alone but it is also determined objectively by its
historical, political position. Territory is not merely a
field for the exercise of state control but it determines
the nature of a people and thereby the historical purpose of
the state's activity. England's island position, Italy's
Mediterranean position, and Germany's central position
between east and west are such historical conditions, which
unchangeably form the character of the people.[10]

But the new Germany is based upon a "unity and entirety of the
people"[11] which does not stop at geographical boundaries:

The German people forms a closed community which recognizes
no national borders. It is evident that a people has not
exhausted its possibilities simply in the formation of a
national state but that it represents an independent
community which reaches beyond such limits.[12]

The State justifies itself only so far as is helps the people to
develop itself more fully. In the words of Hitler, quoted by Huber
from _Mein Kampf_, "It is a basic principle, therefore, that the state
represents not an end but a means. It is a condition for advanced
human culture, but not the cause of it ... Its purpose is in the
maintenance and advancement of a community of human beings with common
physical and spiritual characteristics."[13]

Huber continues:

In the theory of the folk-Reich _[völkisches Reich_], people
and state are conceived as an inseparable unity. The people