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Excerpts from Hitler’s Speech before the first "Greater German Reichstag" (January 30, 1939)

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For it is said:

1. ‘We’ – that is, the democracies – ‘are not in a situation to take in the Jews!’ And yet in these world empires there are not even 10 people per square kilometer, while Germany has to feed 135 per square kilometer, and is still supposed to be able to accommodate them.

2. We are told: ‘We cannot take them unless they are given, by Germany, for example, a certain amount of capital for immigration.’

For centuries, however, it was perfectly all right for Germany to receive these elements, though they possessed nothing except infectious political and sanitary diseases. What that people possesses today, it has acquired by way of the vilest manipulations at the expense of the not-very-astute German Volk.

Today we are merely undoing the harm for which these people are themselves to blame. Back when the German Volk lost its entire savings from decades of honest work to the inflation instigated and promoted by the Jews, when the rest of the world took away the German Volk's foreign assets, when we were dispossessed of all our colonial possessions, such philanthropic considerations do not seem to have had any meaningful influence on these democratic statesmen.

Today, I can only assure these gentlemen that we, thanks to the brutal education that the democracies have inflicted upon us for fifteen years, are completely hardened against any sentimental stirrings.

We witnessed how, after more than 800,000 of our children had already died of hunger and undernourishment at the end of the war, nearly a million dairy cows were driven away in accordance with the cruel provisions of a dictate that the democratic, humane apostles of the world forced upon us as a peace treaty.

We witnessed how more than a million German prisoners of war were kept in confinement for no reason at all for a whole year after the war ended. We had to endure that well over a million Germans in our border regions were torn from their property and possessions and driven out with almost nothing but the clothes on their backs.

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