EXCERPTS FROM GERMAN PUBLICATIONS
1. "It was no Peace Treaty which they have signed, but a betrayal of Peace * * * So long as this Treaty stands there can be no resurrection of the German people; no social reform of any kind is possible. The Treaty was made in order to bring 20 million Germans to their deaths and to ruin the German nation. But those who made the Treaty cannot set it aside. At its foundation our movement formulated three demands:
1. Setting aside of the Peace Treaty '
2. Unification of all Germans
3. Land and soil [Grund und Boden] to feed our nation.
Our Movement could formulate these demands, since it was not our Movement which caused the War; it has not made the Republic; it did not sign the Peace Treaty."
Hitler, Speech at Munich, 13 April 1923.
Adolf Hitler's Reden, Munich 1935, p. 66.
2. "The day must come when a German government shall summon up the courage to declare to the foreign powers: "The Treaty of Versailles is founded on a monstrous lie. We fulfill nothing more. Do what you will! If you want battle, look for it! Then we shall see whether you can turn 70 million Germans into serfs and slaves!"
Hitler, Speech of 1 August 1923.
Adolf Hitler's Reden, Munich, 1935, p. 90.
3. "Is it not these criminals, this Jewry, who are the real foes of the Republic, these men who from the day of its birth burdened it with the lie that this people was guilty of the World War? And have they not undermined the Republic and thereby given to the foreign powers the spiritual arms with which these Powers for the last three years shower blows upon us and op-
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press us and say to us 'You deserve it, for you yourselves have confessed your guilt!' And have they not opposed the Republic, who have so reduced all power of resistance that today every Hottentot State is in a position to lord it over Germany? And do they not ceaselessly oppose Germany, who have brought us, once the people of honour, so low that we have a reputation for the meanest economic corruption and the most debased political outlook?" [Gesinnungslumperei]
Hitler, Speech on "Free State or Slavery," 28 July 1922.
Adolf Hitler's Reden, Munich 1925, p. 39.
4. "We must call to account the November criminals of 1918. It cannot be that 2 million Germans should have died in vain and that afterwards one should sit down as friends at the same table with traitors. No, we do not pardon, we demand—Vengeance."
Hitler, Speech of 18 September 1922, p. 48.
Adolf Hitler's Reden, Munich 1925, p. 48.
5. "Clear away the Jews! Our people has genius enough—we need no Hebrews. If we were to put in their place intelligences drawn from the great body of our people, then we have found anew the bridge which leads to the community of the people."
Hitler, Speech 27 April 1923 on "The Paradise of the Jew or the State of the German People."
Adolf Hitler's Reden, Munich 1925 (Pamphlet), p. 77.
6. "Amid the most terrible disintegration the old Nordic racial spirit is none the less awakened to new, higher consciousness. It realizes finally that there can be no equality in the neighbourly existence [gleichberechtigtes Nebeneinander] of mutually and necessarily exclusive supreme values, to which either neighbour might at some time consent to its own present destruction [Verderben]. It realizes that elements racially and spiritually related may be included, but that foreign elements must undoubtedly be excluded, and, when necessary, overcome. Not because they are 'false' or 'bad' in themselves, but because they are foreign generically [artfremd] and destroy the internal structure of our essence."
Rosenberg, Der Mythus des 20 Jahnhunderts. Eine Wertung der seelischgeistigen Gestalltenkampfe unserer Zeit. Munich, 1931 ; 4th ed., 1934, pp. 118-119. '
Vansittart, Ed. Thus Spake Germany, p. 149.. 1931.
7. "Therefore, the call for our own space, our own bread, is a condition for the validation of spiritual values, the forming of the German character. In this great struggle for existence, for
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honour, freedom and bread on the part of such creative nation as Germany, consideration cannot be given to presumptuous speakers of other people, who are as impotent as they are devoid of values. The land must be made free, so German Farmers' Fists can plow it. Only -through this, will there be a possibility for Free Breathing [aufatmen] for the German people, who are pressed into the smallest space. Through this, too, the beginning of a new era of culture for the white man.
Bosenberg, Der Mythus des 20 Jahnhunderts. Eine Wertung der seelischgeistigen Gestaltenkampfe unserer Zeit.
Munich, 1931; 4th ed., 1934, p. 676.
Vansittart, ed., Thus Spake Germany, p. 282, 1931.
8. "Always before God and the world, the stronger has the right to carry through his will. History proves it: He, who has no might, has no use for might.''
Hitler, Speech of 13 April 1923.
Adolf Hitler's Reden, Munich, 1925, p. 55.
9. "Four and a half years after the proclamation of universal conscription [Wehrfreiheit], which restored the right of every German to fight with the weapon in his hand for the vital rights of his country, the German Wehrmacht was mobilized for the preservation of the Greater German Lebensraum. The Wehrmacht was prepared for this battle . . ."
Major Sehmidtke, Nationalsozialistisches Jahrbuch 1941,
p. 168. .
10. "The only possible conditions under which a German State
can develop at all must therefore be: Unification of all Germans in Europe, education toward a national consciousness, and readiness to place the whole national strength without exception in the service of the nation * * *"
Hitler, Speech, 10 April 1923 in Munich.
