Adolf Hitler Gives a Speech Upon the Reestablishment of the Nazi Party

On February 27, Hitler gives a speech about the reestablishment of the Nazi Party and his role as leader. The Nazi Party had been banned in November 1923, after Hitler and other Nazi leaders tried to seize power in a coup. Hitler was arrested, tried, and convicted of treason. He was released on December 20, 1924. He gives this speech two months later, repeating many of his long-standing antisemitic ideas and asserting his role as Nazi leader. 

“But that was what we all had in mind when we founded the National Socialist German Workers' Party. At the time, the goal was clear and simple: fight the devil power that had plunged Germany into this misery, fight Marxism and the spiritual carrier of this world plague and epidemic, the Jew. Fight not according to the bourgeois model, “carefully,” so that it does not hurt too much. No and no again! When we joined together to form this new movement, we were clear that there were only two possibilities in this struggle: Either the enemy walks over our dead body or we walk over his.
—Adolf Hitler, February 27, 1925

Hitler’s speech is so incendiary that the Bavarian government bans him from speaking in public for two years.