- Here is my last post for the week. I can't be sure that
I will have the chance to write to you again.
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- For every reaction is an antecedent action, for each
response eliciting stimulus or a prior learning history.
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- As the Rothschild-led Jews destroy the United States
and everything else I believe in, I want to declare, in defiance of the
victors, that the American People, including my father, a veteran of the
82nd Airborne Division, was tricked into fighting for the real bad- guys
in World War II.
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- While I agree with Lindbergh that the U.S. entering the
war was a mistake, I now must go further and say that the German people
acted intelligently and ethically in resisting the the international
Jewish money power.
- I only wish I, with my countrymen, could have done the
same.
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- I identify with Goebbles, for fighting the good fight
even after he knew it was hopeless. I want to be remembered as one of
what he was, what he really was.
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- Dick Eastman
- Yakima, Washington
- oldickeastman@q.com
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- Gauleiter Doktor Josef Goebbels
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- His early diary pages, back in 1923, contain
no references to the Jews, or any anti-Semitism at all.
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- Saved from Stalin and Morganthau
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- "I have received statistics about the number of
Jews in the American movies, radio, and press. The percentage is truly
terrifying. The Jews are 100% in control of the film, and 90 to 95% of
the press and radio."
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- "Englands Schuld," Illustrierter Beobachter,
Sondernummer "Englands Schuld," p. 14.
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- England's Guilt
- by Joseph Goebbels
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- It is a major error to assume that England's plutocrats
slipped into the war against their will or even against their intentions.
The opposite is true. The English warmongers wanted the war and used
all the resources at their disposal over the years to bring it about.
They surely were not surprised by the war. English plutocracy had no goal
other than to unleash war against Germany at the right moment, and this
since Germany first began to seek once again to be a world power.
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- Poland really had little to do with the outbreak of war
between the Reich and England. It was only a means to an end. England
did not support the Polish government out of principle or for humanitarian
reasons. That is clear from the fact that England gave Poland no help
of any kind whatsoever when the war began. Nor did England take any measures
against Russia. The opposite, in fact. The London warring clique to this
day has tried to bring Russia into the campaign of aggression against
Germany.
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- The encirclement of Germany long before the outbreak
of the war was traditional English policy. From the beginning, England
has always directed its main military might against Germany. It never
could tolerate a strong Reich on the Continent. It justified its policy
by claiming that it wanted to maintain a balance of forces in Europe.
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- Today there is still another reason. The English warmongers
conceal it. It is crassly egotistic. The English prime minister announced
the day the war began that England's goal was to destroy Hitlerism. However,
he defined Hitlerism in a way other than how the English plutocracy actually
sees it. The English warmongers claim that National Socialism wants to
conquer the world. No nation is secure against German aggression. An end
must be made of the German hunger for power. The limit came in the conflict
with Poland. In reality, however, there is another reason for England's
war with Germany. The English warmongers cannot seriously claim that Germany
wants to conquer the world, particularly in view of the fact that England
controls nearly two thirds of the world. And Germany since 1933 has never
threatened English interests.
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- So when Chamberlain says that England wants to destroy
Hitlerism in this war, he is in one sense incorrect. But in another sense,
he is speaking the truth. England does want to destroy Hitlerism. It sees
Hitlerism as the present internal state of the Reich, which is a thorn
in the eye of English plutocracy.
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- England is a capitalist democracy. Germany is a socialist
people's state. And it is not the case that we think England is the richest
land on earth. There are lords and City men in England who are in fact
the richest men on earth. The broad masses, however, see little of this
wealth. We see in England an army of millions of impoverished, socially
enslaved, and oppressed people. Child labor is still a matter of course
there. They have only heard about social welfare programs. Parliament
occasionally discusses social legislation. Nowhere else is there such
terrible and horrifying inequality as in the English slums. Those with
good breeding take no notice of it. Should anyone speak of it in public,
the press, which serves plutocratic democracy, quickly brands him the
worst kind of rascal. They do not hesitate to make major changes in the
Constitution if they are necessary to preserve capitalist democracy.
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- Capitalism democracy suffers from every possible modern
social ailment. The lords and City people can remain the richest people
one earth only because they constantly maintain their wealth by exploiting
their colonies and preserving unbelievable poverty in their own country.
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- Germany, on the other hand, has based its domestic policies
on new and modern social principles. That is why it is a danger to English
plutocracy. It is also why English capitalists want to destroy Hitlerism.
They see Hitlerism as all the generous social reforms that have occurred
in Germany since 1933. The English plutocrats rightly fear that good things
are contagious, that they could endanger English capitalism.
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- That is why England declared war on Germany. Since it
was accustomed to letting others fight its wars, it looked to the European
continent to find those ready to fight for England's interests. France
was ready to take on this degrading duty, since the same kind of people
ruled France. They too were ready for war out of egotistic reasons. Western
European democracy is really only a Western European plutocracy that rules
the world. It declared war on German socialism because it endangered their
capitalist interests.
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- A similar drama began in 1914. England had more luck
during those four and a half years than it is having today. Europe's nations
had no chance to see what was happening. The nations of Europe today
have no desire to play the same role they played during the World War.
England and France stand alone. Still, England is trying once again to
wage war without making any personal sacrifice. The goal is to blockade
Germany, to gradually bring it to submit by starvation. That is longstanding
English policy. They used it successfully in the Napoleonic wars, and
also during the World War. It would work now as well, if the German people
had not been educated by National Socialism. National Socialism is immune
to English temptations. English propaganda lies no longer work in Germany.
They have gradually lost their effectiveness in the rest of the world
as well, since German propaganda today reaches far beyond its borders.
This time, English plutocracy will not succeed in driving a wedge between
the German people and their leadership, though that is their goal.
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- The German nation today is defending not only its honor
and independence, but also the great social accomplishments it has made
through hard and untiring work since 1933. It is a people's state built
on the foundation of justice and economic good sense. In the past, England
always had the advantage of facing a fragmented Germany. It is only natural
that English plutocracy today seeks to split the German people and make
it ripe for new collapse.
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- English lying propaganda can no longer name things by
their proper names. It therefore claims that it is not fighting the German
people, only Hitlerism. But we know this old song. In South Africa, England
was not fighting the Boers, only Krugerism. In the World War, England
wanted to destroy Kaiserism, not the German people. But that did not stop
English plutocracy from brutally and relentlessly suppressing the Boers
after that war or the Germans after our defeat.
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- A child once burned is twice shy. The German people were
once victims of lying English war propaganda. Now it understands the
situation. It has long understood the background of this war. It knows
that behind all English plutocratic capitalism's fine words, its aim is
to destroy Germany's social achievements. We are defending the socialism
we have build in Germany since 1933 with every military, economic and
spiritual means at our disposal. The bald English lies have no impact
on the German people.
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- English plutocracy is finally being forced to defend
itself. In the past, it always found other nations to fight for it. This
time, the English people must themselves risk their necks for the lords
and City men. They will meet a unified German people of workers, farmers,
and soldiers who are prepared to defend their nation with every means
at their disposal.
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- We did not want war. England inflicted it on us. English
plutocracy forced it on us. England is responsible for the war, and it
will have to pay for it.
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- The whole world is waking up today. It can no longer
be ruled by the capitalist methods of the 19th century. The peoples have
matured. They will one day deal a terrible blow to the capitalist plutocrats
who are the cause of their misery.
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- It is no accident that National Socialism has the historical
task of carrying out this reckoning. Plutocracy is collapsing intellectually,
spiritually, and in the not too distant future, militarily. We are acting
consistently with Nietzsche's words: "Give a shove to what is falling."
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- http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/goeb47.htm
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- "Aus Churchills Lügenfabrik," Die Zeit
ohne Beispiel (Munich: Zentralverlag der NSDAP., 1941), pp. 364-369.
