The losses of the Germany army and air force as well as the S. guards in this campaign "are the smallest we have ever suffered so far."
German losses were: Army—57 officers, 1,042 N.C.O.'s and men killed, 181 Officers and 3,71 N.C.O/s and men wounded, 13 officers and 372 N.C.O's and men missing; Luftwaffe—ten officers and 42 N.C.O.'s and men killed, and six officers and 104 N.C.O.'s and men missing.
Prisoners of war taken in the Balkans included Serbs, exclusive of men of German origin, Croats and Macedonians—6,298 officers and more than 336000 men. and Greeks—8,000 officers and 210,000 men.
Italy, said Hitler, had more than earned any territorial and political influence she had obtained by the very great sacrifices in blood she had made since October last year for the future of the Axis.
Referring presumably to the United States, Hitler said: "When today democratic agitators of a country to which the German people have never done any harm, and whose statement that the German people intended to do so is nothing but an absurd structure of the post-war world.
Mr. Morley pointed out that neither Japan nor the United States separately was qualified to assume to role of peacemaker, as each had aligned itself with one of the opposing European camps. He suggested that the two countries together might achieve cooperatively what neither would be able to accomplish alone.
Mr. Yosuke Matsuoka of Japan, and Mr. Cordell Hull of the United States would make a powerful peacemaking team, as each has a foot in the opposing belligerent' camps.
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