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Excerpts from Hitler’s Speech before the first "Greater German Reichstag" (January 30, 1939)

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Our economic relations with that country, just as with our friends Bulgaria, Greece, Rumania, and Turkey, have been steadily moving in an upward direction. The most important reason for this is the natural possibility for these countries and Germany to complement each other.

Germany is happy today to possess peaceful borders in the West, the South, and the North.

Our relationships with the states of the West and the North, that is, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the Baltic States, are pleasant, all the more so since there has been a growing tendency in these countries to turn away from certain articles in the Covenant of the League of Nations.

More so than anyone, Germany appreciates knowing that it has truly friendly, neutral states along the border of its Reich. Let us hope that Czechoslovakia, as well, will succeed in finding a way to domestic peace and order that rules out a return to the tendencies of the former president Dr. Beneš.

The addition of Hungary and Manchukuo to the Anti-Comintern Pact is a welcome symptom of the consolidation of world resistance against the Jewish-international-Bolshevist threat to the nations [of the world].

Relations between the German Reich and the states of South America are pleasant, and our economic cooperation is steadily growing more vigorous.

Our relationship with the United States is suffering from a slander campaign which, operating under the pretext that Germany poses a threat to American independence or liberty, is endeavoring to incite an entire continent against the popularly governed [volksregiert] states in Europe in the service of transparent political or financial interests.

None of us believe that these efforts reflect the will of millions of American citizens, who, despite a gigantic, Jewish-capitalist press, radio, and film propaganda [machine] that sends messages to the contrary, cannot fail to see that there is not a single word of truth in these assertions.

Germany wishes to have peace and friendship with America, as with all countries. It rejects any interference in American affairs, but it rejects just as emphatically any American interference in German affairs.

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