Germanicus
12-12-2013, 08:38 AM
Background: Here Goebbels takes on the role of prophet, imaging the world two generations after German victory. The war was nearing its end, but Goebbels seeks to persuade his fellow citizens that victory is still possible.Goebbels uses the phrase “an iron curtain” to describe the results of the Soviet Union’s advance into Europe, a phrase later made famous by Winston Churchill. Goebbels was not the first to use the phrase, but his use brought it to prominence.
The source: “Das Jahr 2000,” Das Reich, 25 February 1945, pp. 1-2.
The three enemy war leaders, American sources report, have agreed at the Yalta Conference to Roosevelt’s proposal for an occupation program that will destroy and exterminate the German people up until the year 2000. One must grant the somewhat grandiose nature of the proposal. It reminds one of the skyscrapers in New York that soar high into the sky, and whose upper stories sway in the wind. What will the world look like in the year 2000? Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt have determined it, at least insofar as the German people are concerned. One may however doubt if they and we will act in the predicted manner.
No one can predict the distant future, but there are some facts and possibilities that are clear over the coming fifty years. For example, none of the three enemy statesmen who developed this brilliant plan will still be alive, England will have at most 20 million inhabitants, our children’s children will have had children, and the events of this war will have sunk into myth.
One can also predict with a high degree of certainty that Europe will be a united continent in the year 2000. One will fly from Berlin to Paris for breakfast in fifteen minutes, and our most modern weapons will be seen as antiques, and much more. Germany, however, will still be under military occupation according to the plans of the Yalta Conference, and the English and Americans will be training its people in democracy. How empty the brains of these three charlatans must be — at least in the case of two of them!
One can imagine things turning out differently, but it is now too late. The Führer made numerous proposals to London, the last time four weeks before the war began. He proposed that German and British foreign policy work together, that the Reich would respect England’s sea power as England would respect the Reich’s land power, and that parity would exist in the air. Both powers would join in guaranteeing world peace, and the British Empire would be a critical component of that peace. Germany would even be ready to defend that Empire with military means if it were necessary. Under such conditions, Bolshevism would have been confined to its original breeding grounds. It would have been sealed off from the rest of the world. Now Bolshevism is at the Oder River. Everything depends on the steadfastness of German soldiers. Will Bolshevism to pushed back to the East, or will its fury flood over Western Europe? That is the war situation. The Yalta Communiqué does not change things in the least. Things depend only on this crisis of human culture. It will be solved by us, or it will not be solved at all. Those are the alternatives.
We Germans are not the only ones who say this. Every thinking person knows that today, as so often in the past, the German people have a European mission. We may not lose our courage, even though the mission brings with it enormous pain and suffering. The foolish know-it-alls have brought the world more than once to the edge of the abyss. At the last moment, the sight of the terrifying misery alarmed humanity enough for it to take the decisive step backwards at the critical moment. That will be the case this time as well. We have lost a great deal in this war. About all we have left are our military forces and our ideals. We may not give these up. They are the foundation of our existence and of the fulfillment of our historical obligations. It is hard and terrible, but also honorable. We were given our duty because we alone have the necessary character and steadfastness. Any other people would have collapsed. We, however, like Atlas carry the weight of the world on our shoulders and do not doubt.
Germany will not be occupied by its enemies in the year 2000. The German nation will be the intellectual leader of civilized humanity. We are earning that right in this war. This world struggle with our enemies will live on only as a bad dream in people’s memories. Our children and their children will erect monuments to their fathers and mothers for the pain they suffered, for the stoic steadfastness with which they bore all, for the bravery they showed, for the heroism with which they fought, for the loyalty with which they held to their Führer and his ideals in difficult times. Our hopes will come true in their world and our ideals will be reality. We must never forget that when we see the storms of this wild age reflected in the eyes of our children. Let us act so that we will earn their eternal blessings, not their curses.
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/goeb49.htm
I thought that script was kind of interesting.
I guess that he had no idea that the world economy would be split into two in some cowardly 'cold war' stalemate for decades. Things didnt really pan out the way he predicted but he got some stuff correct. And USA still controls Germany and all of Europe. So Ha! Well maybe not the Ukraine. Well sort of. (:
So. He would have known he was going to have to kill himself sometime soon by that stage. You can tell he doesnt believe what he is writing. He is defeated.
60% of Germans say that America cannot be trusted today. Merkel is a US puppet. Democracy is on its last legs as Europe is forced to cobble together absurd coalitions. The IMF( Bretton Wood institution ) is now eating itself by enslaving Europe. The reserve status of the USD is closer to being unseated by the day.
One day those in the USA will curse the day in which a long-forgotten American president released a communiqué at a conference at Yalta, which will long since have sunk into legend
It turned out to be China and Russia. Not Russia. (: So bringing down the wall didnt really win the day because of the failure of Tiananmen Square.
The world is splitting down the middle again. And the USA is the bad guy. Why does Ukraine want stronger Eastern ties? Because of the wealth of China and Asia. That is why the west has been trying to overthrow their government. The west has also been trying to overthrow the government of Thailand. Our media and governenmts are encouraging the idiot anarchists. The wealth of Asia is why the USA has made its imperial 'pivot' to the Asia Pacific. And can US media stop saying that we in the region feel "neglected". That may be true but not in the way that you use the word. Stay away. We are happy that you are too distracted with other problems. Good. We hope your problems get much much worse and you bring marines home from Australia and shut you military opperations/bases that you have in Australia. How can you afford it? Because you just print money and send USD to soldiers that they can spend in our economy and we like the rest of the world must absorb it. The marines make us a target not protect. And our puppet politicians are the only ones that really want US troops here. Why not bring US troops home? All of them. All of them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlOAMKTj0hU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNNR8UX7oKk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en_Cv3p1uiI
4894
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtzV7BvQVgQ
The source: “Das Jahr 2000,” Das Reich, 25 February 1945, pp. 1-2.
