List of speeches given by Adolf Hitler

This list of speeches given by Adolf Hitler is an attempt to aggregate Adolf Hitler's speeches. From his first speech in 1919 in Munich till the last speech in January 1945 he gave more than 2000 speeches. It is not possible to list all of them, so only 122 of his notably important speeches have been listed here.

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.
Hitler's prophecy speech of 30 January 1939

Speeches
Serial Date Place Speech
1 16 October1919MunichHofbräukeller - Hitler's first arranged public speech. He had joined the German Workers' Party (aka the brownshirts) the previous month. 111 attended.[1]
2 13 November1919MunichEberlbrau - Hitler's second public speech - hecklers were violently ejected. 130 attended.
3 24 February1920MunichHofbräuhaus. First speech at a larger venue. 2000 attended. The 25 article political programme founding the new National Socialist German Workers' Party was presented[2]
4 11 May1920MunichHofbräuhaus.[3]
5 13 August1920MunichHofbräuhaus. Speech title "Why are we Antisemites?". 2000 attended. 2-hour speech interrupted 58 times by cheering[4]
6 3 February1921MunichFirst speech at the Circus Krone, Munich's biggest venue. Speech title "Future or Ruin" - denouncing reparation payment to Allies. 6,000 attended.[5]
7 4 November1921MunichHofbräuhaus. Meeting degenerated into a full scale brawl with political opponents while Hitler was speaking.[6]
8 9 November1921Munich...
9 12 April1922Munich"There are only two possibilities: either victory of the Aryan, or annihilation of the Aryan and the victory of the Jew."[7]
10 18 September1922Munich"...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."
11 13 April1923Munich"We ask: 'Must there be wars?' The pacifist answers 'No!' "
12 24 April1923Munich"The Jew who coined the word meant by 'Proletariat,' not the oppressed, but those who work with their hands."
13 27 April1923MunichCall for a need to reform, from land reform to reform of press, art, culture, etc.
14 1 May1923Munich"..then it must symbolize the renewal of the body of a people which has fallen into senility."
15 1 August1923Munich"..there are two things which can unite men: common ideals and common criminality. "
16 12 September1923Munich"..the Republic was founded to be a milk-cow for its founders - for the whole parliamentary gang."
17 26 February1924Munich 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."
18 27 March1924Munich Trial"WHEN did the ruin of Germany begin?"
19 27 February1925MunichBürgerbräukeller - 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.[8]
20 4 July1926Weimar2nd National Socialist German Workers' Party Congress. 6–7,000 attended. First public display of SS.[9]
21 23 November1926Essen... (Party Convention)
22 6 March1927VilsbiburgOn 5 March 1927 the Bavarian government lifted the public speaking ban on Hitler, provided the initial speech was not in Munich. 1,000 attended.[10]
23 9 March1927MunichIn the Circus Krone for the first time since 1923. 7,000 capacity audience[10]
24 30 March1927MunichIn the Circus Krone. 5,000 attended[11]
25 6 April1927MunichIn the Circus Krone. Only 1,500 attended. "Hitler's magic no longer working"[11]
26 1 May1927BerlinIn 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[12]
27 16 November1928BerlinOn 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.[11]
28 2 May1930BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[13]
29 18 July1930MunichOpening speech of the 1930 election campaign. 8,000 audience.[14]
30 3 August1930Frankfurt25,000 audience.[14]
31 5 August1930Würzburg8,000 audience.[14]
32 7 August1930Grafing4,000 audience.[14]
33 10 August1930Kiel4,000 audience.[14]
34 12 August1930MunichCircus Krone. 6,000 audience.[14]
35 15 August1930Essen30,000 audience.[14]
36 18 August1930Cologne20,000 audience.[14]
37 21 August1930Koblenz12,000 audience.[14]
38 26 August1930Ludwigshafen20,000 audience.[14]
39 29 August1930MunichCircus Krone. 6,000 audience.[14]
40 4 September1930Königsberg16,000 audience.[14]
41 6 September1930Hamburg10,000 audience.[14]
42 7 September1930Nuremberg15,000 audience.[14]
43 8 September1930Augsburg10,000 audience.[14]
44 10 September1930BerlinSportpalast - 16,000 audience.[15]
45 12 September1930BreslauJahrhunderthalle - 20,000-25,000 audience.[15]
46 13 September1930MunichCircus 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.
47 4 December 1930 Berlin Hasenheide - in front of students[16]
48 19 May1931BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[13]
49 1931Berlin... (Hasenheide Beer Hall)
50 27 January1932Düsseldorf... (Industry Club)
51 9 February1932BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[13]
52 27 February1932BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[13]
53 4 April1932BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[13]
54 22 April1932BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[13]
55 27 July1932Berlin... (Berlin Stadium)
56 1 September1932BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[13]
57 2 November1932BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[13]
58 20 January1933BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[13]
59 22 January1933BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[13]
60 1 February1933Berlin... (Proclamation to the German Nation)
61 10 February1933BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[13]
62 15 February1933Stuttgart...
63 2 March1933BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[13]
64 23 March1933Berlin...
65 8 April1933BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[13]
66 1 May1933Berlin... (At Tempelhof airfield)
67 24 October1933BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[13]
68 10 November1933Berlin... (At Siemens Factory)
69 13 July1934Berlin... (Justification of his actions against the SA leadership in the Night of the Long Knives)
70 8 November1934Munich...
71 9 November1934Munich...
72 12 September1936Nuremberg... (Labour Front)
73 14 September1936Nuremberg...
74 30 October1936BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[13]
75 30 January1937Reichstag...
76 19 July1937Munich... (On the Opening of the German House of Art)
77 5 November1937... (given to Foreign Minister and military heads of the Reich)
78 15 March1938ViennaHofburg (Commemorating the Austrian Anschluss)
79 28 March1938BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[13]
80 1 April1938Stuttgart... (Schwaben Hall)
81 1 May1938Berlin... (Olympic Stadium)
82 1 May1938Berlin... (Lustgarden)
83 26 September1938BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[13]
84 5 October1938BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[13]
85 9 October1938Saarbrücken...
86 6 November1938Weimar...
87 9 January1939BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[13]
88 30 January1939BerlinProphecy 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."
89 1 April1939Wilhelmshaven...
90 28 April1939Berlin...(Response to Franklin Roosevelt)
91 22 August1939Berchtesgaden...Obersalzberg: speech to military leaders, Invasion of Poland will begin
92 1 September1939DanzigReturning fire speech: "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."[17]
93 19 September1939Danzig...
94 6 October1939Berlin...
95 10 October1939BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[13]
96 24 January1940BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[13]
97 30 January1940BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[13]
98 3 May1940BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[13]
99 19 July1940Reichstag...
100 4 September1940BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[13]
101 18 December1940BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[13]
102 10 December1940Berlin... (Rheinmetall-Borsig Works)
103 30 January1941BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[13]
104 24 February1941MunichIn the Hofbräuhaus. 21 years from the foundation of the NSDAP.
105 16 March1941Berlin...
106 6 April1941Berlin... (Order of the Day)
107 4 May1941Reichstag, BerlinAddress to the Reichstag
108 3 October1941BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[13]
109 11 December1941KrolloperDeclaration of war against United States
110 30 January1942BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[13]
111 15 February1942BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[13]
112 30 May1942BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[13]
113 28 September1942BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[13]
114 30 September1942BerlinIn the Sportpalast.[13]
115 9 November1942Löwenbräukeller (Stiglmaierplatz)Hitler Stalingrad Speech
116 23 March1943BerlinZeughaus: Address to the Heldengedenktag
117 11 November1943BreslauJahrhunderthalle: Address to 10,000 officer cadets
118 1 July1944BerlinReichskanzlei: Act of state, funeral speech Generaloberst Dietl
119 4 July1944BerchtesgadenPlatterhof, Obersalzberg: Speech to 200 senior managers of German industry
120 20 July1944Wolf's LairRadio address following assassination attempt by Claus von Stauffenberg
121 1 January1945AdlerhorstFührerhauptquartier: Radio address: New year speech
122 30 January1945Reichskanzlei, BerlinRadio address: Anniversary of coming to power (Last Speech)

