NAZI HOPES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 October 1942, Page 3

NAZI HOPES

LAST & GREATEST CHANCE OF VICTORY ACCORDING TO GOEBBELS. SOME PIRATICAL GLOATING. LONDON, October 18. “We are well content with the course the war has so far taken. The have-nots have now become the haves and the haves have more and more become the have-nots,” said the Nazi Propaganda Minister, Dr Goebbels, in a speech at a meeting of the Nazi Party in Munich. “We will not be misled by grumbling,” lie added. “It is only a question of time and patience to exploit the gigantic areas in the east.”

Goebbels said that while he knew of the difficulties which beset the German people, the present year was not only their last but their greatest chance of victory. “We are faced with a threat from our enemy to subject us to a second Versailles—to . something worse than Versailles. It is not only silly, but cowardly, to speak of distinction between Prussians and Bavarians, between Saxons and Wurtem-i bergers while the dispute between the great Powers and continents is going on, “We want to change the standard of living of our people by this war. We fought in the past for sham, aims —Prussians or Hapsburgs, Socialism or National Socialism, proletarians or j bourgeoisie. We are fighting at presi ent for coal, for iron, for petrol, and, above all, for wheat for our daily bread. We conquer territory in order to organise it for ourselves. “We possess command of the Dnieper and Don, and when Stalingrad, after heavy battles, is ours, the Volga will be ours. Whoever has wheat, oil, coal and iron, and, in addition, the strongest army, will win the war. If we are engaged for some time in digesting the territory we have swallowed, even this process will end. “How desperate the position has become for our enemies is shown by the Kremlin’s urge for a second front. I warned the British some time ago not to make such an attempt. The British took no heed. They are hankering after a repetition of Dieppe. “The British are not m a position to open a second front because they are without the necessary shipping. Mr Churchill lately said in a statement that September so far was the most favourable month for British shipping. In reality, U-boats in September sank more than 1,000,000 tons. “Our enemies say that the so-called German war criminals will be tried by an international court. Perhaps some day we shall make good use of the court statutes against their authors. Nothing remains for our enemies but to carry out terror air raids. These admittedly can inflict painful damage but it is childish to believe that the British could hit the German war poItential decisively . People ask why we do not carry out reprisals We xeply ‘because most of our bomberss are; ui sentiy needed in Stalingrad, the Caucasus and Egypt.’ Wars are won by concentrating forces on focal points.