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only the destruction of a state, but already the application of a
chain, of a neck collar for later times.

National purity as a source of strength

The second pillar against which the Jew as a parasite turns, and must
turn, is the national purity as a source of the strength of a nation.
The Jew, who is himself a nationalist more than any other nation, who
through millennia did not mix with any other race, uses intermingling
just for others to degenerate them in the best case; this same Jew
preaches every day with thousands of tongues, from 19,000 papers in
Germany alone, that all nations on Earth are equal, that international solidarity should bind all the peoples, that no people can lay a claim
to a special status etc., and, above all, that no nation has a reason
to be proud of anything that is called or is national. What a nation
means, he, who himself never dreams of climbing down to those to whom
he preaches internationalism, knows well.

First a race must be denationalized. First it must unlearn that its
power is in its blood, and when it has reached the level where it has
no more pride, the result is a product, a second race, which is lower
than the previous one and the Jew needs the lower one in order to
organize his final world domination. In order to build it and keep it,
he lowers the racial level of the other peoples, so that only he is
racially pure and able to eventually rule over all the others. That’s
race degradation, the effects of which we can see today in a number of peoples of the world. We know that the Hindus in India are a mixed
people, stemming from the high Aryan immigrants and from the dark
aborigines. And this nation bears the consequences, for it is a slave
nation of a race that may seem in many ways almost as a second Jewry.

Another problem is the problem of physical decomposition of races. The
Jew is trying to eliminate all of which he knows that is somehow strengthening, muscle-steeling, and eliminate above all everything of
that which he knows may keep a race so healthy that it will remain
determined not to tolerate among themselves national criminals, pests
to the national community, but under some circumstances, punish them
with death. And that is his great fear and worry; for even the
heaviest latches of the safest prison are not so tough, and the prison
is not so safe that a few million could not open it eventually. Only
one lock is permanent, and that is death, and in front of it he has
the most awe. And therefore he seeks to abolish this barbaric
punishment everywhere where he lives as a parasite. But wherever he
already is, Lord, it is used ruthlessly. (Loud applause)

And, for the breaking of physical strength, he has excellent means at
hand. First of all, he has the trade that should be nothing more than distribution of foodstuffs and other necessary items for daily use. He
uses it to withdraw these articles of daily life, when necessary, in
order to raise the price on the one hand, but also to withdraw in
order to create the conditions for physical weakening which have
always worked best: hunger.

Thus we see them brilliantly organize, from a Joseph in Egypt up to a Rathenau* today. Everywhere, what we see behind these organizations is
not the desire to make a shining organization for food supply, but
through them gradually to create hunger. We know that as a politician
he never had reason and cause to shun the hunger, on the contrary,
wherever the Jew appeared in political parties, hunger and misery was
the only soil in which he could grow. He desires it, and therefore he
does not even think of easing social misery. That’s the bed in which
it thrives.*Walther Rathenau’s mother was Jewish. He became Foreign Minister of Germany during the Weimar Republic, was assassinated on
June 24, 1922, two months after signing the Rappalo Treaty. He was a
leading proponent of a policy of assimilation for German Jews ]

Hand in hand with this goes a battle against the health of the people.
He knows how to turn all the healthy normal manners, the obvious
hygienic rules of a race on its head, from night he makes day; he
creates the notorious nightlife and knows exactly that it works slowly
but surely, gradually destroying the healthy strength of a race,
making it soft; the one is destroyed physically, the other
spiritually, and into the heart of the third it puts the hatred as he
has to see the others feast.

And finally, as a last resort, he destroys the productive capacity,
and if necessary, in connection with it, the productive resources of a nation. That is the great mystery of Russia. They have destroyed
factories, not because they knew they would no longer be needed, but
because they knew that the people would be forced, with enormous
hardships, to replace what had been destroyed. So the Jew succeeds in harnessing the people, instead of the former 9 and 10 hours, for 12
hours. For at the moment when the Jew becomes Lord, he knows no 8-hour
day, he recognizes his Sabbath for his cattle, but not for the Goyim,
for the Akum [words for non-Jews].

