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Insistent demands called for Germany to countermand the fictitious mobilization order and to renounce its pretenses
Benes labored to spread the rumor that the determined nature of the steps he had taken had forced the German Reich back within its appropriate borders
Since the Reich had neither mobilized its forces nor entertained any intentions of attacking Czechoslovakia, this situation entailed without a doubt a serious loss of prestige for the Reich
Because of this unbearable provocation, which was intensified by a truly infamous persecution and terrorization of our Germans there, I decided to finally and now radically resolve the Sudeten German question
I gave on May 28: 1
The order to prepare the military intervention against this state with the date of 2 October, 2
I ordered the massive and accelerated expansion of our defense front in the West
For the confrontation with Mr
Benesch and for the protection of the Reich against other interference attempts or even threats the immediate mobilization of at first 96 divisions was intended, which could follow in a short time a larger number of further such federations
If certain newspapers and politicians in the rest of the world now claim that Germany had thereby threatened other peoples with military blackmail, this is due to a gross distortion of the facts
In an area where neither Englishmen nor other Western nations have anything to look for, Germany has established the right of self-determination for ten million German nationals
It did not threaten anyone, it only defended itself against the attempt of third party intervention
And I do not need to assure you, my deputies, men of the German Reichstag, that we will not accept it in the future, that in certain matters, which are only for us, Western states simply try to get into it, to arrive at natural and sensible solutions by intervening prevent! We were all happy, therefore, that thanks to the initiative of our friend Benito Mussolini, and thanks to Chamberlain's and Daladier's high degree of appreciation, we succeeded in finding the elements of an agreement that allowed not only the peaceful resolution of an urgent matter, but beyond can be taken as an example for the possibility of a general rational treatment and resolution of certain vital problems
However, without the determination to resolve this problem one way or another, such an agreement of the European powers would not have come about
to find the elements of an agreement that not only allowed the peaceful resolution of an urgent matter, but could also serve as an example of the possibility of a general rational treatment and resolution of certain vital problems
However, without the determination to resolve this problem one way or another, such an agreement of the European powers would not have come about
to find the elements of an agreement that not only allowed the peaceful resolution of an urgent matter, but could also serve as an example of the possibility of a general rational treatment and resolution of certain vital problems
However, without the determination to resolve this problem one way or another, such an agreement of the European powers would not have come about
1938: HISTORY MAKING MOMENT: THE UNIFICATION OF GERMANY We have before us today a representation of the German people, which can claim to be regarded as a truly constitutional body
The politically and socially disorganized German people of earlier decades has consumed most of their inherent powers in an inferior as well as unreasonable internal war
The so-called democratic freedom of living out of opinions and instincts did not lead to a development or even to the liberation of special values or powers, but only to their senseless waste and finally to the paralysis of any truly creative personality that still exists
By putting an end to this unfruitful struggle, National Socialism redeemed the forces that had hitherto been internally bound and made them free to represent the national interests of life in the sense of coping with great communal tasks within the Reich
MISSION AHEAD It is nonsensical to think that obedience and discipline are necessary only for soldiers, but have little useful meaning in the rest of the peoples' lives
On the contrary, the disciplined and obediently popular community is capable of mobilizing forces that facilitate an easier assertion of the peoples' existence and thus serve the successful representation of the interests of all
However, such a community is primarily not created by the compulsion of violence, but only by the compelling power of an idea and thus by the efforts of a continuous education
There are people to whom even the greatest and most devastating events can not overcome any inner thoughtfulness or even movement
These are personally internally dead and thus worthless for a community
They do not make history themselves, and you can not make history with them
In their narrowness or in their blatant decadence, they are a useless commodity of nature
They find their own reassurance or satisfaction in the thought of a sublime attitude, or rather, ignorance, due to their supposed wisdom or wisdom over the events of time
One can very well imagine that a people does not possess a single such ignoramus, and thereby is capable of the greatest actions and deeds
But it is impossible to conceive of or even lead a nation that would consist in its majority of such ignoramuses, rather than the bloody mass of idealistic, believing, and affirming people
These are the only valuable elements of a national community
A thousand weaknesses are to be forgiven them, if they only have the one strength to give for an ideal or an idea - if necessary - even the last! My honorable Members, we are still facing tremendous, enormous tasks! A new leadership layer of our people must be built