Other

Only one known recording exists of Hitler's voice when 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).

References
  1. Ian Kershaw Hitler:1889-1936 Hubris. Penguin, 1998. page 140
  2. Ian Kershaw Hitler:1889-1936 Hubris. Penguin, 1998. page 141
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  4. Ian Kershaw Hitler:1889-1936 Hubris. Penguin, 1998. page 152
  5. Ian Kershaw Hitler:1889-1936 Hubris. Penguin, 1998. page 156
  6. Ian Kershaw Hitler:1889-1936 Hubris. Penguin, 1998. page 176
  7. http://www.nommeraadio.ee/meedia/pdf/RRS/Adolf%20Hitler%20-%20Collection%20of%20Speeches%20-%201922-1945.pdf
  8. Ian Kershaw Hitler:1889-1936 Hubris. Penguin, 1998. page 266
  9. Ian Kershaw Hitler:1889-1936 Hubris. Penguin, 1998. page 278
  10. Ian Kershaw Hitler:1889-1936 Hubris. Penguin, 1998. page 292
  11. Ian Kershaw Hitler:1889-1936 Hubris. Penguin, 1998. page 293
  12. SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg, Germany (29 November 2012). "Conquering the Capital".
  13. "BERLIN WEST AND SOUTH".
  14. Mühlberger, Detlef (23 May 2017). Hitler's Voice: Organisation & development of the Nazi Party. Peter Lang. ISBN 9783906769721.
  15. Ian Kershaw Hitler:1889-1936 Hubris. Penguin, 1998. page 330
  16. Brechtken, Magnus (2017). Albert Speer. Siedler. p. 31.
  17. Adolph Hitler (1 September 1939). William C. Fray; Lisa A. Spar (eds.). "Address by Adolf Hitler - September 1, 1939". Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust. Avalon Project, via Florida Institute for Instructional Technology, University of South Florida. Retrieved 31 January 2021.

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