[EXCERPTS FROM GERMAN PUBLICATIONS]
1. a. "On the contrary I pledged my sacred word to the German people to do away with the Treaty of Versailles and to restore to them their natural and vital rights as a great nation."
Hitler speech of 6 October 1939, The Greater German Fight for
Freedom, Speeches of Adolf Hitler, Munich 1943. Page 740.
b. "The program of the National Socialist Movement, insofar as it affected the future development of the Reich's relations with the rest of the world, is simply an attempt to bring a definite revision of the Treaty of Versailles, though as far as at all possible this was to be accomplished by peaceful means. This revision was absolutely essential."
Hitler speech of July 19, 1940, ibid, page 231.
c. "When I came to power in 1933, our path lay unmistakably
before us. Our internal policy had been exactly defined by our fifteen-year-old struggle. Our program, repeated a thousand times, obligated us to the German people. I should be a man without honor, worthy of being stoned, had I retracted a single step of the program I then enunciated. * * *"
"My foreign policy had identical aims. My program was to abolish the Treaty of Versailles. It is futile nonsense for the rest of the world to pretend today that I did not reveal this program until 1933 or 1935 or 1937. Instead of listening to the foolish chatter of émigrés, these gentlemen would have been wiser to read what I have—written thousands of times.
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"No human being has declared or recorded what he wanted more than I. Again and again I write these words: 'The abolition of the Treaty of Versailles!' * * *"
Hitler, speech of 30 January 1941, ibid., pages 392-393.
2. "However, we will pursue no other ultimate aim than to win
freedom for our German people and to secure a living-space for the German family." .
Hitler speech of 6 April 1941, ibid., vol. 3, page 11
3. "It is impossible to build up an army and give it a sense of worth if the object of its existence is not the preparation for battle. Armies for the preservation of peace do not exist; they exist only for the triumphant exertion of war."
Adolf Hitler, National Socialist Monthly, [Nationalsozialistisehe-Monatsheft] Issue No. 3, 1930, page 101.
4. "However one thing is sure: We must include the German press into the responsibility of the state, because the right to write a newspaper is a duty to the authority. If a state demands that a physician obtain an appropriation how much more has it the right to give the appropriation to a man who can poison and disease whole classes of the people with his writing. This should not mean standardization of the public opinion, but it should mean that in the great and basic questions of a nation one opinion must rule.
"May I in closing give you a warning: Help us to destroy the parties. Nothing should remain of them * * *."
Goebbels, Sign of the New Time, [Signale der Neuenzeit] 1934, pages 167, 176.
Extracts from speeches and books, on the abolition of the Versailles treaty, the securing of German living-space, preparation for war, and control of the press
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
Joseph Goebbels (Dr., Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda)
Joseph Göbbels
Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister
- Born: 1897-10-29 (Rheydt)
- Died: 1945-05-01 (Berlin)
- Country of citizenship: Nazi Germany
- Occupation: autobiographer; demagogue; diarist; journalist
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Member of: Wissenschaftlicher Katholischer Studentenverein Unitas Stolzenfels zu Bonn
- Significant person: Adolf Hitler
- Position held: Gauleiter (of: Berlin; period: 1926-11-09 through 1945-05-01; replaces: Ernst Schlange); Q104164731; Reich Chancellor (period: 1945-04-30 through 1945-05-01; replaced by: Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk; replaces: Adolf Hitler); member of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany
Date: 06 October 1939
Literal Title: Excerpts from German Publications
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-2541
Citation: IMT (page 255)
HLSL Item No.: 450145