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- Churchill's Lie Factory
- by Joseph Goebbels
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- There is no point to debating Mr. Churchill about English
ship losses or the damage caused by German air attacks. He follows the
time-honored British policy of admitting only that which is impossible
to deny, then cutting it in half, while at the same time doubling or tripling
the enemy's losses. This balances the accounts. The astonishing thing
is that Mr. Churchill, a genuine John Bull, holds to his lies, and in
fact repeats them until he himself believes them. That is an old English
trick. Mr. Churchill does not need to perfect it, as it is one of the
familiar tactics of British politics, known to the entire world. They
made good use of the trick during the World War, with the difference that
world opinion believed it then, which cannot be said today. That is because
at the end of the World War British plutocracy believed that Germany would
never recover. In part from indifference, but also in part from boastfulness,
they made the mistake of telling the world the tricks they had used to
defeat the Reich. In the memoirs written by British statesmen, Mr. Churchill
in particular, one could see that the London plutocrats had no problem
lying to high heaven during the war. They were even proud of fooling Germany
in so easy and clever a fashion. They revealed their methods. They are
not believable any longer. We only need to refer to the World War and
note that the same men are determining English news policy as did from
1914 to 1918, and everything becomes clear.
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- That is of course rather painful for those involved.
One should not, as a rule, reveal one's secrets, since one does not know
if and when one may need them again. The essential English leadership
secret does not depend on particular intelligence. Rather, it depends
on a remarkably stupid thick-headedness. The English follow the principle
that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up
their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous.
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- That applies to the dramatic events now taking place
at sea and in the air. Despite his own knowledge and the facts, Mr. Churchill
keeps saying that England is in a good position, and he is not in any
way influenced by contrary facts. The Royal Air Force has pulverized Hamburg,
destroyed every railroad station in Berlin, and left German war production
in ruins, all the while never hitting a clinic, hospital, orphanage, old
people's home, or any kind of civilian target at all. The German Luftwaffe,
on the other hand, has never been particularly interested in military
or industrial targets. It is instead magnetically drawn to churches, schools,
institutions for homeless children, and workers' homes. They particularly
like embassies, consulates, or American businesses. They fly randomly
over English cities until they have found such a target, then dive down
and drop their bombs. They want to drive the USA into the war. If perchance
the German Luftwaffe manages to bomb an industrial city like Cardiff,
Reuters reports: "Unknown airplanes attacked something or another
somehow, somewhere. The damage is still unclear, but no military or industrial
targets were hit. Further details will follow." The world public
can wait for the details until the war is over. Should the neutral press
somehow manage to report serious damage despite English censorship, the
king sets to work to attack the world's tear ducts. He personally visits
the damaged city. English workers are there to cheer enthusiastically.
They seem to have nothing better to do than to plant the Union Jack in
the midst of the still smoking ruins, or to dance the Lambeth Walk in
the middle of the blackened walls, and to cheer the king as he goes on
his way. This will apparently continue until not a single stone in England
is left standing on another, and the long-awaited moment to begin the
glorious English offensive against the accursed German devil arrives.
It all moves His Majesty to the degree that he takes £200 from his
vest pocket (about 2000 Reich marks) and puts it in the poor box. His
Majesty's visit ends with a visit to a harbor, where the king watches
a ship being unloaded. Reuters happily announces the cargo is American
frozen meat, which proves first that Atlantic ship traffic is functioning
normally, and second that His Majesty is in good physical and mental
condition, despite the seriousness of the situation.
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- How different we Germans are! If the Führer does
not speak, it is proof that he is uncertain and sees no way out. If he
does speak, one can conclude that the situation in the Reich is catastrophic
and people desperately need reassurance. If he does not speak of a rapid
victory, it is because he does not believe in it. If he does speak of
it, he is just trying to confuse the world. If he meets with the Ducé,
it means there is a rift in the Axis. If he does not meet, it is because
the rift is too deep to repair. If he visits the troops, he is fleeing
the situation at home. If he does not, it is, of course, because he is
afraid of the soldiers. In England, people give three cheers when fat
and meat rations are reduced. In Germany, that would naturally lead to
a revolution. In England, snow and ice speed up the passenger and freight
system, but in Germany they throw it into total chaos. German methods
of warfare are contemptible and foolish, but one is not embarrassed to
imitate them. English methods are exemplary, humane, liberal, and advanced,
but they do not work, they have no success, and are therefore quietly
dropped. When we announced a few years back that we preferred cannons
to butter, all England protested. Now, however, the English have eaten
the butter, while we have the cannons. They now have to follow the same
principle through which we built our army, but that does not change the
fact that these methods are dumb, short-sighted, narrow-minded, and shallow
because they were invented by National Socialism. There is no point to
talking with the English. As long as Mr. Churchill is at the helm, John
Bull will win every time. What a pity that it always loses the offensive.
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- Mr. Churchill recently strolled through the ruins of
the City of London after a major German Luftwaffe attack. Reuters naturally
reported that the public applauded him energetically and shouted "Good
old Winston! Keep it up!" When one asked him about peace, he answered:
"After we have won!" One could find that impressive, if one
did not know him better. But we know him. We know it is all a front, that
he sees no way out, and that he is so far into his criminal policies that
there is no way back any longer. He looks strong, but has nothing left,
and can only hope for a miracle.
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- There will not be a miracle. Luck is always on the side
of him who has earned it, and history in the end has always sided with
those fighting for high ideals who are not willing to give up. Mr. Churchill
is not such an idealist. He represents a rotten and corrupt world. He
is a man of the 18th century who drapes himself with the symbols of the
19th century, hoping thereby to win the battles of the 20th century. This
is a world of unlimited individual profiteering at the cost of other people
and nations. It has been replaced in Europe by new ways of building nations.
The future is theirs. A believing, sacrificing youth is gathered under
its banners. This youth will win not only because it is well armed; it
will win because it is young, because it represents a revolution, because
it has mobilized powerful and dynamic forces that can no longer be resisted.
The wheel of history can not be held back, not even by Mr. Churchill.
In his more rational moments, he probably realizes that he is fighting
for a lost cause, that his time is past, that he has no hope of catching
up.
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but nonetheless does good. He gave our revolution the decisive final
push. Were it not for him, it probably would have taken much more time
to reach completion than it now will. In the end, we really have to thank
him. Because of him, we will need only as many months to reach our goal
as we otherwise would have needed in years, or even decades.
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He belongs to those stubborn people who can only be convinced by the facts.
Let us bring about those facts.
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- "Die Juden sind schuld!" Das eherne Herz (Munich:
Zentralverlag der NSDAP, 1943), pp. 85-91.
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- The Jews are Guilty!
- by Joseph Goebbels
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- The historic responsibility of world Jewry for the outbreak
and widening of this war has been proven so clearly that it does not
need to be talked about any further. The Jews wanted war, and now they
have it. But the Führer's prophecy of 30 January 1939 to the German
Reichstag is also being fulfilled: If international finance Jewry should
succeed in plunging the world into war once again, the result will be
not the Bolshevization of the world and thereby the victory of the Jews,
but rather the destruction of the Jewish race in Europe.
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- We are seeing the fulfillment of the prophecy. The Jews
are receiving a penalty that is certainly hard, but more than deserved.
World Jewry erred in adding up the forces available to it for this war,
and now is gradually experiencing the destructon that it planned for us,
and would have carried out without a second thought if it had possessed
the ability. It is perishing according its own law: "An eye for an
eye, a tooth for a tooth."
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- Every Jew is our enemy in this historic struggle, regardless
of whether he vegetates in a Polish ghetto or carries on his parasitic
existence in Berlin or Hamburg or blows the trumpets of war in New York
or Washington. All Jews by virtue of their birth and their race are part
of an international conspiracy against National Socialist Germany. They
want its defeat and annihilation, and do all in their power to bring it
about. That they can do nothing inside the Reich is hardly a sign of their
loyalty, but rather of the appropriate measures we took against them.
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- One of these measures is the institution of the yellow
star that each Jew must wear. We wanted to make them visible as Jews,
particularly if they made even the least attempt to harm the German community.
It is a remarkably humane measure on our part, a hygienic and prophylactic
measure to be sure that the Jew cannot infiltrate our ranks unseen to
sow discord.
