GERMAN “FRIENDSHIP”
PROFESSIONS TO HOLLAND “Hitler on October 6, 1939, said: — ‘The new Reich has endeavoured to continue the traditional German friendship with Holland. It has neither found any existing differences with that State nor created any new one.’ But when Hitler spoke these words the decision to enter our territory with an overwhelming German .force had long been made. And this will hardly surprise you since you have learnt to know a little better ‘the leader of all Germanic peoples,’ as he styles himself. One of the first authentic documents in the history of this war, one which established this fact, has since fallen into our hands through a typical piece of German bungling. It was revealed that on October 6, 1939, the commander of an airborne division had already received orders to conquer The Hague about a month from that date. The plan had been worked out to the minutest detail. So much for Hitler’s profession of friendship. You know already that this man, snake-like, covers his guile before swallowing them, one by one.”—Mr A. K. Van Riemsdyk, in “London Calling.”
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 64, Issue 4543, 2 March 1942, Page 7
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183GERMAN “FRIENDSHIP” Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 64, Issue 4543, 2 March 1942, Page 7
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