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You will meet these divisions and regiments just as you will meet the other Germans
And you will then be cured of madness, of this madness of believing that these are German tribes standing opposite you
Mr
Daladier, the German people stand facing you! The nationalist-socialist German people! This people that once fought for National Socialism and that, through hard work gained the education and formation it has today, it is cured of all internationalist delusions
And it will remain cured
The National Socialist Party guarantees this
And your hopes of separating people and Party, or Party and state, or Party and Wehrmacht, or Wehrmacht, Party and me, are childish, naive
This is the hope that once nourished my enemies for 15 years
I as a National Socialist have only know work, struggle, worries, hardships
I think destiny had nothing else for our generation
We should not be ungrateful toward destiny for this; on the contrary, we have here a warning
25 years ago the German people marched toward a struggle that others forced it into
There was inadequate armament
France used the power of its people completely differently than the Germany of yore
Russia was the big enemy at that time
A completely different world could slowly be mobilized against this Germany
It went to war and performed heroic miracles
And fate held onto our people
In the year 1914 it liberated the German homeland from the danger of foreign attack
In the year 1915 the positions of the Kaiser Reich were fortified
1916, 1917, year for year, battle for battle, sometimes everything seemed ready to collapse, and as if by a miracle the Reich was saved again and again
Germany gave incredible proofs of its strength
It was obviously saved by fate
Then the German people became ungrateful
Instead of trusting in its own future and therefore its own strength, it began to trust the promises of others
And finally in its ungratefulness it struggled against its own Reich, its own leadership
And so fate turned its back on Germany
At that time, I did not see this catastrophe as something undeserved
I never complained that fate had done us wrong
On the contrary, I always supported the opinion that we received what we made ourselves deserve from fate
The German nation became ungrateful, and therefore did not receive everything it was due
This will not be repeated a second time in our history
The National Socialist movement has already undergone its probation
The fifteen years of its struggle definitely did not only contain glorious days, fabulous victories; often, times were full of worries, often our enemies rejoiced at our imminent destruction
But then the movement showed what it was worth; gathering itself together with a faithful and strong heart, trusting in the necessity of our struggle, and stood up to our enemy and finally vanquished this enemy
Today, this is the task of the German nation
80 million people now rise to stand aligned
Opposing them stand as many enemies
Today, these 80 million people have excellent internal organization, the best that can exist
They have strong faith, and they do not have the worst leadership; instead, as I am convinced, one of the best
Today, the leaders and the people have one insight: that there is no communication without a clear implementation of our rights and that we do not want this struggle for our rights to commence again in maybe two or three or five years; that these rights that we are discussing belong to 80 million people, not to a party or a movement
Because, at the end of the day, what am I? I am nothing, my German people, but your spokesperson
Therefore I am the representative of your rights
This is not about me as a person, but I do not belong to those people that ever lower their flag
This I have never learned to do
The people have placed their trust in me
I will prove myself worthy of this trust and, in doing this, will not lose sight of myself or my surroundings; instead, I will watch the past and the future
I want to be perceived as honorific by the past and he future, and with me the German people should stand with honor
Today's generation carries Germany's fate, Germany's future or Germany's downfall
And our enemies, today the cry: Germany shall fall! And Germany can give only one answer
Germany will live, and therefore Germany will emerge victorious! At the start of the eighth year of the National Socialist revolution our hearts turn to our German people, to its future
We want to serve this future, we want to fight for it, if necessary fall, never capitulate! Germany - Sieg Heil! Adolf Hitler - Speech before the Reichstag January 30, 1941 Editor's note: Section headings and bold print have been placed in this document by the WFF
This translation is based on the U
S
government's Foreign Broadcast Monitoring Service, Federal Communications Commission
However, this translation contains numerous omissions and errors
We have corrected these errors and filled in omissions from the original German
It is to the best of our information, the only complete English translation on the net
NOTE: BRIEF STATEMENT OF PUBLICATIONS PRINCIPLES The World Future Fund serves as a source of documentary material, reading lists and internet links from different points of view that we believe have historical significance
The publication of this material is in no way whatsoever an endorsement of these viewpoints by the World Future Fund, unless explicitly stated by us
