But the extreme faith of all has changed this from a flag of opposition to the flag of the Reich.Īnd if, for 14 years the goddess of luck turned from us we know that we ourselves were to blame. Hundreds of thousands have lost position and profession. These flags are not merely an outward sign but represent a living obligation. Not through position and not through party, not through profession and not through class, but united for our Germany. A community which feels united in great faith and great determination. It is a community without regard to origins, to social standing, to profession, to property, to education. The movement's party rally has always been the great military review of its men - of men determined and ready to defend the principles of a community of people not only in theory but in practice. But not the 10,000 of those days but an enormous number of German men. Quoted in DomarusĪgain, it is the party who called you here and again you have come. Hitler's first speech as Reich Chancellor on February 10, 1933. It is not for ideas that we live, not for theories or fantastic party programs no, we live and fight for the German Volk, for the preservation of its existence, that it may undertake its own struggle for existence. Only when we have succeeded in leading this German Volk onwards by means of its own work, its own industriousness, its own defiance, and its own perseverance - only then will we rise up, just as our fathers once made Germany great, not with the help of others, but on their own.Īnd this brings us thus to our sixth item, clearly the goal of our struggle: the preservation of this Volk and this soil, the preservation of this Volk for the future, in the realization that this alone can constitute our reason for being. The future of the German Volk lies in itself alone. we shall never believe in foreign help, never in help which lies outside our own nation, outside our own Volk. Everything is rooted in one's own will, in one's own work.

It should never make the mistake of believing that life, liberty and happiness will fall from heaven. We are willing to work, but the Volk must help us. I do not want to promise them that this resurrection of the German Volk will come of itself. Just as I myself have now worked for fourteen years, untiringly and without ever wavering, to build this Movement and just as I have succeeded in turning seven men into a force of twelve million, in the same way I want and we all want to build and work on giving new heart to our German Volk.

My new order by adolf hitler