Evening star., 1935-09-16
Text of Hitler's Speech
League, Soviet Russia and Jews Come in for Attack
in Address to Reichstdg Assembled
in Nemnberg.
in Neurnberg.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NUREMBERG, Germany, September
16.-The text of the address Of
Reichsfuehrer Hitler to the Reichstag
yesterday follows:
Deputies and men Of the German
Reichstag:
In the name of the German Reich's
government have asked the Reichs-
tag President, Party Comrade Goer-
ing, to convoke the German Reichs-
tag in a session at Nuremberg today.
This place was chosen because it
is intimately connected with the Ma
tional Socialist movement and with
the laws which I have to propose to
you today at time when the greatest
number of Deputies, as party men,
bers. are still in Nuremberg.
Before proposing these laws I should
/ like to give you number Of brief
general remarks.
People OF Germany
Find Way to Unison.
The first part of the party con-
vention at Nuremberg has been fin
iShed. Army day will be concluded
tomorrow. The picture which this
festival movement represents repeats
forcefully the impression Of the past
year. The German people have
found a way to an historical, never
experienced unison and discipline.
This expression of the stability of
the movement is at the same time
the expression of power Of the present
regime.
What one German nation has
vainly longed for during centuries has
been achieved at last. We are a
united nation of brethren, free of
mutual presupposition and inhibition.
This eternal strength will tomorrow
be represented by picture which the
army is going to give us.
This shall not be a mass demon
stration, but only an exposition Of
the internal value Of our new army.
The German people can be happy
with this regained strength after so
terrible sufferings and long uncon-
sciousness. And this especially dur
ing a time which seems to be exposed
to a serious crisis.
Heavy Responsibility
Imposed Upon Leadership.
Germany is healthy again. Her af-
fairs internally and externally are in
order A heavy burden Is the response
bility imposed on the leadership OF
the Reich during so serious times.
There can be only one yardstick for
our conduct: Our great unshakable
love for peace.
Such a confession, it seems to me,
is necessary now because unfortunate
ly a certain part of the international
press constantly tries to weave Ger
many into a circle of their specula-
tions.
We do not wish the international
press to pull Germany into any Of its
speculationS. Sometimes 1t Is said we
will start war with France, at other
times We are going to attack Austria,
then again that we will start a war
with Russia. But don't know where.
These menaces are then represent
ed as an argument for a necessity OF
forming various coalitions. Just as
magnanimously is German friendship
offered or treated as an object which
is at the immediate disposal Of any
statesman who stretches out his hand
for it.
Army Reconstructed
To Preserve Freedom.
The German government does not
see fit to conclude friendship agree
ments with every country which puts
out its hand. However, the German
government makes its decisions not
against any one, for it takes decisions
only which can be brought into con-
sonance with the conscience of the
German people.
The purpose Of the reconstruction
Of the German Army was not to
threaten or take liberty from any
European nation but solely to preserve
the freedom of the German people.
This viewpoint determines the for
eign political position of the German
Reich government Therefore we take
no position in occurrences or in any
question which does not directly af-
feet us.
With interest and greater uneasi-
ness, however, we look to Lithuania.
Memel, which was stolen from Ger
many, and the robbery legalized by
the League of Nations, has for years
tortured Germans only because they
are members of the German nation
and because they wanted to remain
Germans.
This robbery was legalized on q