The destruction of culture

Finally, he reaches for the last method: The destruction of all
culture, of all that we consider as belonging in a state which we
consider civilized. Here is his work perhaps most difficult to
recognize, but here the actual effect is the most terrible. We are
familiar with his activity in the arts, like today’s paintings which
became a caricature of all that we call true inner perception.
(Prolonged applause) They always explain that you don’t understand the inner experience of the artist. Don’t you think that also a Moritz
Schwind and Ludwig Richter experienced internally when they created?
(Stormy bravo! and applause)

Don’t you, finally, believe that, for example, Beethoven’s chords also came from inner experience and feeling and that a Beethoven symphony
reflects his inner experience? This is true inner experience, unlike
the other ones, which are only superficial swindle (Applause), set in
the world with an intent to gradually destroy in the people any
healthy idea and to whip the people into a state in which no one can understand whether the times are crazy, or whether he himself is mad.
(Big laughter and applause.)

Just as he works in painting, sculpture and music, so he does in
poetry and especially in literature. Here he has a great advantage. He
is the editor and, above all, publisher of more than 95% of all
newspapers. He uses this power, and he who has become such a brutal antisemite as myself (Laughter) smells out, even as he takes the paper
in his hand, where the Jew begins; (Laughter) he knows already from
the title page that it is again not one of us, but one of the “folks behind.” (Laughter) We know full well that all his contortions and wordplays only serve to conceal the inner emptiness of his mind and
hide the fact that the man has no real spiritual life, and what he
lacks in true spirit he replaces with bombast phrases, word twists and
turns that seem unreasonable, but he cautiously explains from the
outset that he who does not understand them is not sufficiently
mentally developed. (Laughter)

When we talk about literature, we also need to jump straight to
another chapter where we can admire in excess Moritz and Salomon Wolf
and Bear: Our theater, the places which a Richard Wagner wanted once
to have darkened to create the highest degree of consecration and seriousness, in which he wanted to perform works which it would be
shameful to call shows, so he named them “consecration plays;” the
place where there should be nothing else but the highest elevation, a detachment of the individual from all the grief and misery, but also
from all the rot which surrounds us in life, to lift the individual
into a purer air. What has become of it? A place which today you are
ashamed to enter unless someone might notice you the moment you go in.
(Hear, hear) We see that although a Friedrich Schiller received just
346 thalers for “Mary Stuart,” for “Merry Widow”* people today receive
5 1/2 million, that the greatest kitsch today makes ??millions for
which an author in ancient Greece would probably have been expelled
from the state by ostracism. (Loud applause) *Hitler later changed his
mind about “The Merry Widow” (composed by fellow Austrian Franz Lehár) and endorsed it, along with Operetta in general.

And if theater has become a hotbed of vice and shamelessness, then a
thousand times more so that new invention which perhaps comes from
genial inspiration, but which the Jew understood right away to remodel
into the filthiest business that you can imagine: the cinema.
(Thunderous applause and clapping.) At first people attached greatest
hopes to this brilliant invention. It could become an easy mediator of profound knowledge for the entire people of the world. And what has
become of it? It became the mediator of the greatest and the most
shameless filth. The Jew works on.

For him there is no spiritual sensitivity, and just as his forefather
Abraham was selling his wife, he finds nothing special about the fact
that today he sells girls, and through the centuries we find him
everywhere, in North America as in Germany, Austria-Hungary and all
over the East, as the merchant of the human commodity and it can not
be denied away; even the greatest Jew defender cannot deny that all of
these girl-dealers are Hebrews. This subject is atrocious. According
to Germanic sentiment there would be only one punishment for this:
death. For people that play fast and loose, regarding as a business,
as a commodity, what for millions of others means greatest happiness
or greatest misfortune. For them love is nothing more than business in
which they make money. They are always ready to tear apart the
happiness of any marriage, if only 30 pieces of silver can be made.
(Stormy bravo! and applause)

They tell us today that all that which was known as family life is a completely outlived notion, and who only saw the play “Castle Wetterstein”* could see how the holiest that still remained to the
people was shamelessly called “brothel”. *An anti-bourgeoise play
written in 1912 by Frank Wedekind, pre-figuring the “new realism,” in which a young woman is corrupted. It was played up by the Jews and
became very popular. So we should not be surprised when he also
attacks what many people even today are not indifferent to, and what
to many at least can give inner peace – religion. Also here we see the
same Jew who himself has enough religious customs which others could
easily mock, but no one does, as we, in principle, never ridicule
religion because it is sacred to us. But he tries to destroy
everything without offering a substitute. Who today, in this age of
the vilest deceit and swindle, is detached from it; for him there are
just two more possibilities, either he hangs himself in despair or
becomes a crook.

