Adolf Hitler - Yet I’m Your Führer
"For the first time in German history, we have a state which has absolutely abolished all social prejudices in regard to political appointments as well as in private life. I myself am the best proof of this. Just imagine: I am not even a lawyer, and yet I am your leader!"
- Adolf Hitler, Rheinmetall-Borsig arms factory in Berlin, December 10, 1940
"Fire, a word of eternal value for a race. We Nordic people see in it not only a symbol, but also the greatest necessity of life."
- Dr. Hans Hausrath, Das Buch der Deutschen Waldarbei, 1934 (Book)
"This Germany becomes all the more fanatic with every bomb that is dropped. When we have won this war my fellow countrymen it will not have been won by a few industrialists or millionaires, or by a few capitalists or aristocrats, or by a few bourgeois, or by anyone else. Workers, you must look upon me as your guarantor, I was born a son of the people, I have spent all my life struggling for the German people, and when this hardest struggle of my life is over there will be new tasks for the German people.
We have already projected great plans. All of our plans have but one aim: to develop still further the great German state, to make that great German nation more and more conscious of its history, at the same time, to give it everything which makes life worth living. We have decided to break down to an ever-increasing degree the barriers preventing individuals from developing their faculties and from attaining their just due. We are firmly determined to build up a social state which must and shall be a model of perfection in every sphere of life...
With it we grant our final victory. Because we have seen where the others have led us. 20 years ago, they assured an apparent victory and what did they achieve with that victory? Nothing but misery and desperation, unemployment increased. They fought their war only for that damn plutocracy for their financial dynasties that manage their capital markets only for a few hundred that control the people. This shall serve as a lesson for all of us.
When this war is ended, Germany will set to work in earnest. A great 'Awake!' will sound throughout the country. Then the German nation will stop manufacturing cannons and will embark on peaceful occupations and the new work of reconstruction for the millions. Then we shall show the world for the first time who is the real master, capitalism or work. Out of this work will grow the great German Reich of which great poets have dreamed.
It will be the Germany to which every one of her sons will cling with fanatical devotion, because she will provide a home even for the poorest. She will teach everyone the meaning of life. Should anyone say to me: 'These are mere fantastic dreams, mere visions,' my fellow countrymen, when I set out on my course in 1919 as an unknown, nameless soldier I built my hope of the future upon a most vivid imagination, fantasy.
Yet all has come true.
What I am planning or aiming at today is nothing compared to what I have already accomplished and achieved. It will be achieved sooner and more definitely than everything already achieved. The road from an unknown and nameless person to Fuhrer of the German nation was harder than will be the way from Fuhrer of the German nation to creator of the coming peace.
Once I had to fight and struggle for your confidence for a decade and a half. Today I can fight and struggle for Germany thanks to this confidence. And one day there will come a time when all of us will join the fight for this Reich with confidence for this Reich of peace, of work, of welfare, of culture, which we want to erect and which we will erect.
Thank you!"
- Adolf Hitler, Berlin Sportpalast, the annual Winterhilfswerk (Winter relief charity program), September 4, 1940
"The German advance continues inexorably. The imposing Bolshevik front is breached and annihilated. The German soldier has now proved his eternal valor, saving Europe from Bolshevism, enemy of the world."
- Supreme Command of the Armed Forces (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht or OKW) on July 3, 1941