Few words drip from
the mouths of Rightists and fascists with greater frequency than the word
“peace.” It permeates their speeches, especially when they are initiating
war to allegedly bring it to fruition and the peace they seek is permeated
with suppression, repression and a graveyard atmosphere rather than justice
and equality. Few political figures of the 20th Century talked more
about the maintenance of peace than Hitler, and Bush is yet to draw even.
As is currently true of Bush speaking about Americans, in speech after
speech Hitler stressed the desire of the German people for peace to the
point that it became a virtual mantra.
In Essen on 27 March 1936 Hitler stated:
The
German people wants peace; it wants reconciliation; it wants tranquility.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 169
In a speech in Berlin
on 30 January 1939:
Germany
wishes to live in peace and on friendly terms with all countries, including
America.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 593
On 20 February 1938:
Germany
in any case, supported by its friendships, will do everything to preserve
that possession which constitutes the prerequisite for the tasks we envision
for the future: peace.
HITLER, [Speeches
and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 1033
On 10 January 1936:
Filled with a yearning to live in peace with the other peoples on earth
and to cooperate with them in every area of life in common understanding
for the well-being and progress of mankind, the German Volk earnestly wishes
to meet with the same aspirations toward trusting co-operation and mutual
consideration in all the other peoples.
HITLER, [Speeches
and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 738
In Berlin on 30 January
1936:
At
the same time, just as we have always preached peace to our Volk at home,
we want to be a peace-loving element among the other peoples. We
cannot repeat that often enough. We seek peace because we love peace!
HITLER, [Speeches
and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 746
In Munich on 24 February
1935:
The
nation is united in a yearning for peace and determined to defend German
liberty. We want nothing but to coexist with other peoples in mutual
respect. We do not wish to threaten the peace of any people.
HITLER, [Speeches
and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 642
In a 17 May 1933 speech
to the Reichstag:
In
that we are devoted to our own identity as a Volk in boundless love and
faith, we also respect the national rights of other peoples on the basis
of a common conviction and desire from the very bottom of our hearts to
live with them in peace and friendship.
HITLER, SPEECHES AND
PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 327
Near Rudesheim on 27
August 1933:
If we have said it once, we have said it a hundred times: we want peace
with the rest of the world. We ourselves have experienced the dreadfulness
of war. None of us wants it. None of us wants foreign property.
None of us wants to annex foreign peoples.
HITLER, SPEECHES AND
PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 353
I
have taught you to have faith, now give me your faith! ...to live
in peace and friendship with the other peoples;...
HITLER, [Speeches
and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 794
In Berlin on 17 May
1933:
Our
boundless love for and loyalty to our own national traditions makes us
respect the national claims of others and makes us desire from the bottom
of our hearts to live with them in peace and friendship.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 161
In Breslau on 22 March
1936:
We
do not want gestures, we want 25 years of peace for Europe! And the
peoples? They, too, do not want statesmen to demand gestures and
make only gestures to one another; they want them to make peace and keep
the peace!
HITLER, [Speeches
and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 795
In Berlin on 21 May
1935:
What
else could I wish than peace and tranquility? But if it is said that
this is merely the desire of the leaders, I can reply that if only the
leaders and rulers desire peace, the nations themselves will never wish
for war....
I cannot better conclude my speech of today to you, my fellow fighters
and trustees of the nation, than by repeating our confession of faith in
peace.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 166
And in Nuremberg on
8 September 1934:
We
want this people to be peace-loving but also courageous, and you [the youth]
must therefore be peace-loving at the same time courageous.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 124
With so much emphasis
and repetition no wonder so many Germans were beguiled and betrayed.
The similarity of what occurred in the 1930’s with today’s events is unnerving
to say the least because with a few minor changes Bush has co-opted most
of Hitler’s propaganda regarding the issue of peace. Hitler repeatedly
alleged that this yearning for peace represented the entire nation and
not a small faction.