Their composition is racial
But it is also necessary, through the system and the nature of our education, to demand and ensure above all bravery and responsibility as a natural prerequisite for the assumption of every public office
For the occupation of leading positions in state and party, the attitude of character is to be valued higher than the so-called merely scientific or supposed mental fitness
For wherever there is a need to be led, it is not the abstract knowledge that decides, but the innate ability to lead and, consequently, a high degree of responsibility, and thus of determination, courage and perseverance
Basically, there must be a recognition that the lack of a sense of responsibility can never be outweighed by a presumed first-class, testified scientific education
Knowledge and leadership, that means also energy, are not mutually exclusive
Wherever doubt arises, knowledge can under no circumstances be considered a substitute for attitude, courage, bravery, and determination
In the leadership of a national community in party and state these characteristics are the more important ones
When I say this in front of you, Members of Parliament, I am under the impression of the one year of German history that has taught me more than all my life so far about how important and irreplaceable these virtues are, and how in the critical hours a single energetic man weighs more and more than 1000 clever weaklings! This new selection of leaders must be redeemed as a social phenomenon, but also from numerous prejudices, which I can really call no other than a lying and in the deepest nonsensical social morality
There is no attitude that could not find its ultimate justification in the benefits it gives to the whole
What is unimportant or even harmful to the existence of the whole can not be regarded as morality in the service of a social order
And above all: a national community is only conceivable under the recognition of laws which are valid for all, ie it is not possible to expect or demand of one the following of principles which in the eyes of the others are either absurd, harmful or even seem unimportant
GERMAN CONCEPT OF SOCIALISM I have no understanding of the tendency of dying social strata to separate themselves from real life through a hedge of dried-up and unrealized civil status laws in order to artificially preserve themselves
On the other hand, as long as this only happens in order to ensure a peaceful cemetery for your own death, there is nothing wrong with it
But if you want to present a barrier to progressing life, then the storm of a youth with a rushing forwards will quickly eliminate this old scrub
Today's German People's State knows no social prejudices
He therefore knows no social special morality
He only knows the laws of life and necessities conceived by reason and knowledge of man
The unity of the German national body, whose guarantor you, my deputies, are and will be in the first place, gives me the certainty that, whatever tasks will be assigned to our people, the National Socialist State sooner or later will dissolve! However, whatever the difficulties we may face, the energy and courage of the leadership will master them
1
We are really fighting a tremendous battle, using all the strength and energy of our people and people 2
We will win this fight completely, yes we have already won it! GERMANY STILL FACING GRAVE CRISIS What is the cause of all our economic difficulties? In the overpopulation of our habitat! And here I can hold only one fact and one question to the gentlemen critics in the Western and non-European democracies, the fact that the German people live with 135 people on the square kilometer without any external help and without all the reserves of former times
Plundered by the rest of the world for one and a half decades, burdened with enormous debts, without colonies, it is still nourished and clothed and has no unemployed
And the question: Which of our so-called big democracies would be able to accomplish the same feat? - Of course, if nature lets the bananas grow into their mouths, they have a better life-struggle than the German farmer, who has to toil all year to cultivate his field
All we are doing is confess that now such a carefree international banana picker criticizes the activities of the German farmer
The then occurring state can only be overcome in two ways: 1
By additional imports of foodstuffs, ie an increase in the export of German products, taking into account that some of the raw materials for these products must be imported from abroad, leaving only part of the trade results for the purchase of food, or 2
The expansion of the living space of our people in order to ensure the problem of German nutrition in the internal cycle of our economy
Since the second solution is not given at the moment due to the continuing blindness of the former victorious powers, we are forced to deal with the first one, ie we have to export to buy food and, secondly, we have to, partly because of this export Raw materials that we do not own ourselves need to be exported even more in order to additionally secure these raw materials for our economy
This constraint is therefore not a capitalist, as may be the case in other countries, but the hardships that can hit a people, namely the concern for the daily bread
And if here by foreign statesmen with, I do not know for what, economic countermeasures threatened, so I can only assure you that in such a case, an economic desperate struggle would begin, which is very easy to fight through for us
Easier, than for the oversaturated other nations, because the motive for our economic struggle would be a very simple, namely: German people live, ie export or die