As our web site makes very clear, we are totally opposed to ideas such as racism, religious intolerance and communism
However, in order to combat such evils, it is necessary to understand them by means of the study of key documentary material
For a more detailed statement of our publications standards click here
LINK TO VIDEO EXCERPT My German countrymen, men and women Changes of Government have occurred frequently in history, and in the history of our people
It is certain, however, that never was a change of Government attended with such far-reaching results as that eight years ago
At that time the situation of the Reich was desperate
We were called upon to take over the leadership of the nation at a moment when it did not seem to develop towards a great rise
We were given power in circumstances of the greatest conceivable pressure, the pressure of the knowledge that, by itself, everything was lost, and that, in the eyes of the noblest minds, this represented a last attempt, while in the eyes of evil-wishers it should condemn the National-Socialist Movement to final failure
Unless the German nation could be saved, by a miracle, the situation was bound to end in disaster
For during a period of 15 years, events had moved downward without respite
On the other hand, this situation was only the result of the World War: of the outcome of the World War, of our own internal, political, moral, and military collapse
For these reasons it is particularly important on a day like this to think back to the course of that entire national misfortune
THE CAUSES OF WORLD WAR I What was the cause of the World War? I do not want to explain it from the personal aspect, about which so many treatises have been written
Ordered by the present President Roosevelt, American scholars have investigated the cause of the World War and made sure that there could be no German guilt
In moments of so great importance in contemporary history, individuals can play a significant part only if they enter the scene as really outstanding personalities
This was not then the case
Neither on the German nor on the other side were there personalities cast in an unusual mould
The cause, therefore, could not be due to the failure or to the will of individuals
The reasons went deeper
The German form of government, certainly, could not have been the cause of that war, for Germany was a democracy already-and what a democracy! Strictly copied from the western countries, it was compromise between monarchy and parliamentary leadership
On account of its form of government then, this State could certainly not be the cause of the war waged by the democracies against the Reich as it was then
Germany, considered as a political factor in the world, was much more of a cause, for after centuries of disruption and ensuing weakness, the German tribes and states had at last combined into a new State which naturally introduced a new element into the so-called Balance of Power, an element which was regarded as an alien body by others
Even more potent, perhaps was dislike of the Reich as an economic factor
After Germany had tried for centuries to remedy her economic distress by letting people gradually starve or forcing them to emigrate, the increasing consolidation of the, political power of the Reich gave rise to a development of economic power
Germany began to export commodities rather than men, thereby securing the necessary markets in the world, a process, natural and just from our point of view, but others regarded it as encroachment into their most sacred domains
BRITISH IMPERIALISM AND DECEIT Here we come to the State which regarded this encroachment as intolerable-England
Three hundred years earlier England had gradually built her Empire, not perhaps through the free will or the unanimous demonstrations of those affected, but for 300 years this World Empire was welded together solely by force
War followed war
One nation after another was robbed of its freedom
One state after another was shattered so that the structure which calls itself the British Empire might arise
Democracy was nothing but a mask covering subjugation and the oppression of nations and individuals
This State cannot allow its members to vote if today, after they have been worked upon for centuries, they should freely choose to be members of this Commonwealth
On the contrary, Egyptian Nationalists, Indian Nationalists in their thousands are filling the prisons
Concentration camps were not invented in Germany; it is the English who were the ingenious inventors of this idea
By these means they contrived to break the backbone of other nations, to remove their resistance, to wear them down, and make them prepared at last to submit to this British yoke of democracy
In this process, a formidable weapon was that of lying, that is, of propaganda
A proverb says that if the Englishman speaks of God he means cotton
And so it is today
Considering how pious and religious are the outward gestures of men who deliberately, and with a cold heart, drive nation after nation into a struggle serving only their material interests, one is compelled to state that rarely has human hypocrisy reached such a pitch as that of the English today
At any rate, at the end of the blood-stained path of British history over three centuries stands the fact that 46,000,000 Englishmen in the mother country are ruling about a quarter of the globe