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- As the Jews first appeared several weeks ago on the streets
of Berlin graced with their Jewish star, the initial reaction of the
citizens of the Reich capital was surprise. Only a few knew that there
were still so many Jews in Berlin. Everyone suddenly found someone in
the neighborhood who seemed like a harmless fellow citizen, who perhaps
complained or criticized a bit more than normal, and whom no one had thought
to be a Jew. He had concealed himself, mimicked his surroundings, adopting
the color of the background, adjusted to the environment, in order to
wait for the proper moment. Who among us had any idea that the enemy was
beside him, that a silent or clever auditor was attending to conversations
on the street, in the subway, or in the lines outside cigarette shops?
There are Jews one cannot recognize by external signs. These are the most
dangerous. It always happens that when we take some measure against the
Jews, English or American newspapers report it the next day. Even today
the Jews still have secret connections to our enemies abroad and use these
not only in their own cause, but in all military matters of the Reich
as well. The enemy is in our midst. What makes more sense than to at least
make this plainly visible to our citizens?
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- In the first days after the introduction of the Jewish
star, newspaper sales in Berlin went through the roof. Each Jew on the
street bought a newspaper to conceal his mark of Cain. As this was banned,
one began to see Jews on the streets of the west side of Berlin in the
company of non-Jewish foreigners. These Jewish lackeys actually should
wear the Jewish star themselves. The excuse they give for their provocative
conduct is always the same: the Jews are after all human beings too. We
never denied that, just as we never denied the humanity of murders, child
rapists, thieves and pimps, though we never felt the need to parade down
the Kurfürstendamm with them! Every Jew is a decent Jew who has found
a dumb and ignorant goy who thinks him decent! As if that were a reason
to give Jews a kind of honorable escort. What nonsense.
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- The Jews gradually are having to depend more and more
on themselves, and have recently found a new trick. They knew the good-
natured German Michael in us, always ready to shed sentimental tears for
the injustice done to them. One suddenly has the impression that the Berlin
Jewish population consists only of little babies whose childish helplessness
might move us, or else fragile old ladies. The Jews send out the pitiable.
They may confuse some harmless souls for a while, but not us. We know
exactly what the situation is.
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- For their sake alone we must win the war. If we lose
it, these harmless-looking Jewish chaps would suddenly become raging wolves.
They would attack our women and children to carry out revenge. There
are enough examples in history. That is what they did in Bessarabia and
the Baltic states when Bolshevism marched in, even though neither the
people nor their governments had done anything to them. There is no turning
back in our battle against the Jews - even if we wanted to, which we do
not. The Jews must be removed from the German community, for they endanger
our national unity.
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- That is an elementary principle of racial, national,
and social hygiene. They will never give us rest. If they could, they
would drive one nation after another into war against us. Who cares about
their difficulties, they who only want to force the world to accept their
bloody financial domination? The Jews are a parasitic race that feeds
like a foul fungus on the cultures of healthy but ignorant peoples. There
is only one effective measure: cut them out.
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- How stupid and thoughtless are the arguments of the backward
friends of the Jews in the face of a problem that has occupied mankind
for millennia! How they would gape if they could ever see their dear Jews
in power! But that would be too late.That is why it is the duty of a national
leadership to take all necessary measures to keep such a thing from happening.
There are differences between people just as there are differences between
animals. Some people are good, others bad. The same is true of animals.
The fact that the Jew still lives among us is no proof that he belongs
among us, just as a flea is not a household pet simply because it lives
in a house. When Mr. Bramsig or Mrs. Knöterich feel pity for an old
woman wearing the Jewish star, they should also remember that a distant
nephew of this old woman by the name of Nathan Kaufmann sits in New York
and has prepared a plan by which all Germans under the age of 60 will
be sterilized. They should recall that a son of her distant uncle is a
warmonger named Baruch or Morgenthau or Untermayer who stands behind Mr.
Roosevelt, driving him to war, and that if they succeed, a fine but ignorant
U.S. soldier may one day shoot dead the only son of Mr. Bramsig or Mrs.
Knöterich. It will all be for the benefit of Jewry, to which this
old woman also belongs, no matter how fragile and pitiable she may seem.
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- If we Germans have a fateful flaw in our national character,
it is forgetfulness. This failing speaks well of our human decency and
generosity, but not always for our political wisdom or intelligence.
We think everyone else as is good natured as we are. The French threatened
to dismember the Reich during the winter of 1939/40, saying that we and
our families would have to stand in lines before their field kitchens
to get something warm to eat. Our army defeated France in six weeks, after
which we saw German soldiers giving bread and sausages to hungry French
women and children, and gasoline to refugees from Paris to enable them
to return home as soon as possible, there to spread at least some of
their hatred against the Reich.
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- That's how we Germans are. Our national virtue is our
national weakness. We do not want to change all that much, and as long
as our world-famed good nature does no great harm, why should we? Klopstock
gave us some good advice, however: Don't be too good natured, since our
enemies are not noble enough to overlook our mistakes.
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- If this advice applies anywhere, it apples to our relations
with the Jews. Carelessness here is not only a weakness, it is disregard
of duty and a crime against the security of the state. The Jews long
for one thing: to reward our foolishness with bloodshed and terror. It
must never come to that. One of the most effective defenses is an unforgiving,
cold hardness against the destroyers of our people, against the instigators
of the war, against those who would benefit if we lose, and therefore
also against the victims, if we win.
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- 1. The Jews are our destruction. They started this war
and direct it. They want to destroy the German Reich and our people. This
plan must be blocked.
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a sworn enemy of the German people. If he does not make his hostility
plain, it is only from cowardice and slyness, not because he loves us.
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- 3. The Jews are to blame for each German soldier who
falls in this war. They have him on their conscience, and must also pay
for it.
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- 4. If someone wears the Jewish star, he is an enemy of
the people. Anyone who deals with him is the same as a Jew and must be
treated accordingly. He earns the contempt of the entire people, for he
is a craven coward who leaves them in the lurch to stand by the enemy.
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- 5. The Jews enjoy the protection of our enemies. That
is all the proof we need to show how harmful they are for our people.
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- 6. The Jews are the enemy's agents among us. He who stands
by them aids the enemy.
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- 7. The Jews have no right to claim equality with us.
If they wish to speak on the streets, in lines outside shops or in public
transportation, they should be ignored, not only because their are simply
wrong, but because they are Jews who have no right to a voice in the community.
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- 8. If the Jews appeal to your sentimentality, realize
that they are hoping for your forgetfulness, and let them know that you
see through them and hold them in contempt.
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- 9. A decent enemy will deserve our generosity after we
have won. The Jew however is not a decent enemy, though he tries to seem
so.
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- 10. The Jews are responsible for the war. The treatment
they receive from us is hardly unjust. They have deserved it all.
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- It is the job of the government to deal with them. No
one has the right to act on his own, but each has the duty to support
the state's measures against the Jews, to defend them with others, and
to avoid being misled by any Jewish tricks.
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- The security of the state requires that of us all.
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- "Was will eigentlich Amerika," Die Zeit ohne
Beispiel (Munich: Zentralverlag der NSDAP., 1941), pp. 24-30.
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- What Does America Really Want?
- by Joseph Goebbels
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- The American press seems to have the right to complain
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- Europe. It makes vigorous use of this right, particularly
when Germany is involved. National Socialist Germany is a thorn in its
eye.
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- The Third Reich has been the target of its mockery, hatred,
lies, and slander since 30 January 1933, especially from that part controlled
by the Jews. The American press takes particular pleasure in criticizing
Germany on grounds of humanitarianism, civilization, human rights, and
culture. It has every right to do so. Its humanity is shown by lynchings.
Its civilization is shown in economic and political scandals that stink
to high heaven. Its human rights are displayed by eleven or twelve million
unemployed, who apparently chose to be so. And its culture exists only
because it is always borrowing from the older European nations. Such a
nation is certainly justified in sneering at ancient Europe, whose nations
and peoples looked back on centuries, even millennia of cultural achievements
long before America was discovered.
