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labor as the measure of honor

wins its final recognition. We are fighting so that labor, not theft nor exploitation, is the foundation of the honor of a person and a people. We want peoples to exchange what they produce, not be subject to capitalist interests. We want the good of a people to come before profits, the freedom of the [...]

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Our Hitler Goebbels’ 1941 Speech on Hitler’s Birthday

We Germans do not have sufficient historical distance to evaluate the full scope of the age in which we are living. We are children of our age. We have been formed by our age, and we in turn are forming it. It will be the task of later generations to evaluate it properly and to [...]

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Hitler’s Appeal to the French on the Entry of German Troops into Unoccupied France (November 10, 1942)

Frenchmen, officers and men of the French Army: On Sept. 3, 1939, the British government without cause or reason declared war upon Germany. Those responsible for this war unfortunately succeeded at that time in instigating the French government to join the declaration of war. For Germany this constituted an unbearable provocation. The German government had [...]

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Hitler’s Memorial Address (March 16, 1941)

Berlin, Germany, March 16, 1941 [1] For the second time we enter this room for a memorial service to our people. Even more than a year ago we appreciate how inadequate are words to express the nation’s thankfulness to its heroes. In times of long peace the memory of the terrible experiences of war, out [...]

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Hitler Assumes Direct Command In Proclamation to the German Army (December 21, 1941)

When the Führer personally took over on Feb. 4, 1938, command over the entire armed forces, this was done out of concern for the then threatening struggle for the freedom of the German people. Reasons of state imperatively demanded coordination of the forces in one hand. Only in this manner could preparations be made for [...]

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Goebbels’ Plea for Clothing for Troops on the Russian Front & Hitler’s Proclamation (December 20, 1941)

Our soldiers are in Belgium, France, all over half of Europe, and Africa, and from Finland to the Balkans. All people can meet the Christmas holidays with gratitude for the accomplishments of our army. Our soldiers in their tasks on all fronts went through with the problems that were given to them, and gave a [...]

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Hitler’s Speech Before the Munich Court SPEECH OF FEBRUARY 26, 1924

IT SEEMS strange to me that a man who, as a soldier, was for six years accustomed to blind obedience, should suddenly come into conflict with the State and its Constitution. The reasons for this stem from the days of my youth. When I was seventeen I came to Vienna, and there I learned to [...]

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