RESPONSIBILITY FOR WAR
HERR HITLER’S PREVIOUS WARNING TO OFFICERS
(British Official Wireless) RUGBY, April 28.
No one in Britain and probably few cutside Germany have ever doubted upon whose shoulders rested the responsibilitv for the present war, but it is interesting to note that a similar conclusion is admitted by a German officer. In spite f the claim of the German Foreign Minister (Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop) on April 27 that the Allies forced war on Germany, a broadcast on April 20 by a German officer gave a different view. He said that on January 24 the Fuhrer, addressing 7000 Ger- ; tans just about to be commissioned as officers, stated that Germany had to demand the same sacrifices from her soldiers as in previous wars. He said that this war was bound to come at some time and the Fuhrer wanted to conduct this war while still alive, as it would be “cowardly to shoulder the next generation with this struggle. This also confirms Herr Hitler’s statement to Sir 7 U vile Henderson, former British Ambassador in Berlin, that he could not wait for war till he was older.
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Southland Times, Issue 24113, 30 April 1940, Page 5
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