The entire hall remained silent as Herr Wagner mounted the tribune to deliver the Fuehrer's proclamation.
The proclamation first expressed joy at the Austrian and German Nazis being assembled together in Nuremberg.
It branded the policy of all regimes preceding—National-Socialism.—"A strong, audacious, brave, persevering heart can carry out grand achievements but not those who have only abstract science."
The proclamation outlined the history of Naziism and once more violently branded the Jews, terming them the "universal enemy."
It denied the Fuehrer's alleged intention of concluding pacts with various Powers before the Congress opened as announced in the British press, "I never had and I do not have any such intention," the proclamation read. "I do not come before you with a new pact but with the seventh German province, with my own Fatherland. It is Greater Germany that makes her first appearance here."
Herr Hitler stressed that the political and economic amalgamation of former Austria into the Reich had almost been completed.
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