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List of speeches given by Adolf Hitler

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Hitler's prophecy speech of 30 January 1939

From his first speech in 1919 in Munich until the last speech in February 1945, Adolf Hitler, dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, gave a total of 1525 speeches. In 1932, for the presidential campaign and two federal elections that year, he gave the most speeches (totalling 241).

Because the Reichstag building was destroyed by a fire on 27 February 1933, all of Hitler’s addresses to the Reichstag were held at the neighbouring Kroll Opera House.

Speeches

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Bolded dates indicate a link to a separate article or full text on that particular speech.

Date Place Speech
16 October1919Munich, Hofbräukeller's beer hall.Hitler's first arranged public speech. He had joined the German Workers' Party the previous month. 111 attended.[1]
13 November1919Munich, Eberlbräukeller.Hitler's second arranged public speech. 130 attended. 4 speakers. Subject of the meeting: "Brest-Litovsk or Versailles?"[2] Hecklers began to shout out in the middle of the speech and were violently ejected.[3]
24 February1920Munich, Hofbräuhaus.First speech at a larger venue. 2,000 attended. The 25 article political programme founding the new National Socialist German Workers' Party was presented.[4]
11 May1920Munich, Hofbräuhaus.[5]
13 August1920Munich, Hofbräuhaus.Speech title "Why are we Antisemites?". 2,000 attended. 2-hour speech interrupted 58 times by cheering.[6]
3 February1921MunichFirst speech at the Circus Krone, Munich's biggest venue. Speech title "Future or Ruin" – denouncing reparation payment to Allies. 6,000 attended.[7]
4 November1921Munich, Hofbräuhaus.Meeting degenerated into a full scale brawl with political opponents while Hitler was speaking.[8]
9 November1921Munich...[citation needed]
12 April1922Munich"There are only two possibilities: either victory of the Aryan, or annihilation of the Aryan and the victory of the Jew."[9][10]
18 September1922Munich"...Economics is a secondary matter. World history teaches us that no people became great through economics: it was economics that brought them to their ruin."
28 July1922Munich"...IT IS a battle which began nearly 120 years ago, at the moment when the Jew was granted citizen rights in the European States. The political emancipation of the Jews was the beginning of an attack of delirium. " [11]
13 April1923Munich"We ask: 'Must there be wars?' The pacifist answers 'No!' "
24 April1923Munich"The Jew who coined the word meant by 'Proletariat,' not the oppressed, but those who work with their hands."
27 April1923MunichCall for a need to reform, from land reform to reform of press, art, culture, etc.
1 May1923Munich"..then it must symbolize the renewal of the body of a people which has fallen into senility."
1 August1923Munich"..there are two things which can unite men: common ideals and common criminality. "
12 September1923Munich"..the Republic was founded to be a milk-cow for its founders – for the whole parliamentary gang."
26 February1924Munich Trial"It seems strange to me that a man who, as a soldier, was for six years accustomed to blind obedience, should suddenly come into conflict with the State and its Constitution."
27 March1924Munich Trial"When did the ruin of Germany begin?"
27 February1925MunichBürgerbräukeller – Re-founding the National Socialist German Workers' Party. 3,000 attended. On 9 March 1925 Hitler was banned from public speaking by Bavarian government. Most other German states followed suit.[12]
4 July1926Weimar2nd National Socialist German Workers' Party Congress. 6–7,000 attended. First public display of SS.[13]
23 November1926Essen... (Party Convention)
6 March1927VilsbiburgOn 5 March 1927 the Bavarian government lifted the public speaking ban on Hitler, provided the initial speech was not in Munich. 1,000 attended.[14]
9 March1927MunichIn the Circus Krone for the first time since 1923. 7,000 capacity audience[14]
30 March1927MunichIn the Circus Krone. 5,000 attended[15]
6 April1927MunichIn the Circus Krone. Only 1,500 attended.[15]
