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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.

-Adolf Hitler

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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.

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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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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?

Not Until My Fourteenth Or Fifteenth Year Did I Begin To Come Across The Word 'jew,' With Any Frequency, Partly In Connection With Political Discussions.... For The Jew Was Still Characterized For Me By Nothing But His Religion, And Therefore, On Grounds Of Human Tolerance, I Maintained My Rejection Of Religious Attacks In This Case As In Others. Consequently, The Tone, Particularly That Of The Viennese Anti-semitic Press, Seemed To Me Unworthy Of The Cultural Tradition Of A Great Nation.

Verily A Man Cannot Serve Two Masters. And I Consider The Foundation Or Destruction Of A Religion Far Greater Than The Foundation Or Destruction Of A State, Let Alone A Party.

The German Has Not The Slightest Notion How A People Must Be Misled If The Adherence Of The Masses Is Sought.

It Is Not Truth That Matters, But Victory.

Individual Happiness

I Know The Horrors Of War: No Gains Can Compensate For The Losses It Brings.

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

The Great Masses Of People Do Not Consist Of Philosophers; Precisely For The Masses, Faith Is Often The Sole Foundation Of A Moral Attitude. The Various Substitutes Have Not Proved So Successful From The Standpoint Of Results That They Could Be Regarded As A Useful Replacement For Previous Religious Creeds. But If Religious Doctrine And Faith Are Really To Embrace The Broad Masses, The Unconditional Authority Of The Content Of This Faith Is The Foundation Of All Efficacy.

Faith Is Harder To Shake Than Knowledge, Love Succumbs Less To Change Than Respect, Hate Is More Enduring Than Aversion, And The Impetus To The Mightiest Upheavals On This Earth Has At All Times Consisted Less In A Scientific Knowledge Dominating The Masses Than In A Fanaticism Which Inspired Them And Sometimes In A Hysteria Which Drove Them Forward.

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

Perhaps We Are Only Forerunners. Twenty Or Even A Hundred Years May Pass Before The National Socialist Idea Is Victorious; Those Who Believe In The Ideal Today May Die: But What Is A Man In The Development Of A People, Of Mankind.

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.

Struggle Is Gruesome Only For The Weak.

Life Does Not Forgive Weakness.

Conscience Is A Jewish Invention.

If Today I Stand Here As A Revolutionary, It Is As A Revolutionary Against The Revolution.

The Great Strength Of The Totalitarian State Is That It Forces Those Who Fear It To Imitate It.

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.

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For One Cannot Assume That God Exists To Help People Who Are Too Cowardly And Too Lazy To Help Themselves And Think That God Exists Only To Make Up For The Weakness Of Mankind. He Does Not Exist For That Purpose. He Has Always, At All Times, Blessed Only Those Who Were Prepared To Fight Their Own Battles.

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The Primitive Simplicity Of Their Minds Renders Them A More Easy Prey To A Big Lie Than A Small One.

...the Existence And Increase Of Our Race And Nation, The Sustenance Of Its Children And The Purity Of Its Blood, The Freedom And Independence Of The Fatherland, And The Nation's Ability To Fulfill The Mission Appointed To It By The Creator Of The Universe.

Help Yourself, Then God Will Also Help You!

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.

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For Over Five Years This Man [winston Churchill] Has Been Chasing Around Europe Like A Madman In Search Of Something He Could Set On Fire. Unfortunately He Again And Again Finds Hirelings Who Open The Gates Of Their Country To This International Incendiary.

I Am Convinced That 1941 Will Be The Crucial Year Of A Great New Order In Europe. The World Shall Open Up For Everyone. Privileges For Individuals, The Tyranny Of Certain Nations And Their Financial Rulers Shall Fall. And Last Of All This Year Will Help To Provide The Foundations Of A Real Understanding Among Peoples, And With It The Certainty Of Conciliation Among Nations. . . . Those Nations Who Are Still Opposed To Us Will Some Day Recognize The Greater Enemy Within. Then They Will Join Us In A Combined Front, A Front Against Jewish Exploitation And Racial Degeneration.

