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12 Jul 2004 06:53:30 PM |
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Hitler's Revolution |
ADOLF HITLER
Berling, Reichstag
SPEECH OF JANUARY 30, 1937
MEN! Deputies of the German Reichstag! The Reichstag has met today on
a day momentous for the German people. Four years have passed since
the greatest national revolution and reformation that Germany has ever
experienced began. These were the four years which I asked for as a
trial period....
I do not know whether there has ever been such a thorough revolution
as ours, which nevertheless left unmolested numerous former political
functionaries and allowed them to work in peace and paid pensions to
its bitterest enemies.
But our policy has not been of much use to us as far as other
countries are concerned. Only a few months ago honorable British
citizens felt they must make a protest to us for detaining in a
concentration camp one of the most criminal subjects of Moscow. I do
not know whether these honorable men have also protested against the
slaying and burning of tens of thousands of men, women, and children
in Spain. We are assured that the number of people slain in Spain is
170,000. On this basis we would have had the right to murder 400,000
to 500,000 people in the Nazi Revolution!
The National Socialist program replaces the liberalistic conception of
the individual by the conception of a people bound by their blood to
the soil. Of all the tasks with which we are confronted, it is the
grandest and most sacred task of man to preserve his race. This will
not lead to an estrangement of the nations; on the contrary, it will
lead for the first time to a mutual understanding. It will also
prevent the Jewish people from trying to disintegrate and dominate
other people under the mask of an innocent bourgeoisie.
Within a few weeks the social prejudices of a thousand years were
swept away. So great was the Revolution that its spiritual foundations
have not been understood even today by a superficial world. They speak
of democracies and dictatorships, and have not realized that in this
country a Revolution has taken place that can be described as
democratic in the highest sense of the word. Does a more glorious
socialism or a truer democracy exist than that which enables any
German boy to find his way to the head of the nation? The purpose of
the Revolution was not to deprive a privileged class of its rights,
but to raise a class without rights to equality....
There is now only one representative of German sovereignty - the
people itself.
The will of the people finds its expression in the Party as its
political organization.
Therefore there is only one legislative body.
There is only one executive authority.
Therefore the people is the basis, and Party, State, Army, industry,
justice, etc., are only the means of maintaining the people.
In a new penal code, justice will be put for all time into the service
of maintaining the German race.
When I took over power there were more than 6,000,000 unemployed and
the farmers seemed doomed to decay. Today you-must admit that I have
fulfilled my promises. . .
The Four-Year Plan will give permanent employment to those workmen who
are now being released from the armament industry. It is significant
for the gigantic economic development of our people that there is
today a lack of trained workmen in many industries. There will be no
strikes or lockouts in Germany, because every one has to serve the
interests of the entire nation.
Education of the people will never come to an end, and this education
includes the Hitler Youth, the Labor Service, the Party, and the
Army,, as well as books, newspapers, theaters, and films.
The restoration of Germany's equality of status was an event which
exclusively concerns Germany herself. We have never taken anything
from any people or harmed any people. In this sense I will deprive the
German railways and the Reichsbank of their former character and place
both without reservation under the sovereignty of the Government.
The time of so-called surprises has thus been ended.
I solemnly withdraw the German signature from the declaration,
extracted by force from a weak Government against its better judgment,
that Germany was responsible for the War.
The restoration of the honor of the German people was the most
difficult and the most audacious task and work of my life...
If Europe does not awaken to the danger of bolshevist infection,
commerce will decrease in spite of all the good will of individual
statesmen. Therefore I am not in a position to judge the economic
future of Europe as optimistically as Mr. Eden apparently does. I
rejoice at every increase of our foreign trade, but in view of the
political situation I shall not regret anything that will guarantee to
the German people their existence when other nations have perhaps
become the victims of bolshevist infection. The British Foreign
Minister offers us theoretical prospects of existence, whereas in
reality totally different things are happening - for instance, the
revolutionizing of Spain has driven 15,000 Germans from the country
and done great harm to our commerce. Should this revolutionizing of
Spain spread to other European countries the damage would be
increased....
The League of Nations has never been a real league of peoples. A
number of great nations do not belong to it or have left it, without
anybody being able to assert that these countries were in favor of a
policy of isolation. I think, therefore, that in this respect Mr. Eden
misjudges Germany's intentions and views. I have already tried to
bring about a good understanding in Europe, and I have especially
assured the British people and Government how ardently we wish for
sincere and hearty co-operation with them.
The division into two parts, not only of Europe but of the rest of the
world, is an accomplished fact. It is to be regretted that the British
Government did not decide earlier that a division of Europe must be
avoided under all circumstances, for then we would not have had a
Treaty of Versailles.
Secondly, division has been brought about by the proclamation of the
bolshevist doctrine, the chief feature of which is to enforce itself
on all peoples. For Mr. Eden, bolshevism is perhaps a thing which has
its seat in Moscow, but for us it is a pestilence against which we
have had to struggle at the cost of much bloodshed - a pestilence
which tried to make of our country the same desert as Spain. National
Socialism has not sought to conquer bolshevism in Russia, but Jewish
International Moscow Bolshevists have tried to invade Germany and are
still trying to. It is not suitable that National Socialist Germans
should ever hope to protect bolshevism or that we should ever accept
help from a bolshevist State...
Germany has no colonial claims on countries which have taken no
colonies away from her. Our sympathies with General Franco and his
Government are in the first place of a general nature, but they are
also based on the hope that the consolidation of a real National Spain
may lead to a strengthening of the European economic system. We are
ready to do everything which may lead to a restoration of orderly
conditionsin Spain.
During the last 100 years a number of new nations have arisen in
Europe which, owing to their incapacity, have been of no economic
importance and almost of no political significance. They have brought
into the world new tensions. The new Italian State, however, is a
reality. The German people and the German Reich are also a reality.
The Polish people and State are also a reality.
The unreasonable division of the world into peoples who have and
peoples who have not does not remove or solve problems. If it is to be
the task of the League of Nations only to guarantee the existing state
of the world and to safeguard it for all time, then we might as well
entrust it also with the task of guarding the high tide and the low
tide, or of regulating for the future the direction of the Gulf
Stream. Its continued existence depends on the extent to which it is
realized that necessary reforms which concern the relations of the
nations must be considered and put into practice.
The German people once built up a Colonial Empire, without robbing
anyone and without any war. This was taken away from us. It was said
that the natives did not want to belong to Germany, that the colonies
were not administered properly by the Germans, and that these colonies
had no true value. If this is true, this valuelessness would also
apply to the other nations, and there is no reason why they should
wish to keep them from us. Germany has never demanded colonies for
military purposes, but exclusively for economic ones. It is obvious
that in times of general prosperity the value of certain territories
may shrink, but it is just as clear that in time of distress such
value changes. Today Germany lives in a time of fierce struggle for
foodstuffs and raw materials. Sufficient imports are only conceivable
if there is a continued increase in our exports. Therefore the demand
for colonies for our densely populated country will again and again be
raised as a matter of course...
When I look upon the work of the past four years my first feeling is
of gratitude to the Almighty who made it possible, and who has blessed
our work and enabled us to pass through all obstacles.
I have had three unusual friends in my life. ln my youth, poverty
accompanied me for many years. When the Great War came to an end it
was great sorrow that took hold of me and prescribed my path - sorrow
at the collapse of our people. Since January 30 four years ago I have
made the acquaintance of anxiety as the third friend - anxiety for the
people and Reich which have been confided to my leadership. Since that
time it has never left me, and in all probability will accompany me to
my end. How could a man shoulder the burden of this anxiety if he had
not faith in his mission and the consent of Him who stands above us?.
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