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It Is A Mistake

Adolf Hitler

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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.

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The Greater The Crime Perpetrated By The Leadership, The Less Likely It Is That The People Will Ever Believe Their Leaders To Be Capable Of Perpetrating Such An Event.

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It Is A Tragedy Of The Germanic World That Jesus Was Judaised, Distorted, Falsified; And An Alien Asiatic Spirit Was Forced Upon Us. That Is A Crime We Must Repair.

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Blood Sin And Desecration Of The Race Are The Original Sin In This World And The End Of A Humanity Which Surrenders To It.

The German People Have No Idea Of The Extent To Which They Have To Be Gulled In Order To Be Led.

In The Life Of Nations, What In The Last Resort Decides Questions Is A Kind Of Judgment Court Of God... Always Before God And The World The Stronger Has The Right To Carry Through What He Wills.

The Victor Will Never Be Asked If He Told The Truth.

The [national Socialist] Party...is Convinced That Our Nation Can Achieve Permanent Health Only From Within On The Basis Of The Principle: The Common Interest Before Self-interest.

This State Of Mind, Which Subordinates The Interests Of The Ego To The Conservation Of The Community, Is Really The First Premise For Every Truly Human Culture... The Basic Attitude From Which Such Activity Arises, We Call-to Distinguish It From Egoism And Selfishness-idealism. By This We Understand Only The Individual's Capacity To Make Sacrifices For The Community, For His Fellow Men.

Whoever Lights The Torch Of War In Europe Can Wish For Nothing But Chaos. We, However, Live In The Firm Conviction Our Times Will See Not The Decline But The Renaissance Of The West. It Is Our Proud Hope And Our Unshakable Belief Germany Can Make An Imperishable Contribution To This Great Work.

I Am Now As Before A Catholic And Will Always Remain So.

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State Authority Can Never Be An End In Itself; For, If That Were So, Any Kind Of Tyranny Would Be Inviolable And Sacred. If A Government Uses The Instruments Of Power In Its Hands For The Purpose Of Leading A People To Ruin, Then Rebellion Is Not Only The Right But Also The Duty Of Every Individual Citizen.

In Relation To The Political Decontamination Of Our Public Life, The Government Will Embark Upon A Systematic Campaign To Restore The Nation's Moral And Material Health. The Whole Educational System, Theater, Film, Literature, The Press And Broadcasting - All These Will Be Used As A Means To This End.

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.

It Would Be Easier For The Devil To Go To Church And Cross Himself With Holy Water Than For These People To Comprehend The Ideas Which Are Accepted Facts To Us Today.

Our Party Remains As Firm As This Rock And Will Not Be Divided By Any Force In Germany.

In Vowing Ourselves To One Another, We Are Entitled To Stand Before The Almighty And Ask Him For His Grace And His Blessing.

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 For Them The Folk Community, Rooted In The Soil And Bound Together By The Bond Of Its Common Blood.

A Car For The People, An Affordable Volkswagen, Would Bring Great Joy To The Masses And The Problems Of Building Such A Car Must Be Faced With Courage.

Differentiation Of Treatment Is Not Motivated By The Difference Of Value Of The Two Races, But Of The Fundamental Difference Of Their Respective Natures.

I Was Europe's Last Chance.

The Great Masses Of People Do Not Consist Of Philosophers; Precisely For The Masses, Faith Is Often The Sole Foundation Of A Moral Attitude. ... For The Political Man, The Value Of A Religion Must Be Estimated Less By Its Deficiencies Than By The Virtue Of A Visibly Better Substitute.

How Fortunate For Leaders That Men Do Not Think (also, What Luck For Rulers That Men Do Not Think).

By The Skillful And Sustained Use Of Propaganda, One Can Make A People See Even Heaven As Hell Or An Extremely Wretched Life As Paradise.

