In this part of my "Hitler Speeches" series, I quote excerpts from the years 1933-1939 that make known the successes, and the sources for those successes, for the enormous, almost comet-like resurrection of Germany under Hitler's guidance. These excerpts also touch much more explicitly on the root of opposition to these reforms in Germany - namely domestic and foreign Marxists of the darkest hues and shades cleaving to each other to bring about, as we now know, the downfall of the National Socialist regime, the near-total destruction of the German nation, and the traumatizing of its people in 1945.
* In his speech (16 July 1933) to the demonstration held at the monument commemorating the Battle of Leipzig ("die Völkerschlacht von Leipzig) Hitler said:
"Through a revolution the young National Socialist Germany has finally swept out of Germany the men and the authorities of the November-Disgrace. If this revolution could be carried through with so triumphant an enthusiasm, and if from the first moment its success was assured, then we owe this to the unique fact that Fate gave to us the possibility of systematically schooling and organizing during fourteen years the forces which were to effect the revolution. (...)
"The Movement has already passed through two phases: in the first phase we waged a battle for and in defence of our Weltanschauung in Germany against the terrorism of our foes. Never would our idea have prevailed in Germany, had not at first thousands, tens of thousands and later hundreds of thousands of our fellow combatants in brown voluntarily risked their lives for this great idea."
[Ed: Hundreds of National Socialists were murdered by Marxist thugs during the struggle, and over 41,000 were wounded, often severely, and in some instances crippled for life ]
"Then came the second phase of the battle: we could with a single revolutionary onrush frame our attack to win power in the state, and now before us there stands the third phase of our struggle, the phase which is decisive for the future. Today we lead the whole people. . . and thus we are faced with the gigantic task of educating the millions who do not yet in their hearts belong to us till they become soldiers of this Third Reich, soldiers of our Weltanschauung...
"The form of the old State is shattered; the new form is here. For this new form men must now be trained."
* In an address to men of the SA, the SS and the Stahlhelm delivered at Nuremberg on 3 September 1933, Hitler said:
"Heaven can bear witness: the guilt of our people is blotted out, the crime is atoned for, the shame is removed. The men of November [1918] are overthrown, and their power is at an end."
* In his proclamation issued on New Year's Day 1934 Hitler said:
"The year 1933 had to bring the decision. For thirteen years as National Socialist and as your Leader, I have with the utmost fanaticism maintained the thesis that the word 'capitulation' must never find a place in our dictionary. It is always better to be destroyed in honor than voluntarily to submit to the foe. (...)
"The great life-task which I had set before myself was completed in barely six months! Marxism was destroyed and Communism laid in the dust. Fourteen years long have I preached the necessity of conquering this doctrine of madness and of destroying the organizations infected by it as the condition for the restoration of Germany. Marxism in Germany exists no longer...we have not forbidden to Marxism its organizations: we have taken from it the people. The army of the millions of German working men who had fallen victim to this madness has been led back into the community of the German people. . . And just as the Marxist foe of our people has been annihilated, so in the same way have the bourgeois parties been destroyed. The organizations of class division, of class hatred, and of class war have on both sides been dissolved and swept away. (...)
"Once (and) for all parliamentary transactions with their corrupting intrigues have been brought to an end. The National Socialist principle of the authority of the leadership has conquered parliamentary incompetence. (...)
"Parallel with this victory over the party-State went the strengthening of the authority of the idea of the Reich. The elements responsible for continuous opposition, perpetual criticism, and unending carping - responsible even for the conscious sabotage to which the Reich was subjected - have either been overcome or destroyed. And this re-formation of the Reich gains its highest significance only through the formation of a real German nation. The German people, triumphing over parties, castes, confessions, and Weltanschauungen, has at length come together into a unity, and upon those who would harm this community a pitiless war has been declared in all spheres of our public life.
