Evening star., 1941-12-21
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Dec. 20.-The
tolloDing is the tert OF German
Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph
Goebbels' address today as rec
orded and translated by N. B. c.:
Our soldiers are in Belgium,
France, all over half of Europe,
and Africa, and from Finland to
Kiln. All people can meet the
Christmas holidays with graft
tude for the accomplishments of
our army. Our soldiers in their
tasks on all fronts went through
with the problems which were
given to them, and gave good
account of munitions and other
war supplies which were supplied
to them by our hard-working
factories and plants.
This Christmas we owe to our
soldiers who could not come home
for Christmas the same gratitude
We have owed to them for the
past two years. But we have to
make them feel, every one of
them on the front, that we owe
an unlimited gratitude at this
time when Christmas is ap-
preaching, to make them feel
that they are not alone.
Our soldiers still need lot for
this winter. Our wehrmacht to-
day on the front totals so many
millions that it is possible with
great difficulty to send them from
one single point all those things
of which the single man is in
need.
But for this very reason the
homeland must not have one
quiet hour as long as there is
single soldier left III the East, in
the Southeast, in Norway or
especially on the top of Finland,
who is not as yet equipped to
withstand the rigor of winter
cold.
All That Can Be Spared
Already Has Gone.
I know that at the last Collec-
ton the German people have
given all they could spare in con-
sideration of the tense situation
regarding textile supplies. Never
thelesS, there are still in the
homeland countless objects OF
winter equipment of the civil
population which the population
admittedly cannot very well
spare but which, however, the
front needs at this time without
doubt to a greater degree than
the Fatherland.
We certainly have to deprive
ourselves at home to a large ex-
tent, but one would not do justice
to the front if one would COM
pare such small curtailments
with the sacrifices made at the
front during this winter cam
paign.
At home everybody has roof
over his head and bed to sleep
in. The nutrition is admittedly
limited, but compared with that
of all other European nations,
still sufficient. At home one is
still in a position to get such re-
Taxation as newspapers, theaters,
concerts, visits to movies, radio
the relaxation which the popu-
lation needs presSingly in con-
sideration of the strain which 1t
bears during its process Of work.
Almost all this does not hold
u l.,
ern front. That cannot be
changed. But in one thing the
Hinterland can help. 1t can give
to its sons and fathers protec-
ton against the wrath Of the
wintry climate.
Civilians Cannot Replace,
But Must Give Anyway.
AS long as a single object Of
winter clothing remains still in
the Fatherland, it must go to
the front. I know that also in
the Homeland the individual can
spare such equipment only with
great difficulty. He is not in a
position to replace it. But
thousand times more urgently do
our soldiers need such equip
ment. which they cannot replace
either.
1t would be an eXaggeration II
I talked of sacrifices at this time.
What the Homeland has suffered
in the war are only inconven-
fences. and little curtailments,
compared to what our front bears
daily and hourly, over two years.
Thanks to the actions of our
front, the Homeland still enjoys
an internally safe life. The
front, for its part. must stake
health and life almost in all of
Europe. In Europe does our
front stand guard for all of Eu-
rope, and thereby above all, for
us.
AS our soldiers have suffered
during the summer months con-
tinuously and without complain
ing, heat, terrific summer down.
pours, subsequent dust or mud in
their superhuman effort on the
march to victory so do German
soldiers now stand in the wintry
defense positions in snow, ice,
rain. sleet, frost, and cold, as
safeguard of the homeland.
The front could hardly protect
itself against cold. Only the
entire homeland can help our