A year before the United States entered World War Two, the New York Herald Tribune published this report on a speech in Berlin by the German Fuehrer, Adolf Hitler:
Hitler To ‘Defeat Entire World’
But He Says He’ll Pick the Time
Fuehrer Adjures Workers to Toil and Be Patient, Asserts It’s a War of Labor Vs. Capitalism, Sneers at U.S. as One of ‘Have’ Nations
By the Associated Press
Berlin, Dec. 10. — Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, demanding work and patience from the German people, said today that with work Germany would “defeat the entire world” as the champion of the “have-nots” in a war between two worlds of capitalism and labor.
Placing the United States among the “haves,” the German leader made no offer of any kind to his enemies or to other nations, implying that the war with Great Britain would be fought to the finish.
From a pile of steel casings which looked like motor blocks, amid rows of gleaming steel cannon barrels, Hitler spoke to 12,000 workers in the Borsig munitions plant here. The speech was broadcast outside of Germany, but it was primarily for domestic consumption.
The ninety-minute oration, sprinkled with confident witticisms, left the impression that Hitler’s chief purposes were to spur the German worker on the ever greater efforts …
Source: New York Herald Tribune, December 11, 1940
