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"If the Germany of today takes her stand on the side of peace she does so not because of weakness or
cowardice. She takes her stand on the side of peace because of the National Socialist conception of
People and State. In each and every war for the subjugation of an alien people, National Socialism
recognizes a process which sooner or later will alter the inner nature of the victor - will weaken him
and therewith render him vanquished in turn. Setting aside a mere transitory weakening of the enemy,
the European states have nothing whatsoever to gain from war of any kind, except a trifling alteration
of frontiers which could be entirely out of proportion to the sacrifices entailed.
The blood that was shed on European battlefields during the past 300 years bears no proportion to the
national result of the events. In the end France has remained France, Germany Germany, Poland
Poland and Italy Italy." - Adolf Hitler, 'The Thirteen Points', Reichstag Speech
"The German Government are ready in principle to conclude pacts of non-aggression with their
neighbour states, and to supplement these pacts with all provisions aiming at the isolation of the warmaker
and the localization of the areas of the war."
- Adolf Hitler, 'The Thirteen Points', Reichstag Speech
Referring to the original aims of the Geneva Red Cross Convention to work towards reducing
armaments, Hitler stated his intention to extend this. "..... In this instance the German Government
have in mind to ban all arms which bring death and destruction not so much to the fighting soldiers
but to non-combatant women and children.... they believe that it will be possible to proscribe the use
of certain arms as contrary to international law and to excommunicate from the community of
mankind - its rights and its laws - those nations who continue to use them."
- Adolf Hitler, 'The Thirteen Points', Reichstag Speech
"Three times I have made concrete offers for armament restriction. These offers were rejected. The
greatest offer which I then made was that Germany and France together should reduce their standing
armies to 300,000 men; that Germany, Great Britain and France, should bring down their air forces to
parity and that Germany and Great Britain should conclude a naval agreement. Only the last offer
was accepted as real limitation of armaments.
The other German proposals were either flatly refused or where answered by the conclusion of those
alliances which gave Central Europe to Soviet Russia as the field of play for its gigantic forces."
"If the rest of the world entrenches itself in indestructible fortresses, builds enormous flying
squadrons, gigantic tanks and casts huge guns, it cannot consider it a menace if German National
Socialists march in columns wholly unarmed, thereby giving visible expression of the German feeling
of national community and providing it with effective protection. .... the German nation and the
German Government have not asked for arms at all, but only for equality of rights.
But if every other nation is allowed to have certain arms, we are on principle not prepared to allow
ourselves to be excluded from this rule as a nation with lesser rights!
The German nation has more than fulfilled its disarmament obligations. It is now the turn of those
states that have been increasing their armaments to fulfil their own obligations in the same way.
Germany has as much right to security as other nations." - Adolf Hitler
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