THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 18, 1939
"HITLER SPEAKS"
(Continued from Page 7)
battle of Cannac? Did the invention of gunpowder in the Middle Agcs change the laws of strategy?
I am sceptical as to the value of technical inventions.
"No technical novelty has ever permanently revolutionised warfare, Each technical advance is followed by another which cancels out its effects.
"Certainly, the technique of war- fare advances, and it will create many more novelties until the maximum of destruction is reached. But all this can only produce a temporary superi- ority."
Hess, at that time Hitler's private secretary, intervened.
to
"The gentlemen do not seem understand,"
he
explained, "how Germany, in view of the limited value of technical inven- tions for warfare, will be able to escape getting bogged again for years in a war of position."
"Who says I'm going to start a war like those fools in 1914?" cried Hitler. "Are not all our efforts bent to preventing this? Most people have no imagination." Here his face twist- ed into an expression of contempt.
"They can imagine the future only In terms of their own petty experi- ence. They are blind to the new, the surprising things. Even the gen- erals are sterile. They are imprison- ed in the coils of their technical know-
The creative ledge.
genius stands always outside the circle of the ex- perts.
"I," he went on, "have the gift of reducing all problems to their sim- plest foundations. War has been erected into a secret science and surrounded with momentous solemn- ity. But war is the most natural, the most every-day matter.
"War is eternal, war is universal. There is no beginning and there is War is life. Any struggle War is the origin of
no peace, is war. things.
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The Colonies are well represented in the R.A.F. Photo shows-Left
to right-Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and New Zealand pilots with their mascot "Scottle." (Copyright, Fox).
"Peace will be negotiated
before
say, in Paris. They will wear French uniforms. They will march through the war has begun. I promise you, the streets in broad daylight. No gentlemen, that the impossible is al- one will stop them. Everything has ways successful. The most unlikely been thought out, prepared to the thing is the surest. last detail.
"We shall have enough volunteers, ters of the General Staff. They will ready for any
"They will march to the headquar- men like our S.A., trustworthy and sacrifice. We shall occupy the Ministries, the Chamber send them across the border in peace- of Deputies. Within a few minutes time. Gradually. No one shall see France, Poland, Austria, Czecho- in them anything but peaceful travel- Slovakia will
robbed of their lers. leading men. An
army without
All
be
2 General Staff!
me,
believe "To-day you don't po- gentlemen. But I will accomplish it, The move by move.
litical leaders out of the way!
at "Perhaps we shall land
their confusion will be beyond belief.
"But I shall long have had rela-flying-fields. We shall be capable tions with the men who will form of transporting, not only men, but a new Government-a Government to arms, by air. No Maginot Line will suit me.
stop us. Our strategy, Forster, to destroy the enemy from within, to conquer him through himself,"
"We shall find such men, we shall find them in every country. We shall not need to bribe them. They will Ambition come of their own accord. and delusion, party squabbles all
will self-seeking arrogance them.
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"What is war but cunning, decep- tion, delusion, attack and surprise? People have killed only when they could not achieve their aim in other ways. Merchants, robbers, warriors- at one time, all these were one. There is a broadened strategy, a war with intellectual weapons.
If
"What is the object of war, Forster? To make the enemy capitulate. he does, I have the prospect of wip- ing him out. Why should I demora- lise him by military means if I can do so better and more cheaply in other ways?"
Hitler went on to develop the out- lines of his war as he has since wide- ly tested it. At that time it seemed a novel and not very convincing doc- trine. It was evident, however, that he had given much thought to these matters.
He looked upon himself as a great strategist of a new kind, -a future war-lord in a sense and to a degree hitherto unknown.
"When I wage war, Forster," he declared, "in the midst of
peace, troops will suddenly appear,, let
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