The Archive · 1939

Fuehrer Notifies Reichstag

Danzig Anschluss Proclaimed; Herr Hitler Explains Own Position; Deputies Told Air Force Given Orders

Berlin, Sept. 1.

HE Reichstage session ended at 10.45 a.m, following the adoption of the Bill incorporating Danzig into the Reich, a Bill based on that promulgated this morning at Danzig by Herr Albert Forster, Nazi Gauleiter.

The extraordinary Reichstag. session opened at 10 a.m, when Herr Hitler delivered the following andre was able to summon you only at 3 a.m. this morning. Thanks to exemplary organization, most of you were able to attend.

"There are over one hundred absentees.

They are elsewhere, at their posts with the army. They will accomplish their duty where they are.

"For several months we have all been suffering from the nightmare of the problem raised by the Versailles Treaty and which has become unbearable for us. Danzig and the Corridor were and are German.

Danzig has been separated from us.

The Corridor was annexed by Poland. But, the main thing is that the German minorities were ill-treated in the most painful manner, As always, I sought a settlement by means of proposals with a view to a peaceful revision, Tt is a lie when it is asserted abroad that we are trying to use our revisionist claims with the sole object of exerting pressure upon the world, Rudolph Hess wilt succeed him. If something happens to Hess, then the Senate will choose the bravest. As a soldier, I will march to the battle. All my life Thave fought for the rise of Germany. There is one word that T will never have to know and that word is capitulation. I wish to make this clear to the whole world: from now on there will be no November 9, 1918 in Germany's his-ory. I expect German women to mould into the national community with iron discipline. If we forge this community, if we are determined never to capitulate, then we shall never lose."—Havas

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