Extract from a speech, on the need to prepare to consume less food, in order to save foreign exchange to increase the production of armaments; "GUNS instead of Butter!"

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Rudolf Hess (Deputy to the Fuehrer; minister without portfolio)

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Rudolf Hess

German Nazi leader (1894-1987)

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  • Born: 1894-04-26 (Alexandria)
  • Died: 1987-08-17 (Spandau Prison) (located in the administrative territorial entity: West Berlin)
  • Country of citizenship: Germany
  • Occupation: aircraft pilot; politician
  • Member of political party: Nazi Party
  • Member of: Thule Society
  • Participant in: Beer Hall Putsch
  • Military rank: lieutenant

Date: 13 October 1936

Literal Title: Extract from Frankfurter Zeitung, 13 October 1936. No Compulsory System, no Marks System. Rudolf Hess on the Food Question. An Appeal to Housewives.

Defendant: Rudolf Hess

Total Pages: 1

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: M-104

Citation: IMT (page 4087)

HLSL Item No.: 453682

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Nazi regime (rise, consolidation, economic control, and militarization) (I… Wars of aggression

FRANKFURTER ZEITUNG, 13 OCTOBER 1936
No Compulsory System, No Marks System, Rudolf Hess on the
Food Question An Appeal to Housewives
HOF. 12th October
On Sunday evening Reichsminister Hess inaugurated a newly-built Adolf Hitler Hall at Hof in the Bavarian Ostmark district. During the festivities Reichsminister Rudolf Hess made a speech, in which he, dealt with the problem of supplying the German peo-
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pie with food and the question of standardizing prices for agricultural products in daily use.
According to the report of the "German News Bureau" he then explained in detail: * * *
We are prepared, in the future too—if need be—at times to eat a little less fat, a little less pork, a few eggs less, since we know that this little sacrifice is a sacrifice on the Altar of the Freedom of our People. We know that the foreign exchange which we thereby save expedites the output of armament.
The phrase still holds good today "GUNS instead of Butter!"