In compliance with the ruling of the Munich People’s Court on April 1, 1924, I was to begin my confinement in the Landsberg prison on the Lech River that day.
Thus, after many years of uninterrupted work, the opportunity presented itself to me for the first time to begin a project demanded by many and which I myself considered useful to the National Socialist cause. Consequently, I had decided to expound not only on the aims of our movement but also to outline a picture of its development, from which it will be possible to learn more than from any purely doctrinal study.
I have also wanted to give in these pages an account of my own evolution to the extent necessary for a better understanding of the book and also at the same time destroy the biased legends about me propagated by the Jewish press.
In writing this work I am not addressing myself to outsiders, but to those who, wholeheartedly attached to the movement, long to penetrate more deeply into the National Socialist ideology.
I know well that the spoken word wins over people’s wills more easily than the written word, and that the progress of every transcendental movement in the world has generally been due more to great orators than to great writers.
However, it is essential that a doctrine be set forth once and for all, in its essential part, so that it can then be sustained and propagated uniformly and homogeneously.
Based on this consideration, this book constitutes the cornerstone that I contribute to the common work.
THE AUTHOR
Written in the Landsberg Am Lech prison, October 16, 1924
