Document 7: Joseph Goebbels, National Socialist Party member of the Reichstag,
propagandist speech to Nazi party, 1928
We are entering the Reichstag in order that we may arm ourselves with the weapons of democracy from its
arsenal. We shall become members of the Reichstag in order that the Weimar ideology should itself help us
to destroy it ⦠to revolutionize the present state of affairs. We come as enemies! Like the wolf falling upon
a herd of sheep, that is how we come (anti-Republic; pro-Nazi).