The Nazi Leader’s Critique of the European Union

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On the idea of peaceful confederation, Hitler wrote:

The attempt to realize the pan-European idea through a purely formal union of European peoples, without being brought about by force in centuries-long battles by a European supreme power, will lead to an entity whose entire strength and energy will be absorbed by internal rivalries and conflicts. This happened before in the German Confederation. Not until the internal German question was ultimately solved by Prussian superiority could the nation exert its united strength outwards. . . .

[A]s the American people progressively fulfill the internal colonization task, the natural activist drive, which is inherent particularly in young peoples, will turn outward. The surprise, however, . . . would least of all be countered with serious resistance by a pacifist, democratic, pan-European muddled state. This pan-Europe, in the view of the biggest bastard in the world, Coudenhove, would play the same role opposite the American Union or a nationally-awakened China as the old Austrian state played opposite Germany or Russia.[1]
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For Hitler, European unification could only occur as “the result of a centuries-long struggle”:[2]

We know from past experience that lasting unions can only take place when the peoples in question are of equal racial quality and related, and second, when their union takes place in the shape of the slow process of a struggle for hegemony. That was how Rome once conquered the Latin states . . .[3]

I would add that the United States of America only became a truly united great power not through the elevated debates and Constitution of those fine and philosophical men of 1787, but through Abraham Lincoln’s armies, who triumphed according to law of force.

Hitler would probably not be surprised to learn that the European Union has been wracked by periodic gridlock and crisis for decades, and, outside the economic sphere, is not taken seriously by the world’s great powers, above all the United States[4] and China.

Hitler has this to say about American immigration policy and Europe’s racial heterogeneity:

Hitler vs. Kalergi
 

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