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It is not "national pride" which united the Germans, but commonality of purpose and fate, which does not in any way contradict Schopenhauer.

“Is it blood? Blood is a common possession, but that has not prevented men who spoke one language to have been at loggerheads with each other for centuries. Is it our common economic interests? But that has not prevented the hardest struggles from taking place precisely in this sphere. Is it our history? We know it only too well: a sad tale of war and dissension. Is it religion which is common to us all? No, here too we have fought and disputed with each other … In the same way it is not common customs nor common usages. No, it is something quite different which not merely brings us to this community but even makes it inevitable. It is our common fate, that common fate which none can escape and which is the lot of all life upon this earth.” – Adolf Hitler

“The question of nationality just does not arise any more as in the old days. Rather, there is a singleness of spirit, a commonality in pursuit of the same ideals and goals.” – Arno Breker

“The importance of the individual states in the future will no longer lie in their political or statal power. I look to them rather as important ethnical and cultural centres. But even in this respect time will do its levelling work. Modern travelling facilities shuffle people among one another in such a way that tribal boundaries will fade out and even the cultural picture will gradually become more of a uniform pattern.” – Adolf Hitler

“We have this folk of ours that is not to be defined as a race, and this is now clear to millions. However, when I began my career twenty-five years ago, this was not the case; then I was always told by bourgeois circles: “Yes, folk and race are one and the same.” No, folk and race are not the same! Race is a component of blood – a blood kernel, but a folk is very often composed not of one but of two, three, four or five different blood kernels.” – Adolf Hitler