> there were three powerful factors at the disposal of the head of state: the army with a huge wonderfully well-coordinated officer corps, the body of civil servants with its enormous apparatus of completely dutiful officials, and the great broad mass of people who were inwardly still free from any poison, and if we add to this the fact that at that time the national intelligence here in germany was still almost exclusively predominant that even wholesale trade was still in german hands, that above all the young, flourishing rich industry was of german origin and german ownership and that further the enormous peasantry, the last reservoir of a nation's strength was still completely uncontaminated and healthy, we understand the following consideration of the jewish people who at that time were gaining political equality. when, through industrialization, there is a new fourth estate formed in the cities, there is a danger that this fourth estate will fraternize with the monarchy and that on this basis a people's kingdom or a people's empire will come about willing and ready to deal a death blow to international financial powers. therein lay a grave danger for jewry. if the broad mass of the then forming labor force had come into national hands and had then seized the nation as a true social catalyst, if the liberation of the individual estates had taken place organically step by step and if the state form had later been based on this, then what many hoped for on november 9th 1918 would have come about: a national social state.
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