Speech delivered by Hitler in Salzburg (NSDAP meeting)
The following
quotation is from a shorthand transcript.
"This is the
first demand we must raise and do [reversal of the Versailles Treaty
provisions]: that our people be set free, that these chains be burst asunder,
that Germany be once again captain of her soul and master of her destinies,
together with all those who want to join Germany. (Applause)
And the
fulfillment of this first demand will then open up the way for all the other
reforms. And here is one thing that perhaps distinguishes us from you
[Austrians] as far as our programme is concerned, although it is very much in
the spirit of things: our attitude to the Jewish problem.
For us, this is
not a problem you can turn a blind eye to-one to be solved by small
concessions. For us, it is a problem of whether our nation can ever recover its
health, whether the Jewish spirit can ever really be eradicated. Don't be
misled into thinking you can fight a disease without killing the carrier,
without destroying the bacillus. Don't think you can fight racial tuberculosis
without taking care to rid the nation of the carrier of that racial
tuberculosis. This Jewish contamination will not subside, this poisoning of the
nation will not end, until the carrier himself, the Jew, has been banished from
our midst. (Applause)