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00:00:00 #1 But Germany's maniacal urge to impose its will on others continues from generation to generation.
00:01:44 #2 For 75 years this madness has cost the world more than 20 million killed, more than 60 million wounded, more than 200 million made homeless.
00:02:25 #3 This does not include the untold millions that died of disease resulting from war,
00:02:30 #4 or the billions upon billions of dollars worth of property destroyed.
00:02:35 #5 Nor does this include the grief, the anguish, the misery,
00:02:42 #6 all has suffered due to the Germans' insane passion
00:02:47 #7 to enforce their rule upon their neighbors.
00:02:51 #8 This passion for conquest meets this hysterical climax
00:02:55 #9 when Adolf Hitler enthroned himself as God and the German
00:02:58 #10 Führer.
00:02:59 #11 Fantastic dreams were this humorless man dreaming
00:03:08 #12 as he stood at Nuremberg and looked down
00:03:10 #13 his fanatic followers. In the Middle Ages, a plague of slavery descended on the world.
00:03:19 #14 Out of the wilds of Mongolia came a mighty army of fierce horsemen led by Jengus Khan. Burning,
00:03:29 #15 looting, pillaging. The barbarian hordes swept across Asia and Eastern Europe. Jengus Khan
00:03:38 #16 conquered most of the world of the 13th century.
00:03:41 #17 Adolf Hitler was determined to outdo him
00:03:44 #18 and conquer all of the world of the 20th.
00:03:48 #19 Set up at Munich was an institute devoted
00:03:50 #20 to the little-known science of geopolitics, vaguely defined
00:03:54 #21 as the military control of space.
00:03:58 #22 Germany's leading geopolitician, a former general,
00:04:02 #23 Karl Haushofer, was head man.
00:04:05 #24 Here was gathered together more information
00:04:07 #25 about your home town than you yourself know.
00:04:12 #26 To the German geopolitician, the world is not made up of men and women and
00:04:17 #27 children who live and love and dream of better things.
00:04:21 #28 It is made up of only two elements, labor and raw materials.
00:04:27 #29 The geopolitician's job was to transform Hitler's ambition to control these
00:04:32 #30 elements into cold, hard reality.
00:04:35 #31 Our planet is neatly divided into land and water.
00:04:42 #32 Water forms three quarters of the Earth's surface.
00:04:45 #33 Land, only one quarter.
00:04:48 #34 And in that one quarter of the Earth's surface lies the world's wealth.
00:04:53 #35 All its natural resources.
00:04:55 #36 It's Hitler's theory.
00:05:33 #37 This only important land, the geopoliticians now break up into two areas.
00:05:39 #38 One, the Western Hemisphere, rich together with Australia and all the islands of the world,
00:05:45 #39 including Japan, comprises one-third of the land area.
00:05:50 #40 The other area, which consists of Europe, Asia, and Africa, makes up the other two-thirds.
00:05:57 #41 This supercontinent, which they call the World Island, is not only twice as large as the rest of the land area,
00:06:06 #42 but also includes seven eighths of the world's population.
00:06:10 #43 The heart of this world island comprises Eastern Europe and most of Asia.
00:06:17 #44 This they call the Heartland, which just about coincides with the old empire of Jengaskhan.
00:06:24 #45 Hitler's step-by-step plan for world conquest can be summarized this way.
00:06:30 #46 Conquer Eastern Europe and you dominate the Heartland.
00:06:37 #47 land. Conquer the heartland and you dominate the world island. Conquer the world island
00:06:49 #48 and you dominate the world. That was a dream in Hitler's mind as he stood at Nuremberg.
00:06:56 #49 Hitler! Dick! Ah!
00:07:04 #50 With Pagan Pagentry the district leaders from all over Germany swore personal allegiance
00:07:09 #51 to him hypnotize that they were members of a master race. This film will deal with Act
00:07:20 #52 One of the Nazi bid for world power, the most fantastic play in all recorded history. Hitler
00:07:29 #53 had seen Hirohito grab off Manchuria and other territory from the Chinese. He had watched
00:07:36 #54 Mussolini get away with the rape of Ethiopia. He had seen the democratic world look the
00:07:41 #55 the other way while these illegal aggressions were going on.
00:07:46 #56 And he smiled.
00:07:48 #57 For collective action to enforce peace, the only weapon he had to fear had broken down.
00:07:55 #58 It was time now for the Nazis to start crossing borders.
00:07:59 #59 It was time for Hitler to put his plan into action.
00:08:03 #60 And what was he waiting for?
