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2 Facts Rev. 1 (1940)

handle is hein.journals/facreiw2 and id is 1 raw text is: 3 c.4 ISSUED BY THE GERMAN LIBRARY OF INFORMATION 17 BATTERY PLACE, NEW YORK, N. Y. Additional copies of this or future issues may be obtained upon request without charge. Vol. II. - No. I. January 6, 1940. THE CHANCELLOR'S NEW YEAR'S MESSAGE Below is an authorized translation of the most pertinent passages from the New Year's message delivered by Chancellor Hitler to the members of the National Socialist Party, December 30, 1939. From the first day of assuming power I have un- deviatingly .;ought to achieve the necessary revisions of Germany's political position. All my efforts were shat- tered by the stubborn egoism and the folly of the Western Powers. The freeing of the German people therefore had to be accomplished by their helping themselves; a measure which in times of a people's greatest need has always been the last resort. After overcoming internal dissention, National Socialist Germany threw off the fetters of slavery step by step. None of those measures robbed the This Issue Contai rest of the world of anything or harmed it in any way. They I. The Chance only gave to the German peo- New Year's ple what other peoples have 2. Population P long possessed. The Fuehrer reminded in a Plannec the people that the year 1939 3. The House has been marked by a number John Bull Bu of momentous happenings in the history of the German 4. British Blue I people. Through the estab- Re-examined lishment of the Protectorate, the return of Memel and the 5. The New Gc destruction of the existing White Book Polish state, those creations __ of the Versailles Treaty which were in themselves incapable of surviving were removed. Through the fourth significant feature of the year, the non- aggression pact between Russia and Germany, encirclement was checked. That these political developments, the Fuehrer con- tinued, could be so successfully accomplished, we owe exclusively to the new inner structure of the German people, achieved through National Socialism. Thus, on the inside organizationally united, economically prepared and militarily armed to the hilt, we enter the most decisive year in Germany's history. The German people did not want this fight. I endeavored up to the last minute to offer England Germany's friendship. In this I was sup- ported above all by the Duce, who, in accordance with the spirit of our friendship, did everything possible to check developments which can only be disastrous for all Europe. Nevertheless, the war-mongers wanted war; so they shall have it. We have a clear war aim. Over and above this, pge Europe must be freed from 5 the coercion and constant .ssage ............- I threats emanating from Eng- lems land. This time the weapons must be struck from the ociety 2 hands of the war-mongers once and for all. .......4 In doing this we are not fighting against the injustice k of Versailles alone, but ----------- ------------- 6 against the even greater in- justice which is to be set up in its place. We are fighting ------....-------- -- - 7 for the reconstruction of the new Europe, because, in con- trast to Mr. Chamberlain, we are not of the opinion that the new Europe can be formed by the senile strength of a declining world nor by so-called statesmen who in their own country are incapable of solv- ing even the simplest problems. To this reconstruction only those peoples and powers are called, who in their achievements and in their attitude can be called young and productive. We can ask the Lord, at the beginning of 1940, to bless us further in our fight for freedom and independence, and therewith for the future of our people. ns: Ilor' Me rob I S Th ilt 3oo ,rm

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