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- Exchange Of Communications Between The President Of The
United States And The Chancellor Of The German Reich, April 1939, New York:
German Library Of Information, Consulate General, May 1939 (With Roosevelt
telegram, map of 1939 Germany, and Wilson's Fourteen Points).
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- Most often, the speech (approximately 20,000 words) is
omitted from most WWII chronologies compiled by "scholars".
The text of the address was published by a somewhat obscure agency, and
the original booklet is rather hard to find, if one can be located at all.
Only a small part of the material quoted in my paper appears in the rather
brief partial translation from the Yale Law School Avalon Project, which
seems to be the only thing available. But significant large sections are
omitted. It is my understanding that certain American nationalist groups
circulated a copy or partial copy in the mid 20th century, but probably
even fewer of those are still around than of the original. Hence, without
having the booklet with the entire English translation, this crucial material
is virtually unavailable to students and researchers of WWII. In 2008,
almost 70 years after the speech, one of the 1939 booklets curiously and
unexpectedly came into my hands, so now this has changed.
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- BACKGROUND
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- In April 1939, there was an exchange of documents and
dialogue between Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler, as well as
between the Polish and German governments. On 15 April, FDR sent a telegram
to the Chancellor. It made certain claims about Germany as an antagonist,
demanding assurances of non-aggression. Apparently, the Reichskanzler
saw this as a last-minute chance to keep away from open hostilities in
Central Europe, thus avoiding a horrible global conflagration. Of course,
he was right, and he used his opportunity to openly and honestly address
all the nations, but especially those most directly involved. On 28 April
he called a special session of the Reichstag, and through German radio
and relayed broadcasts, was heard over much of the world. We assume that
translations of the speech were distributed (as in the USA) by German Consulates.
Yet this major address, an honest and sincere effort to avoid war, is
today ignored and secluded. Hopefully, my paper represents a return to
consciousness, a "recovered memory", if you will. As you read
the selections, you will see why the Powers That Be chose to isolate and
pay no heed to this document. Indeed, you may see some parallels with
current events.
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- SYNOPSIS OF THE CHANCELLOR'S ADDRESS
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- Adolf Hitler took a last minute opportunity to speak,
not only to the USA, but to the whole world, just as dark war clouds were
surely and certainly on the horizon. He not only addressed the topics
in FDR's wire transmission, but spoke clearly on other problematic key
issues of the day such as the Versailles debacle, the Anglo-German Naval
Treaty, the Munich Agreements, etc. He told the truth about what had been
and what was going on in Europe, exhaustively responding to each point
raised by the American leader. After a thorough reading, what did I conclude?
For one thing, it is quite evident that Germany invited continuing dialogue,
not war. Even the casual reader can see this. While the Chancellor speaks
strongly and straightforwardly, there are no threats, no aggressive language
or provocations. Interestingly, and contradicting the popular image of
the "anti-Semitic Jew baiter", he says little other than to assign
them much of the blame for the financial failures of the postwar era and
for the rise of Bolshevism; and this in just a few sentences. His talk
logically progresses into a longer, more detailed examination of how the
opportunities following WWI were squandered, hijacked and sabotaged. He
asked that Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points be fully and equally implemented
for all the nations, including Germany. And, he fully recognized Poland's
right to the sea, but maintaining Danzig as a German ethnic area. Several
sections recount the various efforts to secure fair and lasting agreements
with Poland, but all were summarily rejected by the oppressive and recalcitrant
military dictatorship that ruled the newly emerged state. And, there is
more, but explore the selections below.
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- This fascinating manuscript is quietly suppressed by
simply ignoring it. As said, the very limited partial translation does
not do it justice, revealing very little of the real content of this timely
foreign policy address by a major world leader. We cover sections which
readers may, hopefully, find educational and enlightening. As said, almost
all of the quotations herein seem to be unavailable anywhere else. The
introductory headings are from those appearing in the margins of the booklet
pages. Since the ill-fated Versailles Treaty was central to many of Europe's
problems, we begin with that.
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- "Peace hopes of millions disappointed. Versailles
Treaty ignored history."
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- "But the millions were cheated of this peace; for
not only did the German people or the other peoples fighting on our side
suffer through the peace treaties, but these treaties had a devastating
effect on the victor countries as well."
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- "That politics should be controlled by men who had
not fought in the war was recognized for the first time as a misfortune.
Hatred was unknown to the soldiers, but not to those elderly politicians
who had carefully preserved their own precious lives from the horrors of
war, and who now descended upon humanity as in the guise of insane spirits
of revenge."