Only In The Roman Empire And In Spain Under Arab Domination Has Culture Been A Potent Factor. Under The Arab, The Standard Attained Was Wholly Admirable; To Spain Flocked The Greatest Scientists, Thinkers, Astronomers, And Mathematicians Of The World, And Side By Side There Flourished A Spirit Of Sweet Human Tolerance And A Sense Of Purist Chivalry. Then With The Advent Of Christianity, Came The Barbarians.

Neutrals And Lukewarms Do Not Make History.

The First Foundation For The Creation Of Authority Is Always Provided By Popularity.

A Folkish State Must Therefore Begin By Raising Marriage From The Level Of A Continuous Defilement Of The Race, And Give It The Consecration Of An Institution Which Is Called Upon To Produce Images Of The Lord And Not Monstrosities Halfway Between Man And Ape.

It Seems To Me That Nothing Would Be More Foolish Than To Re-establish The Worship Of Wotan. Our Old Mythology Ceased To Be Viable When Christianity Implanted Itself. Nothing Dies Unless It Is Moribund.

When People Attempt To Rebel Against The Iron Logic Of Nature, They Come Into Conflict With The Very Same Principles To Which They Owe Their Existence As Human Beings. Their Actions Against Nature Must Lead To Their Own Downfall.

Great Liars Are Also Great Magicians.

I Desire A Violent, Domineering, Fearless, And Ferocious Upcoming Generation. It Must Be Able To Bear Pain. It Must Show No Signs Whatsoever Of Weakness Or Tenderness. The Free And Magnificent Predator Must Once Again Glint From Their Eyes.

Only In The Steady And Constant Application Of Force Lies The Very First Prerequisite For Success. This Persistence, However, Can Always And Only Arise From A Definite Spiritual Conviction. Any Violence Which Does Not Spring From A Firm, Spiritual Base, Will Be Wavering And Uncertain.

This Game Is Repeated Again And Again, And In It The Role Of The So-called 'german Princes' Is Just As Miserable As That Of The Jews Themselves. These Lords Were Really God's Punishment For Their Beloved Peoples And Find Their Parallels Only In The Various Ministers Of The Present Time.

I Began To Study Again, And Now For The First Time Really Achieved An Understanding Of The Content Of The Jew Karl Marx's Life Effort. Only Now Did His Capital Become Really Intelligible To Me, And Also The Struggle Of The Social Democracy Against The National Economy, Which Aims Only To Prepare The Ground For The Domination Of Truly International Finance And Stock Exchange Capital.

And The Founder Of Christianity Made No Secret Indeed Of His Estimation Of The Jewish People. When He Found It Necessary, He Drove Those Enemies Of The Human Race Out Of The Temple Of God.

I Don't Talk For The Sake Of Talking. I Do Become Intoxicated With Sound. When I Open My Mouth, It's To Say Something.

...a Man Does Not Die For Business, But For Ideals.

For There Is Hardly A State Or Nation In Existence Which Has Not Once Had The Misfortune, Even If It Was In The Right A Thousand Times Over, To Be Defeated By A Stronger Opponent Or A Stronger Coalition.

Indeed, Nearly All Attempts To Exterminate A Doctrine And Its Organizational Expression, By Force Without Spiritual Foundation, Are Doomed To Failure, And Not Seldom End With The Exact Opposite Of The Desired Result.

I Shall Not Rest Until Every German Sees That It Is A Shameful Thing To Be A Lawyer.

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Our German Language Has A Word Which In A Magnificent Way Denotes Conduct Based On This Spirit: Doing One's Duty [pflichterfüllung]-which Means Serving The Community Instead Of Contenting Oneself. We Have A Word For The Basic Disposition Which Underlies Conduct Of This Kind In Contrast To Egoism And Selfishness-idealism. By 'idealism' We Mean Only The Ability Of The Individual To Sacrifice Himself For The Whole, For His Fellow Men.

The Art Of Propaganda Lies In Understanding The Emotional Ideas Of The Great Masses And Finding, Through A Psychologically Correct Form, The Way To The Attention And Thence To The Heart Of The Broad Masses.

I Suggest You To Do War But Never Love Because In War Either You Live Or You Die. But In Love Neither You Live Nor You Die.

