Adolf Hitler’s speech painted the upcoming national election as a pivotal, existential choice between two fundamentally different paths for Germany. One represented the established parties that had governed for thirteen years—seen by him as part of an internationally oriented, inefficient, and fragmented political tradition. The other, his movement, focused on humanitarian nationalism, national unity, and drawing strength from the German people themselves.
He accused the Weimar establishment of sixteen years (note: he actually refers to thirteen years) of economic mismanagement—ruining farmers and the middle class, dismantling public finances, and causing mass unemployment—and said these parties refused to take responsibility, preferring to criticize just the previous six weeks of political turmoil instead.
Hitler mocked the overwhelming political fragmentation under the Weimar system by sarcastically listing the many parties representing every class and interest—workers, middle class, farmers, renters—saying that in a tiny state such divisions made decision-making impossible. Against this backdrop of 34 parties, he offered a unifying alternative: “I have set myself one goal... to sweep these thirty-four parties out of Germany.”.
He concluded with a stirring ideological declaration: the movement did not represent a single profession, class, region, or religion, but sought to educate Germans that there can be no justice without power, no power without strength—and that strength must reside within the German people themselves.
