Adolf Hitler - Last Speech January 30th, 1945

What was decisive, however, was that we succeeded with superhuman efforts in these six years in reorganizing the defense of the German Volkskorper; which meant not so much giving it the material military strength, but the spiritual power of resistance necessary for self-assertion.

In spite of a hostile environment, at one time in the past I chose my way in the depth of my being, and followed this path as an unknown, nameless man, up to the final victory. Often proclaimed dead, and always wished dead, at long last I was the victor. My present life is likewise being exclusively determined by the duties incumbent on me. Together, they amount to only one duty, namely, to work for my Volk and to fight for it, and only he can absolve me from this duty who has called on me to take it on.