PROCLAMATION BY HITLER

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 108, 1 February 1943, Page 5

PROCLAMATION BY HITLER

Bolshevism And Versailles

(By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received January 31, 7 p.m.) LONDON, January 30.

“There will be neither victors nor vanquished in this war, but only those who survive and those who are destroyed,” said Herr Hitler in a proclamation which was read by Dr. Goebbels al tlie Sportspalast. “The National Socialist State will continue to struggle with the fanaticism which our movement has had from its birth. Each German, the longer tlie war lasts, will be spurred on to fulfil his duty. Each German who evade* his duty will be destroyed. “Our enemies have decided to threaten the peaceful German towns, and villages with cruel annihilation. They can destroy houses and people, but they only strengthen our spirit. Today there are two alternatives —victory for Germany and her allies, or destruction and enslavement of everybody by Bolshevism. What would become of the Germans and of Europe if, on June 22, 1941, tlie Wehrmacht had not shielded the Continent from a surprise attack from a power whose aim was to exterminate its, men in order to gain slave labour for Siberia? If central Asia's new onslaught against Europe were successful, the world today would break up. “When France and England declared war on Germany they unconsciously accomplished a good thing, because , they started the biggest conflict in history just at the moment when the Reich was at the summit of its strength. We must not expect Providence to give a costless victory. Every individual and every nation will be weighed in the balance, and whoever is found wanting must fall.” After Versailles. Hitler described the Treaty of Versailles as the greatest swindle in history, which hud laid waste the economic lite both of Germany and tlie victory States, leading to the world economic crisis. “It is clear that if for 14 years Marxism, democracy and parliamcntism managed to ruin Germany, one year of Bolshevism would have destroyed Germany completely,” he said. ‘•Germany, disunited and rotten internally, faced bankruptcy. Fourteen million people were wholly or partly unemployed, the economic life had collapsed,,and the declining birth-rate, made the nation's end a mathematical certainty. This was the heritage of which I took the responsibility. I asked for four years to repair the destruction and decay of 14 years, and before the four "years were ended unemployment was abolished, the Jewish assault was repulsed, and industry and tlie economic system were beginning to prosper. During these long years I made practical propositions to tlie world for a sensible limitation of armaments and for loyal collaboration, and historians will establish that never were peaceful propositions met with greater hatred than mine. Only after my suggestions for a general limitation of armaments were turned down did 1 order the creation of tlie new Wehrmacht.”