The Voice of Germany

Six weeks ago, in one of the most boastful speeches of his career. Adolf Hitler proclaimed to Germany and to the world: "This enemy is already broken and will never rise again."

Last week Adolf Hitler spoke in Munich's old Loewenbraeu beer cellar to Nazi veterans of 1923's abortive Beer Hall Putsch. No bomb went off in the hall this time, as it had two years ago. No R.A.F. bombers visited the city, as they had one year ago. The Fuehrer made all the noise.

He ranted against Herr Roosevelt ("I have no brain trust to subordinate. ... I am not a schoolboy who draws maps in a school atlas. ... I am now 52 years old . . . and it does not interest me what kinds of religion there are in the world"). He ranted against Herr Churchill ("the crazy drunkard who for years now has been ruling England"). He ranted against Herr Stalin with the most superb illogic ("nothing but an instrument in the hand of almighty Jewry ... a second Genghis Khan"). The more he ranted the more pathologically insecure did Adolf Hitler sound. He puffed with outraged innocence ("South America is as far away as the moon"). He blew with outraged pride ("I will not stand for the British blockade saying that this [3,600,000 Russian prisoners] is not verified. When German military authority has counted something, it is correct"). When Adolf Hitler puffs and blows, he is feeling put upon.

He proclaimed his defensive intentions ("Herr Roosevelt has commanded his ships to shoot as soon as they see German ships. And I have commanded German ships, whenever they see American ships, not to shoot thereupon, but to defend themselves as soon as they are attacked"). At about this time German U-boats were sighted lurking defensively within sight of Newfoundland's northern tip.

Last week, in one of the most defensive speeches of his career, Adolf Hitler confessed to Germany and to the world that the war had become "a fight for existence or nonexistence."

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