STATUS REGAINED
THE GERMAN NATION
CHRISTMAS A REAL FEAST OF PEACE
SPEECH BY FUHRER
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received October 6, 2 p.m.) BERLIN, October 5. "One of the gravest crises in thf history of Europe will be solved ori October 10, after which Europe wit| be able to enjoy Christmas as 4 real feast of peace," declared He-****) Hitler in inaugurating a winter ref lief campaign at the Sports Palace^ "It amazes me to have solved thii Sudeten problem without fighting,^' he said.
"As long as Germans maintain: theif unity nobody will dare to attack" usl In my last, speech I thanked. Signoj Mussolini as Germany's friend Noy| I.must thank the other great states^ men who at the last minute-declared themselves ready to co-operate yin thtj solution of Europe's burning prob* lems, thus enabling me to proffer -m^ hand for an agreement. Above XaXh I thank my nation. During last monf a hundreds of thousands of mobilised men went to the west to build out wall of steel.' There was. not a singly instance of hoarding,/and no run;on the banks. v • .
"If a Duff-Cooper or an Eden sayi that a hair-raising injustice has heea done to the Czechs, how can one so distort the truth?
"I was moved by x two things when 1 visited the Sudetenland: in the firsf place I saw people weeping wife re+ lief, and in the second place I hay**! never seen such poverty and misery*! I saw whole towns under-nourished*" In a few years we must; as a .debt of gratitude, liquidate, the poverty ol these districts and the last; shamefiq pages must, be torn out Of the boolq of fate, which was once closed on usy Historians will recognise that German^ in 1938 regained the status : of aa honourable and great nation. ; There* fore the nation must show its powe* in domestic and social work, wtiicli must be equal to the size and deptlfl of its foreign success."
The Minister of Propaganda, Dr. Goebbels, announced that £2,250,00(1 had been allocated for relief- o| Sudeten Germans.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 84, 6 October 1938, Page 10
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