NAZI COUPS DESIGNED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 February 1939, Page 9

NAZI COUPS DESIGNED

ADMISSION BY DR GOEBBELS. An admission that, after all, the Nazi groups of last year were not spontaneous developments but carefullyplotted designs was made by Dr Goebbels, German Minister of Propaganda, in an address at the New Year. In the past year, he said, a thousand-year-old dream had been fulfilled —the Greater Germany had become a reality. "We live 100 fast in these stirring! times." he added. "The years are filled with dramatic thrills, and as fast as one great event is over another one follows it. Owing to this abruptness and speed we are often inclined to forget the difficulties involved. We take the success of the regime for granted. If, in the course of a year, we reap an unprecedented historical harvest, we suppose that it is only the result of luck, or of some sort of historical miracle. There is no doubt that luck is necessary to obtain historical success, and in its totality the work of the Fuehrer must be regarded as a miracle. But miracles come not when one just waits for them, but when one works and fights for them. That is what happened here. The Fuehrer did not wait. He collected the forces of the nation, organised and boldly engaged on the big historical decision of this year. He succeeded. There was risk, but without great risks there are no great successes in history.’’