Rudolf Hess Four Speeches Rudolf Hess Four Speeches The Oath to Hitler To the Front Fighters of the World The Referendum on Hitler Launching the Training Ship Horst Wessel The Oath to Adolf Hitler Speech by Rudolf Hess on 25 February 1934 On 25 February 1934, about a million Nazi Party officials gathered at points around Germany to swear an oath to Adolf Hitler. This is an excerpt from the speech that Rudolf Hess gave on the occasion, which was broadcast to the nation. The source: “Der Eid auf Adolf Hitler,” Rudolf Hess, Reden (Munich: Zentralverlag der NSDAP, 1938), pp. 10-14.