"Without respect of person or descent, of caste, of calling, or of property, we have attacked corruption with vigour. We have really broken with the principle that one must indeed hang the small thief, but let the large thief go his way unharmed.
"We have endeavored to free economic life from those parasites who saw the safety of their own existence in organizing divisions amongst the people. We have accordingly taken the organizations out of the hands of the international Marxist destroyers of our trade unions as they were originally conceived, just as on the other hand we have taken them from the representatives of big-business syndicates."
* In a speech to the "Old Guard" delivered on 19 March 1934 in Munich Hitler said:
"That which the centuries did not venture to attempt, that in which half a millennium failed, what generations sought to achieve but could not, that we have created in a single year."
* In his New Year's Proclamation to the Party, 1 January 1935, Hitler said:
"The fight against unemployment and social distress will go on. As for our enemies, and those visionaries who imagine even now that they can, by a flood of conventional lies and insinuations, disunite the people and Reich of National Socialist Germany, and bring down the Government which they hate - in twelve months' time stern reality will refute them, even as it has in the year which lies behind us."
* In his Proclamation to the German people on the second anniversary of the coming into power of the National Socialist Government (30 January 1935) Hitler said:
"A nation that was wasting away in dull despair has been set upon its feet once more; it has been filled with a strong faith and confidence in the spiritual value and the creative force of its own life. And its greatest and decisive service lies in this fact: with the change of the external symbols there corresponded a change in the inner life of men. In joyous self-discipline countless millions of our people have devoted themselves to the service of the new idea.
"A mobilization of human forces began on a scale hardly dreamed of before. . . It is not that an old world was broken, in order later to build up a new world, but rather that the uprising of a new world has superseded the old."
* In his speech at the celebration of the 15th anniversary of the founding of the Party (24 February 1935) Hitler said:
"Fifteen years ago in our programme we promised a revolution: and over Germany there has come a revolution, deep and mighty. Not externally have we conquered the old system, but in the hearts of men. All the ferments which were destroying the people have been banished - Marxism and just to the same extent our rootless and equally international bourgeois party system. (...)
"To all those who roam through Germany still cherishing their silent hopes I have only one thing to say: So often in my life I have been a prophet and you have not believed me but have laughed at me and mocked me. But I would wish to be a prophet still and I would say to you: you will never come back! That which today is will never fade away, and that which was will never return."
[Ed. Little could Hitler foresee that the conquering Allies in East and West would impose the Old Order on the corpses of 10 million German men and women, kept in power by war crimes trials, tens of thousands of them, and Gulags in East and West where hundreds of thousands died after unspeakable tortures, horrors and neglect. See James Bacque's "Other Losses" and "Gruesome Harvest" by Keeling]
* In his Proclamation on 1 January 1936 Hitler said:
"(C)ertain clairvoyant journalists have chosen this moment to fix once more the date at which the downfall of Germany is to ensue. Here too we can still remain satisfied. For these empty phrases will pass, but the results of our work will remain."
* In a speech delivered to "Old Fighters" on 30 January 1936, Hitler said:
"If anyone should think that he can treat us as slaves he will find that we are the most stubborn people in the world.
"We are no longer defenceless helots, we have become free and self-conscious 'Citizens of the World.'"
* Speaking to the workmen at Essen on 27 March 1936 Hitler said:
"If you ask me, my German workmen, how this became possible, let me tell you that I did not need to spend a long time in looking for a prescription. There were no prescriptions to my hand, and there could not be, for the past had left only one prescription - how not to do it, if one did not want to bring the people to ruin."
* Hitler, in his Proclamation at the opening of the Parteitag of 1936, gave his answer to the question "What has National Socialism made out of Germany in the last four years?":
"On the evening of 30 January 1933 I made known to the German people in a short Proclamation the aims which we had set before us in our battle. I then asked that I might be granted four years: at the end of that time I wished to render account to the German people of the fulfillment or non-fulfillment of that promise.
