Adolf Hitler Speech January 20th 1944

Adolf Hitler – radio-broadcasted speech to the German Volk
Wolfsschanze, January 30, 1944

In the fifth year of this the greatest war, no one can remain ignorant of the causes
and, hence, the meaning and purpose, of this international war. After all, the time
has long passed when it still appeared as though this war was one of those European
confrontations instigated by England in order to render impotent (Verohnmachtung) the
continent and maintain a balance of power to the advantage of the British empire. Those
forces which agitated for war in London ever since 1936 have today been transformed from
the drivers to the driven. The minds that they sought to summon in accordance with old
British tradition have got beyond the control of their masters.
Remarks disseminated by certain English newspapers that, following a defeat of
Germany, Russia would have no more reason to advance any further in Europe and, therefore,
that Russia would be content to concern itself with the education, that is, extermination of the
German Volk, are just as much a Jewish impertinence geared to European fools as the other
view, namely, that before this war ends England would in any event immediately take the lead
in a new fight against the Soviet Union.
First of all, whoever wins this international war will not allow British newspaper
scribblers to determine his objectives. And, second, in the case of a victory of Bolshevism, the
sad remainder of Europe would hardly continue to fight under England’s leadership against
the European-Asian colossus which would then rule Europe, especially since only a complete
blockhead could think the military prospects of such a war are promising. In addition, every
European knows that, in such a case, the remaining European remnant states would have the
privilege-as would the Empire troops of the Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders, or
South Africans-only of bearing by themselves the burden of the blood sacrifice in the struggle
for the preservation of British rule so that England’s own men are spared.
One thing is certain: there can be only one victor in this fight, and this will either be
Germany or the Soviet Union! A victory by Germany means the preservation of Europe; a
victory by the Soviet Union means its destruction.
That is so very clear that every not completely crazy Englishman should know this quite
well. If in spite of this they act as though things could be different, with true British
hypocrisy, then this must be attributed to the responsible war criminals in London who no
longer see any possibility of escaping their involvement. Above all, their escape route to the
rear has been cut off at home by their Jewish wire-pullers and slave drivers. It is therefore no
longer a question for England and the United States of America whether or not they want and
are able to fight Bolshevism on their own after this war, but how they can fight Bolshevism in
their own countries.
What Europe can in reality expect from the British promises of assistance has best been
proved by the Anglo-American stand on the fate of the Poles, Finns, and Baltic states, as well
as all of southeast Europe.
The unscrupulous promise of a guarantee to help Poland once drove this state into a war
against Germany. By the untruthful claim that other states had to be saved from Germany,
mutual assistance pacts were forced on them.
Today, by the same untruthful slogans, these countries are being abandoned and
sacrificed. They must be surrendered, but not because every single Englishman wants this, but
because England will be incapable of preventing this development in case of a victory by
Bolshevism. Yes, not only this; it is because they are not even able to stand up for a different
policy against their own opposition contaminated by Bolshevism, let alone successfully
implementing such a policy. By the way, anyone who sold to Jewry as England did will
sooner or later die of this plague, unless he manages to pull himself together at the last minute
and remove these bacteria from his body by force.
The view that it is possible to live together peacefully or obtain a reconciliation between
your own interests and those of this ferment of the decomposition of nations is like hoping
that the human body will be capable of assimilating the plague bacillus in the long run.
The question of saving the European states and thereby saving Europe is therefore a
question which can only be decided by the German Volk, its Wehrmacht, and the states allied
to it. However, should the Reich break, then no other state in Europe will be capable of
mounting an effective resistance against this new invasion by the Huns.
And they know this in the Kremlin.
Therefore, in the case of their victory, just as a precautionary measure for the future, the
fate of the German nation would be its complete extermination through Bolshevism. And this
goal is also the openly admitted intention of international Jewry.
It is of no matter whatsoever whether the Jewish defenders of this goal sit in England or
America, or whether they direct their central office in Moscow.
It makes no difference whether European or non-European statesmen realize this fact, or
whether they do not wish to believe it. It is all the more irrelevant whether they believe in one
country or the other that, by submissive petting, they can perhaps detoxify the Jewish bacteria,
which they bred themselves. If Germany does not win, the fate of the states in North, Central,
and South America will be decided within a few months. The west would shortly follow.