00:08:06 #61 He was waiting to soften up his victims, keep them from uniting.
00:08:09 #62 The softening up process, he sent his agents all over the world disguised as tourists,
00:08:25 #63 students, and commercial travelers.
00:08:28 #64 Pay-off men like Ribbentrop came too, to bribe, threaten, and form local fascist parties
00:08:35 #65 such as DeGrel and his Rexist party in Belgium, Henlein in Czechoslovakia,
00:08:41 #66 Seis Inkwak and his national socialists in Austria.
00:08:46 #67 In Britain, Sir Oswald Mosley offered himself to the people as a Hitler with a Knoxford accent.
00:08:52 #68 In other words, I'm told that Hitler is mad. Well, I've got another view of myself.
00:09:01 #69 Until the day when they would make easy Hitler's actual invasion, these subversive fascist organizations
00:09:08 #70 provoked riots and rebellions, creating scenes like these in France.
00:09:13 #71 seems like these in Belgium. And where do you think this is? Right in Madison Square Garden, USA.
00:09:32 #72 And this is Fritz Kuhn, leader of the German American Bund, hiding behind the American flag,
00:09:42 #73 but taking his orders from Berlin and copying the methods of Berlin.
00:09:49 #74 That was the softening up process outside Germany. But inside Germany it was a different story.
00:09:57 #75 story. Here in utmost secrecy the hardening up process. Building up Hitler's army and his industry.
00:10:05 #76 We have no raw materials and never let them see what goes on. Day after day, night after night, month after month, year after year.
00:10:22 #77 We must have the world's most powerful club.
00:10:26 #78 Forget ours. Forget working conditions.
00:10:30 #79 Forget how to think. Forge the club of blood and iron.
00:10:34 #80 Let the democracies talk about freedom.
00:10:38 #81 No freedom here. No labor unions. No overtime.
00:10:43 #82 The fewer tells you where to work. When to work. How long to work.
00:10:48 #83 How much your work is worth.
00:10:50 #84 Forced to chop up the Platonium.
00:10:53 #85 We have a sacred mission.
00:10:55 #86 Today we rule Germany.
00:10:57 #87 Tomorrow the world.
00:11:00 #88 For those who don't like it, you don't eat.
00:11:09 #89 Or you disappear into a concentration camp.
00:11:13 #90 You get this.
00:11:18 #91 And this is the man who gives it to you.
00:11:22 #92 And what of the army?
00:11:31 #93 Before Hitler came into power, the German army by treaty was limited to 100,000 men.
00:11:39 #94 But treaties to the Germans have always been something to ignore.
00:11:43 #95 These 100,000 men were in reality 100,000 highly trained officers.
00:11:49 #96 The men who lead the Nazi regiments today.
00:11:52 #97 But Hitler didn't merely ignore the treaty.
00:11:56 #98 He tore it up.
00:11:57 #99 up. In a 1935 ordered national conscription. Simultaneously he ordered
00:12:05 #100 German youth to become air-minded. Toy gliders filled the air. But as the boys
00:12:11 #101 grew bigger, so did the gliders. Soon these same youths were trained pilots.
00:12:17 #102 Flying the new planes the factories were producing. The Luftwaffe was being assembled.
00:12:23 #103 The only thing old about this new army was the goose step. And even Hitler
00:12:34 #104 couldn't improve on that ancient German form of torture designed to make man stop thinking and blindly obey.
00:12:41 #105 Goose step them until they become as insensible as weapons. Everything else was new.
00:12:52 #106 Smotorized equipment and one of our own inventions, a dive bomber.
00:12:58 #107 No risk rearmament was strictly illegal according to the Versailles Treaty.
00:13:07 #108 And the next illegal step Hitler took was to march his troops into the Rhineland.
00:13:12 #109 A strip of land between Germany and France
00:13:14 #110 demilitarized after the last war
00:13:16 #111 as a precaution against future German aggression.
00:13:19 #112 But Hitler's plan of Eastern conquest
00:13:21 #113 demanded a barrier against democratic action in the West.
00:13:25 #114 So Hitler remilitarized the Rhineland
00:13:27 #115 and began building the formidable Siegfried Line,
00:13:31 #116 a chain of forts and defenses 450 miles long
00:13:34 #117 and in some places, 30 miles wide.
00:13:37 #118 Germany had fought one two-front war
00:13:40 #119 and didn't want another.
00:13:53 #120 As many as half a million men worked as much as 20 hours a day to build 22,000 fortified positions on land,
00:14:01 #121 where, by treaty, no German soldier was supposed to set foot.
