The National
Socialist movement has become the German Reich, the German state. Behind the
flag of the opposition of once marches today the German nation!
Proclamation of September 1, 1933 in Nuremberg
I created...a totally new
movement, which from the very start, overcoming all manifestations of decay,
had to build a new community.
Speech of November 10, 1933 in Berlin
When in the year 1919 the
National Socialist movement came to life in order to replace the
Marxist-democratic republic with a new Reich, this endeavor appeared to be an
impossible silliness. It was precisely the quibbling people of reason, who
thanks to a superficial historical education, at most managed to produce a pitying
smile for such an attempt.
Proclamation of September 1, 1933 in
Nuremberg
One thing....is the first task
of this movement: It wants to make the Germans national again, so that their
fatherland is again over everything else for them.
Speech of July 14, 1923 in Munich
We have written the great
Germanic ideal on our flags and will know how to fight to the last drop of
blood for the same!
Speech of August 1, 1923 in Munich
Task of the movement is the
conquest of German man for the power of the state.
Speech of February 26, 1934 in Munich
The first party days took
place in 1920, 1921 and 1922. They were enlarged general member assemblies of
the party back then almost completely limited to Munich and Bavaria. The first
Reich Party Day with representatives from the rest of Germany as well took
place on January 27, 1923 in Munich. Already in November of the same year came
the ban of the movement. Only three years later we celebrated the memorable
resurrection of our party days in Weimar. In 1927 the third Reich Party Day
took place and this time, for the first time in Nuremberg, likewise the fourth
Reich Party Day in 1929.
Proclamation of September 1, 1933 in Nuremberg
If then no party day could be
held anymore for many years, the blame was not on us, rather on the conditions.
Already the attempt in 1930 to again meet in Nuremberg failed due to the
resistance of our political opponents, of the Bavarian provincial government
back then. For three years this bourgeois government sabotaged every additional
such attempt. For the movement, however, the city should for all future be the
location of our Reich Party Days, in which we for the first time proclaimed the
new German will in a huge rally.
Proclamation of September 1, 1933 in Nuremberg
When I think back on the time,
when I spoke to eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, twenty, thirty and fifty
people, when I after a year had won sixty-four people for the movement, on the
time, when our small circle widened more and more, then I must admit that what
has been created today, when a river of millions of German folk comrades flows
into our movement, represents something unique in German history.
Lecture of January 27, 1932 in Dusseldorf
Our movement at the time of
its founding raised three demands: first, elimination of the peace treaty,
second, unification of all Germans, third, soil for the nourishment of our
nation.
Speech of April 17, 1923 in Munich
There were two principles,
which we back then buried in our hearts: first, to orient this on the most
sober knowledge, and second, to disseminate this knowledge with the most
ruthless truthfulness.
Speech of April 12, 1922 in Munich
What do the millions of new
people know, who today stand in the movement, about the miracle, which has
taken place in Germany? They have not experienced what our revolutionary old
friends experienced. They do not know the path of discipline, which led from
the few hundred men of once to today. They have no idea how small it once was,
what mountain-moving faith was needed thirteen, ten, nine, eight or seven years
ago, to believe in the movement and to make sacrifices for it. For the movement
had nothing else to give back then.
Speech of March 20, 1934 in Munich
With the spirit do we want to
conquer the nation, but with the fist to subdue anybody who dares to rape the
spirit through terror. That was the foundation of the S.A., the party’s great
arm of strength.
Speech of February 26, 1934 in Munich
Actually, the S.A. and the
S.S. of the National Socialist party emerged without any assistance, without
any financial support from the state, from the Reich or even from the
Reichswehr, without any military training and without any military equipment -
for purely political-party purposes and according to party-political
considerations. Their purpose was and is solely the elimination of the
communist threat, their training without any association with the army, only
calculated for purposes of propaganda and enlightenment, psychological mass
effect and breaking down communist terror. They are institutions for the
development of a genuine community spirit, for the overcoming of previous class
differences and for the elimination of the economic need.
Speech of May 17, 1933 in Berlin
My S.A. comrades! You,
especially, are living witnesses for this will (for peaceful, constructive
work); for your free will pulls you together in this community in which not
theoretically, rather practically, the folk community finds its expression, a
great community of mutual help, mutual support. You are the guarantors not only
for the present, rather also for the German future.
