NEW YORK POST, Oct. 6, 1939

• Adolf Hitler's speech to the Reichstag
• At the Kroll Opera House in Berlin
• Peace offer w/ demands  to Western allies ?

Above the masthead is a banner heading that reads: "Guns and Bombs Will Blast Europe Into Ruin, Hitler Warns" And a banner headline announces: "'PEACE OF DESTRUCTION'" with lead-in: "Hitler's Final Terms" (see images) More inside. 
Complete with all 26 pages, light toning and minor wear at the margins, smnall binding holes along the spine., generally in nice condition.

Background: Delivered to the Reichstag following the swift defeat and partition of Poland with the Soviet Union, Adolf Hitler’s October 6, 1939 speech was a tactical "peace offer" designed to force Great Britain and France to legitimize Nazi territorial gains without triggering a prolonged Western conflict. Proclaiming that the Polish state was permanently erased and that Eastern European affairs were strictly a matter between Berlin and Moscow, Hitler offered a conditional cessation of hostilities and called for an international conference on disarmament and trade, warning that any Allied refusal would lay full blame for a devastating continental war on the West. By firmly rejecting the ultimatum on the grounds that true peace could not be built on aggression or Nazi promises, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and French Premier Édouard Daladier cemented the formal commitment of the Western Allies to fight WWII, locking Europe into the war and setting the stage for the invasion of France and the Low Countries the following spring.