Adolf Hitler - New
Year’s Proclamation to the National Socialists
and Party Comrades
January 1, 1940
After mastering
its internal divisions, National Socialist Germany has proceeded step by step
to cast off its enslavement. A struggle of historically unprecedented
proportions and the yearnings of a thousand years have culminated in the
consolidation of the German Volk within the boundaries of the Greater German
Reich. These measures have not robbed the outside world of anything. They have
not done it any injury. They have but accorded the German Volk what all other
peoples have long possessed.
Nevertheless,
the Jewish-internationalist capitalists in connection with socially reactionary
classes in the Western States have successfully roused the world democracies
against Germany. Publication of documents on the events preceding the outbreak
of the German-Polish conflict prove beyond doubt today that the English
warmongers not only desired no peaceful settlement of the problem, they also
did everything within their power to promote a conflict with Poland in order to
free the way toward either a shaming of Germany or a declaration of war upon
Poland. Once the first option failed them, these international warmongers
resorted to the second. Poland allowed itself to be deluded into believing that
it could realize its unlawful interests by the use of brute force. Within
eighteen days,24 its weapons fell silent. The new National Socialist
Wehrmacht outperformed even the highest of expectations placed upon it: the Poland
concocted by the Diktat of Versailles exists no more! A series of events of
enormous import for the history of our Volk characterized the year 1939:
1.
The pacification of Central Europe and the security of the German Lebensraum
were attained by the integration of the ancient German Reich territories of
Bohemia and Moravia as protectorates within the framework of the Greater German
Reich. Germans and Czechs shall live and labor peacefully next to one another
in the future as they have throughout many a century in the past.
2.
The return of the Memel territory to the Reich.
3.
The elimination of the Polish State allowed for a restoration of the ancient
borders of the Reich.
In
all three cases, non-viable structures of the Treaty of Versailles were
eradicated.
The
Non-Aggression and Mutual Assistance Pact with the Soviet Union constituted the
most outstanding feature of the year now past. From the outset, the attempt of
the plutocratic statesmen of the West to pit Germany and Russia against each other
was foiled; the desired blood-letting in both nations to the advantage of third
parties was forestalled; an encirclement of Germany was prevented.
That
we were able to successfully bring about this political development is a fact
we owe exclusively to the inner reorientation which National Socialism wrought
for the German Volk. This educational process undertaken by the National
Socialist Movement has begun to bear fruit economically and politically. The
military resurrection of the Wehrmacht was successfully complemented by a new
economic policy not only making the Reich economically independent of the
outside world, but also permitting us to overcome unemployment to a degree not
even realized in today’s richest countries of the West.
Domestically
organized and consolidated; economically prepared; militarily armed to the
teeth; thus we stride forth, entering into the most decisive year in the
history of Germany.25 For there is
one thing we all know for certain, National Socialists: the Jewish-capitalist
enemy of the world facing us knows but one goal-to destroy Germany, to destroy
our German Volk! Our foes may strive to disguise their intention beneath
phraseology, but this does nothing to deter them from the pursuit of this goal!
First, they declared that they wished to help Poland. This would have been easy
enough had they not unscrupulously urged Poland into this war. Once Poland had
paid the price for this by being mercilessly beaten by the might of our
Wehrmacht, the pursuit of a restoration of the Polish state no longer sufficed
as a goal in this war. Now they aimed for the elimination of my person, i.e.
the extinction of National Socialism. They barely had realized that the German
Volk could not be duped by this most stupid fraud, in light of its experiences
in 1918, and so it failed to react to it, when they did indeed finally divulge
the truth: namely, that they sought to eradicate the German Volk as such and to
dissolve and destroy the German Reich. Cowardice led them not only to recruit
so-called “neutrals” in this effort; they did not stop short of hiring paid
murderers either.26 The German
Volk did not want this fight. Up to the very last minute, I offered my hand in
friendship to England. Even after Poland was dealt with, I made suggestions regarding
a long-term guaranteed pacification of Europe.27
In this, I received the support of Fascist Italy’s Duce above all, who,
guided by the spirit of our friendship, labored sincerely to prevent a
development which bore no good tidings for anyone in Europe.
However,
the reactionary Jewish warmongers in the capitalist democracies were not
willing to let this opportunity to destroy Germany pass: too long had they
prepared for this. For years they had waited for this hour. These Herren
warmongers wanted war: they were to get it.
The
first phase of this conflict has shown the following:
1.
no one dared to attack the German West Wall, and
2.
in those instances in which German soldiers confronted their adversaries, this
once more justified the glory of the German soldier and the reputation of our
weapons.
May
the year 1940 bring about a decision. Whatever the future may hold for us,
there is but one outcome possible: our victory! Whatever may be demanded of the
individual in sacrifice until then is of no import in comparison to the
dedication of the German nation, in comparison to the horrendous fate looming
above should power once more fall into the hands of those criminal liars of
Versailles. Hence ours is a clearly defined goal in this war: Germany, and
Europe moreover, must be liberated from the violating grasp, the persistent
threat posed by the England of the present and of the past.
We
must make a final stand to tear the weapons from the hands of these warmongers
going about declaring war on everyone. We fight not only against the injustice
of Versailles, but we also fight against renewed injustice poised to take its
place. And in a more positive sense: we fight for the creation of a new Europe!
Unlike Mr. Chamberlain, we fail to perceive why this new Europe would do well
to be fashioned along the lines dictated by decaying and decrepit world powers,
at the hands of so-called statesmen who are not even capable of resolving the
most primitive of problems within their own countries. We are persuaded that
only those peoples and powers are called upon to refashion Europe whose present
comportment and previous accomplishments clearly demonstrate them to be young
and virile nations. The future belongs to these young nations and systems! The
Jewish-capitalist world will not outlive the twentieth century! National
Socialists! German Volksgenossen! In this past year, thanks to the workings of
Providence, the Reich of the German Volk was able to accomplish such miraculous
and outstanding achievements of historical proportions! At the beginning of
this year 1940, let us implore the Lord God to continue to bestow upon us His
blessings in this struggle for freedom, independence, and hence for the life
and the future of our Volk! With this realization in mind, let us ourselves not
tarry in our enterprise; let us not lack the courage to fulfill the task lying
before us in this year. By helping ourselves, relying on our own resources, let
us implore the Lord Almighty not to deny the German Volk His intervention in
the year 1940. For then we must and we will succeed!
Adolf Hitler – address to the Wehrmacht
January 1, 1940
Soldiers!
The year 1939 afforded the Greater German Wehrmacht the
proud opportunity to prove its worth. With the weapons entrusted to you by the
German Volk, you have victoriously struggled in this war forced on us. In a
mere eighteen days, through the cooperation of all, it was possible to secure
the Reich in the East once more and to eradicate the injustice of Versailles.
Suffused
with gratitude, we recall at the end of this historic year those of our
comrades who have sealed their loyalty to Volk and Reich in blood! For the
coming year we wish to implore the Almighty, who in the past has so visibly
extended His protection to us, to bestow His blessings on us once again and to
strengthen us in the fulfillment of our duties! For before us lies the most
difficult of struggles for the existence or non-existence of the German Volk!
Filled with pride and confidence, the German Volk and I look to you! For: with
such soldiers Germany must win!
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler
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