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Extracts from a speech to the Reichstag, on Germany's right to secure its territory (in the Rhineland) following the French-Soviet treaty, and stating that territorial disputes "cannot, in Europe, be solved by war"
IMT
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
Date: 07 March 1936
Literal Title: Excerpts, Page 1: The important speech of the Fuehrer in the Reichstag on 7 March reads as follows:
Defendant: Constantin Neurath, von
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-2289
Document Book No: Prosecution 12 (Neurath)
Citation: IMT (page 3282)
HLSL Item No.: 453581
Notes:Another copy of PS 2289 was entered as US exhibit 56. The speech was made on 7 March and published on 8 March 1936. For the memorandum mentioned in the speech, see document TC 46, 7 March 1936.
Document Summary
Red Series Doc Descriptions
PS-2289: Hitler’s Reichstag speech, 7 March 1936: denunciation of the Locarno' Pact and declaration of reoccupation of the demilitarized zone of the Rhineland '