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In This Hour I Would Ask Of The Lord God Only This: That, As In The Past, So In The Years To Come He Would Give His Blessing To Our Work And Our Action, To Our Judgement And Our Resolution, That He Will Safeguard Us From All False Pride And From All Cowardly Servility, That He May Grant To Us To Find The Straight Path Which His Providence Has Ordained For The German People, And That He May Ever Give Us The Courage To Do The Right, Never To Falter, Never To Yield Before Any Violence, Before Any Danger.
-Adolf Hitler
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Adolf Hitler
In This Hour I Would Ask Of The Lord God Only This: That, As In The Past, So In The Years To Come He Would Give His Blessing To Our Work And Our Action, To Our Judgement And Our Resolution, That He Will Safeguard Us From All False Pride And From All Cowardly Servility, That He May Grant To Us To Find The Straight Path Which His Providence Has Ordained For The German People, And That He May Ever Give Us The Courage To Do The Right, Never To Falter, Never To Yield Before Any Violence, Before Any Danger.
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Grace
Almighty
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Taste
Nudity
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Weak
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Rights
Honor
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Germany
How Fortunate For Leaders That Men Do Not Think (also, What Luck For Rulers That Men Do Not Think).
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Thinking
Leader
A Stronger Race Will Drive Out The Weaker Ones, For The Vital Urge In Its Ultimate Form Will Break Down The Absurd Barriers Of The So Called Humanity Of Individuals To Make Way For The Humanity Of Nature Which Destroys The Weak To Give Their Place To The Strong.
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Race
Giving
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People
Forever
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Practice
Play
Politics Is History In The Making.
Nations
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Differences
Today
...the Fall Of Man In Paradise Has Always Been Followed By His Expulsion.
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Men
Paradise
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Self
Principles
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Fighting
Thinking
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Men
Democracy
Deceitful
Tell A Lie Loud Enough And Long Enough And People Will Believe It.
Truth
Freedom
Lying
It Is The Last Territorial Claim Which I Have To Make In Europe, But It Is A Claim From Which I Will Not Recede And Which, God Willing, I Will Make Good.
War
Europe
World
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Men
Thinking
Water
Even Today I Am Not Ashamed To Say That, Overpowered By Stormy Enthusiasm, I Fell Down On My Knees And Thanked Heaven From An Overflowing Heart For Granting Me The Good Fortune Of Being Permitted To Live At This Time.
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Heart
Heaven
I May Add That We Have More Than Once Stated Our Willingness To Conclude Nonaggression Pacts With The States Neighboring Our Own!
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May
States
It Is Not The Neutrals Or The Lukewarm Who Make History.
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Every Year A Thousand Kilometers Of Motor-roads Will Be Opened Until The Greatest Work In The History Of Mankind Is Completed.
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Mankind
Thousand
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Broken
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Members
Nations
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Mother
Religious
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Party
Organization
Ideas
Whoever Lights The Torch Of War In Europe Can Wish For Nothing But Chaos.
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Light
Europe
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Logical Reasoning
Long
The More The Linguistic Babel Corroded And Disorganized Parliament, The Closer Drew The Inevitable Hour Of The Disintegration Of This Babylonian Empire, And With It The Hour Of Freedom For My German-austrian People.
People
Empires
Hours
Our Present Political World-view, Current In Germany, Is Based In General On The Idea That Creative, Culture-creating Force Must Indeed Be Attributed To The State.
Views
Ideas
Creating
Money Glitters, Beauty Sparkles, And Intelligence Shines.
Shining
Glitter
Sparkle
Thousands Of Americans, Englishmen And Frenchmen Have Visited Germany During The Months After The National Revolution And Were Able To Testify As Eye-witnesses That There Is No Country In The World Where Law And Order Are Better Maintained Than In Present-day Germany. That There Is No Country In The World Where Person And Property Are Held In Better Respect Than In Our Own, But That There Is Perhaps Also No Country In The Word Where A More Rigorous Fight Is Put Up Against Those Who Believe That They Are Free To Let Loose Their Lower Instincts To The Detriment Of Their Fellow-beings.
Country
Believe
Eye
Your Birth May Be Common, But Death Must Be History.
May
Common
Birth
We Have To Put A Stop To The Idea That It Is A Part Of Everybody's Civil Rights To Say Whatever He Pleases.
Rights
Ideas
Please
Cruelty Impresses, People Want To Be Afraid Of Something. They Want Someone To Whom They Can Submit With A Shudder, The Masses Need That. They Need Something To Dreed.
People
Needs
Want
Hate Is More Lasting Than Dislike.
Hate
Reality
Lasting Love
Our Ideology Is Intolerant...and Peremptorily Demands...the Complete Transformation Of Public Life To Its Ideas.