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- "Hatred, malice and unreason were the intellectual
forebears of the Treaty of Versailles. Territories and states with a history
going back a thousand years were arbitrarily broken up and dissolved.
Men who had belonged together since time immemorial were torn asunder."
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- "No one knows this [the burdens of Versailles] better
than the German people. For the Peace Treaty imposed burdens on the German
people, which could not have been paid off in a hundred years, although
it has been proved conclusively by American teachers of constitutional
law, historians and professors of history that Germany was no more to blame
for the outbreak of the war than any other nation." It is hard to
imagine a clearer and more concise summary of the massive errors at the
end of the war, setting the stage for the next one.
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- As readers may know, world Jewry made the first aggressive
move in the world press, just after the National Socialists were freely
elected. See the headline in a British newspaper 24 March 1933 declaring
a boycott of German goods.
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- "Sufferings and despair of Germany under the republic.
Jewish and Bolshevik subversion."
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- "The resultant misery and continuous want [after
the war] began to bring our nation to political despair. The decent and
industrious people of Central Europe thought they could see the possibility
of deliverance in the complete destruction of the old order, which to them
represented a curse."
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- "Jewish parasites, on the other hand, plundered
the nation ruthlessly, and on the other hand, incited the people, reduced
as it was to misery. As the misfortune of our nation became the only aim
and object of this race, it was possible to breed among the growing army
of unemployed suitable elements suitable elements for the Bolshevik revolution.
The decay of political order and the confusion of public opinion by the
irresponsible Jewish press led to ever stronger shocks to economic life
and consequently to increasing misery and to greater readiness to absorb
subversive Bolshevik ideas. The army of the Jewish world revolution as
the army of the unemployed were called, finally rose to almost seven million.
Germany had never known this state of affairs before.
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- As a matter of fact, these democratic peace dictators
destroyed the whole world economy with their Versailles madness."
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- "Lies regarding German motives [in Spain]."
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- "They [Western powers] declared at the time that
Germany intended to establish herself in Spain, taking Spanish colonies.
In a few weeks from now, the victorious hero of Nationalist Spain [Generalissimo
Franco] will celebrate his festive entry into the capital of his country.
The Spanish people will acclaim him as their deliverer from unspeakable
horrors as the liberator from bands of incendiaries, of whom it is estimated
that they have more than 775,000 human lives on their conscience, by executions
and murders alone. The inhabitants of whole villages and towns were literally
butchered, while their benevolent patrons, the humanitarian apostles of
Western European and American democracy, remained silent."
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- Apparently all of this was too big a dose of the truth.
Like most of the passages herein, this and the one before it are not found
in the minimal translations available. He told the truth, not only about
subversive Illuminati communist Judaics in Germany, but also about Spain,
where the forces of National Revolution won a resounding victory of freedom
and truth over the Dark Forces of Bolshevism and world oppression.
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- "Problems settled without force."
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- "Mr. Roosevelt declared that he had already appealed
to me on a former occasion for a peaceful settlement of political, economic
and social problems without force of arms.
- Answer: I myself have always been an exponent of this
view, and as history proves, have settled necessary political, economic
and social problems without force of arms without even resorting
to arms."
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- "Unfortunately, however, this peaceful settlement
has been made more difficult by the agitation of politicians, statesmen
and newspaper representatives who were neither directly concerned nor even
effected by the problems in question."
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- Does this sound like an unstable, power-mad dictator,
ready to launch his legions on the world? Or, is this the voice of a reasonable
world leader, still ready to negotiate for real and lasting peace? Read
on and decide for yourself.
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- "Motives of the warmongers [at 1938 Munich Conference].
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- This is a clear and eerie parallel with the warmongers
and ongoing wars of our own day. Similar tactics and protocols are now
in process. Just change the names and the places.
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- "If the cry of 'Never another Munich' is raised
in the world today, this simply confirms the fact that the peaceful solution
of the problem appeared to be the most awkward thing that ever happened
in the eyes of those warmongers. They are sorry no blood was shed
not their blood, to be sure for those agitators are, of course, never
to be found where shots are being fired, but only where money is being
made. No, it is the blood of many nameless soldiers!"
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- "They hate us Germans and would prefer to eradicate
us completely. What do the Czechs mean to them? They are nothing but
a means to an end. And what do they care for the fate of a small and valiant
nation? Why should they worry about the lives of hundreds of thousands
of brave soldiers who would have been sacrificed for their policy? These
Western Peacemongers were not concerned to work for peace but to cause
bloodshed, so in this way to set the nations against one another and to
thus cause still more blood to flow. For this reason, they invented the
story of German mobilization."
