From his first speech in 1919 in Munich until the last speech in February 1945, Adolf Hitler, dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, gave a total of 1525 speeches. In 1932, for the campaign of presidential and two federal elections that year he gave the most speeches, that is 241. Not all have been listed, as it is not practical to do so.
As the Reichstag building was destroyed by a fire on 27 February 1933, all of Hitler’s addresses to the Reichstag were held at the neighbouring Kroll Opera House.
Bolded dates indicate a link to a separate article or full text on that particular speech.
| Date | Place | Speech | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 October | 1919 | Munich | Hofbräukeller. Hitler's first arranged public speech. He had joined the German Workers' Party the previous month. 111 attended.[1] | ||
| 1919 | Munich | Eberlbräukeller. Hitler's second arranged public speech. 130 attended. 4 speakers. Subject of the meeting: "Brest-Litovsk or Versailles?"[2] Hecklers began to shout out in the middle of the speech and were violently ejected.[3] | |||
| 24 February | 1920 | Munich | Hofbräuhaus. First speech at a larger venue. 2000 attended. The 25 article political programme founding the new National Socialist German Workers' Party was presented.[4] | ||
| 11 May | 1920 | Munich | Hofbräuhaus.[5] | ||
| 13 August | 1920 | Munich | Hofbräuhaus. Speech title "Why are we Antisemites?". 2000 attended. 2-hour speech interrupted 58 times by cheering.[6] | ||
| 3 February | 1921 | Munich | First speech at the Circus Krone, Munich's biggest venue. Speech title "Future or Ruin" – denouncing reparation payment to Allies. 6,000 attended.[7] | ||
| 4 November | 1921 | Munich | Hofbräuhaus. Meeting degenerated into a full scale brawl with political opponents while Hitler was speaking.[8] | ||
| 9 November | 1921 | Munich | ... | ||
| 12 April | 1922 | Munich | "There are only two possibilities: either victory of the Aryan, or annihilation of the Aryan and the victory of the Jew."[9] [10] | ||
| 18 September | 1922 | Munich | "...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." | ||
| 13 April | 1923 | Munich | "We ask: 'Must there be wars?' The pacifist answers 'No!' " | ||
| 24 April | 1923 | Munich | "The Jew who coined the word meant by 'Proletariat,' not the oppressed, but those who work with their hands." | ||
| 27 April | 1923 | Munich | Call for a need to reform, from land reform to reform of press, art, culture, etc. | ||
| 1 May | 1923 | Munich | "..then it must symbolize the renewal of the body of a people which has fallen into senility." | ||
| 1 August | 1923 | Munich | "..there are two things which can unite men: common ideals and common criminality. " | ||
| 12 September | 1923 | Munich | "..the Republic was founded to be a milk-cow for its founders – for the whole parliamentary gang." | ||
| 26 February | 1924 | Munich 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." | ||
| 27 March | 1924 | Munich Trial | "When did the ruin of Germany begin?" | ||
| 27 February | 1925 | Munich | Bürgerbräukeller – 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.[11] | ||
| 4 July | 1926 | Weimar | 2nd National Socialist German Workers' Party Congress. 6–7,000 attended. First public display of SS.[12] | ||
| 23 November | 1926 | Essen | ... (Party Convention) | ||
| 6 March | 1927 | Vilsbiburg | On 5 March 1927 the Bavarian government lifted the public speaking ban on Hitler, provided the initial speech was not in Munich. 1,000 attended.[13] | ||
| 9 March | 1927 | Munich | In the Circus Krone for the first time since 1923. 7,000 capacity audience | ||
| 30 March | 1927 | Munich | In the Circus Krone. 5,000 attended[14] | ||
| 6 April | 1927 | Munich | In the Circus Krone. Only 1,500 attended." | ||
| 1 May | 1927 | Berlin | In 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[15] | ||
| 16 November | 1928 | Berlin | On 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. | ||
| 2 May | 1930 | Berlin | In the Sportpalast.[16] | ||
