“Language of the Third Reich: Party Rally of “loyalty” in Nurnberg. Loyalty, of all things, after the revolt. Always have the cheek to claim the opposite. The Fuhrer: Order for a thousand years. Once more the fantastic number. Once more against ‘irresolute intellectualism’ …
Goebbels’ speech about propaganda. Propaganda ‘must not lie’. It ‘must be creative.’ — ‘Fear of the people is the characteristic feature of the liberal conception of the state.’ We practice an ‘active influencing’ of the people ‘complemented by a systematic long-term education of a people.’ ‘At certain times statesmen must have the courage also to do unpopular things. But the unpopular has to be prepared for in advance, and its presentation must be properly formulated, so that the people understand it…’ (September 6, ’34). On the eighth: ‘We must speak the language the people understand. Whoever wants to talk to the people, must, as Martin Luther says, listen to what people have to say.’
Once again the Fuhrer appeals to ‘heroic instincts.’ The subordinate leaders emphasize once again: ‘Adolf Hitler is Germany.'”
— Sept. 11, 1934
