For the same reason I did not fail to recognize a long time ago the necessity of rationalizing our economic system.
I am convinced that, under the threat of the impoverishment of our people, the machinery of government must be simplified to the utmost.
I could only speak in the smallest, most intimate circles about the real reasons which made me undertake the changeover of the plants for certain lines of production for I had to expect that many people would not understand me.
I knew German history well, and out of my experiences in the rest of the world I believed to know the German kind; therefore I never doubted that, although for the time being all indications were against it, one day a change would come.
I know that the things I have said here about the armament worker in particular hold true for every German worker.
I pledged to him unrestrained support in his Government in its exceedingly difficult task from all branches and organizations of Economy.
I wanted and had to maintain Krupp, in spite of all opposition, as an armament plant for the later future, even if in camouflaged form.
In the years after 1933 we worked with an incredible intensity and when the war did break out the speed and results were again increased.
Let us all follow him now also, our Leader, our Reich - and People's Chancellor.
May the spirit of devotion to duty which inspires us always dominate this Committee's conferences!
No: war material is life-saving for one's own people and whoever works and performs in these spheres can be proud of it; here enterprise as a whole finds its highest justification of existence.
Our thoughts fly therefore by themselves in this festive hour of our plant community, to the man whom we thank for the ressurection of our Nation: Adolf Hitler, the patron of German labour and German art.
Saturday 1923 had not been shed in vain.
Since that time I was often permitted to accompany the Fuehrer through the old and new workshops and to experience how the workers of Krupp cheered him in gratitude.
The turn of political events is in line with the wishes which I myself and the Board of Directors have cherished for a long time.
Through years of secret work, scientific and basic ground work was laid, in order to be ready again to work the German Armed Forces at the appointed hour, without loss of time or experience.
To have united the purposes of an entire Nation, is the great historical achievement of the man in whose strong hands our President has placed the fate of our people.
Unanimously we will confess and pledge ourselves to stand behind the Fuehrer and his movement today and forever and thereby to be of service to the idea of eternal Germany.
We are all proud of having thus contributed to the heretofore magnificent successes of our army.
We want only loyal workers who are grateful from the bottom of their hearts for the bread which we let them earn.
With these men and women who work-for the cause with all their hearts, with cool heads and skilled hands we will master every fate.
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