From the beginning of his movement Hitler sought to awaken Germany from what he viewed as the communist threat.  Sounding the alarm thundered through his speeches and writings like a call to arms.  He repeatedly portrayed himself and his movement as the new messiah beckoning millions to salvation in a manner presaging Bush decrying al Qaeda.
        In his speech at the Industry Club in Dusseldorf on 27 January 1932 he said:
         Today we stand at the turning-point of Germany's destiny.  If the present development continues, Germany will one day of necessity land in Bolshevist chaos,...
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, page 824

         Even the elections for the Reichstag, with their outward swelling of the Marxist votes, announced the more and more rapidly approaching internal, and, with it, external, collapse.
         MEIN KAMPF, Adolph Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 453

         An electoral campaign was opened by Hitler's speech in the Sportpalast in Berlin on 24 October 1933 when he said:
         The German people laid down its arms when there was a danger that all Europe might possibly slide into Bolshevism.  A military disaster may lead to a national catastrophe, and a people may fall into chaos: it may then be infected by bacilli which may spread to other countries.  The danger of infection has not grown less: it has only increased.
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 2, Page 1111

         From the outset Hitler clearly demonstrated that he would spare no effort to expunge Marxism from Germany, and using similar techniques Bush now declares he will remove al Qaeda as a threat to the United States.  In the Proclamation by the Government to the German Nation on 1 February 1933 the Fuhrer stated:
         Germany must not, Germany shall not go under in the chaos of Communism.
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 113

         In Berlin on 1 May 1933:
         We intend by no means to eliminate Marxism only in an external sense.  We are resolved to remove its very foundations.  We want to spare coming generations the mental confusion it causes.
         HITLER, SPEECHES AND PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 314

         ... other peoples will also defend themselves against the bolshevist and Jewish chaos, for we must make our determination plain to the world.  We have already gained friends abroad because we have made clear our position against bolshevism and world Jewry.  We will tolerate no lackeys of the Jews in our midst-- whether in the press, the economy, or the diplomatic service.
         SECRET CONVERSATIONS WITH HITLER, Edited by Edouard Calic, 1971. Page 49

         In his speech at the Harvest Celebration on 3 October 1937:
         The international Jewish Bolshevist leaders must let me say: wherever they may make their way, at the boundaries of Germany they will come up against a wall of iron.
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 2, Page 1365

         In the Reichstag on 15 September 1935:
         ... we are resolved to combat the Bolshevist revolutionary agitation in Germany with the effective weapons of National Socialist enlightenment.
         The Party Congress has certainly left no room for doubt that National Socialism--if an attempt is made by Moscow-Bolshevism to establish a foothold in Germany or to drive Germany into a revolution--will most definitely put a stop to this plan and such attempts.
         HITLER, [Speeches and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 705

         On 24 August 1936:
         If now a Bolshevist authority declares with cynical frankness that in certain circumstances it will be the task of the Bolshevist army to impose from without through the intervention of the Red Army revolution upon those countries which would resist internal Bolshevist agitation, National Socialist Germany in the face of such an announcement will capitulate just as little as it capitulated before the threats of the Moscow-paid agitators in Germany itself....
         History has taught us that it is better, if necessary, to make great sacrifices for external peace rather than to be overwhelmed in Bolshevist chaos.
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 2, Page 1327

         On 14 September 1936:
         May, however, that very Bolshevism of which we learned only a few months ago that it intends to arm its forces in order to open the door to revolution among other peoples with force, if necessary; may this Bolshevism know that the new German Army stands guard at the German door.
         HITLER, [Speeches and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 840

         In Nuremberg on 7 September 1937:
         There is one comforting certainty the German nation can then call its own: even if the world around us catches on fire, the National Socialist State will rise forth from the Bolshevist flames like platinum.
         HITLER, [Speeches and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 923

         In a speech to the Reichstag on 30 January 1937:
         However, in view of the unresolved political situation, I shall not fail to do anything which might serve to guarantee to the German Volk its existence even after other states have succumbed to the Bolshevist infection.
         HITLER, [Speeches and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 867

         For if the result of German action with respect to the French Ruhr invasion had been simply the annihilation of Marxism internally, success would thereby already have been ours.  A Germany liberated from this deadly enemy of its existence and its future would have possessed a potency which not even the whole world could any longer have strangled.  On the day when Marxism is smashed in Germany, its chains will really be broken forever.
         MEIN KAMPF, Adolph Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 987

         On 7 March 1936:
         I am a German, I love my Volk and I am attached to it.  I know that it can only be happy if allowed to live in accordance with its nature and its way.  The German Volk has been able not only to cry, but also to laugh heartily all its life, and I do not want the horror of the Communist international dictatorship of hatred to descend upon it.
         HITLER, [Speeches and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 767

         Hitler had no hesitation about using force against the Marxists if he considered it necessary.  In a speech to the Reichstag on 30 January 1937 he stated:
         Only where the murderous lust of Bolshevism believed itself capable, even after January 30, 1933, of preventing the triumph or the realization of the National Socialist idea by force have we naturally countered with force--and have done so with the speed of lightning.
         HITLER, [Speeches and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 862

         In Berlin on 8 October 1935:
         We are fighting with the Communists here, and we will beat them into the ground if necessary.
         HITLER, [Speeches and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 717

         In a proclamation at a party convention on 9 September 1936:
         We are National Socialists.  We have never been afraid of Bolshevism.
         MY NEW ORDER  by Adolf Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 396

         On 14 September 1936:
         No one will harbor a single doubt that National Socialism will defend itself everywhere and under any circumstances against the attacks of Bolshevism, and will conquer and destroy it.
         HITLER, [Speeches and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 840
         HITLER'S WORDS, by Adolph Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 260

         Not only did Hitler declare the purpose of Nazism was to save Germany from Marxism with force when needed, but he went even further by announcing that depending on the period under discussion his followers had either accomplished their mission or were holding the communists in political and ideological chains.  He never ceased proclaiming himself the savior of Germany.
        In the New Year's Proclamation for 1 January 1932 Hitler stated:
         Were the National Socialist Movement to cease existing today as a counterbalance to Marxism, Germany would be Bolshevist tomorrow.
         HITLER, SPEECHES AND PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 80

         In Berlin on 13 September 1933:
         We have smashed international Marxist solidarity within our Volk in order to give the millions of German workers another and better solidarity in exchange.  It is the solidarity of our own Volk,...
         HITLER, SPEECHES AND PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 358

         In an interview with the American journalist, Baillie, on 28 November 1935:
         Germany will continue to fight Communism with the weapons which Communism itself uses.
         HITLER, [Speeches and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 732

         In his address to the political leaders of the Party at the Nuremberg Parteitag on 10 September 1937:
         It is a ridiculous undertaking to try to introduce into Germany once more the disease which we have driven out.  But if this attempt should be undertaken from outside instead of from within our country, then we all know: the German nation under the leadership of its Party will protect Germany and never allow her to pass away.
         And with this knowledge is bound up our faith.  The Almighty has permitted us to follow this wondrous path and He will bless us still.
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 2, Page 1358

         In that speech to the Industry Club in Dusseldorf on 27 January 1932:
         For though even today there are many in Germany who believe that we National Socialists would not be capable of constructive work--they deceive themselves!  If we were not, already today there would be no more bourgeoisie alive in Germany: the question Bolshevism or not Bolshevism would long ago have been decided.  Take the weight of our gigantic organization--by far the greatest organization of the new Germany--out of the scale of the nationalist fortunes and you will see that without us Bolshevism would already tip the balance--a fact of which the best proof is the attitude adopted towards us by Bolshevism.  Personally I regard it as a great honor when Mr. Trotsky calls upon German Communism at any price to act together with the Social Democrats, since National Socialism must be regarded as the one real danger for Bolshevism.  That is for me all the greater honor....
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 821

