Ben Wilson

Common national criminals, usurers, and so forth are to be punished with death without consideration of confession or race.

19, we demand substitution of a German common law in place of the Roman law serving materialistic world order.

Number 20, the state is to be responsible for a fundamental reconstruction of our whole national education program.

21, the state is to care for elevating the national health by protecting the mother and child by outlawing child labor.

22, we demand abolition of the mercenary troops and formation of a national army.

23, we demand legal opposition to known lies and their promulgation through the press.

24, we demand freedom of religion for all religious denominations within the state so long as they do not endanger its existence or oppose the moral sense of the Germanic race.

And number 25, for the execution of all this, we demand the formation of a strong central power in the Reich.

Okay, so that gives you a feel.

Again, it's sort of a grab bag.

It is sort of vague.

It's the kind of stuff that, with a few exceptions, is sort of difficult to argue with.

And it's not all hyper-reactionary, as you might expect.

Okay, another issue that he's dealing with, and I actually would deal with for the rest of his life, is the question of religious persecution.

All right.

Remember, these people who are involved in the Völkisch movement, they are very into German history, into, you know, like old Germanic folkways and Germanic warriors with their Viking helmets and their big broadswords and things like that.

And so a lot of them

were pagans and were interested in paganism.

A lot of them were Nietzscheans and therefore did not believe in Christianity.

They believed that Christianity was a Jewish influence on Germany.