“We will pass away, but in you, Germany will live on; and when there is nothing left of us, you will have to hold, in your fists, the flag which we grabbed out of the void. Generation after generation will follow you and you will have the right to demand the same from those young people as you have demanded from yourself. And thus, you must stand strongly on your ground, your earth, and you must be powerful so that this flag will never fall. Germany will remember you with pride as our hearts overflow with joy, and as we realise the meaning of your pledge that our work has not been in vain, but that it will bear the fruit of our people.”
- Adolf Hitler at the Reichsparteitag, 1934.
