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The Most Foolish Mistake We Could Possibly Make Would Be To Permit The Conquered Eastern Peoples To Have Arms. History Teaches That All Conquerors Who Have Allowed Their Subject Races To Carry Arms Have Prepared Their Own Downfall By Doing So.

When The German People Trusting To The Promises Made By President Wilson In His Fourteen Points, Laid Down Their Arms In November 1918, A Fateful Struggle Thereby Came To An End For Which Perhaps Individual Statesmen, But Certainly Not The Peoples Themselves Could Be Held Responsible. The German Nation Put Up Such An Heroic Fight Because It Was Sincere In Its Conviction That It Had Been Wrongfully Attacked And Was Therefore Justified In Fighting. The Peace Treaty Of Versailles Did Not Seem To Be For The Purpose Of Restoring Peace To Mankind, But Rather To Perpetuate Hatred.

As Long As Leadership From Above Was Not Lacking, The People Fulfilled Their Duty And Obligation Overwhelmingly. Whether Protestant Pastor Or Catholic Priest, Both Together And Particularly At The First Flare, There Really Existed In Both Camps But A Single Holy German Reich, For Whose Existence And Future Each Man Turned To His Own Heaven.

The Whites Have Carried To These (colonial) People The Worst That They Could Carry: The Plagues Of The World: Materialism, Fanaticism, Alcoholism, And Syphilis. Moreover, Since What These People Possessed On Their Own Was Superior To Anything We Could Give Them, They Have Remained Themselves... The Sole Result Of The Activity Of The Colonizers Is: They Have Everywhere Aroused Hatred.

It Is Over, The Reich Walls Have Collapsed, My Generals Have Betrayed Me And My Army Refuses To Fight, This Is The Herr Doernitz! I Only Hope You Can Turn This Around.