And I can assure all international doubters, the German people will not die, by no means, but it will live! If necessary, it will provide its leadership with the entire workforce of the new National Socialist community in order to take up and fight through such a struggle
But as far as leadership is concerned, However, a final solution to this problem, and in a reasonable sense, will only come when general human reason prevails over the greed of individual peoples, that is, when one has come to understand that insistence on injustice is not only political also economically useless, indeed insane
Under the circumstances that now exist, there is no other way for us than to continue an economic policy that must try to bring out of the given living space the highest
This requires an ever greater increase in our services and an increase in production
This forces us to intensify our four-year plan
But it also leads to the mobilization of more and more workers
This brings us closer to a new phase of German economic policy
While the goal of our economic management in the first six years of our seizure of power was to bring all idle labor into some useful employment, it is the task in the years ahead to undertake a careful survey of our workforce, to regularize their use by one Rationalization and, above all, technically better organization of our working conditions with the same work effort to achieve increased benefits and thus also save labor for new additional productions
This, in turn, forces us to release the capital market to a greater extent for the technical expansion of our enterprises and thus relieve us of the state requirements
But all of this again leads to the need for a sharp combination of economy and finance
It is my decision to conclude the path already taken since January 30, 1937, of transforming the German Reichsbank from an internationally-influenced banking company into the music institute of the German Reich
If the rest of the world complains in part that another German enterprise would lose the traits of an international nature, it is only said that it is our inexorable decision to lend all facilities of our life first and foremost German, that is, National Socialist traits , And the rest of the world would only have to see how absurd it is to reproach us, we wish to impose German ideas on the other world, and how much more justified it would be if National Socialist Germany tried to lament that the other world was still trying to to impose their views on us
I now see it, my deputies of the Reichstag, as the duty of every German man and every German woman to understand the leadership of the Reich in its economic policy and to support it by all means
In town and country, above all, it should be borne in mind that the basis of German economic policy is not to be found in any financial theories at all, but in a very primitive production knowledge, that is, in understanding of the all-important level of goods production
It is regrettable, but not changeable, that additional tasks have to be set for us, that is, that we must employ a large percentage of our national labor for the in itself inefficient armaments of our people
NEED FOR GERMAN MILITARY POWER Ultimately, the economy of today's empire stands and falls with foreign policy security
It is better to see this in good time than too late
I therefore consider it the supreme task of the National Socialist leadership to do everything humanly possible to strengthen our military strength
I build on the insight of the German people and especially on his memory
We have no right to suppose that if Germany ever succumbed to another seizure in the future, its fate would take on a different shape; on the contrary, it is in part even the same men who once threw into the world the great war fire and the to endeavor today, as driving forces or as driven agents in the service of international sedition, to increase enmities so as to prepare a new fight
And above all you, especially my deputies, men of the Reichstag, do not forget one thing: In certain democracies, it seems that one of the special prerogatives of political-democratic life is the artificially breeding of hatred of the so-called totalitarian states, that is to raise public opinion against peoples that displace others through a flood of partly disfiguring, partly even fictitious reports Did not harm people and did not want to harm them, who were at most themselves deprived of grave injustice for decades
If we defend ourselves against such war apostles as Mr
Duff Cooper, Mr
Eden, Churchill or Mr
Ikes, etc
, then this is considered an interference in the sacred rights of democracies
In the opinion of these gentlemen, they have the right to attack other peoples and their leaders, but no one has the right to resist it
I do not need to assure them that as long as the German Reich is a sovereign state, the state leadership will not allow an English or American politician to forbid them to respond to such attacks
But the fact that we remain a sovereign state will be ensured in the future by the weapons we are forging, and we will ensure that through the number of our friends
In itself one could dismiss the assertion that Germany intends to attack America with a single laugh
And one would like to ignore the continuous propaganda campaign of certain British war apostles, but we must not neglect the following: 1
These democracies are states whose political construction makes it possible that just a few months later these worst warmongers can hold in their hands the leadership of the government
2
Therefore, we owe it to the security of the Reich to enlighten the German people in good time about these men

