What Are We Fighting For? A Justification For The War,1939.

[norml]

The English wanted this war in the crazy hope that it was their last chance to stop Germany's growing strength. They passionately avoided doing anything that might have prevented war. Rather than encouraging Poland to accept the Führer's generous proposals to resolve the situation, they encouraged it to let the deadline pass, thereby providing a reason for war. The Führer felt obliged to strike back only after Polish troops had crossed the German border at several places. The German fight is a defensive fight. We fight because we were forced to fight by the insults and demands against us, because of the brutal suppression of ethnic Germans in Poland, and because of the open announcements that they would do everything in their power to strangle National Socialist Germany through military or economic means.

This explanation of the German defensive struggle answers the next question:

What are we fighting for?

We are fighting for our most valuable possession: our freedom. We are fighting for our land and our skies. We are fighting so that our children will not be slaves of foreign rulers. That is in no way an exaggeration or empty phrase.

We know the English. We know about Versailles, about the colonies England stole from us, about the Ruhr, about Golzheimer Heath, about the starvation blockade. We know that we will be slaves if we do not win and we know that the goal of England's policy of encirclement is to subject Germany to its will. We know what that means. We all remember the days when Allied inspectors wandered around Germany.

We are fighting for Germany's freedom and for Germany's right to be a people that has all it needs to preserve its national existence. The Führer made unprecedented offers for peace and understanding to those who are now fighting against Germany. His attempts were scornfully rejected because they wanted this fight.

We are fighting for a lasting peace that will make a repetition of Versailles impossible. For two long decades, it caused an enormous, constantly bleeding wound among the ethnic Germans in the East. We are fighting to save our children from the unbearable threats of the Western democracies, driven by envy and hatred. We are fighting for a happy future in a free Germany and in a peaceful Europe.

[FloridaPat]

1. Amazing how Christians for the last 2000 have been praying for peace

but I have seen little in the history books that makes me believe they really want peace. I think they're enjoying the war too much.

Yes, WWI worked well as the last great war.

[RafterMan]

2. The American people

need a good British nanny to shake some sense into them.

I laugh at those who fear another Vietnam in Iraq -- Vietnam is the best possible outcome at this point. Rubble, smoking ruin and humiliation is all we can reasonably expect from the program our government has laid down for us.

Germany was treated unfairly after its defeat in WW I, but America had everything in 2001 and gambled it all for nothing. I wish someone would stop this fool before it's too late.

[pnorman]

3. I'm becoming a fanatic on getting to primary sources.

This seems to be the only URL that Google came up with, but it seems to be authentic: http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/wehr02.htm

Also, the rest of that site looks like something I'd like to mine later on.

pnorman

[bobbieinok]

4. from that site can get links to propaganda posters, etc

http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/posters2.htm