National Socialism: Nuremberg Speech.
SPEECH OF SEPTEMBER 12, 1936
"HOW Germany has to work to wrest a few square kilometers from the ocean and from the swamps while others are swimming in a superfluity of land!
If I had the Ural Mountains with their incalculable store of treasures in raw materials, Siberia with its vast forests, and the Ukraine with its tremendous wheat fields, Germany and the National Socialist leadership, would swim in plenty! . . .
There was sometimes advanced as an excuse for Russia that she had been through war and through revolution. Well, we stood against twenty-six States in the war and we had a revolution, but I have taken as my fundamental law not to destroy anything. Had I done so there would have been an excuse for rebuilding during another eighteen years.
But that was not our plan. We wanted additional work for our unemployed and the use of the volume of their increased production to increase every man's share in consumption. Wages are not based on production; production itself is the wage.
If I had wished I could have substituted officials for employers, but nature and reality select best. We do not wish bureaucratic economics as in Russia, nor do we wish to establish economic democracy here.
Yet that does not mean either that we wish to let things drift as they please. Our fundamental economic principles are, first, to unite all the forces existing, and secondly, to educate our people better in their use.
This Labor Front is the greatest element in such education. You are servants of the nation, but you alone are nothing. As part of the organic whole you are everything....
It is hard to build up a new life out of your poverty, but I am not complaining. On the contrary, I find it wonderful to face difficult problems.
Some people say, 'He has brought out another plan.' When he had completed the first, why couldn't he leave us in peace? Now he is tackling problems that cannot be solved.'
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....
People complain of a shortage of this and that - for instance, of a shortage of cotton. I say that in the next four years we shall produce our own German cloth.
Others raise the question of rubber. I tell you that factories will spring from the earth and that in four years we shall ride on our own German rubber tires.
It may then be asked, 'With what motive power will you drive you cars?' I say that we shall take gasoline from our own oil and coal.
Whenever I see the Labor Front I am impressed by the word 'front.' It signifies one will, one goal of achievement. Life is hard for many, but it is hardest if you are unhappy and have no faith. Have faith. We are not a helpless State.
Nothing can make me change my own belief. I am convinced that the unworthiest among us is he who cannot master his ill fortune."
"HOW Germany has to work to wrest a few square kilometers from the ocean and from the swamps while others are swimming in a superfluity of land!
If I had the Ural Mountains with their incalculable store of treasures in raw materials, Siberia with its vast forests, and the Ukraine with its tremendous wheat fields, Germany and the National Socialist leadership, would swim in plenty! . . .
There was sometimes advanced as an excuse for Russia that she had been through war and through revolution. Well, we stood against twenty-six States in the war and we had a revolution, but I have taken as my fundamental law not to destroy anything. Had I done so there would have been an excuse for rebuilding during another eighteen years.
But that was not our plan. We wanted additional work for our unemployed and the use of the volume of their increased production to increase every man's share in consumption. Wages are not based on production; production itself is the wage.
If I had wished I could have substituted officials for employers, but nature and reality select best. We do not wish bureaucratic economics as in Russia, nor do we wish to establish economic democracy here.
Yet that does not mean either that we wish to let things drift as they please. Our fundamental economic principles are, first, to unite all the forces existing, and secondly, to educate our people better in their use.
This Labor Front is the greatest element in such education. You are servants of the nation, but you alone are nothing. As part of the organic whole you are everything....
It is hard to build up a new life out of your poverty, but I am not complaining. On the contrary, I find it wonderful to face difficult problems.
Some people say, 'He has brought out another plan.' When he had completed the first, why couldn't he leave us in peace? Now he is tackling problems that cannot be solved.'
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....
People complain of a shortage of this and that - for instance, of a shortage of cotton. I say that in the next four years we shall produce our own German cloth.
Others raise the question of rubber. I tell you that factories will spring from the earth and that in four years we shall ride on our own German rubber tires.
It may then be asked, 'With what motive power will you drive you cars?' I say that we shall take gasoline from our own oil and coal.
Whenever I see the Labor Front I am impressed by the word 'front.' It signifies one will, one goal of achievement. Life is hard for many, but it is hardest if you are unhappy and have no faith. Have faith. We are not a helpless State.
Nothing can make me change my own belief. I am convinced that the unworthiest among us is he who cannot master his ill fortune."
Hitler is stating how he will improve the lives of people; those people being the Germans. He has huge plans for them and says they are not a "helpless State."
