GERMANY DOOMED
CONFIDENT DECLARATION BY DR. BENES ALL STAKED ON OFFENSIVE AGAINST RUSSIA. END SHOULD BE IN SIGHT BY AUTUMN. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, March 14. “I. know for an absolute certainty, from Berlin itself, that German military i leaders believe that only a miracle can save Germany,” said Dr. Benes, broadcasting to Czechs on the eve of the third anniversary of Hie Germa’n entry into Prague. Recounting Germany's mistakes, culminating in the fatal blunder of thinking she could destroy Russia in six weeks, he added: “Now. finally, they are staking all on a single card —their coming spring offensive against Russia. This will, in its ultimate results, be their final disappointment, even though I expect with certainty some successes for them at the beginning of the offensive. I count on an equal certainty that we shall see events this autumn which will herald to us the approaching inevitable crisis and catastrophe for the whole German military and political system. The climax of this crisis can scarcely come later than the spring of 1943. and Japan will be defeated by the fall of Germany. “I myself desired that war should break out in September, 1938, before Munich. I counted on Hitler’s provoking it. I did prepare accordingly, but the rest of Europe, specially the western democracies, did not understand the situation in 1938. and were not prepared for war. I saw it would have been a mistake for us to embark on a defensive war against the Germans alone. We were forced to make a sacrifice which is perhaps unique in history. We ransomed peace for the world with a piece of flesh from our own body. “It is again only part of the laws of this war that the weakness and errors of France, Poland and other central European States were paid for so heavily and are still being paid for, but in its laws, dies also our resurrection. We have not so long to wait now.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 March 1942, Page 3
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