GLOOMY ENEMY VIEW

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 4676, 1 February 1945, Page 3

GLOOMY ENEMY VIEW

PROPAGANDA BROADCAST The German propaganda machine is maintaining its policy of playing on the German people’s fears to keep them up to the mark, says the British United Press. The German News Agency said: ‘ ‘ The enemy does not intend to inflict a mere military defeat. He means to exterminate the whole German people—men, women and children-. “The next eight days will be decisive—a question of life or death. No quarter will be shown and these days will settle our fate.” This was a passage from an order of the day from General Hans Guderian, the German commander on the eastern front, broadcast to the defenders of Breslau over the Berlin radio. “The time we have left is very short,” continued the order of tinday. “Wo have no Urals, no steppes to retire behind until the enemy exhausts himself. All our cards must now be played in the gigantic battle for which both armies arc concentrating. Two empires, two revolutions, two worlds will meet in a battle to find a solution to everything that separates them. These eight days will decide if all those hundreds of thousands of Germans who are being killed in foreign countries are falling in vain, or if our sufferings which have brought us to the limit of our strength and endurance will be rewarded. The enemy is only about 100 kilometres from the capital.” The Cologne newspaper, ‘ ‘ Koel-n-ischc Zeitung, ” forecasts that the war may bo decided within a week. “We Gormans within the next week will know whether the hangman’s noose is to be our collar for the future. Panic is sweeping the country. The spirit of leadership among the Reich’s officers and the quantity of her weapons are worn out. Every Berliner is asking whether the Hussions can be stopped. The situation is very dark.”

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