A Study of
War by Prof. Quincy Wright, shows that
in the period from 1480 to 1940 there were 278 wars involving European
countries whose percentage participation was as follows: England 28%, France 26%, Spain, 23%, Russia
22%, Austria 19%, Poland 11%, Sweden and Italy 9%, Netherlands 8% and Germany
8%. Sorokin findings concur with Hitler’s: Germany has had the smallest number
of years at war.“
„There is
not a single German who wants war. The
last war cost us 2 million lives and seven and a half million wounded. At such a price, this could not have been a
victory even if we had won. What
European statesman today could effect a territorial conquest by means of war? Is it necessary to kill 2 millions in order
to conquer a territory with 2 million inhabitants? For us that would mean sacrificing 2 million
Germans - the flower of the nation’s manhood - in exchange for a mixed
population that is neither wholly German nor has much in common with
Germany. Sound common-sense is opposed
to such a war.“ - Paris Soir, January
26th1936
„Judea Declares War on Germany! Jews of all the World Unite! Boycott of German Goods! Mass
Demonstrations!.“ - Daily Express on
March, 24th 1933
„The
Israeli people around the world declare economic and financial war against
Germany. Fourteen million Jews stand
together as one man, to declare war against Germany. The Jewish wholesaler will forsake his firm,
the banker his stock exchange, the merchant his commerce and the pauper his
pitiful shed in order to join together in a holy war against Hitler’s people.“ - Daily Express, March 24th 1933
„At the end
of our days history will be able to state that we left behind us one Reich, one
People. And for such a programme we need
peace, for peace alone can construct. I
know well what war means: I have seen it with my own eyes: and many a statesman
has not done that. It is not as a
traitor to my country that I repudiate war:
I repudiate war as a decent German, who, even as a soldier, remained
decent, and who is determined to be decent in the future. For that reason I will not sacrifice the German
people’s right to live or the German honour.“ - Elbing, 5th November 1933.
„Historians
will one day record that never were the peaceful proposals of one man met with
more hatred than mine. When Germany
became the example to the world of the peaceful solution of social problems and
economic difficulties, the hatred of the Bolsheviks and capitalists, the
exploiters of nations, was turned against her.
Only then did I turn to create the new German Wehrmacht.“ - 1936
„If the
Germany of today takes her stand on the side of peace she does so not because
of weakness or cowardice. She takes her
stand on the side of peace because of the National Socialist conception of
People and State. In each and every war
for the subjugation of an alien people, National Socialism recognises a process
which sooner or later will alter the inner nature of the victor - will weaken
him and therewith render him vanquished in turn. (The reverse
coloured-colonisation of contemporary Britain is a good example of this. ed.) Setting aside a mere transitory weakening of
the enemy, the European states have nothing whatsoever to gain from war of any
kind, except a trifling alteration of frontiers which could be entirely out of
proportion to the sacrifices entailed.
The blood that was shed on European battlefields during the past 300
years bears no proportion to the national result of the events. In the end France has remained France,
Germany Germany, Poland Poland and Italy Italy.“ -’The Thirteen Points’, Reichstag Speech
„The rest
of the world, however, whom we have done no wrong and whom we ask nothing but
to be left to go our way in peace, has for months past been engaged in
spreading lying reports and slander about us.
During the time that a national revolution was taking place in Germany,
which, unlike the French and Russian revolutions, did not indulge in human
carnage or murder hostages, did not, as in the times of the rising in Paris and
of the red revolutionaries in Bavaria and Hungary, destroy buildings and works of
art by fire, but which, on the contrary, did not smash a single shop window,
and neither plundered shops nor damaged houses.“ - Adolf Hitler
Referring to the original aims of
the Geneva Red Cross Convention to work towards reducing armaments, Hitler
stated his intention to extend this.
„..... In this instance the German Government have in mind to ban all
arms which bring death and destruction not so much to the fighting soldiers but
to non-combatant women and children.... they believe that it will be possible
to proscribe the use of certain arms as contrary to international law and to
excommunicate from the community of mankind - its rights and its laws - those
nations who continue to use them.” -’The
Thirteen Points’, Reichstag Speech
„Three
times I have made concrete offers for armament restriction. These offers were rejected. The greatest offer which I then made was that Germany and France together
should reduce their standing armies to 300,000 men; that Germany, Great Britain
and France, should bring down their air forces to parity and that Germany and
Great Britain should conclude a naval agreement. Only the last offer was accepted as real
limitation of armaments. The other
German proposals were either flatly refused or where answered by the conclusion
of those alliances which gave Central Europe to Soviet Russia as the field of
play for its gigantic forces.“ - Adolf Hitler
„The German
nation has more than fulfilled its obligations with regard to disarmament. It is now the turn of the highly armed states
to fulfil similar obligations to no less extent.“ - October 14th 1933
„All
through these long years we have never had another prayer but this: Lord, give
our people eternal peace and give and maintain peace abroad. We have experienced in our generation so much
fighting that it is natural that we should wish for peace. We have behind us so much of hardship that we
can address to the grace and the kindliness of Providence our one prayer: Spare
our children that which we had to endure.“
- Parteitag, Nuremberg, 11th September 1936.
With remarkable foresight the orator
of 1923 predicted the post War German Governments: „Then things will come to such a pass that we shall be
a people working for alien masters.
Germany will be a plantation worked at the will of the alien, the victim
of alien cupidity, with a Government which has ceased to be a Government at all
since it governs no longer; it is but a bailiff carrying out the orders of
foreign powers.“ - Munich. 20th April 1923.
“… against the whole
war-agitation of shrieking foreigners’ he set his own proud confidence which
nothing could shake. „You will no regard that, my old comrades, as
arrogance. How could a man think
otherwise, who twenty years ago began as a man without a name, who nineteen years
ago stood for the first time in this place before a crowd which was still
partly hostile and vociferating against him - stood there utterly lonely, who
with a few dozen others entered on a fight to win a great Reich, who went on
this inconceivably difficult way - how can one think for a second that such a
man, now in possession of power, could have fear of the threats of others? I had no fear then and I should be ashamed of
myself and unworthy to be the Leader of the German nation if I had any fears
today. They will not terrify us with
their threats. But should they ever
really bring the peoples to the madness of a conflict, then surely we would not
capitulate. The year 1918 will never be
repeated in German history.“ - Speech to the Old Guard, Munich, 24th February
1939.
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