Evening star., 1938-10-10

SAARBRUECKEN, Germany, Oct
10 (P.-Following is the text OF
Reichsfuehrer Hitler's speech yesterday
after the dedication of q new Saarland
Theater:
German folk!
If in the midst OF these great days
and their occurrences have come into
your gau (district), then 1t was done
in the conviction that nobody can
evidence greater appreciation of these
last weeks and days than yourself.
You, my men and women Of Saar-
land, you have experienced for your
selves what it means to be separated
from the Reich and you yourselves
have gone through the Joy Of being
reunited
You, too, suffered all this woe for two
decades and you, too, were supremely
happy when the hour Of reunion struck
and you could return to the common
Reich.
Exactly that same thing was expert
enced and participated in by millions
of Germans. The same Joy seized
them that once stirred you.
At the beginning Of this year, the
goth after our collapse, made a
decision to lead back into the Reich
10 ,OO0,O 900 Germans who still stood
offside.
1t was perfectly clear to me that this
return could be compelled only by our
own strength
The rest of the world, for the largest
part, bad no understanding therefore.
Sees 10000, 900 Maltreated.
1t neither saw nor wanted to see
that here, 100000 humans, In viola
ton of the so-called right of self
determination Of peoples, had been
separated from the German people
and the Reich and had been NAL
treated But it has not understood
nor wanted to understand that these
human beings had but one great yearn-
ing, namely to return to the Reich.
These international world citizens
have compassion indeer for every
scoundrel who is called to account in
Germany but they are deaf to the
sufferings of millions.
That world is still filled with the
spirit Of Versailles. It did not free
itself from 1t.
No, Germany has liberated herself
from it.
Even today, it still is a mixture Of
terrible inconsiderateness and APPALLING
ignorance for these countries to over
look justice and give lasting effect to
injustice.
And so these world democracies
remained deaf for 20 years to all the
sufferings and demands Of 100000
Germans.
Accordingly, a hard decision had to
be made.
Among us, too, there were weak
characters who did not understand
this.
Tells Of Responsibility.
It Is self-evident, however, that
statesmen conscious Of their RESPONSE
bility made it point of honor to take
responsibility.
The following were the preconditions
for bringing about and carrying
through solutions:
First, internal unity Of the nation.
am convinced was Fuehrer of a
manly people. I know what probably
many in the rest Of the world and even
isolated ones in Germany do not seem
as yet to know. Namely that the
people Of the years 1888 are not the
people of 1918.
Only those who were blind concern
ing national socialism could overlook
the tremendous work Of education that
the good (NazD philosophy of life has
accomplished.
There has been created today 4
community Of spirit throughout our
people Of power and strength such as
Germany never before has known.
This was the first precondition for
undertaking, and for the success of
this task
Second was national rearmament
which I sponsored fanatically for six
years.
I am of the opinion that it is cheaper
to prepare ones self before events than
to lie PROSTATE unprepared for events
and then pay the foreign country.
The third thing was rendering secure
the Reich and here you yourselves
are witnesses to the tremendous work
which is being accomplished in your
very neighborhood.
Says Country Is Invincible.
I need tell you no details about it. I
will give expression, however, to but
one conviction: No power in the world
will be able to push through this wall.
Fourth, We have gained foreign
friends.
That axis which people in other
countries so often think they can ridi-
cule has, during the last two and q
half years, not only proved durable
but has proved that even in the worst
hours 1t continues to function.
Nevertheless, we are especially
happy that this task Of the year 1898,
of again joining 100000 Germans
and about 10000 square kilometers
(42,470 square miles, to the Reich
could be accomplished in peace.
We are all so happy no blood was
shed over this despite the hopes Of so
many international agitators and
proflteers.
II I mention the help Of the rest
Of the world in bringing about this
peaceful solution, must again and
again place at the head of it our only