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making Bohemia and Moravia

a German Protectorate.

Speaking some months before

about the Sudetenland,

however, Hitler had said:

[NARRATOR] I have

promised and repeated here

that there will be

no more territorial

problems for Germany in Europe.

I will be no longer

interested in the Czech State

and I will guarantee it.

26 September 1938, Adolf Hitler.

[NARRATOR] Now,

according to more

of his adjutants' notes,

Hitler reviewed the Nazi plan

of violence and treachery

from 1934 to 39.

The notes read:

[NARRATOR] First rearmament.

In 1935 the introduction of

compulsory military service.

After that militarization

of the Rhineland.

One year later Austria came.

It brought about a considerable

reinforcement of the Reich.

The next step was

Bohemia and Moravia,

then followed the erection

of the Protectorate

and with that the basis for

action against Poland was laid.

Basically, I did not

organize the Armed Forces

and order not to strike.

The decision to strike

was always in me.

[NARRATOR] In the name

of the United Kingdom

of Great Britain and

Northern Ireland,

Sir Hartley Shawcross

presents count two,

crimes against peace charging

that all the defendants

participated in the

planning and waging of wars

of aggression, was in violation

of international treaties,

agreements and assurances.

[SIR HARTLEY] The first

step was the Rhineland

and the next step was Austria.

[NARRATOR] The

Rhineland is occupied.

Austria and Czechoslovakia

are seized by Germany

and now the Nazi conspirators

turned to the next problem

a conquest of Poland.

Again, an adjutant,

lieutenant-colonel Schmundt

transcribed Hitler's words.

[NARRATOR] The solution of

the problem demands courage.

It is impossible without

invasion of foreign States

or attacks on foreign property.

There's, therefore, no

question of sparing Poland

and we are left with the

decision to attack Poland

at the first

suitable opportunity.

We cannot expect the

repetition of the Czech affair.

There will be war.

[NARRATOR] Meanwhile,

according to their

well-established practice,

the conspirators stirred up

the Danzig issue to

furnish frontier incidents

which could justify

an attack on Poland.

Then on 23 August,

the Nazis signed

their non-aggression

pact with Russia.

There Hitler told

his High Command:

[NARRATOR] Now, Poland

is in the position

in which I want her.

I am only afraid that at the

last moment some Schweinehund

will make a proposal

for mediation.

[NARRATOR] Appeals were made

twice by the Pope and

by President Roosevelt.

(CROWD CHEERING)

[NARRATOR] Finally, Mr

Roosevelt asks an assurance

be given him that the German

armed forces will not attack

and, above all, not invade

the territory or positions

of the following

independent nations.

He then names as those

coming into question:

Finland, Letland,

Litauen, Estland, Norway,

Sweden, Denmark,

Netherlands, Belgium,

Grossbritannien, Ireland,

Frank Reich, Portugal, Spanien,

die Schweiz, Liechtenstein,

Luxembourg, Poland.

(SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

(EXPLOSION BOOMING)

[NARRATOR] On 1 September

1939, the Nazis sent

the Wehrmacht smashing into

Poland and into a new world war,

for France and England,

faithful to their mutual

assistance pact with Poland,

immediately declared

war on Germany.

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

The Luftwaffe

opened mass attacks

on Polish towns and cities.

And Hitler, according to

Schmundt's notes, said:

[NARRATOR] Destruction of

Poland in the foreground.

I shall give a propagandist

cause for starting the war,

never mind whether it

be plausible or not.

Have no pity.

Take a brutal attitude.

[NARRATOR] But as usual,

before the attack on Poland,

Hitler told the world:

[NARRATOR] During the troubled

months of the past year,

the friendship between

Poland and Germany

has been one of the

reassuring factors

in the political life of Europe.

30th of January

1939, Adolf Hitler.

[NARRATOR] The path of

destruction started in Poland

but soon it led north and

south across all Europe

and each new aggression was

based on Hitler's principle

that, in war, victory not

right is what matters.

[NARRATOR]

Non-aggression treaty,

it is firmly resolved

to maintain peace

between Denmark and Germany

in all circumstances.

31st of May in 1939, Ribbentrop.

[NARRATOR] But

on 9 April 1940,

German troops invaded Denmark.

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

[NARRATOR] The German Reich

government is determined,

in view of the friendly

relations which exists

between Norway and Germany,

under no circumstances

to prejudice the

inviolability and integrity

of the Norwegian state.

2nd of September 1939,

Das Deutsche Reich.

[NARRATOR] But

on 9 April 1940,

German troops invaded Norway.

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

(EXPLOSION BOOMING)

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

[NARRATOR] I assure

the governments

of Belgium, Holland

and Luxembourg,

that Germany will not

violate their neutrality.

6th of October

1939, Adolf Hitler.

[NARRATOR] But

on May 10th 1940,

German troops invaded Belgium,

Holland and Luxembourg.

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

[NARRATOR] The firmly

established reliable relationship

of Germany to Yugoslavia

will represent an element

of calm on a wrecked continent.

This peace is the goal

of all who are disposed

to perform really

constructive work.

1st of June 1939, Adolf Hitler.

[NARRATOR] But

on 6 April 1941,

German troops

invaded Yugoslavia.

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

These criminal methods

of the Nazi conspirators

brought them early

success and, by 1941,

they had most of Europe

under their heel.

Now, an evil ambition for power

and more power drove them on.

But two of the world's

mightiest nations,

the United States and Soviet

Russia, remained to block

the Nazi drive for

world supremacy.

They had to be dealt

with firmly, immediately,

and now Germany

asked for cooperation

from her full partner in

aggression to the east

and from her junior

partner to the south.

In Berlin, they drew up the

Axis Pact - the blueprint

of the new order and

parceled out the continents

of the world for

Axis domination.

Italy was to get the

Mediterranean sphere.

Japan was to get the

Orient and, to Germany,

would go the rest of the world.

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

In June 1941, in violation

of their non-aggression pact,

the Nazis sent the Wehrmacht

deep into Soviet territory,

according to military

plans long made.

As usual, there was

no declaration of war.

(EXPLOSIONS BOOMING)

Hitler had said, today

Germany, tomorrow the world

and this was tomorrow.

(EXPLOSIONS BOOMING)

Planned warfare in the east,

air warfare in the West,

for now defendant Goering's

Luftwaffe was hurled

with full force against the

people and cities of Britain.

Hitler after all had

told the Reichstag:

I will blot out their city.

(SIRENS BLARING)

(GUNS FIRING)

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

And then on 7 December

1941, the Japanese,

keeping their end of

an infamous bargain,

struck at the United States,

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