Late you come, yet you do come!... You should have recognized the beneficial power of criticism when we were in the opposition. Back then, you had not yet been confronted with these words; back then our press was verboten and verboten and again verboten; our assemblies were banned; we were not allowed to speak, and I was not allowed to speak -- and that went on for years! And now you say criticism is beneficial!

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Late you come, yet you do come!... You should have recognized the beneficial power of criticism when we were in the opposition. Back then, you had not yet been confronted with these words; back then our press was verboten and verboten and again verboten; our assemblies were banned; we were not allowed to speak, and I was not allowed to speak -- and that went on for years! And now you say criticism is beneficial!" in the context of "Speech in the Reichstag (23 March 1933) on the passing of the Enabling Act of 1933. Hitler is responding to Otto Wels, leader of the Social Democrats, who had made a speech in favour of "criticism", i.e. freedom of political opposition.http://www.worldfuturefund.org/Reports2013/hitlerenablingact.htmhttps://www.zum.de/psm/ns/hitler11_macht.php
• Hitler opens his response with a quotation from Schiller, "Spät kommt ihr, doch ihr kommt!"" to mean that wisdom is timeless.