"Conditions in this state sre unbelievable. From li tical point of view, 7,000,000 persons have been deprived of the right of self-determination, from an economic point of view they are being methodically ruined and slowly exterminated.
"Democratic representatives may regard this situation with indifferchee or perhaps even with sympathy since it concerns only 3,500,000 persons but I can tell these representatives that to us it is not a matter of indifference and that if these tortured creatures are not able to obtain justice and assistance through their own efforts, they will receive both from us. This depriving of rights must come to an end "fu my address before the Reichs-on February 22. I declared that the Reich woifid no longer tolerate the suppression and persecution of these 3,500,000 Germans, and that I would urge foreign statesmen to convince themselves of the fact thst these were not empty phrases. The National Socialist state has made great sacrifices For the European peace, particularly of a national nature. It not only declined support of the desire for revenge but even eradicated such ideas from the public and private life."
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