The Archive · 1939

World War Mistakes

It is easy for the British to laugh when there are no symptoms of Seareity in their country, he con= Unued. Dr. Goebbels admitted, however, that reasons for criticism were to be found in Germany also, The present situation, he.added, results "from the mistakes made by those who drew Germany Into the World War and then signed the Ver~ sailles Treaty and the Dawes and Young plans.

National-Socialists, he went on, "accomplished their task with a most noble political passion, with fanatical activity, and with an une equalled conscience." They cannot be held responsible for the situation ut, on the contrary, they have every reason to feel proud of the achievements National-Socialism accomplished. in the economic sphere, 'Dr. Goebbels then' defined the German viewpoint in ceonomie mal. ters. "The vital necessaries Peoples are more important then economic ideologies contrary to feature and to the needs of our age,"

said, Germany wants and has the right to live, he continued; it is an accomplished fact that there are possessing, and non-possessing peoples. What, then, is the position of the Reich?

"We still have no colony allowing to cover our raw material needs," he said. "Our vital space is not large enough to guarantee our people's subsistence. "The foreigner is seeking, cut off the outside markets from

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