Adolf Hitler: Proclamation to the German Folk from the Fuhrer Headquarters (February 24, 1945)

National Socialists! Party Comrades! A sense of duty and my work prohibit my leaving headquarters at this time, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the day on which the principal program of our movement was proclaimed and accepted in Munich.

The evening of February 24 was marked by the anticipation of a development whose terrible significance is perhaps c…