In a speech in Berlin
on 14 October 1933 he stated:
The
German Government is most deeply convinced that her appeal to the whole
German nation will prove to the world that the Government's love of peace
as well as its conception of honor are also those of the whole nation.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 218
In Berlin on 30 January
1934:
...
As the National Socialist Party had its roots exclusively in the people,
so we as a government have never had any thought which did not originate
in the people, with the people, and for the people.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 107
In a speech in Berlin
on October 14, 1933:
May
this tremendous manifestation of our people for peace with honor succeed,....
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 219
Not content with merely
proclaiming Germany’s desire for peace, Hitler often went further by declaring
the craving for peace was Germany’s greatest desire.
In Berlin on 17 May
1933 he stated:
As
I stated at the outset, Germany is also convinced that there is today only
one great task--to safeguard the peace of the world.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 346
In a speech to the
Reichstag on 17 May 1933:
It
is also, as I have stressed in the beginning, the conviction that there
can only be one great task in our time: securing peace in the world.
HITLER, SPEECHES AND
PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 332
In Munich on 1 January
1938:
For
we believe that it is only as a strong state that we will be able, in such
an age of unrest, to further preserve for our Volk in the future that possession
which, to us, is the dearest of all--peace.
HITLER, [Speeches
and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 997
In a Berlin speech
on 30 January 1937:
With
all my heart I hope that the intelligence and good will of responsible
European governments will succeed, in spite of all opposition, in preserving
peace for Europe. Peace is our dearest treasure....
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 416
In Saarbruecken on
9 October 1938:
We
desire nothing but peace.
HITLER, [Speeches
and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 1223
In a Weimar speech
on 6 November 1938:
We
want nothing else than to be left in peace;...
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 547
In Hamburg on 20 March
1936:
Fuhrer and Volk have but one desire: to live in peace and friendship with
the other peoples;...
HITLER, [Speeches
and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 793
In Berlin on 21 May
1935:
The
German Reich--and in particular the present German government--have no
other wish than to live on friendly and peaceful terms with all neighboring
States.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 322
In a Berlin speech
on 30 January 1939:
The
German nation has no feeling of hatred toward England, America, or France.
All it wants are peace and quiet.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 581
In Berlin on 30 January
1934:
The
German Reich solemnly proclaimed to all nations and states that it was
animated solely by the wish to live with them in peace and friendship.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 164
In Kiel on 6 November
1933:
We
assure the world that the German Government and the German people have
only one wish: To live in peace and friendship with all nations in order
to be able to finish their internal reconstruction....
... It is not true if you declare
that this people [the Germans] out of hate and revenge wants to begin a
war. No, they want their peace and their quiet, and, to be sure,
their honor and their legitimate rights.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 163
And in a Berlin speech
on March 18, 1938:
Thus
on this occasion as before, the Axis that connects our two countries [Italy
in Germany] proves of the greatest service to the peace of the world.
For Germany wants only peace. She does not want to add to the sorrows
of other nations.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 475
In fact, Hitler went
so far as to maintain that Germany wanted peace more than any other nation.
In a speech in Munich on
28 September 1937 he stated:
There
is no nation in the world which longs more for peace than Germany....
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 429
In a meeting on 3 February
1933 with some correspondents from England and America:
Anyone
who, like myself, knows war also knows how much energy war consumes.
One can only surmise what a future war might bring. Thus no one wants
peace more than I do, more than the German Volk does.
HITLER, SPEECHES AND
PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 241
In Munich on 1 January
1935:
No
other country can be more deeply conscious of the need for peace than Germany,...
Germany's policies, based unshakable upon these principles, will make it
always a dependable guarantor of peace.
HITLER, [Speeches
and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 624
In Berlin on 21 May
1935:
Our
love of peace is perhaps greater than that of the other nations, for we
suffered most from this unhappy war. No one of us has the intention
of threatening anyone.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 181
And in a speech in
Berlin on 17 October 1933:
National
Socialist Germany, perhaps more than any other people, desires peace, since
the National Socialist idea is directed inwards... and consequently does
not know of any imperialistic policy of conquest directed against the world
without.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 221
Not only did Germany
want peace far more than any other nation, Hitler was so audacious as to
unjustifiably contend no nation had done more for peace than Germany.