Ideas
World
Demand
The Leader Of Genius Must Have The Ability To Make Different Opponents Appear As If They Belonged To One Category.
Military
Leader
Different
National Socialism Will Use Its Own Revolution For Establishing Of A New World Order.
Nwo
World Government
Order
I Believe That This Was God's Will - To Send A Boy Into The Reich, To Let Him Become Its Leader, In Order To Bring His Home Country Into The Reich. Otherwise One Must Doubt Providence.
Country
Believe
Home
Paris Must Either Not Fall Into The Hands Of The Enemy Or The Enemy Must Find It Only A Wasteland.
War
Fall
Hands
Providence Has Ordained That I Should Be The Greatest Liberator Of Humanity. I Am Freeing Man From The Restraints Of An Intelligence That Has Taken Charge, From The Dirty And Degrading Self-mortification Of A False Vision Called Conscience And Morality, And From The Demands Of A Freedom And Independence Which Only A Very Few Can Bear.
Dirty
Taken
Men
But Even More: All At Once The Jew Also Becomes Liberal And Begins To Rave About The Necessary Progress Of Mankind.
Progress
Mein Kampf
Rave
Germany Will Never Break The Peace Of Its Own Accord.
Germany
Break
Accord
Difference Which Exists Between The Lowest, So-called Men, And The Other Higher Races Is Greater Than Between The Lowest Men And The Highest Apes.
Men
Race
Differences
Humanitarianism Is The Expression Of Stupidity And Cowardice.
Stupid
Expression
Humanitarian
In Freethinkers Hall, Which Before The Nazi Resurgence Was The National Headquarters Of The German Freethinkers League, The Berlin Protestant Church Authorities Have Opened A Bureau For Advice To The Public In Church Matters. Its Chief Object Is To Win Back Former Churchgoers And Assist Those Who Have Not Previously Belonged To Any Religious Congregation In Obtaining Church Membership. The German Freethinkers League, Which Was Swept Away By The National Revolution, Was The Largest Of Such Organizations In Germany. It Had About 500,000 Members.
Religious
Winning
Organization
I, For My Part, Acknowledge Another Precept Which Says That Man Must Deal The Final Blow To Those Whose Downfall Is Destined By God.
Blow
Men
Finals
The Sportive, Knightly Battle Awakens The Best Human Characteristics. It Doesn't Separate, But Unites The Combatants In Understanding And Respect. He Also Helps To Connect The Countries In The Spirit Of Peace. That's Why The Olympic Flame Should Never Die.
Country
Flames
Understanding
The Doom Of A Nation Can Be Averted Only By A Storm Of Flowing Passion, But Only Those Who Are Passionate Themselves Can Arouse Passion In Others.
Military
Passion
Fate
Neither I Nor Anyone Else In Germany Would Even Consider Placing Any "conditions" On Our Possible Return To The League Of Nations. Whether Or Not We Return To This Body Depends Exclusively Upon Whether We Can Belong To It As A Completely Equal Nation. This Is Not A "condition," But A Matter Of Course.
League
Body
Matter
By Rejecting The Authority Of The Individual And Replacing It By The Numbers Of Some Momentary Mob, The Parliamentary Principle Of Majority Rule Sins Against The Basic Aristocratic Principle Of Nature.
Majority Rule
Numbers
Democracy
Remain Strong In Your Faith, As You Were In Former Years. In This Faith, In Its Close-knit Unity Our People To-day Goes Straight Forward On Its Way And No Power On Earth Will Avail To Stop It.
Strong
Years
People
The Very First Essential For Success Is A Perpetually Constant And Regular Employment Of Violence.
Aquariums
Evil
Essentials
The Women Has Her Own Battlefield With Every Child She Brings Into The World She Fights A Battle For The Nation
Children
Fighting
Battle
The Thinking Of The One, Therefore, Will Be Determined By Eternal Truth, The Actions Of The Other More By The Practical Reality Of The Moment. The Greatness Of The One Lies In The Absolute Abstract Soundness Of His Idea.
Lying
Reality
Greatness
Night Gangsters! For This Crime I Will Exact A Thousand Fold Revenge!
Revenge
Military
Night
Life Does Not Forgive Weakness.
Forgiving
Weakness
Doe
Our Task Is To Harness The God-given Energy Of This German Nation To Stand Firm For The Truth.
Energy
Tasks
Harness
Since We Are Not In The League Of Nations In Any Case, We Do Not Devote Our Attention To Reflecting On Its Internal Reforms.
League
Reform
Attention
Just As The World Cannot Live On Wars, So People Cannot On Revolutions
Military
War
People
The Party, As Such, Stands For Positive Christianity, But Does Not Bind Itself In The Matter Of Creed To Any Particular Confession.
