Treaty, Herr Hitler said it was unfortunate that mer. who had a deciding voice in politics at that time were men who had not fought in the war.
The tremendous historic events of the month of March, he said, had enabled him to iulül only the task of his life—that of raising the German people from defeat and freeing them for all time from the most dastardly dictated treaty of all time All he wanted, Herr Hitler proceeded, was to restore what others had broken to pieces by force—to repair what diabolical malice or human unreasonableness had destroyed or spoiled.
I have therefore taken no step which has violated the rights of others, but have merely restored rights violated twenty years ago. There is no territory within the greater Reich today which has not previously belonged to it, which has not been linked up with it, or which as not been under its sovereignty a long time back."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.