In Nuremberg on 12 September
1938 he stated:
No
European state has done as much as Germany in the service of peace!
No one has made greater sacrifices!
HITLER, [Speeches
and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 1156
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 509
His proclamations became
even more far-fetched when he asserted Germany was the greatest guarantor
of world peace.
In Kelheim on 22 October
1933:
We
want nothing but our peace and quiet in order to be able to work....
In that we pursue this goal with all our zeal, we best champion the peace
of the world. There is no better guarantee for the peace of the world
than the fanatical unity of the German nation.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 162
Going even further
than Bush, Hitler repeatedly stressed his own personal efforts in the cause
of peace.
In Cologne on 28 March 1936:
The
fact that we want peace is something I need not confirm over and over again.
I do not believe that any other man in this world has talked about and
struggled and fought for peace more than I have.
HITLER, [Speeches
and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 801
In a speech in Berlin
on 26 September 1938:
I
have really in these years pursued a practical peace policy. I have
approached all the apparently impossible problems with the firm resolve
to solve them peacefully even when there was the danger of making more
or less serious renunciations on Germany's part. I myself am a front-line
soldier and I know how grave a thing war is. I wanted to spare the
German people such an evil. Problem after problem I have tackled
with the set purpose to make every effort to render possible a peaceful
solution.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 519
In a speech in Nuremberg
on 12 September 1938:
These
most gigantic efforts of all time have been made at my request in the interest
of peace.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 512
In a Berlin speech
on 28 April 1939:
I
believe, however, that this is the way in which I can be of the most service
to that for which we are all concerned, namely, the justice, well-being,
progress and peace of the whole human community.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 677
In a speech in Berlin
on May 4, 1941:
God
knows that I wanted peace.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 958
In Berlin on 26 September
1938:
I
acted thus solely in order to maintain a lasting peace between the two
peoples [Germans and British].
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 521
In Berlin on 28 April
1939:
No,
I have confirmed this attitude to France as an expression of appreciation
of the necessity to attain peace in Europe, instead of sowing the seed
of continual uncertainty and even tension by making unlimited demands and
continually asking for revision.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 634
In Wilhelmshaven on
1 April 1939:
Be
that as it may: it is my conviction that thereby I have rendered peace
a great service and out of this conviction I decided three weeks ago to
name the coming party rally the Party Convention of Peace.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 624
In Berlin on 7 March
1936 Hitler requested mass support in his search for peace:
I
now ask the German people to strengthen me in my faith and to give me,
through the strength of its will, further individual strength with which
to fight always courageously for its honor and freedom and to be able to
take care of its economic well-being. And especially to support me
in my struggle for a new peace.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 383
Being the religious
man that he was, he even asked for God’s help while in Berlin on 6 October
1939:
As
Fuehrer of the German people and Chancellor of the Reich, I can only thank
God at this moment that He has so wonderfully blessed us in our hard struggle
for our right, and pray that He may show us and all the other nations the
correct way, so that not only the German people but all Europe may once
more be granted the blessing of peace.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 173
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 756
Hitler claimed his
duty was to maintain the peace all Germans desired.
In a speech in Berlin on
21 May 1935:
However
great the difficulties and worries may be in individual questions, I consider
that I owe it to my position as Fuehrer and Chancellor of the Reich not
to admit a single doubt as to the possibility of maintaining peace.
The people wish for peace. It must be possible for the Governments
to maintain it. I believe that the restoration of the German defense
force will contribute to this peace.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 332
He said he was working
for peace for all of Europe not just Germany as is shown In a Berlin speech
on 30 January 1937:
On
the other hand, convinced that there can be no greater treasure for Europe
than peace, it [the German Reich] will always be a reasonable supporter
of those European ideals of peace, and will be conscious of its responsibilities.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 415
And to demonstrate
his tremendous desire for peace he was willing to join pacts.
