Berlin: With the elections approaching, rhetoric is heating up, especially around the campaign speech made by Minister of Occupied Territories Gottfried Treviranus in which he attacked the German-Polish border set after the World War. Though he subsequently said he did not mean to imply that the border should be revised, others have pounced on the comment in the midst of Germany’s economic suffering as a means to stir up nationalist pride. Adolf Hitler, head of the nazis, says Germany “has a right to territory superior to all others, because we ourselves haven’t enough.”
Meanwhile, the
influential Federation of German Industries issues a statement positioning
German industry as strongly favoring the republic, and urging individuals at
their member companies to vote for republicanism. The letter notes that in the present economic
crisis, the republic may face the severest test of the faith of the people in
these elections.
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