The Archive · 1941

Berlin Jubilant

The Monday morning press and last nights radio broadcasts were marked with a note of jubilation based on the "decisive break-through and annihilation blow."

Chancellor Adolf Hitler was hailed 28 the world's war genius who has now added the laurels of the victory in the east to those gained in the west and the Balkans.

German infantrymen, the tank corps, sappers and members of the Luftwaffe were lauded in stories that ran for columns for accom) Plishing in three weeks what the imperial German Army failed fo accomplish during the World War.

The German announcement of victory was underlined here as a superadequate answer to those persons in the western countries who, up fo a few days ago, had believed that the German advance had been halted.

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