The Berlin headquarters of the Nazi party utilized the opening of the spring employment campaign, which began today, with a nation-wide broadcast by Chancellor Adolf Hitler telling of his plans for the drive, to refute foreign reports connecting the employment campaign with ulterior motives.
The official statement issued by Nazi headquarters maintains that the only object of the campaign is to “promote commerce and industry. The object of all attempts to impute other motives to the employment campaign is self-evident,” the Nazi statement concluded.
Die Deutsche Zeitung today published a leading article on the spring campaign, which it asserts is waged for “work and race.”
“The irresponsible capitalist economy which preceded the present regime was permeated with the foreign racial and destructive Jewish mentality,” the Deutsche Zeitung declared. “Many people worked with the sole object of accumulating money and the Jews set the example.
“In the struggle the Germans were beaten because they were unable to compete with the destructive Jewish mentality (ungeist). These facts must be remembered when considering the employment campaign, which must recreate the conception of work on an ‘Aryan basis’ embodying the Prussian racial ideals,” the Deutsche Zeitung asserted.
The spring employment campaign opened today with a radio broadcast by both Chancellor Hitler and Minister of Propaganda Paul Joseph Goebbels. The speeches were delivered near Munich, in Bavaria, where large groups of unemployed are concentrated for work on highway projects.
Radios were installed throughout Germany to enable all to hear the speeches. School children listened in and pedestrians were directed to gather around loudspeakers set up at strategic corners.
Hitler attacked previous regimes which, he declared, had been heading Germany toward the “abyss.” He outlined a lengthy program to solve the unemployment problem.
Earlier Goebbels had declared that the Nazi regime in one year had given work to 2,700,000 unemployed and that the Hitler regime considered the solution of the unemployment problem its chief task.
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