List of speeches given by Adolf Hitler

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 campaign of two federal elections that year he gave the most speeches, that is 241. Not all have been listed, as it is not practical to do so.

Speeches

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

Date Place Speech
16 October 1919 Munich Hofbräukeller. Hitler's first arranged public speech. He had joined the German Workers' Party the previous month. 111 attended.[1]
13 November 1919 Munich 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 February 1920 Munich Hofbräuhaus. First speech at a larger venue. 2000 attended. The 25 article political programme founding the new National Socialist German Workers' Party was presented.[4]
11 May 1920 Munich Hofbräuhaus.[5]
13 August 1920 Munich Hofbräuhaus. Speech title "Why are we Antisemites?". 2000 attended. 2-hour speech interrupted 58 times by cheering.[6]
3 February 1921 Munich First speech at the Circus Krone, Munich's biggest venue. Speech title "Future or Ruin" – denouncing reparation payment to Allies. 6,000 attended.[7]
4 November 1921 Munich Hofbräuhaus. Meeting degenerated into a full scale brawl with political opponents while Hitler was speaking.[8]
9 November 1921 Munich ...[citation needed]
12 April 1922 Munich "There are only two possibilities: either victory of the Aryan, or annihilation of the Aryan and the victory of the Jew."[9][10]
18 September 1922 Munich "...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."
13 April 1923 Munich "We ask: 'Must there be wars?' The pacifist answers 'No!' "
24 April 1923 Munich "The Jew who coined the word meant by 'Proletariat,' not the oppressed, but those who work with their hands."
27 April 1923 Munich Call for a need to reform, from land reform to reform of press, art, culture, etc.
1 May 1923 Munich "..then it must symbolize the renewal of the body of a people which has fallen into senility."
1 August 1923 Munich "..there are two things which can unite men: common ideals and common criminality. "
12 September 1923 Munich "..the Republic was founded to be a milk-cow for its founders – for the whole parliamentary gang."
26 February 1924 Munich 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 March 1924 Munich Trial "When did the ruin of Germany begin?"
27 February 1925 Munich Bürgerbräukeller – 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.[11]
4 July 1926 Weimar 2nd National Socialist German Workers' Party Congress. 6–7,000 attended. First public display of SS.[12]
23 November 1926 Essen ... (Party Convention)
6 March 1927 Vilsbiburg On 5 March 1927 the Bavarian government lifted the public speaking ban on Hitler, provided the initial speech was not in Munich. 1,000 attended.[13]
9 March 1927 Munich In the Circus Krone for the first time since 1923. 7,000 capacity audience[13]
30 March 1927 Munich In the Circus Krone. 5,000 attended[14]
6 April 1927 Munich In the Circus Krone. Only 1,500 attended."[14]
1 May 1927 Berlin In the Clou concert hall – Hitlers 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[15]
16 November 1928 Berlin On 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 Hitlers first speech in the Berlin Sportpalast (Germany's largest venue) which was packed to 12,000 capacity.[14]
2 May 1930 Berlin In the Sportpalast.[16]
18 July 1930 Munich Opening speech of the 1930 election campaign. 8,000 audience.[17]
3 August 1930 Frankfurt 25,000 audience.[17]
5 August 1930 Würzburg 8,000 audience.[17]
7 August 1930 Grafing 4,000 audience.[17]
10 August 1930 Kiel 4,000 audience.[17]
12 August 1930 Munich Circus Krone. 6,000 audience.[17]
15 August 1930 Essen 30,000 audience.[17]
18 August 1930 Cologne 20,000 audience.[17]
21 August 1930 Koblenz 12,000 audience.[17]
26 August 1930 Ludwigshafen 20,000 audience.[17]
29 August 1930 Munich Circus Krone. 6,000 audience.[17]
4 September 1930 Königsberg 16,000 audience.[17]
6 September 1930 Hamburg 10,000 audience.[17]
7 September 1930 Nuremberg 15,000 audience.[17]
8 September 1930 Augsburg 10,000 audience.[17]
10 September 1930 Berlin Sportpalast – 16,000 audience.[18]
12 September 1930 Breslau Jahrhunderthalle – 20,000–25,000 audience.[18]
13 September 1930 Munich Circus 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[19]
19 May 1931 Berlin In the Sportpalast.[16]
7 June 1931 Chemnitz At the Südkampfbahn in front of around 16,000 brownshirts and Hitler Youth boys.[20] Hitler was recorded for the first time on sound film.[21]
1931 Berlin ... (Hasenheide Beer Hall)
27 January 1932 Düsseldorf ... (Industry Club)
9 February 1932 Berlin In the Sportpalast.[16]
27 February 1932 Berlin In the Sportpalast.[16]
