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The program of the German Workers' Party is limited as to period. The leaders have no intention, once
the aims announced in it have been achieved, of setting up fresh ones in order to ensure the continued
existence of the Party by the artificially inspired discontent of the masses.
1. We demand the union of all Germans, on the basis of the right of the self-determination of peoples,
to form a Great Germany.
2. We demand equality of rights for the German people in its dealings with other nations, and abolition
of the Peace Treaties of Versailles and St. Germain.
3. We demand land and territory (colonies) for the nourishment of our people and for settling our
surplus population.
4. None but members of the nation may be citizens of the State. None but those of German blood,
whatever their creed, may be members of the nation. No Jew, therefore, may be a member of the
nation.
5. Anyone who is not a citizen of the State may live in Germany only as a guest and must be regarded as
being subject to the Alien Laws.
6. The right of voting on the leadership and laws of the State is to be enjoyed by the citizens of the State
alone. We demand, therefore, that all official positions, of whatever kind, whether in the Reich, the
provinces, or the small communities, shall be held by citizens of the State alone.
We oppose the corrupt parliamentary custom of filling posts merely with a view to party considerations,
and without reference to character or ability.
7. We demand that the State shall make it its first duty to promote the industry and livelihood of the
citizens of the State. If it is not possible to nourish the entire population of the State, foreign nationals
(non-citizens of the State) must be excluded from the Reich.
8. All further non-German immigration must be prevented. We demand that all non-Germans who
entered Germany subsequently to August 2, 1914, shall be required forthwith to depart from the Reich.
9. All citizens of the State shall possess equal rights and duties.
10. It must be the first duty of every citizen of the State to perform mental or physical work. The
activities of the individual must not clash with the interests of the whole, but must proceed within the
framework of the community and must be for the general good.
We demand therefore:
11. Abolition of incomes unearned by work.
Breaking of the Thralldom of Interest
12. In view of the enormous sacrifice of life and property demanded of a nation by every war, personal
enrichment through war must be regarded as a crime against the nation. We demand, therefore, the
total confiscation of all war profits.
13. We demand the nationalization of all businesses which have (hitherto) been amalgamated (into
trusts).
14. We demand that there shall be profit sharing in the great industries.
15. We demand a generous development of provision for old age.
16. We demand the creation and maintenance of a healthy middle class, immediate communalization of
the large department stores and their lease at a low rate to small traders, and that the most careful
consideration shall be shown to all small traders in purveying to the State, the provinces, or smaller
communities.
17. We demand a land reform suitable to our national requirements, the passing of a law for the
confiscation without compensation of land for communal purposes, the abolition of interest on land
mortgages, and prohibition of all speculation in land. 2
18. We demand ruthless war upon all those whose activities are injurious to the common interest.
Sordid criminals against the nation, usurers, profiteers, etc., must be punished with death, whatever
their creed or race.
19. We demand that the Roman law, which serves the materialistic world order, shall be replaced by a
German common law.
20. With the aim of opening to every capable and industrious German the possibility of higher education
and consequent advancement to leading positions, the State must consider a thorough reconstruction
of our national system of education. The curriculum of all educational establishments must be brought
into line with the requirements of practical life. Directly the mind begins to develop the schools must
aim at teaching the pupil to understand the idea of the State (State sociology). We demand the
education of specially gifted children of poor parents, whatever their class or occupation, at the expense
of the State.
21. The State must apply itself to raising the standard of health in the nation by protecting mothers and
infants, prohibiting child labor, and increasing bodily efficiency by legally obligatory gymnastics and
sports, and by extensive support of clubs engaged in the physical training of the young.
22. We demand the abolition of mercenary troops and the formation of a national army.
23. We demand legal warfare against conscious political lies and their dissemination in the press. In
order to facilitate the creation of a
German national press we demand that:
(a ) all editors, and their co-workers, of newspapers employing the German language must be members
of the nation;
(b ) special permission from the State shall be necessary before non-German newspapers may appear
(these need not necessarily be printed in the German language)
(c ) non-Germans shall be prohibited by law from participating financially in or influencing German
newspapers, and the penalty for contravention of the law shall be suppression of any such newspaper,
and immediate deportation of the non-German involved.
It must be forbidden to publish newspapers which are damaging to the national welfare. We demand
the legal prosecution of all tendencies in art and literature which exert a destructive influence on our
national life and the closing of institutions which militate against the abovementioned requirements.
24. We demand liberty for all religious denominations in the State, so far as they are not a danger to it
and do not militate against the moral and ethical feelings of the German race.
The Party, as such, stands for positive Christianity, but does not bind itself in the matter of creed to any
particular confession. It combats the Jewish-materialist spirit within and without us, and is convinced
that our nation can achieve permanent recovery from within only on the principle:
The Common Interest before Self-Interest
25. That all the foregoing requirements may be realized we demand the creation of a strong, central
national authority; unconditional authority of the central legislative body over the entire Reich and its
organizations in general; and the formation of diets and vocational chambers for the purpose of
executing the general laws promulgated by the Reich in the various States of the Confederation.
The leaders of the Party swear to proceed regardless of consequences - if necessary at the sacrifice of
their lives - toward the fulfillment of the foregoing Points.
Adolf Hitler has emphasized the two cornerstones of the program by printing them in heavy type:
The Common Interest before Self-Interest- that is the Spirit of the Program.
Breaking of the Thralldom of Interest- that is the Kernel of National Socialism.