1 May1927BerlinIn the Clou concert hall – Hitler's first speech in Berlin. Hitler was still banned from making public speeches in Prussia so the only legal way he could speak was to make this a private event open only to 4,000 party members[16]
16 November1928BerlinOn 28 September 1928, following the poor performance of the National Socialists in the 20 May 1928 general election, the Prussian government lifted its speaking ban on Hitler. This was Hitler's first speech in the Berlin Sportpalast (Germany's largest venue) which was packed to 12,000 capacity.[15]
2 May1930BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[17]
18 July1930MunichOpening speech of the 1930 election campaign. 8,000 audience.[18]
3 August1930Frankfurt25,000 audience.[18]
5 August1930Würzburg8,000 audience.[18]
7 August1930Grafing4,000 audience.[18]
10 August1930Kiel4,000 audience.[18]
12 August1930MunichCircus Krone. 6,000 audience.[18]
15 August1930Essen30,000 audience.[18]
18 August1930Cologne20,000 audience.[18]
21 August1930Koblenz12,000 audience.[18]
26 August1930Ludwigshafen20,000 audience.[18]
29 August1930MunichCircus Krone. 6,000 audience.[18]
4 September1930Königsberg16,000 audience.[18]
6 September1930Hamburg10,000 audience.[18]
7 September1930Nuremberg15,000 audience.[18]
8 September1930Augsburg10,000 audience.[18]
10 September1930BerlinSportpalast – 16,000 audience.[19]
12 September1930BreslauJahrhunderthalle – 20,000–25,000 audience.[19]
13 September1930MunichCircus Krone. 6,000 audience. Last speech of the 1930 election campaign. At the 14 September 1930 election the National Socialist Party increased its seats in the Reichstag from 12 to 107, becoming the 2nd largest party. A political earthquake.
4 December 1930 Berlin Hasenheide – in front of students[20]
19 May1931BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[17]
7 June1931ChemnitzAt the Südkampfbahn in front of around 16,000 brownshirts and Hitler Youth boys.[21] Hitler was recorded for the first time on sound film.[22]
1931Berlin... (Hasenheide Beer Hall)
27 January1932Düsseldorf... (Industry Club)
9 February1932BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[17]
27 February1932BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[17]
4 April1932BerlinAt the Lustgarten in front of over 200,000 people for the second round of the German presidential election on 10 April 1932.[23]
4 April1932BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[17]
22 April1932BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[17]
20 July1932 (publication date)Munich (publication place)Franz Eher Nachfolger published Hitler's first phonograph recording titled Hitlers Appell an die Nation ("Hitler's Appeal to the Nation") as propaganda for the German federal election on 31 July 1932.[24]
27 July1932Berlin... (Berlin Stadium)
1 September1932BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[17]
2 November1932BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[17]
20 January1933BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[17]
22 January1933BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[17]
1 February1933Berlin... (Proclamation to the German Nation)[25][26]
10 February1933BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[17][27]
15 February1933Stuttgart...
2 March1933BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[17]
23 March1933Berlin...
8 April1933BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[17]
1 May1933Berlin... (At Tempelhof airfield)
24 October1933BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[17]
10 November1933Berlin... (At Siemens Factory)[28][29]
13 July1934Berlin... (Justification of his actions against the SA leadership in the Night of the Long Knives)[citation needed]
8 November1934Munich...[citation needed]
9 November1934Munich...[citation needed]
7 March1936BerlinAnnouncing remilitarisation of the Rhineland
27 March1936EssenFrom the frame of a locomotive at the Krupp locomotive building for the German parliamentary election on 29 March 1936. Broadcast on all German radio stations. 120,000 audience.[30][31]
12 September1936Nuremberg... (Labour Front)[citation needed]
14 September1936Nuremberg...[citation needed]
30 October1936BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[17]
30 January1937Reichstag...
19 July1937Munich... (On the Opening of the German House of Art)
5 November1937... (given to Foreign Minister and military heads of the Reich)