         In his Proclamation to the Nuremberg Parteitag of 1933:
         The line which separated the National Socialists from the bourgeois parties was their clear recognition of the conditions necessary for a successful attack upon Marxism and their consequent action.
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 196

         In his Reichstag speech on 7 March 1936:
         I do not believe that close association with the political doctrine and outlook on life which are destructive of national existence can be helpful to statesmen.  We have had many experiences of this in Germany within the past 20 years.  The first contact with Bolshevism, in 1917, brought on us the revolution itself a year later.  The second time that Germany entered into relations with Bolshevism the result was within a few years she herself was brought to the brink of a communistic collapse.  I severed that connection and by so doing I saved the country from destruction.
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 2, Page 1281

         In a 28 March 1933 appeal to all party organizations:
         We were able to come to terms with the Marxist agitators in Germany; they will not force us to our knees, even if they are now proceeding with their renegade crimes against the people from abroad.
         HITLER, SPEECHES AND PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 301

         In Nuremberg on 14 September 1936:
         We rejected and fought Bolshevism, not because it intended a revolution, but because its leaders intended a slaughter, such as took place once in Russia and now in Spain, and because we simply did not desire that our people for a second time should be ashamed of the history of their past....
         HITLER'S WORDS, by Adolph Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 257

         Hitler even claimed to have saved art.
        In Nuremberg on 9 September 1936 he stated:
        In Germany, therefore, the period of Bolshevik infatuation in art has come to an end, for this Bolshevik and futurist art is anarchical retrogression.
         HITLER'S WORDS, by Adolph Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 150

         When the Frenchman, Bertrand de Jouvenel, suggested in his 21 February 1936 interview with Hitler that the latter rewrite his attacks on France in Mein Kampf Hitler implicitly attributed weakness to France by stating:
         I must not lose sight of the fact that Soviet Russia is a political factor which has at its disposal an explosive, revolutionary idea and a gigantic store of arms.  It is my duty as a German to account to myself for such a situation.  Bolshevism has no chance to penetrate in Germany, but there are other major peoples who are less immune than we against the Bolshevist bacillus.
         HITLER, [Speeches and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 758

         As far as Hitler was concerned his ascendancy marked the elimination of Marxism and its destruction was wholly attributable to the efforts of himself and his followers.  He would have mankind believe that he was not only saving Germany but he saved Germany, past tense.  In a Stuttgart speech on 15 February 1933 he said:
         The period of international Marxist disintegration and destruction is past.
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 242

         In the New Year’s message of 1934 Hitler announced that:
         Marxism is destroyed and Communism trodden underfoot....  Marxism in Germany exists no longer.
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 668

         I am not only the conqueror but also the executor of Marxism--of that part of it that is essential and justified, stripped of its Jewish-Talmudic dogma.
         THE VOICE OF DESTRUCTION, by Hermann Rauschnigg, 1940, page 185

         In his closing speech at the Nuremberg Parteitag of September 13, 1937:
         Besides for us Germans the thought that this Europe could be directed or ruled from Moscow of all places is simply intolerable....  For us at least the very idea of receiving orders from a world that stand so far below us is as ridiculous as it is revolting....
         There should be no illusions on the point: National Socialism has banished the Bolshevist world peril from the domestic life of Germany: it has taken care that the scum of Jewish writers who are alien to the German people shall no longer play the dictator over the German proletariat, i.e. over the German workman, but that the German people shall at length understand its own mission and find in its own body its leaders.  National Socialism has, further, made our people and therefore the Reich immune from a Bolshevist infection....  It was through our attacks upon this enemy that we National Socialists gained our power.  In a struggle lasting more than 15 years we have in fact annihilated him--intellectually and in his outlook on the world--and neither his countless murders and other acts of violence nor the support which he received from the then Marxist rulers of the Reich could stay our victorious march.  Today we will keep strict watch and ward that never again shall such a danger come upon Germany.  But should anyone venture to bring this danger from without to the frontiers of Germany or to introduce this danger into Germany he should know that the National Socialist State has forged for itself those weapons which with lightning speed would crush any such attempt.
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 710
         HITLER, [Speeches and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 941

         On 28 March 1933 in an appeal issued to all party organizations:
         Now that the domestic enemies of the nation have been eliminated by the Volk itself, what we have long been waiting for will now come to pass.  The Communist and Marxist criminals and their Jewish-intellectual instigators, who, having made off with their capital stocks across the border in the nick of time, are now unfolding an unscrupulous, treasonous campaign of agitation against the German Volk as a whole from there.
         HITLER, SPEECHES AND PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 298

          In front of the Rathaus in Wilhelmshafen on 1 April 1939:
         State after State will either fall a victim to the Jewish-Bolshevist plague or must take measures for self-protection.  That is what we have done and we have now raised up a national German people's State.... Whether the world will be Fascist, I know not!  That it will be National Socialist I do not believe.  But that in the end this world will protect itself from this Bolshevist menace, the gravest menace imaginable, of that I am most profoundly convinced.
         ... Only when this Jewish bacillus infecting the life of peoples is destroyed can one hope to bring about a co-operation of the nations founded on a permanent understanding....  Abroad we are not perhaps loved, but folk pay heed to us and respect us, and that is the decisive point!
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 2, Page 1601

         Hitler would have everyone believe saving Germany was a close call.  In his Proclamation read at the Nuremberg Parteitag of 1933 he said:
         At the beginning of this year there were weeks when we were but a hair's breadth from Bolshevist chaos: National Socialism has done for Germany what Fascism did for Italy.
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 198
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 2, Page 1086

         And he also sought to persuade people that peasants played a key role in the process.  In a statement on the Enabling Act to the Reichstag on 23 March 1933 he said:
         Without the counterweight of the German peasantry, Communist madness would already have overrun Germany by now and thus conclusively destroyed the German economy.
         HITLER, SPEECHES AND PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 280

         As a result of his repressive deeds, he announced the restoration of law and order, failing to note, of course, that it was a placidity similar to that which one would experience in a prison lockdown.
        In an 18 October 1933 interview with Ward Price of the Daily Mail Hitler stated:
         Whereas before our time, German streets and squares were controlled by Communism and the entire Volk was suffering from the bloody terror of this arsonist pack, we have now restored safety, law and order.  That is the achievement of my SA.
         HITLER, SPEECHES AND PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 383

         Let me tell you that the hardened criminal is in for a very bad time in Germany in the near future;...
         HITLER'S TABLE TALK, 1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 68

