NAZI DETERMINATION
SPEECH BY HITLER Rec. 10.30 a.m. LONDON, October 8,
"Arms alone mean nothing unless they are backed up by human will," said Hitler in giving party leaders a comprehensive survey of war developments; The speech was made on October 6 and has only just been released.
Hitler declared that the National Socialist Party had never allowed itself to be discouraged by setbacks. "Its hard fighting spirit provides the German people again today with moral backing and support, particularly in the difficult hours of air attacks," he said. , "We shall strike everywhere and never tire until our lim is reached. If our determination does not falter the war will end in a great German victory."
Before* the meeting Hitler and his leaders conferred between themselves and then went to Hitler's headquarters. Himmler, in a speech at the conference, said: "Defeatism is non-existent among the German people. Isolated^ cases will be eradicated without mercy* Anybody who does the enemy's jojb and stabs the German people in tfye back during the- most difficult struggle for existence by spreading defeatism, .thus endangering the life of all, naust die." "
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 87, 9 October 1943, Page 7
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