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Extracts from radio talks, on the "fate of Jewry," Jewish Bolshevism and plutocracy, Soviet atrocities, Germany's racial, economic, and military achievements, and the future of Europe

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Hans Fritzsche (press and radio chief, Propaganda Ministry)

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Hans Fritzsche

German Nazi official (1900-1953)

Hans Fritzsche en 1945 lors du procès de Nuremberg.
  • Born: 1900-04-21 (Bochum)
  • Died: 1953-09-27 (Cologne)
  • Country of citizenship: Germany
  • Occupation: journalist; politician; radio personality
  • Member of political party: German National People's Party; Nazi Party
  • Member of: Kyffhäuserbund
  • VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/71550618
  • ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000123210287

Date: 18 December 1941

Literal Title: Selections from radio speeches of Hans Fritzsche, Monitored by the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Defendant: Hans Fritzsche

Total Pages: 4

Language of Text: English

Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)

Evidence Code: PS-3064

Citation: IMT (page 3230)

HLSL Item No.: 453462

Notes:These extracts are drawn from the full set of speeches transcribed in PS 3064.

Trial Issues

Wars of aggression Persecution of political, religious, and ethnic ("racial") groups (IMT, NM… Extermination of the Jews (IMT, NMT 4, 9) Racial selection and discrimination (theory, screening, relocations, kidna… Education, propaganda, and youth programs (IMT)

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Staff Evidence Analyses

PS-3064: Certified photostats of transcriptions of talks by Hans Fritzsche on the radio, English translation

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PS-3064: Extracts from English translation (made by the monitoring service of the b. b. c.) from the records of German propaganda broadcasts by Fritzsche, 1941-1945; certifying affidavit by director of b. b. c. monitoring service, 8 November 1945

