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Adolf Hitler

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“Germany is the bulwark of the West against Bolshevism, and, in combating it, will meet terror with terror and violence with violence.”
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Recorded in: Speech in Berlin (29 November 1935), quoted in The Times (26 September 1939), p. 9
“It is our will that this state shall endure for a thousand years. We are happy to know that the future is ours entirely!”
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“We want this people to be hard, not soft, and you must steel yourselves for it in your youth!”
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“We want a society with neither castes nor ranks and you must not allow these ideas to grow within you!”
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“Our party remains as firm as this rock and will not be divided by any force in Germany.”
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“When our party had only seven men, it already had two principles. First, it wanted to be a party with a true ideology. And second, it wanted to be the one and only power in Germany.”
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“All upright Germans will be National Socialists, but only the best National Socialists will be party members!”
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“It is not the state which commands us, but we who command the state.”
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“We want to be a peace-loving element among the nations. We cannot repeat that often enough.”
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Recorded in: Speech in Berlin (30 January 1936), quoted in The Times (26 September 1939), p. 9
“The German people do not wish to continue waging war to readjust frontiers. Each readjustment is bought by sacrifices out of proportion to what is to be gained.”
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Recorded in: Speech in Berlin (15 March 1936), quoted in The Times (26 September 1939), p. 10
“I have been guided always by the principle that German freedom has nothing to do with injury to others. ... It is one of the most elementary principles that nations should allow each other to live within their own territories as they wish to live.”
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Recorded in: Speech in Berlin (22 March 1936), quoted in The Times (26 September 1939), p. 10
“Whenever I stand up for the German peasant, it is for the sake of the Volk. I have neither ancestral estate nor manor... I believe I am the only statesman in the world who does not have a bank account. I hold no stock, I have no shares in any companies. I do not draw any dividends.”
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Recorded in: Speech to the Krupp Locomotive factory workers in Essen (27 March 1936), quoted in Michael Burleigh, The Third Reich: A New History (Hill and Wang), 2001, p. 246
“Germany has no claims to make against the European nations except to live exactly like the others. ... What we have in mind is a legal order of European national states with equal rights.”
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Recorded in: Speech in Cologne (28 March 1936), quoted in The Times (26 September 1939), p. 10
“The lie goes forth again that Germany to-morrow or the other day will fall upon Austria or Czecho-Slovakia.”
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Recorded in: Speech in Berlin (1 May 1936), quoted in The Times (26 September 1939), p. 10
“The menace was Bolshevism. It was difficult to make people realize this, they think it is a fanatical obsession, but it was a real danger of which people should take account. It was as great a phenomenon in history and its menace to the national states of Europe as great as the migration of peoples, e.g. Mohammedan. It was necessary for Western Europe to stand together as a block against this danger.”
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Recorded in: Remarks to David Lloyd George (4 September 1936), quoted in Thomas Jones, A Diary with Letters. 1931-1950 (Oxford University Press, 1954), p. 245
“I only acknowledge one nobility—that of labour.”
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Recorded in: Quoted in the Nazi Party official newspaper Völkischer Beobachter (November 21, 1936), Richard Grunberger, The 12-year Reich: A Social History of Nazi Germany 1933–1945 (1971) p. 47
“The main plank in the National Socialist program is to abolish the liberalistic concept of the individual and the Marxist concept of humanity and to substitute therefore the folk community, rooted in the soil and bound together by the bond of its common blood.”
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Recorded in: On National Socialism and World Relations, speech in the German Reichstag (January 30, 1937). German translation published by H. Müller & Sohn in Berlin.
“Is there a nobler or more excellent kind of Socialism and is there a truer form of Democracy than this National Socialism which is so organized that through it each one among the millions of German boys is given the possibility of finding his way to the highest office in the nation, should it please Providence to come to his aid.”
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Recorded in: Speech by Adolf Hitler, On National Socialism and World Relations, delivered in the German Reichstag (January 30, 1937). German translation published by H. Müller & Sohn in Berlin.
“After four years from that date I now face the German people and you, gentlemen and members of the Reichstag, to give an account of what has been accomplished. On this occasion I do not think you will withhold your sanction from what the National Socialist Government has done and you will agree that I have fulfilled the promises I made four years ago.”
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Recorded in: Speech to the Reichstag, 30 January 1937
“There can be but one German Youth Movement, because there is but one way in which German youth can be educated and trained... This Reich stands, and is building itself up anew, upon its youth. And this Reich will hand over its youth to no one, but will take its education and its formation upon itself.”
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Recorded in: Speech on May 1, 1937, quoted in John S. Conway, The Nazi Persecution of the Churches, 1933-45 (New York, NY, Basic Books, 1968), p. 178
“We have set before ourselves the task of inoculating our youth ... at a very early age. ... This new Reich will give its youth to no one, but will itself take youth and give to youth its own education and its own upbringing.”