"Our foes were convinced that we should never have an opportunity to ask the nation for such a judgement, for the longest period that they were prepared to allow our Government was barely six to twelve weeks.
"And what has National Socialism in these four years made of Germany? Who from among our foes would to-day have the effrontery to step forward as our accuser? (...)
"What would they have said if I had prophesied to them that Germany in these four years would have freed itself from the slave-fetters of Versailles (...)
"What would they have said to my prophesy that the people, at that time so divided, before four years were past would - 99 per cent of it - go to the polls, and that 99 percent would say 'Yes' in support of the National Socialist policy of reconstruction, of national honour and freedom?
"If four years ago I had prophesied this and much else I should have been branded as a madman and the whole world would have laughed at me. But all this is now accomplished fact, and this is the achievement of not quite four years. . . The National Socialist political leadership of Germany in this short time has wrought a miracle."
* Speaking at Reichenberg on 2 December 1938, before the first election held in the newly-won Sudeten German territory, Hitler said:
"(A)ll this is the result of the struggle for the soul of the German people, for the attainment of a community of the German people. This year this German community has shown itself for the first time to be a reality, which yields to no threat and to no oppression. We have set very moderate limits to the aims of our foreign policy; but somewhere there comes a point where international rights cease, and the national rights of the peoples must have their say."
* Hitler, in his speech to the new Reichstag of Greater Germany after the incorporation of the Sudeten territory (30 January 1939) looked back on the Germany of January 1933; he said:
"Some 13 million of German voters - men and women - then stood behind me. An imposing number, but yet only a little more than a third of the sum of votes cast. It was true that the remaining 20 million were divided and split up between thirty-five other parties and groups. The only thing which united them was a common hatred of our young Movement, a hatred born of a bad conscience or of purposes which were still worse. It united - as it still does elsewhere to-day - priests of the Centre Party and Communist atheists, socialist annihilators of property and capitalist Stock Exchange interests, Conservative champions of the State and Republican destroyers of the Reich. All of them had come together to protect their interests during the long fight of National Socialism for leadership and had made common cause with the Jews. Bishops of the different churches, playing a political game, had spread their hands over them in blessing. And against this splitting up of the nation, united only in negation, stood that third of German men and women, with their faith, those who had undertaken to raise anew the German people and Reich in the face of a world of internal and external opposition. (...)
"It seemed that only a miracle could save Germany at the twelfth hour. And we National Socialists believed in this miracle. The thought that one should wish to redeem the nation from a ruin which had now lasted for a decade and a half simply through the force of a new idea appeared to those who were not National Socialists as the delusion of visionaries; to the Jews and the other enemies of the State it appeared as the last insignificant spasm of force within the national resistance, and when that was exhausted one might hope to be able finally to annihilate not only Germany but Europe.
"A Germany sinking in Bolshevist chaos would at that time have hurled the whole West into a crisis of unimaginable gravity. Only the most limited of islanders could persuade themselves into believing that the Red Plague would of its own accord have cried a halt before the sacredness of a democratic idea or at the frontiers of states who had shown no interest in its advance. With Mussolini and Italian Fascism began the salvation of Europe at one end, and at the other National Socialism carried on the work of salvation and today we can in another country [ed. Spain] see the same spectacle of a brave conquest of the Jewish international effort at destruction in the face of the world of European civilization. (...)
"The six years which now lie behind us are filled with the most stupendous events in the whole of our German history. On 30 January 1933 I entered the Wilhelmstraße filled with profound anxiety for the future of my people. Today six years later I can speak of the first Reichstag of Greater Germany. (...)
"The year 1938 was first and foremost the triumph of an idea. An idea united a people in contrast with earlier centuries when one believed that this task must be left exclusively to the sword."
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Thought for the Day:
"Against the awakened Germany, we put an awakened Israel. And the world will defend us."
(Pierre Creange, Jewish author, in his book Epitres aux Juifs, 1938)