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BERLIN - 8 Dec. 1941 (AP)

German Chancellor Adolph Hitler today sent a strong protest to the Japanese Embassy, and issued a public statement condemning yesterday's sneak attack on US forces in Hawaii and elsewhere.

"German is a civilized, Aryan nation," Hitler said in a written statement. "We adhere to the laws of war. The Reich does not support the actions of the Japanese, and in fact we offer our sympathies to the losses of the American people. We hereby state our neutrality in the American-Japanese conflict and we hope that the United States government will respect that neutrality as we have respected theirs in our conflict between the Reich and the British and Soviet Empires."

Hitler has called for a rapprochment and new talks between the Third Reich and the United States in light of yesterday's events. There has been no comment as yet from the American or Japanese governments.
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