Evening star., 1943-01-31

! BeTHn TQulO yesterday on the 10Th
anniversary of the Nazi pdrty's ac-
! cession to poDer.:
Today is the 10th anniversary Of
the day on which Reich President
Won Hindenburg handed over to me
the responsibility for the leader
ship of the Reich.
The 14-year-long struggle for
! power of the National Socialist
movement, which from the smallest
beginnings became by far the
strongest party of the Reich and
then proclaimed itself a legal gov
ernment. thereby reached success
full conclusion.
Assumption of responsibility only
took place after all other parties
had proved their inability to lead
Germany. The Reich was suffering
from the consequences of defeat
after war which she did not want
and for which she was in no way
prepared.
After a historic resistance which
could not be broken by any enemy
throughout four years of struggle,
defeatist elements both from within
and without forced her into open
revolution
Cites Wilson's Peace Aims.
The American President Wilson
with his IA point conjured up a
vision of future peace which was
eagerly seized upon by the German
people-more so as there had been
no positive war aims either among
the great masses or among leading
personalities.
The nation was fighting for its
mere existence and some sections of
the population were therefore al
most grateful to have piece of
conciliation and understanding Of
fered ii.
Immediately after the German
people had thus been induced to
give up their arms, there came an
historic swindle, a breach Of prom
Use such as world history had never
known before.
Instead of peace Of conciliation
and understanding came the dictate
of Versailles, which debased the
German nation and the nations al
lied to her to the level of slaves,
made them militarily defenseless,
deprived them of their political
rights and in the economic sphere
destroyed them for an incalculable
period. All that was done to the
German people from 1919 to 1888
in the way of wrong suppression,
economic exploitation and political
discrihfna ton hit not only the MAJ
tional Socialist, but the Democratic-
Marxist Germany Every attempt
by the Democratic, Catholic and
Maxist parties to appease the world
by appeal to similar mentality,
which they presumed to be In exist
ence, or to make the world realize
the senselessness Of this dictatorship
of force, failed
With toughness and persistence,
international Jewry first attempted
to plunder the nation by capitals
tic means In order to make her
economy right for Jewish Bolshe-
vism.
Assail Versailles Treaty.
The madness of the so-called Ver-
sailles peace treaty. however, not
only led to the destruction of Ger
man economy, but equally laid waste
the economic life in other countries,
too, including the so-called victor
states.
Toward the end of 1882 the world
found itself in the throes of a stead
lily growing economic crisis.
Unemployment oppressed not only
the German people. but also the rich
countries Of the west and especially
the United States. During the VIM
ters Of 1898 the number of ul-
employed in Germany had risen to
100000 and part-time workers to
similar figure.
The British mother country, which
ruled one-quarter of the earth, had
2,500000 unemployed.
The United States, with gigantic
natural resources and unlimited fer
tility, had some 100000 unem-
ployed.
In Germany itself conditions of
everyday life corresponded to The
economic crisis.
Points to Internal Decay.
Split up into innumerable par
ties and impeded by the selfish
short-sightedness of representatives
OF individual German states as we'll
as by the interest of various profess
sions and parties, it appeared hope
less for any German government
by old methods and with the forces
at their disposal to deal successfully
with the most urgent tasks, even
the mere preservation of life for
our people.
The internal decay of the nation
made such progress that transition
to chaos appeared to be the only
possible solution.
While the Jewish party leaders
and business hyenas on one side
destroyed the political and economic
basis Of life to an ever growing ex-
tent, the same Jewish agitators were
faced with the need of Bolshevik
revolution.
1t was clear that If IA years of
Marxism, democracy and Parlia-
| mentism had managed to ruin Ger
many, one year of Bolshevism would
have sufficed to destroy Germany
completely.
The German people were dis
united, rotten internally. overbur-
dened and disrupted BY debts of the
rich. and the states facing complete
bankruptcy
Tells of Economic Collapse.
Some 100000 working people
had either not enough or no work
at all. Economic life collapsed
/ Commerce ceased, shipping and
| transport continued to shrink,
The farmer lost his farm home.
| Joy Of life began to wane. and a
| declining hirthrate made the even
| tual end Of the nation a mathemat-
ical certainty.
This, therefore. was the heritage
| handed over to me on January 30,
1888, and for which I took respon-
sibility.
In my first proclamatlon to the
German people as German Chancel-
| lor l announced in the name Of the
then government of the ReIrh nv