by Robert Ley
In human life, a leader must emerge who can win others with his faith and
make them happy. That is where leadership comes from. The same is true of
nations. A nation and a race are called to make the others happy. One nation
must rise above the others, and raise the others as well.
What we often saw in our meetings before the seizure of power is repeated
here. Then we would enter the hall with a small group of supporters. Once, in
fact, I was alone: speaker, treasurer, meeting chair, and protection all in one
person. We naturally could not hope to win everyone in the hall to National
Socialism. We were happy when the mass in the room was moved, when there was
lively response and exchange of opinions. We knew that the swastika never
released those it came in contact with, not even the most bitter opponent. They
complained and fought us, but they had been reached. That is how we move people
today.
Roosevelt speaks about us more than anything else, and his men and
ministers speak only about us. England always held its reserve, but cannot do
so any longer. France is in the same situation. Even the election of the pope
stood in the shadow of the swastika, whether the gentlemen liked it or not. I
am sure they spoke of nothing else than how to find a candidate for the chair
of St. Peter who was more or less up to dealing with Adolf Hitler.
National Socialism concerns the leaders of the world, it moves the peoples.
Germany is at the center of the world, and the world asks: “What is Adolf
Hitler doing?” That is their nervous question. My party comrades, today the
swastika forces the world to take a position for or against us. The world must
decide, it has no choice. There can be no compromise. The Jew leads the other
world. It is all or nothing. There is no going back.
Our idea is moving the world, it is forcing humanity to choose for us or
against us. It forces the Jews from behind their lackeys. They must fight. We
want that fight, for we know that if we do not succeed in winning enough ground
for our people, everything we have done will be in vain.
Do you think that the Christian Reich would have been strong enough to gain
the conquests of the Führer, even if its army were ten times as strong? It was
only possible because these 80 million people had been largely freed from that
“blessing.” 80 million slaves had become masters, because these 80 million no
longer fight about little things.
England built its empire when our cultural history was already 1500 years
old. We led the world for a thousand years before English history even
began. Then William the Conqueror arrived. He had to be a foreigner, for
the English were not able to find one of their own who was able to make
history. They built their empire when Germany was going through the 30 Years
War, a time when we Germans were stupid enough to fight about Holy Communion
and whether one should take one or both elements. As Germans were breaking each
other’s heads, these thieves took over the world. Today England’s “prime
minister” speaks of our Führer as traitor. Enough of that!
If we look back on our history, we know what the trouble is. We should not
begin with the Hohenzollerns or the Wittelsbachs. Our people was already a
thousand years old when they arrived. The royal houses thought that history
began with them, for example with Wilhelm II. Thank God, our people’s history
is thousands of years older than the history of minor royal families, kings,
and kaisers. But we have always been able to appreciate what in our past that
is truly great, as for example Frederick the Great, one of the best in German
history. Frederick was not a great German because he was a Hohenzollern, but
rather because he was a man of iron, energy, and toughness who lived only for
Germany. We esteem everything great, but cannot allow a few potentates to claim
that history began with them. We must take a broad view of history, and see
everything that German culture has accomplished. It is childish of England to
want to play our baby-sitter. We cannot allow that. We must see our enemies
clearly. Their worldview is Christian and negative. Of course Roosevelt does
not imagine himself only a liberator of the Christian world; he knows the Jew
is at the root of it all.
If the Jew wants to fight, it is fine with us. We have wanted that fight
for a long time. There is no room in the world for the Jews any more. The Jew
or us, one of us will have to go. We know that the Jew will
lose, that he and his devilish, life-denying and destructive doctrines will be
destroyed (vernichtet), Look around and see how the emigrants are
increasing; even London has noticed. In Rome, they found the smartest Jesuit
they had. A brutal butcher sits in Moscow. They form the front, and the Jew is
behind them all. That no longer worries us, but we must see what is happening
clearly and talk about it openly. Believe me, our enemies in the political
confessional churches know that the hocus pocus they show to the world is only
a bluff. They bluff anyway, and it depends on whether they can find enough
idiots to believe them.