The “authority of the majority”

When the Jew has destroyed the state according to these three major
aspects, when he has undermined the state-forming and sustaining
power, the ethical conception of work, the racial purity of a people
and its spiritual life, he puts to the ax the authority of reason in
the state and puts in its place the so-called authority of the
majority of the crowd, and he knows that this majority will dance as
he whistles because he has the means to direct it: He has the Press,
not perhaps for registering of public opinion, but for forgery of it,
and he knows how to harness public opinion through the Press in order
to dominate the state. Instead of the authority of reason, there
enters the authority of the great spongy majority led by the Jew,
because the Jew is always going through three periods.

First, autocratically-minded, ready to serve any prince, he then
descends to the people, fighting for democracy, of which he knows that
it will be in his hand, and steered by him; he owns it, he becomes a dictator. (Hear, hear) And we see this today in Russia, where a Lenin
has just assured that the councils are already outlived, and that now
it is not absolutely necessary that a proletarian state be led through
one council or parliament, that it is sufficient that 2 or 3 proletarian-minded people govern this country. These
proletarian-minded persons are some Jewish billionaires, and we know
very well that behind 2 or 3 proletarians ultimately stands another organization which is outside of the state: the Alliance Israelite and
their grandiose propaganda organization and the organization of
Freemasonry. (Loud applause and clapping of hands)

And in all these things we must understand that there are no good or
evil Jews. Here everyone works exactly according to the instincts of
his race, because the race, or should we say, the nation and its
character, as the Jew himself explains, lies in blood, and this blood
is forcing everyone to act according to these principles, whether he
is the leading mind in a party that calls itself democratic, or calls
itself socialist, or a man of science, literature, or just an ordinary exploiter. He is a Jew; he works aglow with one thought: How do I get
my people to become the Master Race.

The political organization

And when we see, for example, in these Jewish magazines, that it is
specified that every Jew everywhere is obligated to fight against any antisemite, wherever and whoever he is, then it follows by deduction
that every German, wherever and whoever he is, will become an
antisemite. (Stormy bravo! and prolonged applause) For if the Jew has
a racial determination, so have we, and we are also obliged to act accordingly. Because it seems inseparable from the social idea and we
do not believe that there could ever exist a state with lasting inner
health if it is not built on internal social justice, and so we have
joined forces with this knowledge and when we finally united, there
was only one big question: How should we actually baptize ourselves? A
party? A bad name! Notorious, discredited in the mouth of everyone,
and hundreds told us, “Why have you called yourselves a party? When I
hear that word I go mad.” And others told us, “It’s not necessary for us to organize ourselves more closely, it is sufficient that the
scientific knowledge of the danger of Jewry gradually deepens and the individual, on the basis of this knowledge, begins to remove the Jews
from himself.” But I very much fear that this whole beautiful line of thought was designed by none other than a Jew himself. (Laughter.)

Then we were told further, “It is not necessary that you are
politically organized, it is sufficient to take away from the Jews
their economic power. Economic organizing only – here lies the
salvation and the future.” Here, too, I have the same suspicion that a
Jew sowed this idea the first time because one thing has become clear:
In order to liberate our economy from this fix it is necessary to
combat the pathogen, the politically organized struggle of the masses
against their oppressors. (Stormy applause) Since it is clear that
scientific knowledge is worthless as long as this knowledge is not a
basis for an organization of the masses for the implementation of what
we consider necessary, and it is further clear that for this
organization only the broad masses of our people can be considered.
Because it sets us apart from all those who today are ‘saviors of Germany,’ whether Bothmer or Ballerstedt*, that we believe that the
future strength of our people is not to be found in Odeon bar or Bonbonniére** but in the countless workshops, in which they work every
day – that here we find the millions of hardworking, healthy people
whose lives are the only hope of our people for the future. (Loud
applaus.) *Opponents of Hitler ** Places of frivolity in Munich

