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"This Treaty brought in the first division of Europe, namely a division of the nations into the victors
on the one side and vanquished on the other, the latter nations being outlawed."
- Adolf Hitler, Reichstag speech, Fourth Anniversary
"When the German people trusting to the promises made by President Wilson in his Fourteen Points,
laid down their arms in November, 1918, a fateful struggle thereby came to an end for which perhaps
individual statesmen, but certainly not the peoples themselves could be held responsible. The German
nation put up such an heroic fight because it was sincere in its conviction that it had been wrongfully
attacked and was therefore justified in fighting.... the Peace Treaty of Versailles did not seem to be for
the purpose of restoring peace to mankind, but rather to perpetuate hatred." - Adolf Hitler
"Germany suffered most as a consequence of this Peace Treaty and the general insecurity which was
bound to arise from it. The unemployment figure rose to a third of the number usually employed in
the nation, which means, however, that by counting the families of the unemployed as well there were
26 million people in Germany out of a population of 65 millions faced by an absolutely hopeless
future." - Adolf Hitler
"The fantastic political and economic burdens imposed by that treaty have entirely disillusioned the
German people and annihilated its belief in justice." - Adolf Hitler
"Historians will one day record that never were the peaceful proposals of one man met with more
hatred than mine. When Germany became the example to the world of the peaceful solution of social
problems and economic difficulties, the hatred of the Bolsheviks and capitalists, the exploiters of
nations, was turned against her. Only then did I turn to create the new German Wehrmacht."
- Adolf Hitler, 1936
HESS ON THE VERSAILLES TREATY
"The masses of the German people could not believe that a pledge so solemnly given by the supreme
head of the United States of America could afterwards by openly ignored." - Rudolf Hess, Stockholm
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS
".... then I would point out that the League has never been a real league of peoples. A number of great
nations do not belong to it or have left it. And nobody on this account asserted that they were
following a policy of isolation. I should also like to call attention to the fact that up to now the
outstanding feature of the League of Nations has been talk rather than action."
- Adolf Hitler, Reichstag speech, Fourth Anniversary
GERMAN COLONIES
"The German people once built up a colonial empire without robbing anyone and without violating
any treaty. And they did so without any war. That colonial empire was taken away from us. And the
grounds on which it was sought to excuse this act are not tenable. Moreover, Germany has never
demanded colonies for military purposes, but exclusively for economic purposes. Therefore, as a
matter of course our demand for colonies for our densely populated country will be put forward again
and again." - Adolf Hitler, Reichstag speech; Fourth Anniversary
BUT THE ARMS BUILD-UP AGAINST GERMANY CONTINUED APACE
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