Evening star., 1934-07-14
The major portion of Hitier's
speech HesterdoE foil0trs:
~ the Associated prsss.

speech yesterdoE foilows.
~ the Associated Press.
BERLIN. July I4-Deputlea. men
~ the German Reichstas: By order
of the Reich's government. the Reichs-
tags President Coering called you to-
Rether today 70 afford me tbe posi-
bliity 70 explain 10 the people before
this competent forum OF the nation
the events which may live In our his
tory a. a sad and a warning memory
for All times
Prom the accumulation OF material.
causes and personal guilt. from the
human insdequacy and the human
defects. there arose for our young
Reich a crisis which could only too
easily have led TO truly annihilating
results for the near future.
To slucidate before you and the
patton their origin and how they
we're conquered Ia t1e purpose Of my ad-
dress shall be ruthlessly frank.
Final Liquidation.
Since the abdicAtion of the Kaiser
and the German princes, the German
people we're delivered into the hands
cf men who, as representatives OF the
past party system. had deliberately
provoked or weakly tolerated this de-
cav. Beginning with the Marxist
revolutionaries, passing through the
center 10 bourReoise nationalism, all
parties and their leaders we're set TO
prove their ability to rule Germany.
Predecessors Scored.
No one IN Germany can reproach
the National Socialist movement with
having barred the way or cut of
promising political forces. Inscrutable
fate condemned our nation for Is
years 10 serve as an object OF expert
nent and trial for these politicians.
For those around US. especially Ill
vishers. II may have been interesting
and enjoyable to follow these expert
ments. for the German people they
were painful and Illuminating.
Look back and let pass before the
minds eye those who succeeded each
other as ReichSchanccllor. In what
country we're the scales of providence
more often busy and the contents
often found wanting? We National
Socialists have the right 10 forbid
ourselves being claSsed with such as
these. On January 80, 1888, 1t was not
a new government being formed for
the nth time, but an old, decTepit era
removed by new rule.
This historical act Of liquidation
of the past saddest period in the llIe
of our nation was legalized by the
German people itself. For we have
not, like the men OF November. 1918,
usurped power but obtained 1t law
fully, We have not, like iSrooted
anarchists. made revolution, but have
overthrown the regime of revolt as
executants of the nations will. We
did not conceive our task 20 secure
power with bayonets, but to and and
anchor 1t in the hearts of our people
ess
Believe me. / never in my life felt
anxiety about my own fate. but am
bound to confess that since the held
rnarshal's confidence placed me where
I am. feel severely the burden OF
cares which the present and future
placed upon us all. for we did not
take over on the 30th of January an
orderly, solvent state, but political
and economic chaos which was then
regarded and described by my critics
OF today as beyond help.
Dared TO Battle.
We. however, dared to battle against
this decay in all spheres. From care
burdened days and nights we ever
drew strength for new decisions.
Whatever our nagging opponents may
say they cannot pretend that we Ca
pitulated before problems nor deny
that we courageously tried to solve
them, and In many cases have solved
them.
The result of a year and half of
national socialistic government lies
plainly before US Its importance
cannot be measured by comparison
with conditions prior to January 30,
1898; fairness requires that our re-
suits be judged by what would have
happened If we had not conquered.
Only he who further follows up the
line OF development leading to jan
uary 80. 1888, can gauge the great
ness of the national Socialist achieve
ment, for we have not only halted the
AoAA S[ Va AaNCs but tA0RO bAAhCA At as
every way to good fortune.
When l. as chancellor. entered the
Wilhelmstrasse the power Of the state
had become a futile phantom. The
spirit of revolt and diSobedience was
rampant In the German states and
communes. SpecterS of the saddest
disobedience of the past rose alarm
tngly before us. ParticulariSm and
separatism proclaimed themselves i'm
pudently as the new German idea Of
state.
Reclaims Res pect.
From impotence at home Sprsng
humilisting position toward the rest
of the world. 1t had become some
thing shameful to confess oneself
German. The spirit OF insubordina-
ton and inner revolt we have eradi-
Gated and exterminated in a few
months.
Fully respecting the characteristics
Of our German tribes. we have
strengthened the power of the state
as an expression Of our common will
to live and have exalted it above
everything else. The German Reich is
no longer geographical idea. but a
political unit. ="
The great political cleansing process
Of the nation was followed by an
economic one not less great. What
has been accomplished in this realm
during the past is months is testified
to by the fact, which cannot be denied
that four and a half million unem-
ployed In scarcely one and a half
years were led into useful production
Simple as this fact is, yet the worries
were and are great that have their
roots in the nght against unemploy-
ment.
Claims Results Show.
1t Is an embittered war that We were
waging for more than one and a half
years. ii cannot be judged by proceed
ing from what was one wrong but
one must proceed from the fact that
results have already today been