5
Dec. 45
On the
20th of January 1938 Hitler spoke in the
Reichstag.
THE PRESIDENT: February,
the document said.
LT. COL.
GRIFFITH-JONES: I beg your pardon —
February 1938. That is 2357-PS, and will be
GB-30. In that speech he said:
"In
the fifth year following the first great
foreign political agreement with the
Reich, it fills us with sincere
gratification to be able to state that
in our relations with the state, with
which we had had perhaps the greatest
differences, not only has there been a
détente but in the course
of these years there has been a constant
improvement in relations. This good
work, which was regarded with suspicion
by so many at the time, has stood the
test, and I may say that since the
League of Nations finally gave up its
continual attempts to unsettle Danzig
and appointed a man of great personal
attainments as the new commissioner, the
most dangerous spot from this point of
view of European peace has entirely lost
its menacing character. The Polish State
respects the national conditions in this
state, and both the City of Danzig and
Germany respect Polish rights. And so
the way to friendly understanding has
been successfully paved, an
understanding which beginning with
Danzig has today, in spite of the
attempts of certain mischief makers,
succeeded in finally taking the poison
out of the relations between Germany and
Poland and transforming them into a
sincere, friendly co-operation.
"To
rely on her friendships, Germany will
not leave a stone unturned to save that
ideal which provides the foundation for
the task which is ahead of us —
peace."
I
turn back to the next — to the document
which was in your document books, the one before
that, L-43, which will be GB-29. This is a
document to which the Attorney General referred
yesterday. It is dated the 2d of May 1938, and
is entitled "Organizational Study of 1950."
It comes from the office of the Chief of the
Organizational Staff of the General Staff of the
Air Force, and its purpose is said to be:
"The
task is to search, within a framework of
very broadly conceived conditions, for
the most suitable type of organization
of the Air Force. The result gained is
termed 'Distant Objective.' From this
shall be deduced the goal to be reached
in the second phase of the setting-up
process in 1942. This will be called
'Final Objective 1942.' This in turn
yields what is considered the most
suitable proposal for the reorganization
of the staffs of the Air Force group
commands, air Gaue, air divisions, et
cetera."