00:14:59 #122 He had his Siegfried line. He had his equipment. He had his army.
00:15:06 #123 Now to unveil the German might and terrorize his victims into submission.
00:15:13 #124 General staffs all over the world anxiously awaited the report of their military attachés.
00:15:19 #125 They would be peaceful world,
00:15:21 #126 learned that a vast military power had materialized out of nowhere.
00:15:27 #127 A power controlled by one man who tore up treaties as we tear up ticker tape.
00:15:33 #128 Satisfied they had created the right sense of fear in the world.
00:15:45 #129 The Nazi leaders were now ready to strike.
00:15:47 #130 The hour had come.
00:15:49 #131 It was time to start conquering Eastern Europe, according to the plan of Hitler's due politicians.
00:15:56 #132 It was time to win the domination of the heartland.
00:16:00 #133 Who would the first victim be?
00:16:03 #134 Naturally, the softest, Austrian, bite off just enough not to set the world against you.
00:16:10 #135 On March the 12th, 1938, without warning, the German armies marched over the Austrian border.
00:16:21 #136 It was really only a full-scale invasion test, and Hitler rode in triumph into Vienna.
00:16:28 #137 Even the very name of Austria disappeared from the map, though Hitler had promised earlier to the world
00:16:35 #138 the assertion that it is the intention of the German Reich to coerce the Austrian state is absurd.
00:16:43 #139 Why was Austria important to Hitler?
00:16:45 #140 He put him on the southern flank of Czechoslovakia, and Czechoslovakia was the key to the control
00:16:53 #141 of Eastern Europe.
00:16:54 #142 The German Chancellor Bismarck explained that years ago when he said, he who would conquer
00:17:00 #143 Europe must first hold the bastions of Bohemia.
00:17:04 #144 And Bohemia was now part of Czechoslovakia.
00:17:07 #145 But Czechoslovakia was tough.
00:17:10 #146 It had a good army.
00:17:12 #147 It had good equipment.
00:17:14 #148 It had one of the finest munition plants in the world, the Skoda works, which Hitler wanted very badly.
00:17:20 #149 It had incorruptible President Banish.
00:17:25 #150 It had a military alliance with France.
00:17:28 #151 And France had a military alliance with Britain.
00:17:31 #152 Hitler had to move carefully, find excuses to take Czechoslovakia one piece at a time.
00:17:40 #153 He found his excuse in the sedatin land, a portion of Czechoslovakia bordering Germany.
00:17:46 #154 Here live some people of German origin, although they had never been a part of Germany itself.
00:17:52 #155 That was Hitler's cue.
00:17:54 #156 Completely ignoring the fact that most people who left Germany had done so to get away from things like Hitler,
00:18:03 #157 he sprang his pet theory that every person of German blood, no matter where he lived, belonged to the Nazi Reich.
00:18:11 #158 Nazi Reich. Germans are descendants of Germans, often with no more than a drop of German blood
00:18:18 #159 in their veins, suddenly learned that they were godlike, not subject to the laws of the
00:18:23 #160 land in which they live and to which they owe their allegiance, whether it be Czechoslovakia,
00:18:30 #161 Norway, Sweden, China, the United States or Timbuktu.
00:18:42 #162 According to the Nazis, the German was a special creature who remained forever German, to the sixth and seventh generation, and must take his orders from Berlin.
00:18:53 #163 Some people we know of German descent think this is a lot of hogwash, including 15% of any group like this.
00:19:17 #164 But in the Sudetenland, he found some stuges and fell for this bunk.
00:19:30 #165 Conrad Henlein was their bush league furor.
00:19:34 #166 The people of the Sudetenland were told they should be liberated.
00:19:40 #167 They were told Hitler was their liberator.
00:19:43 #168 The Nazis smuggled over their standard softening up equipment.
00:19:47 #169 Black Jacks.
00:19:50 #170 And when the Czechs were beaten up trying to combat his fifth columnists,
00:19:54 #171 Hitler screamed the Germans were being persecuted
00:19:57 #172 and threatened war unless he got the Sudetenland.
00:20:00 #173 It is the last territorial claim I have to make in Europe.
00:20:07 #174 I have assured Mr. Chamberlain, and I repeat it here,
00:20:11 #175 here. But when this problem is solved, there is for Germany no further territorial problem
00:20:17 #176 in Europe. We want no checks.
