; yet there is one example we do not find in the entirety of German history to date: the example of revolution! We have indeed had revolutionary thinkers and scholars, statesmen, peasant leaders, kings, and soldiers; but revolution requires more than just a great leader. It requires men and women who offer their allegiance, who allow themselves to be swept up by the leaderโs vision into decisive action; it requires a people who dare to take the great leap. We Germans are not a people of revolution! The reason for this lies in the fact that, throughout the centuries, we were not merely a nation of peasants, there are certainly revolutionary peasant peoples, and land ownership is by no means a prerequisite for a conservative mindset; this fundamental misconception, too, must finally be dispelled. Nor is our peopleโs mindset by any means docile; rather, we were a people so incredibly and unprecedentedly fragmented, both geographically and, above all, in spirit, that a unified German image had to be forged from this mosaic only through arduous struggles. Thus, we were preserved for our revolution, one that is destined to be the most modern and comprehensive of all. Destined to be! For we still stand at the beginning of the process of becoming a Reich, the ultimate goal of our revolution, and it is not yet possible to foresee when that revolution will reach its conclusion. But what, after all, is revolution? We have first defined what it is not: it must not be confused with its outward manifestations, with coups and uprisings! Literally, revolution means a turning over. Let us dwell on this word for a moment. A raft, for instance, that is overloaded capsizes. In a revolution, the encrustations that have formed over centuries, alien to the people and hostile to their nature, are shattered, laying bare the primal substance of the people. [...] The German soldier, who experienced his revolutionary transformation in battle, no longer saw in his new worldview the narrow, highly arbitrary, and therefore by no means permanent borders of states, but learned to recognize the world as a sum of races and peoples who, more or less consciously, more or less bravely, more or less cleverly, fought for justice, freedom, space, and life. This realization did not shake him. At most, it led him, as a consequence, to throw overboard the "doctrines of love" and "religions" that had hitherto acted as a psychological burden because they obscured the reality of the struggle and attempted to deceive and theorize away the reality of life. The soldier took his own stand. That was his revolution! Penetrating the essence of things freed the German from the illusions that had hitherto confused him. His world was thereby "disenchanted"โand only obscurantists who had previously lived off this magic could regret thisโbut it became honest and truthful. If you ask a soldier about the meaning of fighting, if he is a conscious warrior, he will never speak merely of defending, say, "throne and altar," but will say that he bears arms for the development of his people, for the right of his nation to exist, for the order of his race. And with that, he has found his standard. He no longer knows "goodness" as such. He also knows no "deed in itself." Everything for him is purposeful in relation to his people. A valuable person is one who makes their value useful in and for their people. Whoever carries their value into the desert is a traitor! A simple morality? Yes! But an honest one! Only anonymous powers have an interest in a different morality.
Source: "Die Revolution zu uns selber" Die Kriegerische Revolution. Franz Eher Nachf Verlag Berlin 1941 p.16
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