In speaking with people’s comrades about the war, one frequently finds that
people are persuaded of the necessity of our victory, but as a result of the
events of the last year no longer see clearly how that goal can be achieved.
How do we help the party comrade? How to we justify our certainty of victory?
First, the foundation of this faith is not a
matter of reason. It rests in the depths of feeling and of will. However, each
faith is supported by certain facts. We can provide a series of reasons to
justify faith in our victory, reasons of military, economic, political, and worldview
nature.
1. Militarily, our strength is unbroken. True,
we have had setbacks during the past year, but they were not because of
military weakness or inability on our part, but rather were the result of
political factors, as the Führer has often explained, particularly Italy’s
failure (see Sprechabend-Eildienst theme Nr. 5: “One command— win the war”).
Some remember the developments of the summer and fall of 1918. No matter how
one looks at it, things are much better today. We took the blows without the
weakening in morale that lead to collapse in 1918. Our military is intact today
despite all the setbacks, and no one knows that better than the enemy. We let
him speak here not because his words are of more value than our convictions,
but rather to show that he speaks to himself in different ways than in the
leaflets or radio broadcasts that he sends our way to cause uncertainty.
The Anglo-Saxons see no lessening of our
military strength. Major General Strong, the American vice chief of staff, said
early in September 1943 that the German Luftwaffe is stronger today than when
the war began, and that Germany has three times as many divisions in the field
as it did in September 1939. New inventions will soon surprise our enemies at
sea, on land, and in the air.
There is also no decline in morale to weaken our
military strength. In a speech on 9 November 1943, Churchill said: “It is clear
that when we encounter German troops, they fight with their battle-tested
skill.” And General Montgomery, then the commander of the 8th Army in Southern
Italy, also said in November: “I do not love the Germans, God knows the
opposite is true, but I must still admit that they are excellent soldiers. So
far I have seen no change in those Germans who made life so difficult for us in
Cyrenia and Libya. They are all determined, fanatic Nazis who know war inside
out.” The Swedish newspaper Stockholms Tidningen, which is sympathetic to
England, summarized things on 16 September in this way: “As long as the outcome
depends on the German military and its efforts, the possibility of a decisive
blow against Germany is slight, perhaps even impossible.” That is clear enough.
2. Economically, the situation is similar. The
food supply is in balance. Even the pessimists have not starved yet, which is
the best evidence against pessimism. Even the enemy admits that the results of
the blockade have been disappointing. That is why they are trying to wear down
our homeland with bombing terror, since starvation has not worked. It was
painful, hard to admit, but the Washington Post at the end of the year wrote:
“The German food rations today are higher in calories than when the war began.”
There is just as little danger in the armaments
industry. The enemy admits: “Above all, Germany at present has enough raw
materials and industrial plants under its control to increase its war potential
over against 1943.” (Reuters, 2.1.1944.) We have some problems in the labor
force. Here, too, however, the difficulties of the war have been overcome. The
above-mentioned General Strong said: “The number of people employed in the war
industries in areas occupied by Germany has risen over the course of the war
from 23 to 35 million.” Those are his figures. Sauckel [in charge of importing
foreign labor] will know better.
3. Politically, there is no possibility of
collapse. True, the homeland has suffered hard blows to its morale because of
bombing terror. We do not minimize the effects of air attacks, but the German
people has proven itself stronger than those attacks. Swedish scientist Sven
Hedin wrote on 25 January 1944: “The Anglo-Saxon air attacks on Germany are
literally in vain. Instead of the expected wearing down of morale, they have
brought forth fanatic bitterness and iron determination from the German population.”
The enemy, too, knows that he has not had the desired effect. The Daily
Telegraphy wrote in October: “Nothing would be more false than to assume that
German morale was about to collapse. In 1918, military collapse preceded the
collapse in morale. It is useless to ask wither this time the same thing will
happen, or the opposite. There is at present no indication of a collapse of
either morale or the military front.” And the Manchester Guardian wrote in
mid-January of this year: “No deep collapse in German morale was noticeable
after the bombing of Berlin and other cities.”
By the way, the enemy’s speculations ignore the
decisive fact: there is no one who could take advantage of a crisis in morale
as happened in 1918. There is no organized opposition, as there was then, so
there will be no repeat of November 1918. The party make any political
earthquake impossible.
4. Worldview is another basis for our faith. We
represent a new order based on social and national justice. It has grown out of
life’s laws. The former order no longer is viable. It is old and fragile and in
contradiction to the developments of the present. The old has always had to
make room for the new in this world, never the other way around. The order of
plutocracy must give way to the young peoples. Even now the battle is primarily
between Germany and the Soviet Union. From the worldview perspective, it is
clear to us that we have deeper right on our side. Bolshevism is not organic,
but rather a construct, a system for the cemetery, not for life. We in no way
underestimate its military power, which is based in biology. Our faith is the
driving force: we say not merely that we will win, but rather: we must win.
This is consistent with the foundations of our
worldview. The new triumphs only through battle, often demanding the greatest
commitment. We see it as a particular gift of fate that our nature, our
abilities, our genetics, stand not in conflict with the laws of life, but
rather are consistent with them. Where that is not the case, catastrophe can
result, as it did in Italy, where a people not inclined to fight fell to the
fighting demands of fate. We are cut from a different timber, and follow a
different path. That is a further — and not the least — assurance of victory.
The
strongest reason, however, is our faith in the unique nature of the Führer. He
is today the same as he always was. He won the greatest victories in our
history and fought the hardest battles. He will also master what is to come
until a happy conclusion.
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