Evening star., 1934-08-06
Text of Hitler's Speech
Chancellor Pays High Tribute to President yon
Hindenabrg, Terming Him Great Leader,
IN Addressing Reichstag.
By the Associated Press.

Bv the Associated Press.
BERLIN, August e.-The text OF
Chancellor Hitler's speech before the
Reichstag today follows:
For months we have been filed
with grave apprehensions. The knowl-
edge Of the approaching end OF the
venerable old gentlemen filed millions
Of German hearts with an inner anxi-
ETY. about the life Of the octogenarlan
who was more 10 Us than merely chief
Of state.
For this man, whom for almost 81
years Almighty God had taken under
his protection, has become for all OF
US the symbolic expression Of the In
destructible and even-renascent vital
ity Of cur people.
The fated will Of Providence has
viNbly raised him above our ordinary
when the nation placed
its highest post OF honor in his hands
this post was for the first time given
the highest dignity.
For all Of us the term German
Reich President is indissolubly bound
up with the venerable name OF him
who is now passed on.
Greatness Dawns.
Only now. as we are about to ac-
cord last honors TO the revered de-
ceased one, full recognition Of the
extent and greatness of this unique
life dawns upon us.
And we bow humbly before the In
scrutable will which, with things that
appear to be accidental or even in
consequential, serves in moulding life
in a manner that the investigative
mind of man only afterward sees and
recognizes in the entire wonderful
necessity of their inter-relationship.
The Reich President and Field
Marshal Gen. Won Hindenburg is
dead. When we attempt to explain
the feelings that stir our people TO
their innermost depths we should
like in the manner above described
an filled with ever-new gratitude, to
be recalled to the memories Of the
great man who has passed on.
When, however. imbued with a de-
sire TO comply with historical justice
we begin to investigate into this
only then are we able
to measure the extent and content
of human life that is of such great
ness it recurs but seldom in the course
of centuries.
Born in Midst Of Revolution.
How has the appearance of this
earth of ours changed since that
October 2, 1847, when Paul Won Hin
denburg was born? In the midst Of
revolution this life made its begin
ming.
This spirit Of political Jacobinism
would not let Europe come to rest.
Ideas of the new supposed humanity
we're struggling against the elements
and the forms of the Superannuated
order. When the year 1848 came to
an end it appeared the bright flames
had been choked off, but nevertheless
the inner fermentation had remained
The world on that day knew as yet
no German Reich, no Italy. In
Prussia Frederick William, the Fourth
governed. The hereditary house of
dominated not only the
German federation, but also Venice
and Lombardy.
The Balkan States, however. were
tributary provinces of the Turkish
empire. Prussia herself was exactly
like the other states of the German
federation. inwardly weak and un-
able to fill men with really for
ward-carrying idea. The disgrace of
Olmuetz is burning In the hearts of
b few real patriots.
Prince william becomes King Of
Prussia. Won Hindenburg, the boy,
however, now experiences the great
of the political and mill
tary reorganization of our people
Moltke and Room enter
history.
Prussia Leads the Way.
While the American Union victo-
riously overcame civil war, Prussia
leads the way from the rampant of
to Kolniggraetz.
Is marching a very young second
lieutenant. the heroic and enthusiastic
Paul Won Hindenburg. Shrapnel strikes
his helmet and thereby gives the
young fighter a baptism of fire for
unification of the Reich.
Four years later destiny has chosen
him to be a witness of the hour Of
the birth of the German Reich.
When Bismarck had finished read
ing a proclamation concerning the
power and grandeur Of the new state
and its determination to increase its
treasures of peace and culture and has
for the first time called for cheers
for the Kaiser of the new Reich, the
sword of Lieut.. Won Hindenburg, too, is
raised high and makes the sign of the
cross as an oath for the Kaiser and
the Reich.
A life of labor for this new Reich
now begins. The great Kaiser dies
and a second and a third one come,
Bismarck is discharged. Room and
Moltke close their eyes. Germany,
however, grows as gallant force of
peace and a real European order.
The world assumes a new face on
all fields of human development, one
invention follows upon
another. Again and again better
things prove to be the enemy of good
things. Germany becomes a great
power.
Turned Crisis of 1916.
Serving without interruption in the
life of the Reich and our people,
Commanding Gen. Won Hindenhurg,
March Is, 1911, took his discharge at
the age of "a.
His service now seemed at an end
an unnamed officer among all the
other tens of thousands who con-
stantly did their duty, served the
but, nevertheless, remained
unknown and were forgotten.
When, therefore. the World War
breaks in upon Germany. the German
people, sacredly convinced of having
been attacked without their guilt, rise