When There Is Change, It Must Not Alter The Content Of What Propaganda Is Driving At, But In The End Must Always Say The Same Thing. For Instance, A Slogan Must Be Presented From Different Angles, But The End Of All Remarks Must Always And Immutably Be The Slogan Itself. Only In This Way Can The Propaganda Have A Unified And Complete Effect.

The Sacrifice Of Personal Existence Is Necessary To Secure The Preservation Of The Species.

Benefit To The Community Precedes Benefit To The Individual.

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.

Life Never Forgives Weaknesses.

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

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.

There Must Be No Majority Decisions, But Only Responsible Persons, And The Word 'council' Must Be Restored To Its Original Meaning. Surely Every Man Will Have Advisers By His Side, But The Decision Will Be Made By One Man.

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.

I'm Sure That Nero Didn't Set Fire To Rome. It Was The Christian-bolsheviks Who Did That, Just As The Commune Set Fire To Paris In 1871 And The Communists Set Fire To The Reichstag In 1932.

I Realise That Man, In His Imperfection, Can Commit Innumerable Errors - But To Devote Myself Deliberately To Errors, That Is Something I Cannot Do. I Shall Never Come Personally To Terms With The Christian Lie. Our Epoch, In The Next 200 Years, Will Certainly See The End Of The Disease Of Christianity. My Regret Will Have Been That I Could Not Behold Its Demise.

The Seed Has Been Sown That Will Grow One Day . . . To The Glorious Rebirth Of The National Socialist Movement Of A Truly United Nation.

The Stronger Must Dominate And Not Blend With The Weaker, Thus Sacrificing His Own Greatness.

If The German Nation Wants To End A State Of Affairs That Threatens Its Extermination In Europe, It Must Not Fall Into The Error Of The Pre-war Period And Make Enemies Of God And The World; It Must Recognize The Most Dangerous Enemy And Strike At Him With All Its Concentrated Power. And If This Victory Is Obtained Through Sacrifices Elsewhere, The Coming Generations Of Our People Will Not Condemn Us.

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Either One Is Factually Equal, And Consequently Morally Equal As Well; On The Other Hand, If One Is Morally Equal, There Is No Reason Why One Should Contest Factual Equality Of Rights Or Simply Refuse To Grant Them.

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Only Constant Repetition Will Finally Succeed In Imprinting An Idea On The Memory Of The Crowd.

The Union Of Theorizer, Organizer, And Leader In One Man Is The Rarest Phenomenon On Earth; Therein Lies Greatness.

The Man Who Contemplates The Universe With His Eyes Wide Open Is The Man With The Greatest Amount Of Natural Piety; Not In The Religious Sense, But In The Sense Of An Intimate Harmony With Things.

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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!

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The Internal And International Criminal Gang Will Either Be Forced To Work Or Simply Exterminated.

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I Was Europe's Last Chance.

An Evil Exists That Threatens Every Man, Woman, And Child Of This Great Nation. We Must Take Steps To Ensure Our Domestic Security And Protect Our Homeland.

You, My Brown Guard, Will Regard It As A Matter Of Course That This German People Should Go Only By The Way Which Providence Ordained For It When It Gave To Germans The Common Language. So We Go Forward With The Profoundest Faith In God Into The Future. Would That Which We Have Achieved Have Been Possible If Providence Had Not Helped Us?

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!

If You Tell A Big Enough Lie And Tell It Frequently Enough, It Will Be Believed.

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The National Government...will Maintain And Defend The Foundations On Which The Power Of Our Nation Rests. It Will Offer Strong Protection To Christianity As The Very Basis Of Our Collective Morality.

The Moment In Paris Where I Saluted Napoleon's Tomb Was One Of The Proudest Of My Life.

There Could Be No Issue Between The Church And The State. The Church, As Such, Has Nothing To Do With Political Affairs. On The Other Hand, The State Has Nothing To Do With The Faith Or Inner Organization Of The Church

I Use Emotion For The Many And Reserve Reason For The Few.

With Satanic Joy In His Face, The Black-haired Jewish Youth Lurks In Wait For The Unsuspecting Girl Whom He Defiles With His Blood, Thus Stealing Her From Her People.

It Matters Not Whether These Weapons Of Ours Are Humane: If They Gain Us Our Freedom, They Are Justified Before Our Conscience And Before Our God.