00:20:20 #177 To the League of Nations, Foreign Minister Maxine Lipvinov announced that Russia stood
00:20:29 #178 ready to back concerted action against Germany. But once again, there was to be no concerted
00:20:36 #179 action. The Czechs mobilized and closed their borders. The leaders of France and
00:20:47 #180 Britain desperately striving to avoid war, flew to meet the jubilant Axis leaders at Munich.
00:20:54 #181 On September 29, in return for Hitler's guarantee of world peace, Chamberlain and DeLaget prevailed
00:21:02 #182 upon Chekhov's Slovakia to give up the Sudetenland without a fight.
00:21:06 #183 In Chekhov's Slovakia, the Munich pack was greeted by riots of protest, but DeLaget
00:21:15 #184 The adjei returned to France to be greeted by cheers from a relieved French people.
00:21:21 #185 And in Britain, a happy Cambolin came back to tell him he had achieved peace, peace in our time.
00:21:29 #186 One of the most tragic and ironic scenes in all history.
00:21:33 #187 This morning, I had another talk with the German Chancellor, Herr Hitler.
00:21:40 #188 And here is the paper which bears his name upon it as well as mine.
00:21:47 #189 We regard the agreement signed last night and the Anglo-German naval agreement as symbolic
00:21:56 #190 of the desire of our two peoples never to go to war with one another again.
00:22:02 #191 It wasn't peace. The Nazis hadn't nearly got three million more souls under the German flag.
00:22:15 #192 more souls under the German flag, by taking the sedatin land, they had made Czechoslovakia
00:22:22 #193 defenseless.
00:22:23 #194 For in this territory lay the natural defenses, the mountain ranges, and a defensive line of
00:22:30 #195 forts considered even stronger than the Maginot line.
00:22:34 #196 Without these fortifications, Czechoslovakia was disarmed, a ripe plumb ready to fall
00:22:40 #197 into Hitler's land.
00:22:44 #198 In six months of declaring that he wanted no more territory anywhere, he violated the Munich agreement, marched in, and took the whole of the Czech state.
00:22:55 #199 Though he had specifically promised, I have no further interest in the Czechoslovakian state, that is guaranteed. We want no Czechs.
00:23:07 #200 Austria and Czechoslovakia were gone without a fight, and Hitler was getting his control
00:23:15 #201 of Eastern Europe.
00:23:17 #202 Poland was next on the map.
00:23:19 #203 The tired old man of Munich now knew that there could be no peace in our time.
00:23:27 #204 If an attempt were made to change the situation by force in such a way as to threaten Polish
00:23:38 #205 independence? By then, that would inevitably start a general
00:23:43 #206 contragration in which this country would be involved.
00:23:49 #207 But after his success at Munich, Hitler was sure that France and
00:23:53 #208 Britain would not fight. Here's what one of his spokesmen said.
00:23:58 #209 Democracy has no convictions for which people would be willing to
00:24:02 #210 stake their lives. But what about the Russians? The lights began to
00:24:09 #211 burn all night in Moscow. British and French military missions arrived to confer with the
00:24:14 #212 Soviet government. So did German representatives. And on August 21st, 1939, the world was set
00:24:23 #213 on its heels by the announcement of a treaty between the Russians and the Germans in which
00:24:28 #214 they agreed not to fight each other. Here were the admitted arch enemies in a state
00:24:34 #215 of apparent friendship. It was too fantastic to make any sense. It didn't. The Germans
00:24:42 #216 hoped they could lull Russia into a false sense of security, and the Russians needed time to
00:24:48 #217 prepare for the fight they knew was coming. They'd read Hitler's book, Mein Kampf II, and
00:24:54 #218 knew he had his eyes on the rich Russian land. Confident that Russia was safely pigeon-holed
00:25:05 #219 and that the democracies would not fight,
00:25:08 #220 the Nazis started singing their favorite theme song,
00:25:11 #221 that all people of German blood belonged to them,
00:25:15 #222 and picked Danzig as their excuse for the gobbling up of Poland.
00:25:20 #223 Danzig, a free city, self-governing under the League of Nations,
00:25:25 #224 was an important seaport at the head of the Polish corridor,
00:25:29 #225 Poland's access to the sea.
00:25:31 #226 The same old softening up process had gone on here.
00:25:36 #227 Local Stugins, armed by Germany, began to terrorize the city.
00:25:42 #228 Hitler demanded Danzig in the Polish corridor or else.
00:25:46 #229 The people of Poland prepared for the inevitable.
