HITLER TO U.S.: “BUTT OUT, BOURGEOIS WEAKLINGS” (1/31/39)

Microfiche-New York Times archives, McHenry Library, U.C. Santa Cruz | 1/31/39 | Otto D. Tolischus

[Homer_J_Simpson]

EDITORIAL

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

I thought the ‘HITLER DEMANDS COLONIES’ headline lacked sufficient punch for this important article.

[Vaquero]

[Larry Lucido]

Wow!

Maybe if we, like, showed this guy we mean him no harm he’ll come around....

[snippy_about_it]

Loudspeakers set up in public places in almost every town and village of Great Germany, before which were gathered those who did not or could not listen to their own private sets at home, conveyed the sppech to virtually every German man, woman and child.

The day began at 8 o'clock with a nationwide reveille.......

Sounds like something zero would love to have happen here when he speaks.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Sounds like something zero would love to have happen here when he speaks.

I'm sure. All that and teleprompters, too.

The day began at 8 o'clock with a nationwide reveille...

8 o'clock? How do they expect to take over the world if they are going to sleep in every morning.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Here are a few highlights - or lowlights - from the article.

. . .Chancellor Hitler most emphatically underlined that Germany placed herself unconditionally by the side of her friend Italy "if for any motive whatsoever war shouuld be precipitated against that country." And he warned "bourgeois weaklings legislating in other countries that in the life of nations there exist as counselors of wisdom not only cowardice but also courage and honor."

The world's riches, Herr Hitler warned, will either be divided by force, which means that this division will have to be corrected from time to time by force, or be divided according to equity and reason.

"If international financial Jewry within and without Europe should succeed in throwing the nations into another world war the result will be not the bolshevization of the earth and therewith a victory for Jewry, but the extermination of the Jewish race in Europe."

Answering attacks from the democracies on Germany's policies, Herr Hitler insisted, with special reference to Mr. Ickes, Mr. Eden, Mr. Duff Cooper and Mr. Churchill, that Germany was a sovereign State and that "no English or American politician can forbid her to answer such attacks."

As regards the churches he insisted that nobody in Germany had been persecuted because of his religion but that the National Sociaist State would "exterminate all preiests who are enemies of the State and will continue to prosecute" those gulty of immorality. Nazi leaders guilty of such crimes, he pointed out, were shot five years ago.

Incidentally, he also attacked anti-Nazi films planned in America and announced that if such were produced Germany would reply with anti-Semitic films, which he felt sure "many countries will appreciate."

[henkster]

Anyone catch the blurb about the Iron Guards coup attempt in Romania? 24 of them arrested, and ten committed suicide the same night in the prison cells. All ten? Same night? Poison? The Times parroted the Romanian party line and called it suicide. I guess the Times was bad at journalism back then, too.

[chuck_the_tv_out]

“The Times parroted the Romanian party line and called it suicide”

back in the day, it wasn’t a newspaper’s job to interpret or force ideas on people. anyone like you or me can read that & see the obvious problem with it

the main thing is they carried the information. today you can’t GET information like that. we drown in a sea of menaingless info

[Rome2000]

"If international financial Jewry within and without Europe should succeed in throwing the nations into another world war the result will be not the bolshevization of the earth and therewith a victory for Jewry, but the extermination of the Jewish race in Europe."

Looks like he gave fair warning.

Bolshevization in progress in the USA, 2009.

[CougarGA7]

Here's the acutal audio of that portion of the speech. Obviously it's in German. Hitler 1-30-39

[Homer_J_Simpson]

I don't speak German but that is still eerie to listen to. He sounds quite reasonable, without the hoarse quality he generally has in the newsreels.

I've got "I Lost My Girlish Laughter," from the Campbell's Theatre broadcast you posted a couple days ago playing right now. It was written by George Kaufman when he was feeling bitter towards Hollywood producers. It was quite a feat to produce these live broadcasts every week.