National Socialists! Party Comrades!
A sense of duty and my work prohibit my leaving headquarters at this time, on
the twenty-fifth anniversary of the day on which the principal program of our
movement was proclaimed and accepted in Munich. The evening of February 24 was
marked by the anticipation of a development whose terrible significance is
perhaps clear to many people in its full extent only today.
At the time, the same coalition of irreconcilable enemies as today had
already joined forces in the fight against the German Volk. The unnatural
alliance of exploiting capitalism and misanthropic Bolshevism that today
attempts to suffocate the world was the enemy to whom we sounded the battle cry
on February 24, 1920, for the preservation of the nation. Just as today, the
apparent contradiction of terms in the cooperation of extremist forces was only
an expression of the unified will of a joint agitator and beneficiary. For a
long time already, international Jewry has made use of both forms in the
destruction of the freedom and social happiness of the nations.
When we met for the first time in Munich on February 24, 1920, we already
had a clear idea of the tendencies and consequences of the strategy of both
attackers. Capitalism and Bolshevism once divided our Volk internally and
disarmed it, in order to exploit and destroy it in the end. In contrast to the
lesson which history teaches us today, that was only a preliminary exercise.
This vilest conspiracy and bloodiest tyranny of all times against the
freedom of all people tries to rise up to strike down the thousands of years of
development of civilization in Europe.
There is a tremendous difference between the Germany of 1920 and that of
1945. Back then, it was a nation completely paralyzed-today, it is a military
Volk fighting with the utmost fanaticism. Back then, it had an antiquated,
disintegrating social order-today, it has an unshakable Volksgemeinschaft which
is in the process of building things up. Had the old Germany had only a
fraction of the power of resistance of the present one, then it would never
have collapsed. Had the Germany of today had only a fraction of the weaknesses
of back then, it would have died long ago! It is because of this that February
24, 1920, will one day go down in history as one of the great turning points in
the evolution of mankind. Nameless and unknown men-with myself at their
head-turned to a nation in the process of disintegration, and proclaimed a
program whose theses were not understood by countless others and whose
tendencies were rejected by the overwhelming majority. Today, we know the
following: without this program, a new socialist German Volk and state would
never have happened. Without this creation of the National Socialist German
state, neither a German Reich nor a German Volk would exist today! After all,
the substance of states, that is, the people themselves, are not eternal; they
are born, they grow, and they pass away, according to what they are worth.
Providence does not show mercy to the weak. Instead, it only
recognizes the right to live for the healthy and strong! That the National
Socialist movement, which came out of nothing, was, after a long struggle, able
to seize power in the year 1933 by legal means was the result of a dogged and
fanatical struggle which at times almost appeared hopeless. Whoever admires the
miracle of today’s resistance or fails to understand it, should consider what
it meant for me at the time to begin as an unknown and nameless man to wage the
struggle for an idea and, thereby, the struggle for power, facing a united
world of enemies. Who among our later critics would have been able, under
similar conditions and starting out from nothing, to begin and complete such a
work? What an incredible amount of work, will to fight, and strength of faith
characterized those years of the struggle for power! What hurdles and setbacks
had to be overcome! Only our doggedness and our unshakable will gained the
victory in the end. Even though the framework of the struggle at the time may
appear limited to us today, the objective in this fight and its course were the
same as they are today. The stake was and is the existence of our German Volk!
And that is why this fight was as sacred for us at the time as it is today.
After all, on its success depended and still depends our race’s existence or
nonexistence in the future. Who can still doubt today that, without the
National Socialist revolution and its reorganization of the German
Volkskorper-seen only in domestic terms-Germany would never have been in a
position to face the present crisis? Who can deny that, without the material
armament of the German Volk achieved by the National Socialist revolution, even
the strongest will would not have sufficed to defy the devilish coalition which
threatens us today! Only a bourgeois blockhead can delude himself into thinking
that the flood from the east would not have come, had Germany opposed it with
international laws on paper instead of with cannons, panzers, and airplanes!
This century and our own age will weigh us in accordance with whether we were
steadfast enough to oppose this invasion by Central Asia, the like of which the
world has repeatedly witnessed since the turn of the era. As the invasion of
the Huns was not repelled with pious wishes and admonitions, as the
century-long invasions of our Reich from the southeast were not thwarted by
diplomatic artistry, as the Mongol invasion did not stop at the borders of
ancient cultures, so this danger cannot be eliminated by right alone, but by
the strength which stands behind this right. Right means the duty to defend the
life given to us by the Creator. It is the sacred right of self-preservation.
The success of this self-preservation depends exclusively on the greatness of
our risk and the willingness to take on every sacrifice in order to preserve
this life for the future.
By so doing, we are not doing anything different from what the Germanic and
Latin races had to do in the age of the migration of the people; it is no
different from what our ancestors had to do in the long years of the Turkish
Wars and what eventually kept the Mongol invasion from transforming our
continent into a desert. No League of Nations’ assembly but the Battle on the
Catalaunian Fields broke Attila the Hun’s power. No chatter at Geneva or any
type of convention will drive back Asian Bolshevism but only the will to win of
our resistance and the force of our arms.
We all know how difficult the fight is. Whatever we may lose in it stands
in no relation to what we will lose if it is not now nearing its victorious
end.
Individual areas in the east of our Reich are now experiencing what
Bolshevism is in reality. What this Jewish plague does to our women, children,
and men in these areas represents the cruelest fate that a human brain is
capable of concocting. There is only one way of opposing these Jewish-Bolshevik
annihilators of mankind and their west European and American pimps: the
deployment with utmost zeal and dogged steadfastness of all the strength a
merciful God allows man to find in the most difficult times in the defense of
his life. Whatever becomes weak in this will fall, must and will fade away.