4 April 1932 Berlin At the Lustgarten in front of over 200,000 people for the second round of the German presidential election on 10 April 1932.[22]
4 April 1932 Berlin In the Sportpalast.[16]
22 April 1932 Berlin In the Sportpalast.[16]
20 July 1932 (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.[23]
27 July 1932 Berlin ... (Berlin Stadium)
1 September 1932 Berlin In the Sportpalast.[16]
2 November 1932 Berlin In the Sportpalast.[16]
20 January 1933 Berlin In the Sportpalast.[16]
22 January 1933 Berlin In the Sportpalast.[16]
1 February 1933 Berlin ... (Proclamation to the German Nation)[24][25]
10 February 1933 Berlin In the Sportpalast.[16][26]
15 February 1933 Stuttgart ...
2 March 1933 Berlin In the Sportpalast.[16]
23 March 1933 Berlin ...
8 April 1933 Berlin In the Sportpalast.[16]
1 May 1933 Berlin ... (At Tempelhof airfield)
24 October 1933 Berlin In the Sportpalast.[16]
10 November 1933 Berlin ... (At Siemens Factory)[27][28]
13 July 1934 Berlin ... (Justification of his actions against the SA leadership in the Night of the Long Knives)[citation needed]
8 November 1934 Munich ...[citation needed]
9 November 1934 Munich ...[citation needed]
7 March 1936 Berlin Announcing remilitarisation of the Rhineland
27 March 1936 Essen From 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.[29][30]
12 September 1936 Nuremberg ... (Labour Front)[citation needed]
14 September 1936 Nuremberg ...[citation needed]
30 October 1936 Berlin In the Sportpalast.[16]
30 January 1937 Reichstag ...
19 July 1937 Munich ... (On the Opening of the German House of Art)
5 November 1937 ... (given to Foreign Minister and military heads of the Reich)
15 March 1938 Vienna Hofburg (Commemorating the Austrian Anschluss)
28 March 1938 Berlin In the Sportpalast.[16]
1 April 1938 Stuttgart ... (Schwaben Hall)
1 May 1938 Berlin ... (Olympic Stadium)
1 May 1938 Berlin ... (Lustgarten)
26 September 1938 Berlin In the Sportpalast.[16]
5 October 1938 Berlin In the Sportpalast.[16]
9 October 1938 Saarbrücken ...
6 November 1938 Weimar ...
9 January 1939 Berlin In the Sportpalast.[16]
30 January 1939 Berlin Prophecy 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."[31]
1 April 1939 Wilhelmshaven ...
28 April 1939 Berlin ...(Response to Franklin Roosevelt)[32][33]
22 August 1939 Berchtesgaden ...Obersalzberg: speech to military leaders, Invasion of Poland will begin
1 September 1939 Danzig Declaration 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."[34]
19 September 1939 Danzig ...
6 October 1939 Berlin Celebratory description of the conquest of Poland, and peace offer to the Allies, in the Reichstag.
10 October 1939 Berlin In the Sportpalast.[16]
24 January 1940 Berlin In the Sportpalast.[16]
30 January 1940 Berlin In the Sportpalast.[16]
3 May 1940 Berlin In the Sportpalast.[16]
19 July 1940 Reichstag ...
4 September 1940 Berlin In 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!"[35][36][37][38]
18 December 1940 Berlin In the Sportpalast.[16]
10 December 1940 Berlin ... (Rheinmetall–Borsig Works)
30 January 1941 Berlin In the Sportpalast.[16]
24 February 1941 Munich In the Hofbräuhaus. 21 years from the foundation of the NSDAP.[39]
16 March 1941 Berlin ...
6 April 1941 Berlin ... (Order of the Day)
4 May 1941 Reichstag, Berlin Address to the Reichstag
3 October 1941 Berlin In the Sportpalast.[16]
11 December 1941 Krolloper Declaration of war against United States
30 January 1942 Berlin In the Sportpalast.[16]
15 February 1942 Berlin In the Sportpalast.[16]
30 May 1942 Berlin In the Sportpalast.[16]
28 September 1942 Berlin In the Sportpalast.[16]
30 September 1942 Berlin In the Sportpalast.[16]
8 November 1942 Löwenbräukeller (Stiglmaierplatz) Hitler's Stalingrad speech
23 March 1943 Berlin Zeughaus: Address to the Heldengedenktag
8 November 1943 Löwenbräukeller (Stiglmaierplatz) Speech on the 20th anniversary of the Munich Putsch, the so-called march on the Feldherrnhalle[40]
11 November 1943 Breslau Jahrhunderthalle: Address to 10,000 officer cadets
1 July 1944 Berlin Reichskanzlei: Act of state, funeral speech Generaloberst Dietl
4 July 1944 Berchtesgaden Platterhof, Obersalzberg: Speech to 200 senior managers of German industry
20 July 1944 Wolf's Lair Radio address following assassination attempt by Claus von Stauffenberg
1 January 1945 Adlerhorst Führerhauptquartier: Radio address: New year speech
30 January 1945 Reichskanzlei, Berlin Radio address: Anniversary of coming to power.
24 February 1945 Berlin Last Speech on the Silver Jubilee anniversary of the founding of the Nazi Party.

Other

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 (see Hitler and Mannerheim recording).

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Bibliography

For a more comprehensive list, see List of books by or about Adolf Hitler.