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.

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

A Highly Intelligent Man Should Take A Primitive Woman. Imagine If On Top Of Everything Else, I Had A Woman Who Interfered With My Work.

Our Task Is To Harness The God-given Energy Of This German Nation To Stand Firm For The Truth.

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.

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

You Will Never Learn What I Am Thinking. And Those Who Boast Most Loudly That They Know My Thought, To Such People I Lie Even More.

But Even More: All At Once The Jew Also Becomes Liberal And Begins To Rave About The Necessary Progress Of Mankind.

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.

The Fact That The Vatican Is Concluding A Treaty With The New Germany Means The Acknowledgement Of The National Socialist State By The Catholic Church. This Treaty Shows The Whole World Clearly And Unequivocally That The Assertion That National Socialism Is Hostile To Religion Is A Lie.

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

We Were Convinced That The People Need And Require This Faith. We Have Therefore Undertaken The Fight Against The Atheistic Movement, And That Not Merely With A Few Theoretical Declarations; We Have Stamped It Out.

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.

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.

Never Forget That The Most Sacred Right On This Earth Is Mans Right To Have The Earth To Till With His Own Hands, The Most Sacred Sacrifice The Blood That A Man Sheds For This Earth.

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.

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

Hence Today I Believe That I Am Acting In Accordance With The Will Of The Almighty Creator: By Defending Myself Against The Jew, I Am Fighting For The Work Of The Lord.

We Have Made It Possible, Without Gold And Without Foreign Exchange, To Maintain The Value Of The German Mark. Behind The German Mark Stands The German Capacity For Work, While Some Foreign Countries, Suffocated By Gold, Have Been Compelled To Devalue Their Currencies.

...it Is Said With Such Terrible Justice That The Sins Of The Fathers Are Avenged Down To The Tenth Generation. But This Applies Only To Profanation Of The Blood And The Race.

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

The Government Will Make Use Of These Powers Only Insofar As They Are Essential For Carrying Out Vitally Necessary Measures.... The Separate Existence Of The Federal States Will Not Be Done Away.... The Number Of Cases In Which An Internal Necessity Exists For Having Recourse To Such Law Is In Itself A Limited One.

The State Dominates The Nation Because It Alone Represents It.

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.

Our Strategy Is To Destroy The Enemy From Within, To Conquer Him Through Himself.

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."

The Spark Of A Genius Exists In The Brain Of The Truly Creative Man From The Hour Of His Birth. True Genius Is Always Inborn And Never Cultivated, Let Alone Learned.

For The Greatest Revolutionary Changes On This Earth Would Not Have Been Thinkable If Their Motive Force, Instead Of Fanatical, Yes, Hysterical Passion, Had Been Merely The Bourgeois Virtues Of Law And Order.

Due To His Own Original Special Nature, The Jew Cannot Possess A Religious Institution, If For No Other Reason Because He Lacks Idealism In Any Form, And Hence Belief In A Hereafter Is Absolutely Foreign To Him. And A Religion In The Aryan Sense Cannot Be Imagined Which Lacks The Conviction Of Survival After Death In Some Form. Indeed, The Talmud Is Not A Book To Prepare A Man For The Hereafter, But Only For A Practical And Profitable Life In This World.

I Say That They Can Be Solved; There Is No Problem That Cannot Be, But Faith Is Necessary. Think Of The Faith I Had To Have Eighteen Years Ago, A Single Man On A Lonely Path. Yet I Have Come To Leadership Of The German People... Life Is Hard For Many, But It Is Hardest If You Are Unhappy And Have No Faith. Have Faith. Nothing Can Make Me Change My Own Belief.

Become Strong Again In Spirit, Strong In Will, Strong In Endurance, Strong To Bear All Sacrifices

Brutality Creates Respect.

Something Therefore Always Remains And Sticks From The Most Imprudent Of Lies, A Fact Which All Bodies And Individuals Concerned In The Art Of Lying In This World Know Only Too Well, And Therefore They Stop At Nothing To Achieve This End.

Obstacles Do Not Exist To Be Surrendered To, But Only To Be Broken.

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.

I Follow My Course With The Precision And Security Of A Sleepwalker.