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- The American press replies to our complaints by saying
that it has nothing against Germany, only against National Socialism.
That is a poor excuse. National Socialism today is Germany's guiding
political idea and worldview. The entire German nation affirms it. To
criticize National Socialism today therefore means to criticize the entire
German nation.
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- It will not do to say that National Socialism is a dictatorship,
and that there are still many in Germany who, inwardly at least, reject
it. That simply is not the case. It is a fantasy that exists only in the
minds of democratic politicians and journalists, but has nothing to do
with the facts. There is no doubt about it: the public campaign against
Germany is a conscious and intentional provocation aimed at the German
Reich and the German people.
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- Generally, it does not make any difference to us. We
Germans do not depend on the love or grace of other nations; we live from
our own national strength. The time is long past when Germany expected
its salvation from abroad. Such international help was always lacking
when it was most needed during the postwar period. It appeared only when
international money and stock capital believed that it could earn vast
profits by helping Germany.
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- We could simply say that America is far away, with a
big ocean separating us. What do we care about what they think, write,
or say about us? That was quite OK as long as America's highly developed
hate campaign against Germany kept within certain bounds. But when it
infects even official circles rather than merely newspapers and radio
stations, it becomes more serious.
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- This campaign reached unbelievable heights after 10 November
1938. American public opinion, influenced by the Jews, is trying to interfere
to an unacceptable degree in German domestic politics. They think that
can use methods against Germany that are normally unheard of in relations
between civilized nations.
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- We know very well who the instigators and beneficiaries
are. They are mostly Jews, or people who are in their service and who
are dependent on them.
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- For example, it is not surprising that the New York press
attacks Germany so strongly. Over two million Jews live in New York, and
economic life there is entirely under their control.
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- The German press so far has generally ignored this filthy
campaign of hatred, or answered it only in a restrained manner. Only after
official personages in the United States got involved did we think it
necessary to say something. For example, the American Interior Secretary
Ickes said on 19 December 1938 that no American could accept a medal from
the hands of a brutal dictatorship. With the same hand, it robbed and
tortured thousands of people, that it saw a day when it committed no new
crime against humanity as a day wasted. Put simply, that is not a style
of speaking that is customary in relations between states.
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- The American Assistant Secretary of State Wells responded
to German protests by saying that Ickes' statement represented the opinion
of the overwhelming majority of the American public. One does not know
what to say. What does he mean! Was the American president ever personally
attacked in the German press, or America's leading men slandered? We have
been restrained, even though we certainly had every reason to discuss
this or that matter of American domestic policy.
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- Such things are not our concern. American statesmen,
not us, determine American domestic policy. We are concerned only with
Germany's affairs. We also have no reason or intention of smuggling German
political ideas into America. The very opposite, since the methods that
we use are purely German. They are only valid in Germany. But we do believe
that just as we respect the internal affairs of other countries and avoid
polemics against them, they should treat us in the same way.
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- One cannot say that that is true of the United States
of North America. Nearly the whole press, radio, and film industry support
the worldwide campaign against Germany.
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- Senator Pitman put the matter bluntly on 22 December
1938: "The American people do not like Germany's government."
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- We happen to think that the American people have nothing
to do with the matter. If they do not like Germany, it is because of the
hate campaign. This campaign is conducted by certain international scoundrels
who lack conscience and scruples. They are doing it both for foreign and
domestic reasons.
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- The Lima Conference is behind the anti-German campaign.
North America hopes to encourage South American hostility against Germany,
and really against Europe as a whole. They do not like German competition
in the South American market. The enormous North American armaments industry
is also calling up images of a coming war against the totalitarian governments
for business reasons.
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- We have no intention of answering the criticisms that
the American Jewish press raises against Germany by looking at America's
domestic affairs. It is enough to observe that although Germany is the
poorest country in the world in terms of foreign currency reserves and
raw materials, it has not only abolished unemployment, but has a labor
shortage. North America, meanwhile has between eleven and twelve million
unemployed, even though it is rich in foreign currency reserves and raw
materials. Most of the American press ignores this situation. It cannot
deny it, of course. It claims that German success is contemptible, since
it used methods of hate and contempt.
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- This is entirely backward. The seven million Germans
who got jobs after National Socialism took power in Germany are not interested
in the methods that gave them jobs. It reminds one of the familiar joke.
Two workers are halfheartedly trying to remove a paving stone. A passerby
watches for a while, then grabs a pickax and yanks the stone out. One
worker says to the other: "Well, sure, if you use force..."
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- The American press uses the same argument. It cannot
deny National Socialism's successes. It can only say: "Well, sure,
if you use force..." It thinks the German people had to make too
great a sacrifice for these successes.
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- The German people sees things differently. It knows that
certain restrictions in some areas were necessary for national reconstruction.
The American public is practically drowning in wealth, prosperity, foreign
currency, gold bars, and raw materials. It can hardly imagine how an intelligent,
hardworking and courageous people can get along without all those advantages.
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- However that may be, future developments concern us.
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- No one but Germany has the right to judge Germany's domestic
affairs. No one has the right to turn one people against another, to
incite discord and promote ignorance that lead to international crises.
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- Mr. Eden, the ambassador of international world democracy,
found the right audience a few weeks ago in New York when he attacked
National Socialism. The most prominent representatives of American international
industry, economics, and finance were gathered. Mr. Eden would have done
better to tell the eleven or twelve million unemployed where they could
find jobs. He seems to have realized that his hate tirade might have found
a less friendly reception there than it did from the audience to which
he did speak.
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- Jewry applauds whenever Germany is attacked. Jewry hates
National Socialism for reasons that do not need to be mentioned. Jewry
is our enemy, it should be our enemy, it must be our enemy. The question
is whether the American people want to make the Jews happy by engaging
in fruitless conflict with the German Reich and the German people. That
we do protest against. That is neither necessary nor helpful.
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- We have nothing against the American people. We know
and respect their political views and internal affairs, even if we might
do things differently. We believe we have the right to expect the same
of American public opinion about Germany. We also fail to see the benefits
of such controversy. What good will it do America? Does it think it can
starve Germany using the same methods as those of the World War?
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- Every economic action has two sides. It affects not only
its target, but also the side that uses it. American cotton farmers,
sitting on piles of unsold cotton, know this well.
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- It is time to recommend peace and good sense. American
public opinion is going the wrong way. It would benefit by returning to
the old, tested practices of international courtesy and good manners,
and by treating Germany in the way normal among civilized nations.
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- We do not expect our appeal to have a great impact on
American attitudes. Still, we think it our duty to speak plainly.
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- Given the influence of the Jews on parts of American
public opinion, we again stress the shortsightedness and uselessness of
such methods, and ask the world this question: "What does America
really want?"
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- "Winston Churchill," Die Zeit ohne Beispiel
(Munich: Zentralverlag der NSDAP., 1941), pp. 380-384.
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- Winston Churchill
- by Joseph Goebbels
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- "There is only one way to break the resistance of
the Boers: the most severe suppression. In other words, we must kill the
parents to teach the children respect for us."
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- So wrote the correspondent of the English newspaper "Morning
Post" during the Boer War. He was the same man who reported about
an English punishment expedition to the Mamund Valley: "We went
systematically from village to village, destroying the houses, ruining
the wells, breaking the towers, felling the larger shade- giving trees,
burning the harvest, and destroying the water reservoirs. . . After fourteen
days the valley was a desert and our honor was satisfied."
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- According to Lady Asquith, the wife of the then English
Prime Minister, this war reporter, who meanwhile had advanced to First
Lord of the Admiralty, responded to the outbreak of the World War with
cheerful laughter. During a speech in Dundee, a woman from the gallery
yelled: "You've never told the truth. The truth is a stranger to
you." He introduced the phase "terminological inexactitude"
to the world, a discreet way of avoiding the rather crude word "lie."
He resorts regularly to the phrase when he is caught in an untruth. His
swindles are world-renowned. The English battleship "Audacious"
was sunk on 27 October 1914. Not only did he deny the fact, he even published
falsified pictures of a sister ship of the "Audacious" with
this caption: "The 'Audacious' returns to the fleet." As early
as 1900 he wrote in one of his books: "I then had no idea what a
great and undoubtedly useful role deceit plays in the life of those nations
that enjoy democratic freedom."
