From: mars1933@hotmail.com   
      
   Germany's Declaration of War Against the United States   
   Here are some quotes from:   
   Hitler's Reichstag Speech of December 11, 1941   
   In it the German leader recounted the reasons for the outbreak of war   
   in September 1939, explained why he decided to strike against the   
   Soviet Union in June 1941, reviewed the dramatic course of the war   
   thus far, and dealt at length with President Franklin Roosevelt's   
   hostile policies toward Germany. Hitler detailed the increasingly   
   belligerent actions of Roosevelt's government, and then dramatically   
   announced that Germany was now joining Japan in war against the United   
   States. The day after it was delivered, an inaccurate and misleading   
   translation of portions of the address appeared in The New York Times!   
   Although this historic address should be of particular interest to   
   Americans, a complete text has apparently never before been made   
   available in English!   
   -- Mark Weber   
      
   After the repeated rejection of my peace proposal in 1940 by the   
   British prime minister [Winston Churchill] and the clique that   
   supports and controls him, it was clear by the fall of that year that   
   this war would have to be fought through to the end   
   The German people and its soldiers work and fight today not only for   
   themselves and their own age, but also for many generations to come. A   
   historical task of unique dimensions has been entrusted to us by the   
   Creator that we are now obliged to carry out.   
   The western armistice which was possible shortly after the conclusion   
   of the conflict in Norway [in June 1940] compelled the German   
   leadership, first of all, to militarily secure the most important   
   political, strategic and economic areas that had been won.   
   From Kirkenes [in northern Norway] to the Spanish frontier stretches   
   the most extensive belt of great defense installations and fortresses.   
   Countless air fields have been built, including some in the far north   
   that were blasted out of granite.   
   I am determined to make this European front impregnable against any   
   enemy attack.   
   Compelled by bitter necessity, I decided in the fall of 1939 to at   
   least try to create the prerequisite conditions for a general peace by   
   eliminating the acute tension between Germany and Soviet Russia [with   
   the German-Soviet non-aggression pact of August 23, 1939]. This was   
   psychologically difficult because of the basic attitude toward   
   Bolshevism of the German people and, above all, of the [National   
   Socialist] Party.   
   I may remind you, deputies and men of the German Reichstag, that   
   throughout the spring and summer of 1939 Britain offered military   
   alliances to a number of countries, claiming that Germany intended to   
   invade them and rob them of their freedom. However, the German Reich   
   and its government could assure them with a clear conscience that   
   these insinuations did not correspond to the truth in any way.   
   the best and strongest guarantee against the [Soviet] threat from the   
   East was Germany. When those countries, on their own initiative, cut   
   their ties with the German Reich and instead put their trust in   
   promises of aid from a power [Britain] that, in its proverbial   
   egotism, has for centuries never given help but has always demanded   
   it, they were thereby lost. Even so, the fate of these countries   
   aroused the strongest sympathy of the German people. The winter war of   
   the Finns [against the Soviet Union, 1939-1940] aroused in us a   
   feeling of admiration mixed with bitterness: admiration because, as a   
   soldierly nation, we have a sympathetic heart for heroism and   
   sacrifice, and bitterness because our concern for the enemy threat in   
   the West and the danger in the East meant that we were no position to   
   help.   
   Already in 1940 it became increasingly clear from month to month that   
   the plans of the men in the Kremlin were aimed at the domination, and   
   thus the destruction, of all of Europe. I have already told the nation   
   of the build-up of Soviet Russian military power in the East during a   
   period when Germany had only a few divisions in the provinces   
   bordering Soviet Russia. Only a blind person could fail to see that a   
   military build-up of unique world-historical dimensions was being   
   carried out. And this was not in order to protect something that was   
   being threatened, but rather only to attack that which seemed   
   incapable of defense.   
   What we call Europe is the geographic territory of the Occident,   
   enlightened by Greek culture, inspired by the powerful heritage of the   
   Roman empire, its territory enlarged by Germanic colonization. Whether   
   it was the German emperors fighting back invasions from the East on   
   the Unstrut [river, in 933] or on the Lechfeld [plain, in 955], or   
   others pushing back Africa from Spain over a period of many years, it   
   was always a struggle of a developing Europe against a profoundly   
   alien outside world.   
   Just as Rome once made her immortal contribution to the building and   
   defense of the continent, so now have the Germanic peoples taken up   
   the defense and protection of a family of nations which, although they   
   may differ and diverge in their political structure and goals,   
   nevertheless together constitute a racially and culturally unified and   
   complementary whole.   
   And from this Europe there have not only been settlements in other   
   parts of the world, but intellectual-spiritual [geistig] and cultural   
   fertilization as well, a fact that anyone realizes who is willing to   
   acknowledge the truth rather than deny it. Thus, it was not England   
   that cultivated the continent, but rather Anglo-Saxon and Norman   
   branches of the Germanic nation that moved from our continent to the   
   [British] island and made possible her development, which is certainly   
   unique in history. In the same way, it was not America that discovered   
   Europe, but the other way around. And all that which America did not   
   get from Europe may seem worthy of admiration to a Jewified mixed   
   race, but Europe regards that merely as symptomatic of decay in   
   artistic and cultural life, the product of Jewish or Negroid blood   
   mixture.   
   I have to make these remarks because this struggle, which became   
   obviously unavoidable in the early months of this year, and which the   
   German Reich, above all, is called upon this time to lead, also   
   greatly transcends the interests of our own people and nation. When   
   the Greeks once stood against the Persians, they defended more than   
   just Greece. When the Romans stood against the Carthaginians, they   
   defended more than just Rome. When the Roman and Germanic peoples   
   stood together against the Huns, they defended more than just the   
   West. When German emperors stood against the Mongols, they defended   
   more than just Germany. And when Spanish heroes stood against Africa,   
   they defended not just Spain, but all of Europe as well. In the same   
   way, Germany does not fight today just for itself, but for our entire   
   continent.   
   And it is an auspicious sign that this realization is today so deeply   
      
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