The three enemy war leaders, American sources report, have agreed at the Yalta Conference to Roosevelt’s proposal for an occupation program that will destroy and exterminate the German people up until the year 2000. One must grant the somewhat grandiose nature of the proposal. It reminds one of the skyscrapers in New York that soar high into the sky, and whose upper stories sway in the wind. What will the world look like in the year 2000? Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt have determined it, at least insofar as the German people are concerned. One may however doubt if they and we will act in the predicted manner.
No one can predict the distant future, but there are some facts and possibilities that are clear over the coming fifty years. For example, none of the three enemy statesmen who developed this brilliant plan will still be alive, England will have at most 20 million inhabitants, our children’s children will have had children, and the events of this war will have sunk into myth.
One can also predict with a high degree of certainty that Europe will be a united continent in the year 2000. One will fly from Berlin to Paris for breakfast in fifteen minutes, and our most modern weapons will be seen as antiques, and much more. Germany, however, will still be under military occupation according to the plans of the Yalta Conference, and the English and Americans will be training its people in democracy. How empty the brains of these three charlatans must be — at least in the case of two of them!
One can imagine things turning out differently, but it is now too late. The Führer made numerous proposals to London, the last time four weeks before the war began. He proposed that German and British foreign policy work together, that the Reich would respect England’s sea power as England would respect the Reich’s land power, and that parity would exist in the air. Both powers would join in guaranteeing world peace, and the British Empire would be a critical component of that peace. Germany would even be ready to defend that Empire with military means if it were necessary. Under such conditions, Bolshevism would have been confined to its original breeding grounds. It would have been sealed off from the rest of the world. Now Bolshevism is at the Oder River. Everything depends on the steadfastness of German soldiers. Will Bolshevism to pushed back to the East, or will its fury flood over Western Europe? That is the war situation. The Yalta Communiqué does not change things in the least. Things depend only on this crisis of human culture. It will be solved by us, or it will not be solved at all. Those are the alternatives.
We Germans are not the only ones who say this. Every thinking person knows that today, as so often in the past, the German people have a European mission. We may not lose our courage, even though the mission brings with it enormous pain and suffering. The foolish know-it-alls have brought the world more than once to the edge of the abyss. At the last moment, the sight of the terrifying misery alarmed humanity enough for it to take the decisive step backwards at the critical moment. That will be the case this time as well. We have lost a great deal in this war. About all we have left are our military forces and our ideals. We may not give these up. They are the foundation of our existence and of the fulfillment of our historical obligations. It is hard and terrible, but also honorable. We were given our duty because we alone have the necessary character and steadfastness. Any other people would have collapsed. We, however, like Atlas carry the weight of the world on our shoulders and do not doubt.
Germany will not be occupied by its enemies in the year 2000. The German nation will be the intellectual leader of civilized humanity. We are earning that right in this war. This world struggle with our enemies will live on only as a bad dream in people’s memories. Our children and their children will erect monuments to their fathers and mothers for the pain they suffered, for the stoic steadfastness with which they bore all, for the bravery they showed, for the heroism with which they fought, for the loyalty with which they held to their Führer and his ideals in difficult times. Our hopes will come true in their world and our ideals will be reality. We must never forget that when we see the storms of this wild age reflected in the eyes of our children. Let us act so that we will earn their eternal blessings, not their curses.
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/goeb49.htm
I thought that script was kind of interesting.
I guess that he had no idea that the world economy would be split into two in some cowardly 'cold war' stalemate for decades. Things didnt really pan out the way he predicted but he got some stuff correct. And USA still controls Germany and all of Europe. So Ha! Well maybe not the Ukraine. Well sort of. (:
So. He would have known he was going to have to kill himself sometime soon by that stage. You can tell he doesnt believe what he is writing. He is defeated.
60% of Germans say that America cannot be trusted today. Merkel is a US puppet. Democracy is on its last legs as Europe is forced to cobble together absurd coalitions. The IMF( Bretton Wood institution ) is now eating itself by enslaving Europe. The reserve status of the USD is closer to being unseated by the day.
One day those in the USA will curse the day in which a long-forgotten American president released a communiqué at a conference at Yalta, which will long since have sunk into legend
It turned out to be China and Russia. Not Russia. (: So bringing down the wall didnt really win the day because of the failure of Tiananmen Square.
The world is splitting down the middle again. And the USA is the bad guy. Why does Ukraine want stronger Eastern ties? Because of the wealth of China and Asia. That is why the west has been trying to overthrow their government. The west has also been trying to overthrow the government of Thailand. Our media and governenmts are encouraging the idiot anarchists. The wealth of Asia is why the USA has made its imperial 'pivot' to the Asia Pacific. And can US media stop saying that we in the region feel "neglected". That may be true but not in the way that you use the word. Stay away. We are happy that you are too distracted with other problems. Good. We hope your problems get much much worse and you bring marines home from Australia and shut you military opperations/bases that you have in Australia. How can you afford it? Because you just print money and send USD to soldiers that they can spend in our economy and we like the rest of the world must absorb it. The marines make us a target not protect. And our puppet politicians are the only ones that really want US troops here. Why not bring US troops home? All of them. All of them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlOAMKTj0hU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNNR8UX7oKk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en_Cv3p1uiI
4894
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtzV7BvQVgQ