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As long as an alert Germanic instinct exists at all, the Reich finds its expression in the yearning for the union of space and race.

Far from all mysticism and infertile romanticism, German man has fought in all centuries for the hard reality of his right, for the realization of his ideas and yearnings.

Ideas are not to be grasped as numbers and dates. They rise up from a folk's soul and are shaped by the passion of the sensation, by the deed, into reality.

We know today probably more than sufficiently the abundantly doubtful fates and reports, embellished with miracle stories, of those ruinous twelve tribes of Israel. We are knowledgeable of Hellas and Rome, but we have previously heard very little about the German struggle for life right and folkish reality.

What we do know today already of Theodorich, that mighty Germanic leader, a long time before Charlemagne, what do we know of all the great heralds and singers of German splendor, of the martyrs of Germanic freedom? A darkness lies over the time of the Germanic awakening. But not the darkness of folkish lack of history, the faceless anonymity of primitive primeval folks, it is instead the horrible darkness of a space in which all sources of light were violently destroyed. An

"objective science", a slave to folk-hostile powers, has tried to extinguish even the tiniest rays of light of memory, so that today we can, only carefully probing, wander back into the land of origin of your soul and of its yearnings.

Ludwig the Pious, who certainly did not receive his surname, because he fought especially persistently for German freedom, systematically destroyed not only the

"pagan" works of art, rather he tried to exterminate everything that somehow reminded of a time that reached back before Charlemagne.

A long time already before Charlemagne, Theodorich fought against the great adversary, the Pope, for the folkish right and the earthly justification of the great Germanic folks: for their space and for their freedom!

He wanted to create a homeland for the young race of the warlike north, for the brave conquerors of the Balkans and of the Mediterranean, for the defiant men of the light, who were too proud to kneel before gods and men. Theodorich's Reich was supposed to extend from the coast of the Baltic Sea to the lands of North Africa. This was not, say, the dream of a power-hungry conqueror, whom greed drove; this was instead the clear political will of a statesman, drawing from the realization of his folk's life necessities the energy for will and deed, who had the courage to claim total power in his Reich. He contested the Pope – back then,

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the strongest political power – any right to co-governing, he wanted to know a free folk living in his mighty land. A folk whose Reich should be of this world!

Step by step, he achieved the realization of his plans and he was close to the goal of his struggle, when an abrupt death snatched him away.

In the myths and legends, in the songs, sagas and stories of the folk, however, King Theodorich was resurrected again as Dietrich von Bern, as the eternal caller, proclaimer and admonisher, who – similar to the eternally wandering Odin, the white horse rider, by day and even more so in the whispering and rustling nights of the wide forests and the endless plains – did not let the souls of his folk's alert and yearning come to rest.

Theodorich, Dietrich von Bern, who grew into the embodiment of all freedom yearnings, in his image later absorbs all the other Germanic heroes and leaders.

We find in his countenance traits of Odin, of Arnim and Siegfried. He is the good spirit in the mountain, he is the faithful Ekkehart; all the fighters and heralds of the Reich of this world affirm him: Vogelweider, Hutten and Fischart.

The yearning for the Reich and the faith in the final realization, in resurrection and return of Germanic greatness, interlaces the songs, the calls and even the stammering of the free spirits of the German folk. The great suffering for freedom has been able to kindle the passionate seekers and heralds of our race only to even brighter and greater flames. From this deep passion, from the demonic of our German blood so hated by the darker powers, did they all emerge, the great German state creators, the Heinrichs, the Ottos to the Great Elector, to Frederick the Great, to Bismarck. Even in the times of the darkest and most disgraceful betrayal, the spark of yearning has never been extinguished.

We soldiers see in the Führer the unerring passionate German human being determined for ultimate hardness, who – across the centuries – has absorbed all the legacy and the great obligation of our blood into his shaping will and fulfills the great, eternally alert command of the history of our race: To build the great Germanic Reich of German nation out of the eternity of our glorious history no longer to be darkened by any power of darkness, which can be deduced at all from the primeval beginnings of human culture and extends into the eternity of coming generations of free German human beings.

We soldiers feel the happiness to be allowed, through the deed with our sacrifice, to help work on the realizations of our folk's most daring ideas and the most elevating dreams. We understand today why our folk was again and again driven into warlike entanglements: for the dark powers of the world, it was about once and for all extinguishing the fire of freedom. But we felt ourselves called upon, in defiance of the night of hatred, to radiate the glow of yearning into the world, and the Reich, for which we have fought and bled, will be the refuge of the true

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freedom of this world. Our children and grandchildren will be given space and honor and grow from eternity to eternity for as long as alertness and knowledge, readiness and loyalty, constant and incorruptible men exist, who allow neither satiated rest nor hedonistic comfort to arise. Hence it is necessary that we Germans remain a folk of warriors, for our Reich is a soldierly Reich.

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