cklessly incited them and stirred up all their deepest instincts and passions, now inevitably weighed like lead on the decisions of British statesmen" (616). Hitler also writes "jdn. aus dem Felde schlagen" (to drive someone from the field of battle), "And so he (jews) inevitably drives every competitor in this sphere from the field in a short time" (322). The National Socialists were "die Lunte ans Pulverfa legen", "like a powder barrel that could blow up at any moment, with a burning fuse placed already under it" (484). All of these terms fit splendidly into Hitler's description of the battle for power of the National Socialists. Hitler also had a militaristic interpretation of the rather philosophical Hamlet-quotation "Sein oder Nichtsein" (to be or not to be). This sententious remark turned proverb appears six times in Mein Kampf, and Hitler also used it repeatedly in his speeches, especially in his proclamations of the "Endkampf" (final battle) during 1944 and 1945. At the end of the Thousand Year Reich, Hitler was concerned only with the struggle over life or death of the German people: "It is our duty to inform all weaklings that this is a question of to be or not to be" (44), "A fight for freedom had begun, and this time not the fate of Serbia or Austria was involved, but whether the German nation was to be or not to be" (161), "For me it was not that Austria was fighting for some Serbian satisfaction, but that Germany was fighting for her existence, the German nation for to be or not to be, for freedom and future" (162), "Just as the Republic today can dissolve parties, this method should have been used at that time, with more reason. For to be or not to be of a whole nation was at stake" (169-170), "When the nations of this planet fight for existence - when the question of destiny, 'to be or not to be,' cries out for a solution - then all considerations of humanitarianism or aesthetics crumble into nothingness (177), and ".....