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- "Moreover, there would have been no necessity for
the Munich Conference, for that conference was only made possibly by the
fact that the countries which had at first incited those concerned to resist
at all costs, were compelled later on, when the situation pressed for a
solution on one way of another, to try to secure for themselves a more
or less respectable retreat; for without Munich that is to say, without
the interference of the countries of Western Europe a solution of
the entire problem if it had grown so acute at all would likely
have been the easiest thing in the world."
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- "1918, not the present time, marked losses of independence."
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- Here, the Chancellor presents FDR with a needed history
lecture.
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- "Mr. Roosevelt declared finally that three nations
in Europe and one in Africa have seen their existence terminated.
- Answer: I do not know which three nations in Europe are
meant. Should it be a question of the provinces reincorporated in the
German Reich, I must draw the attention of Mr. Roosevelt to a mistake of
history on his part.
- It was not now that these nations sacrificed their independent
existence in Europe, but rather in 1918. At that time, in violation of
solemn promises, their logical ties were torn asunder and they were made
into nations they never wished to be and never had been. They were
forced into an independence which was no independence but at most could
only mean dependence upon an international foreign world which they detested.
- Moreover, as to the allegation that one nation in Africa
has lost its freedom that, too, is erroneous. On the contrary, practically
all the original inhabitants of this continent have lost their freedom
through being made subject to the sovereignty of other nations by bloodshed
and force. Moroccans, Berbers, Arabs, Negroes, and the rest have all fallen
victim to the swords of foreign might, which however, were not marked 'Made
In Germany' but 'Made by Democracies'."
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- "Ireland charges English, not German oppression.
Palestine is occupied by English, not German troops. Arabs appeal against
English, not German methods."
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- FDR makes a sweeping, somewhat grandiose demand. It
is clear that the Middle East, as it does today, occupied a crucial position.
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- "Are you willing to give assurance that your armed
forces will not attack or invade the territory or possessions of the following
independent nations: Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden, Norway,
Denmark, The Netherlands, Belgium, Great Britain and Ireland, France, Portugal,
Spain, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxemburg, Poland, Hungary, Rumania,
Yugoslavia, Russia, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Iraq, the Arabias, Syria,
Palestine, Egypt and Iran."
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- The history lessons continue. Listen for parallels with
current events. The same tactics are used today in Occupied Palestine.
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- "But I must also draw Mr. Roosevelt's attention
to one or two mistakes in history. He mentions Ireland, for instance,
and asks for a statement to the effect that we will not attack Ireland.
Now, I have just read a speech by Mr. de Valera, the Irish Taoiseach (Prime
Minister), in which he does not charge Germany with oppressing Ireland,
but reproaches England with subjecting Ireland to continuous aggression.
With all due respect to Mr. Roosevelt's insight into the needs and cares
of other countries, it may nevertheless be assumed that the Irish Taoiseach
would be more familiar with the dangers which threaten his country than
would the President of the United States."
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- "Similarly the fact has obviously escaped Mr. Roosevelt's
notice that Palestine is at present occupied not by German troops but by
the English; and that the country is undergoing restriction of its liberty
by the most brutal resort to force, is being robbed of its independence
and is suffering the cruelest maltreatment for the benefit of Jewish interlopers."
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- "The Arabs living in that country would therefore
certainly not have complained to Mr. Roosevelt of German aggression, but
they are voicing a constant appeal to the world, deploring the barbarous
methods with which England is attempting to suppress a people which loves
its freedom and is merely defending it."
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- "This, too, is perhaps a problem which in the American
President's view should be solved at the conference table, that is, before
a just judge, and not by physical force or military methods, by mass executions,
burning down villages, blowing up houses and so on.
- For one fact is surely certain. In this case England
is not defending herself against a threatened Arab attack, but as an uninvited
interloper [think again of Occupied Palestine, aka Israel, today], is endeavoring
to establish her power in a foreign territory which does not belong to
her."
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- And, the Chancellor reminds America that it should not
fear Germany. As we know, she did not have intentions or motives. Besides,
she did not have the natural or military resources to wage a world war
across the Atlantic. Only the USA had the wherewithal to do that.
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- "And, I here solemnly declare all assertions which
have in any way been circulated concerning an impending German attack or
invasion on or in American territory are rank frauds and gross untruths,
quite apart from the fact that such assertions, as far as military possibilities
are concerned, could only be the product of the silliest imagination."
