Umschichtungsprozess) is over it is no good coming along ten years later and saying that we were not on the spot because we happened at the time to be busy with our confessional disputes. No: we must be ready to hand; and he is safest who has a united nation behind him." - Meaning and context.">
Speech in Hamburg (20 November 1935), quoted in Gaynor Johnson (ed.), Our Man in Berlin: The Diary of Sir Eric Phipps, 1933-1937 (2008), p. 139 and Ivone Kirkpatrick, The Inner Circle (1959), p. 73
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The world is again on the move. That happens about once a century, and when such a displacement process (Umschichtungsprozess) is over it is no good coming along ten years later and saying that we were not on the spot because we happened at the time to be busy with our confessional disputes. No: we must be ready to hand; and he is safest who has a united nation behind him.

— Joseph Goebbels

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The world is again on the move. That happens about once a century, and when such a displacement process (Umschichtungsprozess) is over it is no good coming along ten years later and saying that we were not on the spot because we happened at the time to be busy with our confessional disputes. No: we must be ready to hand; and he is safest who has a united nation behind him." in the context of "Speech in Hamburg (20 November 1935), quoted in Gaynor Johnson (ed.), Our Man in Berlin: The Diary of Sir Eric Phipps, 1933-1937 (2008), p. 139 and Ivone Kirkpatrick, The Inner Circle (1959), p. 73" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

Source: Wikiquote: "Joseph Goebbels" (Quotes, 1930s) The 'What it means' explanation text was generated by Google Gemini Flash (accessed January 29, 2026). https://gemini.google.com/app

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Joseph Goebbels

About Joseph Goebbels

Paul Joseph Goebbels (29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was Adolf Hitler's Propaganda Minister in Nazi Germany. He was a German Nazi politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. He was one of Adolf Hitler's closest and most devoted associates, and was known for his skills in public speaking and his deeply virulent antisemitism, which was evident in his publicly voiced views. He advocated progressively harsher discrimination, including the extermination of the Jews in the Holocaust.