HITLER'S CLAIMS

Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21047, 26 February 1940, Page 7

HITLER'S CLAIMS

CRITICISM OF BRITAIN SOVIET=NAZI REGIME BENEFIT TO HUMANITY (Uniled Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) MUNICH, Feb. 25 In a speech on the 20th anniversary of the Nazi Party, Hitler said that Italy, India, the Arabs and, indeed, the Jews, were the sad victims of the gigantic world swindle by the British which had forced him into public life. Hitler spoke of the democratic statesmen, “these mummified nonentities.” who were talking again of European reconstruction, and said the reconstruction of Europe would be achieved without the help of foreign democrats. The capitalist plutocratic conception would perish.

“Providence did not make the world for Britain alone,” said the Fuehrer. “God did not will that three-quarters of the world should be ruled by one race, which is unable to supply its own people with the necessities of life.

“I make Germany’s claim modestly enough—l claim security for our lebensraum (living space) and by lebensraum I mean what has been economically developed, not by Britain, but by Germans. Particularly in Central Europe, British influence had previously been scarcely

noticeable. Germany built up Central Europe. We will not allow our life to be curtailed in this lebensraum.” Hitler said he sincerely believed the Russian and German regimes had succeeded in achieving something which was really beneficial to both peoples. Helped By Providence “Providence has been working to bless us,” concluded Hitler. “I personally experienced the intervention of Providence in its deepest significance a few months ago.” (Presumably he was referring to his escape from the bomb explosion in the Munich beer hall on November 8.)

“Our struggle is not for the oppression of others, but for the liberation of Germans. Therefore, it cannot be that Providence would allow us to be ruined. This was my belief 20 years ago, and it is my belief today.”