GERMAN READING BOOK FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS 4th Volume
Publishing house of Friedrich Korn's Book Shop—Nürnberg [Page 280]
From the Fuehrer's speech of 21 March 1933.
[Page 281]
The Lies about Germany's War Guilt
For neither the emperor nor the cabinet nor the people wanted this war. Only the deterioration of the nation, the general collapse forced a soft generation, against its own better knowledge and against the holiest inner conviction to accept the assertion of our war guilt.
However, the deterioration of everything followed this collapse. While thus the German people and the German Reich sank low by inner political quarrel and dissension, economy was driven to misery, then the rallying of German men began, who, in faithful confidence in their own people, want to form it into a new community. My Generalfeldmarshall, you have entrusted the leadership of the Reich to this young Germany by your generous decision of 30 Jan 1933. * * *
2445-PS
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HITHER
Many thousand of you stand behind me And you are I, and I am you.
Not a single thought which I have -had has not also made itself felt in your hearts. And when I speak, I know of not one word which does not agree with what you want. For I am you, and you are I And all of us believe in you, Germany
Baldur von Schirach
Against the separation of Austria from Germany It is well said: Austria has been picked by fate, to be powerful toward the East, to bring erilightment and morals to the East. But how can German Austria exercise power, if she herself is overpowered? How can she illuminate and enlighten if she is covered and blacked out? May it always be Austria's job to be the light for the East, but she has a nearer, more important job to be an artery in the heart of Germany! Austria was with us in the German Confederation [Deutscher Bund]. The pressure of Austrian diplomacy has rested on us as on Austria herself on the strings of freedom in the individual German States. However we would not have given Austria if we had known, how much we owed her. But shall Austria be pulled away from us now? Now when she, young as an eagle has just approached us with fresh wounds of the March and May battles (1848) to conclude the new alliance of freedom. One says, the old walls are indestructible because the lime has been slaked with blood with the mortar for the reconstruction of German freedom, Austria must be with us and stay with us.
LUDWIG UHLAND
Extracts from an elementary school reading book, including statements on the "young Germany," Hitler, and the union of Austria with Germany
Authors
Adolf Hitler (Fuehrer, Reich Chancellor, Supeme Commander of Wehrmacht)
Adolf Hitler
Austrian nationalized German politician, leader of the National Socialist party and dictator of Germany (1889-1945)
- Born: 1889-01-01 1889-04-20 (Braunau am Inn) (country: Austria-Hungary; located in the administrative territorial entity: Archduchy of Austria above the Enns; statement is subject of: Adolf-Hitler-Geburtshaus)
- Died: 1945-04-30 (Berlin Führerbunker) (country: Nazi Germany; located in the administrative territorial entity: Berlin; statement is subject of: death of Adolf Hitler)
- Country of citizenship: Cisleithania (period: 1889-04-20 through 1918-11-11); First Republic of Austria (period: 1919-01-01 through 1925-04-30); Nazi Germany (end cause: death of Adolf Hitler; period: 1933-01-30 through 1945-04-30); Republic of German-Austria (period: 1918-01-01 through 1919-01-01)
- Occupation: painter (statement is subject of: paintings by Adolf Hitler); political writer; politician (reason for preferred rank: generally used form); soldier
- Member of political party: German Workers' Party (period: 1919-09-12 through 1921-07-11); Nazi Party (series ordinal: 556)
- Member of: Nazi Party
- Participant in: Aktion T4; Beer Hall Putsch; The Holocaust; ethnic cleansing
- Significant person: Albert Speer; Benito Mussolini; Eva Braun; Joseph Stalin
Baldur Schirach, von (Nazi youth leader; governor of Vienna)
Baldur von Schirach*
German Nazi politician and convicted war criminal (1907-1974)
- Born: 1907-05-09 (Berlin)
- Died: 1974-08-08 (Kröv)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: autobiographer; politician; screenwriter
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Member of: Sturmabteilung
- Military branch: Wehrmacht
- Position held: member of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany; member of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic
Ludwig Uhland (poet, 1787-1862)
Ludwig Uhland
German poet and politician (1787–1862)
- Born: 1787-04-26 (Tübingen)
- Died: 1862-11-13 (Tübingen)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: lawyer; linguist; literary historian; lyricist
- Member of: Burschenschaft Germania Tübingen; Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
- Position held: Member of the Frankfurt Parliament
- Employer: University of Tübingen
- Educated at: University of Tübingen
Date: Date Unknown
Literal Title: German Reading Book for Elementary Schools . . . Fourth Volume
Defendant: Baldur Schirach, von
Total Pages: 2
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: PS-2445
Citation: IMT (page 255)
HLSL Item No.: 450303
Notes:No author or date for the book is stated. The extracts are by Hitler, von Schirach, and Uhland.