Evening star., 1939-09-12
Goerinq's Bio Berthe


Army's truly amazing progress in
Poland, the gallant defense of War
saw, the French assault on the
Siegfried Line, and U-boat devasta-
ton of British shipping-Marshal
Goerings speech at Berlin last Sat-
urday escaped the attention 1t
deserves.
Designed to stimulate German
munition workers, his remarks were
directed in fact to the world at large.
They constitute the boldest and
fullest expose of Nazi war plans and
aims yet made. Even divested OF its
bluster and bombast, the address
lifts the veil in significant directions.
These, according to Hitler's anoint-
ed heir, are Germany's detectives:
l. To conquer" Poland by Septem-
ber IA.
2. To demonstrate progressively
that Great Britain cannot blockade
Germany, because raw material sup
plies are obtainable from Russia.
3. To concentrate the Reich's full
might" on the western front as soon
as Poland is subjugated, and thence
forth to show the British they would
be insane" to attack Germany's
West Wall, as that would set streams
Of blood to flowing"
4. To put the fear Of God into Hit
ler's enemies with the gigantic
guns" Germany has ready.
S. To drill into the German mind
that Britain has continuously stood
across Germany's path.
6. To wage war exclusively in the
west, after the seventy divisions
thrown into Poland have "mopped
up," since the danger of conflict on
two fronts, which oppressed the
Reich in the past, has now vanished,
development for which, above all
else, the German air force is respon-
sible.
7. To make it increasingly palmer
that what the Reich has done eco
nomically in the past is "child's play
compared to what will happen later"
8. To make Britain realize that
Germany is as "invincible" econom-
ically as she is militarily, for Goer-
ing's four-year plan renders the
Reich today "the best prepared coun-
try in the world" with an incom-
parable munition industry, the best
artisans and the most intelligent
unskilled labor
9. To prove that while the enemy
may have what Germany lacks
benzine, zinc, lead and copper-she
has the resources in reserve to pro-
duce synthetically everything re-
quired.
10. To produce coal not only for
Germany's own needs, but for export
in exchange for essential raw ma
terials. The conquest Of Polands
rich coal mines thus comes at a
psychological moment"
II. To explode the theory that a
long war weakens a nation. Ger
many will become stronger with
every year." "she was industrially
stronger in 1918 than in 1914"
IL. To prove to her own people,
and to the British, that, if German
aircraft production hitherto "has
turned out hundreds Of airplanes," it
will "henceforth turn out many
more"
13. To demonstrate that the world
has taken more favorable shape for
Germany since the World War. I'VE
Germans have our National Social
ism. The Russians have their Bol-
shevism, but we are both nations
which crave peace, and will not
be so stupid as to run our heads to-
gether to please Britain"
IA. To destroy" the Rumanians
and Yugoslavs if they dare to
oppose Germany"
Is. To ask nothing from France,
whose frontiers Germany has guar
anteed for all time"
16. To annihilate any German who
"sins" by listening to British appeals
to overthrow the Hitler regime.
~ tn rocforo oy,Jv Hary, ,,v,e old