Insistent demands called for Germany to countermand the fictitious mobilization order and to renounce its pretenses

Benes labored to spread the rumor that the determined nature of the steps he had taken had forced the German Reich back within its appropriate borders

Since the Reich had neither mobilized its forces nor entertained any intentions of attacking Czechoslovakia, this situation entailed without a doubt a serious loss of prestige for the Reich

Because of this unbearable provocation, which was intensified by a truly infamous persecution and terrorization of our Germans there, I decided to finally and now radically resolve the Sudeten German question

I gave on May 28: 1

The order to prepare the military intervention against this state with the date of 2 October, 2

I ordered the massive and accelerated expansion of our defense front in the West

For the confrontation with Mr

Benesch and for the protection of the Reich against other interference attempts or even threats the immediate mobilization of at first 96 divisions was intended, which could follow in a short time a larger number of further such federations

If certain newspapers and politicians in the rest of the world now claim that Germany had thereby threatened other peoples with military blackmail, this is due to a gross distortion of the facts

In an area where neither Englishmen nor other Western nations have anything to look for, Germany has established the right of self-determination for ten million German nationals

It did not threaten anyone, it only defended itself against the attempt of third party intervention

And I do not need to assure you, my deputies, men of the German Reichstag, that we will not accept it in the future, that in certain matters, which are only for us, Western states simply try to get into it, to arrive at natural and sensible solutions by intervening prevent! We were all happy, therefore, that thanks to the initiative of our friend Benito Mussolini, and thanks to Chamberlain's and Daladier's high degree of appreciation, we succeeded in finding the elements of an agreement that allowed not only the peaceful resolution of an urgent matter, but beyond can be taken as an example for the possibility of a general rational treatment and resolution of certain vital problems

However, without the determination to resolve this problem one way or another, such an agreement of the European powers would not have come about

to find the elements of an agreement that not only allowed the peaceful resolution of an urgent matter, but could also serve as an example of the possibility of a general rational treatment and resolution of certain vital problems

However, without the determination to resolve this problem one way or another, such an agreement of the European powers would not have come about

to find the elements of an agreement that not only allowed the peaceful resolution of an urgent matter, but could also serve as an example of the possibility of a general rational treatment and resolution of certain vital problems

However, without the determination to resolve this problem one way or another, such an agreement of the European powers would not have come about

1938: HISTORY MAKING MOMENT: THE UNIFICATION OF GERMANY We have before us today a representation of the German people, which can claim to be regarded as a truly constitutional body

The politically and socially disorganized German people of earlier decades has consumed most of their inherent powers in an inferior as well as unreasonable internal war

The so-called democratic freedom of living out of opinions and instincts did not lead to a development or even to the liberation of special values or powers, but only to their senseless waste and finally to the paralysis of any truly creative personality that still exists

By putting an end to this unfruitful struggle, National Socialism redeemed the forces that had hitherto been internally bound and made them free to represent the national interests of life in the sense of coping with great communal tasks within the Reich

MISSION AHEAD It is nonsensical to think that obedience and discipline are necessary only for soldiers, but have little useful meaning in the rest of the peoples' lives

On the contrary, the disciplined and obediently popular community is capable of mobilizing forces that facilitate an easier assertion of the peoples' existence and thus serve the successful representation of the interests of all

However, such a community is primarily not created by the compulsion of violence, but only by the compelling power of an idea and thus by the efforts of a continuous education

There are people to whom even the greatest and most devastating events can not overcome any inner thoughtfulness or even movement

These are personally internally dead and thus worthless for a community

They do not make history themselves, and you can not make history with them

In their narrowness or in their blatant decadence, they are a useless commodity of nature

They find their own reassurance or satisfaction in the thought of a sublime attitude, or rather, ignorance, due to their supposed wisdom or wisdom over the events of time

One can very well imagine that a people does not possess a single such ignoramus, and thereby is capable of the greatest actions and deeds

But it is impossible to conceive of or even lead a nation that would consist in its majority of such ignoramuses, rather than the bloody mass of idealistic, believing, and affirming people

These are the only valuable elements of a national community

A thousand weaknesses are to be forgiven them, if they only have the one strength to give for an ideal or an idea - if necessary - even the last! My honorable Members, we are still facing tremendous, enormous tasks! A new leadership layer of our people must be built