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- The reader will already have guessed whom we are speaking
of. It is Mr. Winston Churchill, W.C. in short, currently the English
prime minister and the first violin in the hellish concert that the whole
demo-plutocratic world is playing against the Axis powers.
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- It is not easy to give a character sketch of this man
who lacks all character. He is one of those political chameleons who can
change his color as needed and his opinions a thousand times, and makes
energetic use of these abilities. He lies not only out of necessity,
but for the sheer pleasure of it, for it is part of him. As one leading
English newspaper wrote after the bitter experiences of the World War,
he is a political juggler who unfortunately always leads his country in
the wrong direction.
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- One must know Churchill if he is to understand England's
present policies and military leadership. They, like he, are wholly without
direction or plan, an endless chain of actions and improvisations that
now and again seem to prosper at first, but in the end regularly just
miss success.
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- Last spring, for example, Mr. Churchill had the crazy
idea of occupying Norway. The Führer beat him to it by a nose, which
has not stopped him from claiming a brilliant success. The German army
threw the British troops out of Norway in a glorious victory. Mr. Churchill
nonetheless gave a speech to the survivors of the British destroyers "Hardy"
and "Ellipse" in which he said: "You are the forefront
of the army that we will use in the course of the summer to cleanse Norway
of the dreadful filth of Nazi tyranny."
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- Everyone knows what actually happened. England had to
be content to save the last remnants of its defeated divisions from Western
Europe. It stopped talking about a renewed occupation of Norway. But
that did not trouble Churchill. He had been through it during the World
War with his disastrous Gallipoli invasion. He had walked through streams
of English blood and become hard to the sentiments that might have affected
anyone else after such a catastrophe. His cynicism about a war that affects
millions of human lives is unparalleled. His autobiography has an interesting
passage comparing the wars in India to a proper European war: "The
suppression of the poor Indians could hardly be compared to a proper
European war. It was like a paper chase rather than racing in a real derby.
Well, one has to take what the age offers."
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- That is how Churchill loves and lives. One has to see
a current photograph of his face to grasp the true depravity of plutocracy.
This face has not a single good characteristic. It is marked by cynicism.
The ice-cold eyes are free of any emotion. This man strides over corpses
to feed his blind and limitless personal egotism. The cigar butt in his
mouth is the last sign of a lifestyle that has outlived its time. The
English Labor leader Lansbury wrote about him in the "Daily Herald"
on 12 July 1919: "He has no scruples other than concern for himself
and no interests but those of the ruling class. In all his endeavors,
he has always managed to find a corner for himself at the feeding trough
of the state, and usually one of the best paid and most pleasant corners
at that."
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- We have nothing to add to that. England will one day
pay a heavy price for this man. When the great catastrophe breaks over
the island kingdom, the British people will have him to thank. He has
long been the spokesman for the plutocratic caste that wanted war to
destroy Germany. He distinguishes himself from the men behind the scenes
only through his obvious cynicism and his unscrupulous contempt for humankind.
He wants war for war's sake. War is an end in itself to him. He wished
it, pushed for it, and prepared for it out of a stupid, destructive drive.
He is one of those characters of the political underworld who rise through
chaos, who announce chaos, who cause chaos. For countless people the war
brings vast suffering, for countless children hunger and disease, for
countless mothers and women streams of tears. For him, it is no more than
a big horse race that he wants to take part in.
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- He now has what he wanted. England is in the middle of
the gravest struggle in its history, from which it will be lucky to emerge
with its mere existence. The big race has begun, and he who wanted it
so much is the English prime minister. He will not be able to escape
the crucial hour. When Chamberlain was his superior, he could duck ultimate
responsibility. No longer. He must stand and fight.
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- It does not surprise us that he is fighting to some extent.
No one can escape his character, not even Mr. Churchill. He loses himself
in feverish fantasies and confuses dreams without the shadow of truth
with reality. In situations from which there is no escape he resorts to
mystic-sounding phases. His outbursts against the Reich and the Führer
display ordinary gutter language that is usually rejected even by warring
enemies. He spits out insults against the German people in his impotent
rage. In all this we see him without any mask, a caricature of John Bull,
a toothless bully, a monstrosity born of filth and fire that one must
render harmless if the world is to have peace.
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- England's tragic fate is that it is led by him and has
tied its fate to his. He was the one who persuaded Great Britain to ignore
its historic opportunity and take the rapid path to its downfall. When
the history of the fall of the island kingdom is one day written, the
title of the critical chapter will have to be "Churchill."
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- It is always good to see a tyrannical system embodied
in one man. That is the case here. That makes our attack easy. At least
we know where we are. Churchill - that means war, as long as he is around.
He never wanted anything else, and will never be able to want anything
else.
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- Well, now he has it, as does the nation that must fight
and suffer. He will fall with the war and through it, and on his grave
will be the millions of curses of those he has seduced. That and only
that is what England has deserved.
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- The New Year 1939/40
- by Joseph Goebbels
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- It is harder for me than it was in years past to recall
the old year for my listeners. Certainly there is no lack of material.
To the contrary, the year 1939 was so dramatic and filled with historical
splendors that one could fill a library writing about them. One hardly
knows where to begin.
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- Much that happened in the past year already seems as
if it happened years or even decades ago. It was a year burned into the
book of history. It will surely give the historians enough material to
write about for decades to come. They will explain the events and look
into the motives and drives of the central characters. They will attempt
to explain all that moved us so deeply, all that we have done, and they
will probably fall short in the attempt. Whether friend or foe, supporter
or opponent, all will have to admit that this was a great and eventful
year, a year in which history was made, in which the face of Europe changed,
in which the map took new form. More than that, our people began to restore
its national life in 1939, beginning a great effort finally to throw
off the chains of constraint and slavery and to once again take our place
as a great power after our deep fall [after 1918]. When the diligent historians
investigate this year, the worries and difficulties we all had will be
forgotten; the sacrifices will appear in a milder and more becoming light,
the tears shed will be concealed and the blood that has been shed will
be the cement that forever holds our Reich together.
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- From the beginning, it was clear to everyone who can
not only read history, but can experience it, that this year would deeply
affect the fate of Germany and the European peoples. True, the first two
months were relatively uneventful, but he who saw clearly knew it was
only the calm before the storm. Everyone felt that it would be a year
of important decisions.
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- On 13 February the ethnic Germans in Bohemia and Moravia
made it clear that their legal, economic and social situation in the former
Czechoslovakia had not become better since the solution of the Sudeten
problem, but had in fact worsened. On 22 February, the Slovakians called
for independence. At the beginning of March there were severe persecutions
of Germans in Prague, Brünn and other cities in Bohemia and Moravia.
On 8 March the Carpathian-Ukranian government in Prague protested against
the appointment of a Czech general as Carpathian-Ukrainian interior minister.
On 10 March, the Czech government deposed the Slovakian government and
the persecution of Germans in Bohemia and Moravia intensified. It was
clear that the time had come to settle the problems in these areas, which
had been cultivated by Germans for centuries. On 13 March, the Slovakian
leader Tiso visited the Führer, and on 14 March the Czech President
Dr. Hacha placed the fate of Bohemia and Moravia in the hands of the Führer.
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- The goddess of history looked down to earth. German troops
entered Bohemia and Moravia, and with breathless excitement the German
people and the whole world saw the Führer take up residence in the
castle of Prague. Slovakia declared independence on the same day, and
the day after the Führer issued his historical decree establishing
the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. The Slovakians put themselves
under the protection of the Reich. The issue of Bohemia and Moravia found
its final historic solution. On 22 March, the Memel District returned
to the Reich.
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- Parallel to these developments, the Polish question was
intensifying. As early as 5 January, the Führer received the Polish
Foreign Minister Beck at the Obersalzberg. He reminded him of Danzig's
German character and made suggestions for improving German- Polish relations.
