TRANSLATION OF G.85, GEBT MIR 4 JAHRE ZEIT - PsyWar.Org

TRANSLATION OF G.85, GEBT MIR 4 JAHRE ZEIT(FRONT COVER)“Give me four years.”[Picture of Hitler](PAGE 1)“I believe in a lasting peace.”[Picture of Hitler with a background of marching German soldiers]30 January 1939.(PAGE 2)“We have just celebrated the fifth anniversary of our non-aggression pact with Poland. There can scarcelybe any difference of opinion with regard to the virtue of this agreement.”[Picture of Hitler and German soldiers with hand grenades rushing forwards to the attack]Seven months later… Poland is invaded.(PAGE 3)“The peoples will realise in a short time that National Socialist Germany does not want enmity with othernations and that allegations about other intentions of our people are borne out of hysteria.”Rotterdam, May 1940.[Picture of Hitler with a background of Rotterdam in ruins]30 January 1939.(PAGE 4)“And lastly I have tried to normalise the relations between the Reich and Russia and to put them on afriendly basis. I have now succeeded in accomplishing this. Now we have established also with this statea permanent friendly relationship, the effects of which will be beneficial for both nations”[Picture of Hitler with a background of German soldiers in blazing Russian village]Hitler invades the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941.6 October 1939.(PAGE 5)“And that adversary is broken who today still sits in England, on a last island of Europe.”[Picture of Hitler with a background of a formation of British battleships]www.psywar.org

TRANSLATION OF G.85, GEBT MIR 4 JAHRE ZEIT(PAGE 6)“I am admitting it only today, because I may say it today, the enemy already lies defeated and will neverrise again.”[Picture of Hitler with a background of Russian soldiers and tanks]3 October 1941.(PAGES 7/8)“…assault Stalingrad and will take it also – you may rely on this!”[Picture of Hitler with a background of German prisoners taken in Russia]Stalingrad was the turning point. Already in September 1943 the German armies were thrown behind thelines which they had reached three months after the invasion of Russia started.(PAGES 9/10)“And if today they say they are, for all I know, advancing a little somewhere in the desert, they pushedforwards several times before and they went back again.”[Picture of Hitler with a background of German prisoners taken in Africa]Hitler’s African campaign costs: prisoners – 200,000; dead or severely wounded – 100,000.8 October 1942.(PAGE 11)“Now they will be able to build convoys on all the oceans of the world – and now they will see how ourU-boats work. And, whatever their plans may be and wherever they appear, we are prepared foreverything, from the north to the south, from the desert to the East.”[Picture of Hitler with a background of the British Fleet on its way to North Africa]30 January 1942.(PAGE 12)“We will wipe out their cities.”[Picture of Hitler with a background of bombed Hamburg]Hamburg – August 1943.4 September 1940.(PAGE 13)“It shows that the hopes of our enemies to dissolve our alliance with Italy prove to be idiocy, madness.”30 September 1942.[Picture of Hitler with a background of Italians cheering and waving Allied flags]www.psywar.org

TRANSLATION OF G.85, GEBT MIR 4 JAHRE ZEIT(PAGE 14)“Today, above all, I look into the future with great confidence.”[Picture of Hitler with a background of British bombers]8 November 1942.(BACK COVER)“There is a classical saying, that the Gods first make mad those whom they would destroy… But I knowanother commandment – that man himself shall push down what the Gods have destined to fall. So whatmust be, will be.”[Picture of Hitler]24 April 1942.www.psywar.org