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Top Photo: Heinrich Himmler lectures to a group of SS officers (the image is taken from an album of SS photographs). Date (sometime between 1936 and 1944) and location unknown. Credit: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Gift of Estelle Bechoefer.
Oratory and war have been inextricably linked at least since Pericles’s famed funeral oration. World War II was no exception to this tradition. In the United States and the United Kingdom, quotations from the speeches of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill continually reappear in the public spheres of the two countries and still inspire with their calls to defend democracy and freedom against fascism.
It is undeniable that there also existed powerful oratorical currents in the Axis states. Fascist movements often created massive spectacles to showcase the spoken word and to elevate their leaders to demigod status. Most notably, in Nazi Germany, the venomous speeches streaming from the mouths of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels, with their ultranationalism, racism, and militarism, galvanized followers, imbued with what German philosopher Theodor W. Adorno later called “the authoritarian personality.”
Alongside these public incitements was a torrent of clandestine utterances. Some like
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On 4 October 1943, in Posen, Heinrich Himmler gave a speech to senior SS officers, which he repeated in more or less the same form two days later to Party Regional Leaders and other prominent figures, including Joseph Goebbels and Albert Speer. The speech contained what have since become some of his most notorious utterances. ‘The evacuation of the Jews’, he declared, ‘…is a laudable page in our history that will never be written.’ The Jews were a threat to the Reich, he declared. Therefore they were being killed, and not just the men:
We were approached with the question, what about the women and children? – I decided to find an absolutely clear solution here too. ? Thus I did not feel I had the right to exterminate – let’s say then, kill them or have them killed – the men while I allowed their avengers, in the form of their children, to grow up and avenge them upon our sons and grandsons. The really difficult decision had to be taken to let this people disappear off the face of the Earth. For the organization that had to carry out the task, it was the most difficult we had so far had.
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