         And all too often “hardened” criminals included those effectively and persistently opposing the Nazi tyranny.
 One of the most fortuitous events to occur in the Nazi era was the burning of the Reichstag which occurred shortly after the Nazi takeover and provided justification for the subsequent imposition of virtual martial law.  The parallels that can be drawn between this event and its aftermath and what occurred in the US following 9/11 are unnerving to say the least.  Both were blamed on Enemy Number One and both fostered a series of laws, rules, and regulations that were either unconstitutional or excessive and beyond reasonable precautions.  The Enabling Act, quickly passed following the Reichstag Fire, bestowed upon Hitler dictatorial authority for all practical purposes and marked the end of democracy in Germany.  Hitler, like Bush and his advisors, saw the opportunity a national catastrophe provided and later gave an interesting account of the efforts made by him and Goebbels to awaken others to the opportunity created.  While recounting this event during the early 1940’s he said:
         During the Reichstag fire, I went in the middle of the night to the offices of the Voelkischer Beobachter.  It took half an hour before I could find anyone to let me in.  Inside there were a few compositors sitting around, eventually some sub-editor appeared heavy with sleep.  He was quite incapable of grasping what I was telling him, and kept on repeating: "But really!  There's no one here at this time of night; I must ask you to come back during business hours!"  "Are you mad!"  I cried.  "Don't you realize that an event of incalculable importance is actually now taking place!"  In the end I got hold of Goebbels, and we worked till dawn preparing the next day's edition.
         HITLER'S TABLE TALK, 1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 649

         Because the Enabling Act was so critical to the legalized subversion of Germany’s democracy, because of its brevity, and because all Americans should be alert for similar legislation, a detailed recitation of its contents is warranted.  The full name of the Enabling Act was Gesetz zur Behebung der Not von Volk und Reich (Law in Order to Remedy the Misery of the People and the Reich) and, like so many escapades of the Bushites, such as the Patriot Act and Operation Iraqi Freedom, was given a deceptive title for propaganda purposes.  As with most of the laws passed in the process of Gleichschaltung, the Enabling Act is quite short, considering its consequences.
    It states:

1. Other than through the procedure prescribed by the constitution, laws of the Reich may be decided upon by the government of the Reich as well. This includes laws as referred to by articles 85 subsection 2 and 87 of the constitution.  [These articles refer to the parliamentary budget rights.]

2. Laws decided upon by the government of the Reich may deviate from the provisions of the constitution insofar as they do not affect the institutions of the Reichstag and the Reichsrat as such.  The constitutional rights of the Reichspräsident shall remain intact.

3. Laws decided upon by the government of the Reich shall be issued by the Chancellor  [i.e. Hitler] and announced in the Reich Law Gazette.  They shall take effect on the day following the announcement, unless they prescribe a different date.  Articles 68 to 77 of the constitution shall not be applied to laws decided upon by the government of the Reich.  [These articles regulate the ordinary procedure of legislation.]

 4. Contracts of the Reich with foreign states which affect matters of Reich legislation shall not require the approval of the bodies concerned with legislation.  The government of the Reich shall issue the prescriptions required for the execution of such contracts.

 5. This law shall take effect with the day of its announcement. It shall become invalid on April 1, 1937 or earlier, if the present Reich government is succeeded by a different one.

 The provision within Article #2 stating “Laws decided upon by the government of the Reich may deviate from the provisions of the constitution insofar as they do not affect the institutions of the Reichstag and the Reichsrat as such” is sufficient within itself to destroy any semblance of democracy, as it’s only another way of saying the government, i.e., the Nazi leadership, can ignore the constitution any time of its choosing as long as the Reichstag and the Reichsrat remain unaffected.

         While later addressing those who passed the Act Hitler stated:
         My Party Comrades!  Deputies!  Men of the Reichstag!  It is to you who once established for me the foundation for my work by ratifying the Enabling Act,...
         HITLER, [Speeches and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 1033

         That’s only another way of thanking them for granting him dictatorial powers.  In a transparent endorsement of the Enabling Act through fostering fear and uncertainty Hitler said to the Reichstag on 23 March 1933:
         The disintegration of the nation into irreconcilably opposite Weltanschauungen which was systematically brought about by the false doctrines of Marxism means the destruction of the basis for any possible community life.
         The dissolution permeates all of the basic principles of social order.  The completely opposite approaches of individuals to the concepts of state, society, religion, morality, family, and economy rips open differences which will lead to a war of all against all.  Starting with the liberalism of the past century, this development will end, as the laws of nature dictate, in Communist chaos.
         The mobilization of the most primitive instincts leads to a link between the concepts of a political theory and the actions of real criminals.  Beginning with pillaging, arson, raids on the railway, assassination attempts, and so on--all these things are morally sanctioned by Communist theory....
         The burning of the Reichstag, one unsuccessful attempt within a large-scale operation, is only a taste of what Europe would have to expect from a triumph of this demonical doctrine.
         HITLER, SPEECHES AND PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 276

          In a speech delivered at the Ten Year Commemoration of the "Putsch" of 8-9 November 1923 the Fuhrer summarized his attitude from the beginning by saying:
         I have never fought shy of any adversary yet and I do not do so today.  For many a year I uttered warnings against Bolshevism, and the bourgeoisie only laughed at me.  I assess the Communists at what they in fact are--a power which within Germany I could conquer because I restored order in the internal life of our people.  I do not fight shy of Communism abroad because I know it for what it is worth and because I prepared the German people beforehand against all eventualities.  For if Communism should ever desire to link itself up with us from abroad, then it will share the same fate as it suffered within Germany.  If ever this power should seek to fall upon Germany, then the same thing would happen to it as happened to the Communists who once thought that within Germany they, too, could fall upon us.  Here in Germany we cleared the streets, and we would do this same in the other case.
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 680

         Approximately nine months earlier on 8 February 1933 Hitler had already predicted the permanent crushing of Marxism when he addressed the editors of those newspapers which were favorable to his new government and said:
         [I can assure you that] in 10 years there would be no more Marxism in Germany.
 HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 498

         Several years after the destruction of Marxism in Germany he ventured so far as to contend, without providing any specifics for corroboration, that Germany was in the throes of progress, brotherhood and unity when, in fact, those who refused to join the imposed love feast were either killed, imprisoned, exiled, or terrorized into silence.  In a speech to the Labor Service on 10 September 1936 Hitler stated:
         Here there is building going on!  Here there is comradeship!  And here above all is the faith in a better humanity and hence in a better future!  What a difference from another country in which Marxism is attempting to gain power.  There the cities are in flames, there the villages are being reduced to rubble, there a man no longer knows whom he can trust.  Class is fighting against class, rank against rank, brothers are destroying brothers.  We have chosen the other path: instead of tearing you apart, I have joined you together.
         HITLER, [Speeches and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 832

         After smashing Marxism in Germany Hitler turned his attention to Europe in general feeling that it too needed saving and was falling to Marxism.  In a proclamation at a party convention on 9 September 1936 he stated:
         Unrest, hate, and mistrust fill the world about us.  With the exception of one major Power and a few other States, we encounter throughout Europe the convulsions of bolshevistic rioting and revolution.
         MY NEW ORDER  by Adolph Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 391

         He repeatedly stated that he quivered at the very thought of a Marxist victory in Europe.  On 7 March 1936 Hitler stated:
         ...I tremble for Europe at the thought of what would lie in store for our old, heavily populated continent were the chaos of the Bolshevist revolution rendered successful by the infiltrating force of this destructive Asiatic concept of the world, which subverts all our established ideals.  I am perhaps for many European statesmen a fantastic, or at any rate uncomfortable, harbinger of warnings.  That I am regarded in the eyes of the international Bolshevist oppressors of the world as one of their greatest enemies is for me a great honor and a justification for my actions in the eyes of posterity.
         HITLER, [Speeches and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 767

         In a speech at the Harvest Thanksgiving held on the Buckeberg on 4 October 1936:
         For to all of us it is clear that if Europe today were to sink into the madness of Bolshevism then no one could help us, we should be left to our own resources.  And then we should either master our distress or distress would overwhelm us.
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 678