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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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[propaganda] Does Not Have Multiple Shadings; It Has A Positive And A Negative; Love Or Hate, Right Or Wrong, Truth Or Lie, Never Half This Way And Half That Way.

The Dogma Of Christianity Gets Worn Away Before The Advances Of Science. Religion Will Have To Make More And More Concessions. Gradually The Myths Crumble.

The Demand That Defective People Be Prevented From Propagating Equally Defective Offspring Is A Demand Of The Clearest Reason And If Systematically Executed Represents The Most Humane Act Of Mankind.

It Is Better To Make A Mistake Than To Do Nothing.

A Single Blow Must Destroy The Enemy... Without Regard Of Losses... A Gigantic All-destroying Blow.

From Millions Of Men . . . One Man Must Step Forward Who With Apodictic Force Will Form Granite Principles From The Wavering Idea-world Of The Broad Masses And Take Up The Struggle For Their Sole Correctness, Until From The Shifting Waves Of A Fre Thought-world There Will Arise A Brazen Cliff Of Solid Unity In Faith And Will.

How Many Of My Basic Principles Were Upset By This Change In My Attitude Toward The Christian Social Movement! My Views With Regard To Anti-semitism Thus Succumbed To The Passage Of Time, And This Was My Greatest Transformation Of All.

But If Out Of Smugness, Or Even Cowardice, This Battle Is Not Fought To Its End, Then Take A Look At The Peoples Five Hundred Years From Now. I Think You Will Find But Few Images Of God, Unless You Want To Profane The Almighty.

As Soon As The Theoretician Attempts To Take Account Of So-called 'utility' And 'reality' Instead Of Absolute Truth, His Work Will Cease To Be A Polar Star Of Seeking Humanity And Instead Will Become A Prescription For Everyday Life.

For A People, As For An Individual, It Is Tragic To Have Ambitions And To Lack Both The Means Essential To Their Fulfillment And Any Hope Of Acquiring Those Means.

...our Cities Of The Present Lack The Outstanding Symbol Of National Community Which, We Must Therefore Not Be Surprised To Find, Sees No Symbol Of Itself In The Cities. The Inevitable Result Is A Desolation Whose Practical Effect Is The Total Indifference Of The Big-city Dweller To The Destiny Of His City.

How Fortunate For Governments That The People They Administer Don't Think.

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Germany Has Concluded A Non-aggression Pact With Poland. We Shall Adhere To It Unconditionally. We Recognize Poland As The Home Of A Great And Nationally Conscious People.

I Looked At [goering Eating Sausage] And I Knew That What They Say Was True: That Pigs Eat The Flesh Of Their Own.

The Greatness Of Every Mighty Organization Embodying An Idea In This World Lies In The Religious Fanaticism And Intolerance With Which, Fanatically Convinced Of Its Own Right, It Intolerantly Imposes Its Will Against All Others.

Since We Are Not In The League Of Nations In Any Case, We Do Not Devote Our Attention To Reflecting On Its Internal Reforms.

Pride In One's Own Race - And That Does Not Imply Contempt For Other Races - Is Also A Normal And Healthy Sentiment. I Have Never Regarded The Chinese Or The Japanese As Being Inferior To Ourselves. They Belong To Ancient Civilizations, And I Admit Freely That Their Past History Is Superior To Our Own. They Have The Right To Be Proud Of Their Past, Just As We Have The Right To Be Proud Of The Civilization To Which We Belong. Indeed, I Believe The More Steadfast The Chinese And The Japanese Remain In Their Pride Of Race, The Easier I Shall Find It To Get On With Them.

Czechoslovakia Provided Soviet Russia With Landing Fields For Aircraft, Thereby Increasing The Threat Against Germany.

I Had So Often Sung 'deutschland U:ber Alles' And Shouted 'heil' At The Top Of My Lungs, That It Seemed To Me Almost A Belated Act Of Grace To Be Allowed To Stand As A Witness In The Divine Court Of The Eternal Judge And Proclaim The Sincerity Of This Conviction.

