Mein Kampf.

In Hitler's mind, there was only one type of people in the world: the Aryan race. The rest, well, they're not quite human, and therefore they are not protected by Hitler's fascism. (He also happened to admire the Japanese for their racial purity. In his mind, their island home and lack of genetic exposure to the outside world mad them superior to their fellows, although not equal to the Germanic greatness of the Aryans.) In his text Mein Kampf, he bluntly and clinically outlines the threatening inferiority of two specific races--the Slavs and the Jews. Fate, apparently, has sent Hitler a sign of Germany's future action through the Prussia's submission to Bolshevism, and this sign indicates the eminent fall of the Russian state. "For centuries Russia drew nourishment from this Germanic nucleus of its upper leading strata," Hitler says. He attributes the construction of the Russian state not to Slavic but Germanic leadership of "the inferior race." Once Germanic leadership let go of the Slav's hand, the Jew immediately snatched up a position of leadership and began to demolish all of the glorious work of the master race, thus leaving Russia "exterminated and extinguished." In fact, he goes as far as to label this process "Jewish world Bolshevization."

In these (extremely racist) statements, Hitler proves his knowledge of German history. As we examined during World War I, Tsar Nicholas and Kaiser Wilhelm III were first cousins; hence, Hitler claims that the Tsardom was, in fact, a position held by traditionally Germanic leaders. However, his connection between Bolshevism and Judaism is far from accurate. Fortunately, Hitler's aim in Mein Kampf was not political accuracy; the purpose of the text is to rationalize and construct xenophobia. Poland and Russia found Hitler's claims to be frightening and offensive, but to many German fascists who were still experiencing the shame of WWI, his arguments were inspirational. The idea of a misunderstood yet superior Germanic race was a glorious dream that negated the failure of the Weimar Republic, incredible debt, and loss of the Great War. Plus, this superiority was effortless--it came of Fate and lineage rather than merit. Hitler's seemingly rational presentation of his ideas only added to the appeal of Nazism for Germany. Hitler seemed like the kind of assertive leader a weakened and embittered Germany needed, and lo, they were stuck with him.