Nationalism and Cultural Identity in Germany

I could supplement these examples with dozens of the most

cruel kind. For this reason, we ask to be spared

all sentimental talk. The German nation does not wish its

interests to

be determined and controlled by any foreign nation, France to the French,

England to the English, America to the Americans,

and Germany to the

Germans. We are resolved to prevent the settlement

in our country of a

strange people which was capable of snatching for itself all

the leading

positions in the land and to oust it, for it is our

will to educate our own nation for these leading positions.

We have hundreds of thousands of very intelligent children, of peasants,

and of the working classes. We shall have them educated.

In fact, we have already begun, and we wish that one day they, and

not the representatives of an alien race, may hold the leading positions in the

state together with our educated classes.

Above all, German culture, as its name alone shows, is

German and not Jewish, and therefore its management

and care will be

entrusted to members of our own nation.

If the rest of the world cries out with a hypocritical mien against this barbaric

expulsion from Germany of such an irreplaceable and culturally eminently

valuable element, we can only be astonished at the

conclusions they draw

from this situation. For how thankful they must be that we are

releasing these precious apostles of culture and placing them at the

disposal of the rest of the world. In accordance with their own

declarations, they cannot find a single reason to excuse