Adolf Hitler's Reden, Munich, 1925, p. 50.
11. "We were not founded for an election, but to jump in as the last help in the hour of greatest need, at a moment when in fear and despair it sees the approach of the Red Monster. Therefore, the task of our movement is today not to prepare ourselves for any coming election but to prepare for the coming collapse of the Reich, so that when the old trunk falls the young fir-tree already stands there."
Hitler, Speech, 5 September 1923.
Adolf Hitler's Reden, Munich, 1925, p. 108.
12. "Only those organizations can lay claim to the institution of the leadership principle and to the national socialist meaning of the state and people in the National Socialist meaning of the
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term, which . . . have been integrated into, supervised and formed by the Party and which, in the future, will continue to do so.
''All others which conduct an organizational life of their own are to be rejected as outsiders and will either have to adjust themselves or disappear from public life."
Organisationsbuch der NSDAP, 1937 and 1943 editions, p. 92.
13. "In the NSDAP, the Fuehrer has created for himself an instrument which, built up, developed, and geared to action by him, sets the goal and direction for the entire German people.
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"The taking over of leadership by the NSDAP in 1933 brought about the seizure of all power instruments [Machtmittel] and institutions of the state by National Socialism in order to mobilize these (instruments and institutions) for the intellectual and psychological preparation of the people for the complete removal of the oppressing treaties and of the humiliating situation of the Reich."
Fritz Mehnert, Chief of the Main Organization Office of the NSDAP.
Nationalsozialistisches Jahrbuch, 1941, Munich, p. 175.
14. "The organization of the Party is so strong and so thoroughly developed that today it embraces [erfasst] all homes [Haushalte] of all Volksgenossen in the territory of the Reich, including the territories added in the years 1938 and 1939."
Fritz Mehnert, Chief of the Main Organization Office of the NSDAP.
Nationalsozialistisches Jahrbuch, 1941, Munich, p. 179.
Extracts from Hitler's speeches and other sources, on Nazi demands in the 1920s, the Jews as enemies, racial consciousness, the seizure of power in 1933, mobilization for war, and the expansion of territories
Authors
Adolf Hitler (Fuehrer, Reich Chancellor, Supeme Commander of Wehrmacht)
Adolf Hitler
Austrian nationalized German politician, leader of the National Socialist party and dictator of Germany (1889-1945)
- Born: 1889-01-01 1889-04-20 (Braunau am Inn) (country: Austria-Hungary; located in the administrative territorial entity: Archduchy of Austria above the Enns; statement is subject of: Adolf-Hitler-Geburtshaus)
- Died: 1945-04-30 (Berlin Führerbunker) (country: Nazi Germany; located in the administrative territorial entity: Berlin; statement is subject of: death of Adolf Hitler)
- Country of citizenship: Cisleithania (period: 1889-04-20 through 1918-11-11); First Republic of Austria (period: 1919-01-01 through 1925-04-30); Nazi Germany (end cause: death of Adolf Hitler; period: 1933-01-30 through 1945-04-30); Republic of German-Austria (period: 1918-01-01 through 1919-01-01)
- Occupation: painter (statement is subject of: paintings by Adolf Hitler); political writer; politician (reason for preferred rank: generally used form); soldier
- Member of political party: German Workers' Party (period: 1919-09-12 through 1921-07-11); Nazi Party (series ordinal: 556)
- Member of: Nazi Party
- Participant in: Aktion T4; Beer Hall Putsch; The Holocaust; ethnic cleansing
- Significant person: Albert Speer; Benito Mussolini; Eva Braun; Joseph Stalin
Alfred Rosenberg (Commissioner for Ideological Training; Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories)
Alfred Rosenberg
Baltic German architect, Nazi politician and ideologue (1893-1946)
- Born: 1893-01-12 (Tallinn)
- Died: 1946-10-16 (Nuremberg)
- Country of citizenship: Nazi Germany; Russian Empire; Weimar Republic
- Occupation: administrator; architect; journalist; opinion journalist
- Member of political party: German Workers' Party; Nazi Party
- Member of: Corps Rubonia; Militant League for German Culture; Thule Society
- Participant in: Beer Hall Putsch; International Military Tribunal (role: defendant)
- Military rank: Obergruppenführer
Schmidtke (major (1941))
Schmidtke
- Additional details not yet available.
Fritz Mehnert (chief, main organization office of the NSDAP (1939-41))
Fritz Mehnert
- Additional details not yet available.
Date: 13 April 1923
Literal Title: Excerpts from German Publications
Defendant: Alfred Rosenberg
Total Pages: 4
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: PS-2405
Citation: IMT (page 255)
HLSL Item No.: 450141
Trial Issues
Conspiracy (and Common plan, in IMT) (IMT, NMT 1, 3, 4) IMT count 1: common plan or conspiracy (IMT) Nazi regime (rise, consolidation, economic control, and militarization) (I…
Document Summary
PS-2405: Observations by Hitler, Rosenberg and other national socialists: opposition to the Weimar republic, the Versailles treaty, Jews and Bolshevism; acclamation of the racial theory, the demand for living space, Germany’s rearmament, and the organization of the Nsdap