Party
Religion
Doe
If In The Past, After Every Lost War, The Unlucky Vanquished Were Divested Forever Of Their Honor And Their Equality Of Rights, The League Of Nations Would Even Now Have To Be Satisfied With A Whole Series Of Non-equal And Thus Ultimately Dishonorable And Inferior Nations.
War
Past
Rights
...the Unprecedented Rise Of The Christian Social Party... Was To Assume The Deepest Significance For Me As A Classical Object Of Study.
Christian
Religious
Party
When Human Hearts Break And Human Hearts Despair, Then From The Twilight Of The Past The Great Conquerors Of Distress And Care, Of Disgrace And Misery, Of Spiritual Slavery And Physical Compulsion, Look Down On Them And Hold Out Their Eternal Hands To The Despairing Mortals.
Spiritual
Twilight
Heart
For God's Will Gave Men Their Form, Their Essence And Their Abilities. Anyone Who Destroys His Work Is Declaring War On The Lord's Creation, The Divine Will.
War
Men
Essence
To Fight, We Must Have Oil For Our Machine.
Fighting
Oil
Machines
For The Greater A Man's Works For The Future, The Less The Present Can Comprehend Them; The Harder His Fight, And The Rarer Success. If, However, Once In Centuries Success Does Come To A Man, Perhaps In His Latter Days A Faint Beam Of His Coming Glory May Shine Upon Him. To Be Sure, These Great Men Are Only The Marathon Runners Of History; The Laurel Wreath Of The Present Touches Only The Brow Of The Dying Hero.
Hero
Fighting
Men
Historically Speaking, The Christian Religion Is Nothing But A Jewish Sect... After The Destruction Of Judaism, The Extinction Of Christian Slave Morals Must Follow Logically... Ah, The God Of The Deserts, That Crazed, Stupid, Vengeful Asiatic Despot With His Power To Make Laws!
Christian
Religious
Stupid
We Can Safely Make One Prophecy: Whatever The Outcome Of This War, The British Empire Is At An End. It Has Been Mortally Wounded. The Future Of The British People Is To Die Of Hunger And Tuberculosis In Their Cursed Island.
War
Islands
People
I Want Everyone To Keep The Property That He Has Acquired For Himself According To The Principle: Benefit To The Community Precedes Benefit To The Individual. But The State Should Retain Supervision And Each Property Owner Should Consider Himself Appointed By The State. It Is His Duty Not To Use His Property Against The Interests Of Others Among His Own People. This Is The Crucial Matter. The Third Reich Will Always Retain Its Right To Control The Owners Of Property.
Philosophy
People
Community
The Greater The Lie, The Greater The Chance That It Will Be Believed.
Lying
Historical
Chance
In Order To Persuade Britain To Pack Up, To Compel Her To Make Peace, It Was Essential To Rob Her Of Her Hope Of Being Able Still To Confront Us, On The Continent Itself, With An Adversary Of A Stature Equal To Our Own.
Order
Essentials
Able
The Government Of The Reich, Who Regard Christianity As The Unshakable Foundation Of The Morals And Moral Code Of The Nation, Attach The Greatest Value To Friendly Relations With The Holy See And Are Endeavouring To Develop Them.
Government
Atheism
Friendly
As In Everything, Nature Is The Best Instructor.
Instructors
I Am Asking Of No Man More Than I Myself Was Ready Throughout Four Years To Do
War
Men
Years
There Is, Then, No Danger In The Circumstances That Anti-semitism Will Disappear, For It Is The Jews Themselves Who Add Fuel To Its Flames And See That It Is Kept Well Stoked. Before The Opposition To It Can Disappear, The Malady Itself Must Disappear. And From That Point Of View, You Can Rely On The Jews: As Long As They Survive, Anti-semitism Will Never Fade. (13th February 1945)
Views
Flames
Long
I Have Followed The Church In Giving Our Party Program The Character Of Unalterable Finality, Like The Creed. The Church Has Never Allowed The Creed To Be Interfered With. It Is Fifteen Hundred Years Since It Was Formulated, But Every Suggestion For Its Amendment, Every Logical Criticism, Or Attack On It, Has Been Rejected.
Religious
Party
Character
The Heaviest Blow That Ever Struck Humanity Was The Coming Of Christianity. Bolshevism Is Christianity's Illegitimate Child. Both Are Inventions Of The Jew.
Children
Blow
Humanity
When An Opponent Declares, "i Will Not Come Over To Your Side," I Calmly Say, "your Child Belongs To Us Already...what Are You? You Will Pass On. Your Descendants, However, Now Stand In The New Camp. In A Short Time They Will Know Nothing Else But This New Community."
