Adolf Hitler Speech: August 1st 1923

1) What unites people & immediate “cleansing”

Two forces unite men: common ideals or common criminality.

NSDAP claims the “great Germanic ideal,” denounces Berlin as a corrupt “cesspool.”

Calls for brutal ruthlessness toward party hacks; officials should be specialists, not party men; restore the civil service and public finances by purging corruption.

2) Total rejection of Versailles

Urges a government to declare Versailles a monstrous lie and refuse compliance: “Do what you will.”

Says willpower, not armaments, wins freedom; any weapons/methods are justified if they secure German freedom over world condemnation.

3) Primacy of domestic “reckoning”

Claims the nation is one-third heroes, one-third cowards, the rest traitors.

Domestic purge before foreign fight: settle accounts with those who led Germany since 1918; divide between proud Germans and those who “are not Germans.”

4) Anti-republic, anti-parliament posture

The “November Republic” is in danger (and should be); predicts its collapse.

Movement formed not for elections but to be ready when the Reich collapses so a new order (“young fir-tree”) stands ready.

5) Toward dictatorship & action

Forecasts path “from Wirth to Cuno to Stresemann” ending in a dictatorship of Jewish finance.

NSDAP vows to back a “dictatorship of national reason/energy/brutality/resolution.”

Emphasizes action over talk as Germany’s only salvation.

6) Munich vs. Berlin; inevitable clash

Says either Berlin marches to Munich or Munich to Berlin; a Bolshevist North and Nationalist Bavaria cannot coexist.

Casts the movement as near-religious “redemption” for millions.

7) Ultimate showdown

Frames future as a decisive struggle: “the spirit of international Jewry” vs. “the will of Germany.”