The Parliamentary Principle Of Vesting Legislative Power In The Decision Of The Majority Rejects The Authority Of The Individual And Puts A Numerical Quota Of Anonymous Heads In Its Place. In Doing So It Contradicts The Aristocratic Principle, Which Is A Fundamental Law Of Nature.

For When A People Is Not Willing Or Able To Fight For Its Existence- Providence In Its Eternal Justice Has Decreed That People's End.

If You Wish The Sympathy Of The Broad Masses, You Must Tell Them The Crudest And Most Stupid Things.

Protestantism As Such Is A Better Defender Of The Interests Of Germanism, In So Far As This Is Grounded In Its Genesis And Later Tradition; It Fails, However, In The Moment When This Defense Of National Interests Must Take Place In A Province Which Is Either Absent From The General Line Of Its Ideological World And Traditional Development, Or Is For Some Reason Rejected.

[the Crowd] Will Finally Succeed In Remembering Only The Simplest Concepts Repeated A Thousand Times.

When I Compare Myself And My Opponents In Other Countries In The Light Of History, I Do Not Fear The Verdict On Our Respective Mentalities.

Of Course, Even The General Designation 'religious' Includes Various Basic Ideas Or Convictions, For Example, The Indestructibility Of The Soul, The Eternity Of Its Existence, The Existence Of A Higher Being, Etc. But All These Ideas, Regardless Of How Convincing They May Be For The Individual, Are Submitted To The Critical Examination Of This Individual And Hence To A Fluctuating Affirmation Or Negation Until Emotional Divination Or Knowledge Assumes The Binding Force Of Apodictic Faith.

German Equality Of Rights Is The Prerequisite For Any Participation On Germany's Part In International Conventions And Agreements.

All Propaganda Has To Be Popular And Has To Accommodate Itself To The Comprehension Of The Least Intelligent Of Those Whom It Seeks To Reach.

Either We Are A Sovereign State, Or We Are Not! As Long As We Are Not, We Have No Business In A Community Of Sovereign States.

We Are A People Of Different Faiths, But We Are One. Which Faith Conquers The Other Is Not The Question; Rather, The Question Is Whether Christianity Stands Or Falls.... We Tolerate No One In Our Ranks Who Attacks The Ideas Of Christianity... In Fact Our Movement Is Christian. We Are Filled With A Desire For Catholics And Protestants To Discover One Another In The Deep Distress Of Our Own People.

Not As Tyrants Have We Come, But As Liberators.

In Boundless Love As A Christian And As A Man I Read Through The Passage Which Tells Us How The Lord At Last Rose In His Might And Seized The Scourge To Drive Out Of The Temple The Brood Of Vipers And Of Adders.

It Is Not The Neutrals Or The Lukewarm Who Make History.

After The Usa, Germany Today Is Once More The Leading Steel Producing Country In The World.

Today We Rule Germany, Tomorrow, The World.

I Have Issued The Command, And I'll Have Anybody Who Utters But One Word Of Criticism Executed By A Firing Squad, That Our War Aim Does Not Consist In Reaching Certain Lines, But In The Physical Destruction Of The Enemy. Accordingly, I Have Placed My Death's-head Formation In Readiness, For The Present Only In The East, With Orders To Them To Send To Death Mercilessly And Without Compassion, Men, Women, And Children Of Polish Derivation And Language. Only Thus Shall We Gain The Living Space Which We Need. Who, After All, Speaks Today Of The Annihilation Of The Armenians?

The Most Foolish Mistake We Could Possibly Make Would Be To Permit The Conquered Eastern Peoples To Have Arms. History Teaches That All Conquerors Who Have Allowed Their Subject Races To Carry Arms Have Prepared Their Own Downfall By Doing So.

What Is America But Beauty Queens, Millionaires, Stupid Records And Hollywood?

For The Political Leader The Religious Doctrines And Institutions Of His People Must Always Remain Inviolable; Or Else Has No Right To Be In Politics, But Should Become A Reformer, If He Has What It Takes!

