We talk of Nazi Germany as though it were something entirely new. but just as this war is for the Germans the continuation of the last, the Nazi regime is fundamentally a develop. ment of the former Empire. the Weimar regime and an attempt at de mocracy being merely inter! which have been eradicated by Hi at least that is the way their propaganda machine puts it. Obs tions made by the German wird was said in similar circumstances in the last war. even the turn of each phrase is almost the same. It is as though nothing has p ied between, nothing has changed; there has been no peace. no revolution. no inflation, no unrest, no unemployment. absolutely nothing between the two world wars. Germany is at it again.
though there had been no defeat. n0 armistice, no "Treaty of Versailles.
What is in the mind of the German reading and listening public at the moment? How has that public reacted during the last few days? To what conclusion has the German mind and character come? as Americans can neither fly nor swim they could not cross the Atlantic and could not therefore be of any use to the Allies against Germany. The Americans helped less; they came in ship evidently overlooked In addition to shippin: American aird Atlantic, and pi raw n is are arrive increasing volume. many Dr. Hertzs outlook discredited as containing a fla somewhere or other, German commentators explained that American aid is so slow, and small that Great Britain will have to give in before it can made effective. Hitler has declared t 1941 will be the year of decisive victory for Germany and there can de no doubt whatever that the German nation counts on victory wi the present year.
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