NAZI AIMS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 May 1939, Page 5

NAZI AIMS

HITLER’S MAY DAY SPEECH SOME SWEEPING ASSERTIONS. DESIRE FOR PEACE DECLARED. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day. 9 a.m.) BERLIN. May 1. The strength and unity of Germany was the theme of Herr Hitler’s May Day speech at a monster demonstration of 100,000 Nazi youth at the Olympic Stadium. Herr Hitler said the Nazis had put the spade beside the rifle and ennobled it like the sword. They had revolutionised other theories during the past six years. There no longer was any money problem. The only problem was production. To those anxious that their sons should follow intellectual activities, Herr Hitler said: ‘Tf any of your youngsters worked in the west with spades for the security of Germany they have done more than you in your whole lifetime.” Goods, he added, must not be stored up, but consumed. The livingroom must .decide the standard of life. Such problems could be solved only by a single will, centrally directed. “I can give you nothing you don’t give me,” he continued. “Whether we win or perish, we are united for better or for worse. What can we expect from encircling politicians, but a war-mongering policy? We must unitedly face external dangers. I am a lover of peace. That is the difference between me and those stirring up war. Gutter journalists are a special kind of brain parasites who know what is happening in my head. The latest lie is that 20,000 Germans have landed in Morocco. These people are driving nations to disaster. I rely on the German people. The League of Nations guarantee is all very well, but the fortification of the German frontiers is better. Germany is ready for any eventuality, but needs peace to complete the great tasks of rebuilding Berlin and other cities. This requires ten to twenty years’ peace.” Despite a chilly day hundreds of thousands of people listened in the Unter Den Linden. Officials were checking the presence of workers with printed lists, but many sought the beer halls immediately Herr Hitler’s car left for the Lustgarten, where he delivered another speech. In the course of his speech, Herr Hitler said history had undergone tr-» mendous changes in six years. A weak Germany had become strong and was now one of the most heavily armed Powers, possessing friends all over the world. The hope entertained abroad of a disunited Reich had gone forever. “I am proud to know that my young people are behind me,” went on the Fuehrer, “and as a result of this the world may threaten in vain.”

“I want upright and hard -men and reliable women,” said Herr Hitler. “I also want a sober people. We and other youthful nations will perhaps have to fight for our vital rights, but, if the outer world ever believes that it could take our liberty from us, I know their hopes will be frustrated.” Dr Goebbels, speaking before Herr Hitler, urged the youths to fight for a younger Europe and taunted the democracies with being aged and stagnant. At noon Herr Hitler spoke again at a May Day gathering. Dr Goebbels, welcoming the Fuehrer to the Lustgarten, declared that Germany was about to hear its political slogan for the year. Herr Hitler said that May Day had always been a holiday for Germany till a foreign parasite wormed itself into the national body to exploit antagonism and construct a new theory of class hatred; but the Nazis had reinstituted it as a holiday of spring and national class unity, the happiest symbol of which was the great maypole from the Sudetenland erected in the Lustgarten. Herr Hitler also declared that the same old sinister encircling politicians as in 1914 were now active.