The Archive · 1939

Fuehrer Acclaimed By Berlin Crowds

Field Marshal Goering Gives Thanks in Oath Never to Lose Gains

Berlin, Mar. 19.

Herr Adolf, Hitler arrived here by train at 6.30 p.m. today.

Amid tremendous shouting, and the blare of trumpets, he was welcomed on the platform by all the Reich Ministers, headed by Field-Marshal Hermann Goering State Secretaries, regional party leaders, and delegations from the Army and the Nazi Part The station was decorated with Swastika flags. There were huge crowds waiting outside along the route taken by Herr Hitler.

Field-Marshal Goering, in a speech, welcomed the German leader. He said that Herr Hitler had "restored to Germans not only the dignity the past, but also the security of the German Reich."

He added that this was a "proud day" for Herr Hitler. It was impossible, Field-Marshal Goering stated to thank him except by a sacred oath in the name of the German nation never to give away the great things they had attained.

"It would be impossible" Field-Marshal Goering declared, "for so heroic a soldier not to be backed by a heroic nation.

"You made this people courageous and great. Let this be the oath of all Germans—'Sieg Hell."

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