Berlin, June 22.
Herr Hitler, in a proclamation to the German people today, announced that Germany had declared war on Russia and that hostilities had already begun, Finland and Rumania were formally aligned with the Reich in the invasion, The German Chancellor charged that Soviet Russia had broken the agreements of the (Russo-German non-aggression pact and had conspired against Germany, through instigation of a coup d'etat in Rumania, massing of Soviet forces along the German frontier and support of Yugoslavia which led to the latter nation's resistance to the Reich, Herr Hitler said that 160 Soviet divisions had been massed along the German order, and that Soviet troops had infringed on the German frontier, He revealed that Soviet and German troops had clashed in heavy fighting on the night of June 18.
"Aligned with Finnish comrades, our victorious warriors of Narvik now stand along the Arctic coast," Herr Hitler's proclamation stated. "German. infantrymen in conjunction with Finnish soldiers, under the command of their Marshal, now await orders on Finnish soil.
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