HITLER'S BOAST

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20547, 6 May 1941, Page 11

HITLER'S BOAST

GREATEST YEAR RISE OF GERMANY MIGHT OF THE ARMY “NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE” (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. May 5, 2.40 p.m.) BERLIN, May 4. All members of the Reichstag, with high military officials and members ol the diplomatic corps at Berlin, attended at the Kroll Opera House for Herr Hitler’s address to the Reichstag. Reich-Marshal Goering opened the session., appealing to the deputies to remember that some dozen members had fallen in the war. Herr Hitler began his address by recalling his previous peace offers and repeating the usual charge that Mr. Winston Churchill and Jewish bankers were responsible for flic war.

He said that Germany was prepared to drop 100 bombs for each British bomb until the British people got rid of Mr. Churchill.

“The Reich has never taken the slightest interest in territorial conditions in the Balkan States for any selfish reasons, but has always endeavoured to build up economic ties,” declared Herr Hitler. “On the other hand Britain did not wish for peaceful development in the Balkans and therefore spread disorders and difference amongst them.

Hungary and Rumania

“Germany’s attack on Yugoslavia and Greece was greatly facilitated by the assistance of Hungary and the loyal attitude of Rumania, without which it would have been most difficult to carry out the plans in time.”

After paying a tribute to the Italian Army for “fighting for six months under very difficult conditions,” and especially for “having weakened the Greek Army,” Herr Hitler said the campaign in Yugoslavia and Greece could be summed up in the words: “Nothing is impossible for the German Army.”

Herr Hitler said that Mr. Churchill had the “brazen effrontery to refer to the German losses as 75,000 men—more than in the whole western campaign.” Herr Hitler said that the final booty had not been estimated yet, but it included over 500.000 rifles, over 1000 guns and trench mortars and numerous vehicles.

He concluded that Germany would never again see 1918. She would achieve more successes. He looked to the future with very great calm and full confidence. Germany and her allies represented a force superior to any possible combination. The year 1941 would be inscribed in history as the “greatest in the rise of the German nation."