"Upswing Unprecedented"

Ever since the German people got exactly what they wanted for a Chancellor exactly two years ago last week, the Fatherland has been expectant that next week or the week after beloved Adolf Hitler would arise and state his domestic program, his foreign policy or his religious views with clear precision. On the great Second Anniversary last week hopes were especially high. Full text of Der Reichsfuehrer's speech, not broadcast because Orator Hitler was said to be "too hoarse", but printed by every newsorgan in the Fatherland so that no German should miss a single precious word:

"Today and in this hour two years ago, after an upswing unprecedented even in the history of parliamentarily governed States, National Socialism attained power and with it responsibility in the German Reich.

"Just as the outbreak of the World War represents an historic turning point not only in the memory of living witnesses but also for coming generations, so to no less a degree does this beginning of the government of National Socialism represent a turning point for our German people.

"The National Socialist regime has lifted up a nation that had wasted away in dull desperation and has filled it with strong faith and confidence in the innate values and creative powers of its own life.

"And this is National Socialism's greatest and most decisive merit: the transformation of external symbols has been followed by the transformation of the people's soul. In joyous self-discipline uncounted millions have placed themselves in the service of the new idea. Beside the fanatical fighters of our revolutionary National Socialist party have stepped the soldiers of the tradition-richest army.

"The mobilization of human energies took place on a scale hitherto scarcely conceived. From the swarming millions of our youth to the gigantic community of workers of the fist and brow, active in one front, we see the witnesses of National Socialistic organizational art and organizational work.

"In this an old world was not destroyed to build up a new one later; rather the newly-arriving world has overcome the old. At no moment of our National Socialist revolution did there arise a vacuum. At no stage of our advance and our battles was there chaos. The least sanguinary revolution of world history was yet one of its most decisive!

"It was therefore in the long run futile to attempt to deny or falsify the character of our National Socialist revolution through an international campaign of vilification and lies. Hundreds of thousands of men and women from all nations who had an opportunity during the last two years of judging Germany from what their own eyes saw became witnesses of the greatness and discipline of the National Socialist uprising. And they continue to be the best witnesses of our reconstruction work.

"For if on Jan. 30, 1933, I demanded from the German people four years' time for the execution of the first labor program, then two-thirds of this promise has already been fulfilled during the first half of this period! No democratic government in the world can therefore submit with greater confidence to the people's vote than Germany's National Socialist government.

"We did not make a revolution for the sake of a revolution, rather our will to build up the new German Reich required the removal of the old powers that had oppressed it.

"The overwhelming majority of our former opponents have long since in their innermost hearts apologized to us. We had always hoped that this would come. In submitting our intentions and our work to just investigation, they found in the end in us and through us realization of what they themselves had longed for in their innermost hearts, namely, a Germany of honor, of freedom, of social happiness.

"If we do not celebrate today this year with great festivities the reason is the sorrow that we feel in view of the death during the past year of the man [Hindenburg] who two years ago entrusted me and therewith the National Socialist movement with the leadership of Germany. We all contemplate with deep emotion the link that led our movement so symbolically from the past into the future!

"Besides that, however, the greatest festival this year is not to be a festival in memory of the attainment of power but a festival of joy on the day on which the Germans of the Saar return.

"They will find a people worthy of themselves and a Reich in which it has for Germans again become a joy to live. They will find a national community in which uncounted millions, from the National Socialist fighter to the soldier and from the laborer to the official, are working in loyal comradeship and honest fulfillment of duty for the reconstruction of the State and the bringing up of a nation that desires to maintain itself in this world in honor, peace and diligence."

Significance. In this great oration-- and Der Reichsfuehrer is the greatest vote-getting orator of the age--the one precise statement is that on Jan. 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler laid down a four-year labor program which last week had been two-thirds fulfilled. Exactly what was this labor program?

On Feb. 1. 1933, two days after he became Chancellor, Herr Hitler said: "The National Government, with iron will and tenacious perseverance, will realize the following plan: Within four years the German farmer must be relieved from impoverishment! [Cheers'] Within four years unemployment must be definitely overcome! [Cheers') Within four years conditions must be established for prosperity in other branches of industry! [Cheers')"

In mid-April correspondents were told that Der Fuehrer would "lift the veil" from this Four-Year Plan when he addressed 1,000,000 German workers massed at Tempelhofer Field on Labor Day, May 1, 1933. On the historic May Day, the 1,000,000 assembled German workers cheered Leader Hitler to the echo when he roared: "German people, remember yourselves! We want to imbue, nay burn, into the minds of our people: German people, you are not a second class people, even if a thousand times the world wants to have it that way, YOU ARE NOT INFERIOR IN VALUE NOR SECONDARY IN IMPORTANCE!" Since then Realmleader Hitler has neither uttered nor published any statistical goals for his Four-Year Labor Program which he declared last week had been two-thirds fulfilled.

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