They may say the world is crazy. Well, it is a crazy world, but that is not
the decisive thing. The important thing during the decisive battles of the
coming months and years is whether or not we can make our people immune to such
hocus pocus so that the enemy can no longer reach them. Our people must simply
laugh at their doctrines and magic words. Just as we did not overcome Marxism
only through negation, so too we will not overcome these enemies only through
struggle and explanations. The Führer once said: “If you take an idol from
people, you must replace it with a true god.” Our god is the wonderful law of
creation, whose amazing unity of all things shows itself in wonderful flowers,
in growing trees, in new born children, in the secrets of a mother, in the
growth of our people, in work and accomplishment and creation, in life itself.
It is the joy we have in everything. How beautiful everything is. Do you feel
the same way? I am so happy to be alive.
A priest recently asked me: “But what about eternity...?”
I replied: “A day in National Socialist Germany is better for me than all
of your heaven.”
This life is where we build the eternity of the nation. What happens to me
when I die? I do not know. One thing I do know. I will return to the earth and
will belong again to the wonderful Mother Earth. Isn’t that enough? If only a
blade of grass of a flower grows from my grave, that is enough for me. I am
happy with what I have done so far. It was both hard and beautiful, and I am
thankful for these 48 years. And if I remain alive long enough to finish my
work, I can die in peace. Death will hold no terrors for me. I have seen many
people for whom it was hard to die. I am sure that we will die in a worthy
manner. I hope to have the strength not to die like a weakling, but rather to
die with the satisfaction of knowing I have done something. Eternity? I do not
want to live forever, but I want my people to live on eternally. I want my
people to be eternal, and to live forever so that in 2,000, 3,000 and 100,000 years
it will look just as it does today. I do not want it to be bastardized or
corrupted, but rather that the same sound race, the same manliness, and the
same men are present, that the same battalions of men march through Germany.
When Romulus founded Rome he killed the priests, saying: “I do not want the
Romans to fear God.”
The priests then seem to have had the same weapons as their counterparts
today: they count on human weakness and cowardice. We, however, build on human
courage and manliness. That is the difference. We want to tell the people the
truth, not console them with hopes of a better tomorrow. We want to make the
world beautiful, to hold high the concept of work. We want to say that one
can’t take problems away from people, that life is struggle.
No one has greater reverence for god and creation than we do. The priests
do not hate us because we are “godless,” since they get along nicely with the
godless in Russia and Spain. They hate us because we are the only ones who
believe in god. We are finding god, indeed we have already found him. Where
does the desire for god come from, where does faith come from, or true piety,
if not from god? I know only one way to tell: If a person quietly and
contemplatively faces events. One must be confident and self-assured, not
afraid and nervous. Then I can say: “You have a god. You are not worried, you
do not run around like chicken with its head cut off, but rather you stay
calm.”
Look at our people today, and remember how they were ten or twenty years
ago. If that is the measure of whether one believes in god or not, if one faces
everything that fate brings, if faces war or peace calmly, if one faces life
calmly and lives it the same way, then one has god. To have god means to have a
fixed point in life, to have god means to have faith. I do not know what the
future will bring, since I am only a man, but I am not concerned. English
newspapers write: “Germany will gain no advantage from Bohemia and Moravia.”
One doesn’t know which is more astonishing: the Führer’s pace or the peace with
which 80 million Germans accept what happens. That means we have god: we are
calm, we have faith and confidence — just like the priests always say. Yes, the
Führer gave confidence to every German, and therefore peace and faith. We have
found god.
We have become a people that believes in god. This is what our idea of life
and of affirming life has accomplished, becoming the idea of Germany. We will
be able to do everything if that grows from its small beginning into a
religion, to something holy to the German people. It will not be a false
religious mysticism, but rather it will be frank, honorable, military, manly,
disciplined and tough. The Church founded two realms: the sacred and the
secular. They claimed that they ruled the sacred, the devil the secular. They
ruled counts and kings for two thousand years that way, destroying worlds and
building states as they wished. They brought Negroes and Whites together
because it suited them and their desire to rule. We are building our new state
on the basis of race and community, our race, the German people. We believe
that god gave us our blood not to ruin it, but to keep it pure and pass it on
to our children and our children’s children. That is eternity. That is our
defense against the dark powers of Marxism, Bolshevism, liberalism, Free
Masonry and a belief in the Messiah, the Jewish doctrine of salvation. That is
a teaching that affirms life. It is the idea of race, blood, and soil, the idea
of this life and the beauties of the earth, Mother Earth, that is our
fatherland. The world makes sense, nothing is arbitrary. Everything has its
meaning, and is related to other things. Everything goes according to plan,
each star is in its place, each man has his place, each people has its tasks.
