CENSORED PASSAGE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 114, 10 November 1943, Page 5

CENSORED PASSAGE

HITLER'S SPEECH

LONDON, November 8. The following passage from Hitler's speech was omitted from both the home service and European service versions from the German news agency:—"lf the German people should break under the present test I wouldn't shed a tear for them, for then they would deserve their fate." "The treachery of the King of Italy and his clique created a situation which looked ugly," he said. "Our enemies were rejoicing at the idea. of .having my friend Mussolini extradited. We were able, in spite of everything, to re-establish the situation, which actually proved better than before. Everything is possible; but that I should have lost my nerve is impossible. I am happy that it has been possible to wrest from the hands of those miserable creatures a man who has done everything to make his people great. "The Italian situation, of course, could not be without consequences on the war situation as a whole, but our enemies' hopes are vain. They had hopes that the German divisions in Italy would be cut off and the German garrisons in the Italian islands lost, and that the war could be carried swiftly to the borders of Germany. But the race to the Brenner Pass has become a slow crawl. They are still crawling far south of Rome. Every new enemy landing will pin down more shipping and split up his forces, giving opportunities for counter-attacks. Wherever they make a new landing, they will find us ready. To use Churchill's words, 'It is one thing to land in Sicily against Italian resistance, it is another against German resistance in France, Denmark, and Holland.'

GERMANY'S HARDEST STRUGGLE

"The struggle in the east is the hardest the German -■' people have eyer known. The achievements of the Ger-' man soldier there cannot be compared with\ anything our- enemies have achieved anywhere, but the enemy in the east won't attain his aim.

"Enemy propaganda pretends that the Allies have already achieved victory. They form committees to study and shape the world" after the war. They would do better to think how to shape the world at present. I don't know whether there are any in/Germany who hope for a better future through Allied victory. The •" mass of the people don't hope for such a victory, but individual criminals think they can improve their own future through treachery. We know how to cope with such criminals. We shan't shrink from handing over for summary execution the few hundred criminals we have here. Some people in Germany may believe in enemy victory, but with thousands falling at the front we shall show no mercy in liquidating a few hundred criminals. "The enemy also hopes for results from bombing. The war sufferings of the German people through this bombing are enormous. The President of the United States after the outbreak of war sent me a hypocritical request not to embark on a bolnbing war. I agreed, but the request was only to give the. other side time to prepare for bombing. .

"I am profoundly religious, and believe that when Providence has designed a man for great purpoMf she doesn't

break him before he has achieved them. God helps those who help themselves. It would be shameless ingratitude to Providence if we lost our nerve. I am proud I have been given the task to imbue my' people with strength and faith and that I may say to them: 'Be calm. Gome what may, victory will be purs in the end.' , "Nobody is blind to the serious situation in these November days when the military position is roughly comparable to November, 1918," declares the "Neueste Nachrichten," Munich's leading daily, "but the political situation is totally different. Instead of uncertain leadership, all the dangers which resulted in the collapse of 1918 have been guarded against."