LIES & BOMBAST

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 April 1941, Page 5

LIES & BOMBAST

NAZI ORDER OF THE DAY EASTER FARE READ BY GOEBBELS HITLER ABUSES YUGOSLAVIA . AND BRITAIN. TELLS GERMAN SOLDIERS THEIR HOUR HAS COME. ißy Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright! LONDON. April 6. A Berlin radio broadcast heard in London said that Dr. Goebbels announced that Germans were marching into Greece and Yugoslavia. The German radio stated that Dr. Goebbels said: “In the name of the F.euhrer I am reading the following Order of the Day to the Germany army in the East: ’ “Soldiers of the south-east front: Your hour has come. Since early morning the German people have been at war with the Belgrade Government. We will lay down our arms only when this band of ruffians is definitely and emphatically eliminated and the last Briton expelled from this part of the Continent. These misled people must realise that they have to thank Britain for this situation. The Yugoslavs must thank England—the greatest warmonger of all times. “The Germans can enter the new struggle with the inner satisfaction that their leader has done everything for a peaceful settlement. I tried to convince the Yuloslavs how important her collaboration would be in the interests of peace, and I succeeded in establishing a basis whereby nothing was demanded from the Yugoslavs. But the British paid criminal element: to usurp power. These are the same elements which caused the last. war. Britain is pursuing the policy of letting others fight for her, as in Poland. She has again tried to involve Germany irt a struggle in which Britain hoped to finish off the German people once and for all and, if possible, destroy the German army. “The Germans in a few weeks swept aside this instrument of British policy. Then on April 9 last year Britain attempted a thrust at the German north flank through Norway. The German soldiers in an unforgettable struggle eliminated the British from Norway, and in a few weeks the German people achieved what the world had not deemed possible. Again a few weeks later Churchill thought the moment right to make a renewed thrust through his allies, Belgium and France, into the Ruhr. A victorious hour for the German soldier on the west front began. How the German armies defeated the legions of capitalism and plutocracy is already history. The campaign in the west emphatically terminated after 45 days. Then Churchill concentrated the strength of his empire against Italy in Africa. Now that the co-operation of Italian and German units has banished that danger from the African theatre, the new British aim is the realisation of a plan which they postponed because of the gigantic victories of German armies.’’

Goebbels, broadcasting in the presence of journalists, said: "At 0 a.m. the German troops were ordered to march against Yugoslavia to establish peace and order in that country with all the means at their disposal. Yugoslavia is a country of bandits and rebels. A clique of rebels has taken power, gaoling those who secured a happy future for Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia called a general mobilisation, thus openly giving over to the enemy, and has put its territory at the disposal of Britain.”