Therefore, National Socialism appears in present-day Germany neither as a spontaneous formation which might be due to the consequence of the defeat in 1918, nor as a mere invention of a group of men determined upon seizing power. But the crime committed by Hitler and his companions will be precisely that of unleashing and exploiting to its extreme limit the latent force of barbarity, which existed before him in the German people. It amounted to a permanent and complete mobilisation of individual and collective energies. This integral militarisation presupposed complete uniformity of thoughts and actions. It is a militarisation which conforms to the Prussian tradition of discipline.
Propaganda instils into the masses faith, drive and a thirst for the greatness of the community.
Those consenting masses find an artificial derivative for their moral anguish and their material cares in theories of race and in a mystical exaltation held in common. Souls which yesterday were wounded and rent asunder once more find themselves united in a common mould. The Nazi educational system moulds new generations to show no trace of traditional moral teachings, those being replaced by the cult of race and of strength. The race-myth tends to become a real national religion. Many writers dream of substituting for the duality of religious confessions a world-wide dogma of German conception, which would amount to being the religion of the German race as a race.