The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-24
Hitler Proclailns War
 Plan In Broadcast
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Ter on the same spot proclaimed for the first time the Naz party pro- gram.
 Nazi "BI0Od" Flag
 On the improvised speakers stand was a small swastika. The party comrades sat at long wooden tables. Behind the speakers stand was the Naz blood flag" flanked by two SS officers.
 Hitler was introduced by Adolf Wagner, Munich gauleiter, who de- clared that this year, my fuehrer, with Adolf Hitler and therefore, battle"
 We all know Wagner said, "that you did not want war. Justice is you are fighting Germany's decisive Adolf Hitler you will be victorious. !"
 Hitler declared that only the Nazi party could have freed Ger many from the shackles of Ver- sailleS.
 "The American president" he said, "swore we would get this and we would get that once we laid down our weapons.
 we have witnessed how these pledges were carried out.
 Democratic Germany was treat ed as it had merited. have studied the Versailles pact as hardly any one else has. I have not forgotten it, not to this day. I have memor- ized it page by page, backward and forward-this most shameful doc ument of all time."
 Hitler said that the Allied pow CTS needed a democratic Germany to carry out the Versailles pact be- cause, he charged, no other form of governmc Tt would have submit ted to the tlcaty.
 '"The Versailles pact could not be annuled through submission he said, but only through the strength of the German nation.
 People said that is impossible. Certainly, it was under 46 parties and many conflicting interests. But once this cleavage was overcome. then Germany could look forward to the inclusion of more than 80,- 100000 people or almost 40,000,000 more than the English.
 "The war has proved the value of this figure"
 The Fuehrer'S address was direct ed to his old party comrades and was carried by radio network throughout Germany and to Den- mark, Norway, Holland, France, Italy, Rumania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Jugoslavio, Finland and Switzer- land.
 Hitler Arrives
 Hitler arrived at the hall at 10:05 a. m. (EST). A band struck up his favorite Badenweiler march.
 A radio announcer described the proceedings to the German audi ences assembled around loudspeak- CTS throughout the country.
 He said that Germany is now car- rying on the Nazi program beyond her frontiers in a drive to remake Europe.
 we know the fight will go on and is now shortly before its final conclusion" he said. Hence the tension before Hitler's speech is greater than ever"
 Gauleiter Adolf Wagner of the Munich district introduced Hitler.
 T greet the feuhrer in the name of the millions of Germans .parti- cipating in this anniversary cele- bration," he said. "Fol you this year is to bring about the decision of German history.
 "You did not want war"
 Hitler started to speak at 10:14 a. m., EST.
 Party comrades and National So- cialists," Hitler said, "the 24th of February is always our day of com- memoration and rightfully so for our movement started on this day in this hall"
 "This day means much to me. It is rare that politician 21 years after his first public appearance may step before the same following to repeat the same program.
 Tt is a rare coincidence that man after q years does not once have to deviate from his original program.
 "Twenty-one years ago today the question was: Why have new party? Don't we already have enough parties?
 Actually this was something en- tirely different than any known party. It was a movement which for the first time did not represent the interests of certain groups of the nation, did not represent bour- geois or proleterian, city or rural