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- The centerfold map from the booklet shows all of the
numerous and confusing borders and territorial changes, which made no sense.
A small inset compares the size of Germany with Texas.
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- "Friendship and respect for the British Empire must
be mutual."
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- "During the whole of my political activity I have
always propounded the idea of a close friendship and collaboration between
German and England. In my movement I found others of like mind. Perhaps
they joined me because of my attitude in this regard. This desire for
Anglo-German friendship and cooperations conforms not merely to sentiments
based on the racial origins of our two peoples but also to my realization
of the importance of the existence of the British Empire for the whole
of mankind.
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- I have never left room for any doubt of my belief that
they existence of this empire is an inestimable factor of value for the
whole of human culture and economic life. By whatever means Great Britain
has acquired her colonial territories and I know that they were those
of force and often brutality I know full well that no other empire
has ever come into being in any other way, and that, in the final analysis,
it is not so much the methods that are taken into account in history as
success, and not the success of the methods as such, but rather the general
good which those methods produce.
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- Now, there is no doubt that the Anglo-Saxon people have
accomplished immense colonizing work in the world. For this work, I have
sincere admiration."
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- "I regard it as impossible to achieve a lasting
friendship between the German and the Anglo-Saxon peoples if the other
side does not recognize that there are German as well as British interests,
that just as the preservation of the British Empire is the object and life-purpose
of Britons, so also the freedom and preservation of the German Reich is
the life-purpose of Germans.
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- A genuine lasting friendship between these two nations
is only conceivable on a basis of mutual regard. The English people rule
a great empire. They built up this empire at a time when the German people
were internally weak."
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- "Germany once had been a great empire. At one time
she ruled the Occident. In bloody struggles and religious dissensions,
and as a result of internal political disintegration, this empire declined
in power and greatness and finally fell into a great sleep.
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- But as this old empire appeared to have reached its end,
the seeds of its rebirth were springing up. From Brandenburg and Prussia
there arose a new Germany, the Second Reich, and out of it has finally
grown the Reich of the German people.
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- And I hope that all the English people understand that
we do not possess the slightest feeling of inferiority to Britons.
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- The part we have played in history is far too important
for that."
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- Then, he insisted on naval parity, renegotiating the
Anglo-German Naval Treaty, and return of all German colonies. It seems
clear that Britain could have come to terms with the Reich, thus retaining
her naval strength, her army and air power, and her colonies, therefore
avoiding whatever hostilities there might have been on the continent.
Largely due to the provocations of Churchill and the war party, this option
was never considered. This is one of the great what-ifs of history. Another
little corner that events back in the day might have turned is to suppose
that Edward VIII, who succeeded his father as King in January 1936, and
who was openly a friend and admirer of Germany, never had his notorious
love affair with the American divorcée, and remained as monarch.
Alas, other roads were taken.
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- "A 'Monroe Doctrine' for Europe?"
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- This makes a lot of sense, but unfortunately, was ignored.
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- "If, however, President Roosevelt that he is entitled
to address [the problems of Europe], in particular to Germany or Italy,
because America is so far removed from Europe, we on our side might by
the same right, address to the President of the American Republic the question
as to what aim American foreign policy in turn has in view, and on what
intentions this policy is based in the case of Central and South
American states, for instance. In this event Mr. Roosevelt would, I must
admit, every right to refer to the Monroe Doctrine and to decline to reply
to such a request to interfere in the internal affairs of the American
continent."
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- "We Germans support a similar doctrine for Europe
and above all, for the territory and interests of the Greater German
Reich."
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- "Moreover, I would obviously never presume to address
such a request to the President of the United States of America, because
I assume he would probably rightly consider such a tactless presumption."
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- "U.S. history was not made at the conference table."
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- A little later in the speech, more history lessons are
taught, especially about the violent history of the USA, which remains
with us in today's news and the actions of "our" government.
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- "For not statesmen, including those of the United
States, especially her greatest, made the outstanding part of their countries'
history at the conference table. The freedom of the United States was
not achieved at the conference table any more than the conflict between
the North and the South was decided there. I will not mention the innumerable
struggles which finally led to the subjugation of the North American continent
as a whole. I recite all this only in order to show that your view, Mr.
Roosevelt, undoubtedly deserving of all respect, is not confirmed by the
history either of your own country or of the rest of the world."
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- "Deliverance of the German people [and] reconstruction."
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- The Leader openly declares his purposes and deeper allegiances.
