The Archive · 1941

Sheer Desperation

Hitler attacked USSR. out of sheer desperation, probably due to the British blockade, with Miter needing foodstuffs, raw materials and petroleum. Another subsidiary and even more revolting reason has been tactlessly given by Germans in Ankara, who have stated that Reich "needs Russian prisoners as labourers since French prisoners are useless, because they are tired and unruly. Nothing could be more fantastic than the suggestion that this marauding expedition is a struggle between Christianity and Atheism, a crusade 0 save civilization, "We may continue to reject the principles of Bolshevism," he added, "put there can be no doubt on which side our duty lies. As Queen Withelmina put it:

'Our fight is directed against the Satanic principles and abominable practices of Nazism'?

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