HARVEST IN GERMANY

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 8, 5 October 1943, Page 5

HARVEST IN GERMANY

Goebbels’s Thanksgiving Speech

LONDON, October 3. The German monthly bread ration has been increased by 400 grams to 9600 grams, which is 100 grams more than iu September, 1939. The Propaganda Minister, Dr. Goebbels, speaking over Berlin radio,, announced this increase, which he described as almost miraculous at the beginning of the fifth year--of war.. Goebbels said he was speaking for Herr Hitler, who was unable to make his usual harvest thanksgiving speech because he was at headquarters making weighty decisions about German’s future. Goebbels claimed that the harvest was extremely satisfactory and that Germany was in a quite different position from 1918, when shortage of food was one of the main reasons for collapse. He added : “We are determined to behead anyone who stabs in the back the common cause and betrays the soldiers in the front line. The British have committed a dangerous error if they believe we don’t intend to retaliate for their air raids, and also if they believe they have overcome the U-boat danger. . “The Wehrmacht possesses sufficient defensive power to tie down Russia far from the borders of Germany. The time is coming when the Allies' success will no longer -be commensurate with the numbers of men and material thrown into action. If this improving trend, which is slow but decisive, continues, the future can be faced with great hope.”