In Late Marriage Alone Lies The Compulsion To Retain An Institution Which, Twist And Turn As You Like, Is And Remains A Disgrace To Humanity, An Institution Which Is Damned Ill-suited To A Being Who With His Usual Modesty Likes To Regard Himself As The 'image' Of God.

When Understanding Of The Universe Has Become Widespread, When The Majority Of Men Know That The Stars Are Not Sources Of Light But Worlds, Perhaps Inhabited Worlds Like Ours, Then The Christian Doctrine Will Be Convicted Of Absurdity.

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.

The Task Of Preserving And Advancing The Highest Humanity, Given To This Earth By The Benevolence Of The Almighty, Seems A Truly High Mission.

When Barbarossa Commences, The World Will Hold Its Breath And Make No Comment.

Be Proud Of Your People When You Don't Have To Be Ashamed Of Any It's Social Class

The Young [nazi] Movement Is In Its Nature And Inner Organization Anti-parliamentarian; That Is, It Rejects... A Principle Of Majority Rule In Which The Leader Is Degraded To The Level Of Mere Executant Of Other People's Wills And Opinion.

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 Art Of Leadership . . . Consists In Consolidating The Attention Of The People Against A Single Adversary And Taking Care That Nothing Will Split Up That Attention. . . . The Leader Of Genius Must Have The Ability To Make Different Opponents Appear As If They Belong To One Category.

How Fortunate For Governments That People Do Not Think. There Is No Thinking Except In Giving And Executing Commands. If It Were Otherwise Human Society Could Not Exist.

Catholics And Protestants Are Fighting With One Another... While The Enemy Of Aryan Humanity And All Christendom Is Laughing Up His Sleeve.

Demoralize The Enemy From Within By Surprise, Terror, Sabotage, Assassination. This Is The War Of The Future.

All Propaganda Must Be So Popular And On Such An Intellectual Level, That Even The Most Stupid Of Those Towards Whom It Is Directed Will Understand It. Therefore, The Intellectual Level Of The Propaganda Must Be Lower The Larger The Number Of People Who Are To Be Influenced By It.

When Over Long Periods Of Human History I Scrutinized The Activity Of The Jewish People, Suddenly There Arose Up In Me The Fearful Question Whether Inscrutable Destiny, Perhaps For Reasons Unknown To Us Poor Mortals, Did Not, With Eternal And Immutable Resolve, Desire The Final Victory Of This Little Nation.

...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.

I Have No Further Interest In The Czecho-slovakian State, That Is Guaranteed. We Want No Czechs

As In Everything, Nature Is The Best Instructor.

Everlasting Peace Will Come To The World When The Last Man Has Slain The Last But One.

To Them Belong, Not Only The Truly Great Statesmen, But All Other Great Reformers As Well. Beside Frederick The Great Stands Martin Luther As Well As Richard Wagner.

Our Ideology Is Intolerant...and Peremptorily Demands...the Complete Transformation Of Public Life To Its Ideas.

Bolshevism Turns Flourishing Countryside Into Sinister Wastes Of Ruins; National Socialism Transforms A Reich Of Destruction And Misery Into A Healthy State With A Flourishing Economic Life.

When I Was A Worker I Busied Myself With Socialist Or, If You Like, Marxist Literature.

And I Can Fight Only For Something That I Love, Love Only What I Respect, And Respect Only What I At Least Know.

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.

May The Time Not Be Far Off When All Other European Nations Will Come To The Realisation That The Primary Necessity Is Putting An End To The Quarrels And Strife Of Centuries And Of Building Up Of A Finer Community Of All Peoples Is: The Recognition Of A Higher Common Duty Arising Out Of Common Rights?

Whoever Lights The Torch Of War In Europe Can Wish For Nothing But Chaos.

Great Nations Do Not Succumb Through Lost Wars, But Rather Through Racial Decay And The Destruction Of Their Internal Order.

Never In These Long Years Have We Offered Any Other Prayer But This: Lord, Grant To Our People Peace At Home, And Grant And Preserve To Them Peace From The Foreign Foe!

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

Catholic Religion

You Only Have To Kick In The Door And The Whole Rotten Structure Will Come Crashing Down.