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- "I took the leadership of a state which was faced
by complete ruin thanks to the promises of the outside world and the evil
of its democratic regime. Billions of German savings accumulated in
gold or foreign exchange during many years of peace were extorted from
us. We lost our colonies. In 1933 I had in my country 7,000,000 unemployed,
a few million part-time workers, millions of impoverished peasants, trade
destroyed, commerce ruined; in short, general chaos."
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- "Since then, Mr. Roosevelt, I have only been able
to fulfill one single task. I cannot feel myself responsible for a world,
for this world took no interest in the pitiful fate of my people. I have
regarded myself as called upon by Providence to serve my own people alone
and to deliver them from their frightful misery. Thus, for the past six
and one half years, I have lived day and night for the single task of awakening
the powers of my people in face of our desertion by the rest of the world,
and of developing these powers to the utmost and for utilizing them for
the salvation of our community."
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- "I have conquered chaos in Germany, reestablished
order, immediately increased production of all branches of our national
economy, by strenuous efforts produced substitutes for numerous materials
which we lack, prepared the way for new inventions, developed transportation,
caused magnificent roads to be built and canals to be dug, created gigantic
new factories. I have striven no less to translate into practice the ideal
behind the thought 'community', and to promote the education and culture
of my people. To protect them against the threats of the outside world,
I have not only united the German people politically, but also rearmed
them, I have likewise endeavoured to rid them of that [Versailles] treaty
page by page, which in its 448 articles contains the vilest oppression
which has ever been inflicted on men and nations."
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- "I have brought back to the Reich its provinces
stolen from us in 1919; I have led back to their country millions of Germans
who were torn away from us and were in abject misery; I have reunited the
territories that have been German throughout a thousand years of history
and, Mr. Roosevelt, I have endeavoured to accomplish this without
bloodshed and without bringing to my people and so to others, the misery
of war."
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- [The Reichskanzler concludes his speech.]
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- "For my world, Mr. President, is the one which Providence
has assigned me and for which it is my duty to work. Its area is much
smaller. It comprises my people alone. But I believe I can thus best
serve that which is in the hearts of all of us justice, well being,
progress and peace for the whole community of mankind."
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- SUMMATION
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- It is clear that rational freethinkers, without a lot
of prejudice and bias in their minds, might decide this was a remarkably
open and honest address, a courageous gesture and last try for peace before
the war gods made their ride. One might even conclude that the speaker
was essentially a statesman and man of peace, but one who knew the evils
and realities of war. And, he did not just have idle opinions, but backed
them up with concrete plans based on an incredibly successful record as
head of government for six years. Of course, throughout the whole address,
the Chancellor's dedication and devotion to his people is admirably clear
and concisely expressed.
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- Oh my goodness, we seem to have a problem here! Or at
least, for the Powers That Be. Open-minded folk might eventually conclude,
as has much of the world outside politically correct Europe and America,
that this historical figure had important and meaningful things to say
at one of the most crucial times in world history. Could the demonic Hitler
image change? Could Adolf undergo a major media makeover? Why not? Stranger
things have happened. It did take 500 years, but think about the story
of Joan of Arc. But without sidetracking, this is precisely why documents
and events such as this speech are ignored and suppressed. In spite of
this, now it lives again. Please help me launch a truth-seeking missile.
Send it out to the world once more. Show people today what really happened
just a few short months before the world foolishly leaped again into the
hell pit of war, a war which forever changed the destiny of our peoples.
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- The parallels of seven decades ago with today are striking
and too apparent to overlook. As we know, those who do not learn the lessons
of history are most often doomed to repeat them. We approach a similar
juncture. Strange and challenging times are upon us. However, we are
far less prepared than those comrades of yesteryear. Nonetheless, the
signs seem right, and the times are changing, even as you read these words.
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- Some of you write and tell me you like my compositions,
but don't like some of my grim conclusions, yet here I am, doing it again.
So, help me answer some questions so I might move on and write about more
pleasant things. Here goes. Why do our people stand so ill-equipped and
unsuspecting as we face similar or perhaps essentially the same threats
as back in the '20s and '30s? Can we do better this time? Are the Dark
Forces and their barbarian hordes at the gates again? Already inside,
you say? Who let them in? What are we to do? Where are our leaders?
Does anyone have plans? Preparations? Or, will the pernicious perfidious
plots and Protocols progress and proceed, as they almost always seem to
do? Alas, so many questions, but so few answers. Only time will tell,
but, we may not have to wait all that long.
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- More often than not, historical trends and movements
repeat themselves and reappear. Is the cosmic clock, yet once again, just
a few minutes short of midnight?
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