In a Berlin speech on 21
May 1935:
The
German Government is ready at any time to participate in a system of collective
co-operation for safeguarding European peace,...
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 328
In a proclamation of
16 March 1935:
...The
Government of the German Reich of today desires only a single moral and
material power--that is the power to be able to safeguard Peace for the
Reich and thereby for the whole of Europe.
It has therefore taken all further steps which lay within its power which
might serve to advance the cause a peace. It has for long time past
offered to all neighboring States the conclusion of pacts of non-aggression.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 302
In a speech in Saarbruecken
on 9 October 1938:
You
have helped, my comrades, to secure peace for Germany, and so, as a strong
State, we are ready at all times to embark upon a policy of understanding
with the world about us. We can do that. We want nothing from
others. We have no wishes or demands. We want peace.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 543
He even claimed to
have proposed a number of pacts.
In Berlin on 26 September
1938:
The
German love for peace has been proved by facts. We had hardly begun
the restoration of the German equality when I proposed a number of agreements
to the rest of the world, as a visible sign of our renunciation of any
so-called revenge.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 171
He said Germany will
mix with any states not destroying Europe which is, of course, an implied
exclusion of the Soviet Union.
In his closing speech at
the Nuremberg Parteitag of 1937:
We
have neither the desire nor the intention to be political or economic hermits!
Germany has not isolated herself, neither in political nor in economic
life. Not politically: on the contrary, she is anxious to cooperate
with all those who keep in view the goal of a true European community.
Only we categorically refuse to allow ourselves to be united with those
whose programme is the destruction of Europe and who make no secret of
that fact.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 708
And he was willing
to excuse any opponents if they were willing to work for peace.
In a Berlin speech on 17
October 1933:
Our
former political opponents within Germany, in view of the struggle of the
whole nation, we would meet halfway and we would extend to them our hand
if they prove that they are prepared to defend German honor and share the
people's love of peace....
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 221
Hitler never failed
to don a magnanimous image, even as his repressions and imprisonments increased.
All the time he mouthed one line he practiced another, and with the passage
of the Patriot Act and the employment of unconstitutional incarcerations
at Guantanamo, Bush is in the early stages of following suit.
Hitler alleged he
had no intention of breaking the peace.
In a Berlin speech on 26
September 1938:
We have no interest in breaking
the peace.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 520
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 184
And Germany would never
break the peace according to several comments.
In Berlin on 7 March 1936:
Germany
will never break the peace of Europe.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 184
In Berlin on 16 May
1934:
All
of us who once learned to know war realize that the aim of politics cannot
be that of carrying on war.... Peace will never be broken by us....
We will never break the peace.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 184
In Berlin on 16 May
1934:
We
will never violate the peace, but let no one believe himself capable of
conquering us in peacetime without resistance.
HITLER, SPEECHES AND
PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 456
In an interview with
Ward Price on 17 January 1935:
When
I talk about peace, I'm expressing none other than the innermost desire
of the German Volk. I know the horrors of war: no gains can compensate
for the losses it brings. The disastrous consequences of widespread
European butchery in the future would be even worse. I believe that
the madness of Communism would be the sole victor. But I have not
fought this for 15 years to elevate it finally to the throne by way of
a detour. What I want is the well-being of my Volk! I have
seen that war is not the highest form of bliss, but the contrary: I have
witnessed only the deepest suffering. Hence I can quite frankly state
two of my beliefs:
1. Germany will never break the peace of its own accord, and
2. He who would lay hands upon us will encounter thorns and barbs!
For we love liberty just as we love peace.
HITLER, [Speeches
and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 634
Not only would Germany
never break the peace but it had never done so. In a Munich speech
on 8 November 1938:
...at
any time we are ready for peace: we have not broken the peace.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 554
As with Bush, Hitler
claimed to have made many efforts and sacrifices for peace to prevail.
