Evening star., 1940-02-25
Text of Hitler Speech
Ready for War to Bitter End, Fuehrer Says,
Citing Friendship Of Former Enemies
ay the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. 24.-A par
tial tert OF Hitler's Munich ad-
dress today, as translated by the
National Broadcasting Co. In
Ne,D York, tolloiUs:
My German comrades:
Twenty years ago I appeared for
the first time before the German
public. That was the hardest and
most dramatic decision of my life.
It's now again I stand among
YOU. That in itself is remarkable.
When I appeared before you at that
time I was not a pacifist, was still
q soldier.
Our nation at that time had
collapsed, which was unexampled
in history.
We were the victims of an en-
ormous deception, but we were not
alone, the others were also de-
ceived.
They cheated the Arabs but in
cidentally they also cheated the
Jews. In their own States the vic
torious nations didn't get what they
expected.
To be sure, most of all our OWL
German people were deceived. A
new world was to be established, a
world Of equality, world In which
no arms would be needed and III
which therefore eternal peace would
rule.
German People Deceived.
Germany laid down its arms be-
cause of the IA points. The German
people at that time were deceived
in their hope for a new organiza-
ton of the world.
Germany was without rights be-
cause it was defenseless. Germany
at that time was a paradise but not
for the German people, but for the
Jews, the spectators, the exploiters
for the gangsters.
We had at that time the rule OF
the victors as opposed to the van
the position to ask what we thought
was due us. We had a democratic
regime at that time, but this repime
of ours was treated, perhaps, as il
should have been treated, because
it did not have the means to back uI
its words. We had approximately 4e
political parties, all trying to dc
their best to work in the interest OF
the German nation. Financial bur-
dens were assumed by the regime
for the purpose of rebuilding oul
nation; but these financial obllga-
tions were slowly turning into eco
nomic obligations.
AS far as I was concerned, at that
time, was of a strictly different
opinion. I was of the opinion that
things could not continue in that
fashion. I decided that our politi.
cal arena was nothing but the fight.
ing arena for the various political
factions. I realized that our gov.
ernmental structure at that time
was absolutely untenable, and that
it could not be maintained. I real
lied, above all, that bourgeois ma
tional socialist ideals were con-
fronted and opposed by socialist
principles. I realized that compro.
mise in itself was impossible. I real
lied that only the victory of one side
or the other could bring about 8
solution. But in all these interna
upheavals of that period, in all the
readjustments we were facing, ]
realized that there was one thing
which was indestructible. And that
one thing was the individual Ger.
man; IN other words, the German
character.
Germans Proved Mettle.
The German nation and the Ger.
man character proved their mettle
during the four years of the World
War. Proceeding from this point
| realized that out of all these po-
litical parties there had to arise
the one, united German Reich, the
one Reich of one unified will. It wa.
necessary to call forth the best thai
is, and has always been, in the Ger.
man nation. And that force, thai
strength inherent in the German
people, were called forth at that
memorable occasion 20 years ago.
great many things hadSo be brought
about in order to asert this power
At that time, of course, it was prin-
cipally a question Of fighting oul
internal enemies.
You all know that, I had to fact
these battles in a fighting spirit
I was always willing to accomplish
our ends through peaceful means
but force was essential whenever
force was the only means by which
our aims could have been accom-.
plished.
You all remember how we pro.
ceeded step by step, starting here il
this place, spreading over Bavaria
and from then on gradually extend
ing over the nation as a whole. I
was a fight which took us roughl!
13 years-13 years of struggle
crowned by ultimate success.
After that time we were facet
with the necessity of translatinl
our initial success into wider results
You all know the things we accom-
plished in the fields of rebuilding
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