TRANSLATION OF G.83, WAS DER FÜHRER SAGTE
(OBVERSE)
WHAT THE FÜHRER SAID
On the 30th September
On the 10th September
1942
1943
ITALY
“Added to this is a further strengthening of our
alliances of cooperation with our allies. Here,
together with Italy, our oldest ally, we are
fighting not only on one front but already on
several fronts. And that is as it should be, for it
shows that all the expectations of our enemies,
who hope that they will be able to sever this pact,
are idiotic and lunatic.”
“The collapse of Italy had long been foreseen…
For what these men had for years been working
for has now happened: the desertion of the
Italian Government from her German ally to the
common enemy.”
EASTERN FRONT
“We have set ourselves a quite simple
programme for this year: to hold at all costs that
which must be held, and to attack where attack
is necessary. The aim is quite clear: to destroy
the right arm of this international league of
Capitalism, Plutocracy and Bolshevism. The aim
was in the first place to deprive the enemy of the
last great grain areas; secondly, to take away
from him the rest of his coal, and thirdly to
obtain his oilfields… and to approach and take
Stalingrad, and you can rely on it that we shall
do that.”
“It could happen that practical necessity might
force us in this great struggle for our existence to
give way now and again on one front, or to yield
to certain threats.”
INVASION
“Wherever Churchill chooses the next place, he
can count himself lucky if he remains on land for
nine hours.”
“For months the battle in Italy has been waged
mainly by German forces.”
U-BOAT WAR
“The success of the U-boats has grown from
month to month. Our U-boats have surpassed all
their achievements up to date, and I can only
assure the gentlemen that this will not be altered.”
(Not mentioned)
AIR WAR
“I should like to say one thing here: the hour will
certainly come when we shall retaliate.”
“Technical and organisational measures are
being devised not only to break the terror raids
finally, but to retaliate with other and more
effective means.”
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TRANSLATION OF G.83, WAS DER FÜHRER SAGTE
(REVERSE)
WHAT THE FÜHRER CONCEALED
ITALY
The Italian Fleet lies almost complete in Allied ports. The British fleet is undisputed mistress of the
Mediterranean, and is now free to land further Allied armies at other points of the southern European
front.
Germany has now to defend the long coastal front from South France to the Balkans with 40 instead of
105 divisions. For 65 Italian divisions are no longer fighting Hitler’s war. Many Italians are even now
fighting against their former German masters.
The German High Command can find new divisions for the Southern Front only at the expense of its
armies in the West and the East. And this at a time when every available division is needed in the East to
hold up the greatest Russian offensive of this war.
EASTERN FRONT
Here Hitler’s summer offensive, on which all hopes had been set, has become Stalin’s summer and
autumn offensive.
Smolensk, the headquarters of the Führer and Germany’s strongest military base in the East, has fallen.
Kharkov, Dniepropretovsk and Taganrog are in Russian hands. The Kuban bridgehead is being pressed
back, the Crimea is threatened, Kiev is about to fall.
Oil and grain, coal and iron, to gain which Hitler attacked Russia, are now for ever lost.
Hitler clings desperately to the Dnieper.
But winter is approaching – the same winter in which the Russians have already twice brought the
German armies to destruction when those armies were much stronger.
INVASION
The door of the European Fortress has been smashed open in Italy. Anglo-American troops are
advancing. In step with the Russians, they are getting nearer to Germany. Moreover, Germany must
always reckon with a new Allied offensive in the West or elsewhere.
U-BOAT WAR
The Doenitz summer offensive was as much a damp squib as the Hitler offensive in the East. In the four
months from June to September not a single Allied ship was sunk in the North Atlantic. Allied shipping
losses have decreased to such an extent that the net increase of Allied merchant tonnage amounted to
more than six million tons in the first nine months of 1943 alone. On the other hand, U-boat losses have
risen enormously. In the months, May, June and July, 1943 more than 90 U-boats were sunk. (As against
23 in the corresponding months of 1918). In August 1943 the number of U-boats sunk was even greater
than the number of merchant ships sunk by them.
Finally, the U-boats in the Mediterranean could not prevent thousands of Allied ships from landing
whole armies of the United Nations on European soil.
AIR WAR
The weight and concentration of Allied air attacks is steadily growing. In the fourth year of war almost
one hundred million kilos of bombs were dropped on Germany. That is almost three times as much as in
the third year of war.
With the conquering of the Italian airfields the Allies have come within easy bombing range of the
hitherto bomb-free industrial areas of South Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia. The German air
defences, which could not even protect Germany from the air attacks from the West, will now have to be
strained further to meet the double danger from the south. The threatened areas of Germany know what
that means.
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