Furthermore, we realized that if this movement does not penetrate into
the masses, to organize them, then everything will be in vain; then we
will never be able to liberate our people and we will never be able to
think of rebuilding our country. The salvation can never come from
above, it can and will only come from the masses, from the bottom up. (Applause)

And as we came to this realization and decided to form a party, a
political party that wants to enter into the ruthless political
struggle for the future, then we heard a voice: Do you believe that
you few can do it, do you really believe that a couple of guys can do
it? Because we understood that we had an immense battle ahead of us
but also that anything created by men can be destroyed by other men.
And another conviction has arisen within us, that this can not be a
matter of whether we think we can do it, but only a question of
whether we believe that it is right and that it is necessary, and if
it is right and necessary, then it is no longer a question of whether
we want to, but rather it is our duty to do what we feel is necessary. (Stormy bravo!) We did not ask after money and supporters, but we
decided to go forth.

And while others are working a whole generation, perhaps in order to
get a small house or to have a carefree retirement, we put our lives
at stake and have begun this difficult struggle. If we win, and we are convinced we will, though we may die penniless we will have helped
create the biggest movement which will now extend over all Europe and
the whole world. (Loud applause)

The first three principles were clear, and they are inseparable from
each other. Socialism as the final concept of duty, the ethical duty
of work, not just for oneself but also for one’s fellow man’s sake,
and above all the principle: Common good before own good, a struggle
against all parasitism and especially against easy and unearned
income. And we were aware that in this fight we can rely on no one but
our own people. We are convinced that socialism in the right sense
will only be possible in nations and races that are Aryan, and there
in the first place we hope for our own people and are convinced that socialism is inseparable from nationalism. (Loud applause)

To be nationalist does not mean for us to belong to one party or
another, but to show with every action that one benefits the people;
it means love for all the people without exception. From this point of
view we will realize that it is necessary to preserve the most
precious thing a people has, the sum of all active creative powers of
its workers, to keep it healthy in body and soul.(Cheers) And this
view of nationalism compels us to immediately form a front against its opposite, the Semitic conception of the idea of people (Volk), and
especially against the Semitic concept of work. Since we are
socialists, we must necessarily also be antisemites because we want to
fight against the very opposite: materialism and mammonism. (Lively
bravo!)

And when today the Jew still runs into our factories and says: How can
you be a socialist antisemite? Are not you ashamed? - there comes a
time in which we will ask: How can you not be an antisemite, being a socialist! (Hear, hear) There comes a time when it will be obvious
that socialism can only be carried out accompanied by nationalism and antisemitism. The three concepts are inseparably connected. They are
the foundations of our program and therefore we call ourselves
National Socialists. (Cheers)

How to proceed

Finally, we know how great the social reforms must be so that Germany
may recover. If it doesn’t happen, perhaps the only reason will be too modest efforts. We know that one will have to cut deep. We will not be
able to come around the national problem and the issue of land reform,
and the problem of care for all those who, day after day, are working
for the community and in their old age this care must not be a
pittance, but they have a right to have their old days be still worth
living.

If we wish to make these social reforms, this must go hand in hand
with the fight against the enemy of every social institution: Jewry.
Here too we know that scientific knowledge can only be the groundwork,
but that behind this knowledge must stand an organization which one
day will be able to go over into action. And in this action we will
remain adamant, which means: removal of Jews from amongst our people
(Loud and long sustained applause and clapping), not because we
begrudge them their existence – we congratulate the rest of the world
on account of their visits (great hilarity) – but because we value the existence of our own people a thousand times higher than that of an
alien race. (Bravo!)

And since we are convinced that this scientific antisemitism that
clearly recognizes the terrible danger of this race for any people can
only be a guide, and the masses will always perceive them emotionally
– for they know the Jew first and foremost as the man in daily life
who always and everywhere sticks out – our concern must be to arouse
in our people the instinct against Jewry and whip it up and stir,
until they come to the decision to join the movement which is willing
to take the consequences. (Bravo and applause.)

