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Readings on Fascism and National Socialism - Selected by members of the department of philosophy, University of Colorado by Various
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only function is to insure the material and cultural needs
of its members, but it also represents an elemental
obligation on the part of the members. The eternal Germany
cannot be drawn in on the map; it does not consist of the
constitution or the laws of the state. This Germany is the
community of those who are solemnly bound together and who
experience and realize these eternal national values. This
Germany is our eternal mission, our most sacred law ... The
developing personality must be submerged in the living
reality of the people and the nation from earliest youth on,
must take an active and a suffering part in it. Furthermore
the heroic life demands a recognition and experiencing of
the highest value of life which man must serve with all his
powers. This value can perhaps be recognized and presented
theoretically in the schools but it can only be directly
comprehended and personally experienced in the community of
the people. Therefore all education must preserve this
_direct connection with the community of the people_ and
school education must derive from it the form and substance
of its instruction.[31]

This nationalism, which is based upon the laws of life, has
nothing in common with the weak and presumptuous patriotism
of the liberalistic world; it is not a gift or a favor, not
a possession or a privilege, but it is the form of national
life which we have won in hard battle and which suits our
Nordic-German racial and spiritual heritage. In the
nationalistic personality the powers and values which have
been established in the socialistic personality will be
purposefully exerted for the perfection of the temporal and
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