Their composition is racial

But it is also necessary, through the system and the nature of our education, to demand and ensure above all bravery and responsibility as a natural prerequisite for the assumption of every public office

For the occupation of leading positions in state and party, the attitude of character is to be valued higher than the so-called merely scientific or supposed mental fitness

For wherever there is a need to be led, it is not the abstract knowledge that decides, but the innate ability to lead and, consequently, a high degree of responsibility, and thus of determination, courage and perseverance

Basically, there must be a recognition that the lack of a sense of responsibility can never be outweighed by a presumed first-class, testified scientific education

Knowledge and leadership, that means also energy, are not mutually exclusive

Wherever doubt arises, knowledge can under no circumstances be considered a substitute for attitude, courage, bravery, and determination

In the leadership of a national community in party and state these characteristics are the more important ones

When I say this in front of you, Members of Parliament, I am under the impression of the one year of German history that has taught me more than all my life so far about how important and irreplaceable these virtues are, and how in the critical hours a single energetic man weighs more and more than 1000 clever weaklings! This new selection of leaders must be redeemed as a social phenomenon, but also from numerous prejudices, which I can really call no other than a lying and in the deepest nonsensical social morality

There is no attitude that could not find its ultimate justification in the benefits it gives to the whole

What is unimportant or even harmful to the existence of the whole can not be regarded as morality in the service of a social order

And above all: a national community is only conceivable under the recognition of laws which are valid for all, ie it is not possible to expect or demand of one the following of principles which in the eyes of the others are either absurd, harmful or even seem unimportant

GERMAN CONCEPT OF SOCIALISM I have no understanding of the tendency of dying social strata to separate themselves from real life through a hedge of dried-up and unrealized civil status laws in order to artificially preserve themselves

On the other hand, as long as this only happens in order to ensure a peaceful cemetery for your own death, there is nothing wrong with it

But if you want to present a barrier to progressing life, then the storm of a youth with a rushing forwards will quickly eliminate this old scrub

Today's German People's State knows no social prejudices

He therefore knows no social special morality

He only knows the laws of life and necessities conceived by reason and knowledge of man

The unity of the German national body, whose guarantor you, my deputies, are and will be in the first place, gives me the certainty that, whatever tasks will be assigned to our people, the National Socialist State sooner or later will dissolve! However, whatever the difficulties we may face, the energy and courage of the leadership will master them

1

We are really fighting a tremendous battle, using all the strength and energy of our people and people 2

We will win this fight completely, yes we have already won it! GERMANY STILL FACING GRAVE CRISIS What is the cause of all our economic difficulties? In the overpopulation of our habitat! And here I can hold only one fact and one question to the gentlemen critics in the Western and non-European democracies, the fact that the German people live with 135 people on the square kilometer without any external help and without all the reserves of former times

Plundered by the rest of the world for one and a half decades, burdened with enormous debts, without colonies, it is still nourished and clothed and has no unemployed

And the question: Which of our so-called big democracies would be able to accomplish the same feat? - Of course, if nature lets the bananas grow into their mouths, they have a better life-struggle than the German farmer, who has to toil all year to cultivate his field

All we are doing is confess that now such a carefree international banana picker criticizes the activities of the German farmer

The then occurring state can only be overcome in two ways: 1

By additional imports of foodstuffs, ie an increase in the export of German products, taking into account that some of the raw materials for these products must be imported from abroad, leaving only part of the trade results for the purchase of food, or 2

The expansion of the living space of our people in order to ensure the problem of German nutrition in the internal cycle of our economy

Since the second solution is not given at the moment due to the continuing blindness of the former victorious powers, we are forced to deal with the first one, ie we have to export to buy food and, secondly, we have to, partly because of this export Raw materials that we do not own ourselves need to be exported even more in order to additionally secure these raw materials for our economy

This constraint is therefore not a capitalist, as may be the case in other countries, but the hardships that can hit a people, namely the concern for the daily bread

And if here by foreign statesmen with, I do not know for what, economic countermeasures threatened, so I can only assure you that in such a case, an economic desperate struggle would begin, which is very easy to fight through for us

