WAIL BY GOEBBELS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 June 1943, Page 3

WAIL BY GOEBBELS

“CRIME” OF ALLIED AIR ATTACKS RUHR CITIES REDUCED TO SHAMBLES. DENUNCIATION OF PEOPLE WHO COMPLAIN. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) 1 y 8 LONDON, June 5. “We are doing everything _ possible throughout the Reich to alleviate the burdens of the air war, yet much remains unsolved,” said the Nazi Minister of Propaganda, Dr. Goebbels, in a speech at the Sportspalast. “The people in the air-raid zones are resisting the enemy’s criminal air terrorism with unparalleled heroism. “At the moment we must suffer thiscrime with hard-set teeth. The coming victory depends to a great extent on how the people lake it. Ihe average German has no idea of what the populations are suffering in the air raid areas in the west and north-west, and people complaining elsewhere should look at Essen, Dortmund, Bochum, Wuppertal and other towns in the air war areas and blush with shame. The enemy may turn our homes into a shambles, but one day retribution will come.”

Goebbels claimed that the German Navy and Air Force to May 31 had sunk 26.500,000 tons of enemy shipping, and said: ‘'The enemy cannot catch up with our sinkings, whatever his new shipbuilding.” The German front, he stated, was also holding firm in the east. He warned that whoever spread enemy rumours weakened Germany’s strength and committed a sin against the Germans’ will to sacrifice, which had been consecrated by the death of thousands of soldiers.