“THE GOEBBELS DIARIES”

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 68, Issue 146, 2 April 1948, Page 3

“THE GOEBBELS DIARIES”

Events in 1942-43 LONDON, April 1. “The Goebbels Diaries,” which cover Goebbeis’s voluminous records for 1942 and 1943, disclose that German scientists had progressed far with the atom bornb as early as March, 1942. Goebbeis’s' entry for March 21, 1942, says: “German research in..the realm of atomic destruction has proceeded to a point where its results may be used in the present war. German science is at its peak in this matter.” On March 14, 1943, Goebbels wrote: “Our technical development, both as regards' submarines and air warfare, is far inferior to that of the English and Americans.” The diary devotes thousands of words to descriptions of the havoc which R.A.F. block-buster raids caused in Berlin and elsewhere. Goebbels wrote in May, 1943: “We just cannot stand the air war indefinitely.” Goebbels was in a deep shelter during a Royal Air Force raid on Berlin on November 23, 1943. He wrote : “Hell itself seems to have broken loose over us. This is one of the worst nights of my entire life.” On January 26, 1942, he wrote: “A moral breakdown such as we experienced in November, 1918, can be brought about in England only with great difficulty, if at all.” A month later Goebbels wrote: “The English people are used to hard blows, and to a certain extent the way they take it compels admiration.” Later he wrote: “There is no way of bringing the English to their senses. They belong to a class of husmans with whom you can . talk only after you have first knocked out their teeth.” Goebbel& described Mr Churchill as “an old rogue.” In December, 1943, he 1 wrote: "A serious epidemic of influenza - has broken out in England. The King, too, is ill. How wonderful if the epidemic proved fatal; but that .is too good to be true.”