These proposals fell on deaf Polish ears. After the reactions from London
and Paris to these developments, one knew why.
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- On 31 March, soon after the establishment of the Protectorate
of Bohemia and Moravia, London hate papers printed lies about German
troops gathering on the Polish border. Chamberlain reported to the House
of Commons on English-Polish negotiations, and gave a formal declaration
of British support to Poland.
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- The London warmongering clique thus gave Warsaw the freedom
to act, in the secret wish that Warsaw would begin the conflict that the
London plutocrats needed in order to begin their long desired and carefully
prepared military measures against the Reich.
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- The government in Warsaw understood. Beginning in April,
the terror and persecution of ethnic Germans climbed beyond the previous
normal and tolerable level. On 13 April, severe anti-German persecutions
occurred on the Danzig border. The terrorist attacks on Germans rose throughout
Poland after Germany began its efforts to improve relations. German consulates
reported countless persecutions every day to Berlin. On 8 May, 300 ethnic
Germans were expelled from Neutomischel County. The German theater was
closed in Bromberg on 9 May. Two Germans were killed by Poles in Lodsch
on 15 May. A Danzig citizen was killed by Poles in Kalthof on 21 May.
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- One can understand this only after learning that on 15
May the Polish War Minister Kasprzycki was in Paris for secret talks,
and that the German representative in Warsaw reported to Berlin on 8
May that maps were being distributed in Polish cities that showed the
border moved into German territory past Beuthen, Oppeln, Gleiwitz, Breslau,
Stettin and Kolberg.
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- The situation in Danzig intensified under Polish pressure.
On 15 June, the German ambassador lodged an official protest against
insults and slanders against the Führer. Border incidents and other
problems increased through June and July. On 4 August, the Polish government
made an insolent and provocative ultimatum against rumors of alleged resistance
against Polish customs officials. Danzig rejected the ultimatum on 7 August.
The German government expressed its concern to the Polish representative
on 9 August. Poland apparently felt itself under England's protection,
and gave an unsatisfactory reply on 10 August. On 18 August, the SS Home
Defense was mobilized to protect the German city of Danzig. Things were
in motion.
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- English plutocracy attempted to wash its hands of the
situation and claim innocence, seeking to build a moral alibi for the
war it wanted. But even a blind man could see what England was doing.
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- On 24 August, the customs negotiations between Danzig
and Poland ended because of Polish intransigence. Poland called up further
reserves and intensified its provocations. On 25 August Poland further
intensified the situation by firing on a German plane with a Reich Secretary
on board on international airspace.
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- The reaction of the London warmongering clique to the
events they had encouraged was clear; on 25 August they demonstratively
signed a British-Polish alliance. The day after, a million and a half
Poles were under arms.
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- The Führer spoke to the German Reichstag on 27 August.
He announced that he wanted to solve three problems: Danzig, the Corridor,
and improving Germany's relations with Poland in a way that would guarantee
peaceful cooperation.
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- Lively diplomatic efforts between Berlin, Rome, London
and Paris occurred between 28 and 31 August. The Führer yet again
attempted a peaceful solution by announcing that the German government
was expecting a Polish emissary. Poland replied by provocatively announcing
general mobilization on 30 August. Polish radio on 31 August declared
German proposals to solve the existing problems unacceptable. German consulates
reported 55 instances between 25 and 31 August of the most serious Polish
attacks on ethnic Germans. Polish troops committed a series of serious
border violations on 31 August.
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- The result was that German troops marched into Poland
on 1 September. The Führer spoke to the Reichstag and announced that
force would be met with force. The same day, Danzig proclaimed its union
with the Reich.
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- The following lightning campaign in Poland was unique
in all of history. On 2 September, the Jablunka Pass was taken. The Polish
army in the Corridor was destroyed on 4 August. Bromberg was captured
on 6 September. The Westernplatte fell on 7 September. Lodsch was captured
on 10 September. The encirclement of Radom was completed on 12 September.
52,000 Poles laid down their weapons. Posen, Thorn, Gnesen and Hohensalza
were captured on 13 September. Gdingen fell into German hands on 15 September.
Brest-Litovsk fell on 17 September. The encirclement of Weichselbogen
um Kunto was completed successfully on 18 September. 170,000 Polish prisoners
marched into captivity. Warsaw capitulated on 27 September. Modlin fell
two days later. The Polish army was defeated and destroyed.
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- Over 700,000 Poles were captured. The booty was enormous.
Over a half million guns, 16,000 machine guns, 32,000 artillery pieces
and over 3 3/4 million rounds of artillery munitions fell into our hands.
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- The London warmongering clique did not lift a finger
to support its Polish ally. England saw the solution of the German-Polish
problem only as an excuse to begin the long-desired battle with the German
people.
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- The English warmongers had achieved their first goal.
Ever since the Munich Agreement, London had more and more been winning
the upper hand. They increasingly influenced the governments in London
and Paris. The year 1939 was increasingly characterized by Germany's
encirclement. London plutocracy used the extremely tense situation to
prepare war against Germany. Chamberlain and Halifax were in Paris on
10 January. Chamberlain told the House of Commons on 5 February that the
full forces of the Empire were ready to assist France. On 18 March, Britain
and France protested the establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia
and Moravia. War was avoided only because France and England were not
ready for it. But as the Protectorate was established, the anti-German
press campaign in London and Paris reached its first peak.
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- At the same time, the London warmongering clique spread
alarming rumors to conceal the true situation. A lying report on 19 March
claimed that Germany had given Romania an ultimatum. The Norwegian Foreign
Minister denied reports from Paris about alleged German threats against
the Nordic states on 21 March. On 24 March, England guaranteed the security
of Holland, Belgium, Switzerland and the Eastern states. Not a day passed
in which the English press did not predict some sort of German attack
or spread lies about German threats against the smaller states.
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- Paris played the same tune. The French government passed
emergency measures to strengthen the navy on 28 March. The English Chief
of Staff Gort visited France.
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- The English-French warmongering clique now made a desperate
attempt to bring Russia into the alliance against Germany. The English
Commerce Minister Hudson traveled to Moscow on 28 March. London newspapers
printed lies on 31 March that German troops were gathering on the Polish
border. The same day, Chamberlain told the House of Commons that England
would stand by Poland and Romania.
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- The Führer on the following day warned the English
encirclers in a speech at Wilhelmshaven. On 5 April, Lord Stanhope said
that the air forces of the English fleet were on alert. London established
a munitions ministry on 20 April, in case of necessity. The Führer
replied to these warmongering actions on the part of English plutocracy
in a speech to the German Reichstag on 28 April. He declared the provisions
of the German-English naval accord null and void, and also the German-Polish
agreement of 1934.
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- A day before, England had introduced the draft, and negotiations
between England, France and Russia began on 14 June in Moscow. London's
goal was to organize an attack on Germany from both East and West.
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- At the same time, English propaganda made the foolish
attempt to confuse the German people by leaflets, radio and the press,
the same thing they had so often done in the past. The plans failed.
The German people stood firmly and unanimously behind the Führer.
The English attempt to bring Russia into its encirclement campaign collapsed.
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- The British Ambassador returned from London to Berlin
on 25 August. The Führer presented him with a generous proposal for
a lasting understanding between Germany and England. The English government
did not intend to respond to this constructive proposal. Their answer
came on 28 August. England claimed that it had received assurances from
the Polish government that it would negotiate with the Reich government.
The Führer replied to the English government on 29 August that the
Reich government was ready to accept the English proposal and expected
the Polish negotiator on Wednesday, 30 August. On the evening of 30 August
and despite the absence of the Polish delegate, the Reich Foreign Minister
gave the English Ambassador in Berlin a sixteen point proposal to resolve
the questions of Danzig, the Corridor, and German-Polish minority issues.
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- Poland replied with force, and the Führer had no
alternative but to answer force with force.
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- Paris and London demanded the withdrawal of German troops
from Poland on 1 September. The German Reich government rejected the
demand. Mussolini's attempts to resolve the situation on 2 September collapsed
because of England's stance. On 3 September, London and Paris gave Germany
an ultimatum, and declared war against the Reich soon after.