         In his closing speech to the Nuremberg Parteitag on 14 September 1936:
         Every successful rising of Bolshevism in one country encourages other countries.  If these methods succeed, Europe will go under in a sea of misery and blood.  European culture which has a history of nearly 2500 years would be superseded by the most frightful barbarism of all times.
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 2, Page 1331

         At the opening of the Electoral Campaign in the Sportpalast in Berlin on 24 October 1933:
         ...the way which Europe went was the straight path to Bolshevism, and what this Bolshevism would have meant for Europe, that I need not paint in detail.
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 2, Page 1115

         In Berlin on 7 February 1934 before a student gathering:
         If allowed to triumph in Europe, in the next 500 years Communism would necessarily bring about the complete annihilation of even the last vestiges of the fruits of that Aryan spirit which, providing the roots of culture and in its many-faceted boughs and branches, has bestowed upon the entire world the general foundations of our culture and thus our truly human foundations in the millenniums upon which history has shed light.
         HITLER, SPEECHES AND PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 432

         In a speech to the Reichstag on 30 January 1937:
         If in fact Europe does not awaken from the fever of its Bolshevist infections, I fear that, despite the good intentions of individual statesmen, international trade will not increase, but ultimately decrease.  That is because this trade is built not only upon the uninterrupted and thus secured production on the part of one specific nation, but on the production of all nations.  Initially, however, one thing is certain: every single Bolshevist disruption will of necessity lead to a more or less lengthy disruption in orderly production.
         HITLER, [Speeches and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 867

         Feeling that Europe was succumbing to Bolshevism and having destroyed Marxism in Germany, Hitler concluded his next commission was to eradicate Marxism from Europe in general and he made comments to that effect in many speeches.  In Nuremberg on 13 September 1937 the Fuhrer stated:
         I am merely stating a fact!  Therefore we have a serious interest in preventing this Bolshevistic plague from spreading even further in Europe.
         HITLER, [Speeches and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 941
         HITLER'S WORDS, by Adolph Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 263

         In his closing speech at the Nuremberg Parteitag on 3 September 1933:
         If a single people in Western or Central Europe were to succumb to Bolshevism, this poison would spread farther and would destroy that which is today the oldest and fairest cultural treasure in the world.  By taking upon herself the struggle against Bolshevism Germany is but fulfilling, as so often before in her history, a European mission.
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 667

         On 3 September 1933:
         In devoting ourselves in this way to caring for our own blood, a blood which Fate has entrusted to us, we are best helping to protect other peoples from diseases which spread from race to race and from Volk to Volk.  If a single Volk were to fall prey to Bolshevism in Western or Central Europe, this poison would continue its corrosive work and devastate today's oldest and most beautiful cultural possession on earth.  In taking this fight upon itself, Germany is but fulfilling, as so often in its history, a truly European mission.
         HITLER, SPEECHES AND PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 357

         In his speech in the Reichstag on 30 January 1937:
         The Treaty of Versailles brought the first division of Europe--a division of the nations into victors on the one side and vanquished on the other, the latter nations being outlawed; the second division has been caused by the Bolshevist doctrine which its exponents try to enforce on all nations.  Our attack upon Bolshevism has been not only in defense of our own civilization, but in defense of European civilization as a whole.
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 2, Page 1338

         In the same speech:
         For Mr. Eden, Bolshevism is perhaps something sitting in Moscow; for us, however, Bolshevism is a plague against which we have been forced to defend ourselves in a bloody fight; a plague that has attempted to make of our country the same desert it has made of Spain, that had begun the same shooting of hostages we were now witnessing in Spain!  National Socialism did not seek contact with Bolshevism in Russia; rather, the Jewish international Muscovite Bolshevism attempted to penetrate Germany!  And it is still attempting to do so today!  And we have fought a difficult battle against this attempt, upholding and thus defending not only the culture of our Volk, but perhaps that of Europe as a whole in the process.
         HITLER, [Speeches and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 868
         MY NEW ORDER  by Adolph Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 412

         And also in that speech:
         In January and February of the year 1933, when the last decisive struggle against this barbarism was being fought out, had Germany been defeated and had the Bolshevik field of destruction and death extended over Central Europe, perhaps a different opinion would have risen on the banks of the Thames as to the nature of this terrible menace to humanity.
         HITLER'S WORDS, by Adolph Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 260

         In his closing speech at the Nuremberg Parteitag of 1937:
         Four years past, for instance, it [The League of Nations] has been forced to spread its energies on trying to support the various Marxist and Jewish emigrants to keep them alive.
         I am only stating facts.  We have a very real interest in seeing to it that this Bolshevist plague shall not spread over Europe....
         In this community of the civilized nations of Europe Jewish World Bolshevism is an absolutely alien body which makes not the smallest contribution to our economic life or to our civilization but only creates confusion.
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 707

         In his New Year’s Proclamation issued on 1 January 1936:
         To remain such a bulwark of national European discipline and civilization against the Bolshevist enemy of mankind will in the coming year, too, be our fervent endeavor.  The Bolshevist attempt, through continual revolutions, bloody uprisings, and disturbances, to undermine the order of the world and to incite peoples one against the other we in Germany, in the future as in the past, shall successfully counter.
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 2, Page 1257
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 648

         In his New Year’s Proclamation to the Party on 1 January 1937:
         Germany will ever be, even more than in the past, a bulwark of European culture and civilization against the Bolshevist foe of humanity, and thereby at the same time a sure guarantor of a strong European peace.
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 2, Page 1333

         To the Reichstag on 7 March 1936:
         In the year 1932, Germany stood at the brink of a Bolshevist collapse.  What this chaos in such a large country would have meant for Europe is something perhaps certain European statesmen will have an opportunity to observe elsewhere in the future.  For my part, I was only able to overcome this crisis of the German Volk, which was most visibly manifest in the economic sector, by mobilizing the ethical and moral values common to the German nation.  The man who wanted to rescue Germany from Bolshevism would have to bring about a decision on--and thus a solution for--the question of Germany’s quality of rights.  Not in order to do harm to other peoples, but on the contrary: to perhaps even spare them great harm by preventing a catastrophe from engulfing Germany, the ultimate consequences of which would be unimaginable for Europe.
         HITLER, [Speeches and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 765

         And in his speech to the Reichstag on 23 March 1933:
         ...for the elimination of communism in Germany is a purely domestic German affair.  The rest of the world may well have just as great an interest in it, for the outbreak of communistic chaos in the densely populated German Reich would lead to political and economic consequences of inconceivable extent, especially in the rest of Western Europe.
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 2, Page 1015

         Not surprising is the fact that Hitler denied any responsibility for the Reichstag Fire as Bush denies any responsibility for 9/11.  In all fairness evidence incriminating the former is far in excess of that which implicates the latter, despite claims to the contrary by some.  Bush and his cohorts do not appear to have yet taken America to a juncture of that magnitude.  Unlike the Hitlerites, the Bushites are merely capitalizing on an unforeseen event, as opposed to having induced it.  While denying culpability during an interview with Mr. Sefton Delmer, the correspondent of the Daily Express, Hitler replied to the suggestion that the Reichstag Fire "was nothing but a put-up job” designed to give Hitler the pretext for waging a merciless war against the Communists and Socialists by saying:
         It is nothing but a damned lie and a malicious libel.  As base as it is ridiculous.
 Of course, there is one way in which I could settle these reports once and for all.  I could have the Communist who was caught hanged from the nearest tree.  That would dispose forever of this vile insinuation that he is an agent of ours.  But these lies are really too absurd even to discuss seriously.  But I would tell you another thing.  Europe, instead of suspecting me of false play, should be grateful to me for my drastic action against the Bolsheviks.  If Germany went Communist, as there was every danger of her doing until I became Chancellor, it would not have been long before the rest of civilized Europe fell a prey to this Asiatic pest.
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 234