Money
Children
Freedom
The Efficiency Of A Truly National Leader Consists Primarily In Preventing The Division Of The Attention Of A People, And Always In Concentrating It On A Single Enemy.
Power
People
Leader
I Am Sure That The Japanese, The Chinese And The Peoples Of Islam Will Always Be Closer To Us Than, For Example, France, In Spite Of The Fact That We Are Related By Blood (...)
Blood
Chinese
Islam
Imagine Me Going Around With A Pot Belly. It Would Mean Political Ruin.
Mean
Political
Ruins
The State Must Declare The Child To Be The Most Precious Treasure Of The People. As Long As The Government Is Perceived As Working For The Benefit Of The Children, The People Will Happily Endure Almost Any Curtailment Of Liberty And Almost Any Deprivation.
Children
Government
Long
Christianity Is A Rebellion Against Natural Law, A Protest Against Nature. Taken To Its Logical Extreme, Christianity Would Mean The Systematic Cultivation Of The Human Failure.
Taken
Mean
Law
The More Abstractly Correct And Hence Powerful This Idea Will Be, The More Impossible Remains Its Complete Fulfillment As Long As It Continues To Depend On Human Beings... If This Were Not So, The Founders Of Religion Could Not Be Counted Among The Greatest Men Of This Earth... In Its Workings, Even The Religion Of Love Is Only The Weak Reflection Of The Will Of Its Exalted Founder; Its Significance, However, Lies In The Direction Which It Attempted To Give To A Universal Human Development Of Culture, Ethics, And Morality.
Religious
Powerful
Lying
If Only One Country, For Whatever Reason, Tolerates A Jewish Family In It, That Family Will Become The Germ Center For Fresh Sedition. If One Little Jewish Boy Survives Without Any Jewish Education, With No Synagogue And No Hebrew School, It [judaism] Is In His Soul. Even If There Had Never Been A Synagogue Or A Jewish School Or An Old Testament, The Jewish Spirit Would Still Exist And Exert Its Influence. It Has Been There From The Beginning And There Is No Jew, Not A Single One, Who Does Not Personify It.
Country
School
Boys
I Am Liberating Man From The Degrading Chimera Known As `conscience'.
Men
Evil
Chimera
It Is Better To Make A Mistake Than To Do Nothing.
Mistake
Failure
The Result Of The Revolution In Germany Has Been To Establish A Democracy In The Best Sense Of The Word. We Are Steering Towards An Order Of Things Guaranteeing A Process Of A Natural And Reasonable Selection In The Domain Of Political Leadership, Thanks To Which That Leadership Will Be Entrusted To The Most Competent, Irrespective Of Their Descent, Name Or Fortune. The Memorable Words Of The Great Corsican That Every Soldier Carries A Field Marshal's Baton In His Knapsack, Will Find Its Political Complement In Germany.
Memorable
Order
Names
Peoples Which Bastardize Themselves, Or Let Themselves Be Bastardized, Sin Against The Will Of Eternal Providence.
Mein Kampf
Sin
Providence
Strength Lies Not In Defence But In Attack
Lying
Defence
It Is A Mistake To Make Propaganda Many-sided, Like Scientific Instruction, For Instance... As Soon As You Sacrifice This Slogan And Try To Be Many-sided, The Effect Will Piddle Away, For The Crowd Can Neither Digest Nor Retain The Material Offered.
Mistake
Sacrifice
Media
I Wish To Give Officials Greater Discretion. The State's Authority Will Be Increased Thereby. I Wish To Transform The Non-political Criminal Police Into A Political Instrument Of The Highest State Authority.
Giving
Political
Police
Success Is The Sole Earthly Judge Of Right And Wrong.
Success
Congratulations
Judging
If I Made Peace With Russia Today, I'd Only Attack Her Again Tomorrow. I Just Couldn't Help Myself.
Russia
Today
Tomorrow
The Government, Being Resolved To Undertake The Political And Moral Purification Of Our Public Life, Are Creating And Securing The Conditions Necessary For A Really Profound Revival Of Religious Life
Religious
Government
Creating
It Must Never Be Forgotten That Nothing That Is Really Great In This World Has Ever Been Achieved By Coalitions, But That It Has Always Been The Success Of A Single Victor. Coalition Successes Bear By The Very Nature Of Their Origin The Germ Of Future Crumbling, In Fact Of The Loss Of What Has Already Been Achieved. Great, Truly World-shaking Revolutions Of A Spiritual Nature Are Not Even Conceivable And Realizable Except As The Titanic Struggles Of Individual Formations, Never As Enterprises Of Coalitions.
Spiritual
Struggle
Loss
Why Should This War In The West Be Fought For The Restoration Of Poland? The Poland Of The Versailles Treaty Will Never Rise Again.
War
Restoration
World
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