In Nuremberg on 12 September
1938 he alleged:
The
National Socialist State has accepted very great sacrifices, indeed very
great national sacrifices, for the sake of European peace.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 182
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 507
In a Nuremberg speech
on 12 September 1938:
We
shouldered voluntarily the greatest sacrifices in the form of claims surrendered
in order to preserve peace for Europe in the future and, above all, in
order to have on our part a way for a reconciliation of nations.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 508
In a Nuremberg speech
on 12 September 1938:
Germany
had definitely become reconciled to a large number of her frontiers.
Germany is determined to accept these frontiers as unalterable and definite,
and thereby give Europe a feeling of peace.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 508
In a Berlin speech
on 28 April 1939:
I now make this offer known to you, gentlemen, and you yourselves will
judge whether this offer did not represent the greatest imaginable concession
in the interests of European peace.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 652
And in a Danzig speech
on 19 September 1939:
I
have tried to find a solution here which might have led to a fair adjustment.
I have tried in the West and later in the South to maintain final frontier
delineations in order thus to deliver region upon region from uncertainty
and assure peace and justice for the future.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 694
As with Bush, Hitler
asserted that his desire for peace had been corroborated by actual deeds.
In a Berlin speech on 26
September 1938:
And
this interest is: to be able to work in peace! This whole work for
peace, my fellow-countrymen, is no mere empty phrase, but this work is
reinforced through deeds which no lying mouth can destroy.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 522
And what are these
deeds cited for corroboration? They consist in him not having seized
other nations and lands. Well, isn’t that generous! Because
he hasn’t seen fit to attack yet, one can therefore automatically conclude
he is a lover of peace.
Incidentally, can
Bush, his father, and prior Bushites such as Reagan even say as much?
In Berlin on 7 March 1936
Hitler stated:
There
is no better confirmation of the German Volk's innate love of peace than
the fact that, in spite of its ability and in spite of its bravery--which
cannot be denied, even by our opponents--and in spite of this Volk's large
numbers, it has secured for itself only such a modest share of the Lebensraum
and goods of this world.
HITLER, [Speeches
and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 764
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 370
At the Niederwald Memorial
on 28 August 1933:
We
do not want foreign possessions, and we do not wish to incorporate foreign
peoples. We do not want strife and quarrel. We want peace,...
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 181
Germany has no cause
for war according to Adolph.
In a speech in Berlin on
10 October 1939:
I have given expression to our readiness for peace. Germany has no
cause for war against the Western Powers.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 758
In the Voelkischer
Beobachter of 13/14 December 1931 he stated:
I know war. My Movement wants peace for Germany and peace for Europe.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 346
And in a speech in
Wilhelmshaven on 1 April 1939:
We're
not thinking about making war on other peoples. However, our precondition
is that they leave us in peace.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 624
In fact, Germany needs
peace according to Hitler.
In a speech in Saarbruecken
on 9 October 1938:
No people can make better use
of peace than we.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 543
Sounding a familiar
Bush theme, he asserted economic growth depends on peace.
In a Berlin speech on 16
October 1939:
...the
most important condition, however, for a real revival of economic life
in and outside of Europe is the establishment of an unconditionally guaranteed
peace and a sense of security on the part of the individual nations.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 753
In fact, peace is needed
not only to solve internal problems but external problems.
In a proclamation at a party
convention on 9 September 1936 Hitler stated:
Just
as we in Germany can solve the problems before us only if internal peace
is preserved, so are we convinced that the European peoples and States
can approach a happier future only through the preservation of European
peace.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 396
And in a proclamation
at a party convention on 9 September 1936:
I want to state this proclamation before the whole German people that I
am profoundly convinced that it is necessary to preserve Germany's bulwark
of peace [for Europe] as I guaranteed its internal peace.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 397
War would only increase
distress in Europe and Germany.
In a Berlin speech on 21
May 1935:
No!
National Socialist Germany wants peace because of its fundamental convictions.
And it wants peace also owing to the realization of the simple primitive
fact that no war would be likely essentially to alter the distress in Europe.
It would probably increase it....
