The Archive · 1939

Warning Against

Encirclement — Herr Hitler Praises Work Of Legionaries in Spain Gen. Franco Extolled

Berlin, June 7.

Chancellor Adolf Hitler warned Britain and other "encirclers" yesterday that they will be "sharply repulsed if they attempt to attack the Recih.

Der Fuehrer and Field Marshal Hermann Goering reviewed a parade of 12,000 German soldiers and aviators who fought in the Spanish civil war and Chancellor Hitler said the reception given these returning soldiers was the final answer to the "Democracies lie that Italy and Germany wanted to conquer Spain."

"Your spirit" Herr Hitler told the civil war veterans, "shows that if the war mongers even attempt to attack Germany, they will be repulsed with a sharpness of which the encirclers as yet have no conception, Chancellor Hitler paid a high tri bute to the Spanish Republican forces and Generalissimo Francisco Franco, head of National Spain.

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