The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-11-13
Himmler Reads Hitler's Appeal
To Nazis For Fight To Death;
Enemy Believed Leaving Metz
|PATTON ADVANCES PROMISES VICTORY
ION 70 mile LINE|0VER THE ALLIES
Silence OF Fuehrer's Voice
Leads To Report He
Is Dead Or Mad

LONDON, Nov. 12.-P-
"A proclamation in the name
of long-silent Adolf Hitler
but read by the hangman
chief Heinrich Himmler-to-
night summoned Germans to
fight to the death and PROM
Used victory against the Allies
who seek Germany's complete
humiliation"
Sounding every appeal to steel
German will, the proclamation as
serted surrender would not be a
"cheap' escape" appealed for 10y
atty to the fuehrer, warned that his
power is absolute, and declared
that "as long as I am alive Ger
many will not suffer the fate of
European states flooded by boil
shevism."
But the voice of Hitler-Who has
not spoken to his people for near
ly four months in their gravest
crisis-was not heard on this Sab
bath which Berlin radio called "a
day of national rising"
Silence Causes Rum0rs
His silence, since the day after
the July 20 attempt on his life, has
led to reports Hitler is dead, or
i'll, or mad. His proclamation said
only that his work docs not allow
me to leave headquarters even for
a few days"
The manifesto marked the stag
ing of the Nazis' postponed anni-
versary celebration If the Nov. 9,
1923, beer hall putsch in Munich.
and mass swearing-in of mil
Ions of men in the Volkssturm or
peoples army, pledging fealty to
% Hitler and unconditional resistance
Il to the sAliess-~~-ss --r =
Himmler, rapidly coming to the
fore recently as Germany's strong
man, read the proclamation in
Munich.
Pep Broadcasts
Throughout the evening Nazis
big and small gave pep troadcasts
from Munich, but it was Gauleiter
Paul Gieaer, and not Hitler. who
placed the traditional wreath on
: the monument to the 16 who died
in the unsuccessful putsch 81 years
ago. Hitler's proclamation, as
: broadcast from that Nazi shrine
city, said Il greet you from atar,
, my party comrades"
/. In day of stark fanaticism, the
Nazi leaders-Hitler by proclama-
. ton, Reichsminister Goebbels and
others in personal addresses at
Volkssturm acknowledgement to
| pledge Germany virtually to ma
tional suicide.
They held up the hara-kari IA
naticism of the Japanese as an ex-
ample for Germans in defense OF
"our beloved Reich by every home,
every street corner, every clunp
of trees
All thought Of compromise OF
capitulation was rejected.
1.-THE time of people who favor
compromise or reserve has def.
nitely passed." said Hitler's text
as broadcast by DNB. .
I'VE fight to the last BREATH"
Goebbels told Volkssturmers in
Berlin.
Hitlers address struck the old
,, Nazi propaganda chords Of tha
!, menace of international JeWry,"
= and "b o h e i S barbarisms"
threatening, he said, to engulf not
only Germany but all Europe.
Appeals for Loyalty
He appealed strongly for contin'
: ued fanatic Nazi loyalty to HIM
SELF and while promising that
Germany would triumph despite
| every obstacle, declared 1--WE must
be willing to sacrifice life in order
to preserve life"
Death awaits any German who
opposes the decision for last-ditch
struggle, the proclamation said.
"As long as there is breath left
in me, my body and soul will serve
one thought only: to make my peo-
pie strong IN defense ana attack
against this deadly danger. If there
are people who are objecting to
this, it cannot be helped"
whoever attempts to sow doubts
among others, whoever lifts
sword or throws bomb against
Germany, will be mercilessly and
: ruthlessly destroyed
Hitler stressed "how necessary
it is for the nation to appreciate
and honor its great men," and put
himself in that class by reviewing
again, how national socialism had
made Germany strong.
Warning of the rate that might
, face a defeated Germany, he de.
clared the Allies now were de.
manding that 40,000,0o0 Germans
'be eliminated from our midst"
to weaken the nation. The aim Of
Germany's enemies. said the proc
lamation, was "the destruction Of
= DUR nation, its complete annihila-
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