Germany needs peace and desires peace.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 313
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 165
Promoting the “tough
guy” image as he did, and very much in the Bushite tradition, Hitler made
it clear that any concessions on his part were in no way to be interpreted
as a sign of weakness or reticence.
In a Berlin speech on 21
May 1935:
If
the present Germany advocates peace, it does so neither owing to weakness
nor to cowardice. It advocates peace from another standpoint regarding
people and State, namely, the standpoint of National Socialism.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 311
On 20 February 1938:
And
as much as I can convey to the world the promise of the German Volk's sincere
and deep love for peace, I am just as determined not to leave any doubt
that this love of peace has nothing to do with either limp surrender or
dishonorable cowardice.
HITLER, [Speeches
and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 1026
And he denounced those
who misinterpreted his concessions as a sign of weakness.
In a Berlin speech on 4
May 1941:
Once
again I seized the opportunity of urging the world to make peace.
And what I foresaw and prophesied at that time happened. My offer
of peace was misconstrued as a symptom of fear and cowardice.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 951
In a Berlin speech
on 1 September 1939:
But
I am wrongly judged if my love of peace and my patience are mistaken for
weakness or even cowardice.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 686
In a Berlin speech
on 19 July 1940 :
I
told you at the time that on account of my peace proposals I expected even
to be branded as a coward who did not want to fight on because he could
not. That is exactly what did happen.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 835
Hitler, like Bush,
always stressed his desire for peace while vowing never to lower his guard.
In a speech in Saarbruecken
on 9 October 1938:
We
must at all times have a will for peace but be ready for defense.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 542
Any German military
buildups were, of course, purely for defensive purposes, again echoing
the Bushite line.
In a speech in Weimar on
6 November 1938 Hitler stated:
As
one who is a lover of peace I had endeavored to create for the German people
such an army and such munitions as are calculated to convince others, too,
to seek peace.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 547
Hitler, like Bush,
also proclaimed to all the world that his nation and its supporters were
powerful enough to defeat all challengers or any combinations of same.
In a Munich speech on 8
November 1940:
I
am one of the hardest men Germany has had for decades, perhaps for centuries,
equipped with the greatest authority of any German leader.... I can
assure you of one thing: German production capacity is the highest in the
world. And we will not climb down from it, because we are in a position
today to mobilize the power of almost all Europe--and that I shall do so
industrially you may well believe....
Germany today, in any case, is, together with her Allies, strong enough
to oppose any combination of powers in the world. There is no coalition
of powers that could equal ours.... Someone must break, and under
no circumstances will it be Germany.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 872
As with Bush and the
United States, Hitler allegedly wanted Germany to be a stronghold 0f peace.
On 12 September 1934:
And
I may once more declare today and before you, gentlemen, as representatives
of the foreign states, that it is the unshakable goal of my politics to
make of Germany a firm stronghold of peace.
HITLER, SPEECHES AND
PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 538
And he supposedly wanted
that role for Germany because only the strong experience peace.
On the morning of 13 September
1937 Hitler stated to members of the Wehrmacht:
Peoples
who were weak have never been blessed by peace, but only those who have
been strong.
HITLER, [Speeches
and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 936
To Hitler, as with
Bush, peace only comes via the sword.
In Munich on 2 May 1928:
There
is no distinction between war and peace. Struggle is ever present.
A latent peace is only possible when one is either a free lord or a slave.
The final decision lies with the sword.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 9
And he contended states
are founded on self-preservation, not peace:
The
following sentence may be established as an eternally valid truth:
Never was a State founded by peaceful economy, but always only by the instincts
of preserving the species, no matter whether they are found in the field
of heroic virtues or sly cunning;...
MEIN KAMPF, Adolf
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 200
These are sentiments
with which Bush would also concur but not express publicly.
Hitler said he wanted
peace but not at the expense of freedom and honor, which is a stance that
can very easily be used as an excuse for military action.
In Berlin on 24 October
1933:
We
want peace, we want understanding, but we also want our honor, our equal
rights.
