ADOLF HITLER SPEECHES [Adolf Hitler Reden]
Ed. by Dr. Ernst Boepple, Published by Deutscher Volksverlag Dr. E. Boepple, Munich, 1934, Pages 20-21, 72.
Hitler's Speech of 12 April 1922 Finally, we were the first to point out to the nation in broad outline a danger which had crept up on us, a danger which millions of people failed to see, but which will lead us all to destruction, the Jewish danger. And today they say again that we are "hate-mongers".
And certainly these people are excited by their misery. Outwardly perhaps impassive, but inside a seething cauldron. And when some people say: "It is a horrible crime to rouse their passions", then I tell myself: Their passions will be roused by the increasing need and these passions will one day lead to an eruption like this or like this and I would ask those who today call us "hate-mongers": "What have you to give the people in the way of a creed to which they can cling?"
Nothing at all. For you don't believe in your own prescriptions. The most tremendous task for our movement is to provide a new creed for these great, searching, stumbling masses, a creed which will not fail them in these times of confusion, by which they can swear and build, so that there will be at least one spot where their heart may find rest.
We know that two things alone will save us: first, the end of internal corruption! The cleaning out of all those who owe their existence simply to the protection of members of the same political parties. Through the most brutal ruthlessness towards all officials installed by those political parties we must restore our finances * * * The body of German officials must once more become what it was.
Extracts from speeches, on the "Jewish danger" and the need for "a new creed" for the "stumbling masses," and on the "cleaning out" of corrupt officials
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
Date: 12 April 1922
Literal Title: Extract from Hitler's Speech of 12 April 1922 Quoted in "Adolf Hitler's Reden (Speeches)["]
Total Pages: 2
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-2881
Citation: IMT (page 255)
HLSL Item No.: 450253
Notes:The second extract provides the date of publication (1934) but not the date of the speech that is quoted.