Hitler with young Nazis, 1933
Hitler Portrait
Hitler leaves Meeting, 1922
Hitler, Speer, Breker in Paris, 1940
Hitler, Schaub, Schulze, February 15, 1942
Samples of Hitler's Speeches
1933_Reichstag.wav
In a symbolic gesture intended to bring "the old and new Germany together", the ceremonial first Reichstag session of 1933, the first Reichstag session of the Third Reich, was held at the Prussian Garrison Church in Potsdam on March 21st (the anniversary of the founding of Bismark's Second Reich), where Hitler intoned: "The government of national recovery is determined, in the name of the German people, to do its duty to them. It therefore comes here today before the German Reichstag with a sincere wish to find support from them to go forth with this mission."
Hitler_Courage.wav
An electioneering speech: "It was not the intellectuals who gave to me the courage to begin this huge task. It came from two classes alone - the German farmer and the German worker."
Hitler_Intolerance.wav
A campaign speech from July 1932: "Our opponents accuse us National Socialists, and me in particular, of being intolerant and quarrelsome. They say that we don't want to work with other parties. They say the National Socialists are not German at all, because they refuse to work with other political parties. So is it typically German to have thirty parties? I have to admit one thing — these gentleman are quite right. We are intolerant. I have given myself one goal — to sweep these thirty political parties out of Germany. They mistake us for one of them. We have one aim, and we will follow it fanatically and ruthlessly to the grave."
Hitler_forces.wav
After having arrested all the Communist and Social Democrat representatives who might have prevented a 2/3rds majority vote in support of his measures, Hitler on 3/23/33 forces through the Reichstag, held for the first time at the Kroll Opera House and the first legislative session after the Reichstag Fire, the "Enabling Act" that on the pretext of an internal threat gave the Federal Government (the Reich) more control over individual German states: "Ours is not only the negative problem of fighting against communist doctrine and their organized activity. We have also to get on with the positive task of winning over the German workers to the National State. The Reich's Government wants these powers not as a tool of suppression of the States, but rather as an authorisation to promulgate measures that will establish once and for all an identity of political intention between the Reich and the States. It is the Reichstag's duty to take a clear stand on these issues, and the matter of communism and its other front organizations does not obscure this."
Precious.wav
From the same 1933 speech as above, an outstanding example of Hitler's bigotry and one of his most forceful recorded statements: "The most precious thing that exists the whole world over is our own people. And for these people, and with these people, I shall struggle and I shall fight, and never slacken, and never tire, and never falter, and never doubt."
Hitler_youth.wav
An attempt at Nuremburg in April 1939 to ready the youth of Germany to the eventuality of war: "What is our Germany of today! How very beautiful and heroic! When I cast my gaze upon you, I know my life's struggle is not being fought in vain! You shall always remain faithful, as German always have. There will always be a new generation of youth, in this city, a city which saw the passage of centuries will see new generations. They will be even more beautiful, they will be even more powerful, and they shall inspire in the hearts of the living even greater hope for the future. I do not bewail - I sound a warning! I am not fear stricken, but I want you to be prepared! I do not tremble at the hour of decision, but I want you to see, and I want to be strong. I want my feet planted strongly in our earth, ready to withstand any onslaught! And you will stand by my side should that hour ever come. You will stand before me, behind me and beside me and at my hands, and together, we shall carry our banners to victory!"
HTLTDHitlerYouth.wav
Hitler decides to use the Hitler Youth to hold the approaches to Berlin against the full onslaught of the Red Army in order to buy time for General Wenck to cross them and lift the siege.
HTLTDHitlerYouthDeaths.wav
From the above — Hitler: "The valour of these fifteen year olds, dying in their thousands, holding out until the arrival of Wenck, is the most solid guarantee of the safety of Berlin."
HTLTDJews.wav
Hitler makes a cold-hearted curt remark about the Jews: "Till a few years ago, I thought of making a clean sweep of all European Jews and lumping them on Madagascar or some other island. But today, I'm sure it's far better to exterminate them, right on the spot, wherever you find them."
Last_Broadcast.wav
Broadcast on the 12th anniversary of his becoming Chancellor of Germany, Hitler on 1/30/45 exhorts his people to fight on with the forlorn sentiments: "However grave the crisis may be at the moment, we shall, through our unalterable will, and our readiness for sacrifice, and our own abilities, end the crisis masterfully. We shall eternally endure. It is not Central Asia that will win this war, but Europe, led by this nation, which for 1500 years has defended and will continue to defend Europe against the East, and now and throughout the future our Greater German Reich and German nation shall endure."
Long_Live.wav
From a 1933 speech: "Long live our movement! Long live our German People!"
Munich.wav
Hitler shamelessly brags before the Reichstag about Germany's military strength just after the Munich Conference. Translated by Foreign Ministry announcer.
new_life_form.wav
Hitler proclaims his chilling vision of the fate of the German people: "From the German youth of the future I wish something else; some different do I wish. We must raise a New Man. We must give the German people a new ideal, and the people and this ideal must forged together into a new life form. This is the greatest task in this century for our people."
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