The language instruction will get special attention and in the first place the teaching of Dutch, in which- as I was told-finally an uniform orthography, an uniform spelling, will be introduced.
When in this way the teaching of the Dutch language to the Dutch children, with all the treasures of the culture of this language, is sufficiently safeguarded, the teaching of German can be considered and given the attention which the future language vehicle, at least in the territory of the Germanic community will deserve.
Because it is clear that this language vehicle in this territory will be focused on the German speaking people of 85 million souls, because the next strongest member of this community, the Dutch, counts no more than 9 million souls. Knowledge of the German language will therefore be one of the conditions for freedom of movement, in the first place in Germanic territory, but moreover in Europe and probably in the whole world. Knowing German however should not be allowed to become a prerogative of the higher institutions of learning and in this way only for a few well-to-do classes. Knowledge of German will be an advantage for the Dutch. It should not in any way take away any part of its true Dutch nature.
The Dutch nature.
In this connection I could say a few things about the repeated evoking of the Dutch nature. That we have an understanding for the real Dutch values, must be clear from what I said in the beginning and from the acknowledgment of the extra-ordinary achievements of the Dutch as colonizers, in shipbuilding, hydraulic engineering, in the field of agriculture and horticulture and from Dutch art and scientific performances.
What however can be called specially Dutch, seems to me the clutching to the, afore mentioned Dutch idylle, which we therefore cannot rate very highly, because in the final analysis it makes a people unfit for the struggle of existence. Something that comes forward in times of extreme collisions of opposite views. I hope that the Dutch people will not have, with this particular Dutch character trait, the same experiences that we Ostmarkers (east provincies, former Austria) had with the so-called Patriotic Front, a collection of all possible trends, only not with convictions, popular conscious convictions, but only with the purpose to protect itself against populist renewal, by means of all kinds on international means.
Victory of England would lead to chaos.
What would than be the condition for adhering to such a situation, nothing else than a victory of England. but even that would not be sufficient now. The situation in the world of 1939 never will come back. Even a victory of England would not result in the former equilibrium, to the contrary, it would result in chaos. Moreover, England is accustomed to pay its duties with the money and treasures of others, preferable of his allies. If there is still somebody in the Netherlands who cannot imagine the definite defeat of England than this has to do with the unfamiliarity of the, for the Dutch, new events and ideas. However, when there are some who still believe in a victory of England as in 1918, than one can only say: "nothing forgotten, nothing learned". Admittedly, this is exactly the same mental attitude which we see in England proper. It is really primitive and monotonous, to see the British statesmen and leaders of the army, who reached a ripe old age, trying to copy the development of the world war. Then the blockade worked, at least that is what they thought. Now they think that it will work again and that they have an exiting war behind the Maginot Line. Than the disintegrating propaganda against the German people worked. Now they play the same old false s, so that we can only ascertain, with a compassionate smile, this nonsense.
In the first place however, came the first punch via the Balkan. This time the same strategy had to be repeated. But now the real situation must finally become clear for an objective observer, because of the failure of their attempts. Why should than after the enormous victories of the beginning of last year's summer a British army would still get a foothold on the continent? I can't tell how strong the German army is. I myself do not know how large but what I know is sufficient. What humanly can be calculated and what could happen everywhere in Europe will be diminished, and on top of that, the British are in no way a strong nation. Their number is scarcely half of that of Germany and moreover they have to keep their supply routes over sea open, something that, as one knows, can't be done. In particular however, how will they find the people to man the many ships which have to bring them food as well as raw materials and weapons. And where will they find the men to face the millions strong army of the 85 million strong Germany? The senselessness of the proposition that a people which number only a fraction of the German people,would be able to land and than defeat the German army.
And regarding this landing, the Fuhrer made it clear that they were welcome to it and that he was prepared to make available to the British any part of the European shores they choose. I believe that in Holland there are some fanatics who are longing for such an invasion. According to the Fuhrer, we can talk about that. However, when the British army is destroyed, may be such a fanatic can than visualize what will remain of Holland and the Dutch people with its 250 souls per square kilometer. Yes, but the air-force. As for this, I have to ask to be consequent. Those who count on the airplanes are exactly the same who think that the attacks of the German air-force on England will not have the same effect. How can the British air-force with much greater distances to fly, to Germany and half of Europe, can hope to have any success?
And regarding the strength of and the will to resist of the German people, I can tell the world to rest easy. This will and strength are enormous and the determination is awful. Before Germany knuckles under, Europe will be turned into ruins. I do not know if it will be useful for an inhabitant of the occupied territories to wish for such a development of the war, because those territories will be the first to be destroyed before an enemy reaches Germany.
When one asks such a fanatic how this wonder could happen, he than relies in the first place on supplies of weapons from the USA. There are good reasons for that. The weapons are not in England, so they are not available.
But the weapons are not even in the USA. Yes, the weapon factories and the raw materials for manufacturing these weapons are not there yet. First they will have to build the electric power-plants in order to refine the raw materials for the airplanes. The weapons are therefore totally unavailable. It is difficult to define this unavailability. In 1941 England did not even expect any substantial help.
