Extract from a speech, on the value of "race purity" and the rejection of racial equality

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Hermann Goering (Reich Marshal; Commander in Chief, Luftwaffe; Commissioner for Four-Year Plan)

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Hermann Göring

German Nazi politician, military leader and convicted war criminal (1893–1946)

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  • Born: 1893-01-12 (Rosenheim)
  • Died: 1945-01-01 1946-10-15 (Nuremberg Court Prison Nuremberg) (reason for deprecated rank: error in referenced source or sources; reason for preferred rank: most precise value)
  • Country of citizenship: German Empire; Nazi Germany
  • Occupation: aircraft pilot; art collector; politician; war criminal
  • Member of political party: Nazi Party (period: 1922-11-01 through 1923-11-23, 1928-04-01 through 1945-04-29)
  • Member of: Sturmabteilung
  • Participant in: Beer Hall Putsch; Nazi plunder; genocide; war crime
  • Significant person: Alma Hedin (role: friend)

Date: 15 September 1935

Literal Title: Excerpt from a speech by Herman Goering on 15 September 1935 as quoted on p. 257 of . . . The Third Reich

Defendant: Hermann Wilhelm Goering

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-3458

Citation: IMT (page 2325)

HLSL Item No.: 452325

Notes:"The Third Reich" was written by Gerd Ruehle, published in 1936.

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PS-3458: Extract from Goring’s speech in the Reichstag, 15 September 1935, when the Nuremberg racial laws were passed

THE THIRD REICH-THE THIRD YEAR 1935 [Das Dritte Reich] by Gerd Ruhle, Published by Hummel Publishers, 1936, Page 257.
Speech By Hermann Goering on 15 September 1935
God has created the races. He did not want equality and therefore we energetically reject any attempt to falsify the concept of race purity by making it equivalent with racial equality. We have experienced what it means when a people has to live in accordance with the laws of an equality that are alien to its kind
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and contrary to nature. For this equality does not exist. We have never acknowledged such an idea and therefore must reject it also, as a matter of principle, in our laws, and we must acknowledge that purity of race which Nature and Province have destined.