You will meet these divisions and regiments just as you will meet the other Germans

And you will then be cured of madness, of this madness of believing that these are German tribes standing opposite you

Mr

Daladier, the German people stand facing you! The nationalist-socialist German people! This people that once fought for National Socialism and that, through hard work gained the education and formation it has today, it is cured of all internationalist delusions

And it will remain cured

The National Socialist Party guarantees this

And your hopes of separating people and Party, or Party and state, or Party and Wehrmacht, or Wehrmacht, Party and me, are childish, naive

This is the hope that once nourished my enemies for 15 years

I as a National Socialist have only know work, struggle, worries, hardships

I think destiny had nothing else for our generation

We should not be ungrateful toward destiny for this; on the contrary, we have here a warning

25 years ago the German people marched toward a struggle that others forced it into

There was inadequate armament

France used the power of its people completely differently than the Germany of yore

Russia was the big enemy at that time

A completely different world could slowly be mobilized against this Germany

It went to war and performed heroic miracles

And fate held onto our people

In the year 1914 it liberated the German homeland from the danger of foreign attack

In the year 1915 the positions of the Kaiser Reich were fortified

1916, 1917, year for year, battle for battle, sometimes everything seemed ready to collapse, and as if by a miracle the Reich was saved again and again

Germany gave incredible proofs of its strength

It was obviously saved by fate

Then the German people became ungrateful

Instead of trusting in its own future and therefore its own strength, it began to trust the promises of others

And finally in its ungratefulness it struggled against its own Reich, its own leadership

And so fate turned its back on Germany

At that time, I did not see this catastrophe as something undeserved

I never complained that fate had done us wrong

On the contrary, I always supported the opinion that we received what we made ourselves deserve from fate

The German nation became ungrateful, and therefore did not receive everything it was due

This will not be repeated a second time in our history

The National Socialist movement has already undergone its probation

The fifteen years of its struggle definitely did not only contain glorious days, fabulous victories; often, times were full of worries, often our enemies rejoiced at our imminent destruction

But then the movement showed what it was worth; gathering itself together with a faithful and strong heart, trusting in the necessity of our struggle, and stood up to our enemy and finally vanquished this enemy

Today, this is the task of the German nation

80 million people now rise to stand aligned

Opposing them stand as many enemies

Today, these 80 million people have excellent internal organization, the best that can exist

They have strong faith, and they do not have the worst leadership; instead, as I am convinced, one of the best

Today, the leaders and the people have one insight: that there is no communication without a clear implementation of our rights and that we do not want this struggle for our rights to commence again in maybe two or three or five years; that these rights that we are discussing belong to 80 million people, not to a party or a movement

Because, at the end of the day, what am I? I am nothing, my German people, but your spokesperson

Therefore I am the representative of your rights

This is not about me as a person, but I do not belong to those people that ever lower their flag

This I have never learned to do

The people have placed their trust in me

I will prove myself worthy of this trust and, in doing this, will not lose sight of myself or my surroundings; instead, I will watch the past and the future

I want to be perceived as honorific by the past and he future, and with me the German people should stand with honor

Today's generation carries Germany's fate, Germany's future or Germany's downfall

And our enemies, today the cry: Germany shall fall! And Germany can give only one answer

Germany will live, and therefore Germany will emerge victorious! At the start of the eighth year of the National Socialist revolution our hearts turn to our German people, to its future

We want to serve this future, we want to fight for it, if necessary fall, never capitulate! Germany - Sieg Heil! Adolf Hitler - Speech before the Reichstag January 30, 1941 Editor's note: Section headings and bold print have been placed in this document by the WFF

This translation is based on the U

S

government's Foreign Broadcast Monitoring Service, Federal Communications Commission

However, this translation contains numerous omissions and errors

We have corrected these errors and filled in omissions from the original German

It is to the best of our information, the only complete English translation on the net

NOTE: BRIEF STATEMENT OF PUBLICATIONS PRINCIPLES The World Future Fund serves as a source of documentary material, reading lists and internet links from different points of view that we believe have historical significance