         If it is a malicious libel, then how is Hitler to explain strong testimony incriminating him in this matter provided by one who associated on a personal basis with the Nazi hierarchy and is certainly in a position to know first hand.  Rauschnigg provides evidence against Hitler that, were comparable information to surface against Bush regarding 9/11, would be the basis for extremely serious criminal proceedings not to mention destruction of his political career:
         "Shortly after the Reichstag fire,... while waiting in the lobby of the Reich Chancellery, we [Gauleiter Forster & myself] got into conversation with some of the Nazis celebrities who were also waiting there.  Goering, Himmler, Frick and a number of Gauleiter from the western provinces were talking together.  Goering was giving details of the Reichstag fire, the secret of which was still being carefully guarded.  I myself had unhesitatingly ascribed it to arson on the part of persons under Communist, or at any rate Comintern, influence.  It was not until I heard this conversation that I discovered that the National Socialist leadership was solely responsible, and that Hitler knew of the plan and approved it.
         ... Goering described how "his boys" had entered the Reichstag building by a subterranean passage from the President's Palace, and how they had only a few minutes at their disposal and were nearly discovered.  He regretted that the "whole shack" had not burnt down.  They had been so hurried that they could not "make a proper job of it."  Goering, who had taken the leading part in the conversation, closed with the significant words:
 'I have no conscience.  My conscience is Adolf Hitler.'
         It was he [Goering] who ordered the Reichstag building to be burnt at Hitler's command.  He took the responsibility upon himself, just as he did that of the murders on 30 June 1934, of the bourgeois Nationalists, because he considered Hitler too soft and vacillating.  And this is the essential difference between Hitler and Goering, that the former, before he can 'act,' must always lash himself out of lethargy and doubts into a frenzy.  But in Goering amorality is second nature."
         THE VOICE OF DESTRUCTION, by Hermann Rauschnigg, 1940, pages 77-78

         Hitler’s justification for his assistance to Franco’s fascists during the Spanish Civil War was that he was saving Spain and, thus, Europe from Marxism just as Bush’s involvement in Iraq is now being depicted as intervention required to save the world from al Qaeda and terrorism.  Both operated under what they viewed as a perceived threat, as opposed to an actual or proven one.  Hitler reiterated his message on many occasions and Bush uses similar arguments.
        In his speech at the the Reichstag held on 20 February 1938 the Fuhrer said:
         The German Government would see in the bolshevizing of Spain not only an element detrimental to the peace of Europe, but also one disturbing to the balance of power on the Continent.  If Spain were to become a section of the Moscow Center, there would be grave danger of the spread of this plague of annihilation and destruction, the consequences of which we could under no circumstance view with indifferent calm.  We are indeed happy in the knowledge that our anti-Bolshevist attitude is also shared by another state [Italy].
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 2, Page 1399

         In his closing speech at the Nuremberg Parteitag of 1937:
         We know with absolute certainty that if Spain were to become finally Bolshevist and if this wave had spread wider, perhaps over the rest of Europe, or if in the future it should so spread--and Bolshevism itself asserts that this will certainly happen and that at least is its wish--then that for Germany would mean a severe economic catastrophe.
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 706

         In reply to a telegram of greeting sent by Franco:
         In the sure conviction that the battle which we have waged in common against Bolshevism, the destroyer of culture and of peoples, has formed a tie of indissoluble community between the German and the Spanish peoples,...
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 2, Page 1675

         If I had not decided in 1936 to send him the first of our Junker aircraft, Franco would never have survived.
         HITLER'S TABLE TALK, 1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 607

         On 6 August 1937 at the reception for the ambassador of Nationalist Spain Hitler expressed his keen sympathy:
         ...'with the heroic fight of the Spanish people and with the effort to build up the Spanish state' and the hope that General Franco might 'succeed in winning for the Spanish people peace and freedom.'
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 2, Page 1356

         In his closing speech at the Nuremberg Parteitag on 13 September 1937:
         It is a gross perversion of the facts to maintain that the Bolshevist oppressors of the people are in that country [Spain] the representatives of legal authority, while the fighters of Nationalist Spain are illegal revolutionaries.  No!  We see in general Franco's men the genuine and above all the permanent Spain and in the usurpers of Valencia as the hireling international revolutionary troop of Moscow which today ravages Spain and tomorrow perhaps again some other State.  Can we now remain neutral in the face of such happenings as these?
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 702
         HITLER, [Speeches and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 940

         In a speech in Berlin on 28 April 1939:
         ...for if subhuman forces of Bolshevism had proved victorious in Spain they might easily have spread across the whole of Europe....
         MY NEW ORDER  by Adolph Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 652

         In Nuremberg on 13 September 1937:
         In England and France, one professes to be worried about the idea that Spain might even be occupied by Italy or Germany; we are just as appalled in the face of the possibility that it might be conquered by Soviet Russia!  By no means would this conquest have to be effected in the form of an occupation by Soviet Russian troops; rather, it will become a fait accompli at that moment when a Bolshevized Spain has become a section, i.e. an integral component, of the Central Bolshevist Office in Moscow--a branch which receives both its political directives and its material subsidies from there.  In any case, we principally regard every attempt to further expand Bolshevism in Europe as a shift in the European balance of power.
         HITLER, [Speeches and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 940
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 703

         In a speech to an assembly of NSDAP Kreisleiters on 29 April 1937:
         However, it is desirable for us not to have a Bolshevist state in existence there [Spain], which might form a land bridge connecting France and North Africa.
         HITLER, [Speeches and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 890

         In his Reichstag speech on 30 January 1937:
         The case of Spain, from which country 15,000 Germans have been driven out, shows the danger of the Bolshevist infection.
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 2, Page 1337

         In his Reichstag speech on 20 February 1938:
         Or that Bolshevist revolution, which slaughtered millions upon millions of people and whose blood-stained murderers hold positions of high esteem in the councils of democratic institutions?  Or should I recall the carnage of the Marxist mob in Spain, whose victims, according to estimates of cautious men who themselves come from the lands of democracy, number half a million or more?
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 2, Page 1379

         And finally, in Berlin on 26 April 1942:
         All of us remember, however, the latest and the decisive duel in Spain where, under the leadership of one man a clear and unequivocal decision was forced; and where, after a bloody civil war, the national revolution conquered the Bolshevik arch-enemy.
         HITLER'S WORDS, by Adolph Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 84

         In claiming he had saved Germany from Bolshevism Hitler simultaneously alleged he had saved Europe itself.  In Berlin on 14 October 1933 he stated:
         If the Red Revolution had overswept Germany like a firebrand, then the cultural countries of western Europe would have soon learned that it was not a matter of indifference to them whether on the Rhine and on the North Sea a spiritually revolutionary and expanding Asiatic power stood watch, or the peaceful German peasants and working men who in genuine comradeship with the other nations of our European culture wished only to earn their daily bread by honest labor.  In saving Germany from this threatening catastrophe, the National Socialist Movement saved not only the German nation but also did a historical service to the whole of Europe.
         HITLER'S WORDS, by Adolph Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 203

