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Ready to Shut up the Jews: Goebbels
in the Sportpalast at Berlin
on
February 10, 1933
Goebbels' Intro to Hitler's Proclamation to the German Nation
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Joseph Goebbels' opening remarks that introduced Adolf Hitler's
Proclamation to the German
Nation, delivered at the Sportpalast in Berlin, Germany -
February 10, 1933.
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My national
comrades! |
Before the meeting begins I would just like to
take notice of a few articles from the Berlin
press which assert that I shouldn't be allowed
to broadcast over the German radio, since I'm
too insignificant, too small, and too much of a
habitual liar to address the whole world.
This evening you are eyewitnesses to a mass
occurrence which in this size in Germany and
probably throughout the world has never before
taken place.
I don't think it's saying too much to claim that
tonight at least 20 million people in Germany
and across the German frontier will be listening
to the speech of Chancellor Adolf Hitler.
In Berlin alone, in addition to this great mass
demonstration in the Sportpalast, ten
large loudspeakers have been set up in open
places, and already a great number of people
have gathered in front of these loudspeakers.
There is already a throng of five to six hundred
thousand people standing before them to hear
this speech. The Berliner Tageblatt has
asked with astonishment who would pay for these
loudspeakers?
I would like to calm the gentlemen of the
Berliner Tageblatt by assuring them that we
still have enough money, thank heaven, to pay
for ten loudspeakers.
We haven't found it necessary to turn to using
such methods as those of the
Marxist-Socialist-Democratic government,
although we're now in a much better position to
use the radio to combat this criminality than
they are.
Perhaps we will lay claim to this method to
expose the monstrous corruption scandals of the
Marxist-Socialist-Democratic government which
have been uncovered during the last 14 years.
This hour is closer than the gentlemen of the
Berliner Tageblatt want to believe.
When the Jewish press complains how the National
Socialist movement is being allowed to speak on
all German radio stations because of its
chancellor, then we can answer that we're just
doing what you have always done in the past.
That wasn't just an empty phrase when in
previous years we declared that you Jews are our
teachers and we just want to be your students
and learn from you.
Moreover, it must be determined that what these
gentlemen achieved in the field of propaganda
politics during the last 14 years was really a
piece of bungling! Despite their control of the
mass media all they could do was cover current
parliamentary scandals which were useless for
forming a new political base. The National
Socialist movement will show them how they
actually should have handled it.
Namely, one has to govern well - then good
propaganda will follow. One goes with the other.
A good government without propaganda can
scarcely stand any better than good propaganda
without a good regime. They have to complement
each other.
And if the Jewish press today believes that it
can make veiled threats against the National
Socialist movement, and if they believe that
they can get around our defensive measures they
shouldn't keep lying. For one day our patience
will reach its end and the Jews' insolent lying
mouths will be shut for them!
And if other Jewish newspapers are of the
opinion that they can now, with flags flying,
swing over to our side, then we can only give
them the answer: Please don't go to any great
expense!
Moreover, our SA men and party comrades can be
calm. The hour for the end of the red terror
will come sooner than we all think. For who can
deny that the Bolshevik press lies when the
Rote Fahne [Red Flag], this piece of Jewish
insolence, dares to assert that our comrade
Maikowski and the policeman Zauritz were shot by
our own comrades?
The Jewish insolence has lived longer in the
past than it will live in the future. And soon
we will teach the gentlemen of the Karl
Liebknecht House a thing or two they have never
been taught before.
I just wanted to settle with the enemy press and
the enemy parties and say to them personally
what I want to say over all German radio
stations to the other millions of people.
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