The publication of this material is in no way whatsoever an endorsement of these viewpoints by the World Future Fund, unless explicitly stated by us

As our web site makes very clear, we are totally opposed to ideas such as racism, religious intolerance and communism

However, in order to combat such evils, it is necessary to understand them by means of the study of key documentary material

For a more detailed statement of our publications standards click here

LINK TO VIDEO EXCERPT My German countrymen, men and women Changes of Government have occurred frequently in history, and in the history of our people

It is certain, however, that never was a change of Government attended with such far-reaching results as that eight years ago

At that time the situation of the Reich was desperate

We were called upon to take over the leadership of the nation at a moment when it did not seem to develop towards a great rise

We were given power in circumstances of the greatest conceivable pressure, the pressure of the knowledge that, by itself, everything was lost, and that, in the eyes of the noblest minds, this represented a last attempt, while in the eyes of evil-wishers it should condemn the National-Socialist Movement to final failure

Unless the German nation could be saved, by a miracle, the situation was bound to end in disaster

For during a period of 15 years, events had moved downward without respite

On the other hand, this situation was only the result of the World War: of the outcome of the World War, of our own internal, political, moral, and military collapse

For these reasons it is particularly important on a day like this to think back to the course of that entire national misfortune

THE CAUSES OF WORLD WAR I What was the cause of the World War? I do not want to explain it from the personal aspect, about which so many treatises have been written

Ordered by the present President Roosevelt, American scholars have investigated the cause of the World War and made sure that there could be no German guilt

In moments of so great importance in contemporary history, individuals can play a significant part only if they enter the scene as really outstanding personalities

This was not then the case

Neither on the German nor on the other side were there personalities cast in an unusual mould

The cause, therefore, could not be due to the failure or to the will of individuals

The reasons went deeper

The German form of government, certainly, could not have been the cause of that war, for Germany was a democracy already-and what a democracy! Strictly copied from the western countries, it was compromise between monarchy and parliamentary leadership

On account of its form of government then, this State could certainly not be the cause of the war waged by the democracies against the Reich as it was then

Germany, considered as a political factor in the world, was much more of a cause, for after centuries of disruption and ensuing weakness, the German tribes and states had at last combined into a new State which naturally introduced a new element into the so-called Balance of Power, an element which was regarded as an alien body by others

Even more potent, perhaps was dislike of the Reich as an economic factor

After Germany had tried for centuries to remedy her economic distress by letting people gradually starve or forcing them to emigrate, the increasing consolidation of the, political power of the Reich gave rise to a development of economic power

Germany began to export commodities rather than men, thereby securing the necessary markets in the world, a process, natural and just from our point of view, but others regarded it as encroachment into their most sacred domains

BRITISH IMPERIALISM AND DECEIT Here we come to the State which regarded this encroachment as intolerable-England

Three hundred years earlier England had gradually built her Empire, not perhaps through the free will or the unanimous demonstrations of those affected, but for 300 years this World Empire was welded together solely by force

War followed war

One nation after another was robbed of its freedom

One state after another was shattered so that the structure which calls itself the British Empire might arise

Democracy was nothing but a mask covering subjugation and the oppression of nations and individuals

This State cannot allow its members to vote if today, after they have been worked upon for centuries, they should freely choose to be members of this Commonwealth

On the contrary, Egyptian Nationalists, Indian Nationalists in their thousands are filling the prisons

Concentration camps were not invented in Germany; it is the English who were the ingenious inventors of this idea

By these means they contrived to break the backbone of other nations, to remove their resistance, to wear them down, and make them prepared at last to submit to this British yoke of democracy

In this process, a formidable weapon was that of lying, that is, of propaganda

A proverb says that if the Englishman speaks of God he means cotton

And so it is today

Considering how pious and religious are the outward gestures of men who deliberately, and with a cold heart, drive nation after nation into a struggle serving only their material interests, one is compelled to state that rarely has human hypocrisy reached such a pitch as that of the English today

At any rate, at the end of the blood-stained path of British history over three centuries stands the fact that 46,000,000 Englishmen in the mother country are ruling about a quarter of the globe