NAZI WAR AIMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 October 1942, Page 5

NAZI WAR AIMS

TERRITORY AND RESOURCES GOEBBELS ON GRUMBLING LONDON, October 18. “We are well content with the course the war has so far taken. The haves, while the haves have more and more become the “have-nots,” said Goebbels in a speech at a meeting of the Nazi Party in Munich. “We will not be misled by grumbling. It is only a question of time and patience to exploit the gigantic areas in the east.” Goebbels said that though he knew of the difficulties which beset the German people, the present war was not only their last but their greatest chance of victory. “We are faced with a threat from our enemy to subject us to a second Versailles—something worse than Versailles,” he said. “It is not only silly, but cowardly, to speak of distinction between Prussians and Bavarians, between Saxons and Wurtemburgers, while a dispute between great Powers and continents is going bn. We want to change the standard of living of our people by this war. We have fought in the past for sham aims—-Prussians or Hapsburgs, Socialism or National Socialism, proletarians or bourgeoisie. We are fighting at present for coal, for iron, for petrol, and above all for wheat for our daily bread. We conquer territory in order to organise it for ourselves. We possess command of the Dnieper and the Don, and when Stalingrad, after heavy battles, is ours, the Volga will be ours. Whoever has wheat, oil, coal, and iron, in addition to the strongest army, will win the war. If we are engaged for some time digesting the territory we have swallowed, even this process will end. “How desperate the position has become for our enemies is shown by the Kremlin’s urge for a second front. 1 warned the British some time ago not to make the attempt. The British took no heed. They are hankering after a repetition of Dieppe. The British are not in a position to open a second front, because they are without the necessary shipping. Churchill lately said in a statement that September had been the most favourable month so far for British shipping. In reality, U-boats in September sank more'than 1,000,000 tons. “Our enemies say that the so-called German war criminals will be tried by an international court. Perhaps some day we shall make good use of the court statutes against their authors.

“Nothing remains for our enemies but to carry out terror air raids. These admittedly can inflict painful damage, but it is childish to believe that the British could hit the German war potential decisively. People, ask why we do not carry out reprisals. We reply: Because most of our bombers are urgently needed at Stalingrad, in the Caucasus, and in Egypt. Wars are won by concentrating forces at focal points'.” IT ALIANCOM M ENT LONDON, October 19. “The Axis in September arranged its strategy to meet Allied dispositions for a second front,” said the Rome radio. “The Axis had a feeling that Britain, America, and the Dominions at long last were hatching something—something less ridiculous than Dieppe and less short-lived than Guadalcanal.”