From: mars1933@hotmail.com   
      
   Here is part of Hitler's speech at Rheinmetall-Borsig Works, Berlin,   
   on December 10, 1940:   
      
   They claim to be fighting for the maintenance of the gold standard as   
   the currency basis. That I can well believe, for the gold is in their   
   hands. We, too, once had gold, but it was stolen and extorted from us.   
   When I came to power, it was not malice which made me abandon the gold   
   standard. Germany simply had no gold left. Consequently, quitting the   
   gold standard presented no difficulties, for it is always easy to part   
   with what one does not have. We had no gold. We had no foreign   
   exchange. They had all been stolen and extorted from us during the   
   previous fifteen years. But, my fellow countrymen, I did not regret   
   it, for we have constructed our economic system on a wholly different   
   basis. In our eyes, gold is not of value in itself. It is only an   
   agent by which nations can be suppressed and dominated.   
   When I took over the government, I had only one hope on which to   
   build, namely, the efficiency and ability of the German nation and the   
   German workingman; the intelligence of our inventors, engineers,   
   technicians, chemists, and so forth. I built on the strength which   
   animates our economic system. One simple question faced me: Are we to   
   perish because we have no gold; am I to believe in a phantom which   
   spells our destruction? I championed the opposite opinion: Even though   
   we have no gold, we have capacity for work.   
   The German capacity for work is our gold and our capital, and with   
   this gold I can compete successfully with any power in the world. We   
   want to live in houses which have to be built. Hence, the workers must   
   build them, and the raw materials required must be procured by work.   
   My whole economic system has been built up on the conception of work.   
   We have solved our problems while, amazingly enough, the capitalist   
   countries and their currencies have suffered bankruptcy.   
   Sterling can find no market today. Throw it at any one and he will   
   step aside to avoid being hit. But our Reichsmark, which is backed by   
   no gold, has remained stable. Why? It has no gold cover; it is backed   
   by you and by your work. You have helped me to keep the mark stable.   
   German currency, with no gold coverage, is worth more today than gold   
   itself. It signifies unceasing production. This we owe to the German   
   farmer, who has worked from daybreak till nightfall. This we owe to   
   the German worker, who has given us his whole strength. The whole   
   problem has been solved in one instant, as if by magic.   
   My dear friends, if I had stated publicly eight or nine years ago: 'In   
   seven or eight years the problem of how to provide work for the   
   unemployed will be solved, and the problem then will be where to find   
   workers,' I should have harmed my cause. Every one would have   
   declared: 'The man is mad. It is useless to talk to him, much less to   
   support him. Nobody should vote for him. He is a fantastic creature.'   
   Today, however, all this has come true. Today, the only question for   
   us is where to find workers. That, my fellow countrymen, is the   
   blessing which work brings.   
   Work alone can create new work; money cannot create work. Work alone   
   can create values, values with which to reward those who work. The   
   work of one man makes it possible for another to live and continue to   
   work. And when we have mobilized the working capacity of our people to   
   its utmost, each individual worker will receive more and more of the   
   world's goods.   
   We have incorporated seven million unemployed into our economic   
   system; we have transformed another six millions from part-time into   
   full-time workers; we are even working overtime. And all this is paid   
   for in cash in Reichsmarks which maintained their value in peacetime.   
   In wartime we had to ration its purchasing capacity, not in order to   
   devalue it, but simply to earmark a portion of our industry for war   
   production to guide us to victory in the struggle for the future of   
   Germany...   
      
   I wish to put before you a few basic facts: The first is that in the   
   capitalistic democratic world the most important principle of economy   
   is that the people exist for trade and industry, and that these in   
   turn exist for capital. We have reversed this principle by making   
   capital exist for trade and industry, and trade and industry exist for   
   the people. In other words, the people come first. Everything else is   
   but a means to this end. When an economic system is not capable of   
   feeding and clothing a people, then it is bad, regardless of whether a   
   few hundred people say: 'As far as I am concerned it is good,   
   excellent; my dividends are splendid.'   
   However, the dividends do not interest me at all. Here we have drawn   
   the line. They may then retort: 'Well, look here, that is just what we   
   mean. You jeopardize liberty.'   
   Yes, certainly, we jeopardize the liberty to profiteer at the expense   
   of the community, and, if necessary, we even abolish it...   
      
      
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