Opposition to Bolshevism

“It is with grave anxiety that I see the possibility in Europe of some such development as this: democracy may continuously disintegrate the European States, may make them internally ever more uncertain in their judgment of the dangers which confront them, may above all cripple all power for resolute resistance. Democracy is the canal through which Bolshevism lets its poisons flow into the separate countries and lets them work there long enough for these infections to lead to a crippling of intelligence and of the force of resistance. I regard it as possible then that – in order to avoid something still worse – coalition governments, masked as Popular Fronts or the like, will be formed and that these will endeavor to destroy – and perhaps will successfully destroy – in these peoples the last forces which remain, either in organization or in mental outlook, which could offer opposition to Bolshevism.”

Adolf Hitler, speech at Nürnberg, September 14, 1936