Some people tell us: Whether you succeed depends eventually on whether
you have the sufficient money and so on. To this, I think I can say
the following: Even the power of money is somehow limited; there is a
certain limit beyond which, eventually, not the money rules but the
truth. And we are all aware that, once the millions of our workers
realize who are the leaders who now promise them a blissful future
kingdom, when they recognize that everywhere gold is at play, they
will throw the gold in their face and declare: Keep your gold and
don’t think that you can buy us. (Bravo!)

And we do not despair if we maybe still stand alone, if we today,
wherever we go, do see potential supporters but nowhere the courage to
join the organization. That should not lead us astray; we have
accepted the fight and we must win it. I have assured you before the
election that this election would not decide Germany’s fate, that
after this election no recovery would come and, already today, I think
most of you will agree with me. I could predict it back then because I
knew that the courage and the will to act were absent everywhere.

We have proclaimed as our election platform only one thing: Let the
others go to the polls today, to the Reichstag, to the parliaments and
loll in their club chairs; we want to climb up the beer tables and
pull the masses with us. We’ve kept this promise and will keep it in
the future. Tirelessly and constantly, as long as we have a spark of
strength and a breath in the lungs, we will come out and call all our
people; and always tell the truth until we can begin to hope that this
truth will prevail. Till the day finally comes when our words fall
silent and action begins. (Stormy bravo! and long-lasting applause.)

(Pause and discussion)

Closing remarks of the speaker Hitler:

Ladies and gentlemen! We are not as dreadful as our primary enemy and
we cannot shatter Jewry by ourselves; we do not imagine it is so easy. However, we have decided not to come with any buts and ifs. But once
the matter comes to the solution, it will be done, and done
thoroughly.

What the gentleman said, that for him it doesn’t matter – any person
is a human being – I agree, as long as that person does not get in the
way. But when a great race systematically destroys the life conditions
of my race, I say no, no matter where they ‘belong.’ In that case, I
say that I am one of those who, when they get a blow on the left
cheek, they return two or three. (Bravo!)

Then a gentleman said that our movement would mean a battle into which
the working class would be drawn. Yes, and we (the social democrats
and communists?) will promise our people Heaven on Earth, and after
the fools have fought for forty years, then instead of the Heaven
they’ll have nothing but a pile of rubble and misery. That mistake we
will not make. (Bravo!) We do not promise any Heaven but the one
thing, that if you are determined to carry out this program in
Germany, maybe once again the time will come in which you will be able
to have a life. If you carry out the glorious reform which these
gentlemen here wish, you will in an even shorter time face the need to embellish this life with the very same decrees which their leaders
Trotsky and Lenin issue now: Those who are not willing to fight for
the blessings of that State, die.

Finally, he said that they opposed any capitalism. My esteemed
audience! The communists have so far merely been fighting industrial
capital and have only hung industrial capitalists. But name me one
Jewish capitalist whom they have hung. (That’s right! says the crowd) 300,000 Russians have been murdered in Russia. The Soviet Government
itself admits this now. Among those 300,000 is not a single Jew! But
in the leadership more than 90% are Jews. Is that persecution of Jews
or rather, in the truest sense of the word, persecution of Christians?
(Hear, hear)

Then you said you fought against both the loan capital and industrial capital. But you have so far combated neither the one nor the other.
You cannot fight the industrial capital, at most destroy it, and then
you must again start with a 12-hour working day to rebuild it. (Hear,
hear) And the other you’ve so far never fought! This one is paying
you. (Thunderous applause and clapping of hands)

Then the second speaker stated the cause of the revolution should be
looked for in poverty. We prefer to put it this way: Poverty has made
Germany ripe for those who wanted the revolution. You can read the
piece written by their Lord and Master who was then ruling Germany,
Rathenau, where he explained precisely that the revolution had a real
and deliberate purpose: Displacement of the feudal system and its
replacement by plutocracy. These men have been the financiersof this
glorious movement. If their revolution would have been even the
slightest threat to Capital, then the Frankfurter Zeitung would not
have triumphantly announced on the 9th November: “The German people
have made a revolution.” When we make our revolution, the Frankfurter Zeitung will whistle a very different tune. (Loud applause)