Speech of October 22, 1933 in Kelheim
Out of forty-five million
adults, three million fighters have organized themselves as the bearers of the
political leadership of the nation. Today, however, the overwhelming majority
of Germans affirms itself as supporters of their world of ideas. The folk has
trustingly placed its fate into their hands. The organization, however, thereby
assumes a solemn obligation.
Speech of September 3, 1933 in Nuremberg
We have extended our hand to
millions of people who want to be active in the building. Millions of former
opponents, they stand today in our ranks and, thanks to their work and thanks
to their ability as helpers in the building, they are no less esteemed than our
own old party comrades.
Speech of May 1, 1934 in Berlin
The commander of the S.A. is I
and nobody else!
Speech of July 13, 1934 in Berlin
I want...that obedience,
loyalty and comradeship dominate as transmitted principles. And just as each
leader demands obedience from his men, so do I demand from the S.A. leaders
respect for the law and obedience to my command.
Order to the S.A. of June 30, 1934
The S.A. man and the S.A.
leader can be nothing but loyal, obedient, disciplined, modest and
self-sacrificing - or he is not an S.A. man.
Address of September 9, 1934 in Nuremberg
I want to ask the lads that
they make the oldsters (in the movement) their example, that they recognize
that being a National Socialist is nothing external, that it is not about the
clothing, not about meetings and stars, rather that it is about the heart!
Speech of March 20, 1934 in Munich
The political leadership of a
nation must seek the most essential difference from the rest of the folk not in
greater pleasure, rather in stricter self-discipline!
Speech of February 7, 1934 in Berlin
I have...always demanded that
higher demands are made on the behavior and manners of National Socialist
leaders than among other folk comrades.
Speech of July 13, 1934 in Berlin
If it is demanded of a folk
that it blindly trust its leadership, this leadership must, however, also earn
this trust through performance and through especially good conduct. Individual
mistakes and errors may be made, they can be corrected. Bad conduct... however,
is unworthy of a leader, not National Socialistic and to the highest degree
contemptible.
Speech of July 13, 1934 in Berlin
To those who always say the
German cannot be unified, we have presented the most unified organization in
the whole of German history.
Speech of February 26, 1934 in Munich
There is no novel of world
history, which is more wonderful than our party’s development to its present
greatness.
Speech of March 20, 1934 in Munich
You, General Field Marshal
(Reich President von Flindenburg), sir, have entrusted the Reich’s leadership
to this young Germany in the magnanimous decision of January 30, 1933.
Speech of March 21, 1933 in Potsdam
Hardly a revolution of such
magnitude has occurred so disciplined and bloodless as this uprising of the
German folk...It is my will and my firm intention to care for this calm
development in the future as well.
Speech of March 23, 1933 in Berlin
When has a revolution ever
been carried out so without outrages like ours?
Speech of October 24, 1933 in Berlin
This is the eternal service of
the National Socialist party and its organizations, it is the service of the
brown guard: it prepared the German uprising, carried it out and concluded it
almost without bloodshed and with unprecedented adherence to program .
Speech of January 30, 1934 in Berlin
National Socialists, my party
comrades! An incomparable victory has been won. The German folk owes it above
all to your faithful loyalty and your never-tiring work...The unique greatness
of the success is for all of you the greatest affirmation. The salvation of the
fatherland, however, will one day be your thanks!
Thanks after the great election victory of
November 12, 1933
The great principles, which
have enabled the victory of these flags: those are the principles of loyalty,
of obedience, of faith, of comradeship, of confidence, of courage and of
perseverance.
Speech of March 20, 1934 in Munich
We are National Socialists of
fanatical disposition and no tightrope walkers of the so-called middle line!
Speech of May 1, 1923 in Munich
(It) was the fanatical faith
in the movement’s victory, which was the prerequisite for any real later
success. The psychologically most effective means, however, in this education
was - next to the practice in daily struggle, the getting used to the enemy -
the visible demonstration of membership in a great and strong movement! Thus
our mass demonstrations served not only the winning of new supporters, rather
above all the firming and moral strengthening of those already won.
