English subtitles for clip: File:Himmler Posen Speech - Extermination of the Jews excerpt, Oct 4, 1943.ogg

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That what we accomplish in our armament factories

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we will be able to sum up at the end of the war,

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point to, will be a presentable and respectable accomplishment.

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I also want to address here a very difficult subject

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in all openness before you.

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It shall be addressed among us

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and still we not will not never talk about this in public.

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Just as little as we- on the 30th of June - have not hesitated...

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to do the commanded duty and to put comrades who had done improprieties against the wall

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and to shoot them.

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about which we have never spoken, and never will speak

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That was, thank God, a kind of tact natural to us

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a foregone conclusion of that tact, that we have never conversed about it amongst ourselves, never spoken about it, everyone

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shuddered, and everyone was clear that the next time, he would do the same thing again, if it were commanded and necessary.

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I am talking about the evacuation of the Jews, the extermination of the Jewish people.

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It is one of those things that is easily said; "The Jewish people is being exterminated"

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Every Party member will tell you, “perfectly clear, it's part of our plans, we're eliminating the Jews, exterminating them, a small matter”

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And then along they all come, all the 80 million upright Germans, and each one has his decent Jew.

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They say: "all the others are swine, but here is a first-class Jew."

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And

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none of them has seen it, has endured it. 

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Most of you will know what it means when 100 bodies lie together, when 500 are there or when there are 1000. 

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to have seen this through and

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with the exception of human weakness

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to have remained decent, has made us hard and is a page of glory never mentioned and never to be mentioned.

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Because we know 

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how difficult things would be, if today in every city during the bomb attacks, the burdens of war and the privations

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we still had Jews as secret saboteurs, agitators and instigators.

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We would probably be at the same stage as 16/17, if the Jews still resided in the body of the German people.

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We have taken away the riches that they had, and

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I have given a strict order, which Obergruppenführer Pohl has carried out

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we have delivered these riches to the Reich, to the State.

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We have taken nothing from them for ourselves.

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A few, who have offended against this, will be [''judged''] in accordance with an order

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that I gave at the beginning: "he who takes even one Mark of this is a dead man."

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A number of SS men have offended against this order.

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They are very few, and they will be dead men - WITHOUT MERCY

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We have the moral right, we had the duty to our people to do it, to kill this people who would kill us.

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We however do not have the right to enrich ourselves with even one fur, with one Mark, with one cigarette, with one watch, with anything.

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That we do not have.

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Because we don't want, at the end of all this, to get sick and die from the same bacillus that we have exterminated.

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I will never see it happen that even one..

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..bit of putrefaction comes in contact with us, or takes root in us. 

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On the contrary, where it might try to take root, we will burn it out together.

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But altogether we can say:

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"We have carried out this most difficult task for the love of our people...

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"..And we have suffered no defect within us, in our soul, or in our character."