Then you said further: Before the war one has not heard anything of
Jews. That is a sad fact that we have heard so little. This does not
mean, however, that he was not there. But above all, it is not true,
because this movement did not begin after the war but has been there
just as long as there are Jews. If you go back and read in Jewish
history, the Jews gradually exterminated the original tribes in
Palestine by the sword, so you can imagine that there has been
antisemitism as a logical reaction. And it existed the whole time till
this day, and the pharaohs in Egypt were probably just as antisemitic
as we are today. If you had, before the war, not only read their
famous writers Moritz, Salomon, and others – I do not even mention newspapers which, a priori, carry the stamp of approval of the
Alliance Israelite- you would have heard that in Austria there was a
huge anti-Semitic movement, but also the Russia people constantly
attempted to rise up against the Jewish bloodsuckers. That in Galicia,
the Poles groaned and no longer worked, and sometimes rose in despair
against those crazy idealists who were hell-bound to send the people
to their early graves. Unfortunately, too late we have begun to
understand this there, but you say: Before the war, one has not heard
of it. But really deplorable are only those who hear it now and still
cannot get the courage to answer our call. (Stormy bravo! and
applause)

Then you declare further that Lenin made some mistakes. We are
grateful that at least you admit that your pope has made mistakes.
(Laughter) But then you declare you would not make these mistakes. For
one thing, when 300,000 people are hanged in Germany and when our
whole economy is shattered after their pattern, then your statement
that you would not make the same mistakes is not enough. You seem to
have a poor idea of what the Bolshevik system really means. It will
not improve the situation, but it is put there in order to destroy the
races with these errors. (Hear, hear) When you declare today that one
did so in Russia up until now, this is a sorry excuse; when you first exterminate a race, first totally ruin a national economy; and finally
this state lives practically only by the mercy of Tsarist officers
who, driven by force make conquests for it, then, in my opinion, it’s
a strange policy. (Hear, hear.) One thing I know is that if we do not
have the iron will to stop war madness – that mutual tearing one
another to pieces – we’ll perish.

Finally, you explain, since the loan capital is international, we
cannot fight it nationally, otherwise the international world will
shut us off. These are the consequences of relying on international solidarity! (Loud applause.) Had you not made us so powerless, we
could not have cared less if the other world is happy with us or not.
But when you yourself admit that this International, which practically dominates Britain, France and North America, is able to shut us off,
do you believe then that the fight against Capital is being fought
over there? So long as this Earth exists, nations have never been
freed by the will and the deed of other nations, but either by their
own force or they remained in bondage. (Cheers)

And then, finally, you also turn to the Bible, and that’s, after all,
a good sign in a Communist. (Laughter) And you explain that, because
of a peculiar conformity of Bible and our Party program, I am a
Communist. What you are telling me here, Dr. Gerlich has already said,
and Mr. Hohmann has called me too: If you stand up for what you have
in the program, you are a communist. On the other hand, the “Post”
says all the time, I am an arch-reactionary, a completely diseased, militaristic reactionary.

(Interruption: The “Post” is itself reactionary.)

Would you please confront the chief editor with this and allow me to
listen? (Big laughter and applause) Also, the “Kampf” emphasizes again and again that we are the bastion of the counter-reaction. So I
recommend that you first go to the “Post ” and to “Kampf” and tell them that we are Communists because I myself couldn’t care less how I
am called, whether reactionary, Pan-German, a Junker, big
industrialist or a communist – I am and will remain a German national socialist. I have my program in front of me and, as I said earlier, I
will pursue it to the last spark of my strength and the last breath in
my lungs. (Long sustained stormy bravo! and applause)

The Chairman thanks for the numerous attendance and closes the
meeting.

Translation from German by Hasso Castrup (Copenhagen, Denmark),
January, 2013, from the original published in Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 16. Jahrg., 4. H. (Oct., 1968), pp. 390-420.

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