Evening star., 1945-01-01
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. Ia tranSla-
ton OF the tert OF Adolf Hitler's
NeiD Year speech as broadcast BY
the German radio and heard by
the Associated Press in London.
German people. National Socialist
men and women!
Only the turning of the year
prompts me to speak to you today.
The times have demanded more
from me than to speak to you
Events of the IL months which we
have now left behind, especially
the incident of July 20, have COM
PEELED me to dedicate my whole
attention to the single work for
which have been living-the strug-
gle for the fate of my people.
1t Is true that our enemies have
promised our collapse every year
but they set particularly strong
hopes on the year 1914.
Victory never seemed so near to
our enemies as in the August days
of the last year, when one catas-
trophe followed upon another.
If we contrived once again to
turn the course of fate, this was
due only to sacrifices, to the strug-
gle Of all my volksgenossen (the
people, my companions) at home
and on the front, and also to my
own labor.
Jews Assailed Again.
I have acted along the lines I
put forward in the memorable
Reichstag sitting of September l,
1899, when I said that neither force
of arms nor time would knock
Germany from her feet in this
struggle.
I said then that November, 1918,
would never recur again in the his
tory of the German Reich. The in
ternational Jewish conspiracy lived
on hopes only from the very first
day of this war. Always when their
peoples have begun to mistrust these
promises of our enemies, they used
certain agitational tricks, hopes and
prophesies to convince the broad
masses. Their propaganda used two
kinds of methods.
However, lies are short-lived Qit-
orally, lies have short feeD. On one
side, the impatience of the masses in
the Allied countries was Soothed by
giving them dates when the German
collapse would certainly come about.
The other method used to fool the
masses in Allied countries was to
speak only about the problems which
would crop up after German defeat.
Already at the very beginning of
this war, the British stated that a
common Franco-British declaration
Of war would either bring revolution
or at least collapse the German
people within from to 10 days.
In the winter, spring, summer and
autumn of the following year and
sometimes in between, new aSsur-
ances came from our enemies that
now an unconditional German COL
lapse would come about. Already in
the autumn of 1889 one such assur-
snce followed upon the other.
Allied Declarations Cited.
One general after another was
supposed to bring defeat for Ger
many. Such Allied declarations
have been produced in large quanti-
ties, especially In the year 1940
Then they said that if the Allied
nations only would hold out two
or three months, German collapse
inevitably would be brought about
in the spring of 194l Then sum-
mer and finally the winter Of 1941.
With the certainty of a somnam-
bulist. Allied propaganda set the
date for unconditional surrender in
August, 1914.
Nay, meeting of Allied states
men in Berlin was decided upon
before Christmas Then January,
then March were set as dates. Now
that we have approached these
months, our Allied statesmen have
become more prudent. 1t would be
in August. In July they certainly
will speak of the winter of 1916, un-
less the war should take an end
in reality before that date. This
end, however, will not mean Ger
man capitulation. This our enc
mics will never get. The war will
be terminated only by German VIC
tory.
Parallel with this. to strengthen
the probability of these promises,
ever new fictitious commissions are
being set up which should investi-
gate European questions after this
war, new societies are founded to
regulate food supplies after the
German collapse. Commercial trea-
ties are being signed, airlines being
planned, and laws for the German
people are being drawn up. These
laws are really idiotic.
Allied Plans Assailed.
Always they were built up on the
hypothesis that the war already was
won for the Allies, as if they could
already now rack their brains about
measures with which Europe will be
ruled, by states which, admit, offer
a sorry sight of how peoples should
not be ruled.
If, however. there existed one iso-
lated statesman in the western DEM
ocratic countries who would really
believe himself what he was telling
his people, then there would be only
three reasons which would explain
this: