The Archive · 1939

Marshal Goering

Importance of German Air Force Emphasized

Berlin, Mar. 1.

; eld-Marshal Hermann Goering, Minister of Air and. Reich Conserva-for of Forests, in speaking today on the occasion of Air Force Day, declared that during the past four years they had worked to create the most modern Air Force the nation had ever possessed.

Particularly addressing parents, Field-Marshal Goering stated:

"Give us your sons. If one of your y|sons has already died, it must have been for the glory of Germany."

After emphasizing that the Anschluss, or the creation of a Greater Germany, would not have been possible without a strong Air Force, he remarked:

"We must not think of resting on our labour; we must work to improve our Air Force in order te maintain our start on other natio He was glad to say that youth was responding to the appeal, for it was necessary for the Air Force to have young people.—Reuter.

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