Download Speeches made in Triumph of the Will

Speeches made in Triumph of the Will
Baldur von Schirach, Reichjugendführer (Reich Youth Leader), introduces Hitler
“My leader! My comrades! We live again for this hour, which makes us proud and happy. According to
your command, my leader, a youth stands here, a youth that knows neither class nor caste. The young
generation of our people follows after you. Just as you demonstrate the highest self-sacrifice in this
nation, so does this youth wish to be selfless. Because you embody the concept of fidelity for us,
therefore we wish to be faithful. Adolf Hitler, the leader of German Youth, attention!”
Hitler’s speech to the German Youth
“My German Youth. After one year, I can greet you here again. You, standing here today, represent
something that is happening all over Germany. And we want that you, German boys and girls, will absorb
everything that we wish for Germany. We want to be one people and, through you, to become this people.
We want a society with neither castes nor ranks. And you must not allow these ideas to grow within you.
We want to see one Reich! And you must educate yourselves for this. We want this people to be obedient
and you must practice obedience yourselves. We want this people to be peace-loving, but at the same
time to be courageous. And you must, for that reason, be both peace-loving…You must be both peaceloving and strong. We want this people not to become soft, but to become hard and, therefore, you must
steel yourselves for this in your youth. You must learn sacrifice and also never to collapse. Whatever we
create today, whatever we do, will all pass away. But in you Germany will live on. And when we can no
longer hold the flag that we tore from nothing, you must hold it firmly in your fists! And I know that it
cannot be any other way, as we bind ourselves together. For you are flesh of our flesh and blood of our
blood! The same spirit that governs us burns in your young minds. And when the great columns of the
movement sweep through Germany today then I know that you will close ranks and we know that Germany
lies in front of us, Germany marches within us, and Germany follows behind us!”
Hitler’s speech at night rally of political leaders
“A year ago we met for the first time on this field—the first general review of political leaders of the
National Socialist Party. 200,00 men have assembled here. They are not here at the summons of their
hearts alone, but also at the summons of their loyalty. It was the great calamity of our people that
drove us to the struggle, brought us together, and left us greater. Those who do not understand have
not experienced the same calamities among their people. These things appear enigmatic and mysterious,
that hundreds of thousands would be led to assemble amidst calamity and passion. Others cannot
understand that this is not an order of the state! They are deceiving themselves! The state does not
order us! We order the state! The state did not create us. Rather we created our own state! No, the
movement lives and it is grounded hard and fast. And as long as one of us can draw a breath, he will give
his strengths to the movement just as it was in yesteryear. Then drum will join drum, flag will join flag,
group will join group, Gau to Gau, and after that, this earlier divided people will follow these sacred
columns of the nation. It would be an outrage if we were to lose what we have fought for with so much
labor, so much worry, so much sacrifice, and so many privations. One cannot live faithfully and give up
what has given meaning and purpose to one’s entire life. That would not be so if it were not a cardinal
command. And no earthly power gave us that command. For the God, our God, who created our people,
gave us that command! So it is our vow this evening that each hour, on every day to think only of
Germany: of the people, and Reich, and of our German nation! To the German people! Hail victory! Hail
victory!”