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- Now the mask fell from the faces of the London warmongering
clique. When the government was shuffled on 3 September, leading members
of the warmongering clique joined the cabinet. Churchill and Eden became
official inciters of British war policy.
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- The war of the Western powers against the Reich had begun.
The Führer's foreign policy had succeeded in destroying Britain's
campaign of encirclement. England and France were alone against Germany.
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- The Reich faced a new challenge. All necessary internal
measures had been taken to ensure a victorious conclusion to the war.
On 28 August, rationing of food and consumer items was introduced. A
Ministry for Defense was established on 30 August. Comprehensive economic
measures were announced on 1 September, and a Reich Defense Commission
with extensive powers was established on 5 September. Measures to guarantee
the necessities of life for dependents of soldiers were implemented on
20 October. As early as 6 November, we could increase food rations. On
16 November, clothing rationing was introduced, and on 20 November better
rations for those working at night or in demanding occupations.
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- The front and the homeland celebrated Christmas as a
firm and unshakable community. The Führer was with his troops at
the West Wall to celebrate Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. The year 1939
ended with the German people holding to an unshakable confidence in victory.
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- Another year is behind us, the proudest and most important
year of the National Socialist regime. We see its passing with honor and
respect. It was a German year in Europe's history. We honor the sacrifices
that the entire German people have made in this year. Some were affected
more than others. We have done all we could to see that the burdens are
fairly shared. This war involves the whole people. It is a war for our
national existence. It has not yet seen its full extent on every front.
No one can doubt that the warmongering cliques in London and Paris want
to stifle Germany, to destroy the German people. They grant that openly
today. They reserve their sanctimonious phrases about defeating Hitlerism,
but not the German people, only for the stupid. We know what they are
doing from experience, and a child once burned is more cautious the second
time. No one in Germany listens to them. They want to attack the Führer
through Hitlerism, the Reich through Hitlerism, and the German people
through the Reich. All the Führer's attempts at peace bore no fruit
with them. We 90 million in the Reich stand in the way of their brutal
plans for world domination. They hate our people because it is decent,
brave, industrious, hardworking and intelligent. They hate our views,
our social policies, and our accomplishments. They hate us as a Reich
and as a community. They have forced us into a struggle for life and death.
We will defend ourselves accordingly. All is clear between us and our
enemies. All Germans know what we are doing, and the entire German people
is filled with fanatical resolve. There is no comparison here to the
World War. Germany today is economically, politically, militarily and
spiritually ready to respond to the attack of the enemy.
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- It would be a mistake to predict what will happen in
the New Year. That all is in the future. One thing is clear: It will be
a hard year, and we must be ready for it. Victory will not fall into our
laps. We must earn it, and not only at the front, but at home as well.
Everyone has to work and fight for it.
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- Therefore in this hour as we bid farewell to a great
year and enter a new one, the homeland greets the front. We greet soldiers
in bunkers and the front lines, at airbases and in the navy. The homeland
and the front join in a common greeting to the Führer. May a gracious
fate keep him healthy and strong; then we will look with assurance into
the future. Today more than ever he is Germany, the faith of our people,
and the certainty of its future. We bow in honor before the great sacrifices
of our people. The sacrifices of the past and those yet to come must not
be in vain. We owe that to the Reich and its future.
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- As we raise our hearts in grateful thanks to the Almighty,
we ask his gracious protection in the coming year. We do not want to make
it difficult for him to give us his blessing. We want to work and fight,
and say with that Prussian General: "Lord, if you cannot help us
or choose not to, we ask at least that you do not help our damned enemies!"
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- "Widerstand um jeden Preis," Das Reich,
22 April 1945, pp. 1-2.
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- Resistance at Any Price
- by Joseph Goebbels
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- The war has reached a stage at which only the full efforts
of the nation and of each individual can save us. The defence of our
freedom no longer depends on the army fighting at the front. Each civilian,
each man and woman and boy and girl must fight with unequaled fanaticism.
The enemy expects that, once his tanks have broken through, they will
find no resistance. He believes that we will be so disconcerted by his
material superiority that we will let things take their course, without
caring how they turn out. We must prove the enemy's hopes wrong. No village
and no city may give in to the enemy. The enemy is strong, but not strong
enough to hold all the territory of the Reich without our help. If he
persuades us to capitulate, he will have an easy time with us. The enemy
has laid waste to our cities and provinces through the worst and most
terrible bombing terror. As long as we are determined to resist at all
costs, we cannot be beaten, and for us not being beaten means to be victorious.
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- This war of nations demands heavy sacrifice. Still, those
sacrifices do not begin to compare with those we would be forced to bring
if we lose. The enemy naturally wants to make his battle against the Reich
as easy and safe as possible, and hopes to diminish our morale by seductive
agitation. That is poison for weak souls. He who falls for it proves he
has learned nothing from the war. He thinks it possible to take the easy
road, when only the hard path leads to freedom. They are the same doubting
souls who have no sense of national honor, and think nothing of living
under the clubs of Anglo-American banking Jews, accepting charity from
their hands. In other words, they are the rubbish of our nation, who
nonetheless give the enemy an entirely false idea of this people. One
sees how the English and American newspapers have fun with them, mocking
and scorning them, and comparing them with a brave nation fighting for
its life. That nation, which has demonstrated heroism and more heroism,
has only one wish when reading these accounts: to kill them. They deserve
nothing else. One cannot even claim that they do not know what they are
doing. They have to know it, for they have been told often enough, even
by the enemy, should they not want to believe us.
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- In the midst of a thousand battles, burdens and defeats,
our people stand unbroken. Our hearts are proud when we hear from the
enemy the wild fanaticism they encounter, how fathers, mothers and even
children gather to resist the invaders, how boys and girls throw hand
grenades and mines or shoot from cellar windows without regard to danger.
They force the enemy to give them respect. They tie up his forces. They
force him to commit his reserves to hold a rebellious city or a village
glowing with national fanaticism, thereby slowing his advance until a
new defensive line can be built a few kilometers further on. It is an
absurd reversal of the facts to claim they are fighting in desperation.
The enemy's attacks are riskier than the methods we use to resist. They
have a solid foundation, which will soon make its impact known in the
course of the war. A nation that defended its freedom with all its resources
has never yet been defeated. Often, however, those that give in from
desperation have been defeated.
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- Our entire war effort requires revolutionary changes.
The old rules of war are outdated, and have no use at all in our present
situation. This is the age of wars between nations. When whole peoples
are threatened, whole peoples must defend themselves. The enemy does not
want to take a province from us or push us back to more favorable strategic
borders; he wants to cut our very arteries by destroying our mines and
factories, destroying our national substance. If he succeeds, Germany
will become a cemetery. Our people will starve and perish, aside from
the millions who will be deported to Siberia as slave labor. In such a
situation, any means is justified. We are in a state of national emergency;
it is no time to ask what is normally done! Does the enemy worry about
that? Where does international law allow for the tens of thousands of
German women tortured and raped in the East, or the tens of thousands
of German children who have been murdered in a cowardly and terrible way,
or the many who have fallen victim to barbaric enemy bombing terror? All
normal ideas of warfare have long since been discarded by the enemy. Only
we good natured Germans still hold to them in the mistaken idea that we
might thereby bring the enemy to reason.
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- The facts prove the opposite. Our enemies are even insolent
enough to call us barbarians and war criminals because here and there
we put up touch resistance with the means we have available. Just recently,
British terror fliers who had been shot down after doing their destructive
work were attacked by men and women in Berlin, who after their homes had
been destroyed were trying to rescue their possessions and dig out the
corpses of their parents and children. Their reaction was understandable,
but German guards protected them with their weapons. What would happen
to a captured German pilot, were he lead through a flaming Moscow? To
ask the question is to answer it. Knightly behavior will not accomplish
much in this war. The German dreamer must wake up if he does not want
to lose his freedom and his life. How long will he wait to do what is
necessary? Will he wait until Bolshevist posters appear ordering everyone
between fourteen and fifty to show up at a certain spot with clothing
and two weeks of food in order to be transported to Siberia? Or until
the Anglo-American occupation forces ruin our people through starvation
and Typhoid Fever?