Paris Must Either Not Fall Into The Hands Of The Enemy Or The Enemy Must Find It Only A Wasteland.

Democracy, The Deceitful Theory That The Jew Would Insinuate - Namely, That Theory That All Men Are Created Equal.

Himmler Wants To Send An Expedition To Tibet To Look For Ancient Manuscripts On The Aryans. The Man Is Like A Little Schoolgirl. What Culture Is There In An Old Jug, I Ask You?

The Only Preventative Measure One Can Take Is To Live Irregularly.

This Pride Of Race Is A Quality Which The German, Fundamentally, Does Not Possess. The Reason For This Is That For These Last Three Centuries The Country Has Been Torn By Internal Dissension And Religious Wars And Has Been Subjected To A Variety Of Foreign Influences, To The Influence, For Example, Of Christianity-for Christianity Is Not A Natural Religion For The Germans, But A Religion That Has Been Imported And Which Strikes No Responsive Chord In Their Hearts And Is Foreign To The Inherent Genius Of The Race. (13th February 1945)

I Am Insulted By The Persistent Asertion That I Want War. Am I A Fool? War! It Would Settle Nothing.

The Essential Thing Is The Formation Of The Political Will Of The Nation: That Is The Starting Point For Political Action.

Night Gangsters! For This Crime I Will Exact A Thousand Fold Revenge!

I Drank My Bottle Of Milk And Ate My Morsel Of Bread Somewhere On The Outskirts, While I Circumspectly Studied My Environment Or Else Fell To Meditating On My Own Harsh Lot.

The Goal Of Female Education Must Invariably Be The Future Mother.

The Purpose Of Propaganda Is Not To Provide Interesting Distraction For Blasé Young Gentlemen, But To Convince... The Masses. But The Masses Are Slow Moving, And They Always Require A Certain Time Before They Are Ready Even To Notice A Thing, And Only After The Simplest Ideas Are Repeated Thousands Of Times Will The Masses Finally Remember Them.

The Great Masses Of The People Will More Easily Fall Victims To A Big Lie Than To A Small One.

When Diplomacy Ends, War Begins.

Today Christians ... Stand At The Head Of [this Country]... I Pledge That I Never Will Tie Myself To Parties Who Want To Destroy Christianity .. We Want To Fill Our Culture Again With The Christian Spirit ... We Want To Burn Out All The Recent Immoral Developments In Literature, In The Theater, And In The Press - In Short, We Want To Burn Out The Poison Of Immorality Which Has Entered Into Our Whole Life And Culture As A Result Of Liberal Excess During The Past ... (few) Years.

Was There Any Form Of Filth Or Crime Without At Least One Jew Involved In It? If You Cut Into Such A Sore, You Find, Like A Maggot In A Rotting Body, Often Dazzled By The Sudden Light, A Jew.

After 15 Years Of Work I Have Achieved, As A Common German Soldier And Merely With My Fanatical Willpower, The Unity Of The German Nation, And Have Freed It From The Death Sentence Of Versailles.

I Believe That Those Who Knew Me [in My Youth] Took Me For An Eccentric.

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.

The National Socialist State Refuses To Admit Female Labour In Factories Merely Because Such Labour Is Cheap. There Is, Of Course, A Certain Amount Of Industrial Work Which Can Only Be Performed By Women, But An Essential Condition Is That This Sort Of Work Should Not Be Injurious To Health.

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.

[this Is The] Very First Condition Which Has To Be Fulfilled In Every Kind Of Propaganda: A Systematically One-sided Attitude Towards Every Problem That Has To Be Dealt With.

If Artists Do See Fields Blue They Are Deranged, And Should Go To An Asylum. If They Only Pretend To See Them Blue, They Are Criminals And Should Go To Prison.

More People Died As A Result Of The Tiny Abortive Easter Uprising Against British Rule In Ireland (1916) Than Died As A Result Of Political Violence In Germany During The Entire National Socialist Revolution.