HITLER'S WORDS, by
Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 104
And a Berlin speech
on 20 February 1938:
The
German people is no warlike nation. It is a soldierly one which means
it does not want a war but does not fear it. It loves peace but it
also loves its honor and freedom....
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 446
He claims to want a
peace based on maintaining German freedom.
In Berlin on 24 March 1936:
We
did not want to rob other peoples of their peace and their freedom.
But we also want to have our own freedom and our peace!
HITLER, [Speeches
and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 797
And he claims to want
a peace based on equality of nations.
In a Berlin speech on 17
October 1933:
We
want peace, but we will not allow ourselves to be treated as a second-rate
nation.
...Germany wants peace and nothing but peace, but Germany is determined
in the future to enter no conference, no league, no agreement, determined
to sign nothing, until she is treated as a Power with equal rights.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 220
And in a Berlin speech
on 21 May 1935:
The
Peace should not be a peace of unilateral rights but of general equality
and henceforth of universal justice. It should be a peace of reconciliation,
of general disarmament, and thereby of general security.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 315
Although these are
eminently reasonable national desires, they easily become subterfuges for
aggression when interpreted by people of Hitlerian propensities, just as
leaving decisions of national security in the hands of people consumed
by the Bushite mentality is dangerous.
Hitler repeatedly
denied any desire to rearm Germany.
In that infamous speech
in Berlin before workers at the Rheinmetall-Borsig Works on 10 December
1940 he stated:
Ever
since I came into power I had not the slightest wish to re-arm.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 890
But he sought to justify
Germany’s rearmament by claiming others were forcing his hand. They
were the culprits, not he. That certainly sounds familiar?
In a speech in Munich on
24 February 1941:
I
do not want war, but no one, however peaceable, can live in peace if his
neighbor intends to force a quarrel.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 932
As was noted earlier
Hitler, like Bush, was not above saying he was determined to have peace
even if he had to go to war to get it.
He flatly stated as much
in a speech in Nuremberg on 12 September 1938:
When
we decided finally to renounce it, it was for the purpose of serving the
cause of European peace in the future.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 508
In his closing speech
at his 1923 Putsch trial HItler showed that he considered keeping the peace
secondary to advancing the German people:
The
maintenance of world peace cannot be the purpose and aim of the policy
of a State. The increase and maintenance of a people--that alone
can be the aim. If you're going to conquer the world by an economic
policy, other peoples will not fail to see their danger.
HITLER'S SPEECHES
by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 85
And he most assuredly
would not support any peace that aided Marxism, according to comments he
made in a conversation with Hans Johst on 27 January 1934:
But
the fact that this peace was not a peace at all, but a daily defeat, a
daily victory of consciously political Marxism--it is for the recognition
of this fact that National Socialism is fighting.
HITLER, SPEECHES AND
PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 416
Hitler even listed
those who should be attacked first once the peaceful path was abandoned:
If
the German people wants to terminate a condition of threatening extermination
in Europe, then it must not fall into the errors of the pre-War period
[World War I] and make enemies of everybody in the world, but it must recognize
the most dangerous enemy in order to strike him with all its concentrated
force.
MEIN KAMPF, Adolf
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 917
Even during the wartime,
in words reminiscent of the Bush regime, he never ceased paying lip service
to the importance of pursuing peace.
In that speech in Berlin
before workers in the Rheinmetall-Borsig Works on 10 December 1940 Hitler
stated:
As
for the rest, all of us hope that reason will again be victorious and peace
will return.
MY NEW ORDER
by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 897
Yet, despite all of
these alleged commitments to the maintenance of peace and tranquillity
Hitler made a comment that virtually pre-nullified all of his magnanimous
gestures by exposing an individual who would have liked for Germany to
rule the world, a role many now feel Bush is proposing for the United States.
In his most famous work written early-on he frankly regretted the fact
that Germany had lost an opportunity to dominate the planet:
If,
in its historical development, the German people had possessed this group
unity as it was enjoyed by other peoples, then the German Reich would today
probably be the mistress of this globe.
MEIN KAMPF, Adolf
Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 598