Just as the cowardly bourgeois parties of compromise first were cornered by the
Bolshevik wave and then swept away, so today those bourgeois states disappear
whose narrow-minded representatives believed they could enter into an alliance
with the devil in the hope of being more cunning than he is satanic. A
horrifying repetition of the domestic events is taking place today in the
mighty international political sphere of the present events. But just as in the
end we struck the Bolshevik enemy to the ground by defeating the narrow-minded
small-party particularism and founded the National Socialist Volksstaat, so we
will today achieve victory by defeating the jumble of bourgeois-democratic
views of the state, and we will crown it with the annihilation of Bolshevism.
When Rome faced its most difficult hour after the Battle of Cannae, it won
not through the attempt of a cowardly compromise but through the uncompromising
decision to continue the struggle for its existence by summoning the remaining
strength of its people. Even though the Second Punic War failed to arrest the
African advances once and for all, the Third [Punic War] put an end to them!
When the greatest king in our history, Frederick II, seemed likely to succumb
to an overwhelming world coalition in his Seven Years War, it was likewise only
because of his heroic soul that the germ cell and the core of a coming Reich
remained victorious in the end.
What we have so often preached at home about the essence of the enemy
coalition has now been confirmed: it is a devilish pact between democratic
capitalism and Jewish Bolshevism. All nations whose statesmen have signed this
pact will sooner or later become the victims of the demonic spirits they have
summoned. Let there be no doubt that National Socialist Germany will wage this
fight for as long as it takes for this historic turn of events to come about
here, too, and this will happen still this year.
No power on earth will make us weak at heart. They have destroyed so many
of our beautiful, magnificent, and sacred things that there remains only one
mission in our lives: to create a state that will rebuild what they have
destroyed. Therefore, it is our duty to preserve the freedom of the German
nation for the future and not allow German manpower to be abducted to Siberia,
but to deploy it for the rebuilding and dedicate it to the service of our own
Volk. They have taught us so many horrible things that there is no more horror
for us. What the homeland must endure is dreadful, what the front must
accomplish is superhuman. Yet when, in the face of such pain, a whole nation
proves itself as reliable as the German Volk, then Providence cannot and will
not deny its right to live in the end. As always in history, it will reward its
steadfastness with the prize of earthly existence. Since so many of our
possessions have been destroyed, this can only reinforce us in our fanatical
determination to see our enemies a thousand times over as what they truly are:
destroyers of an eternal civilization and annihilators of mankind! And out of
this hatred will grow a sacred will: to oppose these annihilators of our
existence with all the strength God has given us and defeat them in the end.
Our Volk has survived so many terrible times in its two-thousand-year-old
history that we have no right to doubt that we shall also overcome the present
times of need! If the homeland continues to do its duty as it does now, even
increases its will to do its utmost, if the frontline soldier follows the
example of the brave homeland and risks his life for his homeland, then the
whole world will be shattered when it runs up against us! If front and homeland
continue in their joint determination to destroy him who dares to fail when he
confronts the commandment of preservation, who reveals himself to be cowardly,
or who sabotages the fight, then they will jointly prevent the destruction of
the nation.
Then the German victory will stand at the end of this confrontation! And
here we feel pride and joy: when the World War was nearing its end what we
feared most was the corruption of our youth. When this war is over, we will
place the victory in the hands of a young generation that has been steeled by
thousandfold suffering and fire and is the best Germany has ever called its
own.
It will set an example in the cities and in the countryside for countless
coming generations. This, too, is an accomplishment of the National Socialist
education and a result of the challenge to fight which came out of Munich
twenty-five years ago.
My own life is given value only by what it means for the nation. I
therefore work incessantly for the resurrection and strengthening of our fronts
for the defensive and the offensive, the production of old and new weapons,
their deployment, the reinforcement of the spirit of our resistance, and if
necessary- as in former times-for the elimination of the vermin that does not
wish to join the preservation of our Volk but wish to oppose it.
My dear party comrades! These days I read in British papers that there is a
plan to destroy my Berghof. I almost regret that this has not yet happened.
After all, whatever I call my own is not worth more than what belongs to my
Volksgenossen. I would be happy to bear everything, down to the last detail and
as far as humanly possible, that others must bear. The only thing that I would
not be able to bear right now would be a sign of weakness from my Volk. What
therefore makes me the happiest and the proudest man is the belief that the
German Volk demonstrates its strong character precisely in the hour of greatest
despair. May every German in the coming weeks and months remember that he is
obliged to place everything into the service of our joint preservation for the
coming millennia. Whoever is in a bad situation should and must know that many
Germans have lost far more than he has. The life which remains for us can be
dedicated to only one commandment, namely, to make up for what the
international Jewish criminals and their helpers have done to our Volk.
Just as twenty-five years ago we set out, as a community, to obtain
compensation for the injustice done to our Volk, so today we again fight as a
community to obtain compensation for the suffering which they once more
inflicted upon us, the oppression which they brought to us, the damage which
they caused here. Therefore, it must be our unshakable will to think of Germany
even when we draw our last breath. We must do so at a time when men and women
in the cities and in the countryside, down to our youth, live in compliance
with the commandment to risk everything in order to free our Volk from this
misery, to restore after the war its culture in the cities and in the
countryside, and its National Socialist communal life. Above all, they must
never again abandon the path to the establishment of a true Volksstaat, one far
away from every ideology and [all] classes; a state which rises above the
conceit of the individual social strata, which is inspired by the conviction that
the eternal values of a people find expression in its best sons and daughters,
who must be searched for, educated, and deployed as a merciful God gave them to
us, regardless of their birth or origin.
My party comrades! Twenty-five years ago I announced the victory of the
movement. Today, I prophesy-as always inspired by my faith in our Volk- the
final victory of the German Reich!
Adolf Hitler
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