Adolf Hitler spoke for 20 minutes over the German radio last week. Just eleven years ago, tired old Paul von Hindenburg, admitting Hitler and his henchmen to power, had said to them: “All right, gentlemen, let us proceed under God.” Now, on the anniversary, Hitler was not a man to be laughed at, nor a foe to be scorned. All that he had to say about “the Red Menace” was familiar poison. But, gripped in the autointoxication of despair, he still knew how to seize his German listeners’ hearts:
“That at the end of this struggle there will be victory for Germany, and consequently for Europe, against the criminal attackers in the East and West, is not only an expression of the belief of every National Socialist, but an inner certainty. . . . The enemy’s attempts to bring the German Reich to collapse by high explosives and incendiary bombs will only strengthen the German people’s determination. . . .”
To the truth of that interpretation of the German spirit, a plain German in Sweden testified (see below).
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