When her dear, faithful eyes
No longer see life as they once did,
When her feet, grown tired,
No longer want to carry her as she walks,
Then lend her your arm in support, escort her with happy pleasure
the hour will come when, weeping, you must accompany her on her final walk.
And if she asks you something, then give her an answer.
And if she asks again, then speak!
And if she asks yet again, respond to her, not impatiently, but with gentle calm.
And if she cannot understand you properly, explain all to her happily.
The hour will come, the bitter hour, when her mouth asks for nothing more.
Adolf Hitler, "Be Reminded!" 1923, first published in Sonntag-Morgenpost (14 May 1933); from Robert Waite (1993). The Psychopathic God: Adolf Hitler. New York: Da Capo Press.
1923
- In the life of nations, what in the last resort decides questions is
a kind of Judgment Court of God... Always before god and the world the
stronger has the right to carry through what he wills.
- speech in Munich, 13 April 1923
1925
- If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.
- speech in Landsberg, 5 November 1925
1930
- Then will come a National Socialist State tribunal; then will November, 1918, be expiated; then the heads will roll.
- testimony at a trial of German officers, Leipzig, in 1930.
1933
- I believe that Providence would never have allowed us to see the
victory of the Movement if it had the intention after all to destroy us
at the end.
- speech to old members of the Party at Munich, 8 November 1933
- I am beginning with the young. We older ones are used up. Yes, we are old already. We are rotten to the marrow. We have no unrestrained instincts left. We are cowardly and sentimental. We are bearing the burden of a humiliating past, and have in our blood the dull recollection of serfdom and servility. But my magnificent youngsters! Are there finer ones anywhere in the world? Look at these young men and boys! What material! With them, I can make a new world.
- Adolf Hitler c. 1933; quoted from Hermann Rauschning (1939). Hitler Speaks. London: Thornton Butterworth.
1934
- It would have been more to the point, more honest and more
Christian, in past decades not to support those who intentionally
destroyed healthy life than to rebel against those who have no other
wish than to avoid disease. Moreover, a policy of laissez faire in this
sphere is not only cruelty to the individual guiltless victims but also
to the nation as a whole... If the Churches were to declare themselves
ready to take over the treatment and care of those suffering from
hereditary diseases, we should be quite ready to refrain from
sterilizing them.
- speech, 30 January 1934
1935
- We want this people to be faithful, and you must learn fidelity. We want this people to be obedient, and you must practice obedience. We want this people to be peace-loving but also courageous, and you must therefore be peace-loving and at the same time courageous. We do not want this people to grow soft, but we want it to be hard so that it will be able to withstand the hardships of life. And for this you have to harden yourselves in your youth. You must learn to be hard, to stand privations without breaking down. We want this people to love honor and you already in the days of your youth must live up to this concept of honor.
- Speech 14 September 1935; from Gordon W. Prange (1945). Hitler's Words. New York: American Council on Public Affairs.
1936
- Sporting chivalrous contest helps knit the bonds of peace between nations. Therefore may the Olympic flame never expire.
- I say that they can be solved; there is no problem that cannot be,
but faith is necessary. Think of the faith I had to have eighteen years
ago, a single man on a lonely path. Yet I have come to leadership of the
German people... Life is hard for many, but it is hardest if you are
unhappy and have no faith. Have faith. Nothing can make me change my own
belief.
- speech in Nuremberg, 12 September 1936
1937
- This is probably the first time and this is the first country in
which people are being taught to realize that, of all the tasks which we
have to face, the noblest and most sacred for mankind is that each
racial species must preserve the purity of the blood which God has given
it... The greatest revolution which National Socialism has brought
about is that it has rent asunder the veil which hid from us the
knowledge that all human failures and mistakes are due to the conditions
of the time and therefore can be remedied, but that there is one error
which cannot be remedied once men have made it, namely the failure to
recognize the importance of conserving the blood and the race free from
intermixture and thereby the racial aspect and character which are God's
gift and God's handiwork. It is not for men to discuss the question of
why Providence created different races, but rather to recognize the fact
that it punishes those who disregard its work of creation... As I look
back on the great work that has been done during the past four years you
will understand quite well that my first feeling is simply one of
thankfulness to our Almighty God for having allowed me to bring this
work to success. He has blessed our labors and has enabled our people to
come through all the obstacles which encompassed them on their way...
Today I must humbly thank Providence, whose grace has enabled me, who
was once an unknown soldier in the War, to bring to a successful issue
the struggle for the restoration of our honor and rights as a nation.
- speech before the Reichstag, 30 January 1937
- Remain strong in your faith, as you were in former years. In this
faith, in its close-knit unity our people to-day goes straight forward
on its way and no power on earth will avail to stop it.
- speech at Coburg, 15 October 1937
1938
- National Socialism is not a cult-movement—a movement for worship; it
is exclusively a 'volkic' political doctrine based upon racial
principles. In its purpose there is no mystic cult, only the care and
leadership of a people defined by a common blood-relationship. Therefore
we have no rooms for worship, but only halls for the people — no open
spaces for worship, but spaces for assemblies and parades. We have no
religious retreats, but arenas for sports and playing-fields, and the
characteristic feature of our places of assembly is not the mystical
gloom of a cathedral, but the brightness and light of a room or hall
which combines beauty with fitness for its purpose.... We will not allow
mystically-minded occult folk with a passion for exploring the secrets
of the world beyond to steal into our Movement. Such folk are not
National Socialists, but something else—in any case something which has
nothing to do with us. At the head of our programme there stand no
secret surmisings but clear-cut perception and straightforward
profession of belief. But since we set as the central point of this
perception and of this profession of belief the maintenance and hence
the security for the future of a being formed by God, we thus serve the
maintenance of a divine work and fulfill a divine will—not in the secret
twilight of a new house of worship, but openly before the face of the
Lord... Our worship is exclusively the cultivation of the natural, and
for that reason, because natural, therefore God-willed. Our humility is
the unconditional submission before the divine laws of existence so far
as they are known to us men.
- speech in Nuremberg on 6 September 1938
- Thus one of Europe's most serious crises will be ended, and all of
us, not only in Germany but those far beyond our frontiers, will then in
this year for the first time really rejoice at the Christmas festival.
It should for us all be a true Festival of Peace.
- speech in Berlin, 5 October 1938.
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