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- Held by
- Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)
- Creator
- -
- Dates
- April 01, 1939 (indexed as 1939)
- Level
- item
- Extent
- Handbill : paper : printed : ink : beige, black ; Ht: 11 1/2 in. x W: 16 1/2 in.
- Scope & content
- 4 page propaganda essay by Propaganda Reich Minister Dr. Goebbels containing strong antisemitic statements. Some parts have been underlined or commented on in pencil.
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- Genre / form
- textual record
- Format
- Document
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- DocumentGovernmentMilitaryNewspaper ClippingPoliticsPrintedTypewrittenWarTagged automatically by a vision model; may contain mistakes.
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- Who Wants War?byReich Minister Dr. GoebbelsAt the present time certain circles in Western Europe are busy debating the prospectsof a coming war as if that were the most matter-of-fact thing in the world. Here againwe are face to face with a typical example of democracy. They discuss and debate that whichthey are really afraid of, and with a lot of fuss and noise they try to disassociate themselvesfrom all knowledge of an impending danger for which however in reality they are reallyresponsible. They do indeed remind us of the story of the little boy who, whilst walkingtimidly through a dark forest, kept on calling out in fear: "I am not afraid".In this way the democratic war mongers gradually create an atmosphere in Europethat might inevitably lead to serious consequences, were it not for the fact that the totali-tarian States, by means of re-armament, have taken steps to safeguard themselves fromany democratic invasion. The war-scare which during the last few weeks has been inducedin London, Paris and New York excels by far the prescribed limits of democracy. One resultof this was demonstrated in the United States of America when, during the wireless broadcastof a harmless play, people were led to believe that they were being attacked by the inhabi-tants of Mars. That is the extent to which matters have been brought by those unscrupulouswar mongers. Although the influence exerted by them everywhere very often takes ona childish form, yet there can be no doubt that same is of a harmful kind.Hence there is no need to hesitate calling the authors of these disturbing conditions bytheir right names so that when necessary, the nations will know to whom they have toturn and who are responsible for their misfortunes.Generally speaking, one can well understand why there is so much talk about war indemocratic countries. This is nothing but the result of a bad conscience to which they arejustly entitled.The Treaty of Versailles, forced on Germany in the summer of 1919, stands in the back-ground of all this frenzied fear of war. Its only function was to expel Germany from thecomity of powerful political countries and on all her frontiers establish conditions of politicaltension which, it was hoped, would maintain the Reich in a state of perpetual unrest.Read automatically; may contain mistakes.
- Language
- English
- Harvested
- 2026-10-19T03:21:16Z · source datestamp n/a · andornot
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