00:25:53 #230 Although they knew Britain and France had guaranteed their borders,
00:25:57 #231 they also knew those countries were a long way off.
00:26:00 #232 Germany's theft of Czechoslovakia had made Poland's strategic position even worse.
00:26:13 #233 Except for the Carpathian mountains, Poland is relatively flat and low-lying.
00:26:19 #234 The Vistula is the Mississippi of Poland.
00:26:22 #235 It is broad, muddy, and unfortable for most of its length.
00:26:26 #236 Its tributaries are formidable screams during certain seasons.
00:26:30 #237 But there was a drought, and the streams were so low during the campaign that they could
00:26:35 #238 be forwarded at almost any point by men, trucks, and tanks.
00:26:40 #239 Militarily, the vestula offered the best line of defense.
00:26:44 #240 However, making a stand here would have meant surrendering Warsaw in the richest part of
00:26:49 #241 the country.
00:26:50 #242 The alternative was to accept battle on the border.
00:26:54 #243 That was the Polish decision.
00:26:56 #244 The Nazi plan was an enormous pincer movement aimed at encircling the mass of the Polish
00:27:01 #245 armies. Secondary pincer movements were to encircle any Polish groups which escaped the main
00:27:07 #246 traffic. During the last two weeks in August, the German armies moved toward the Polish
00:27:12 #247 border, where they assembled 70 divisions, many of the Marmour. From a military standpoint,
00:27:19 #248 the Poles were hopelessly outclassed by their predatory neighbor. They managed to
00:27:23 #249 mobilized barely 30 divisions made up of infantry or horse cavalry.
00:27:30 #250 In two important respects, the difference was staggering.
00:27:33 #251 The Nazis, 5,000 modern tanks,
00:27:36 #252 Poland, 600 non-descript tanks.
00:27:40 #253 The German Luftwaffe, 6,000 modern planes,
00:27:44 #254 the Polish Air Force, less than 1,000 of inferior types.
00:27:49 #255 The German Army secretly made ready
00:27:51 #256 The way of living for the next thousand years was to be decided.
00:27:55 #257 A fire that had begun in Manchuria and spread through China and Ethiopia and Spain would now blaze around the world.
00:28:14 #258 This man made that decision.
00:28:16 #259 decision.
00:28:23 #260 Precisely of dawn on September 1st, without warning, the German
00:28:28 #261 Zermack rolled over the Polish border.
00:28:33 #262 Before the invasion was 30 minutes old, the planes of the Luftwaffe
00:28:37 #263 were over Poland, wiping out the Polish Air Force.
00:28:41 #264 Most of it caught flatfooted on the ground, means the
00:29:06 #265 dick get off, faced overwhelming odds and were shot out of the sky.
00:29:10 #266 These squadrons range deep into Poland, destroying communications, radio stations, power plants,
00:30:05 #267 highways, bridges, railroads.
00:30:07 #268 The Army was disorganized by the loss of its Air Force and the disruption of communications.
00:31:09 #269 The mass ground units of the Nazi Army continued their advance.
00:31:14 #270 Occasionally, they unveiled a new technique, the item of equipment.
00:31:18 #271 For example, advanced units of the German 4th Army crossed the Vistula in a new type of
00:31:25 #272 storm bowl.
00:31:26 #273 By September 5th, the Polish retreat developed alarming tendencies.
00:31:35 #274 The powerful German 10th Army, which was to form the Southern Claw of the great Nazi
00:31:39 #275 Pinsers, was advancing with its five armored divisions on either flank.
00:31:46 #276 On September 6th, the opposing poles began splitting into two groups,
00:31:51 #277 the southern one falling back toward the Vistula.
00:31:54 #278 The armored divisions on the German right raced ahead,
00:31:58 #279 circling radones, and cutting off this group, which finally surrendered.
00:32:04 #280 Meanwhile, further north, the main Polish mass began drifting toward Lowes.
00:32:10 #281 The German command, perceiving that this opened the gate toward Warsaw,
00:32:13 #282 sent the northern Nazi armored units racing through the gap to the Polish capital.
00:32:18 #283 The infantry advanced in forced marches of 35 miles a day,
00:32:26 #284 and two days later relieved the panzers about Warsaw.
00:32:29 #285 The city was now cut off.
00:32:32 #286 West of Warsaw, the main Polish armies were encircled.
00:32:37 #287 Under terrific pressure on the ground and pounded ceaselessly from the air,
00:32:42 #288 they began to disintegrate.
00:32:44 #289 They fought on with high personal courage.