15 March1938ViennaHofburg (Commemorating the Austrian Anschluss)
28 March1938BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[17]
1 April1938Stuttgart... (Schwaben Hall)
1 May1938Berlin... (Olympic Stadium)
1 May1938Berlin... (Lustgarten)
12 September1938NurembergOn the Sudetenland. The speech was carried live in the United States on CBS Radio, the first time many Americans heard Hitler speak.[32]
26 September1938BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[17]
5 October1938BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[17]
9 October1938Saarbrücken...
6 November1938Weimar...
9 January1939BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[17]
30 January1939BerlinProphecy speech: "If international finance Jewry inside and outside Europe should succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world war, the result will be not the Bolshevization of the earth and thereby the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe."[33]
1 April1939Wilhelmshaven...
28 April1939Berlin...(Response to Franklin Roosevelt)[34][35]
22 August1939Berchtesgaden...Obersalzberg: speech to military leaders, Invasion of Poland will begin
1 September1939BerlinDeclaration of war with Poland. "This night for the first time Polish regular soldiers fired on our territory. Since 5.45 A.M. we have been returning the fire... I am from now on just first soldier of the German Reich. I have once more put on that coat that was the most sacred and dear to me. I will not take it off again until victory is secured, or I will not survive the outcome."[36]
19 September1939Danzig...
6 October1939BerlinCelebratory description of the conquest of Poland, and peace offer to the Allies, in the Reichstag.
10 October1939BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[17]
24 January1940BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[17]
30 January1940BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[17]
3 May1940BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[17]
19 July1940Reichstag...
4 September1940BerlinIn the Sportpalast.
"When the British Air Force drops two or three or four thousand kilograms of bombs, then we will in one night drop 150, 230, 300 or 400,000 kilograms. When they declare they will increase their attacks on our cities, then we will raze their cities to the ground. We will stop the handiwork of those night air pirates, so help us God! The hour will come when one of us will break and it will not be National Socialist Germany!"[37][38][39][40]
18 December1940BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[17]
10 December1940Berlin... (Rheinmetall–Borsig Works)
30 January1941BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[17]
24 February1941MunichIn the Hofbräuhaus. 21 years from the foundation of the NSDAP.[41]
16 March1941Berlin...
6 April1941Berlin... (Order of the Day)
4 May1941Reichstag, BerlinAddress to the Reichstag
3 October1941BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[17]
11 December1941KrolloperDeclaration of war against United States
30 January1942BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[17]
15 February1942BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[17]
30 May1942BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[17]
28 September1942BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[17]
30 September1942BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[17]
8 November1942Löwenbräukeller (Stiglmaierplatz)Hitler's Stalingrad speech
23 March1943BerlinZeughaus: Address to the Heldengedenktag
8 November1943Löwenbräukeller (Stiglmaierplatz)Speech on the 20th anniversary of the Munich Putsch, the so-called march on the Feldherrnhalle[42]
11 November1943BreslauJahrhunderthalle: Address to 10,000 officer cadets
1 July1944BerlinReichskanzlei: Act of state, funeral speech Generaloberst Dietl
4 July1944BerchtesgadenPlatterhof, Obersalzberg: Speech to 200 senior managers of German industry
20 July1944Wolf's LairRadio address following assassination attempt by Claus von Stauffenberg
1 January1945AdlerhorstFührerhauptquartier: Radio address: New year speech
30 January1945Reichskanzlei, BerlinRadio address: Anniversary of coming to power.
24 February1945BerlinLast Speech on the Silver Jubilee anniversary of the founding of the Nazi Party.