For How Shall We Fill People With Blind Faith In The Correctness Of A Doctrine, If We Ourselves Spread Uncertainty And Doubt By Constant Changes In Its Outward Structure? ...here, Too, We Can Learn By The Example Of The Catholic Church. Though Its Doctrinal Edifice, And In Part Quite Superfluously, Comes Into Collision With Exact Science And Research, It Is None The Less Unwilling To Sacrifice So Much As One Little Syllable Of Its Dogmas... It Is Only Such Dogmas Which Lend To The Whole Body The Character Of A Faith.

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.

Die Breite Masse Einesvolkes?einer GroÞen Lu« Ge Leichter Zum Opfer F A« Llt Als Einer Kleinen. The Broad Mass Of A Nation?will More Easily Fall Victim To A Big Lie Than To A Small One.

If Positive Christianity Means Love Of One's Neighbour, I.e. The Tending Of The Sick, The Clothing Of The Poor, The Feeding Of The Hungry, The Giving Of Drink To Those Who Are Thirsty, Then It Is We Who Are The More Positive Christians. For In These Spheres The Community Of The People Of National Socialist Germany Has Accomplished A Prodigious Work.

I Am A German Nationalist, That Means I Am Openly Committed To My Volkstrum. All Of My Thoughts And Actions Belong To It. I Am A Socialist. I See Before Me No Class Or Rank, But Rather A Community Of People Who Are Connected By Blood, United By Language, And Subject To The Same Collective Fate.

The State Is A Means To An End. Its End Lies In The Preservation And Advancement Of A Community Of Physically And Psychically Homogenous Creatures.

Germany Must Either Be A World Power Or There Will Be No Germany

The Universalists, The Idealists, The Utopians All Aim Too High. They Give Promises Of An Unattainable Paradise, And By Doing So They Deceive Mankind. Whatever Label They Wear, Whether They Call Themselves Christians, Communists, Humanitarians, Whether They Are Merely Sincere But Stupid Or Wire-pullers And Cynics, They Are All Makers Of Slaves. I Myself Have Always Kept My Eye Fixed On A Paradise Which, In The Nature Of Things, Lies Well Within Our Reach. I Mean An Improvement In The Lot Of The German People. (21st February 1945)

The National Government Will Regard It As Its First And Foremost Duty To Revive In The Nation The Spirit Of Unity And Cooperation. It Will Preserve And Defend Those Basic Principles On Which Our Nation Has Been Built. It Regards Christianity As The Foundation Of Our National Morality, And The Family As The Basis Of National Life.

As National Socialists We See Our Program In Our Flag. In The Red We See The Social Idea Of The Movement.

The Disastrous Consequences Of Widespread European Butchery In The Future Would Be Even Worse.

First, Therefore, [the Jew] Goes About Making Up To The People For His Previous Sins Against Them. He Begins His Career As The 'benefactor' Of Mankind. Since His New Benevolence Has A Practical Foundation, He Cannot Very Well Adhere To The Old Biblical Recommendation, That The Left Hand Should Not Know What The Right Hand Giveth.

I Am Liberating Man From The Degrading Chimera Known As `conscience'.

I Demand That Every Storm Troop Leader, Just As Every Political Leader, Should Be Conscious Of The Fact That His Behavior And Conduct Must Be Exemplary. . . . I Wish Every Mother To Give Her Son To The Party Without Fearing That He May Be Ruined Morally. . . . Storm Troop Leaders Who Behave Unworthily In Public Are To Be Mercilessly Removed.

What Is Necessary Is To Teach Each Class And Profession The Importance Of The Others. All Together Form One Mighty Body; Labourer, Peasant, And Professional Man.

...we Understand Only The Individual's Capacity To Make Sacrifices For The Community, For His Fellow Men.

I Have Never Liked France Or The French, And I Have Never Stopped Saying So. (15th February 1945)

We Need Free Men Who Feel And Know That God Is In Themselves

Peoples Which Bastardize Themselves, Or Let Themselves Be Bastardized, Sin Against The Will Of Eternal Providence.