| 18 July | 1930 | Munich | Opening speech of the 1930 election campaign. 8,000 audience.[17] | ||
| 3 August | 1930 | Frankfurt | 25,000 audience. | ||
| 5 August | 1930 | Würzburg | 8,000 audience. | ||
| 7 August | 1930 | Grafing | 4,000 audience. | ||
| 10 August | 1930 | Kiel | 4,000 audience. | ||
| 12 August | 1930 | Munich | Circus Krone. 6,000 audience. | ||
| 15 August | 1930 | Essen | 30,000 audience. | ||
| 18 August | 1930 | Cologne | 20,000 audience. | ||
| 21 August | 1930 | Koblenz | 12,000 audience. | ||
| 26 August | 1930 | Ludwigshafen | 20,000 audience. | ||
| 29 August | 1930 | Munich | Circus Krone. 6,000 audience. | ||
| 4 September | 1930 | Königsberg | 16,000 audience. | ||
| 6 September | 1930 | Hamburg | 10,000 audience. | ||
| 7 September | 1930 | Nuremberg | 15,000 audience. | ||
| 8 September | 1930 | Augsburg | 10,000 audience. | ||
| 1930 | Berlin | Sportpalast – 16,000 audience.[18] | |||
| 12 September | 1930 | Breslau | Jahrhunderthalle – 20,000–25,000 audience. | ||
| 13 September | 1930 | Munich | Circus 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. | ||
| 4 December | 1930 | Berlin | Hasenheide – in front of students[19] | ||
| 19 May | 1931 | Berlin | In the Sportpalast. | ||
| 7 June | 1931 | Chemnitz | At the Südkampfbahn in front of around 16,000 brownshirts and Hitler Youth boys.[20] Hitler was recorded for the first time on sound film.[21] | ||
| 1931 | Berlin | ... (Hasenheide Beer Hall) | |||
| 27 January | 1932 | Düsseldorf | ... (Industry Club) | ||
| 9 February | 1932 | Berlin | In the Sportpalast. | ||
| 27 February | 1932 | Berlin | In the Sportpalast. | ||
| 4 April | 1932 | Berlin | At the Lustgarten in front of over 200,000 people for the second round of the German presidential election on 10 April 1932.[22] | ||
| 4 April | 1932 | Berlin | In the Sportpalast. | ||
| 22 April | 1932 | Berlin | In the Sportpalast. | ||
| 20 July | 1932 (publication date) | Munich (publication place) | Franz Eher Nachfolger published Hitler's first phonograph recording titled Hitlers Appell an die Nation ("Hitler's Appeal to the Nation") as propaganda for the German federal election on 31 July 1932.[23] | ||
| 27 July | 1932 | Berlin | ... (Berlin Stadium) | ||
| 1 September | 1932 | Berlin | In the Sportpalast. | ||
| 2 November | 1932 | Berlin | In the Sportpalast. | ||
| 20 January | 1933 | Berlin | In the Sportpalast. | ||
| 22 January | 1933 | Berlin | In the Sportpalast. | ||
| 1 February | 1933 | Berlin | ... (Proclamation to the German Nation)[24] [25] | ||
| 10 February | 1933 | Berlin | In the Sportpalast.[26] | ||
| 15 February | 1933 | Stuttgart | ... | ||
| 2 March | 1933 | Berlin | In the Sportpalast. | ||
| 23 March | 1933 | Berlin | ... | ||
| 8 April | 1933 | Berlin | In the Sportpalast. | ||
| 1 May | 1933 | Berlin | ... (At Tempelhof airfield) | ||
| 24 October | 1933 | Berlin | In the Sportpalast. | ||
| 10 November | 1933 | Berlin | ... (At Siemens Factory)[27] [28] | ||
| 13 July | 1934 | Berlin | ... (Justification of his actions against the SA leadership in the Night of the Long Knives) | ||
| 8 November | 1934 | Munich | ... | ||
| 9 November | 1934 | Munich | ... | ||
| 7 March | 1936 | Berlin | Announcing remilitarisation of the Rhineland | ||
| 27 March | 1936 | Essen | From the frame of a locomotive at the Krupp locomotive building for the German parliamentary election on 29 March 1936. Broadcast on all German radio stations. 120,000 audience.[29] [30] | ||
| 12 September | 1936 | Nuremberg | ... (Labour Front) | ||
| 14 September | 1936 | Nuremberg | ... | ||
| 30 October | 1936 | Berlin | In the Sportpalast. | ||
| 30 January | 1937 | Reichstag | ... | ||
| 19 July | 1937 | Munich | ... (On the Opening of the German House of Art) | ||
| 5 November | 1937 | ... (given to Foreign Minister and military heads of the Reich) | |||
| 15 March | 1938 | Vienna | Hofburg (Commemorating the Austrian Anschluss) | ||
| 28 March | 1938 | Berlin | In the Sportpalast. | ||
