File:Reinhardt Heydrich speech excerpt.ogg

An excerpt from a 1941 speech made by Reinhardt Heydrich, in German, in Prague.

This short (approximately 30 second) clip out of a much longer speech should be short enough to have a claim to fair use in articles about Reinhardt Heydrich. It is obviously irreproducible, as the speaker is dead, and the speaker is a very important historical figure. For these reasons, this also may have a fair use claim in articles about The Holocaust or the Final Solution.

This may pass into public domain sometime in the near future, as Heydrich died in 1942. At that time, we may want to consider posting the entire speech.

Discovered for use in Wikipedia by User:DragonflySixtyseven

Audio excerpted, converted to ogg theora, and fairly heavily processed for noise reduction by User:Kmccoy.

Translation and transcript by User:Rotoscope.

Original text:

Der Welt des Judentums, des Bolschewismus, des skrupellosen Profit und Egoismus steht ein einiges Europa gegenüber, das unter der Führung Adolf Hitlers in Übereinstimmung mit Italien alle Kräfte gegen die sinnlosen Zerstörungspläne der übrigen Welt konzentriert und den organischen Aufbau im Sinne sozialer Gerechtigkeit und im Geiste des nationalsozialistischen Gemeinschaftsbegriffs zum Ziele hat.

Translation:

The world of Judaism, of Bolshevism and of unscrupulous profit and egoism is confronted by a united Europe that, under the leadership of Adolf Hitler and in consent with Italy, concentrates all its efforts against the rest of the world's senseless plans of destruction, furthering the development by means of social justice and the national-socialist community principles.