Proclamation of September 1, 1933 in Nuremberg
Our will was harder than the
German need!
Speech of May 1, 1934 in Berlin
This our will, however, German
folk and German worker, is also your will. It is the eternal will for
self-preservation, which is possessed by every healthy creature and which, we
thank our God, has also not forever left our German folk. It slumbers and is
now awakened!
Speech of May 1, 1934 in Berlin
The conflict with Marxism thus
demanded from the start an organization, which according to its whole character
was trained for and suited for this struggle.
Proclamation of September 1, 1933 in Nuremberg
A community (those formed in
the movement), which can be shaken by nothing at all.
Speech of January 3, 1935 in Berlin
Rise will the movement, which
is ready to stand up for its ideal even to the final round!
Speech of August 21, 1923 in Munich
For them (those organized in
the movement) it is not enough to simply make the affirmation: „I believe”,
rather the oath: „I fight!”
Speech of November 9, 1934 in Nuremberg
We want to always be
determined to act, always ready, if it is necessary, to die, never willing to
capitulate!
Speech of November 9, 1934 in Munich
The National Socialist
movement must affirm the heroism to rather take on any resistance and any
distress than to even just once deny its principles recognized as correct.
Proclamation of September 1, 1933 in Nuremberg
An organization, filled with
the most eminent national feeling, built on the idea of the leadership’s absolute
authority in all areas, in all stages - a single party, ... which in its entire
organization only knows responsibility, command and obedience, and thus for the
first time in Germany’s political life integrates a manifestation of millions,
which is based on the principle of performance.
Lecture of January 27, 1932 in Dusseldorf
In that it (the movement) puts
through the principle of authority and discipline in the party organization
from top to bottom in a straight line, it first obtains the moral right to
demand the same from even the last folk comrade.
Proclamation of September 1, 1933 in Nuremberg
The organization of a movement
is a formal manifestation, even if it is ever so ingenious and in itself
correct. Its inner worth is first given it by the people, who in its sense,
embody the idea in life.
Speech of May 1, 1934 in Berlin
All for one and one for all!
Speech of September 7, 1934 in Nuremberg
People, who according to their
social and economic origin mostly had a subordinate, yes, not seldom suppressed
rank, had to politically obtain the conviction to one day represent the
nation's leadership. Already in the struggle, which we National Socialists had
to survive against such a greatly superior force, forced on us the duty to, with
all means, strengthen trust in the movement and hence the self-consciousness of
the individual fighter.
Proclamation of September 1, 1933 in Nuremberg
The movement...must take care
that not the numeric size of this core is viewed as decisive, rather only its
inner worth and hence its inner homogeneity. It must know that the selection in
the future must proceed from the same hard principles, which hard fate imposed
on us in the past.
Speech of September 3, 1933 in Nuremberg
One can become a party comrade
by written application, but a National Socialist only through the shifting of
meaning according to the urgent appeal of the own heart!
Speech of May 1, 1934 in Berlin
The National Socialist party
must...be convinced that it manages - thanks to the method of a selection
conditioned by living struggle - to find the politically most capable human
material in Germany and to unite it within itself. This community must among
itself affirm the same law, which it wants to see obeyed by the mass of the nation.
It must hence continuously educate itself in the thinking of affirmation of
authority, of voluntary acceptance of the strictest discipline, in order to be
able to give the same education to its followers. And it must hereby be hard
and consequent.
Proclamation of September 1, 1933 in Nuremberg
The conviction that our
movement is not preserved by desire for money and gold, rather only by love for
the folk, must again and again give freshness and fill us with courage for the
struggle.
Speech of July 28, 1922 in Munich
For this was the wonderful
thing during this time of propagation of our idea, that it sent out its waves
across the whole land and then pulled man after man and woman after woman into
its orbit.
Speech of September 3, 1933 in Nuremberg
Just as we previously stepped
before the folk in ten thousand, in a hundred thousand individual rallies in
order to again and again ask for its vote, so must we in the future as well
continue this struggle in ten thousand, in a hundred thousand rallies and
assemblies.
Speech of February 26, 1934 in Munich
It is the greatest mission of
the National Socialist movement to form the bridge between the individual
occupations and ranks of our folk.
