In Berlin, some 40,000 people heard
Joseph Goebbels deliver a fiery address: "No to decadence and moral corruption!" Goebbels enjoined the crowd. "Yes to decency and morality in family and state! I consign to the flames the writings of
Heinrich Mann,
Ernst Glaeser,
Erich Kästner."
The era of extreme Jewish
intellectualism is now at an end. The breakthrough of the German revolution has again cleared the way on the German path...The future German man will not just be a man of books, but a man of character. It is to this end that we want to educate you. As a young person, to already have the courage to face the pitiless glare, to overcome the fear of death, and to regain respect for death - this is the task of this young generation. And thus you do well in this midnight hour to commit to the flames the evil spirit of the past. This is a strong, great and
symbolic deed - a deed which should document the following for the world to know - Here the intellectual foundation of the
November Republic is sinking to the ground, but from this wreckage the
phoenix of a new spirit will triumphantly rise.
— Joseph Goebbels, Speech to the students in Berlin
Beautiful speech and spot on! We will have to do this again when we retake our countries.