         In Berlin on 21 May 1935:
         Bolshevism was defeated in a decisive struggle.  National Socialism has saved Germany, and perhaps all Europe, from the most frightful catastrophe of all time.
         HITLER'S WORDS, by Adolph Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 256

         Victory over “bolshevist” control in Spain was achieved by Germany working in conjunction with its closest ally, Italy, just as America’s recent victory over Baathist rule in Iraq was accomplished through unity with its closest ally, Britain.  In referring to this success in a speech before the Reichstag on 30 January 1939 Hitler said:
         The solidarity of these two regimes [Italy and Germany] is therefore more than a matter of egotistic expediency.  On this solidarity is founded the salvation of Europe from its threatened destruction by Bolshevism.
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 2, Page 1576

         In Berlin on 30 January 1939 he noted the alleged contribution of Germany and Italy to European salvation:
         What Fascism has done for the preservation of civilization is as yet incalculable.  Who can stroll through Rome or Florence without being moved at the thought of the fate that all these unique documents of human art and civilization would have suffered if Mussolini and his Fascist Movement had not succeeded in saving Italy from Bolshevism....  On this solidarity [between Germany and Italy] is founded the salvation of Europe from its threatened destruction by Bolshevism.
         HITLER'S WORDS, by Adolph Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 290

         Hitler felt that some European nations had already saved themselves and were in no need of German intervention.  In Obersalzberg on 31 August 1938 he stated:
         The greatest threat to Europe is that of a Bolshevist permeation, a threat similar to that in Germany at the time.  I no longer think that such a permeation is possible in countries such as Holland, Belgium, and France.  These countries have vanquished the Russo-Asiatic communism.  While internal crises may and will take place there yet, France will not, for instance, fall prey to this philosophy of destruction.
         HITLER, [Speeches and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 1137

         And he warned France of bolshevism when he said:
         They [the British and French] will have to defend themselves against Jewish and Marxist intrigues.
         SECRET CONVERSATIONS WITH HITLER, Edited by Edouard Calic, 1971. Page 63

         Hitler eventually concluded not only European but Western Civilization itself was at risk and sounded the alarm.  In his closing speech at the Parteitag in Nuremberg on 3 September 1933 he said:
         If in West or Central Europe but one single people were to fall a victim to Bolshevism, this poison would continue its ravages, it would devastate the oldest, the fairest civilization which can today be found upon this earth.
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 481

         In an interview with The Times correspondent in Berlin on 14 October 1930:
         The Bolshevization of Russia had already given the whole civilized world a jolt; if Germany became an annex of Bolshevist Russia, Western civilization would get a much worse and probably fatal jolt.
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 2, Page 998

         And because of this assessment of the overall situation he unilaterally expanded the area under his “protective” umbrella to include all of Western civilization.  In an interview with Mr. Baillie of the United Press in November 1935 he said:
         Germany is the bulwark of the West against Bolshevism....  Germany will continue to fight Communism with whatever weapons Communism itself selects.  We will meet propaganda with propaganda, terror with terror, and violence with violence.
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 668

         Never one to prefer micro-management over macro management Hitler understandably came to the ultimate conclusion that he must save the entire world from bolshevism just as Bush has concluded his role is one of saving the world from al Qaeda and terrorism.  How could his goal be clearer when he says:
         ... the Bolshevism which it is our sacred goal to save the world from.
         HITLER--MEMOIRS OF A CONFIDANT, by Otto Wegener, 1985, page 44

         In an interview with Rothay Reynolds, correspondent of the Daily Mail, after the great National Socialist victory in the election of 1930 Hitler stated:
         To have a strong party in Germany which will form a bulwark against Bolshevism is in the interest not only of England but also of all nations.
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 2, Page 993

         We shall rouse the anti-communist forces in all countries.  If we do not do so, one day we shall be threatened both militarily and politically by this bolshevist Russia.  The political threat will be there on the very day we seize power.  Even today, therefore, we are thinking of an anti--Comintern policy in all countries.  Once Germany is provided with a modern army, the Soviet Union would never be a danger to her.  But this Weimar Germany will be an easy prey for the bolshevists.
         SECRET CONVERSATIONS WITH HITLER, Edited by Edouard Calic, 1971. Page 61

         In the Voelkischer Beobachter of December 13/14, 1931:
         At the time of the foundation of our Movement, Germany stood for the first time on the brink of Bolshevism.  From that day on, the Movement had as its first principle the prevention, under any circumstances, of a development which would surrender such a great people as the German people to Bolshevism and therewith to cultureless barbarism.
         We were convinced already 12 years ago, as we are today, that the victory of Communism in Germany would be the beginning of a general world catastrophe.  The political, cultural and economic life of the civilized nations is so interwoven that a blow directed against Germany would undeniably be immediately felt beyond her borders.  All the hopes for the recovery of the world from the present suffering and shame would have to be buried at that moment when the Red Soviet flag would be carried from Moscow as far as Hamburg and Heidelberg.  The effects on the world would be inconceivable.
         The struggle against this danger is a tremendous and difficult one.  The political and economic treatment of Germany prescribed by an unreasonable hate since the dictate of Versailles is responsible for breeding over 6,000,000 full-fledged Communists among us, who declare themselves the advance guard of the world revolution from Moscow.  In America Communism is as yet comparatively insignificant.  If there were in America in the same ratio [as in Germany] 12,000,000 Communists with the same tendencies and the same objectives, then America would understand the necessity of our Movement and America would then take up the struggle against this world pest with the greatest determination.
         In view of this great danger I should like to hope, as a German National Socialist, that out of an inner impulse for self-preservation, America will also be sympathetic toward our struggle and that America will help in removing at least some of the causes of Bolshevism.
         HITLER'S WORDS, by Adolph Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 345

         In a speech to the Reichstag on 30 January 1937:
         The second fracture [of Europe] arose as a result of the proclamation of the Bolshevist doctrine, one of whose integral components is that it does not confine itself to a single people but aims to be forced upon all peoples.
         At issue here is not a special form of life indigenous to, let us say, the Russian people; rather, it is the Bolshevist goal of world revolution.
         HITLER, [Speeches and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 868

         A Bolshevik victory would destroy the world according to Hitler just as would an al Qaeda/terrorist victory according to Bush:
         If Bolshevism triumphed, mankind would lose the gift of laughter and joy.  It would become merely a shapeless mass, doomed to greyness and despair.
         HITLER'S TABLE TALK, 1941-1944, Translated by Cameron & Stevens, 2000, page 322

         There was no doubt in the Fuhrer’s mind that although Germany was immune to bolshevism the rest of the world was not.  In his closing speech at the Nuremberg Parteitag of 1937 he said:
         So far as we are concerned, Germany like present-day Italy has already become immune from this danger; i.e. National Socialism, like Fascism, has sought to remove from the organism of our people those weaknesses which might have favored the inflow of Bolshevist poisons....
         Yet however secure may be the position of Germany today--in spite of the persistent efforts of the criminal organization in Moscow to smuggle into Germany its agents and its disintegrating propaganda--we are convinced that a great part of the world about us is utterly insecure....
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 694

Chapter 6

         For ulterior as opposed to humanitarian motives Hitler gave unemployment the highest billing on the agenda of social ills to be fought in Germany.  It lie at the apex of his ‘hit list’ and he made that apparent on numerous occasions.
        In his speech on 17 April 1934 to the organizers of the Winter-Help Campaign he said:
         For the moment our whole effort is concentrated unreservedly on the struggle against unemployment.
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 891