Speech to the folk comrades in Danzig of May 25,
1933
What the reason of the
reasonable people could not see, was grasped by the sentiment, the heart and
the instinct of these primitively simple, but healthy people!
Proclamation of September 1, 1933 in Nuremberg
We know that our movement
became great precisely through this loyalty to principles.
Speech of November 9, 1933 in Munich
The party will hence through
its political education work on the German folk have to make German man more
and more spiritually immune against any relapse into the...past.
Proclamation of September 1, 1933 in Nuremberg
They (the members of the
individual auxiliaries of the party) must never expect from the nation more
virtue and sense of sacrifice than they themselves are ready a thousandfold to
do, to give and to perform.
Speech of September 10, 1934 in Nuremberg
You, my office-holders, are
responsible before God and our history that, through the political education of
German people to one folk, to one idea, to one expression of will, a November
1918 is never again possible in German history.
Speech of September 2, 1033 in Nuremberg
This is the most mighty thing,
which our movement should create: for these broad searching and erring masses a
new faith, which does not leave them in this time of confusions, to which they
can swear and on which they can build, so that they at least somewhere find a
place, which gives their hearts rest.
Speech of April 12, 1922 in Munich
We have not fought for
fourteen years for the sake of a government position, rather in order to
rejuvenate the German folk from the bottom up! Struggle and work for the folk
alone can save us!
Speech of October 30, 1933 in Frankfurt am Main
Starting with the smallest
S.A. man, who without any personal advantage is ready to risk his life and
health for Germany’s future, up to us leaders, who have preferred to stand
twelve years long in the despised and suppressed position of opposition
dictated by inner conscience, all of us are dominated by just a single thought:
More important than our own life is the life of our folk, Germany’s existence!
Open Letter to Brüning of October 14, 1931
The demands, which this
struggle made on our movement, were enormous. It took just as much courage to
bear mockery and scorn as heroism and bravery to combat the daily defamations
and attacks. Tens of thousands of National Socialist fighters were wounded in
this period and many killed. Many wandered in prisons, hundreds of thousands
had to leave their last job or otherwise lost their existence.
Speech of January 30, 1934 in Berlin
Out of these struggles,
however, grew the unshakeable guard of the National Socialist revolution, the
band of millions of the political organization of the party, the S.A. and S.S.
of the party. To them alone does the German folk owe its liberation from an
insanity, which - had victory fallen to it - would not have just kept seven
million unemployed, rather would have soon delivered thirty million to
starvation!
Speech of January 30, 1934 in Berlin
It is a unique and only
ascribable to the National Socialist credit, that this economic decay with its
horrible impoverishment of the masses did not became a self-perpetuating drive
for the acceleration of the political catastrophe, rather much more led to a
concentration of conscious fighters for a new, constructive and thus truly
positive world-view.
Speech of January 30, 1934 in Berlin
For - regardless, whether one
loves us or one hates us - one thing nobody can deny: A new spirit has filled
the German folk, has awakened it to new life and given it the strength for
works of labor and for accomplishments in all areas of a new folk formation,
which are worthy of admiration!
Speech of May 1, 1934 in Berlin
The gigantic organizations of
our movement, its political institutions as well as the organizations of the
S.A. and S.S. and the building of the Work Front, just like the state
organizations of our army, they are national and social melting pots, in which
gradually a new German man will be developed.
Speech of May 1, 1934 in Berlin
The party, S.A. and S.S., the
political organization, the Work Service, the youth organizations, they are all
means and tools of the inner forging together of our folk body and thus for the
development of the energies lying within our folk into a truly peaceful,
culture-promoting and also materially beneficial work.
Speech of June 18, 1934 in Gera
We no longer deserve any
indictment in German history, rather deserve that one day one writes on our
gravestones: „They have often been rough, they have been hard, they were
inconsiderate, but they have been: good Germans!”
Speech of June 19, 1933 in Erfurt
My folk comrades...stick to
this movement, fight for it, tight thus for the German folk and for the German
Reich!
Speech of June 18, 1934 in Gera
I know today: Even if fate
would take me away personally, this struggle would be continued and no longer
come to an end. The movement ensures this!
Speech of May 10, 1933 in Berlin