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- Is that an exaggeration? Not at all! It has become grim
reality in the occupied territories in the East and West. Only a few romantic
souls fail to see it. They have built a world of illusions, and do not
want to believe the hard facts and draw the necessary conclusions. They
must change their thinking, and as fast as possible. Someone once said
that he did not know which people could be beaten to death, but he did
know that the German people had to be beaten to life. What kind of blow
will it take to finally wake these people from their illusions, to persuade
them to give up their fantasies and errors, for their own good even if
not for that of everyone else? What will persuade these obstructionists
and defeatists to defend themselves?
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- The enemy is out to get us all. The London papers recently
reported that Anglo-American officers viewed with contempt the owners
of the houses where they were quartered. They were buying German-English
dictionaries in order to parley. Only the domestic servants refused to
behave in so unworthy a manner. What can one say about such creatures?
Beating them seems the only possible solution. Thank God, these are isolated
events. What can a German think about people who have had their property
destroyed and who have been told they will be tortured in the manner of
the Middle Ages, who still want to have a pleasant conversation with their
conquerors?
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- Why do we mention these examples? In order to protect
healthy people against infection. Were they to succumb, it would all be
over. We would have no salvation, no future. We must help ourselves if
we are to receive any help at all. It is more than naive to hope that
the enemy will help us. We still have enough means and opportunities to
defend ourselves and to bring the war to a successful conclusion if we
only use them. This is the center of our efforts.
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- Each must start with himself, banishing all weakness
and lethargy. He must stand firm and give an example to others, he must
be on guard when he hears defeatism. He must be a man and act, work, and
fight until we have overcome the gravest crisis of this war. We do not
know how long that will take, only that it is necessary if we wish to
live. That is true for every German, whether at the front or at home.
No one can leave it to everyone else. We are all in the same boat that
is plowing through the storm. No one can sit in a corner grumbling and
complaining, making only critical remarks to the helmsman and the other
passengers. Who can hold it against the rest when he who apparently shows
no regard for the rest is tossed overboard to ease the strain on the rest,
both physically and because they have wearied of a professional complainer
who is endangering their efforts to save themselves? That is how things
are.
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- We can no longer pay any heed to weariness, weakness,
and delicacy. What we want, and what the intentions of our devilish enemy
are,
- has been said often and clearly enough during the war.
It does not
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have confirmed it, not contradicted it. There is no hope that the weaklings
are right correct in their cowardly excuse that things will be only half
as bad as we fear. If the enemy's agitation deceives us into surrender,
things will be much worse than we predicted. We must draw the proper conclusions,
coolly, calmly, without complaining, but also with determination. Raising
the white flag means giving up the war and shamefully losing one's life.
There is no reason for doing that. To the contrary, that would only help
our enemy to win a cheap victory, and for at least a while cover up the
growing crisis in his coalition.
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- The results are easy to see. They would affect us only,
and sooner or later would result in the complete destruction of our nation.
No one is willing to accept that fate. We must therefore fight on, resisting
at all costs, even under the toughest and bleakest conditions. We fought
for years almost without risk. That was not particularly commendable.
The risk was entirely on the enemy's side. They overcame the danger. Who
thinks that we cannot do the same? He should buy a noose and do to himself
what he thinks is going to happen to our whole nation.
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- We still live and breathe, and have mountains of resistance
left in us that we only need draw upon. Never have we believed so passionately
in Germany as today, when the Reich has before it a crisis of unparalleled
seriousness. One may not judge a sick person's chances of recovery by
his fevered delusions. Rather, every possible means must be used to reduce
the fever and waken the body's natural defenses, to give the patient courage
so that he does not lose the will to live. One must strengthen his defenses
so that they can bring him through the critical moments. Any other behavior
is foolish and dangerous. A fourteen-year-old lad crouching with his bazooka
behind a ruined wall on a burned out street is worth more to the nation
than ten intellectuals who attempt to prove that our chances now are nil.
The fighting lad acts instinctively in the right way, the intellectuals
act in a false and illogical way because they give up since things do
not seem in balance.
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- Whether things balance or not depends on us alone. The
final account of the war will depend on the whole efforts of the involved
- nations. The German people can yet make an unprecedented
- contribution. It will thereby earn the victory. In 1918,
we gave up at the last minute. That will not happen in 1945. We all have
to see to that. This is the foundation of our ultimate victory. It may
sound improbable today, but it is nonetheless so: Final victory will
be ours. It will come through tears and blood, but it will justify all
the sacrifices we have made.
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- Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich
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- To protect our Folk, we must be hard on our enemies even
at the risk of hurting individual enemies from time to time, and being
criticised for our unrestrained brutality from otherwise well meaning
people. No one will excuse us, no one will plead extenuating circumstances
on our behalf, if we fail in our historical mission due to overobjectivity
or excessive humanitarianism! It will simply be said that we failed in
our historical mission." --Reinhard Heydrich
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- One of the best national socialists ... and one of the
greatest opponents to all enemies of the Third Reich. -- Adolf Hitler
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- Frau Heydrich
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- Killing Heydrich
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- "Four parachutists, Lt. Adolf Opalka (Commanding
Officer), Sgt Josef Valcik, Sgt Jan Kubis and Sgt Josef Gabchik, managed
on May 27th 1942 to mount an attack on Heydrich's open staff car as his
chauffeur drove him through the city outskirts at Holesovice, on the
Rude Armady VII Kobylisky as it leads to the Vltava River. Jan was armed
with specially modified Type 73 anti-tank grenades and Josef with a British-issue
Sten gun; both also carried .32 Colt automatic pistols. Lookout was being
kept by Valchik and Opalka. Heydrich was, unusually, late, but an hour
after the expected time, Valcik and Opalka gave the signal that the German
staff Mercedes car was approaching. The spot had been carefully chosen
at a point where the vehicle must slow right down to negotiate a very
steep turn in the road.
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aside his overcoat, lifted his concealed Sten gun and clicked the trigger.
It failed to fire. The surprised Germans, believing Gabchik was a lone
assassin, reacted quickly, braking to a stop and reaching for their weapons.
Kubis, realising that Josef's gun had misfired, hurled a grenade which
exploded against the right rear wing of the Mercedes car, puncturing the
tyre and blowing a large hole in the bodywork. The explosion and grenade
fragments severely wounded Heydrich. Both Germans opened fire with their
pistols, and the Czechs fled, Kubis injured in the head and face by splinters
from his own bomb. He was compelled to force his way through Czechoslovak
witnesses, some of whom, uncertain of the events, tried to hinder his
escape as he fled, waving his pistol, shooting into the air, and hiding
his face and injuries.
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a directive that his limousine was to be fitted with armour plate to
its bodywork and seats, as he believed that the Czechs had abandoned resistance
and that he would soon be recalled to Berlin and assigned other duties.
He wanted to assume military control in France.
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bodyguard/
- chauffeur, was a formidable man. Opalka and Valcik escaped
unnoticed; Jan escaped in one direction on his bicycle and having abandoned
it outside the Bata shoe shop, was able to find sanctuary with the Novak
family, a safe house. Heydrich, who had pinned Gabchik down with pistol
fire, slumped against the bonnet of the car, too wounded to continue the
fight, and ordered Klein to pursue Josef. A Wild-West type running pistol
battle ensued during which Klein's automatic pistol jammed. Fighting at
close quarters, hand- to-hand in the doorway of a nearby butcher's shop,
Gabchik wounded him in the thigh and ankle, and was able to escape.
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he had contracted
- blood poisoning from grenade shrapnel, seat-spring splinters,
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- horse-hair filling of the car's upholstery. He was taken
to the Bulovka Hospital and treated by a German doctor who declined to
remove his injured spleen, preferring to administer experimental drugs.
These were unsuccessful and ten days after unsuccessful surgery, Heydrich
died"
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