Adolf Hitler's Own Book Mein Kampf (My Battle)/Chapter 20
Chapter XX
Strong Man
Several groups that called themselves “racial” cropped up in 1918-1919 out of the natural force of events. By 1920 the Nazi party had slowly emerged as the victor among them. The honesty of the founders of the various parties was then demonstrated, in many cases, by their willingness to allow themselves to be either dissolved or incorporated into our party.
Especially is this true of Julius Streicher, who headed the German Socialist Party in Nuremberg; he led all his followers into the Nazi movement.
When great problems arise in the course of history, masses of people come to long for salvation, and so individuals begin to rise up to lead the way, or to attempt to. But one man is chosen by destiny for the task, although usually it takes a long time for it to be understood by the others that this is really the leader, when he first appears.
Hitler, and
Only Hitler!
Yet an inevitable law of nature, no matter if only after centuries of struggle, finally allows the correct man to arrive in the position awaiting him.
This always has been and forever will be.
Therefore, it is not to be regretted when several or many people battle to lead the way to the same goal—the best will be recognized, and inevitably he will win.
Nothing that is great in this world is the result of coalitions—victories are always won by individuals.
Even if the policy of alliance leads to a victory, it can only be temporary, for it contains the germ of decay. Great revolutionary changes are conceivable only as the result of the titanic struggle of individual units.
The racial state will never be created by the compromising methods of a racial workers’ coalition, but only by the iron determination of a single movement that is willing to fight in defiance of everyone.
- (Hitler stubbornly refused any compromises, ousting from the Nazi party all who advocated coalition too strongly, during the years of the development of the movement. He jealously kept himself secure as the leader of the party itself, brooking no competitors.
- (Only when voting in common with the German National party insured victory in the election of March, 1933, did Hitler break this rule concerning party politics.)