Evening star., 1945-01-01

lof Allied countries nouriSh againS
the German people Is nothing els,
than an expression Of their bar
conscience. 1t is an expression o,
their inferiority complex. They fee
that when they confront a human
community which they cannot un.
derstand because 1t successfully
achieves its aims. These aims, how
ever, Allied statesmen cannot
achieve because of their economic
egoism and consequent political
shortsightedness.
For us. however, this implies only
an obligation to recognize that our
life or death is an issue which de-
pendS on the consistent construc-
ton of our peoples state. All the
unlimited sacrifices of our people are
only comprehensive when seen on
the basis of social order which
eliminated all privileges, in which
every citizen has not only the same
duties but the same rights.
Expresses Confidence.
Recognition of the moral value OF
this conviction and the perspective
which flows from it give us all and
particularly to me personally the
strength to continue this struggle in
the most difficult hours with most
unshakable faith and confidence.
This faith has secured a positive
response to the appeal which had
to address to the German people
with particular insistence this year.
Germans of all professions and
ways OF life, men, women, boys and
girls, and even children, have tack
led the spade and shovel and are
now working.
Thousands of volkssturm bat
talions were created and are being
created. One division after another
was restored. Peoples artillery for
nations, infantry formations and
tank formations were produced
magically, as If they had fallen
from heaven. Fighter formations
were regrouped and provided with
new machines and, above all, Ger
man workers have achieved unique
performance in the factories.
Whatever our enemies DESTROYED
was reconstructed with superhuman
zeal and heroic courage. And this
will continue until the day when
an end will be put to the activities
of our enemies. German spirit and
German will will bring this about.
This achievement will be remem-
bered as the miracle of the 20th
century.
A people which is achieving the
unbelievable at home and on the
front, people which bears such
terrible burdens, will arise again out
of this furnace of trials, stronger
than ever before in its history.
However. the power which has
brought us all these misfortunes, the
international Jewish world enemy,
will not only fail in its attempt to
destroy Europe and uproot its
peoples, but will pay for it with its
determination. On this New Year
eve I want to thank the innumera-
BILE millic''s OF German people from
the bottom of my heart.
Thanks German People.
AS spokesman of our nation and
leader of our fate, want to thank
them for all the sufferings they took
upon themselves, our men and
women, and even our children in the
Hitler Youth, in towns and market
places, in villages and in the
country.
/ want to ask them not to finch
in the future but to trust the leaders
of our movement and fight out this
heavy struggle for the future of our
people with fanaticism.
I am now speaking less not be-
cause I do not want to speak or
because am not able to speak, but
because my work will not permit
me to speak much and because /
believe that I am pledged to set
all my strivings in the present hour
behind the task of increasing the
power of resistance to our armies,
introduce better weapons, set up
new formations and mobilize all the
possible forces of my nation.
Perhaps my enemies already
have come to understand by now
that I have not slept throughout
all this time. Moreover, I want to
reassure you, my volksgenossen, just
as I did in the years of struggle
for power, that my faith in the
future of Our people is unshakeable.
My only care, therefore, is to
strive with all my power in order
to carry the German people through
this epoch of misfortunes and to
open the gates to a better future.
in which we all believe, for which
we are all struggling and working.
I cannot close this appeal without
thanking Providence, which always