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Recorded in: As quoted in The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, William L. Shirer, Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, New York, 1990, p. 249 (May 1, 1937)
“Works of art" which cannot be understood in themselves but, for the justification of their existence, need those bombastic instructions for their use, finally reaching that intimidated soul, who is patiently willing to accept such stupid or impertinent nonsense—these works of art from now on will no longer find their way to the German people.”
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Recorded in: Speech inaugurating the first Great German Art Exhibition on July 18, 1937, translated by Ilse Falk and quoted in Herschel B. Chipp, Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics (University of California…
“There is a difference between the theoretical knowledge of socialism and the practical life of socialism. People are not born socialists, but must first be taught how to become them.”
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Recorded in: German Volksgenossen!" Hitler's opening speech at the new Winterhilfswerk, Deutschlandhalle, Berlin (October 5, 1937). Also quoted in by
“Shoot Gandhi, and if that does not suffice to reduce them to submission, shoot a dozen leading members of Congress; and if that does not suffice, shoot 200 and so on until order is established. You will see how quickly they will collapse as soon as you make it clear that you mean business.”
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Recorded in: Remarks to British government minister Lord Halifax at Berchtesgaden (19 November 1937), quoted in Ivone Kirkpatrick, The Inner Circle (1959), p. 97 and Andrew Roberts, The Holy Fox': The Life of Lord Halifax (1997), p.…
“Does anyone believe that there is an international conscience?”
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Recorded in: Speech in Leipzig (27 March 1938), quoted in Stephen H. Roberts, The House That Hitler Built (1945), p. 383
“Atatürk was the first to show that it is possible to mobilize and regenerate the resources that a country has lost. In this respect Atatürk was a teacher; Mussolini was his first and I his second student.”
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Recorded in: Meeting with a delegation of Turkish politicians and journalists (20 April 1938), quoted in Stefan Ihrig, Atatürk in the Nazi Imagination (2014), p. 116
“The motto must be, "Never war again.”
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Recorded in: Speech in Berlin (1 May 1938), quoted in The Times (26 September 1939), p. 10
“Now, as a strong State, we can be ready to pursue a policy of understanding with surrounding States. We want nothing from them. We have no wishes or demands; we desire peace. ... No other people can need peace more than we.”
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Recorded in: Speech in Saarbrücken (9 October 1938), quoted in The Times (26 September 1939), p. 10
“God helps only those who are prepared and determined to help themselves.”
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Recorded in: Speech in Weimar, 6 November 1938
“As a peace-loving man, I have made every effort to give the German nation the defence and the weapons which are appropriate to persuade others also for peace. A hedgehog never attacks another animal except when it is attacked. No one should come near us. We want only our quiet and the right to live.”
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Recorded in: Speech in Weimar (6 November 1938), quoted in The Times (26 September 1939), p. 10
“There are people who have a true talent to spoil my every joy.”
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“We are going to destroy the Jews. They are not going to get away with what they did on 9 November 1918. The day of reckoning has come.”
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Recorded in: To the Czechoslovakian foreign minister (January 21, 1939) quoted in Sarah Ann Gordon, Hitler, Germans, and the "Jewish Question" pg. 130
“When the statesmen of other countries threaten us with all kinds of economic counter measures I can only give the assurance that in such a case a desperate economic struggle would ensue which would be easy for us to carry out, easier for us than for the over-satisfied nations, because our leading idea would be a very simple one: The German nation must live—that means export or die.”
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Recorded in: Speech to the Reichstag (30 January 1939), quoted in The Times (31 January 1939), p. 14
“We are rearming, but do not dream of attacking other nations, providing they leave us alone. ... We have given Central Europe a great fortune—namely, peace, which is protected by the German might.”
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Recorded in: Speech in Wilhelmshaven (1 April 1939), quoted in The Times (26 September 1939), p. 10
“If the world says today that the nations must be divided into virtuous nations and into such as are not virtuous - and that the English and French belong to the first class, and the Germans and Italians belong to those not virtuous - we can only answer: The judgment whether a people is virtuous or not virtuous can hardly be passed by a human being. That should be left to God.”
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Recorded in: Speech delivered at Wilhelmshaven 1 April 1939; My New Order. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock. p. 621.
“The liberty of the individual ends where it starts to harm the interests of the collective.”
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Recorded in: Speech in the Lustgarten, Berlin (1 May 1939)
“Everything I undertake is directed against Russia. If the West is too stupid and blind to grasp this, then I shall be compelled to come to an agreement with Russia, beat the West and then after their defeat turn against the Soviet Union with all my forces. I need the Ukraine so that they can't starve us out, as happened in the last war.”
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“What is important is that our Volk overcomes the aggressor and hence wins a future for itself. In a few weeks, the National Socialist combat readiness must have transformed itself into a unity sworn unto life and death. And then the capitalist war agitators in England and its satellite states shall shortly realize what it means to have attacked Europe's greatest Volk state without proper cause.”
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“England, unlike in 1914, will not allow herself to blunder into a war lasting for years... Such is the fate of rich countries... Not even England has the money nowadays to fight a world war. What should England fight for? You don't get yourself killed for an ally.”
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Recorded in: 14 August 1939, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
“Our enemies are men below average, not men of action, not masters. They are little worms. I saw them at Munich.”
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Recorded in: Speech to his generals at the Berghof (22 August 1939), quoted in John W. Wheeler-Bennett, The Nemesis of Power: The German Army in Politics 1918-1945 (London: Macmillan, 1964), p. 447
“To the defense forces: The Polish nation has refused my efforts for a peaceful regulation of neighborly relationsl instead it has appealed to weapons.”
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Recorded in: reported 1 September 1939 (the full proclamation available via the TimesMachine) in The New York Times "Hitler Gives Word" special cable from Otto D. Tolischus who was later awarded the Pulitzer prize in 1940 "for his d…
“We know that the English people in their entirety cannot be held responsible for all this. Rather it is the aforesaid Jewish-plutocratic and democratic upper class who would like to conceive of the rest of the world as obedient slaves; who hate our new Reich because it sees it as a pioneer of social work which it fears might infect their countries as well.”
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Recorded in: Speech, "Appeal to the German Volk!" Adolf Hitler: Collection of Speeches 1922-1945 (3 September 1939) p. 621
“This night for the first time Polish regular soldiers fired on our territory. Since 5.45 A.M. we have been returning the fire, and from now on bombs will be met by bombs. Whoever fight with poison gas will be fought with poison gas. Whoever departs from the rules of humane warfare can only expect that we shall do the same. I will continue this struggle, no matter against whom, until the safety of the Reich and its rights are secured.”
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“The Non-Aggression and Mutual Assistance Pact with the Soviet Union constituted the most outstanding feature of the year now past. From the outset, the attempt of the plutocratic statesmen of the West to pit Germany and Russia against each other was foiled;... [T]he reactionary Jewish warmongers in the capitalist democracies were not willing to let this opportunity to destroy Germany pass: too long had they prepared for this. For years they had waited for this hour. These Herren warmongers wanted war: they were to get it.”
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Recorded in: Speech, "New Year's Proclamation to the National Socialists and Party Comrades", Adolf Hitler: Collection of Speeches 1922-1945 (1 January 1940) pp. 678-679
“Then the spirits of our fallen comrades shall rise from their graves to thank all those whose courage and loyalty have now once more atoned for the sins committed in an hour of weakness against them and against our Volk. Let our avowal of faith on this day be a solemn oath: the war forced upon the Greater German Reich by the capitalist rulers of France and England must be transformed into the most glorious victory in German history!”
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Recorded in: Speech in the Berlin Zeughaus (March 10, 1940) p. 699
“The blood of every single Englishman is too valuable to shed. Our two peoples belong together racially and traditionally. That is and always has been my aim, even if our generals can't grasp it.”
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Recorded in: Said when the Dunkirk halt order was given, quoted in Hitler, Germans, and the "Jewish Question" by Sarah Ann Gordon, May 1940
“After mastering its internal divisions, National Socialist Germany has proceeded step by step to cast off its enslavement.... Nevertheless, the Jewish-internationalist capitalists in connection with socially reactionary classes in the Western States have successfully roused the world democracies against Germany.”
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Recorded in: As quoted in by , p.1909
“After all, there are two worlds which confront each other. And they are right when they say: 'We can never reconcile ourselves to the National Socialist world.' For how could a narrow-minded capitalist possibly declare his agreement with my principles? It would be easier for the devil to go to church and take holy water.”
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Recorded in: Speech To Workers of Berlin," (Rheinmetall-Borsig works), Adolf Hitler: Collection of Speeches 1922-1945 (December 10, 1940) p. 747
“The creation of a socially just state, a model society that would continue to eradicate all social barriers.”
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Recorded in: Speech to workers at Berlin's Rheinmetall-Borsig factory, Oct. 10, 1940. As quoted in, Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State, Götz Aly, New York: NY, Metropolitan Books (2007) p. 13.
“Truly, this earth is a trophy cup for the industrious man. And this rightly so, in the service of natural selection. He who does not possess the force to secure his Lebensraum in this world, and, if necessary, to enlarge it, does not deserve to possess the necessities of life. He must step aside and allow stronger peoples to pass him by.”
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Recorded in: Speech to officer cadets at the Berlin Sportpalast, 18 December 1940.