Official B.B.C. translation of radio speeches of Hans Fritzsche, monitored by the British Broadcasting Corporation.
1. From a broadcast of 18 December 1941:
The fate of Jewry in Europe has turned out as unpleasant as the Fuehrer predicted in the case of a European war. After the extension of the war instigated by Jews, this unpleasant fate may also spread to the New World, for you can hardly assume that the nations of this New World will pardon the Jews for. the misery of which the nations of the Old World did not absolve them (p. 2122).
2. From a broadcast of 18 March 1941:
5. But the crown of all wrongly-applied Rooseveltian logics is the sentence QUOTE There never was a race and there never will be a race which can serve the rest of mankind as a master UNQUOTE. Here, too, we can only applaud Mr. Roosevelt. Precisely because there exists no race which can be the master of the rest of mankind, we Germans have taken the liberty to break the domination of Jewry and of its capital in Germany, of Jewry which believed to have inherited the crown oi secret world domination (p. 2032).
3. From a broadcast of 9 October 1941:-We know very well that these German victories, unparalleled in history, have not yet stopped the source of hatred, which, for a long time, has fed the war mongers and from which this war originated. The international Jewish-Democratic Bolshevistic campaign of incitement against Germany still finds cover in this or that fox's lair or rat-hole. We have seen only too frequently how the defeats.suffered by the war mongers only doubled their senseless and impotent fury (p. 2101).
4. From a broadcast of 8 January 1944:
It is revealed clearly once more that not a system of government, not a young nationalism, not a new and well applied socialism brought about this war. The guilty ones are exclusively the Jews and the plutocrats. If discussion on the post-war problems brings this to light so clearly, we welcome it as a contribution for later discussions and also as a contribution to the fight we are waging now, for we refuse to believe that world history will confine its future developments to these powers which have brought about this war. This clique of Jews and plutocrats have invested their money in armaments and they had to see to it that they would get their interests and sinking funds, hence they unleashed this war (p. 2212). *
5. From a broadcast of 4 May 1943:
It is the double front of Jewish slave drivers, the slave driver with the bolshevik emblem in Moscow, who during a quarter of a century, forced almost 200,000,000 men to Stakhanov labor for
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their armaments, and the slave drivers who, in the shape of plutocrats, indulge in dolkr imperialism. This is the double front of Jewish slave drivers to whom the idea of a peaceful Reich was unbearable, a Germany who from 1933 to 1939 did away with unemployment and overcame all the difficulties of a poor country with her own resources. It is the front of those who are justly afraid that the examples of the national socialist achievements in the political and economic sphere would be sufficient to overthrow the two Jewish ideologies of bolshevism and of plutocratic liberalism (p. 2176). .
6. From a broadcast of 13 January 1945:
If Jewry provided a link between divergent elements as plutocracy and bolshevism ajid if Jewry was first able to work successfully in democratic countries in preparing this war against Germany, it has by now placed itself unreservedly on the side of bolshevism which, with its entirely mistaken slogans of racial freedom against racial hatred, has created the very conditions the Jewish race requires in its struggle for domination over other races; because Jews allow only themselves and never anyone else, to call them Jews. During these very days the "Israelitisches Wochenblatt" of Switzerland has published a survey of Jews holding leading positions in Britain. The paper naturally omitted the name of the Jewish swindler, Lord Melchett. But even so this list does not mention the names of all men representing decisive Jewish influence. It is, however, revealing that international Jewry is prepared to remove by murder, if necessary, any British representative inconvenient to its cause and, on the other hand, to praise the spokesmen of British grand policy who toe. the line and conform. Not the last result of German resistance on the fronts, so unexpected to the enemy, is the fruition of a development which began in the pre-war years, the process of subordinating British policy to far-reaching Jewish points of view. It began long before this when Jewish emigrants from Germany started their war mongering against us from British and American soil. It continued when these emigrants came to terms with a Churchill and a Roosevelt in their hatred of Germany and when the Jewish link brought about coalition with bolshevism. The process is completed by Britain's abandoning first her positions in Europe and, finally, herself to bolshevism under the same influence, the bolshevism against which national socialist Germany alone can defend the peoples of Europe and their civilization. And yet, here too, we find that a national socialist thesis has proved right. This whole attempt aiming at the establishment of Jewish world domination, now increasingly recognizable, has come to a head atdhe very moment when the people's understanding of their racial origins has been far too much awakened to promise success to the undertaking (pp. 2258-2259).
7. From a broadcast of 7 July 1941:
With horror, the world learned how the new men in power at the Kremlin selected the most brutal and degenerate individuals
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from among the motley mixtures of peoples- inhabiting these wide spaces to serve as hangmen against scholars and priests, ordinary and educated men, rich and poor, men and women alike (p. 2065).
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Even worse than the marks of the mental, economic, and social terror exercised by the Jewish commissars were those of physical terror which the German army encountered along the roads of its victory. A few hours only before the fall of Lwow, bolshevist agents, including even women, gave vent to their hatred and fury against helpless Ukrainian prisoners. Intoxicated with blood and lust, it seems, these monsters in human shape fell upon their victims with machine-guns, pistols and knives. Nor was murder the worst of the atrocities perpetrated. Deeply shaken, the PK reporters stood before prisons in which the bodies of violated and murdered Ukrainians were piled up by the hundred, even by the thousand (p. 2067).
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The evidence of letters reaching us from the front, of PK t reporters and soldiers on leave demonstrates that, in this strug' gle in the East, not one political system is pitted against another, not one view of life is fighting another, but that culture, civilization, and human -decency make a stand against the diabolical principle of a sub-human world (p. 2069).
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It was only the Fuehrer's decision to strike in time that saved our homeland from the fate of being overrun by those sub-human creatures, and our men, women, and children from the unspeakable horror of being their prey (p. 2070).
8. From a broadcast of 10 July 1941:
Wherever the German soldiers went in the country which the Soviet rulers had dominated partly for two years, partly for more than two decades, they encountered the traces of deeds which a normal human being, acting from a healthy instinct, at first refuses to see, because they are too despicable, deeds which he later forces himself to see if he is a decent and honest fellow and thinks for awhile; finally to make the holy resolve to give his aid in the final destruction of those who are capable of such dastardly acts. In the meantime a whole stream of news about such bolshevik atrocities has poured over the German people (p. 2071).
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The bolshevist agitators make no effort to deny that in towns, thousands, in the villages, hundreds, of corpses of men, women and children have been found, who had been either killed or tortured to death. Yet the bolshevik agitators allege that this was not done by Soviet commissars but by German soldiers. Now we Germans know our soldiers. ,
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No German woman, father or mother requires proof that their husband or their son cannot have committed such atrocious acts (p. 2072).
9. From a broadcast of 9 October 1941:
Today we can only say: Blitzkrieg or no, this German thunderstorm has cleansed the atmosphere of Europe. It is quite true that the dangers threatening us were eliminated one after the other with lightning speed but in these lightning blows which shattered England's allies on the Continent, we saw not a proof of the weakness, but a proof of the strength and superiority of the Fuehrer's gift as a statesman and military leader; a proof of the German people's force; we saw the proof that no opponent can stand up to the courage, discipline and readiness for sacrifice displayed by the German soldier; and we are particularly grateful for these lightning, unmatched victories because—as the Fuehrer emphasized last Friday—they give us the possibility of embarking on the organization of Europe and of the lifting of the treasures of this old continent already now in the middle of war, without it being necessary for millions and millions of German soldiers to be on guard, fighting day and night along this or that threatened frontier; and the possibilities of this continent are so rich that they suffice for any need of peace or war (pp. 2102-2108).

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