Ten years later, the oldest civilized continent would have lost the characteristic features
of its life. The picture so dear to all of us of a more than twenty-fivehundred- year-old cultural
and material development would have been erased, the nations as bearers of this culture,
while the representatives of the spiritual leadership of these nations would lead a miserable
existence somewhere in the forests and swamps of Siberia, provided they were not liquidated
by a shot in the neck. Meanwhile, the devastating Jewish Ahasuerus [Xerxes] could celebrate
the destruction of Europe in a second triumphant Purim festival.
That the German Volk is today capable of waging this decisive fateful struggle for its
own and the European continent’s preservation, it owes to the merciful dispensation of God,
who allowed National Socialism to reach its goal victoriously eleven years ago, after a long
struggle for power.
Without January 30, 1933, and without the National Socialist revolution, without the
tremendous domestic cleansing and construction efforts, there would be no factor today that
could oppose the Bolshevik colossus. After all, Germany was itself so ill at the time, so
weakened by the spreading Jewish infection, that it could hardly think of overcoming the
Bolshevik danger at home, not to mention abroad. The economic ruin brought about by the
Jews as in other countries, the unemployment of millions of Germans, the destruction of
peasantry, trade, and industry only prepared the way for the planned internal collapse. This
was furthered by support for the continued existence of a senseless state of classes, which
could only serve to transform the reason of the masses into hatred in order to make them the
willing instrument of the Bolshevik revolution. By mobilizing the proletarian slaves, the Jews
hoped that, following the destruction of the national intelligentsia, they could all the more
reduce them for good to coolies. But even if this process of the Bolshevik revolt in the interior
of Germany had not led to complete success, the state with its democratic Weimar
constitution would have been reduced to something ridiculously helpless in view of the great
tasks of current world politics. In order to be armed for this confrontation, not only the
problems of political power but also the social and economic problems had to be resolved.
When National Socialism undertook the realization of its program eleven years ago, it
managed just in time to build up a state that did not only have the strength at home but also
the power abroad to fulfill the same European mission which first Greece fulfilled in antiquity
by opposing the Persians, then Rome [by opposing] the Carthaginians, and the Occident in
later centuries by opposing the invasions from the east.
Therefore, in the year 1933, we set ourselves four great tasks among many others. On
their resolution depended not only the future of the Reich but also the rescue of Europe,
perhaps even of the entire human civilization:
1. The Reich had to regain the internal social peace that it had lost by resolving the
social questions. That meant that the elements of a division into classes-bourgeoisie and
proletariat-had to be eliminated in their various manifestations and be replaced by a
Volksgemeinschaft. The appeal to reason had to be supplemented by the merciless eradication
of the base elements of resistance in all camps.
2. The social and political unification of the nation had to be supplemented by a
national, political one. This meant that the body of the Reich, which was not only politically,
but also governmentally divided, had to be replaced by a unified National Socialist state, the
construction and leadership of which were suited to oppose and withstand even the heaviest
attacks and severest tests of the future.
3. The nationally and politically coherent centralized state had the mission of
immediately creating a Wehrmacht, whose ideology, moral attitude, numerical strength, and
material equipment could serve as an instrument of self-assertion. After the outside world had
rejected all German offers for a limitation of armament, the Reich had to fashion its own
armament accordingly.
4. In order to secure its continued existence in Europe with the prospect of actual
success, it was necessary to integrate all those countries which were inhabited by Germans, or
were areas which had belonged to the German Reich for over a thousand years and which, in
terms of their national substance and economy, were indispensable to the preservation of the
Reich, that is, for its political and military defense.
Only the resolution of all these tasks could result in the creation of that state which was
capable, at home and abroad, of waging the fight for its defense and for the preservation of the
European family of nations.
When, eleven years ago, the National Socialist movement gained power in the state,
after a long struggle by lawful means, the main conditions for the successful resolution of
these tasks had already been created. The German Volksgemeinschaft had become embodied
in the movement itself. It was therefore not the state which fashioned the movement in the
course of the following years. Instead, the movement molded the state. While many great
things have been accomplished since that time, the building of the German
Volksgemeinschaft undoubtedly stands at the top of the accomplishments of the National
Socialist revolution. It was the gentle as well as dogged conversion of the former state of
classes into a new socialist organism, a Volksstaat, which alone made it possible for the
German Reich to become immune to all attempts at Bolshevik infection. One decisive
accomplishment of the National Socialist revolution is that, in this state today, every young
German, irrespective of his birth, origin, wealth, the position of his parents, so-called
education, and so on, can become whatever he likes, in accordance with his merits.