Political cartoon.
This cartoon symbolizes several aspects of Hitler's reputation. He wanted the entire world to follow him, to obey him, and own them. This cartoon also shows how selfish he is seeing as he is similar to an octopus having many arms, meaning he wants the world to himself. He too looks satisfied in the picture, almost like he's satisfied with what he has achieved after his seize to power.
Weekly propaganda Posters Pre-1933.
"This poster announces a Nazi meeting in Munich in May 1920. Hitler is to speak on the topic “What do we want?” The text below the title reads: “Citizens! Do not believe that the Germany of misfortune and misery, the nation of corruption and usury, the land of Jewish corruption, can be saved by parties that claim to stand on a foundation of facts. Never!” Courtesy of Dr. Robert D. Brooks."
This is a typical early Nazi poster from 1921. The first Nazi posters has bright red backgrounds and a lot of text. This one announces that Hitler will speak, gives the topic, and notes that Jews are prohibited from attending. In Mein Kampf, Hitler wrote:
“We chose red for our posters, since it is vivid and
was the color that most aroused our opponents.
It forced them to notice and remember us.”
“We chose red for our posters, since it is vivid and
was the color that most aroused our opponents.
It forced them to notice and remember us.”
"This poster seems to be dated 1924, a period during which the Nazi Party was banned after the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch. The caption is: “Germany’s Liberation.” It likely came from one of the substitute parties Nazis founded to continue the movement while the Nazi Party was illegal. Courtesy of Dr. Robert D. Brooks."
"This poster, an amateurish effort, dates to 1924. It says: “Adolf Hitler, our great leader, is still illegally being held behind bars. Strasser, his reprersentative in the Reich leadership of the National Socialist Freedom Movement, will speak for him in Münster on Saturday, 29 November 1924, at 8:30 p.m. at the Schützenhof. He is the lead candidate of the National Socialists in Westphalia. Non-Germans not admitted! Disabled veterans free. Admission 30 pfennig."
"This poster was by “Mjölnir,” Goebbels’ artist from Berlin, whose real name was Hans Schweitzer (1901-1980). The caption translates as “Despite the ban, not dead.” Its date must be 1928, a period when most party activities in Berlin were banned. This striking poster apparently was not used. The Nazi book I take it from claims that it was previously unpublished."
The Nazi Occupation of Poland.
"At dawn on September 1, 1939, the German army launched a ferocious assault across the Polish border. The Luftwaffe sent its bombers and fighters to attack airfields, rail heads, troop concentrations or anything else considered important to the command and movement of the Polish armed forces. The first Blitzkrieg had begun. One hour later German troops attacked from the north and south intent on encircling the Polish army. The Poles fell back only to find German troops in their rear."
The Nuremberg Trials And Their Legacy.
"The Holocaust was an unprecedented crime—a crime composed of millions of murders, wrongful imprisonments, and tortures, of rape, theft, and destruction. In the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust, the world was faced with a challenge—how to seek justice for an almost unimaginable scale of criminal behavior."
The Rise to The Nazi Party
Not many people would have thought that the Nazi Party, a gang of unemployed soldiers in 1919, would become the legal government of Germany by 1933. In fourteen years, a corporal, Adolf Hitler, would become the Chancellor of Germany.
Holocaust Denial.
One of the most popular antisemitic propaganda movements for the past two decades has been an extreme effort to abolish the history of Nazi genocide against the Jews. One way they would attempt this is to open debates on the Holocaust and other effective events. They didn't want to discuss Nazi anti-Semitism, but the idea that the hatred some people had for the Jews in an organized killing program.
Genocide.
Genocide is considered one of the most immoral crimes a government could could commit against citizens. Genocide is the act of killing off a huge amount of people; they can be in groups, or not. This action was very popular by Hitler. An example of Hitler committing genocide was during the Holocaust. He killed off thousands of innocent children, women, and men. Genocide was usually planned before taking action.
Picture of Nuremberg Laws.
These laws classified racial policy and the blood lines of the Jewish
people. This document illustrates the blood lines of Jews, who was
limited and who wasn't.
people. This document illustrates the blood lines of Jews, who was
limited and who wasn't.
Adolf HItler Commits Suicide.
On April 30, 1945, Hitler and his wife had commit suicide. Hitler ended with a gunshot,
whilst his wife Eva committed suicide by ingesting cyanide. Until 1970, they were
finally cremated, and the grey ashes scattered.