The THREAT FROM NAZI GERMANY - 1934 speech by Winston Churchill

A visionary speech by Winston Churchill. As early as 1934 Churchill was warning about the threat posed by Nazi Germany and its aggressive expansionist ideology. In this radio speech he predicts that one-sided pacifism will not make war less likely, on the contrary, it will have the opposite effect. Back then a lone voice raising the alarm concerning German rearmament, Nazi violence and Hitler's ambitions, his words went mostly unheard, including the newspapers, the majority of which ignored Churchill’s speech.

In this radio broadcast Sir Winston Churchill famously proclaimed:
Now they are rearming with the utmost speed, and ready to their hands is the new lamentable weapon of the air, against which our navy is no defense, and before which women and children, the weak and frail, the pacifist and the jingo, the warrior and the civilian, the front line trenches and the cottage home, all lie in equal and impartial peril. Now, these are facts, hard, grim, indisputable facts, and in the face of these facts, I ask again, what are we to do?

16 Nov 1938
Winston Churchill Speeches
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