UN General Assembly
1954

76. That is exactly what happened, as we are all well aware. These facts cannot be expunged from history. Ten years after the Locarno Conference, Nazi Germany unilaterally broke the Treaty, thus taking a decisive step towards the preparation of a new world war which broke out in 1939. Even now, attempts are being made to justify the piratical war of the German fascists against the democracies and especially against the Soviet Union, by describing Germany’s attack on the Soviet Union in 1941 as a defensive war partly necessitated by Germany’s future demographic position as compared with that of her enemies. Various so-called scholars in a number of Western countries including and in particular in the United States such as Spikien, Possony, Strausz-Hupe, who have been flooding the book market with their pseudo-scientific, scribblings, do not hesitate to justify military adventures and to glorify aggressive wars by claiming that they were fought in self-defence. These gentlemen have gone so far as to assert that demography was a military weapon in the Second World War and that war is the supreme arbiter which decides the fate of nations, force being the factor governing its decision. Thanks to the encouragement of influential militarists and aggressive circles, these widely circulated scribblings I have just mentioned have become best sellers in the United States.