         In a speech inaugurating the second year's battle against unemployment addressed to workers at Unterhaching on 21 March 1934:
         Unemployment is the gigantic problem which is set before us for solution: in face of that problem everything else must take second-place.
         From the very day when we assumed power we were convinced that we had to master this evil, and we were determined ruthlessly to subordinate everything else to the fight against this evil.
         MY NEW ORDER by Hitler, Edited by Raoul de Roussy de Sales, 1941, Page 248

         In a speech near Munich on 21 March 1934:
         The fight for saving the Mittelstand [the middle-class] is primarily also a fight against unemployment.  This is the one gigantic problem which we are to solve and in view of which everything else must come second.
         HITLER, SPEECHES AND PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 442

         In the same speech:
         At the head of our present programme I would place once again the demand raised last year: the battle against unemployment!  Create work and thereby create bread and life!
         In the year which lies before us we must wage the campaign against unemployment with still greater fanaticism, with still greater determination than in the year which is past.  With ruthless severity we must repel everyone who offends against this idea and its realization.
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 887

         Also in the same speech:
         Above all, as a menacing danger, they're loomed the scourge of distress--Unemployment.
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 879

         In the great Machinery Hall at Elbing on 5 November 1933:
         The problem of unemployment must be solved: we have not an unlimited time for the task, and on the solution of this problem everything depends, not only for a State but for everyone.
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 2, Page 1134

         In his speech on May Day 1934:
         I do not imagine that when we have solved the problem of unemployment there will be nothing more for us to do: I have never asserted that there are no other tasks awaiting us.  But I can assure our critics that we will never rest until we have first accomplished this one task; and I can further assure them that we are not accomplishing this task in order then to lay us down to sleep.
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 893

         In a proclamation at a party convention on 9 September 1936:
         We are less interested in whether the upper classes get so and so much butter all the year round, but we are greatly concerned to assure cheaper fats for the broad masses and, most of all, to keep them from unemployment.
         MY NEW ORDER  by Adolph Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 393

         In an interview with Louis Lochner of the Associated Press on 4 April 1934:
         Naturally the first step must be to eliminate the scourge of unemployment.  However, as soon as our Volk has work again, buying power will also increase, and then the logical next step is an increase in the standard of living....  I also believe that it is absolutely right that an invention should first be the property of the inventor;...
         HITLER, SPEECHES AND PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 444

         In a statement to the Reichstag regarding the Enabling Act on 23 March 1933:
         The stagnation of millions of human working hours is madness and a crime which must inevitably lead to the impoverishment of all.
         HITLER, SPEECHES AND PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 281

         And in Munich on 24 February 1941:
         For we, the poor, have abolished unemployment because we no longer pay homage to this madness [maintaining the gold standard], because we regard our entire economic existence as a production problem and no longer as a capitalistic problem.  We placed the whole organized strength of the nation, the discipline of the entire nation, behind our economic policy.  We explained to the nation that it was madness to wage internal economic wars between the various classes, in which they all perish together.
         HITLER'S WORDS, by Adolph Hitler, Edited by Gordon Prange, 1944, page 336

         Hitler’s reference to himself as poor is blatant duplicity of the most egregious order.  Talk about playing to the gallery!

         Hitler devoted enormous energy to the elimination of any and all internal societal failings that engendered Marxism and none were judged by him to be more conducive to the growth of bolshevism than unemployment.  That accounts for its position at the top of his social agenda.  Eradication of the primary base for Marxism was his ulterior motive and altruism was not even a factor.  He repeatedly proclaimed unemployment to be the major economic evil not out of any sympathy for the beleaguered masses but only to forestall the growth of Marxism.  Joblessness was seen as the sine qua non perpetrator of ideological subversion and on more than one occasion Hitler made no secret of his views in this matter.
        On 28 October 1933 he spoke in Stuttgart and said:
         The scourge of unemployment was the fruitful soil for the growth of Bolshevism, which, as a doctrine of madness, would only complete the catastrophe and would infect not merely Germany but the whole world.
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 2, Page 1125
 

         In that illuminating speech at the Industry Club in Dusseldorf on 27 January 1932:
         And in this I am not taking into account what, in my judgment, is at the present moment the worst evil, an evil which I would characterize as not merely economic but in the highest sense of the word a national--volkic--evil--I mean unemployment.
         ... Do you believe that when 7 or 8 million men have found themselves for 10 or 20 years excluded from the national process of production that for these masses Bolshevism could appear as anything else than the logical theoretical complement of their actual, practical, economic situation?  Do you really believe that the purely spiritual side of this catastrophe can be overlooked and that one day it will not transform itself into bitter reality--the evil curse following on the evil deed?
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 802

         The crisis has not yet reached its peak.  Unemployment cannot be dealt with by weekly contributions and soup kitchens.  Unemployment and the economic crisis are grist to the communist mill.
         SECRET CONVERSATIONS WITH HITLER, Edited by Edouard Calic, 1971. Page 22

         In one of those comments that no doubt account for much of Hitler’s national support by the downtrodden, he derided all attempts to minimize the agony of joblessness by saying being unemployed is far worse than the word itself sounds.
        In that infamous speech to the Industry Club in Dusseldorf on 27 January 1932 he said:
         With this word of employment one is but shamefacedly seeking to put a better appearance upon hard facts: for the proper term is not "workless" but "existence-less" and therefore in truth "superfluous."  It is the characteristic feature of our European nations that gradually a certain percentage of the population is proved statistically to be superfluous.
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 800

         As a counterbalance to unemployment and to combat bolshevism Hitler had no hesitancy about supporting public works projects and said as much.
        In an interview with Anne McCormick on 10 July 1933 he said:
         You ask me what we are going to do on the economic front.  The first big step is the program of public works.
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 866

         In Berlin on 1 May 1933:
         And this leads to yet another task: elimination of unemployment by a program providing employment.  We are dividing this employment program into two parts.  First of all, there is private provision of employment...  We will also attempt to provide public employment opportunities on a large scale within the current year.  We are installing a program which we do not want to pass on to posterity, the program of building a new road system, a gigantic undertaking which will require billions.  We will sweep away resistance and make a great beginning.  We will thereby introduce a series of public works projects which will help to steadily decrease the unemployment rate.
         HITLER, SPEECHES AND PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 315

         In another grab for mass support Hitler sang a melodious but deceptive aria that entranced many German workers and has been employed with some variations by Bush, the latter’s supporters, and many of his predecessors.
        In a speech in Nuremberg on 1 September 1933 he stated:
         Among the tasks we face, the most important is the question of eliminating unemployment.  The danger in unemployment is not only a material one.  It is neither logical, nor moral, nor just, to continue taking away from those who are able to work a part of the fruits of their industry in order to maintain those unable to work--no matter for what reasons they are unable.  It is more logical to distribute the work itself instead of distributing wages.  No one has a moral right to demand that others should work for him so that he will not have to work himself.  Each has a right to demand that the political organization of his nation, the State, find ways and means to give work to all.
         MY NEW ORDER  by Adolph Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 194

         And finally, after being in power for approximately 4 years Hitler proclaimed victory over unemployment and, thus, concocted an additional deception of the German people.  In Nuremberg on 7 September 1937 he said:
         It is a fact that Germany has solved its most pressing social problem, and solved it absolutely: there are no longer any real unemployed in our country.
         HITLER, [Speeches and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 923

