Reiteration of his thesis that the Jews must be fought throughout the world and a statement that Germany wants nothing in Palestine were contained in Chancellor Adolf Hitler’s speech at Wilhelmshaven yesterday in which he proclaimed defiance of Great Britain.
Regarding the Jews, the Reichsfuehrer said: “State after state will either fall under the Jewish-Bolshevist pest or it will defend itself. We have done it and have now erected a national German people’s State…I believe that a final understanding between nations will come sooner or later. Only when this Jewish wedge among peoples is removed can the establishment of cooperation among nations — built on a lasting understanding — be considered.”
Of Palestine, Hitler declared: When, today, a British statesman demands that every problem which lies in the midst of Germany’s life interest first should be discussed with England, then, I, too, could demand just as well that every British problem first is to be discussed with us. Certainly, these Englishmen may give me the answer: ‘The Germans have no business in Palestine!’ I answer that we want nothing in Palestine…I should like to raise the counter question: what right, for example, has England to shoot down Arabs in Palestine just because they defend their homeland? Who gives them this right?”
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