>>4274531This you must practice and, in this, contribute to the fu-
ture. No matter what we create today and what we do, we
will pass away one day. But in you, Germany will live on.
And when there is nothing left of us, you must bear the flag
in your hand — a flag which we once raised from nothing.
You must therefore stand confident on the soil of your
country, and you must be strong so that this flag will never
be taken from you. And then, when generation after gen-
eration comes after you, you will have the right to demand
the same from them. Then you can demand from your fu-
ture youth that they be like you were.
Germany looks at you with pride. Everyone's heart runs
over with joy when we see you. We see in you the promise
that our work was not in vain and we realize that it bears
fruit for our country. We are all gripped with a proud hap-
piness to see in you the fulfillment of our work. With that
we have the assurance that the millions who died in World
War I — the great numbers of our comrades — have not made
the sacrifice for Germany in vain, so that in the end a one-
spirited, free, proud and honor-loving people will emerge.
And I know it cannot be any other way because you are
flesh from our flesh and blood from our blood, and in your
young minds burns the same spirit that drives us.
You cannot be any other way but be bound to us. And
when the large processions of our movement march today
gloriously through Germany, then we know that you will
join these columns, and we know before us lays Germany.
In us marches Germany. And after us comes Germany!
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