Clip dated May 2, 2009:
*intro music*
Announcer: This is Deutschland 1 News at 11, serving the German People, with Alexandra Hausenberg in the sudio.
Alexandra Hausenberg: Good evening.
Berlin - 100% of polling places have reported in to the Reich Elections Office at this time, and the results have been counted and tabulated.
The results are as follows: *reads off the results*
SPD: 155 seats
CNBPD: 6 seats
KPD-T: 36 seats
KPD-SE: 30 seats
BVP: 42 seats
Z: 30 seats
KVP: 5 seats
DVP: 72 seats
DVNP: 48 seats
DDP: 24 seats
CSVD: 36 seats
Die Gruenen: 53 seats
NSDAP-ASP-DVF: 66 seats
RPD: 5 seats
Several major politicians have since expressed their views on the composition of the new parliament. Firstly, controversial National Socialist General Secretary Voigt had this to say to his supporters, gathered outside Nuremberg’s City Hall:
“We have achieved a great victory tonight! For every voting Nazi last election, we have four more this election! We have caused fear in the Judaeo-Bolshevik elites, and we have the support of true German patriots! Sieg Heil! Germany, your hour is come!” [deafening cheers]
Second to speak after election results were announced was Opposition Leader and Centre Party President Katharina Schoeneberg, speaking to members of the Young Centre chapter in Bonn:
“We face, my fellow Germans, tought times ahead. We face threats to human dignity from radicals on the left, and radicals on the right. Over the next few days, we reasonable members of the Reich must show that we are still capable of civil, orderly government in line with the ideals of heroes such as Stressmann, Schiedemann and Adenauer. We must be principled, but we must be pragmatic too. We must not stand for the crime of abortion or the ravages of pogroms, but we must not let rancor get the better of us. Debates, not brawls, ought to decide the future of the Reich.”
Finally, outgoing Chancellor Robert Lehmann of the SPD recorded an address to the nation from the Reich Chancellery:
Lehmann: My fellow Germans,
Tonight is a night of contradictions. At this time, in my last major address to you, the people of our German Reich, as your Chancellor, I am both elated at the strength of our democratic process and fearful of the portents of the future.
There are many problems in our Reich today. We have, at this time, a ten percent unemployment rate, a weakening Reichsmark, and tens of thousands thousands of Germans have been informed that due to the unethical if not illegal actions of their landlords, that they might have to, for the first time in their lives, depend on the largesse of the Reichs Government for basic needs of shelter.
Thousands of the Reich’s newest Germans – who, of all the countries they could have emigrated to, chose our Reich – face in addition to these problems thuggery and crime that are a stain on the honor of the German people.
And perhaps, worst of all, we have seen for the first time in generations a resurgence of an extremist movement that many of us thought was the relic of a near-horrific past. Many in despair, it seems, have lost faith in our democratic system, and have turned to apostles of hate and prophets of destruction for an easy solution to their problems.
As your Chancellor, and soon to be private citizen, I would like to offer a few words to the proud and strong German people – my people, whom I love and treasure as much as myself:
I know that times are tough. I know that, to many people, their government has failed them. For whatever my government has done, what mistakes it has made, I am deeply sorry. I attempted to act in the best interests of the German people, but I must acknowledge that I am merely human, puny before the might of God. I have made many mistakes, even as I have worked to achieve so much for our Reich.
But, my fellow Germans, extremism is not the answer. Extremism is never the answer. Extremism will not solve any problem in our Reich – in Koln, in Kindenheim or in Berlin. This Reich faces many problems, but solutions will not come at the end of a copper pipe; recovery will not sprout from a bottle grenade. What is needed is civil, democratic and peaceful politics – and those who have the courage to stand up for it.
Thus, my fellow Germans, as the leaders of the parties discuss the formation of the next Government, as my last acts as your Chancellor, I hereby announce that I shall go to the President tomorrow to request use of emergency powers under Article 48 of our constitution, and shall go to your Reichstag to request the passage of an enabling act to aid the Prussian State Government against the civil disorders in the Rhineland and elsewhere.
I bid you good night, and Germany above all.”
*German national anthem plays, then YouTube clip ends.*