The Character, Principles, and Objectives of the National Socialist German Workers' Party - Early Booklet in Which the Fundamental Principles of the Nazi Party Were Published - Wesen, Grundsätze und Ziele der N.S.D.A.P - The Character, Principles, and Objectives of the National Socialist German Workers' Party. Edited by Alfred Rosenberg, one of the principal ideologues of the Nazi Party and among those responsible for formulating the movement's racial doctrine and antisemitic policy. Published by Deutscher Volksverlag. Munich, 1930. A booklet setting forth the principles of the movement, approved by Hitler himself and bearing the statement: ”Reviewed by Adolf Hitler”, including, among other things, an explicit declaration that Jews were to be deprived of civil rights as a guiding principle of the Party when it came to power: ”The Nazi Party (NSDAP) declares... the Jews to be a foreign people and ineligible to enjoy the rights of citizenship in Germany.” The booklet, published as the Nazi Party was gaining strength in the early 1930s, presents the principal tenets of National Socialist ideology, including virulent antisemitism, the repudiation of the Treaty of Versailles, the denial of citizenship to those not of German descent, and a combination of extreme nationalism and ethnic socialism (Volksgemeinschaft). Thus, for example, the introduction states: ”Freed from almost all restraints by the French Revolution and its repercussions in other countries, the Jewish character manifested itself in much the same way as in previous centuries. Tenacious energy, ruthlessness, international solidarity combined with civil equality, and an innate tendency to seize... all these formed the basis of the Jewish financial domination under whose banner we stand today. In order to neutralize the growing dangers of the young workers' movement, the Jewish and ultra-capitalist banking world supported Marxism, founded 'workers' newspapers, built trade-union halls, and fought against entrepreneurs and farmers, along religious lines, in order to rule through division!...” Rosenberg adds that the declared objective of the Nazi Party is a struggle against the ”Jew”: ”Until the germ poisoning our blood and our soul - the Jew and the Jewish spirit born of him, together with his adherents from the German camp - has been neutralized, the ruthless struggle against these seducers of the German people will be waged. And this means at the same time: the struggle of all those productively engaged in intellectual and physical labor against the drones and parasites. For National Socialism, there are no 'proletarians' and no 'citizens' as two mortal enemies, but only Germans as a community of blood and destiny.” Likewise, a historical conception is defined here that regards race as the principal driving force of history: ”We no longer recognize history as an eternal development of mankind, whether toward humanity, whether toward the Christianization of all peoples, whether toward some imagined 'human culture', nor as a ruthless class struggle, but rather as the separation of spiritual racial forces from their environment and from other races...”, it states. This is followed by the Party's practical principles, such as: ”Only those who are members of the German people can be citizens; only those who are of German blood, regardless of religious affiliation, can be members of the German people. Therefore, no Jew can be a member of the German people.” And likewise: ”We demand that the state undertake primarily to provide for the livelihood and means of subsistence of its citizens. If it is not possible to feed the entire population of the state, then members of foreign nations (non-citizens) must be expelled from the Reich. All further immigration of non-Germans must be prevented. We demand that all non-Germans who immigrated to Germany since August 2, 1914, be compelled to leave the Reich immediately.” The deprivation of Jews' civil rights was also declared here as a guiding principle long before the Nazi Party seized power: ”The Nazi Party (NSDAP) declares the most vigorous struggle against this deception. It therefore declares the Jews to be a foreign people and ineligible to enjoy the rights of citizenship in Germany.” Likewise, the Party's economic principles are formulated here, as are the Party's conception of the status of the ”workers”, the ”rescue” of the middle class from the clutches of ”Jewish Marxism”, the subordination of the courts to the Party's worldview, the establishment of frameworks for the care of ”mothers and children”, the restoration of the German military, and control over the German press (including clauses such as: ”a) All editors and employees of newspapers published in German must be members of the German people. b) Non-German newspapers require the express permission of the state in order to be published. They may not be printed in German.”), and more.