TRIALS OF NAZIS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 64, 17 March 1942, Page 5

TRIALS OF NAZIS

HITLER REVIEWS YEAR “SUMMER WILL DECIDE” (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright., London, Marcn 15. In a speech at an annual cereniiny in memory of those killed in the last war, Hitler said: “Behind us is a year not only of the hardest batties in world history, but of the severest trials for our people. We have had to face not only apparently unlimited masses of the enemy, but a winter such as has not been known in 40 , years. Wnat is to come can only be easier than what is behind us.” “Only to-day,” he said, “do we rea- • Use me Lull extent of tne preparations I oi our enemy, hut there is only one possible solution—to lignt until victory is assured and me enemy is destroyed. The German army has • been able to avoid the late Or LNapoleon, and the summer will decide whether the tremendous loss of lives the Russians have thrown into the lignt has been justified. There can be only one end to the war—the total destruction of the enemy. Tne Bolsheviks, who could not defeat the German troops and our allies in one winter, will suffer an annihilating defeat in the coming summer. The Bolshevik colossus must be held at a remote distance, in its definitive frontiers. •While in the Far East the heroic Japanese nation, provoked, scorned, and economically strangled like the German and Italian peoples, is destroying the democratic and plutocratic oppressors in vast battles on land and sea and in the air, here in Europe the ground is being prepared for tne true independence of this con- ' tinent. “How the rest of the world runs its . life is a matter of indifference to the German people, but any attempt by a non-continental Power to interfere in i the internal affairs of Europe, ana particularly of our people, must be stopped. What sort of world Roosevelt chooses to live in is a matter oi indifference to us, but his ideal of exploiting Europe lor his own requirements and ot overthrowing our world which we love will not only fail but collapse. “Tne French war guilt trial at Riom is characterised by tne fact that those responsible for this war have not been mentioned in a single word of the proceedings, which have merely dealt with insufficient preparations for war. This mentality appears to us to be incomprehensible, but it reveals, perhaps better than anything else, the causes of this war.” Hitler concluded:—“May God give us the strength to continue to carryout what our duty demands of us.” Hitler spoke in the Zeughaus in Berlin, where captured Russian standards are reported to be displayed. Later he laid a wreath on the war memorial in Unter den Linden and took the salute when picked battalions, preceded by 60 regimental colours, marched past.