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While Both Denominations Maintain Missions In Asia And Africa In Order To Win New Followers For Their Doctrine- An Activity Which Can Boast But Very Modest Success Compared To The Advance Of The Mohammedan Faith In Particular- Right Here In Europe They Lose Millions And Millions Of Inward Adherents Who Either Are Alien To All Religious Life Or Simply Go Their Own Ways. The Consequences, Particularly From A Moral Point Of View, Are Not Favorable.

The Anti-semitism Of The New Movement Was Based On Religious Ideas Instead Of Racial Knowledge.

For We Love Liberty Just As We Love Peace.

The Universalists, The Idealists, The Utopians All Aim Too High. They Give Promises Of An Unattainable Paradise, And By Doing So They Deceive Mankind. Whatever Label They Wear, Whether They Call Themselves Christians, Communists, Humanitarians, Whether They Are Merely Sincere But Stupid Or Wire-pullers And Cynics, They Are All Makers Of Slaves. I Myself Have Always Kept My Eye Fixed On A Paradise Which, In The Nature Of Things, Lies Well Within Our Reach. I Mean An Improvement In The Lot Of The German People. (21st February 1945)

I Die With A Joyful Heart In The Knowledge Of Our Infinite Achievements And Of A Contribution Unique In The History That Bears My Name.