Easier, than for the oversaturated other nations, because the motive for our economic struggle would be a very simple, namely: German people live, ie export or die

And I can assure all international doubters, the German people will not die, by no means, but it will live! If necessary, it will provide its leadership with the entire workforce of the new National Socialist community in order to take up and fight through such a struggle

But as far as leadership is concerned, However, a final solution to this problem, and in a reasonable sense, will only come when general human reason prevails over the greed of individual peoples, that is, when one has come to understand that insistence on injustice is not only political also economically useless, indeed insane

Under the circumstances that now exist, there is no other way for us than to continue an economic policy that must try to bring out of the given living space the highest

This requires an ever greater increase in our services and an increase in production

This forces us to intensify our four-year plan

But it also leads to the mobilization of more and more workers

This brings us closer to a new phase of German economic policy

While the goal of our economic management in the first six years of our seizure of power was to bring all idle labor into some useful employment, it is the task in the years ahead to undertake a careful survey of our workforce, to regularize their use by one Rationalization and, above all, technically better organization of our working conditions with the same work effort to achieve increased benefits and thus also save labor for new additional productions

This, in turn, forces us to release the capital market to a greater extent for the technical expansion of our enterprises and thus relieve us of the state requirements

But all of this again leads to the need for a sharp combination of economy and finance

It is my decision to conclude the path already taken since January 30, 1937, of transforming the German Reichsbank from an internationally-influenced banking company into the music institute of the German Reich

If the rest of the world complains in part that another German enterprise would lose the traits of an international nature, it is only said that it is our inexorable decision to lend all facilities of our life first and foremost German, that is, National Socialist traits , And the rest of the world would only have to see how absurd it is to reproach us, we wish to impose German ideas on the other world, and how much more justified it would be if National Socialist Germany tried to lament that the other world was still trying to to impose their views on us

I now see it, my deputies of the Reichstag, as the duty of every German man and every German woman to understand the leadership of the Reich in its economic policy and to support it by all means

In town and country, above all, it should be borne in mind that the basis of German economic policy is not to be found in any financial theories at all, but in a very primitive production knowledge, that is, in understanding of the all-important level of goods production

It is regrettable, but not changeable, that additional tasks have to be set for us, that is, that we must employ a large percentage of our national labor for the in itself inefficient armaments of our people

NEED FOR GERMAN MILITARY POWER Ultimately, the economy of today's empire stands and falls with foreign policy security

It is better to see this in good time than too late

I therefore consider it the supreme task of the National Socialist leadership to do everything humanly possible to strengthen our military strength

I build on the insight of the German people and especially on his memory

We have no right to suppose that if Germany ever succumbed to another seizure in the future, its fate would take on a different shape; on the contrary, it is in part even the same men who once threw into the world the great war fire and the to endeavor today, as driving forces or as driven agents in the service of international sedition, to increase enmities so as to prepare a new fight

And above all you, especially my deputies, men of the Reichstag, do not forget one thing: In certain democracies, it seems that one of the special prerogatives of political-democratic life is the artificially breeding of hatred of the so-called totalitarian states, that is to raise public opinion against peoples that displace others through a flood of partly disfiguring, partly even fictitious reports Did not harm people and did not want to harm them, who were at most themselves deprived of grave injustice for decades

If we defend ourselves against such war apostles as Mr

Duff Cooper, Mr

Eden, Churchill or Mr

Ikes, etc

, then this is considered an interference in the sacred rights of democracies

In the opinion of these gentlemen, they have the right to attack other peoples and their leaders, but no one has the right to resist it

I do not need to assure them that as long as the German Reich is a sovereign state, the state leadership will not allow an English or American politician to forbid them to respond to such attacks

But the fact that we remain a sovereign state will be ensured in the future by the weapons we are forging, and we will ensure that through the number of our friends

In itself one could dismiss the assertion that Germany intends to attack America with a single laugh

And one would like to ignore the continuous propaganda campaign of certain British war apostles, but we must not neglect the following: 1

These democracies are states whose political construction makes it possible that just a few months later these worst warmongers can hold in their hands the leadership of the government

2

Therefore, we owe it to the security of the Reich to enlighten the German people in good time about these men