The Archive · 1938

Fuehrer Speaks

At the outset of his address, the Fuehrer said it was at first expected that the Reichstag would be convoked on the anniversary of the Nazi State on January 30. The date, however, was postponed until to-day because it was necessary to bring about an urgently necessary clarification in one specific sphere of foreign polities, because such a speech had to deal not only witl past but also with the fut if he had not been called to the Chancellorship in 1933, Herr Hitler asserted, there would have been nothing but chaos.

When the industrial areas were dying out, owing to poverty and ill-nourishment the time had come for something to be done.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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