HITLER’S SECRETS OUT

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 306, 24 November 1945, Page 6

HITLER’S SECRETS OUT

JAPANESE “HALF-MONKEYS.”

BRITISH ORGANISATION.

(Rec. 1.45 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 23 Secret speeches and letters of Hitler which the prosecution will submit on Monday in an endeavour to clinch the charge of conspiracy to wage aggressive wars against the war criminals on trial were released to the Press tonight, reports Reuter’s Nuremberg correspondent.

They tell Hitler’s opinion of other nations’ foreign statesmen, , t describe the Japanese allies as “lacquered halfmonkeys” and Hirohito as a “companion piece of the late Czar, tveak, cowardly and irresolute, who may fall before the revolution.” Hitler told his Generals at Obsersalzburg in August, 1939, that they would have to go to war because Goering reported the four-year plan had failed. Germany would be finished if not victorious under a year. Hitler warned his Generals that they must take into consideration the possible defection of Japan who, after the autumn of 1938, indicated she would join Germany in a war only under certain conditions. He threatened that if Mr Chamberlain “or some other dirty swine” came to try to dissuade him from invading Poland he would “kick him in the belly in front of - photographers.” . There were only three great statesmen in the world —Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini and the last was the weakest.

The documents reveal that the attack against Russia was first mentioned at a High Command conference in December. 1940, when it was deckled not to invade Britain. Preparations for the attack were to be ready byMay, 1941. Hitler, in May, 1939, asserted that the struggle against Britain would be a life-and-death one. He said: “England is the driving force against Germany. The English have some of the adventure and bravery of the Nordic race. They' are proud, tenacious and firm in resistance, and gifted as organisers, but the German average is higher.”