NAZI NOTIONS
GOEBBELS INTERVIEWER DAMAGING ADMISSIONS MADE. SAYS GERMANY - HAS NOTHING TO LOSE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 12.35 p.m.) NEW YORK. Janaury 11. Mr Lothrop Stoddard, the famous American author, exclusively interviewed Dr Goebbels for the North American Newspaper Alliance.
The interview, aside from the anti-English fulminations and vaunts of German victory that were to be expected, is perhaps, most notable for the admissions it makes unconsciously.
Dr Goebbels opens with an angry remonstrance that it was high time that forty million people stopped dictating to eighty million people, when they should have a cup of coffee, and said: “It is human beings who count, not just material resources.”
Dr Goebbels, answering a remark by Mr Stoddard, who said: “The English seem to be trying to make the world believe that it is a struggle between democracy and dictatorship,” said significantly: “The more you examine the British war aims, the more negative they appear. The English admit that they have nothing tangible to get out of this war, but that they have a lot to lose. We, on the contrary, - have nothing to lose and everything to gain.” Dr Goebbels, havink thus tacitly admitted that the Allied cause does not seek material aggrandisement, concluded the interview with a lame denial that Germany is a dictatorship. It is, he averred, “political discipline forced on us by pressure of circumstances."
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 January 1940, Page 6
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