Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-30

encountered in the Russian cam
paigp, Goering attempted to bolster
the German spirit with the asser-
ton Il am convinced that Russia is
now using her last reserves"
Goering announced that Hitler
had ordered the mobilization of all
remaining resources of Germany.
Turning to what he called Rus
sia's deception in the Finnish war,
Goering said, I'VE had seen a small
but gallant nation (Finland) fight
heroically for many months against
this vast empire and we thought
What danger can possibly come
from that empire in the east?'"
1T required all the hardships of
last winter to realize that Russia's
war against Finland was perhaps
the cleverest, greatest camouf1age
in world history" Goering said.
While the Russians had few
armies fighting Finland with partly
equipped obsolete arms they spent
the last decade and half building
up the most powerful ornaments
which ever had been made by any
nation"
The observation came from the
man who long and often boosted
Germany had the worlds best and
most powerful war tools.
Vast Military Machine.
The Russians were able to build
up vast military machine, Goering
commended, because their arma-
ments were made not by free peo-
pie, but by slaves all Russians
made nothing else. They had moth
ing to make life more beautiful.
Goering conceded, TT is not
easy to fight Russia. Our enemy Is
hard. his leadership barbaric and
disobedience means death"
The Reichsmarshal said it was
Hitler's celebrated intuition that
dictated the Nazi attack on Russia.
The strength of the Russians
was known" he said apparently
contradicting other parts of his
speech, but the Fuehrer's intuition
warned him we must attack all the
same"
DenOunces Communism.
Declaring the Communists were
Germany's only foe in the early days
of Nazi-ism, Goering asserted:
There was only one opponent then;
there is only one today-Com-
munism."
When we attacked Russia, Hitler
had been warned that Russia was
strong, but his intuition told him
he must attack her all the same"
Goerings voice sounded unusually
subdued to listeners here, and the
"heiling" of his audience was at a
minimum. He was particularly grim
as he said
Il send this message to everybody,
from humblest private to highest
marshal. No situation is ever so
desperate for Germany that we
: cannot master it."
He did not once mention the re-
cent unconditional surrender" con-
| ference Of the Allies at Casablanca,
but perhaps alluded to it when he
said that any German who thought
that an agreement could be reached
with the Allies was fool" In
stead, he said, the destruction of
the German people is at stake"
He credited the death struggle of
the entrapped German forces at
Stalingrad with having upset the
| Russian winter offensive.
New German Lines.
"1f the German defenders in Stall
ingrad had failed to concentrate
upon themselves 60, 10 or even 80
Soviet divisions, then the Soviet at
tempts at break-through probably
would have succeeded. Now the
SovietS are too late. German re-
sistance is organized. New lines are
consolidated.
Il know that when the sun is
higher in the sky German troops
will again attack, just as they die
last year. The German attack this
year will not be weaker than last
year. On the contrary, we shall at
tack with new and better weapons
and fresh, steeled divisions. We
shall then make good for Stain.
grad"
Russian losses had been so huge
Goering said, that "icy-cold shud-
ders run down ones back if one
sees these losses"
Il am convinced" he addad, that
the present Soviet attack is beine
made with the last available Sovie,
reserves, put on their feet by the
Soviet command with the most ex-
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