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.

A Decision By The Fuhrer In The Express Form Of A Law Or A Decree May Not Be Scrutinized By A Judge. In Addition, The Judge Is Bound By Any Other Decision Of The Fuhrer.

With The Defeat Of The Reich And Pending The Emergence Of The Asiatic, The African And, Perhaps, The South American Nationalisms, There Will Remain In The World Only Two Great Powers Capable Of Confronting Each Other-the United States And Soviet Russia. The Laws Of Both History And Geography Will Compel These Two Powers To A Trial Of Strength, Either Military Or In The Fields Of Economics And Ideology. (2nd April 1945)

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.

As Soon As By One's Own Propaganda Even A Glimpse Of Right On The Other Side Is Admitted, The Cause For Doubting One's Own Right Is Laid.

Our Strength Lies In Our Intensive Attacks And Our Barbarity...after All, Who Today Remembers The Genocide Of The Armenians?

I Know It Is Unpopular. I Know The Timing Is Unpopular. I Know The Whole Thing Is Unpopular. But I Believe It Is The Right Thing.

Nearly All Bolshevist Agitators In Germany And Elsewhere Were Jews.

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.

The Swine Who Stole My Dog Doesn't Realize What He Did To Me!

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.

The Size Of The Lie Is A Definite Factor In Causing It To Be Believed.

Anyone Who Sees And Paints A Sky Green And Fields Blue Ought To Be Sterilized.

If The Question Is Still Asked Why National Socialism Combats The Jewish Element In Germany So Fanatically, The Answer Can Only Be, Because National Socialism Wishes To Establish A Real Community Of The People. Since We Are National Socialists, We Cannot Permit An Alien Race To Impose Itself Upon Our Working People As Their Leaders.

In A War The Last Thing The English Know Is How To Practice Fair Play.

Once Again The Songs Of The Fatherland Roared To The Heavens Along The Endless Marching Columns, And For The Last Time The Lord's Grace Smiled On His Ungrateful Children.

The Application Of Force Alone, Without Support Based On A Spiritual Concept, Can Never Bring About The Destruction Of An Idea Or Arrest The Propagation Of It, Unless One Is Ready And Able To Ruthlessly To Exterminate The Last Upholders Of That Idea Even To A Man, And Also Wipe Out Any Tradition Which It May Tend To Leave Behind.

I Go The Way That Providence Dictates With The Assurance Of A Sleepwalker.

A People Of Scholars, If They Are Physically Degenerate, Weak-willed And Cowardly Pacifists, Will Not Storm The Heavens, Indeed, They Will Not Be Able To Safeguard Their Existence On This Earth.

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 (...)

Reading Is Not An End To Itself, But A Means To An End.

We Wish To Fill Our Culture Once More With The Spirit Of Christianity - But Not Only In Theory.

As Fuehrer Of The German People And Chancellor Of The Reich, I Can Thank God At This Moment That He Has So Wonderfully Blessed Us In Our Hard Struggle For What Is Our Right, And Beg Him That We And All Other Nations May Find The Right Way, So That Not Only The German People But All Europe May Once More Be Granted The Blessing Of Peace.

Who Says I Am Not Under The Special Protection Of God?

He Who Would Live Must Fight. He Who Doesn't Wish To Fight In This World, Where Permanent Struggle Is The Law Of Life, Has Not The Right To Exist.

Man Has Become Great Through Struggle

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.

Under The Guidance Of The Reich, Europe Would Speedily Have Become Unified. Once The Jewish Poison Had Been Eradicated, Unification Would Have Been An Easy Matter. France And Italy, Each Defeated In Turn At An Interval Of A Few Months By The Two Germanic Powers, Would Have Been Well Out Of It. Both Would Have Had To Renounce Their Inappropriate Aspirations To Greatness. At The Same Time They Would Have Had To Renounce Their Pretensions In North Africa And The Near East; And That Would Have Allowed Europe To Pursue A Bold Policy Of Friendship Towards Islam.

