THE BOOK OF THE NSDAP [Das Buch der NSDAP]
By Walter M. Espe 1934
0. Schoenfeld's Publishing House, Berlin, Page 95.
In conclusion. I have a special request to direct to the young people among you. There is a very special reason for this. The other parties trained their youth in making pretty speeches. We prefer to train them physically. For I say to you: The youth who now does not find a way to where in the final analysis the fate of his nation is being sincerely represented, who now only studies philosophy, who is a book worm or sits at home behind the stove; he is not a German youth.
I invite them: Join our storm troops. And whatever defamation and slander they may hear in this regard you all know that they are formed for our protection, for your protection and therefore not only for the protection of the movement but for the protection of a future Germany. Hail to you youths that they are defamed and slandered! At the age of 18 and 19 you are already so fortunate as to be hated by the greatest scoundrels. That which others have to struggle for, through a troublesome life, this highest possession, the distinction between the honest man and the bandit, is accessible to you already in your youth.
Be convinced the more they slander you the more does our respect grow for you. We know that none of us would be talking any more if it were not for you. We know and even see that our movement would be suppressed if you did not protect it. You are the defense of a movement which is called upon to reshape Germany from the very bottom some day revolutionarily in order that it may become what perhaps many had expected on the 9th of November: A German Reich: A Teutonic and for our sake a German republic.
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Extract from a book, encouraging young people to join the Storm Troops (SA)
Authors
Walter M. Espe (author (1934))
Walter M. Espe
physician at Court Prison of Nuremberg
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- Born: 1895-12-03 1895-01-01 (Ransbach-Baumbach)
- Died: 1969-01-01 1968-11-01
- Occupation: composer; librettist; lyricist
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/305103521; https://viaf.org/viaf/62536944
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000116568344
- WorldCat Identities ID: https://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no96017420; https://worldcat.org/identities/viaf-305103521
- Library of Congress authority ID: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96017420
Date: 1934
Literal Title: The Book of the NSDAP
Total Pages: 1
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-2901
Citation: IMT (page 255)
HLSL Item No.: 450318