         Not only did Hitler confront unemployment by fair means and foul, but he dealt with the closely associated topic of the unions in his own iniquitous style.  To Hitler the unions were a breeding ground for Marxism and his task was to separate the two under the guise of protecting the workers from negative influences and leading elements seeking only personal aggrandizement.
        In a speech at the First Congress of German Workers on 10 May 1933 he said:
         Marxism, as a conception of the world with disintegration for its aim, saw with keen insight that the trade-union movement offered it the possibility in the future of conducting its attack against the State and against human society with an absolutely annihilating weapon.  Not with any idea of helping the worker--what is the worker of any country to these apostles of internationalism?  Nothing at all!  They never see him!  They themselves are no workers: they are litterateurs, an alien Gang!  They saw clearly that by means of the trade-union movement and through a most friendly encouragement of excesses perpetrated by the other side they could most easily procure for themselves an instrument which would both conduct the fight and on the other hand would provide them with their livelihood.  For throughout these decades political Social Democracy [the Left Wing Parties in general] has lived from this battle and from this fighting-organization.  One had to inoculate the trade union with the idea: You are an instrument of the class-war and that war in the last resort can find its political leaders only in Marxism.  What is then more comprehensible than that one should also pay one's tribute to the leadership?  And the tribute was exacted in full measure.  These gentlemen have not been content with a tithe: they demanded a considerably higher rate of interest.
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 846
         HITLER, SPEECHES AND PROCLAMATIONS 1932-45, Vol. 1, by Max Domarus, page 320

         Several times he openly admitted the Nazis were taking over the unions.
        In his proclamation issued on New Year's Day 1934 Hitler said:
         We have endeavored to free economic life from those parasites who saw the safety of their own existence in organizing divisions amongst the people.  We have accordingly taken the organizations out of the hands of the international Marxist destroyers of our trades unions as they were originally conceived,...
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 641

         In his speech on May Day 1934:
         When on 2 May we began the destruction of the party-system in Germany by laying hands upon the trade unions, that was done not in order to rob any Germans of representative institutions serving a useful purpose, but to free the German people from those organizations the greatest abuse of which was that they were forced to encourage abuses in order to prove the necessity for their own existence.  By so acting we have rescued the German people from an incalculable amount of internal strife and discord which benefited no one save those who were directly interested in maintaining that discord, but always wrought fatal mischief upon the whole people.
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 892

         At the Congress of the German Labor Front in Berlin on 10 May 1933:
         I must now speak of another measure, the freeing of the present existing unions from the influence of those men who believe that they possess in those unions a last line of defense....  We are taking them over, not to preserve everything in the same form for the future but to save for the German working-man all that he had put by in these organizations in the way of savings and, furthermore, in order that the German worker might cooperate in the building of the new state, to enable him to do this on a basis of equality.  We are not erecting a state against him; no, with him must the new state be built up.
         THE HITLER DECREES, by James Pollock and Harlow Heneman, 1934, Page 75

         But far more revealing are his candid admissions that the unions were being destroyed by his forces.  The executions occurred in a manner not too dissimilar from that employed decades later against the Air Traffic Controllers’ Union (Patco) by Bush’s ideological predecessor Ronald Reagan.  The reasons were different but the methods and outcome bore an eerie resemblance.
        In a Reichstag speech on 21 May 1935 Hitler stated:
         The destruction of the trade unions, both of employers and employees, which were based on the class struggle, demanded an analogous removal of the political parties which were maintained by these groups of interests, which interests in return supported them.
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 911

         During an electoral campaign in a speech delivered to an audience of German workmen in Berlin on 10 November 1933:
         ...all class organizations--not merely the trade unions--had been destroyed.... I answer: the first thing was to get men back to work.
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 2, Page 1141

         How one accomplishes the latter while performing the former is anyone’s presumption.
         In an attempt to exonerate rank and file workers from responsibility for their alleged predicament while masquerading as their benefactor Hitler sought to dissociate the workers from any adherence to Marxism initially.
        In Mein Kampf he said:
         It was an unequaled absurdity to identify the German worker with Marxism in the days of August, 1914.  In those hours the German worker had disentangled himself from the embrace of this poisonous plague, as otherwise he would never have been able to start this fight.
         MEIN KAMPF, Adolph Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 218

         While destroying the unions under the guise of protecting the workers, he was quick to dissociate the union movement in general from anti-patriotic sentiments by saying:
         It is nonsense and, furthermore, untrue that the union movement in itself is unpatriotic.  Quite the contrary is true.
         MEIN KAMPF, Adolph Hitler, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, page 61

         Despite all his pro-worker, as opposed to pro-union rhetoric, Hitler and his allies stripped the worker of his primary weapon--the right to strike--in any struggle against property owners.  The following comments are quite similar to Reagan’s comments prior to the strike of one particular union, Patco.  Bush’s mentor, Reagan, did to one union, what Hitler did to all of them.
        In a speech to the Reichstag on 30 January 1937 Hitler stated:
         It is quite clear that neither strikes nor lockouts can be tolerated in a sphere where such views prevail.  The National Socialist State does not recognize an economic law of the jungle.  The common interest of the nation--i.e. of our Volk--has priority over the interests of all its competing components.
         HITLER, [Speeches and Proclamations], by Max Domarus, Vol. 2, page 863

         In a speech in Berlin on 30 January 1937:
         There will be no strikes or lockouts in Germany, because everyone has to serve the interest of the entire nation.
         MY NEW ORDER  by Adolph Hitler, Edited by de Sales, 1941, page 409

         In his speech at the Second Workers' Congress of the Labor Front on 16 May 1934:
         ...But in fact no one can tolerate strikes.  Just as a people, ordered in a community, cannot permit an individual to fight out his dispute with another with the fist, so also in the economic sphere.  It is always the whole nation which suffers.  Sixty millions have to foot the bill only because two cannot come to an agreement.  Over both parties there must naturally stand another-- a higher authority, and that is the authority of the community, the authority of the State, which must be completely impartial, completely free....  The State is the bailiff neither of the employer nor of the workman: it stands above both the interested parties, its task is to safeguard unity according to the laws of equity, justice, and reason which are the same for all of us.  And he who refuses to observe those laws will find that above his individual profit stands the common profit of the nation whose representatives we are.  Only so can this problem be solved.
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 900

         And in the same speech:
         ...to let loose a strike is sheer madness--just as mad as to give support to the unemployed without demanding any service in return.  The community of the people does not exist to burden one part of the nation in favor of the other.  Work must be created.
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 899

         In his Reichstag speech on 30 January 1937:
         It is quite clear that, under the aegis of such an outlook on economic life, strikes and lock-outs can no longer be tolerated.  The National Socialist State repudiates the right of economic coercion.  Above all contracting parties stand the economic interests of the nation, which are the interests of the people.
         ... While in other countries strikes or lock-outs shatter the stability of national production, our millions of productive workers obey the highest of all laws that we have in this world, namely the law of common sense.
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 938

         And lastly, strikes, especially general strikes, were anathema to Hitler because they were considered merely political instruments used by Marxists.
        In a speech at the First Congress of German Workers on 10 May 1933 he said:
         This class-war leads to the proclamation of the trade union as simply an instrument for the representation of the economic interests of the working classes and therewith for the purposes of the general strike.  Thus the general strike appears for the first time as a means for exercising political power and shows what Marxism really hoped to gain from this weapon--not a means for the salvation of the worker, but on the contrary only an instrument of war for the destruction of the State which opposed Marxism.
         HITLER'S SPEECHES by Norman Baynes, 1942, VOLUME 1, Page 847

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