Referring to his so-called peace offer after the fall of France, Hitler said European warmongers succeeded in inducing the population to continue the struggle and, as once before, they were again ready to sacrifice the blod of nations without scruple in the interests of heir gold.
On October 6, 1939, continued the Chancellor, "I once more publicly stated that Germany neither demanded nor intended to demand anything either from Britain or France, and that it was madness to continue the war. Just as the appeal on September 1, 1939, proved vain, this renewed appeal also met with almost indignant rejection.
"British warmongers and their Jewish capitalistic backers could find no other explanation of this appeal which I had made on humanitarian grounds than an assumption of weakness on the part of Germany, They declared that such peace must in no circumstances be made until the German Reich was broken up. and the Gèrman people so defeated and reduced io such distress that they would queue up beside field kitchens of their enemies begging for food.
""At that time the Norwegian Government, misled by he stubborn insistance of Churchill's prophecies, had already begun to toy with the idea "of a British landing on their soil. If was thanks to Churchill's and Reynaud's tendencies to gossip. that the German Government, gained cognizance of the plans being made against the Reich. and the German people were able, as a result, to launch what was to prove to be their most effective counterstroke during this war, since there was no doubt that the British design upon Norway Hitler paid a tribute to the brave resistance offered by Greek soldiers, With some faint hope of being able io contribute to a solution of the problem, he proceeded, Germany had not severed relations with Greece, He was, however, in duty bound to point out to the world that "we would not passively allow a revival of the old Salonika scheme of the Great
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