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

Knowledge Above The Average Can Be Crammed Into The Average Man, But It Remains Dead, And In The Last Analysis Sterile Knowledge. The Result Is A Man Who May Be A Living Dictionary But Nevertheless Falls Down Miserably In All Special Situations And Decisive Moments In Life.

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

National Socialist Germany Wishes For Peace Because It Recognises The Simple Fact That No War Would Be Likely To Substantially To Ameliorate The State Of Distress In Europe. The Distress Would Probably Be Made The Greater Thereby. If Only The Leaders And Rulers Had Wanted Peace, The People Would Never Have Wished For War.

The American President Increasingly Used His Influence To Create Conflicts, Intensify Existing Conflicts, And, Above All, To Keep Conflicts From Being Resolved Peacefully. For Years This Man Looked For A Dispute Anywhere In The World, But Preferably In Europe, That He Could Use To Create Political Entanglements With American Economic Obligations To One Of The Contending Sides, Which Would Then Steadily Involve America In The Conflict And Thus Divert Attention From His Own Confused Domestic Economic Policies.

German Economic Salvation Has Been Brought About Solely Through The Efforts Of The German People And The Experience They Have Gained. Countries Abroad Have Contributed Nothing To This.

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

Woman's World Is Her Husband, Her Family, Her Children And Her Home. We Do Not Find It Right When She Presses Into The World Of Men.

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.

No Politician Should Ever Let Himself Be Photographed In A Bathing Suit.

I Never Lost My Belief, In The Midst Of Setbacks Which Were Not Spared Me During My Period Of Struggle. Providence Has Had The Last Word And Brought Me Success.

If You Win, You Need Not Have To Explain...if You Lose, You Should Not Be There To Explain!

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.

In The Course Of Carrying Through Our Program For Which We Have Calculated Four Years, Two And One-quarter Million Out Of Six Million Unemployed Have Already Received Employment Again Within A Period Of Eight Short Months.

There Arc No Such Things As Desperate Situations. Only Desperate Men.

Desperate Situations

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.

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

Humanitarianism Is The Expression Of Stupidity And Cowardice.

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.

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.

All Propaganda Must Be Confined To A Few Bare Necessities And Then Must Be Expressed In A Few Stereotyped Formulas . . . Only Constant Repetition Will Finally Succeed In Imprinting An Idea Upon The Memory Of A Crowd.

If The War Is Lost, The Nation Will Also Perish. This Fate Is Inevitable. There Is No Necessity To Take Into Consideration The Basis Which The People Will Need To Continue A Most Primitive Existence. On The Contrary, It Will Be Better To Destroy Things Ourselves Because This Nation Will Have Proved To Be The Weaker One And The Future Will Belong Solely To The Stronger Eastern Nation [russia]. Besides, Those Who Remain After The Battle Are Only The Inferior Ones, For The Good Ones Have Been Killed.

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.

To Attain Our Aim We Should Stop At Nothing Even If We Must Join Forces With The Devil.

The President Of The United States Has A Much Wider Power Than The German Kaiser Had, For He Depended On Parliament.

Consequently, The Tone, Particularly That Of The Viennese Anti-semitic Press, Seemed To Me Unworthy Of The Cultural Tradition Of A Great Nation.

The Western Democracy Of Today Is The Forerunner Of Marxism Which Without It Would Not Be Thinkable. It Provides This World Plague With The Culture In Which Its Germs Can Spread.

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

There Are Certain Truths Which Stand Out So Openly On The Roadsides Of Life, As It Were, That Every Passer-by May See Them. Yet, Because Of Their Obviousness, The General Run Of People Disregard Such Truths Or At Least They Do Not Make Them The Object Of Any Concious Knowledge. People Are So Bliend To Some Of The Simplest Facts In Everyday Life That They Are Highly Surprised When Somebody Calls Attention To What Everybody Ought To Know.

The Parliamentary Principle Of Decision By Majorities Only Appears During Quite Short Periods Of History, And Those Are Always Periods Of Decadence In Nations And States.

The Whole Of Education Should Be Designed So As To Occupy A Boy's Free Time In Cultivation Of His Body. He Has No Right To Loaf About Idly; But After His Day's Work Is Done, He Ought To Harden His Young Body, So That Life May Not Find Him Soft When He Enters It. No One Should Be Allowed To Sin At The Expense Of Posterity, That Is, Of The Race.

