Hitler's First Inaugural Speech Analysis

Adolf Hitler in his proclamation dated February 1, 1933 made it apparent to the German people that they rightfully and with good intention “…entered the fight in 1914 without the slightest feeling of guilt on its part and filled only with the desire to defend the Fatherland…” (Hitler, 1933 p. 1). Yet, after their defeat and because of broken promises perpetrated by the Western leaders the reparations that were forced upon all of Germany not only affected them as individually, but also the entire nation in an adverse way. Furthermore, the demands placed upon Germany had altered global trade balance. It was Hitler’s belief that, Germany suffered under an oppressive state of being for “Fourteen years of Marxism have ruined Germany; one year of
Newly elected president Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) made his First Inaugural Address March 4, 1933. FDR spoke with an openness and frankness about the current economic condition of the U.S. He placed the blame squarely on the “Practices of the unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion, rejected by the hearts and minds of men” (Roosevelt, 1933 p. 1). The money changers FDR referred to where those who controlled the stock market and the banking industry. FDR believed that those institutions only sought profit. FDR followed up his assertion by stating, “there must be an end to a conduct in banking and in business which too often has given to a sacred trust the likeness of callous and selfish wrongdoing” (Roosevelt, 1933 p. 2). Roosevelt’s primary plan for gaining control of the nation’s finances was to revamp and reform the banking industry and place restrictions on the stock
It is his intention to get the German state back to a level to which it had been prior to WWI. He envisions a Germany that is finically stable and able to and willing to engage in fair trade with other nations. Much like FDR, Hitler must correct the internal social and political issues. However, unlike FDR, Hitler sees Germany’s problems as being caused by the victors of WWI. Ironically, the path that both leaders elected to take to revitalize their nations economic outlook both foreign and domestic is eerily similar. Through the advancement of the farmers and the gaining of state control and regulations on business and baking institutions, combined with the forecast of reestablishing international trade in order to improve the economic outlook of business and industry it is obvious that both leaders had their nations best interest in mind. It must be pointed out that in order to ensure the success of their programs both leaders sought and secured greater executive