The Best Characterization Is Provided By The Product Of This Religious Education, The Jew Himself. His Life Is Only Of This World, And His Spirit Is Inwardly As Alien To True Christianity As His Nature Two Thousand Years Previous Was To The Great Founder Of The New Doctrine.

As For The Jews, I Am Just Carrying On With The Same Policy Which The Catholic Church Has Adopted For Fifteen Hundred Years, When It Has Regarded The Jews As Dangerous And Pushed Them Into Ghettos Etc., Because It Knew What The Jews Were Like. I Don't Put Race Above Religion, But I Do See The Danger In The Representatives Of This Race For Church And State, And Perhaps I Am Doing Christianity A Great Service.

I Believe In Providence And I Believe Providence To Be Just. Therefore I Believe That Providence Always Rewards The Strong, The Industrious, And The Upright.

If Dr. Karl Lueger Had Lived In Germany, He Would Have Been Ranked Among The Great Minds Of Our People.

It Must Be Thoroughly Understood That The Lost Land Will Never Be Won Back By Solemn Appeals To The God, Nor By Hopes In Any League Of Nations, But Only By The Force Of Arms.

The Right Of Personal Freedom Recedes Before The Duty To Preserve The Race.

Personal Freedom

Idealism Does Not Represent A Superfluous Expression Of Emotion, But In Truth It Has Been, Is, And Will Be, The Premise For What We Designate As Human Culture...without His Idealistic Attitude All, Even The Most Dazzling Faculties Of The Intellect, Would Remain Mere Intellect Just Like Outward Appearance Without Inner Value, And Never Creative Force....the Purest Idealism Is Unconsciously Equivalent To The Deepest Knowledge.

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.

It Is Not The State That Orders Us; But It Is We Who Order The State!

Columbus's Eggs Lie Around By The Hundreds Of Thousands, But Columbuses Are Met With Less Frequency.

The Broad Masses Of A Population Are More Amenable To The Appeal Of Rhetoric Than To Any Other Force.

It Would Be More In Keeping With The Intention Of The Noblest Man In This World If Our Two Christian Churches, Instead Of Annoying Negroes With Missions Which They Neither Desire Nor Understand, Would Kindly, But In All Seriousness, Teach Our European Humanity That Where Parents Are Not Healthy It Is A Deed Pleasing To God To Take Pity On A Poor Little Healthy Orphan Child And Give Him Father And Mother, Than Themselves To Give Birth To A Sick Child Who Will Only Bring Unhappiness And Suffering On Himself And The Rest Of The World.

Germany Is Prepared To Agree To Any Solemn Pact Of Non-aggression, Because She Does Not Think Of Attacking But Only Acquiring Security.

All Great Movements Are Popular Movements. They Are The Volcanic Eruptions Of Human Passions And Emotions, Stirred Into Activity By The Ruthless Goddess Of Distress Or By The Torch Of The Spoken Word Cast Into The Midst Of The People.

Our Enemies Must Not Deceive Themselves-in The 2,000 Years Of German History Known To Us, Our People Have Never Been More United Than Today. The Lord Of The Universe Has Treated Us So Well In The Past Years That We Bow In Gratitude To A Providence Which Has Allowed Us To Be Members Of Such A Great Nation. We Thank Him That We Also Can Be Entered With Honor Into The Ever-lasting Book Of German History!

I'll Put An End To The Idea That A Woman's Body Belongs To Her... Nazi Ideals Demand That The Practice Of Abortion Shall Be Exterminated With A Strong Hand.

Struggle Is The Father Of All Things. It Is Not By The Principles Of Humanity That Man Lives Or Is Able To Preserve Himself Above The Animal World, But Solely By Means Of The Most Brutal Struggle.

Our Object Must Be To Bring Our Territory Into Harmony With The Numbers Of Our Population.

I Will Reflect A Thousand Times Over Before I Allow The German Volk To Become Entangled In Agreements Whose Consequences Are Not Readily Evident.

The Aryan Stands Firm, One With God In His Attitude To The World And Its People.

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