| 1 April | 1938 | Stuttgart | ... (Schwaben Hall) | ||
| 1 May | 1938 | Berlin | ... (Olympic Stadium) | ||
| 1 May | 1938 | Berlin | ... (Lustgarten) | ||
| 26 September | 1938 | Berlin | In the Sportpalast. | ||
| 5 October | 1938 | Berlin | In the Sportpalast. | ||
| 9 October | 1938 | Saarbrücken | ... | ||
| 6 November | 1938 | Weimar | ... | ||
| 9 January | 1939 | Berlin | In the Sportpalast. | ||
| 30 January | 1939 | Berlin | Prophecy 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."[31] | ||
| 1 April | 1939 | Wilhelmshaven | ... | ||
| 28 April | 1939 | Berlin | ...(Response to Franklin Roosevelt)[32] [33] | ||
| 22 August | 1939 | Berchtesgaden | ...Obersalzberg: speech to military leaders, Invasion of Poland will begin | ||
| 1 September | 1939 | Danzig | Declaration of war with Poland. "This night for the first time Polish regular soldiers fired on our territory. Since 5.45 A.M. we have been returning the fire... 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."[34] | ||
| 19 September | 1939 | Danzig | ... | ||
| 6 October | 1939 | Berlin | Celebratory description of the conquest of Poland, and peace offer to the Allies, in the Reichstag. | ||
| 10 October | 1939 | Berlin | In the Sportpalast. | ||
| 24 January | 1940 | Berlin | In the Sportpalast. | ||
| 30 January | 1940 | Berlin | In the Sportpalast. | ||
| 3 May | 1940 | Berlin | In the Sportpalast. | ||
| 19 July | 1940 | Reichstag | ... | ||
| 4 September | 1940 | Berlin | In the Sportpalast. "When the British Air Force drops two or three or four thousand kilograms of bombs, then we will in one night drop 150, 230, 300 or 400,000 kilograms. When they declare they will increase their attacks on our cities, then we will raze their cities to the ground. We will stop the handiwork of those night air pirates, so help us God! The hour will come when one of us will break and it will not be National Socialist Germany | "[35] [36] [37] [38] | |
| 18 December | 1940 | Berlin | In the Sportpalast. | ||
| 10 December | 1940 | Berlin | ... (Rheinmetall–Borsig Works) | ||
| 30 January | 1941 | Berlin | In the Sportpalast. | ||
| 24 February | 1941 | Munich | In the Hofbräuhaus. 21 years from the foundation of the NSDAP.[39] | ||
| 16 March | 1941 | Berlin | ... | ||
| 6 April | 1941 | Berlin | ... (Order of the Day) | ||
| 4 May | 1941 | Reichstag, Berlin | Address to the Reichstag | ||
| 3 October | 1941 | Berlin | In the Sportpalast. | ||
| 11 December | 1941 | Krolloper | Declaration of war against United States | ||
| 30 January | 1942 | Berlin | In the Sportpalast. | ||
| 15 February | 1942 | Berlin | In the Sportpalast. | ||
| 30 May | 1942 | Berlin | In the Sportpalast. | ||
| 28 September | 1942 | Berlin | In the Sportpalast. | ||
| 30 September | 1942 | Berlin | In the Sportpalast. | ||
| 8 November | 1942 | Löwenbräukeller (Stiglmaierplatz) | Hitler's Stalingrad speech | ||
| 23 March | 1943 | Berlin | Zeughaus: Address to the Heldengedenktag | ||
| 8 November | 1943 | Löwenbräukeller (Stiglmaierplatz) | Speech on the 20th anniversary of the Munich Putsch, the so-called march on the Feldherrnhalle[40] | ||
| 11 November | 1943 | Breslau | Jahrhunderthalle: Address to 10,000 officer cadets | ||
| 1 July | 1944 | Berlin | Reichskanzlei: Act of state, funeral speech Generaloberst Dietl | ||
| 4 July | 1944 | Berchtesgaden | Platterhof, Obersalzberg: Speech to 200 senior managers of German industry | ||
| 20 July | 1944 | Wolf's Lair | Radio address following assassination attempt by Claus von Stauffenberg | ||
| 1 January | 1945 | Adlerhorst | Führerhauptquartier: Radio address: New year speech | ||
| 30 January | 1945 | Reichskanzlei, Berlin | Radio address: Anniversary of coming to power. | ||
| 24 February | 1945 | Berlin | Last Speech on the Silver Jubilee anniversary of the founding of the Nazi Party. | ||
Only one known recording exists of Hitler's voice when he is 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).
See main article: List of books by or about Adolf Hitler.