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To: kodiak_bull who wrote (19298)4/4/2003 11:28:59 AM
From: Gottfried  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 23153
 
kb, OT *** This is the type of speech we should expect from Saddam faithfuls now. Goebbels two weeks before unconditional surrender and two weeks before his death: calvin.edu
The parallels are stark.

First paragraph...

Resist at Any Price

by Joseph Goebbels

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The war has reached a stage at which only the full efforts of the nation and of each individual can save us. The defence of our freedom no longer depends on the army fighting at the Front. Each civilian, each man and woman and boy and girl must fight with unequaled fanaticism. The enemy expects that, once his tanks have broken through, they will find no resistance. He believes that we will be so disconcerted by his material superiority that we will let things take their course, without caring how they turn out. We must prove the enemy's hopes wrong. No village and no city may give in to the enemy. The enemy is strong, but not strong enough to hold all the territory of the Reich without our help. If he persuades us to capitulate, he will have an easy time with us. The enemy has laid waste to our cities and provinces through the worst and most terrible bombing terror. As long as we are determined to resist at all costs, we cannot be beaten, and for us not being beaten means to be victorious.


Gottfried