"Our policies have not been popular. We have served the truth, and only the truth. For twelve years, they have insulted and outlawed and slandered and persecuted us. Now that we are standing at the doorway to power, Demo-Lib lies have joined with middle-class weakness to fight us. Were we only a party like all the rest, we would collapse under the offensive of our opponents. But we are a people's movement, that is our good fortune. Here and everywhere else in the land, the red, white and blue flag flies over people from all camps, parties, classes, occupations and religious confessions. They laughed at us in the past, but our opponents laugh no longer."
Adapted from "The Storm is Coming" by Joseph Goebbels
The Source: "Der Sturm bricht los" Signale der neuen Zeit. 25 ausgewählte Reden von Dr. Joseph Goebbels (Munich: Zentralverlag der NSDAP., 1934), pp. 82-90. |
