The only assurances of success were fertility, military strength, and racial purity. The state’s job is to promote these and to destroy anything that works against them. Morality is defined not by principles or commandments but by service to these goals. What promotes them is good and praiseworthy, what impedes them is evil and traitorous. In other words, Nazism combined arrogance about Germany with anxiety about its future, and the combination translated into virtually unlimited aggressiveness.