We will overcome the doctrines of our enemies. The Jews must know that. We also
know both the material and ideological means. Our prayers are better than the
biblical prayers. Our idea has seized the people, converting and transforming
them; the idea is preached every day, and I must ask you, my party comrades, to
continue preaching it day after day. No one is too small or too great to do
that. I ask you to speak and preach as you did during the struggle for
power;we may not slow down or say: “Today I am a government minister and
have a lot to do.” The files won’t go away, but such an attitude will drive the
people away.
Remember in all we do that the Führer created the foundation for everything
we have today, that he gave the people the weapons, for in the end
worldviews, too, are decided by weapons. The Church may say its only weapon
is peace. There is no institution more bloodthirsty than the Church. No state,
no count, no world ruler has spilled anywhere near as much blood as the Church.
It says it was all for a higher cause, and that the end justifies the means.
No, that was not for the glory of God, who created humanity so that it could
live. It was only for the glory of the pope and to satisfy the power lust of
the priests. The Führer drew the proper conclusions, and built an army that
today is the best in the world. He built not only a West Front but an East
Front, the West was not enough. We have the same wall to the East. We do not
want to drive the nation into war, but we do want to put an end to bluffing.
Strengthen the propaganda for our idea, particularly in the next weeks, months
and years. Go to the villages, from restaurant to restaurant. Do not weary of
preaching the idea, for the idea is the main thing. Preach to the people again
and again, gradually preparing the people for the final decision. Use all your
energy to see to it that the factories produce. County leaders, it is your task
to double productivity. The Führer says there will not be war, he does not
believe it will happen. We have in fact already won a war — the workers through
their industry — and we may not slow down. Our enemies will not succeed. We are
watching them carefully, and know know that steel production in France has
fallen in the last year from 7 million to 5 million tons, in England from 13
million tons to 10 million. But in Germany it has risen from 19 million to 24
million tons. Those are the statistics we must keep in mind. It is easy for
them to approve 50 billion for armaments, but they can’t build cannons with the
money, even if it were pure gold, certainly not from banknotes. People have to
build them. And even if they succeed in eliminating unemployment, something we
have succeeded in doing but they have not, we have rescued the German worker
from his weakness as a proletarian creature. That had nothing to do with making
him a contented slave, but rather with freeing him from slavery and stupidity.
I hope we will continue to care for workers in this way. On the one hand we
have to speed up labor, demand more work, since nothing will be given to us. We
cannot get by with an 8 hour day, for the cannons have to be built, the coal
must be mined, the gasoline and the vehicles have to be produced if we want to
prevent war.
On the other hand, we must do everything we can to
care for people. The people must have the feeling that the leading men are
paying attention to everything, that their lives are not a comfortable, but
that they are driving and flying across the country to care for people. Of
course they won’t be able to solve every problem. The nation is like a child,
and a child does not ask if its mother is rich or poor, but it demands that it
be cared for. The people do not serve Adolf Hitler because they understand his
brilliance, but rather because they feel safe. We must give the people this
feeling. County leaders, that must be your goal, the goal of every local group
office and section of your county office. If the local group is an organically
living part of the NSDAP, its education will be of a worldview nature. There
may be only one school in a Gau, the Gau school. There must be a
big Gau school, and each county must also have its county school in
which everything is taught that is necessary for a party leader to understand
our worldview. Specialized training is necessary, but the county leader or
the Gauleiter must know that he is being trained within the framework of
the party and our goals. If we do these three things: not weary of speaking,
continue to build our organization, and continue to train in our worldview,
then we will meet the challenge.
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