GOEBBELS’S BELIEF

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 21, 20 October 1942, Page 5

GOEBBELS’S BELIEF

1942 Reich’s Last And Greatest Chance TAUNTS AT BRITISH (By Telegraph.—Press Assu. —Copyright.) (Received October 19, 9 p.m.) LONDON, October 18. “We are well .content with the course the war lias so far taken. The have-nots have now become the haves and the haves nave more and more become the have-nots,” said the Nam Propaganda Minister, Dr. Goebbels, in a speech at a .meeting of the Nazi Piirjy in Munich. “We will not be misled by grumbling,” lie added. “It is only a question of time and patience to exploit the gigantic areas in the east.” Dr. Goebbels said that while lie knew of the difficulties which besot the German people, the present year was not only their last but their greatest chance of victory. “We are faced with a threat from our enemy to subject us to a second Versailles—to something worse than Versailles. It is not only silly, but. cowardly, to speak of distinction between Prussians and Bavarians, between Saxons and Wurtembergers while the dispute between the great Powers and continents is going

“We want to change the standard of living of our people by this war. We fought in the past for sham aims —Prussians or Hapsburgs, Socialism or National Socialism, proletarians or

bourgeoisie. We are fighting at present for coal, for iron, for petrol, and, above all, for wheat for our daily bread. We conquer territory in order to organize it for ourselves. Battle for Volga.

“We possess command of the Dnieper and Don, and when Stalingrad, after heavy battles, is ours, the Volga will be ours. Whoever has wheat, oil, coal and iron, and, in addition, the strongest army, will win the war. If we are engaged for some time in digesting the territory we have swallowed, even this process will end. “How desperate the position has become for our enemies is shown by the Kremlin’s urge for a second front. I warned the British some time ago not to make such an attempt. The British took no heed. They are hankering after a repetition of Dieppe. “The British are not in a position to open a second front because they are without the necessary shipping. Mr. Churchill lately said in a statement that September so far was the most favourable month for British shipping. In reality, U-boats in September sank more than 1,000,000 tons. “Our enemies say that the so-called German war criminals will be tried by an international court. Perhaps some day we shall make good use of the court statutes against their authors. Nothing remains for our enemies but to carry out terror air raids. These admittedly can inflict painful damage, but it is childish to”believe that the British could hit. the German war potential decisively. People ask why we do not carry out reprisals. We reply ‘because most of our bombers are urgently needed in Stalingrad, the Caucasus and Egypt.’ Wars are won by concentrating forces on focal points.”