27 April 1933 in the City Council Hall in Nuremberg
German
national comrades! In 1918, the state collapsed in Germany, leading to a
complete dissolution of the German people in all areas of life. Respect for the
holy, the inheritance of centuries, vanished under the mocking laughter of a
misled “mass man.” People did not want to accept that there was a Fatherland
called Germany. The rootless spirit, the rootless god of an abstract
Internationale ruined the source from which the German people have always taken
their strength in time of need. The German people lost faith in the strength of
their blood, their faith in the strength of their soul, and thus faith in its
very self. Thus it had to come that the inward and outward strength, the former
power, the glory of the past, sank into shame and misery. But the most terrible
aspect of these fourteen years was not that the economy of the productive
German people was ruined. Rather, the German people’s faith in itself was taken
away — the faith in that which once holy to their fathers. That was the crime
against the German people. The people from whom faith in itself and in its own
strength has been taken is open to exploitation. Today the German people know
the names of those who enriched themselves in the midst of their need. The
German people know that their misery was caused by a foreign people, the Jews,
above all from those who were the lackeys of the Jewish race. The miracle of
today has happened because the German people recognized the cause of their
misfortune. The German people once again have a Führer in Chancellor Adolf
Hitler.
The black-red-gold flags of
self-mutilation and surrender have been removed from government buildings. The
German people have again been given the flags and cockades they once won on the
battlefields. Germany’s tribes are once again united and march once more in the
ways of their fathers. Once again, Germany is above all else in the world. The
field marshal [Hindenburg] of the Great War, whose career reaches back to
Königgrätz [1866], and the corporal of the World War [Hitler], who created the
brown battalions that destroyed the Jewish-Marxist Internationale, today stand
at the head of the people and join their hands. That is the great miracle of
the German people today. This great miracle gave the German people back their
faith — a new faith that shines in the eyes of our children and leads us to
raise our arms in a Heil for the fatherland. With this will, we enter this
ancient hall. The chosen representatives of the citizens of Nuremberg have gathered
here to begin the work they have resolved to put in the hands of the chosen
leader of the citizens. This receives its solemnity though the men and women
here present, the representatives of the people of Nuremberg. When the Great
War began, the representatives of the Reichstag promised the Kaiser that the
days of discord and strife were over. They promised the Kaiser that there were
no more parties. Only a Germany so united could be victorious in the great
battles that had to be fought. My city councilors, if you have all come here
with this honest and decent intent, this first Nuremberg city council under the
national revolution must also begin with the promise that there will no longer
be parties here, only representatives of a united citizenry.
Women and men! After fourteen years
of struggle, in which thousands of German men voluntarily gave their lives in
their brown uniforms, National Socialism has destroyed the crime of November
[1918] and laid the foundations for the new state in Potsdam [a ceremony the
month before]. We, National Socialists, on this the first day of the new city
council, are ready to extend our hand to all who are of good will. Just as the
representatives in the provincial parliaments and in the Reichstag must feel
obligated as representatives of the German people, so too the citizens of
Nuremberg demand of their representatives in the city council that they reject
all the causes from which hate sprang in the past. Malice and discord make
decent work for the good of the community impossible. He who does not enter
this hall ready to be an honest, decent man will remain our enemy, and also the
enemy of the citizens of Nuremberg, the city of Albrecht Dürer and Hans Sachs.
What happened before in this city hall is gone and forgotten. But he who dares
to injure or insult honest German work with the spirit of a Jewish-Marxist
worldview that brought Germany to its grave will be judged by the people. At
the first meeting of a new city council in the former Jewish-Marxist Germany,
it was customary for party leaders to speak of their programs. That was then!
The time of chattering and lying is over. It will not return. Those who have
created the new Germany will be sure of that. The citizens of Nuremberg expect
of their newly-elected council not promises, but courage and decisiveness:
healing wounds where necessary; maintaining that which is again healthy;
increasing our new wealth. That we have already begun to eliminate self
interest from the offices in the Nuremberg city hall is no secret. The task of
the men who we today elect as leaders of the citizens is, in the view of the
citizens, to tear away the facade that even today covers a swamp of corruption.
The greater the courage with which the mayors we today elect, the greater will
be the confidence of the citizens whom they serve.
As Adolf Hitler entered the
chancellory in the Reich capital, he asked the German people for four years.
Four years will determine whether he is worthy of the confidence they gave him
in the election of 5 March 1933.
Citizens of Nuremberg! Give your
newly elected council four years — after which the city of your fathers will
again be the city it once was: clean and united. It will be again a German
Nuremberg, worthy of the greatness of the masters who once gave it fame and
honor. Women and citizens! The bells of the Frauenkirche and the bells of St.
Sebaldus have today rung in the new Nuremberg. Get to work, city council
members! Get to work, you mayors! Hail to the field marshal of the Great War!
Hail to the blacksmith of the new Reich! Long live the city of our fathers!
Long live our beloved, ancient Nuremberg!
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