The System,

the nature of which is incorporated in the present government, has been rejected by the overwhelming majority of the German nation. If one attempts despite that to justify from a democratic perspective the incomprehensible continuance of the present forces, one must naturally find some sort of reason. I believe, therefore, that a sense of the necessity of a defense of the otherwise incomprehensible attitude of the current System, against the overwhelming majority of the people, is a reason for the speech you gave, Mr. Reich Chancellor, introducing the emergency decree.

The System is attempting to preserve itself by making baseless accusations against the NSDAP.

According to your speech, there are two reasons why the present governmental System is obligated not to give up power:

Since the National Socialist movement is the strongest element in the national opposition, it should no longer be a legal organization. That will remove the ability of those opposition voters and party masses to take over the government. The governing coalition of the Center Party and the Marxists will then be the only possible democratic solution.
The National Socialist movement, and in a broad sense the whole national opposition, are presumably pursuing a program of illusions and wishful thinking. The present government, however, and the whole ruling system, is supposedly working in a “serious” and “practical” way. It hopes to silence the voices of discontent by emotional appeals to “moral responsibility.”

Both reasons are easily refuted.

1. In your speech, Mr. Reich Chancellor, you said the following:

“The National Socialist Party leaders claim their methods and goals are legal, but they stand in blatant contrast to strong statements by no less important leaders that call for senseless civil war and a stupid foreign policy. When one asserts that one wants to achieve power by legal means in order to eliminate those legal barriers, that is not legality. As a statesman, I oppose that in the strongest possible way.”