"So as I come to the end of my speech I want to ask something of those among you who are young. And

for that there is a very special reason. The old parties train their youth in the gift of the gab, we prefer to

train them to use their bodily strength. For I tell you: the young man who does not find his way to the

place where in the last resort the destiny of his people is most truly represented, only studies philosophy

and in a time like this buries himself behind his books or sits at home by the fire, he is no German

youth! I call upon you! Join our Storm Divisions! And however many insults and slanders you may hear

if you do join, you all know that the Storm Divisions have been formed for our protection, for your

protection, and at the same time not merely for the protection of the Movement, but for the protection of

a Germany that is to be. If you are reviled and insulted, good luck to you, my boys! You have the good fortune already at eighteen or nineteen years of age to be hated by the greatest of scoundrels. What

others can win only after a lifetime of toil, this highest gift of distinguishing between the honest man and

the brigand, falls as a piece of luck into your lap while you are but youths. You can be assured that the

more they revile you, the more we respect you. We know that if you were not there, none of us would

make another speech. We know, we see clearly that our Movement would be cudgelled down if you did

not protect it! You are the defense of a Movement that is called one day to remodel Germany in

revolutionary fashion from its very foundations in order that there may come to birth what perhaps so

many expected on the ninth of November: a German Reich and a Germanic and, so far as in us lies, a

German Republic.

Every battle must be fought to the end - better that it come early than late. And he ever stands most

securely who from the first goes to the fight with the greatest confidence. And this highest confidence

we can carry with us in our hearts. For he who on our side is today the leader of the German people,

God's truth! he has nothing to win but perhaps only everything to lose. He who today fights on our side

cannot win great laurels, far less can he win great material goods - it is more likely that he will end up in

jail. He who today is leader must be an idealist, if only for the reason that he leads those against whom it

would seem that everything has conspired.

But in that very fact there lies an inexhaustible source of strength. The conviction that our Movement is

not sustained by money or the lust for gold, but only by our love for the people, that must ever give us

fresh heart, that must ever fill us with courage for the fray.

And as my last word, take with you this assurance: if this battle should not come, never would Germany

win peace. Germany would decay and at the best would sink to ruin like a rotting corpse. But that is not

our destiny. We do not believe that this misfortune which today our God sends over Germany has no

meaning: it is surely the scourge which should and shall drive us to a new greatness, to a new power and

glory, to a Germany which for the first time shall fulfill that which in their hearts millions of the best of

our fellow countrymen have hoped for through the centuries and the millennia, to the Germany of the

German people!"