I Will Reflect A Thousand

National Socialist Germany Wishes For Peace Because It Recognises The Simple Fact That No War Would Be Likely To Substantially To Ameliorate The State Of Distress In Europe. The Distress Would Probably Be Made The Greater Thereby. If Only The Leaders And Rulers Had Wanted Peace, The People Would Never Have Wished For War.

Life Does Not Forgive Weakness.

We Must, Therefore, Coolly And Objectively Adopt The Standpoint That It Can Certainly Not Be The Intention Of Heaven To Give One People Fifty Times As Much Land And Soil In This World As Another.

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.

Consequently, The Tone, Particularly That Of The Viennese Anti-semitic Press, Seemed To Me Unworthy Of The Cultural Tradition Of A Great Nation.