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  1. Nov 2017
    1. The significance of this speech is that it draws for unification of the German people. Hitler appeals to them by looking at their common interests and addressing it as part of his program when in power. His major points being the industry, battling Marxism and returning Germany to Germans. The significance of all this is that it breaks some points of the Treaty of Versailles. Building back Germany's industry in particular will eventually lead to the rise of a immense German Army. Along with the unification of the German people, some German-speaking people live in other countries. To unify Germans, Hitler is eventually going to invade other European nations.

      This would be useful for my paper because it emphasizes Adolf Hitler's impressive verbal skills. It also shows how Hitler wanted to unify Germany and how he tried coming to power by addressing issues that many Germans related to.

    2. Thus this program will be a program of national resurrection in all areas of life, intolerant against anyone who sins against the nation, but a brother and friend to anyone who has the will to fight with us for the resurrection of his Volk, of our nation.

      Hitler gives his assurance that his program will work and will be intolerant of anyone who goes against the nation.

    3. When I fight for the future of Germany, I must fight for German soil and I must fight for the German peasant. He renews us, he gives us the people in the cities, he has been the everlasting source for millenniums, and his existence must be secured.

      Hitler uses words like "fight" to show how he will defend the German people.

    4. And thirdly, we wish to have all of our efforts guided by one realization, one conviction: we shall never believe in foreign help, never in help which lies outside our own nation, outside our own Volk. The future of the German Volk lies in itself alone. Only when we have succeeded in leading this German Volk onwards by means of its own work, its own industriousness, its own defiance, and its own perseverance—only then will we rise up, just as our fathers once made Germany great, not with the help of others, but on their own.

      This shows Adolf Hitler's conservative appeal to the German people who were already unhappy with how Germany was being governed. He used this as a strategy to come to power.