Other

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Only one known recording exists of Hitler's voice when he is not giving a speech. An engineer for Finnish state broadcaster Yle secretly recorded 11 minutes of Hitler's 1942 meeting with Finnish leader Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim.

References

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  1. ↑ Ian Kershaw Hitler: 1889–1936 Hubris. Penguin, 1998. p. 140
  2. ↑ Payne, Robert (1973). The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler. London: Jonathan Cape. p. 142. ISBN 0-224-00927-3.
  3. ↑ Toland, John (1976). Adolf Hitler. New York: Doubleday & Company. p. 94. ISBN 0-385-03724-4.
  4. ↑ Ian Kershaw Hitler: 1889–1936 Hubris. Penguin, 1998. p. 141
  5. ↑ "bc.edu". Archived from the original on 29 July 2018. Retrieved 18 June 2017.
  6. ↑ Ian Kershaw Hitler: 1889–1936 Hubris. Penguin, 1998. p. 152
  7. ↑ Ian Kershaw Hitler: 1889–1936 Hubris. Penguin, 1998. p. 156
  8. ↑ Ian Kershaw Hitler: 1889–1936 Hubris. Penguin, 1998. p. 176
  9. ↑ "Adolf Hitler - Collection of Speeches 1922 - 1945" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 April 2016.
  10. ↑ "Adolf Hitler". history.hanover.edu. Retrieved 24 March 2023.
  11. ↑ http://www.wotansvolk.be/_greatpers/HitlerA/speeches/Speeches_Written/AHS-07-28-22.html
  12. ↑ Ian Kershaw Hitler: 1889–1936 Hubris. Penguin, 1998. p. 266
  13. ↑ Ian Kershaw Hitler: 1889–1936 Hubris. Penguin, 1998. p. 278
  14. 1 2 Ian Kershaw Hitler: 1889–1936 Hubris. Penguin, 1998. p. 292
  15. 1 2 3 Ian Kershaw Hitler: 1889–1936 Hubris. Penguin, 1998. p. 293
  16. ↑ Spiegel Online, Hamburg, Germany (29 November 2012). "Conquering the Capital". Der Spiegel.
  17. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 "Berlin West". www.hitlerpages.com.
  18. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Mühlberger, Detlef (2017). Hitler's Voice: Organisation & development of the Nazi Party. Peter Lang. ISBN 978-3906769721.
  19. 1 2 Ian Kershaw Hitler: 1889–1936 Hubris. Penguin, 1998. p. 330
  20. ↑ Brechtken, Magnus (2017). Albert Speer. Siedler. p. 31.
  21. ↑ Goschler, Constantin, ed. (1994). Hitler: Reden, Schriften, Anordnungen: Februar 1925 bis Januar 1933 (in German). Vol. IV: Von der Reichstagswahl bis zur Reichspräsidentenwahl: Oktober 1930–März 1932. Teil 1: Oktober 1930–Juni 1931. Munich; New Providence; London; Paris: K. G. Saur. p. 402. ISBN 3-598-21935-0.
  22. ↑ "Fox Tönende Wochenschau (Originaltitel) Woche 15 / 1933" [Fox Movietone News (original title) Week 15 / 1933]. German Federal Archives (in German). n.d. 2:48 minutes in. Retrieved 18 August 2025.
  23. ↑ Fritzsche, Peter (2021). Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 65. ISBN 978-0-19-887112-5.
  24. ↑ Lankheit, Klaus A., ed. (1996). Hitler: Reden, Schriften, Anordnungen: Februar 1925 bis Januar 1933 (in German). Vol. V: Von der Reichspräsidentenwahl bis zur Machtergreifung: April 1932–Januar 1933. Teil 1: April 1932–September 1932. Munich; New Providence; London; Paris: K. G. Saur. p. 216. ISBN 3-598-21936-9.
  25. ↑ "GHDI – Document". ghdi.ghi-dc.org. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
  26. ↑ "Hitler's First Radio Address". www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org. Retrieved 22 January 2023.
  27. ↑ "Proclamation to the German Nation – Adolf Hitler 1933". www.emersonkent.com. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
  28. ↑ "10 November 1933 | Hitler Archive | A Biography in Pictures". www.hitler-archive.com. Retrieved 24 March 2023.
  29. ↑ "Pre-WWII - 1933, Germany: Goering [sic: read Goebbels] Introduces Hitler, Speech At Siemens. 10Nov33". footagefarm.com. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
  30. ↑ Sandner, Harald (2021). Hitler – The Itinerary: Whereabouts and Travels from 1889 to 1945 (PDF). Vol. III: 1934–1939. Berlin: Berlin Story Verlag. p. 1360. ISBN 978-3-95723-180-2.
  31. ↑ Longerich, Peter (2019). Hitler: A Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 444. ISBN 978-0-19-879609-1.
  32. ↑ Cashman, Sean Dennis (1989). America in the Twenties and Thirties: The Olympian Age of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. New York University. p. 555. ISBN 978-0-8147-1413-3.
  33. ↑ Hitler, Adolf. Führer and Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler's Address to the Reichstag.
  34. ↑ "The British War Blue Book Miscellaneous No. 9 (1939) Documents Concerning German-Polish Relations and the Outbreak of Hostilities Between Great Britain and Germany on September 3, 1939 Presented by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to Parliament by Command of His Majesty". avalon.law.yale.edu. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
  35. ↑ "HITLER'S REPLY TO PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S MESSAGE Will Give Assurances Provided There Is Absolute Reciprocity". Morning Bulletin. 29 April 1939. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
  36. ↑ Adolf Hitler (1 September 1939). William C. Fray; Lisa A. Spar (eds.). "Address by Adolf Hitler – September 1, 1939". Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust. Avalon Project, via Florida Institute for Instructional Technology, University of South Florida. Retrieved 31 January 2021.
  37. ↑ Sound recordings of Hitler and Himmler World Future Fund website
  38. ↑ Britain alone page on script for movie about Battle of Britain
  39. ↑ "September 4th 1940". www.battleofbritain1940.net. Archived from the original on 29 March 2023. Retrieved 7 April 2023.
  40. ↑ "Sound Recordings". National Archives. 15 August 2016. Retrieved 7 April 2023.
  41. ↑ "Adolf Hitler Speech by Chancellor Hitler to the Nazi Party in Munich (February 1941)". www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
  42. ↑ 1943-11-08 - Adolf Hitler - Rede im Löwenbräukeller zum 20. Jahrestag des Marsches auf die Feldherrenhalle archive.org

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