It is most evident in the war today just how rapidly the socialist organization of the body
politic took place. After all, the Wehrmacht also plays a role in this development. More than
sixty percent of the young officer corps comes from among the enlisted men and, thereby,
bridges the gap to the hundreds of thousands of laborers or members of the lower middleclasses.
History will one day record it as one of our greatest accomplishments that we succeeded
in beginning and carrying out the National Socialist revolution in this great state, without
destroying national wealth, and without restricting the creative powers of the old classes, and,
in so doing, obtained a complete equality of rights for all. This process will be continued by
National Socialism with staunch determination and consequence. This will rob international
Jewry of all chances for an internal hollowing out of our body politic.
Thus, the National Socialist community can already today be regarded as the
unassailable center of European self-assertion. After all, only a state which is completely free
of all antisocial focuses of infection at home can securely oppose Bolshevism abroad. Jewry
itself has lost all power in our great Reich.
By unleashing this war against National Socialist Germany, it helped to spread the ideas
of the National Socialist revolution and teach other nations to appreciate the elements of a
scientific realization and objective resolution of this question. The World War of the year
1939 will one day enter history as a gigantic repetition of the internal struggle against our
party in the year 1924.
Just as in the past, the attack which sought the destruction of the movement spread its
ideas throughout Germany with the force of an exposition, this present struggle will in a few
years open the eyes of others on the Jewish question. It will make the National Socialist
solution of this question and the measures for its elimination appear just as worthy of
imitation as self-evident.
The greatness of the confrontation with its impact on world history will train the eyes
and the minds of the nations for thinking and acting in tremendous historic dimensions.
Millions of soldiers and prisoners of war will one day propagandize this realization.
That the National Socialist revolution has beyond this given the German Volk the
weapons for self-assertion of its interior organization, economics, and power is nowhere
better documented than in this gigantic fight which has raged for more than five years now.
This struggle will not follow a course different from that of all previous great wars on this
earth. The ups and downs of the events can only depress the man who has not learned to see
and think in historical terms.
The step from the vision of a half-blind soldier in the year 1918 to the reality of the
National Socialist state in the year 1944 was more tremendous and difficult than the step from
the present Reich to the final victory will be. That Germany’s and Europe’s victory over the
criminal attackers from the west and the east will stand at the end of this struggle has not only
become an expression of faith for every National Socialist, but also, at the end of this entire
fight up to now, his inner conviction.
The guarantors of this victory are today not only the soldiers at the front but also the
fighters in the homeland. Just as National Socialism was born out of the First World War, so it
will receive its exterior strengthening and reinforcement in the Second. No matter how
difficult it may be, the homeland will never despair in the end because it knows its fate and
sees its sons fighting at the front for it. The front will never lose heart. Even in the hardest
days, it will get hold of itself again because in its hand it holds not only the working but also
the equally brave, fighting homeland. The attempt of our enemies to bring about the collapse
of the German Volk and Reich through high-explosive and fire bombs will in the end only
result in reinforcing its socialist unity even more and create that hard state which Providence
has destined to fashion the history of Europe in the coming centuries. That this tremendous,
worldshaking process is taking place by causing suffering and pain corresponds to an eternal
law of destiny, which states not only that everything great is gained by fighting but also that
every mortal comes into this world by causing pain.
The twelfth year of the reorganization of our Volk will make the harshest demands on
front and homeland. No matter how much the storm rages outside the walls of our fortress, it
will one day subside like every tempest. From behind the dark clouds, the sun will come out
again and shine on those who remained steadfast and unshakable and who, true to their faith,
fulfilled their duty. The greater our worries are today, the greater our accomplishments will
seem to the Almighty, who will one day weigh, judge, and reward those who faced a world of
enemies, loyally held on to their flag, and carried it onward without losing heart.
Therefore, despite all the devilry by our enemies, this fight will in the end lead to the
greatest victory of the German Reich