For We Love Liberty Just As We Love Peace.

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

Only A Handful Of Germans In The Reich Had The Slightest Conception Of The Eternal And Merciless Struggle For The German Language, German Schools, And A German Way Of Life. Only Today, When The Same Deplorable Misery Is Forced On Many Millions Of Germans From The Reich, Who Under Foreign Rule Dream Of Their Common Fatherland And Strive, Amid Their Longing, At Least To Preserve Their Holy Right To Their Mother Tongue, Do Wider Circles Understand What It Means To Be Forced To Fight For One's Nationality.

For There Is One Thing We Must Never Forget... The Majority Can Never Replace The Man. And No More Than A Hundred Empty Heads Make One Wise Man Will An Heroic Decision Arise From A Hundred Cowards.

The Unity Of A Nation's Spirit And Will Are Worth Far More Than The Freedom Of The Spirit And Will Of An Individual; And That The Higher Interests Involved In The Life Of The Whole Must Here Set The Limits And Lay Down The Duties Of The Interests Of The Individual.

I Speak In The Name Of The Entire German People When I Assure The World That We All Share The Honest Wish To Eliminate The Enmity That Brings Far More Costs Than Any Possible Benefits. It Would Be A Wonderful Thing For All Of Humanity If Both Peoples Would Renounce Force Against Each Other Forever. The German People Are Ready To Make Such A Pledge.

I Will Not Wage War Against Women And Children! I Have Instructed My Air Force To Limit Their Attacks To Military Objectives. However, If The Enemy Should Conclude From This That He Might Get Away With Waging War In A Different Manner He Will Receive An Answer That He'll Be Knocked Out Of His Wits!

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.

Today I Must Humbly Thank Providence, Whose Grace Has Enabled Me, Who Was Once An Unknown Soldier In The War, To Bring To A Successful Issue The Struggle For The Restoration Of Our Honor And Rights As A Nation.

Germany Has Solemnly Recognized And Guaranteed France Her Frontiers As Determined After The Saar Plebiscite... We Thereby Finally Renounced All Claims To Alsace-lorraine, A Land For Which We Have Fought Two Great Wars.

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

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

Universal Education Is The Most Corroding And Disintegrating Poison That Liberalism Has Ever Invented For Its Own Destruction.

A Man Does Not Die For Something Which He Himself Does Not Believe In.

World History Is Made By Minorities When This Minority Of Number Embodies The Majority Of Will And Determination.

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

...the Unprecedented Rise Of The Christian Social Party... Was To Assume The Deepest Significance For Me As A Classical Object Of Study.

One Should Guard Against Believing The Great Masses To Be More Stupid Than They Actually Are.

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.

The State Must Act As The Guardian Of A Millennial Future In The Face Of Which The Wishes And The Selfishness Of The Individual Must Appear As Nothing And Submit.

While We Destroyed The Centre Party, We Have Not Only Brought Thousands Of Priests Back Into The Church, But To Millions Of Respectable People We Have Restored Their Faith In Their Religion And In Their Priests. The Union Of The Evangelical Church In A Single Church For The Whole Reich, The Concordat With The Catholic Church, These Are But Milestones On The Road Which Leads To The Establishment Of A Useful Relation And A Useful Co Operation Between The Reich And The Two Confessions.

Whenever I Think Of This Attack, My Stomach Turns Over.

Help Thyself, Then Thou Wilt Also Have The Help Of The Almighty.

When I Came To Power, I Did Not Want The Concentration Camps To Become Old Age Pensioners Homes, But Instruments Of Terror.

I Must Frankly Admit That... I Should Probably Lose All Interest In Life And Would Rather Not Be A German At All. But Since, Thank The Lord, This Cannot Be Done, We Have No Need To Be Surprised That The Health, Unspoiled People Avoid 'bourgeois Mass Meetings' As The Devil Holy Water.

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

Sooner Will A Camel Pass Through A Needle's Eye Than A Great Man Be "discovered" By An Election.

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.

What Luck For Rulers That Men Do Not Think.

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.

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