And when finally slowly the manufacturing will get started - the Fuhrer is the first and foremost expert on the subject of armament, he can access the time it takes to get started - when weapons become available bit by bit, and than must be transported, they have to break through submarine and airplane barriers, of which an American expert, an admiral, lately said that in the past a quart of all weapons were on board of ships which were torpedoed. A ship that is torpedoed, sunk, does not arrive, brings no weapons to England. All this happened in a time span in which the submarine war was fought with modest forces.
However when nevertheless American weapons would come to Europe, than the third member of the three-party- pact [Japan],will feel safer and satisfied.
Who are the national heroes?
I have talked a bit more in detail about the subject of armament because I will now touch on a subject that is very serious. In Holland there was a kind of resistance action. Out of the most diverse motives some members of this movement united to commit acts of sabotage against the German Army. Their incentives were of a diverse, and in some instances, material nature. Also, the principles of these groups were in fact material because otherwise the seizure of all properties would not have been promised as the most severe punishment for this type of treason. It must be clear that in such a case the occupying power has to act with unrelenting force. There are people who are of the opinion that, out of national interest, they have to risk their lives, that the lives lost are a kind of call and a stimulation for others, a reason for a national remembrance for the descendants, in short, that they become national heroes and martyrs. This idea is wrong. As national heroes and martyrs remain only those alive in the memory of the people, who gave their lives for the good side of the develop-ment of that people. Only he, who gave his life for the really supporting political idea, is a hero. He who was on the wrong side will be forgotten, how heroic his conduct may have been.
We have in history many examples; I am only reminded of the French Revolution. There is no doubt that the French nobility died a heroic death in those days. There is hardly any talk about that anymore and these death offers totally disappeared from the national memory of France. The only thing that remained is the picture of French nobility mounting the steps to the guillotine, dancing a minuet. That is the truth and this still goes on. And when the development of the Dutch history does not go in the direction that the situation which I described earlier-such as sticking to an idylle-persists, but when the Dutch people gets ready to take the road of a popular renewal and coequal cooperation in the rebuilding of a new Europe, than those who took the other side and dies, will be forgotten. The historical assignment which places us here. tells us to remain unrelenting hard. But this tough policy, in effect now for the course of the big events will, at the moment when with England, the political phantom of resisting the wheels of history and trying to turn them around, collapses, when the political fantasts face the nothing and the hangers-on who followed them, are without direction, give the Dutch people something to hold on to and will give them confidence. Than it will know that this Germany, the comrade of the future, also can be an unrelenting fighter.
Common labor.
"With us or against us", this is the watchword and the decision which everyone has to face. May be that many a Dutchman still has objections because he is of the opinion that "with us" means being subjected to a Great German Imperialism. From the German standpoint, this worry about Great German Imperialism is seen against the consideration of the Dutch separatism. What however must be pursued is the will and also the resoluteness to work jointly. The case is simply this that the Germanic nations, with disregard of their number of inhabitants, satisfy the conditions for a complete communal labor in such a way that Dutchman at the side of German and German next to Dutchman works and strives in order that this communal labor will form the foundation for a happy life of the future generations, and so on the basis of economical successes belong first and foremost the cultural achievements arising from the people's substance of the Dutch, the German and any other Germanic people.
of vital importance is therefore the conviction that only a "together" and never ever an "against", but also no more "next to each other" will be possible.
If you now ask me, how my attitude is regarding the individual Dutchman, than I can say that, from the standpoint of the occupation forces, I will judge every Dutch individual whether he supports order and public life or endangers it. However as a national-socialist - and being a national-socialist is the essence of every German- and in view of the meaning of all the events of our time and the special task which the national-socialist in this era has to perform, fully prepared to offer his own existence, I say that the distinction will be made between friend an enemy according to the yard-stick whether we can trust somebody when we are no longer in this country as an occupation force.
Because we do not want to remain in this country forever as a occupation power. We wish that the Dutch will present themselves from intrinsic convictions and with their whole substance for the vast job of building an Germanic community and with this a new Europe.
Therefore the question is: how will the individual behave himself here when the German army and the German police are no longer in this country? Is there than the possibility that confessional, social, traditional and capitalistic influences will come rushing on the individual with the result that that individual sooner or later will be dissuaded from his more or less honest and determined resolve and that he finally will end up again in the anglophile channel because of his hang for the familiar idylle. We judge the people here according to these possibilities and as a 10th of May should never return, it must be clear in whose hands we can put the free, political responsibility in this country in the future, viz. the hands of those who through a conscious, unshakable performing of the task which follows from the common Germanic fate, to safeguard this country and also its liberty in the future. We found in this country comrades, to say, the gouvernment which fled the country has put these comrades in the prisons. We see that the fellow- ship becomes ever stronger. One a good Dutchman, the other a good German, but both united in a national- socialistic spirit and determined to make this national-socialism as a bearing political movement into the foundation for the new order.
Thus here we line up, we are standing on this soil to perform a historic task. We will not leave this soil untill this order in fact has been carried out. Rather they will have to tear us to pieces, but we will not deviate even one millimeter from the carrying out of this order. We are really full of religious fanaticism.
Adolf Hitler, the Fuhrer of the Great German Empire, the Fuhrer of all Teutons in the new order of the Occident, had given us the order. We are lined up and even if we would perish, he will gain the victory. Hail the Fuhrer!