00:32:47 #290 But without airplanes, without communications,
00:32:50 #291 cut off from their general staff,
00:32:52 #292 the isolated Polish groups were forced to surrender, one by one.
00:32:57 #293 But Warsaw still resisted.
00:33:01 #294 Heroic strange of the Palaeus told an incredulous word
00:33:09 #295 that the people of Warsaw, led by Mayor Strzeziński,
00:33:12 #296 had erected a wall of courage around their city,
00:33:15 #297 defying Hitler to do his damn things.
00:33:17 #298 Cold by the city's desperate resistance, the Nazis were forced to send for heavier artillery.
00:33:35 #299 The only source of such artillery was Germany's western front, with great secrecy that giant 240-millimeter howitzers were towed at high speed across the highways, which Hitler had built for just such purposes, and set in position around Warsaw.
00:33:52 #300 The huge guns subjected the city to a bombardment of incredible fuel.
00:33:57 #301 Their fire concentrated on the densely populated residential areas.
00:34:01 #302 For 20 days of death and horror, every man, woman and child fought to save his city.
00:34:20 #303 But without food or water, human endurance failed.
00:34:46 #304 On September the 27th, the strange that the pollinés died on the Warsaw radio,
00:34:52 #305 and the Polish capital was forced to capitulate.
00:34:55 #306 Now all Polish resistance was at an end except here the west of plot of forks opposite Danzig
00:35:12 #307 This small island of stubborn defiance that stood up under the fire of German warships from the first day
00:35:19 #308 It's guns silenced its forts shattered. It still refused to surrender
00:35:25 #309 Even under point blank fire at 800 yards rain
00:35:29 #310 It was an exhibition of Polish valor that will go down in history
00:35:33 #311 but militarily it could not avail.
00:35:36 #312 On October the 1st, the garrison at last surrendered.
00:35:41 #313 Surrendered to face the fate of these men,
00:35:44 #314 Polish prisoners being marched off to Nazi prison camps,
00:35:49 #315 and eventual extermination.
00:35:52 #316 For the Nazi master race theory calls for the complete wiping out of so-called inferior races,
00:35:59 #317 and in village after village local judices point out loyal Polish neighbors.
00:36:08 #318 The Poles can never forget, including another one of Hitler's famous promises.
00:36:58 #319 Germany has concluded a non-aggression pact with Poland.
00:37:03 #320 We shall adhere to it unconditionally.
00:37:07 #321 The world now knew that a non-aggression pact with Hitler was the kiss of death.
00:37:12 #322 The man was completely destroyed.
00:37:23 #323 Completely. Not quite.
00:37:26 #324 During the last days of the campaign, the Russian army entered eastern Poland
00:37:30 #325 and took up positions along the Bug River.
00:37:33 #326 The two strongest armies in Europe faced each other.
00:37:37 #327 Hitler could decide now whether to keep on heading east or call it quits.
00:37:42 #328 He called it quits.
00:37:44 #329 Why did Hitler quit here?
00:37:47 #330 He had to.
00:37:49 #331 To continue a drive to the east would leave Germany facing the threat he had always sworn to avoid.
00:37:55 #332 A two front war.
00:37:58 #333 How he met that threat you will see in the next film.
00:38:01 #334 What Hitler thought impossible was anything but.
00:38:05 #335 The day after Hitler crossed the Polish border, France called up her reservists.
00:38:11 #336 Within 24 hours British planes had formed German warships in the Kiel Canal.
00:38:17 #337 Not nearly the British government, but the British people had declared war.
00:38:45 #338 War on Hitler and everything he stood for.
00:38:48 #339 The democracies did have convictions for which people were willing to stake their lives.
00:38:54 #340 Unprepared? Yes. But that didn't matter.
00:38:58 #341 For they finally realized that what was being threatened wasn't just the integrity of Poland,
00:39:04 #342 but the integrity of free men everywhere in the world.
00:39:08 #343 What tragedy is, what horrors, what crimes, as Hitler and all that Hitler stands for, brought upon Europe and the world.
00:39:24 #344 It is upon this foundation that Hitler pretends to build out of hatred a new order for Europe.
00:39:36 #345 But nothing is more certain than that every trace of Hitler's footsteps, every stain of
00:39:45 #346 of his infected and corroding fingers will be spun and purged,
00:39:52 #347 and it need be blasted from the surface of the earth.
00:39:58 #348 Lift up your heart, or we'll come right out of the depths of sorrow and of sacrifice.
00:40:06 #349 We'll be born again the glory of mankind.